SNOW WHITE
- [She takes from her pocket and holds before Queen Brangomar's dazzled eyes a hand mirror, carved from a single crystall. It glows and gleams like an opal.
The Queen. [Seizing the Mirror and gazing into it.] Magic! . . . [But suddenly she cries out in horror.] Oh!
The Witch. Ah, you see! Reflects you as you really are. If I stopped my spells that's what you'd look like. Now it makes me quite decent looking. That's because my character's better.
The Queen. Oh, the hateful thing! I never saw anything so terrible. Why, I looked almost funny! Take it away! Take it away!
The Witch. Wait! That's not all its magic. Hold it in your hand and say:
Mirror, Mirror, in my hand,
Who's the fairest in the land?
and it will answer truthfully.
The Queen. [Snatching the Mirror, but shut-
