"THE ROSE OF PERSIA" AT THE SAVOY THEATRE.

In our large picture, Hassan (Mr. Walter Passmore) begins his unfinished story to the Sultan (Mr. Henry Lytton), who discovers that it is the history of Hassan's own life and as the royal command has been given that the tale shall have a happy ending, pardons the story teller, who was to have been executed at the close. The smaller picture above is taken from Act I. Hassan, under the influence of bhang, fancies himself the Sultan, and defies the real potentate to his face. The Sultan Mahmoud, not recognising in the veiled lady who is present his Sultana, humours mad Hassan when he commands the public executioner to decapitate the lady at the fall of his handkerchief.

[From "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News", 9 December 1899.]

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