Dorothy was a little girl whose great passion was dancing. She was never tired of looking at a book in the library called "Mysterious Egypt," which told the story of a famous dancing girl and a Prince. "I know what I'll do," she exclaimed. "I'll get a shawl out of the attic, and play I'm the beautiful dancer." Draping the shawl around her, she starts to dance. She imagines she is the girl in the picture. Her mother watches her, but tells her she must change her dress, as her father will soon be home for dinner. The father brings home a beautiful statuette of a little Egyptian dancing girl, as a surprise for his wife and child. It is placed on a pedestal at the foot of the stairway. Dorothy is delighted and gazes at it enraptured. Later, Dorothy creeps downstairs and dances before the statuette. Dorothy has a wonderful dream. She is the statuette dancing girl; her mother is her sister and her father the sweetheart of her sister. All of them are poor Egyptians. The child dances on the street while her sister sells flowers, and her sweetheart works in the markets of Cairo. A prince falls in love with the sister and desires her for his harem and, because the flower girl refuses, the prince has her seized and taken to his palace. Dorothy tells the sweetheart what has happened. She makes up her mind to gain entrance to the palace to plead for her sister. Slipping by the guards, she comes to the palace and begs the prince to let her sister go. When he refuses, she begins to dance. The prince is fascinated and at last says he will let her sister go, but she will be held to dance for him. Meantime, the sweetheart has gotten help and fights with the guards. The prince orders the sister released, but she refuses to leave the child. Then the sweetheart gains admittance to the palace and rescues the two girls, just in time to have the slaves tear the child away from him. The prince demands that the child dance. She obeys, but finally falls exhausted to the floor at the foot of the raised dais on which the prince is seated. "Wake up, Dorothy! You've fallen out of bed and pulled the covers with you!" With these words in her ears, Dorothy wakes from her dream of old Egypt.

Moving Picture World, September 8, 1917