Part Two SCENE EIGHT

While Aladdin prospered, the magician who had left him for dead brooded in a high tower set in the middle of a desert in far-off Africa. One day he peered into his enchanted crystal sphere through which he could see any spot on earth, or under it. When the Enchanted Treasury came into view in the glass, he was astounded to find both Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp gone. Looking further, he was enraged when he discovered Aladdin living in a golden palace. Such good fortune could only have come from the Lamp! Searching for the Wonderful Lamp, he saw it placed carelessly on table in the princess's dressing room. An plan formed in his mind so he wasted no heading for Aladdin's city.

SCENE NINE

The magician went near Aladdin's  palace and ordered a dozen new copper lamps. Disguising himself as a beggar, waited near the palace until he saw Aladdin ride out with a hunting party. Then, stationed under the balcony of the princess's quarters, he began to cry his wares. "New lamps for old! Who will trade their old lamps for shining new ones?" The palace urchins smirked and pointed. "The sun has softened his brain," they laughed. The princess' and her ladies laughed too, but were seized with curiosity. To test this mad peddler, the princess sent for the lamp in her dressing room. It was an old, battered lamp, and, as far as she knew, she sent her maid down to trade.   The magician knew Wonderful Lamp was his!

Scene TEN

The magician, overjoyed hurried to a lonely place and summoned the genie by rubbing the Lamp. "0 faithless Slave," he commanded, "transport the golden palace of Aladdin, as well as the princess and myself, to Africa. Set us down in the desert beside my secret tower." Obedient to whoever held the lamp, the genie had no choice. He grew large as a mountain until he could pick up (he palace in the palm of his hand. Leaving only a bare plain behind, the monstrous Demon carried the palace, princess and all, through the air to the heart of the African desert.

SCENE ELEVEN The next morning the sultan awoke and went to the window. It was his custom to start each day by admiring Aladdin's Palace but all he saw was an empty field. Summoning his grand vizier he said go "Look out the window and Tell me what you see. The astounded vizier exclaimed "even as I feared! Aladdin, by his black magic has spirited away the palace, and with it your beloved daughter" Grief-stricken and angry at his loss the Sultan impetuously ordered Aladdin's death. The Sultans guards seized Aladdin, who was unaware of what had happened, at hunting and binding his arms led him through the streets to the palace. The people of the city, who loved Aladdin, learned that he was to be beheaded. In angry protest, they stormed the palace gates. Inside the palace courtyard, the executioner, having walked around the prisoner the required three times, raised his sword to strike off Aladdin's head. Just then, the mob broke through the gates and Aladdin was saved!

SCENE TWELVE Only then did Aladdin learn of the disappearance of the golden palace. To add to his misfortune, the Sultan still held him under sentence of death, freeing him on one condition. Within forty days he had to return the princess Badr al-Budur. Sorrowful and bewildered, Aladdin wandered out into the country side. While praying and weeping he accidently rubbed the magician's silver ring which he still wore. The Genie of the Ring appeared instantly "0 Genie, set before me my princess." "Alas, Master," replied the genie, "she is in the power of the Genie of the Wonderful Lamp. I fear to attempt it." "Then I will not require you ," said Aladdin. "Just take me to the golden palace." "To hear is to obey," murmured the genie, and, wonder of wonders, Aladdin found himself at the palace, just under the balcony of the princess.

SCENE THIRTEEN Entering the palace, Aladdin found the Princess weeping in her dressing room. After joyfully imbracing her, he began to search for the Wonderful Lamp. asking her, "Where is the old lamp that I placed here?" "Aladdin," she cried, "I traded it; to the evil Moor and caused all our misfortune!" Learning that the magician always carried the lamp on his person, Aladdin devised a plan, and the princess was eager to help. That night, the princess invited the magician to sup with her. After many delicacies and drinks to addle his wits, she offered him a lover's cup of red wine. In reality, this wine was a powerful sleeping potion brought by the Genie of the Ring. Without a thought about what might be in it, the foolish Moor drained the cup and fell to the floor as if dead.

SCENE FOURTEEN Rushing in, Aladdin (recovered the Wonderful Lamp from the senseless magician, and, without delay, called upon the genie to transport the sultan to the scene. The startled sultan was plucked from the midst of his court, whisked through the air and set down in the chambers of the princess. '"Sire," Aladdin said respectfully, "your daughter is unharmed, and before you 'lies her abductor?." The sultan happily forgave Aladdin and; promised imprisonment for the wicked magician. All rejoiced as the genie restored the golden palace to its original site. Aladdin eventually succeeded his father-in-law to the throne and became the best-loved ruler of his day.

The End Scenes created by FLORENCE THOMAS