AS SEEN ON TV: THE MAGIC MIRROR

As a preview to what's ahead for next week, here's my favorite storybook character from the story of "Snow White"......

THE MAGIC MIRROR

AS SEEN IN:

'Faerie Tale Theater'

("Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs")

AS PLAYED BY:

Vincent Price

STORY FIRST COLLECTED BY:

The Brothers Grimm

TV DIMENSION:

TBD

From Wikipedia:

[In "Snow White"], the king takes a new wife, who is beautiful but also very vain. The new queen possesses a magical mirror, an animate object that answers any question, to whom she often asks: "Mirror, mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?" (in German "Spieglein, Spieglein, an der Wand / Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?"; in Italian "Specchio, servo delle mie brame, chi è la più bella di tutto il reame?" ) to which the mirror always replies "You, my queen, are fairest of all." But when Snow White reaches the age of seven, she becomes as beautiful as the day, and when the queen asks her mirror, it responds: "Queen, you are full fair, 'tis true, but Snow White is fairer than you." Though in another version, the mirror simply replies: "Snow White is the fairest of them all."

From the source:

[T]he king soon married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could not bear to think that any one could surpass her. She had a magical looking-glass, to which she used to go and gaze upon herself in it, and say,

"Tell me, glass, tell me true!
Of all the ladies in the land.
Who is fairest? Tell me who?"

And the glass answered, "Thou, Queen, art fairest in the land."

But Snow-White grew more and more beautiful; and when she [pg 18] was seven years old, she was as bright as the day, and fairer than the queen herself. Then the glass one day answered the queen, when she went to consult it as usual:

"Thou, Queen, may'st fair and beauteous be,
But Snow-White is lovelier far than thee!"

And here's how he's portrayed in the new ABC series, 'Once Upon A Time':

BCnU!