Judith Anderson credited as playing...
Queen Herodias
- Queen Herodias: Would you say that I have done everything I could to protect my daughter from the King?
- Micha: Well, you could do no more. Sending her to Rome to keep her far from the King.
- Queen Herodias: And now that she is near him and his appetite has grown much keener.
- Micha: Much keener, Your Majesty.
- Queen Herodias: Could her return not be used to my advantage?
- Micha: It is quite within the realm of possibility. Your Majesty, may I suggest, for your sake, that you lose no time in - using - that advantage.
- Queen Herodias: Yes, Micha!
- Queen Herodias: You threaten me?
- King Herod: You will learn, I am King here. I command who lives and who dies.
- Queen Herodias: You can persuade him.
- Princess Salome: How?
- Queen Herodias: With your matchless beauty! Dance for him tonight.
- Princess Salome: Dance for him? Mother you know who dances for the King, becomes his possession.
- Queen Herodias: Yes, I know the custom.
- Princess Salome: You would have me give myself to...
- Queen Herodias: For the throne, yes!
- King Herod: Where is the Princess? You keep her from me. Command her to appear.
- Queen Herodias: Command her, yourself!