DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Dr. Anselm Rees, a psychologist

Dr. Lidia Rees, his daughter

Floyd Stenhouse, a musician (Patient A)

Della Cookson, an actress (Patient B)

Claude Weaver, a writer (Patient C)

Benjamin Teasel, an impresario

Lucy Levy, an actress

Marcus Bowman, a financier and playboy

Tweedy, a publisher

Pete Hobbs, an elevator boy

Olive Turner, a housekeeper

Assorted maids, clerks and supernumeraries

George Flint, a police inspector

Jerome Hook, a police sergeant

Joseph Spector, a professional trickster