EDWARD BLACKTHORNE . . . Famous elderly English novelist
BEVERLEY SANDS . . . Rising young American novelist
BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE . . . Practical lawyer, friend of Beverley Sands
GEORGE MARIGOLD . . . Fashionable physician
CLAUDE MULLEN . . . Fashionable nerve-specialist, friend of George Marigold
RUFUS KENT . . . Long-winded president of a club
NOAH CHAMBERLAIN . . . Very learned, very absent-minded professor
PHILLIPS AND FAULDS . . . Florists
BURNS AND BRUCE . . . Florists
JUDD AND JUDD . . . Florists