DAVE CARTER: Dancer, Baptist, soft, happy-go-lucky character, slightly dumb and unable to talk rapidly and wittily.
DAISY TAYLOR.
Methodist, domestic servant, plump, dark and sexy, self-conscious of clothes and appeal, fickle.
JOE CLARK.
The Mayor, storekeeper and postmaster, arrogant, ignorant and powerful in a self-assertive way, large, fat man, Methodist.
ELDER SIMMS.
Methodist minister, newcomer in town, ambitious, small and fly, but not very intelligent.
ELDER CHILDERS.
Big, loose-jointed, slow spoken but not dumb. Long resident in the town, calm and sure of himself.
KATIE CARTER: Dave’s aunt, little old wizened dried-up lady.
MRS. HATTIE CLARK.
The Mayor’s wife, fat and flabby mulatto high-pitched voice.
THE MRS. REV. SIMMS.
Large and agressive.
THE MRS. REV. CHILDERS.
Just a wife who thinks of details.
LUM BOGER.
Young town marshall about twenty, tall, gangly, with big flat feet, liked to show off in public.