EBOOK THE MULE-BONE: ***
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THE MULE-BONE
A COMEDY OF NEGRO LIFE IN
THREE ACTS
BY
LANGSTON HUGHES and ZORA HURSTON
CHARACTERS
JIM WESTON: Guitarist, Methodist, slightly arrogant, agressive,
somewhat self-important, ready with his tongue.
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.
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