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OCTOBER 1923
THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER
IN HIS MOUTH
A Dialogue
Translated From the Italian by Arthur Livingston
CHARACTERS
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth
A Customer (With Time on His Hands)
Twice, during the Dialogue, a melancholy woman, in a black dress, and an old hat with drooping feathers, will appear round the corner.
An avenue, lined with trees; electric lights gleaming through the foliage. On either side, the last houses of a street crossing the avenue. Among the houses to the left, a miserable all-night café, with tables and chairs on the sidewalk. In front of the houses on the right a street-lamp lighted. Astride the angle made by the two walls of the house to the left, which has a front both on the street and on the avenue, a street-lamp, also lighted. It is shortly after midnight. Faintly, from a distance, comes at intervals the thrumming of a mandolin. As the curtain rises, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth is seated at one of the tables, silently observing the Customer, who, at a neighbouring table, is sipping a mint frappée through a straw.
