The Purification

THE JUDGE - An aristocratic rancher of middle age.
THE SON - A youth of twenty, handsome, irrationally tense of feeling.
THE MOTHER - Pure blooded Castillian with iron-gray hair. She is dressed in mourning.
THE FATHER - All nd gaunt, a steady wine drinker. Brooding and slow of movement.
THE RANCHER FROM CASA ROJO - The burnt-out shell of a longing that drove to violence. His blood is coarser than the people of Casa Blanca. But he is a man of dignity and force.
LUISA - An American Indian servant woman. Some Spanish blood. She wears a good deal of jewlery and a brialliant shawl.
AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH
A CHORUS OF THREE MEN AND THREE WOMEN - Ranchers.
THE GUITAR PLAYER - He wears a domino and scarlet-lined cape. He sits on a stool beside the wide arched doorway.
ELENA OF THE SPRINGS / THE DESERT ELENA - Two visions of the same charcter, the lost girl.

Plus Chorus