SPY: CHARACTERS
MATA HARI: celebrated Dutch dancer and courtesan, forty but looks thirty
CAPTAIN GEORGES LADOUX: Chief of French Military Intelligence, early forties, sturdy, broad-shouldered, has a neat dark mustache.
LIEUTENANT JEAN HALLAURE: aide to Ladoux, early twenties, slender fragile aristocrat with shining eyes; wounded by rifle bullets; walks with a limp and the help of a cane.
CAPTAIN VADIME DE MASSLOFF: Russian cavalryman, mid-twenties, powerful; severely injured in gas and mortar attack; walks like Hallaure with a limp and the help of a cane; wears a black eye-patch.
SIR BASIL THOMSON: Chief of Scotland Yard, mid-fifties, robust, vigorous.
SERGEANT JONES: English policeman, mid-twenties.
MAJOR VON KALLE: German Military Intelligence Chief, Madrid Office; late thirties, handsome, powerful, emotionally volatile.
SERGEANT KRAUS: aide to Von Kalle, early twenties.
VAN AERSEN: Dutch diplomat, mid-twenties, sleek and handsome.
COLONEL DENVIGNES: French Intelligence Administrator, Madrid Office, sixties, sly, sprightly, handsome, elegant white mustache and full head of white hair, promoted to General in Act II.
CAPTAIN HENRI DESTOUCHES: aide to Denvignes, early forties. On account of the tilt of his hat and the way he is lit, he seems perpetually cloaked in shadow. In body-type he is identical to Ladoux.
PLATFORM GUARD: late thirties, gaunt, grim.
CORPORAL GULOT: Gendarme, early twenties, red-haired.
CORPORAL BARBIN: Gendarme, late thirties, dark-haired and balding.
