Act 1 Summary

The scene is Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace at the foot of Embarcadero in San Francisco. We enter the swing double doors to the street down right with steps leading down to the barroom. The bar itself is at right. A center door leads to kitchen. A piano on a platform rests up left center and steps lead up to a stage in the upper left corner of the bar.

A marble game sits down right of the bar near some tables and chairs. At center and left center we see a wall telephone. There's a phonograph at the left, and a chair sits right of the center door. In the back room above the left end of the bar, there are a table and chairs. Sitting at a table, we find Joe in his expensive, casual and youthfully worn...