Theodore Bellamy

"Ted" Bellamy is a tourist from Evanston, Illinois, visiting Miami for a Shriners' convention. After their parade, Ted goes to a strip-tease show, gets drunk, and arrives back at his hotel room at 4:07 in the morning. His wife gets him up at 8:00 to go swimming, and he is promptly stung by some jellyfish. After being treated by two "Life Guards" he doesn't return and is reported missing by his wife. When the Shriners find his fez they assume he has drowned and hold an impromptu prayer service on the beach in his honor.

Nell Bellamy

Nell is Ted's wife who reports him missing to the police, and then organizes the Shriners to look for him. She is a pleasant woman who is persistent in her goal to discover what actually happened to her husband.

B. D. "Sparky" Harper

Sparky is the president of the Greater...