September 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Quiet, Please! was a radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out. Ernest Chappell was the show's announcer and lead actor. Quiet, Please! has been praised as one of the finest efforts of the golden age of American radio dram. A total of 106 shows were broadcast between 1947 and 1949.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please,
(00:38):
which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which
features Ernest Chappel. Quiet Please for today is called Berlin
nineteen forty five. Good Afternoon. This is Willis Cooper quiet
(00:59):
free story bringing you today is a Christmas story that
any of our listeners have asked us to repeat this year.
And no Christmas actually was yesterday after I was still
Christmas today, isn't it? This was Christmas Day three years ago,
Christmas nineteen forty five in the ruined house in Berlin
and Germany. Five soldiers around the table. Beginning of Christmas
(01:20):
dinner stas started. John Platner was kindly, I am a
guy that strictly enjoys Christmas. I enjoyed a lot more
if I was at five or four North Monroe Street.
So you guys come to see me sometime in PORI
(01:41):
you'll find out. Hey, Hey, listen, I'll tell you what
next Christmas. Let's all go to Peori and have Christmas
dinner at Chelsey at Bramley Park.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Hey, I'll let that skating and Bramley partner right now.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, it's eleven fifty five, brilliant time, it's seven hours different.
That makes it four fifty five in the morning in Peoria.
So they're skating in Vioria at all four fifty five
in the morning in Peoria. Everybody's nuts. Well, come on,
come on, who said wakely?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Don't anybody want a drumstick?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Look at the track? Oh, I'd rather look at what's
that under your own, Lieutenant, the finest bottle of wine
between here and the hope of open at somebody or less.
There are times when you discourage me with your thirst. Now,
(02:49):
if you just walk outside of my jeep, as I
was about to say, you'll find seven more of the
same sir if you get off his chair like that
when I tell him to get out of the morning report,
I where did you get the line set?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, you means where did I get the money?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
There was a craft game last night with some Air
Force check airplane drivers, and I happened to hold some
very excellent am I what's that not cranberry? So yeah's
uncle at ten? Oh man, that tastes like home. Now, look, lieutenant,
(03:27):
don't pull, don't charge, And I haven't had any Cranberry
sauces swam Davis. I don't like to think about that either, Lieutenant.
Well look any you said a drumsteak? Lieutenant, yeah, the stark.
Besides potatoes, what's this stuff? I think that's turnips.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And put it up.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I sure, what are you saying about over there, Copa Morgan?
But me, I was just thinking, we'll stop it, dangers
have it and anybody open that bottle? You yeah, in
a minute, In a minute, hold up your couples.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Huh you are.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's enough for a minute. That's along. There's master with
the rest of I've never met that guy. Somebody give me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Boy boys, help yourself to the stuff the hollow. When
you want more turkey, you should we open all the
bottle before you sat down, before your turkey gets cold.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
In the army a messageont you should talk like that?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Not a bottle, I said, like people you love me?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's a swell army.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Way. It's called Michael mc christie Morgan, here's your cry. Yeah,
well I would eat your bread. Yeah, AGAs, thanks, here's
a christ huh right? You know I drunk some of
that once or SECONDE told me some more. I think
(05:12):
we should drink a toast. I don't start that again.
Let's see ray, some gravy, there's plenty of Yeah. Only
toast I want to drink is when I climb off
that ship in New York. That's when we'll all drink.
I'll drink it right now. Remember what we were doing
(05:37):
last Christmas? Man, that's what I was thinking about about
a toast? Yeah, yeah, right, I think you're right. Morgan,
the yeah big guilt cocky and and Pewston Francis walked
(06:06):
that the kid Larry loses name after my brother. I
think we better stand up for that. Ye mum, hm
(06:27):
you you say that. No, I will just drink to him.
Oh yeah, okay, many yeah, kind of say.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I have even like this.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hey, I I sure remember my last Christmas back home
Na Home Hollywood. Hey, we had a show that day.
Cost the coach. Say what you do on a radio rips? Sing? Announce?
You announce it? Hey, how about another drumsticks?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I sure reach.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You want to hear me. Good evening, friends of the
radio music world. Tonight we are again privileged to present
the Army Air Force's Symphony Orchestra under the direction of
Major Eddie Dunster, direct from a Flying Training Command auditorium
(07:43):
in Santa Ana. California. Our program this evening includes Affairs
that They Desired by Ronaldo Hahn, Dumont by Dallius Window,
the selections from Jaga as Edenman by Spouse, and who
concludes the inimitable folk song of our Russian allyes Cadna.
(08:11):
Did you hear what I heard? What did you come
out of it? Popped a crooner in the eye. He
was a master sergeant, so they shipped me any more
wine after that drift, you had a home foto years.
I don't care look at him. Thank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
My last Christmas.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Christmas I remember was Derek Bliss. One year I was
in big troop with a seventh Calvary. Yeah, there was
a Mexican Calvary outfit just across the river at Warece.
Now they come over to play Polo see and brought
a bunch of their enlisted men a role and every
(08:53):
single one of them lads had, according to quila in
his saddle banks.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Did you ever drink tequila? Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Once there was a Mexican sergeant I can remember his name,
So that told Pablo Francisco Profaya del.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Ray humane, I mean jun He taught me how to say.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Merry Christmas in Mexican. Don't kidd please sees love DAAs.
Where were you Margan last Christmas? You know where I
was now? I mean the state? What happened before I
(09:48):
got in the army. My last Christmas mistakes was in jail. Jail,
in jail. I never told you guys that lots of
people been in jails. Slide the bottle over this week?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What was you never mind?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I don't, lieutenant, It wasn't the first time. Thanks starting
a little more tricky, I guess I'm right up. That
was strictly a home. I never had it so good
as in the army. You sure didn't like the army
so well when I first joined the Oxford Morgan Yeah,
(10:28):
I know, gotta be kind of different when my brother
joined the outide. I never knew the kid very well before,
So listen, yeah, yeah, huh. I'm going to stay in
(10:56):
at least they can do. Where was you, lieutenant when? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh, you mean my last Christmas home?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, believe it or not, I was in school. Oh yeah,
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Last year I was supposed to graduate In nineteen forty one,
my class graduated. I was a pick Sargon that cam Forest, Tennessee.
Oh where was he Christmas in the hospital with a
broken leg?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah? Play too much football?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Hey? Did you ever know a lieutenant colonel at Forrest
and Smith? There was a million lieutenant colonel's name Smith.
It's all looked like Eisenhower was a major.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Then that is the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, when the crowds was going to assassinate a
couple of three months ago, remember this year Colonel Smith,
he personified icenwer I impersonated, but like he was him.
He was a friend of mine. Host out of the
(12:07):
one hundred and thirty is then for free? Oh? Why
are you last? Christmas out of the See Demy and
I got married Christmas Eve. Her her name is Celestians
called her. Didn't recus? You know you were very sure
the Sember twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Nineteen forty one, Hey, I didn't. Did I ever show
your picture?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You got him with you?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Let me see that after you?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Pretty?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Is she blonde?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Red, hairy? Let me take it get a little one.
Wait a minute, remember white cat looks like my sistan.
Hey say Chris, I'll excuse your kids. Where would you Christmas?
You see the picture? Take a little pretty? Well? What
(13:00):
was you Hollywood canteen? Oh? Boy, hey, I was never there.
Was the movie stars up to here? Betty Gravel? Yeah,
in Peoria Planet. I don't remember Lester yea hear me,
don't remember Lena Turner. It's nice to be off another
slab of white people after nothing?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh, let me do it. Who's out at the door.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I didn't see anybody saying, tell me one of them
hungry Joe's from the first platoon looking for a second dinner. Well,
that's too him.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Look anybody else, what's up taking.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Hi? Well?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Certainly my mom wrote to me and she asked me
what I wanted for Christmas? So I tell you, I
mean you.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Know where kidney? Yet when I wrote I wanted one
of her mince pies. You don't tell me, your mother
said to him in spie, that can't be done. What
do you mean it can't be done? Remember them guys
back in tom steal it? They stay here? Right? Is
the army putting out mince pies? Now?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Now look, this is no g I pie. What if it.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Was? It? My mom?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
She sent me a thing of a jake for homemade mince.
Me wraps it up so as it looked like a
section of stone pipe. That's so it woke for now
and by Jimmy, it got that effery step for the
way from messal And Ohio.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Roger. Yes, if you're a kidding, I will personally turn
you over to the toughest mp I there. No, I
hate kidding with it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But on the other hand, you're not. I'll see that
you get a bronze star with a three.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oak leaf because if I have to put him out
on the back end of the critters, you can.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Get out your pet knife now, tenant, because it's something
on top of the stove right now.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Hey, look he handed.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Er. Yeah we made this.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Morning, Morgan.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
What are you looking at? There's somebody at the door.
Go see what it is. Yes, there's nobody over another bottle,
Come on that. Yeah, I got it here, I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
For me a lima bent. You kidding what I didn't?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Really, you've got.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yourself front of this dinner.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Eat some of it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That's what I'm doing, all right, you only who drums?
Want to give you something? Somebody more right out here?
My god, I saw somebody there, wasn't I want? Well
wait a second, I started to tell you about the
Christmas I got married in ther Hey.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Hey, there is somebody at the door. Don't look like
a g I okay, you you were there?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
What's what? Was he here? Whom here?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I wanted?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Why? Sorry? Sir? Oh speaking? Eh? Yes, sir? What do
you want? Nothing, sir? I was just looking around at
the destruction. It's terrible. Yeah, you're home here? No suits?
(17:00):
Have you got relatives? Yeah? No, no, I have no relatives, friends,
few enough friends. I am afraid suit. Well are you hungry?
I don't think so. Well looked? And you you better
not hang around them. Piece are tough, baby, you've got
(17:21):
that entergy kind No. What are you a dp DP? Yeah?
Displaced person? Yes, yes, I suppose you might say I
am a displaced person. Well look there, wait just a
minute with him. Hey, you men, man, you got any
(17:42):
objections if I bring this fell in for a slice
of turkey and drink of wine. Okay? You see, even
though I am an officer, I'm a guest of these boys.
Have you know I have to ask them? You are
young for an officer. Yeah. The wars don't seem to
care how old you are. Come on in you I
am a little tired. Cool too, huh, yes, it is
(18:05):
very cool right down there.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
From Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
R Yeah, Merry Christmas possible, Yeah, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He's got a Yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Good to sit down with friendly people. Well, you're among
friends for a while, master, so have fun.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well you can.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
How about some jerkey for a friends? Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Will it be brighter ducks.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Just a little? Please give you some. You must not
be so gender, all right, there's plenty for everybody who
else wants to more, not mine. When you're a friend,
you're no, thank you? Well that's straight up a spectators
over here.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You're going to.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Your home there here, mister. No, my home was a
long way from here.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Oh you you're a crop and crowd Germany. No, I
am not a German.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Facebook's awful familiar.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Don't know you've seen you around here?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Sometimes I don't know you better on it occasionally. Yes,
will you shut up, lester and leave the man eat?
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh I'm awful, Yeah me too.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh. Could be the presence of against contributes to your
feeling of well being.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I think that's right. Yeah, sure, but you know what
it says in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Wait, don't rush me it's it's.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
More blessed or something to give them to receive it.
When when you have some honest thank you, boy, before
I think I see him, I can't want.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You. Men have been together for a long time in
this war. Yes, we're all that's slept in the original outfit.
We all started out together in the States, and we
said that we eat dinner in Berlin. There was a
lot more of us than plain. Yeah, a lot more,
(21:00):
a lot of good times. I'll say, Well, here we
are in Berlin and we are haven't.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Done it right?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
It almost seems as if you were all spared for
something more than merely fighting a war.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Fighting this war has done something for us.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yes, I wouldn't do it again. For what has it
done for you? Oh? I don't know. I guess you
get to feel different about people and you've been through
it weird. Yes, I can understand that. Yeah, I bet
(21:50):
you can. I bet you've been through a lot too. Huh, Yes,
are you a soldier? Kah? What's everybody so quiet? About?
A minute ago? We were all hollering and yelling and
carrying on here. Everybody's full. It isn't that platner. It
(22:15):
just kind of feels like Christmas. That's right, shows like
I remember on Christmas one we used to go to
church in Peoria, like Christmas afternoon.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Everybody field good kind of I'm like everybody, Yeah, that's right,
tis earth and goodwill to man. We ought to church
this morning. I went to church, you can, yes, sir,
(22:57):
I like get up early and went up, ran right
into the chaplain. What can I do? Even sun Christmas
carols a him. Oh, calm.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Your oh mister, that's an awful looking sky you got
(24:17):
in your hand. Eh. Yes, it was very painful once. Hey,
let me see.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Sure it is. Then crowds do that to you. No,
you speak awful good English. I speak several languages. When
you let the bat alone, you want to know who
he is and what he's doing here. I know I've
seen him someplace. Yes, I think you have seen me somewhere,
but where where?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I know where I've seen him before?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Do you in the hospital?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I had the broken light.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
This Christmas? Pretty? I know how I saw you. Yes,
I remember in the snow bank a Titius and there's
naming me sad my brother and then he was killed.
(25:19):
I saw you on the transport when we were on
the way over here. It was in the mission Carmel.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yes, I saw you there.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Once when I was walking God at the tomb of
the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
At night, I was there.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Will you at church this morning? I saw you there? Well,
well who are you?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Wait a minute, no, don't go yet. Wait, I have
another drink of wine. I will drink a cup of
wine with you, and then I must go. Let me
have no fot sway a minute. Okay, yeah, drinker, thank you?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
No, good, good bye, my friends.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well I'm not stay with us, please stay with us. No, no,
I must go.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
But listen, why why do you have to go? What
Ester the whole world is waiting for? After all, it's
his birthday, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
H m hm hm.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
The title of today's story is Berlin, nineteen forty five,
Quiet Please, broadcast of last Christmas repeating today by request.
A displaced person. Ernest Chapel and the others in the cast.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Were at Latimer Frank Thomas Melville, Roy, James Monks, James Goss,
and Warren Stevens. Music for Quiet Please is played by
Albert Burman. Now for a word about next week, my
(28:21):
good friend and a writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you for listening to quiet Please next week I
have a story for which I call at time of
the big snow, and so until next week. At the
same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel at
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please,
(00:38):
which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which
features Ernest Chappel. Quiet Please for today is called Berlin
nineteen forty five. Good Afternoon. This is Willis Cooper quiet
(00:59):
free story bringing you today is a Christmas story that
any of our listeners have asked us to repeat this year.
And no Christmas actually was yesterday after I was still
Christmas today, isn't it? This was Christmas Day three years ago,
Christmas nineteen forty five in the ruined house in Berlin
and Germany. Five soldiers around the table. Beginning of Christmas
(01:20):
dinner stas started. John Platner was kindly, I am a
guy that strictly enjoys Christmas. I enjoyed a lot more
if I was at five or four North Monroe Street.
So you guys come to see me sometime in PORI
(01:41):
you'll find out. Hey, Hey, listen, I'll tell you what
next Christmas. Let's all go to Peori and have Christmas
dinner at Chelsey at Bramley Park.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Hey, I'll let that skating and Bramley partner right now.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, it's eleven fifty five, brilliant time, it's seven hours different.
That makes it four fifty five in the morning in Peoria.
So they're skating in Vioria at all four fifty five
in the morning in Peoria. Everybody's nuts. Well, come on,
come on, who said wakely?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Don't anybody want a drumstick?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Look at the track? Oh, I'd rather look at what's
that under your own, Lieutenant, the finest bottle of wine
between here and the hope of open at somebody or less.
There are times when you discourage me with your thirst. Now,
(02:49):
if you just walk outside of my jeep, as I
was about to say, you'll find seven more of the
same sir if you get off his chair like that
when I tell him to get out of the morning report,
I where did you get the line set?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, you means where did I get the money?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
There was a craft game last night with some Air
Force check airplane drivers, and I happened to hold some
very excellent am I what's that not cranberry? So yeah's
uncle at ten? Oh man, that tastes like home. Now, look, lieutenant,
(03:27):
don't pull, don't charge, And I haven't had any Cranberry
sauces swam Davis. I don't like to think about that either, Lieutenant.
Well look any you said a drumsteak? Lieutenant, yeah, the stark.
Besides potatoes, what's this stuff? I think that's turnips.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And put it up.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I sure, what are you saying about over there, Copa Morgan?
But me, I was just thinking, we'll stop it, dangers
have it and anybody open that bottle? You yeah, in
a minute, In a minute, hold up your couples.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Huh you are.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's enough for a minute. That's along. There's master with
the rest of I've never met that guy. Somebody give me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Boy boys, help yourself to the stuff the hollow. When
you want more turkey, you should we open all the
bottle before you sat down, before your turkey gets cold.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
In the army a messageont you should talk like that?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Not a bottle, I said, like people you love me?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's a swell army.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Way. It's called Michael mc christie Morgan, here's your cry. Yeah,
well I would eat your bread. Yeah, AGAs, thanks, here's
a christ huh right? You know I drunk some of
that once or SECONDE told me some more. I think
(05:12):
we should drink a toast. I don't start that again.
Let's see ray, some gravy, there's plenty of Yeah. Only
toast I want to drink is when I climb off
that ship in New York. That's when we'll all drink.
I'll drink it right now. Remember what we were doing
(05:37):
last Christmas? Man, that's what I was thinking about about
a toast? Yeah, yeah, right, I think you're right. Morgan,
the yeah big guilt cocky and and Pewston Francis walked
(06:06):
that the kid Larry loses name after my brother. I
think we better stand up for that. Ye mum, hm
(06:27):
you you say that. No, I will just drink to him.
Oh yeah, okay, many yeah, kind of say.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I have even like this.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hey, I I sure remember my last Christmas back home
Na Home Hollywood. Hey, we had a show that day.
Cost the coach. Say what you do on a radio rips? Sing? Announce?
You announce it? Hey, how about another drumsticks?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I sure reach.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You want to hear me. Good evening, friends of the
radio music world. Tonight we are again privileged to present
the Army Air Force's Symphony Orchestra under the direction of
Major Eddie Dunster, direct from a Flying Training Command auditorium
(07:43):
in Santa Ana. California. Our program this evening includes Affairs
that They Desired by Ronaldo Hahn, Dumont by Dallius Window,
the selections from Jaga as Edenman by Spouse, and who
concludes the inimitable folk song of our Russian allyes Cadna.
(08:11):
Did you hear what I heard? What did you come
out of it? Popped a crooner in the eye. He
was a master sergeant, so they shipped me any more
wine after that drift, you had a home foto years.
I don't care look at him. Thank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
My last Christmas.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Christmas I remember was Derek Bliss. One year I was
in big troop with a seventh Calvary. Yeah, there was
a Mexican Calvary outfit just across the river at Warece.
Now they come over to play Polo see and brought
a bunch of their enlisted men a role and every
(08:53):
single one of them lads had, according to quila in
his saddle banks.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Did you ever drink tequila? Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Once there was a Mexican sergeant I can remember his name,
So that told Pablo Francisco Profaya del.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Ray humane, I mean jun He taught me how to say.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Merry Christmas in Mexican. Don't kidd please sees love DAAs.
Where were you Margan last Christmas? You know where I
was now? I mean the state? What happened before I
(09:48):
got in the army. My last Christmas mistakes was in jail. Jail,
in jail. I never told you guys that lots of
people been in jails. Slide the bottle over this week?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What was you never mind?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I don't, lieutenant, It wasn't the first time. Thanks starting
a little more tricky, I guess I'm right up. That
was strictly a home. I never had it so good
as in the army. You sure didn't like the army
so well when I first joined the Oxford Morgan Yeah,
(10:28):
I know, gotta be kind of different when my brother
joined the outide. I never knew the kid very well before,
So listen, yeah, yeah, huh. I'm going to stay in
(10:56):
at least they can do. Where was you, lieutenant when? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh, you mean my last Christmas home?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, believe it or not, I was in school. Oh yeah,
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Last year I was supposed to graduate In nineteen forty one,
my class graduated. I was a pick Sargon that cam Forest, Tennessee.
Oh where was he Christmas in the hospital with a
broken leg?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah? Play too much football?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Hey? Did you ever know a lieutenant colonel at Forrest
and Smith? There was a million lieutenant colonel's name Smith.
It's all looked like Eisenhower was a major.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Then that is the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, when the crowds was going to assassinate a
couple of three months ago, remember this year Colonel Smith,
he personified icenwer I impersonated, but like he was him.
He was a friend of mine. Host out of the
(12:07):
one hundred and thirty is then for free? Oh? Why
are you last? Christmas out of the See Demy and
I got married Christmas Eve. Her her name is Celestians
called her. Didn't recus? You know you were very sure
the Sember twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Nineteen forty one, Hey, I didn't. Did I ever show
your picture?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You got him with you?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Let me see that after you?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Pretty?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Is she blonde?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Red, hairy? Let me take it get a little one.
Wait a minute, remember white cat looks like my sistan.
Hey say Chris, I'll excuse your kids. Where would you Christmas?
You see the picture? Take a little pretty? Well? What
(13:00):
was you Hollywood canteen? Oh? Boy, hey, I was never there.
Was the movie stars up to here? Betty Gravel? Yeah,
in Peoria Planet. I don't remember Lester yea hear me,
don't remember Lena Turner. It's nice to be off another
slab of white people after nothing?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh, let me do it. Who's out at the door.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I didn't see anybody saying, tell me one of them
hungry Joe's from the first platoon looking for a second dinner. Well,
that's too him.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Look anybody else, what's up taking.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Hi? Well?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Certainly my mom wrote to me and she asked me
what I wanted for Christmas? So I tell you, I
mean you.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Know where kidney? Yet when I wrote I wanted one
of her mince pies. You don't tell me, your mother
said to him in spie, that can't be done. What
do you mean it can't be done? Remember them guys
back in tom steal it? They stay here? Right? Is
the army putting out mince pies? Now?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Now look, this is no g I pie. What if it.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Was? It? My mom?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
She sent me a thing of a jake for homemade mince.
Me wraps it up so as it looked like a
section of stone pipe. That's so it woke for now
and by Jimmy, it got that effery step for the
way from messal And Ohio.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Roger. Yes, if you're a kidding, I will personally turn
you over to the toughest mp I there. No, I
hate kidding with it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But on the other hand, you're not. I'll see that
you get a bronze star with a three.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oak leaf because if I have to put him out
on the back end of the critters, you can.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Get out your pet knife now, tenant, because it's something
on top of the stove right now.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Hey, look he handed.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Er. Yeah we made this.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Morning, Morgan.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
What are you looking at? There's somebody at the door.
Go see what it is. Yes, there's nobody over another bottle,
Come on that. Yeah, I got it here, I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
For me a lima bent. You kidding what I didn't?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Really, you've got.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yourself front of this dinner.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Eat some of it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That's what I'm doing, all right, you only who drums?
Want to give you something? Somebody more right out here?
My god, I saw somebody there, wasn't I want? Well
wait a second, I started to tell you about the
Christmas I got married in ther Hey.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Hey, there is somebody at the door. Don't look like
a g I okay, you you were there?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
What's what? Was he here? Whom here?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I wanted?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Why? Sorry? Sir? Oh speaking? Eh? Yes, sir? What do
you want? Nothing, sir? I was just looking around at
the destruction. It's terrible. Yeah, you're home here? No suits?
(17:00):
Have you got relatives? Yeah? No, no, I have no relatives, friends,
few enough friends. I am afraid suit. Well are you hungry?
I don't think so. Well looked? And you you better
not hang around them. Piece are tough, baby, you've got
(17:21):
that entergy kind No. What are you a dp DP? Yeah?
Displaced person? Yes, yes, I suppose you might say I
am a displaced person. Well look there, wait just a
minute with him. Hey, you men, man, you got any
(17:42):
objections if I bring this fell in for a slice
of turkey and drink of wine. Okay? You see, even
though I am an officer, I'm a guest of these boys.
Have you know I have to ask them? You are
young for an officer. Yeah. The wars don't seem to
care how old you are. Come on in you I
am a little tired. Cool too, huh, yes, it is
(18:05):
very cool right down there.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
From Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
R Yeah, Merry Christmas possible, Yeah, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He's got a Yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Good to sit down with friendly people. Well, you're among
friends for a while, master, so have fun.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well you can.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
How about some jerkey for a friends? Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Will it be brighter ducks.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Just a little? Please give you some. You must not
be so gender, all right, there's plenty for everybody who
else wants to more, not mine. When you're a friend,
you're no, thank you? Well that's straight up a spectators
over here.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You're going to.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Your home there here, mister. No, my home was a
long way from here.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Oh you you're a crop and crowd Germany. No, I
am not a German.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Facebook's awful familiar.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Don't know you've seen you around here?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Sometimes I don't know you better on it occasionally. Yes,
will you shut up, lester and leave the man eat?
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh I'm awful, Yeah me too.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh. Could be the presence of against contributes to your
feeling of well being.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I think that's right. Yeah, sure, but you know what
it says in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Wait, don't rush me it's it's.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
More blessed or something to give them to receive it.
When when you have some honest thank you, boy, before
I think I see him, I can't want.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You. Men have been together for a long time in
this war. Yes, we're all that's slept in the original outfit.
We all started out together in the States, and we
said that we eat dinner in Berlin. There was a
lot more of us than plain. Yeah, a lot more,
(21:00):
a lot of good times. I'll say, Well, here we
are in Berlin and we are haven't.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Done it right?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
It almost seems as if you were all spared for
something more than merely fighting a war.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Fighting this war has done something for us.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yes, I wouldn't do it again. For what has it
done for you? Oh? I don't know. I guess you
get to feel different about people and you've been through
it weird. Yes, I can understand that. Yeah, I bet
(21:50):
you can. I bet you've been through a lot too. Huh, Yes,
are you a soldier? Kah? What's everybody so quiet? About?
A minute ago? We were all hollering and yelling and
carrying on here. Everybody's full. It isn't that platner. It
(22:15):
just kind of feels like Christmas. That's right, shows like
I remember on Christmas one we used to go to
church in Peoria, like Christmas afternoon.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Everybody field good kind of I'm like everybody, Yeah, that's right,
tis earth and goodwill to man. We ought to church
this morning. I went to church, you can, yes, sir,
(22:57):
I like get up early and went up, ran right
into the chaplain. What can I do? Even sun Christmas
carols a him. Oh, calm.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Your oh mister, that's an awful looking sky you got
(24:17):
in your hand. Eh. Yes, it was very painful once. Hey,
let me see.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Sure it is. Then crowds do that to you. No,
you speak awful good English. I speak several languages. When
you let the bat alone, you want to know who
he is and what he's doing here. I know I've
seen him someplace. Yes, I think you have seen me somewhere,
but where where?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I know where I've seen him before?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Do you in the hospital?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I had the broken light.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
This Christmas? Pretty? I know how I saw you. Yes,
I remember in the snow bank a Titius and there's
naming me sad my brother and then he was killed.
(25:19):
I saw you on the transport when we were on
the way over here. It was in the mission Carmel.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yes, I saw you there.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Once when I was walking God at the tomb of
the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
At night, I was there.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Will you at church this morning? I saw you there? Well,
well who are you?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Wait a minute, no, don't go yet. Wait, I have
another drink of wine. I will drink a cup of
wine with you, and then I must go. Let me
have no fot sway a minute. Okay, yeah, drinker, thank you?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
No, good, good bye, my friends.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well I'm not stay with us, please stay with us. No, no,
I must go.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
But listen, why why do you have to go? What
Ester the whole world is waiting for? After all, it's
his birthday, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
H m hm hm.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
The title of today's story is Berlin, nineteen forty five,
Quiet Please, broadcast of last Christmas repeating today by request.
A displaced person. Ernest Chapel and the others in the cast.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Were at Latimer Frank Thomas Melville, Roy, James Monks, James Goss,
and Warren Stevens. Music for Quiet Please is played by
Albert Burman. Now for a word about next week, my
(28:21):
good friend and a writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you for listening to quiet Please next week I
have a story for which I call at time of
the big snow, and so until next week. At the
same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel at
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