November 22, 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 (00:01):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet Please for today is called Very Unimportant Person.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The Hollow Men.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You never read it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
A lot of people were very fond according from it
when T. S. Eliott got the Nobel Prize. So actually
that part, this is how the world ends.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Not with a bang but a whimper. Well, I wasn't
so am aster, Elia as you were wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Me.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How do I know I was there. I don't know
how it happened.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Maybe somebody dropped something, Maybe one of our own people
pushed the wrong button. Maybe the thing got tired of
being in one piece and just went off by itself.
All I know is I was standing outside the operations
office of Bowling that morning. I heard a funny noise
and I looked up. I just happened to be looking
north in the direction of Baltimore, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Knew what it was the minute I saw it.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was a bikini and I saw both Testable and
test Baker.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You couldn't pull me for a minute.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
So there's an.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Aeroplane standing there, and I saw Ruth alongside the doorway
to the office. I grabbed him with the arm and
I boosted her into that airplane and I took off
because when you see that pink and cream colored mushroom cloud,
you don't wait if you do eat my fieth cart
of the next one. So Ruth didn't put up much
of an argument after I pointed to the things. She
couldn't argue. Her mouth was hanging open the foot and
(02:12):
me I was too busy to talk for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I got to ten.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Thousand feet off the past. We got ourselves a good
twenty miles away from Washington. I was noticing that, for
a miracle, both fuel tanks were full, and Ruth just
about jumped out of her safety about what I said,
what's the matter now? And as I said it, I
felt the blast.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
It isn't there any more, Tom.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I see what you mean. Well, we asked for it.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
I'm just looking at the capital. Is the Washington monuments? Tom,
so much?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What everybody's been waiting for? Honey?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well? If it was, it's all over now. If anybody
dropped a couple of more.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Of those bombs, what are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
We're going to get out of here as fast as
this aeroplane will take us.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Hope we won't fly right into one of.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Those things terrible.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Where can we call?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Give me the microphone there, I'm going to see who're
still alive?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Thanks? I don't know who to call.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hello, c Q, Hello, CQ CQ.
Speaker 9 (03:22):
This is USA F plane nine nine three four four
calling c Q, c Q CQ.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
If you hear me, anybody, give me a call?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Speak up somebody?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Overt?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Can you hear anybody?
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Hello, CQZQ from USA have played nine oh nine three
four four.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Overt?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't expect.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
Wait, Philadelphia, this is Army nine oh nine three four four.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I hear you very well.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
Is everything all right there?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I say again? Is everything all right over? Hello Philadelphia?
Speaker 9 (04:05):
This is USAF nine oh nine three four four, Hello Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Answer me?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Overt? Hello Philadelphia, This is USAF nine oh nine three
four four.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Overt, No, Philadelphia, Wait at Philadelphia, but let me stop?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Who says.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Pittsburgh?
Speaker 9 (04:35):
Pittsburgh, This is USAF nine oh nine three four four.
I hear you very well. What is the situation there?
I say again, what is the situation there?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Over?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Hello Pittsburgh?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let me as you, darling. Nobody answers.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It happened in just like the man said, money, there's
no place to hide. Wherever we turned, we saw the
towering great clouds, starting out a blow away and getting
ragular around the edges, and clearing enough so we could
see the ground. Once in a while. There'd be little town, sure,
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but we couldn't tell what was going on down there.
And I knew it might be happening. And I didn't
choose to land because the rankeed edges of those clouds
would be blowing across those little towns down there. I
hadn't been hammered into nothing yet. And the pretty little
towns of the elm.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Trees along the streets, the pleasant little towns sitting on the.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Edges of the river banks, nice little towns.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
They'd get there's pretty quick. I didn't want to be there.
If I can just keep this airplane flying one.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Enough, I thought.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I guess I must have said it aloud, because Roof
hanswered me, well, I think if I can get through,
maybe the woods up in Canada'll be say. I can
buy an airstrip somewhere, I hope sat down there, can
we not? We can try that's all. This looks like
a pretty good airplane and we've got gas.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Oh jet, Look that beautiful country. Yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's done now. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I have an idea that if somebody dump these things
on us, there's more than one country like this.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
By now it's see and the world.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yay, let me try that radio again. I tried the
radio for an hour. I tried Pittsburgh again, Detroit and Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I didn't get any answer at all.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I listened with my ears heard the only single thing
I've heard was the leader of a jet fighter squadron
somewhat over that hearing.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
His voice was so paint.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
He was talking to his pilot and they said, there
isn't any feel luck to go back to. And then
there was study, and he faded out, and we flew on,
heading north of the snows in the wilderness of Canada,
whatever kind.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Of sanctuary that might be.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I'd often wondered what people would say to each other
in the face of an awful disaster.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Be would they pray?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I wondered, why would.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
They try to comfort each other? How would they try
to reason their way out of disaster?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
What I turned out we didn't say anything well, there
wasn't anything to say. It got dark and all around
this on the horizon, and it was the glow of
fires and the luminous clouds, the clouds that a few
hours ago had been cities, great industries.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And people.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The fuel tank I was using Randry and I switched
to a second one. We flew on its thousand feet
I could hardly see. I was attired and rot up,
and I saw Ruth just giving up. She was lying
back in the seat, not snarring, but making the kind
of sound that a sigamies, and she sat up suddenly.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Opened her eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay, I was dreaming.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You about to go back to sleep?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Where are we?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Hanada somewhere?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Still see the fire had along?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
If I made a wrong guess coming up here or not?
I don't see it be getting away from anything?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Are you afraid?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Tom Me?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
What do you suppose?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Hap back in Washington?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'm trying not to think about it.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Lags, fire, June and nothing, Tom.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
You could anybody else got a play?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't know. I dot it.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
I wonder who's playing this is? Who was waiting for somebody?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Some vip a'll.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Be you p now what very unimportant person now.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yeah, Well, whoever he is, we ought to be awful grateful.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
To Yeah, I'm sure you're both very welcome. Why, I'm
afraid I'm very unimportant because.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
The only thing I remember about him is his eyes.
The light wasn't very good, naturally, and I had to
twist my head over my right shoulder to see him
at all, standing between the comfort seats behind us, so
about all I could see.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Was his eyes. I couldn't see them very well. He
didn't have any hat. He sounded so tired. I felt sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then I thought to myself, roof, I must have said
something like that, because he put his hand on my shoulders.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Thanks, son, I am tired.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It's been a long drag. Yeah, this your airplane, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I was on the impression that belonged to the air force.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I have a bear hunt. There isn't any air force.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
That's probably right.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Were you back there all the time, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yes, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Pretty rugged, Yes, it is, it's very rugged.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I heard you say you're going to try to set
down somewhere in the Canadian woods.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, sir, I'm going to try.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Don't try it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I haven't got much choice.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Don't try it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Well, sir, if I run out of you'll.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Just keep right on going, I said, if I run
out of gas. The point I was making is that
there may not be any Canada by the time you've run.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Out of gas.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Well, in that case, sir, do you think this is
the end of the world.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I wouldn't be surprised. Oh no, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Do you really think everybody is going to die?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Everybody does die?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Idea?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I'm kidding you.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Do you think this is the finish well scientists have worn?
What would happen that the destructive power of these things? Well,
look at your words.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Oh, it can't be.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
It can't be.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Think anybody will survived?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I think so yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh wow, what do you provace that answer?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
You're not a very observant, violent young man, or what
do you mean? If you look out your window, you'll
see another airplane lying right along with us.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And I looked about half a mile away, a little
behind us was a constellation with CWA Market's honor, and
I grabbed the microphone and yelled at him.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I've been trying to read somebody for the last two hours.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
There, of course, why don't you keep your radio on?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Over?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Where'd you come from? Over?
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I inge went to New York? We were just over
in Franching, go to Mexico. We heard from Tucson. It
was happening, and I decided to hen for Canada. I
reported to you here I happened over. We don't know.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I haven't heard anything since this afternoon. I can't raise anybody.
I thought everybody else was dead.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Over God, I, what are you going to do?
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Overt fly till I run out of gas? You got
passengers over all?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Play at you?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Over a VIP of my girlfriend and me? Over me?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
You me?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You mean Obert?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's what he says. We're all the pease blood.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Over.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, I'll stink we into my guess right now. Incidentally,
we better save our radio. We may need him over.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You're right kid? Over and up?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Tom. Do you suppose there are other airplanes anywhere?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't know, Honey, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
So I think there are?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Really?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah? Well, if they can.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Flying far enough?
Speaker 8 (13:33):
How much gas have we got left?
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Can you read that gains?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yes, it says a little more than half full.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I just wanted to be sure that's what I read too.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
How long.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Is that good for Tom?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, honey, that's good for about another three.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Hours, three hours and.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Then what Well, the Lord will provide baby.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I hope you really think you will, sir, I said,
do you believe that?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, yes, he always has. Up to announcer, he.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Provided fire and destruction in the end of the world.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
The Lord didn't do that, child. That was the people
of the Earth.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Thought that yet, but everyone on Earth didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Wait, that's right, that's why souther Of got to escape. Yes,
but how aren't you the one who said the Lord
would provide you just go ahead and buy your airplane.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I flew my airplane. I flew it and flew
it and fluid, and the constellation flew right alongside us.
He saddled back so he wouldn't outrun us.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Every once in a while I've flipped the radio on
and ask.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Him how he was doing. He was doing already, Sai.
And then they got light. They were pretty far north,
I suppose, and they got light quicker, I thought.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
But it wasn't long until I discovered that the light
wasn't from the sun. It was coming from the wrong
direction behind us.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So our passenger was asleep at least he.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Wasn't in a cocktail. Then he came up, and I
swung our head around a little and looked back. He
and I just looked out the window. We didn't say
a word. What would you say to a whole rolling
world full of fire, flames leaping a mile in the air,
flames and smoking, destruction, chasing you, consuming everything in their path.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
What would you say to the solid rock boiling like.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Water in a kettle, the world vaporizing hardly behind you,
and coming on.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
And on and on, so that we flying at two
hundred miles an hour, could see it overtaking us?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What would you say? Ruth had fallen asleep again, and
she couldn't see it.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I saw it. The pilot of the other ship saw it.
I heard his voice in my ears.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You see that air force over?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I see it overt how's your gats?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I'm squeezing out the bottom of the tank over over.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
Thanks, It's over all right, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
We tried.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Help us, and I flipped the radio off and I
swung us back on courtse again. And of course that
all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It didn't mean anything anymore, And I woke up roof
because I didn't want all this to end. But I'm
saying the mind the word. After all, I loved you
for all these years. There comes a time and I
glanced it out past me. It's a very unimportant person.
He just turns to looking back at the terrible sea
of flames that followed us. He didn't look scared at all.
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He looked sad and he was crying. I had to
strain my ears to hear what he said.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
And it was such a beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And then the engine started to spit, and I looked
at a fewer games.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, so long, honey, don't think it has me as well.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I love you, I love you.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I put my arms around her, and I felt the
plane slip off from under us as we lost flying speed,
and I thought, well, this is it now the fireworks.
Ruth was squeezing me so hard. All of a sudden,
I said, hey, what's this? Because the plane had her
nose up again. We were flying along just as good
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as new.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Our passenger, our vip our vup, had hold of the
wheel and he was pulling it back and we were
climbing like mad. And I looked at the fuel gauge
that still said empty, they said, say that there must
be some kind of emergency tank.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I don't know about it. We're good for another couple
of hours.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Well, thank god, I said.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And then I looked out the window.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
And the propellers were standing still.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
What happened there? It was over?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
My fuel gages show both tanks are empty.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But I'm flying over.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I'll tell you what. Just be your own information for
the same thing happened at twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Look, mama, no engine, no, no.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Nothing, mama, But I'm lying.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Over?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And that was when I looked at my own Timothy
theretta when Ruth poked me and pointed at it, and
I'd been over and.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Looked at it.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
The needle had gone on around the dial, passed the
thirty thousand feet at the end, and on around again,
and it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Was starting the Third Revolution. That meant we must be
at least.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Seventy thousand feet high, and nobody in all the world
has ever been up that high. I looked out the
window again. The flames were so far, so far below us.
They extended back to the farthest horizon that any man.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Has ever seen.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
The horizon that was a definite arc of a circle,
the edge of a great sphere.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
As far as we could see.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Below us, the world was in flames, and man, how
close the stars were. And Ruth was pointing out the
window again. I looked two and above us, to each
side of US airplanes, one hundred one thousand, the long,
shining river of airplanes, and I could read the identification.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
On the sides of some of them.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
G for Britain, n C for the United States, H for.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Switching, the lad Ex for Mexico, Russian plane.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Swedish and Austrian.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Every nation in the world, at least one plane for
each country.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And my heart jumped because I knew that all the
world wasn't coming on him now. And I looked back
at our passenger. He was smiling as he looked back
out the window, and I said, look, sir, I said, sir,
I don't I don't get this.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Why. It's very simple, son, not to me, sir, But
who are those people?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Where'd they come from? Where are they going?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Isn't the world really destroyed?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I'm afraid, is child. But it was a very wicked world,
wasn't it. Well, I suppose something has to happen to
the world every time it gets too wicked. Well, once
upon a time Adam and Eve sinned and they got punished.
I suppose the reason the world wasn't destroyed then was well,
(20:56):
they had their world taken away from them, didn't they?
Speaker 8 (20:59):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
And then there was the time when they had the
big flood because everybody was so.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Wicked, But Noah and his family escaped.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's right, the only good people in the world. They escape.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
But the world wasn't completely bad, not now.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I mean, they've set upon each other, and they've murdered
and burned and destroyed. They have denied their creator, they
have been worn. But sir, this thing that has happened
and destroyed the world, they dug it out of the
forbidden blackness to give them a more terrible weapon against
their brothers. They have plotted among themselves and forgotten charity
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and love and brotherhood. Isn't that sin enough? Isn't that
wickedness enough to merit this punishment? Whole world?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Not all?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
There are some few good people, the ones they are
planes that.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
That's right. Do you believe that what I've told you? Yes,
of course I believe it, don't you.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
I think it's terrible. I think it's an awful punishment.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You do, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Do you? Well? In some ways it was a pretty
good world. I had lots of fun.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
What what about a brand new world?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Oh what if all these people, these good people, these
saved ones, are going to a new world where they
can start life all over again and find the real
happiness that it was intended they should have, the true goodness?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I don't know. I like the old one.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Of course, that's right, Tom, There isn't any way out.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I suppose whatever world we go to will be better
than that one.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Down there in destruction and ashes, Yes, But will it
be better than the old world we had before this?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
It's up to you and the others.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
To believe that we're going to hit a better world.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
But but what well, look at the flood. The word
was destroyed then, and know and all the others that
were saved rebuild it? Yeah, yeah, look at it. That
a fine job rebuilding it, didn't they three or four
thousand years? It has to be destroyed all over again.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
But this will be a new world, I hope, it'll
be all right.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Say how well?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, this is all a very pretty theory. But
what if it doesn't work out that way?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It'll work out that way, I'm confident of it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Just for fun, give me the radio route.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Hey there constellation over here?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Yourself over listen, My very important, unimportant person says he
thinks we're going to another world, a nice new one.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
How's that with you? Over?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Ye?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I tell you kid, I had my way much right
to be right, Aunt Lane, California. We're turning in at
six five saying hello, a while I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Coming in from landing on our tricking the world.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
It's probably not very comfortable anyway, how about you over?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Thanks? Just asking over and out? Well, so you see
what I.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Mean, But we don't know what's going to happen to Is.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Tom dy something pretty special? No doubt? You see what
I mean, sir.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I wonder how many other people think that way.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, we could conduct a pole or something, if we
could pick up those planes with our radio.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You want to try? But what good did it do?
It's curly? What do you call it? Academic?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
A bright new world? People by only the good in heart,
the righteousnes the ones plucked from the burning for the
goodness of their souls. Doesn't it sound wonderful? World, no wars,
no unpleasantness, no trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It sounds okay to happiness. Well, I'll tell you, sir,
it's too late to wish. But well, God knows where
we're going to land this time.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
To be perfectly honest with you, I'm really not so
sure after all. Honestly, I'm not what you think. If
you could go back to the world as it was
before I let this all happen, you might help make
something out of it. Honestly, Now, sir, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I need an awful lot of help.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You sure would. Hey, you know what, I'll tell you
what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you
a chance to make up your own minds.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, that's fair enough.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
You and Ruth decide what you're going to do. Think
it over. You can have your choice. We can all
go on to the beautiful new world I've got all
ready for you. Or if you want all that's happened
to turn out to be a dream, do you say so?
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Is it a deal?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It's a deal.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Okay, So, but you better get a lot of help
while you're making that decision, You're going to be responsible
for a lot of people you know, and a lot
of future. I know what future will be if you
take up my proposition, if you want it to be
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a dream, I can't promise.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Okay, okay, sir, okay, Well, Ruth, I know that I think.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, what does everybody else think? Huh? Here, Ruth, give
you that microphone?
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Shall some of us take the nice, bright new world?
Or shall we try to fix this one up for
all of us?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Will you tell me quick.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Over the title of today's Quiet Please story was very
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unimportant person. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And others heard in today's cast were Nancy Sheridan, James Monks,
and Frank Thomas. As usual, music for choir Please is
played by Albert Bruman.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now for worry about next week? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
A director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to Quiet Please.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Next Sunday you'll hears a half hour later at five
point thirty pm Eastern Standard Time instead of five o'clock.
Will you remember please five thirty a half hour later,
and the story will be read me this.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Riddle, and so until next week at five thirty Eastern
Standard time, I am quietly yours chapel.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Beginning next Sunday, as you have heard quiet, please, we'll
be broadcast one half hour later in all time zones.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
This is ABC, the American broadcasting Company.
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet Please for today is called Very Unimportant Person.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The Hollow Men.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You never read it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
A lot of people were very fond according from it
when T. S. Eliott got the Nobel Prize. So actually
that part, this is how the world ends.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Not with a bang but a whimper. Well, I wasn't
so am aster, Elia as you were wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Me.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How do I know I was there. I don't know
how it happened.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Maybe somebody dropped something, Maybe one of our own people
pushed the wrong button. Maybe the thing got tired of
being in one piece and just went off by itself.
All I know is I was standing outside the operations
office of Bowling that morning. I heard a funny noise
and I looked up. I just happened to be looking
north in the direction of Baltimore, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Knew what it was the minute I saw it.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was a bikini and I saw both Testable and
test Baker.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You couldn't pull me for a minute.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
So there's an.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Aeroplane standing there, and I saw Ruth alongside the doorway
to the office. I grabbed him with the arm and
I boosted her into that airplane and I took off
because when you see that pink and cream colored mushroom cloud,
you don't wait if you do eat my fieth cart
of the next one. So Ruth didn't put up much
of an argument after I pointed to the things. She
couldn't argue. Her mouth was hanging open the foot and
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me I was too busy to talk for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I got to ten.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Thousand feet off the past. We got ourselves a good
twenty miles away from Washington. I was noticing that, for
a miracle, both fuel tanks were full, and Ruth just
about jumped out of her safety about what I said,
what's the matter now? And as I said it, I
felt the blast.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
It isn't there any more, Tom.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I see what you mean. Well, we asked for it.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
I'm just looking at the capital. Is the Washington monuments? Tom,
so much?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What everybody's been waiting for? Honey?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well? If it was, it's all over now. If anybody
dropped a couple of more.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Of those bombs, what are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
We're going to get out of here as fast as
this aeroplane will take us.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Hope we won't fly right into one of.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Those things terrible.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Where can we call?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Give me the microphone there, I'm going to see who're
still alive?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Thanks? I don't know who to call.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hello, c Q, Hello, CQ CQ.
Speaker 9 (03:22):
This is USA F plane nine nine three four four
calling c Q, c Q CQ.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
If you hear me, anybody, give me a call?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Speak up somebody?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Overt?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Can you hear anybody?
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Hello, CQZQ from USA have played nine oh nine three
four four.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Overt?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't expect.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
Wait, Philadelphia, this is Army nine oh nine three four four.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I hear you very well.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
Is everything all right there?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I say again? Is everything all right over? Hello Philadelphia?
Speaker 9 (04:05):
This is USAF nine oh nine three four four, Hello Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Answer me?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Overt? Hello Philadelphia, This is USAF nine oh nine three
four four.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Overt, No, Philadelphia, Wait at Philadelphia, but let me stop?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Who says.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Pittsburgh?
Speaker 9 (04:35):
Pittsburgh, This is USAF nine oh nine three four four.
I hear you very well. What is the situation there?
I say again, what is the situation there?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Over?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Hello Pittsburgh?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let me as you, darling. Nobody answers.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It happened in just like the man said, money, there's
no place to hide. Wherever we turned, we saw the
towering great clouds, starting out a blow away and getting
ragular around the edges, and clearing enough so we could
see the ground. Once in a while. There'd be little town, sure,
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but we couldn't tell what was going on down there.
And I knew it might be happening. And I didn't
choose to land because the rankeed edges of those clouds
would be blowing across those little towns down there. I
hadn't been hammered into nothing yet. And the pretty little
towns of the elm.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Trees along the streets, the pleasant little towns sitting on the.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Edges of the river banks, nice little towns.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
They'd get there's pretty quick. I didn't want to be there.
If I can just keep this airplane flying one.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Enough, I thought.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I guess I must have said it aloud, because Roof
hanswered me, well, I think if I can get through,
maybe the woods up in Canada'll be say. I can
buy an airstrip somewhere, I hope sat down there, can
we not? We can try that's all. This looks like
a pretty good airplane and we've got gas.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Oh jet, Look that beautiful country. Yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's done now. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I have an idea that if somebody dump these things
on us, there's more than one country like this.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
By now it's see and the world.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yay, let me try that radio again. I tried the
radio for an hour. I tried Pittsburgh again, Detroit and Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I didn't get any answer at all.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I listened with my ears heard the only single thing
I've heard was the leader of a jet fighter squadron
somewhat over that hearing.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
His voice was so paint.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
He was talking to his pilot and they said, there
isn't any feel luck to go back to. And then
there was study, and he faded out, and we flew on,
heading north of the snows in the wilderness of Canada,
whatever kind.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Of sanctuary that might be.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I'd often wondered what people would say to each other
in the face of an awful disaster.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Be would they pray?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I wondered, why would.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
They try to comfort each other? How would they try
to reason their way out of disaster?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
What I turned out we didn't say anything well, there
wasn't anything to say. It got dark and all around
this on the horizon, and it was the glow of
fires and the luminous clouds, the clouds that a few
hours ago had been cities, great industries.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And people.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The fuel tank I was using Randry and I switched
to a second one. We flew on its thousand feet
I could hardly see. I was attired and rot up,
and I saw Ruth just giving up. She was lying
back in the seat, not snarring, but making the kind
of sound that a sigamies, and she sat up suddenly.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Opened her eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Okay, I was dreaming.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You about to go back to sleep?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Where are we?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Hanada somewhere?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Still see the fire had along?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
If I made a wrong guess coming up here or not?
I don't see it be getting away from anything?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Are you afraid?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Tom Me?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
What do you suppose?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Hap back in Washington?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'm trying not to think about it.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Lags, fire, June and nothing, Tom.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
You could anybody else got a play?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't know. I dot it.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
I wonder who's playing this is? Who was waiting for somebody?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Some vip a'll.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Be you p now what very unimportant person now.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yeah, Well, whoever he is, we ought to be awful grateful.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
To Yeah, I'm sure you're both very welcome. Why, I'm
afraid I'm very unimportant because.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
The only thing I remember about him is his eyes.
The light wasn't very good, naturally, and I had to
twist my head over my right shoulder to see him
at all, standing between the comfort seats behind us, so
about all I could see.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Was his eyes. I couldn't see them very well. He
didn't have any hat. He sounded so tired. I felt sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then I thought to myself, roof, I must have said
something like that, because he put his hand on my shoulders.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Thanks, son, I am tired.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It's been a long drag. Yeah, this your airplane, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I was on the impression that belonged to the air force.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I have a bear hunt. There isn't any air force.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
That's probably right.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Were you back there all the time, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yes, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Pretty rugged, Yes, it is, it's very rugged.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I heard you say you're going to try to set
down somewhere in the Canadian woods.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, sir, I'm going to try.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Don't try it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I haven't got much choice.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Don't try it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Well, sir, if I run out of you'll.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Just keep right on going, I said, if I run
out of gas. The point I was making is that
there may not be any Canada by the time you've run.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Out of gas.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Well, in that case, sir, do you think this is
the end of the world.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I wouldn't be surprised. Oh no, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Do you really think everybody is going to die?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Everybody does die?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Idea?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I'm kidding you.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Do you think this is the finish well scientists have worn?
What would happen that the destructive power of these things? Well,
look at your words.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Oh, it can't be.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
It can't be.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Think anybody will survived?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I think so yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh wow, what do you provace that answer?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
You're not a very observant, violent young man, or what
do you mean? If you look out your window, you'll
see another airplane lying right along with us.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And I looked about half a mile away, a little
behind us was a constellation with CWA Market's honor, and
I grabbed the microphone and yelled at him.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I've been trying to read somebody for the last two hours.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
There, of course, why don't you keep your radio on?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Over?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Where'd you come from? Over?
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I inge went to New York? We were just over
in Franching, go to Mexico. We heard from Tucson. It
was happening, and I decided to hen for Canada. I
reported to you here I happened over. We don't know.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I haven't heard anything since this afternoon. I can't raise anybody.
I thought everybody else was dead.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Over God, I, what are you going to do?
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Overt fly till I run out of gas? You got
passengers over all?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Play at you?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Over a VIP of my girlfriend and me? Over me?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
You me?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You mean Obert?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's what he says. We're all the pease blood.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Over.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, I'll stink we into my guess right now. Incidentally,
we better save our radio. We may need him over.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You're right kid? Over and up?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Tom. Do you suppose there are other airplanes anywhere?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I don't know, Honey, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
So I think there are?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Really?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah? Well, if they can.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Flying far enough?
Speaker 8 (13:33):
How much gas have we got left?
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Can you read that gains?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yes, it says a little more than half full.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I just wanted to be sure that's what I read too.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
How long.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Is that good for Tom?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, honey, that's good for about another three.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Hours, three hours and.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Then what Well, the Lord will provide baby.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I hope you really think you will, sir, I said,
do you believe that?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, yes, he always has. Up to announcer, he.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Provided fire and destruction in the end of the world.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
The Lord didn't do that, child. That was the people
of the Earth.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Thought that yet, but everyone on Earth didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Wait, that's right, that's why souther Of got to escape. Yes,
but how aren't you the one who said the Lord
would provide you just go ahead and buy your airplane.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I flew my airplane. I flew it and flew
it and fluid, and the constellation flew right alongside us.
He saddled back so he wouldn't outrun us.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Every once in a while I've flipped the radio on
and ask.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Him how he was doing. He was doing already, Sai.
And then they got light. They were pretty far north,
I suppose, and they got light quicker, I thought.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
But it wasn't long until I discovered that the light
wasn't from the sun. It was coming from the wrong
direction behind us.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So our passenger was asleep at least he.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Wasn't in a cocktail. Then he came up, and I
swung our head around a little and looked back. He
and I just looked out the window. We didn't say
a word. What would you say to a whole rolling
world full of fire, flames leaping a mile in the air,
flames and smoking, destruction, chasing you, consuming everything in their path.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
What would you say to the solid rock boiling like.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Water in a kettle, the world vaporizing hardly behind you,
and coming on.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
And on and on, so that we flying at two
hundred miles an hour, could see it overtaking us?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What would you say? Ruth had fallen asleep again, and
she couldn't see it.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I saw it. The pilot of the other ship saw it.
I heard his voice in my ears.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You see that air force over?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I see it overt how's your gats?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I'm squeezing out the bottom of the tank over over.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
Thanks, It's over all right, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
We tried.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Help us, and I flipped the radio off and I
swung us back on courtse again. And of course that
all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It didn't mean anything anymore, And I woke up roof
because I didn't want all this to end. But I'm
saying the mind the word. After all, I loved you
for all these years. There comes a time and I
glanced it out past me. It's a very unimportant person.
He just turns to looking back at the terrible sea
of flames that followed us. He didn't look scared at all.
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He looked sad and he was crying. I had to
strain my ears to hear what he said.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
And it was such a beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And then the engine started to spit, and I looked
at a fewer games.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, so long, honey, don't think it has me as well.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I love you, I love you.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I put my arms around her, and I felt the
plane slip off from under us as we lost flying speed,
and I thought, well, this is it now the fireworks.
Ruth was squeezing me so hard. All of a sudden,
I said, hey, what's this? Because the plane had her
nose up again. We were flying along just as good
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as new.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Our passenger, our vip our vup, had hold of the
wheel and he was pulling it back and we were
climbing like mad. And I looked at the fuel gauge
that still said empty, they said, say that there must
be some kind of emergency tank.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I don't know about it. We're good for another couple
of hours.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Well, thank god, I said.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And then I looked out the window.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
And the propellers were standing still.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
What happened there? It was over?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
My fuel gages show both tanks are empty.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But I'm flying over.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I'll tell you what. Just be your own information for
the same thing happened at twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Look, mama, no engine, no, no.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Nothing, mama, But I'm lying.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Over?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And that was when I looked at my own Timothy
theretta when Ruth poked me and pointed at it, and
I'd been over and.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Looked at it.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
The needle had gone on around the dial, passed the
thirty thousand feet at the end, and on around again,
and it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Was starting the Third Revolution. That meant we must be
at least.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Seventy thousand feet high, and nobody in all the world
has ever been up that high. I looked out the
window again. The flames were so far, so far below us.
They extended back to the farthest horizon that any man.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Has ever seen.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
The horizon that was a definite arc of a circle,
the edge of a great sphere.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
As far as we could see.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Below us, the world was in flames, and man, how
close the stars were. And Ruth was pointing out the
window again. I looked two and above us, to each
side of US airplanes, one hundred one thousand, the long,
shining river of airplanes, and I could read the identification.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
On the sides of some of them.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
G for Britain, n C for the United States, H for.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Switching, the lad Ex for Mexico, Russian plane.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Swedish and Austrian.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Every nation in the world, at least one plane for
each country.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And my heart jumped because I knew that all the
world wasn't coming on him now. And I looked back
at our passenger. He was smiling as he looked back
out the window, and I said, look, sir, I said, sir,
I don't I don't get this.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Why. It's very simple, son, not to me, sir, But
who are those people?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Where'd they come from? Where are they going?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Isn't the world really destroyed?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I'm afraid, is child. But it was a very wicked world,
wasn't it. Well, I suppose something has to happen to
the world every time it gets too wicked. Well, once
upon a time Adam and Eve sinned and they got punished.
I suppose the reason the world wasn't destroyed then was well,
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they had their world taken away from them, didn't they?
Speaker 8 (20:59):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
And then there was the time when they had the
big flood because everybody was so.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Wicked, But Noah and his family escaped.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's right, the only good people in the world. They escape.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
But the world wasn't completely bad, not now.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I mean, they've set upon each other, and they've murdered
and burned and destroyed. They have denied their creator, they
have been worn. But sir, this thing that has happened
and destroyed the world, they dug it out of the
forbidden blackness to give them a more terrible weapon against
their brothers. They have plotted among themselves and forgotten charity
(21:39):
and love and brotherhood. Isn't that sin enough? Isn't that
wickedness enough to merit this punishment? Whole world?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Not all?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
There are some few good people, the ones they are
planes that.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
That's right. Do you believe that what I've told you? Yes,
of course I believe it, don't you.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
I think it's terrible. I think it's an awful punishment.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You do, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Do you? Well? In some ways it was a pretty
good world. I had lots of fun.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
What what about a brand new world?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Oh what if all these people, these good people, these
saved ones, are going to a new world where they
can start life all over again and find the real
happiness that it was intended they should have, the true goodness?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I don't know. I like the old one.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Of course, that's right, Tom, There isn't any way out.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I suppose whatever world we go to will be better
than that one.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Down there in destruction and ashes, Yes, But will it
be better than the old world we had before this?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
It's up to you and the others.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
To believe that we're going to hit a better world.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
But but what well, look at the flood. The word
was destroyed then, and know and all the others that
were saved rebuild it? Yeah, yeah, look at it. That
a fine job rebuilding it, didn't they three or four
thousand years? It has to be destroyed all over again.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
But this will be a new world, I hope, it'll
be all right.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Say how well?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I mean, this is all a very pretty theory. But
what if it doesn't work out that way?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It'll work out that way, I'm confident of it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Just for fun, give me the radio route.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Hey there constellation over here?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Yourself over listen, My very important, unimportant person says he
thinks we're going to another world, a nice new one.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
How's that with you? Over?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Ye?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I tell you kid, I had my way much right
to be right, Aunt Lane, California. We're turning in at
six five saying hello, a while I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Coming in from landing on our tricking the world.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
It's probably not very comfortable anyway, how about you over?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Thanks? Just asking over and out? Well, so you see
what I.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Mean, But we don't know what's going to happen to Is.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Tom dy something pretty special? No doubt? You see what
I mean, sir.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I wonder how many other people think that way.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, we could conduct a pole or something, if we
could pick up those planes with our radio.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You want to try? But what good did it do?
It's curly? What do you call it? Academic?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
A bright new world? People by only the good in heart,
the righteousnes the ones plucked from the burning for the
goodness of their souls. Doesn't it sound wonderful? World, no wars,
no unpleasantness, no trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It sounds okay to happiness. Well, I'll tell you, sir,
it's too late to wish. But well, God knows where
we're going to land this time.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
To be perfectly honest with you, I'm really not so
sure after all. Honestly, I'm not what you think. If
you could go back to the world as it was
before I let this all happen, you might help make
something out of it. Honestly, Now, sir, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I need an awful lot of help.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You sure would. Hey, you know what, I'll tell you
what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you
a chance to make up your own minds.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, that's fair enough.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
You and Ruth decide what you're going to do. Think
it over. You can have your choice. We can all
go on to the beautiful new world I've got all
ready for you. Or if you want all that's happened
to turn out to be a dream, do you say so?
(26:40):
Is it a deal?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It's a deal.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Okay, So, but you better get a lot of help
while you're making that decision, You're going to be responsible
for a lot of people you know, and a lot
of future. I know what future will be if you
take up my proposition, if you want it to be
(27:07):
a dream, I can't promise.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Okay, okay, sir, okay, Well, Ruth, I know that I think.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, what does everybody else think? Huh? Here, Ruth, give
you that microphone?
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Shall some of us take the nice, bright new world?
Or shall we try to fix this one up for
all of us?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Will you tell me quick.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Over the title of today's Quiet Please story was very
(28:07):
unimportant person. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And others heard in today's cast were Nancy Sheridan, James Monks,
and Frank Thomas. As usual, music for choir Please is
played by Albert Bruman.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now for worry about next week? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
A director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to Quiet Please.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Next Sunday you'll hears a half hour later at five
point thirty pm Eastern Standard Time instead of five o'clock.
Will you remember please five thirty a half hour later,
and the story will be read me this.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Riddle, and so until next week at five thirty Eastern
Standard time, I am quietly yours chapel.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Beginning next Sunday, as you have heard quiet, please, we'll
be broadcast one half hour later in all time zones.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
This is ABC, the American broadcasting Company.
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