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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please,
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which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, which features
Ernest Chappels. Quiet Please for today is called The Man
Who Knew Everything? How do you do? That's just the
matter of speaking, isn't it? When I know perfectly well,
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how you do? I know you're all right, except for
the well and all that I should have said. How
do you know? I mean, good day? Yeah, that's better.
I excuse me, yester moment. I know who that is? Hello? Yes, yes,
I know. While the name of the mystery tune is
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Interlude Dramatique. But Piero Cropola was formerly conductor of the
Paris Conservatory Orchestra. Thank you, I know, a brand new automobile,
two refrigerators, yes, yes, yes, yes, I know, yes, thank you.
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But you forgot a dozen pair of Primium played it stilts. Yes,
thank you. No, I'm not very excited. Thank you. I
knew I was going to win the jackpot, yes, and
send everything to my home. That's always the way, that is.
They're so surprised when I know the end sees. I
can't really help it, you see, I know everything. It's
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a little awkward at times knowing everything, and sometimes I
find it difficult to explain. You see, I never know
anything until I think about it. My goodness, similar things
I think about. I'll be sitting here, for instance, just
diiling away the time, and all of a sudden I think,
what is the square root of seven hundred and seventy seven?
It's two seven point sixty seven four seventh plus. Ornamental
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but hardly useful. Mister Willis Cooper's telephone number in Chicago
in nineteen twenty two was Buckingham one five to seven. Oh,
it's interesting. Mister Dorothy Elia Woodland Hills, California, has a
dog named Kilty, a Scottish terrier. Ernest Chappel went to
North High School in Syracuse. Joseph Silverman of New York
City speaks Chinese, and I don't know who that is. Hello, Yes,
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I know it's the weather burea. Tomorrow I be fair
and colder, moderate depression. All that they wins. You're welcome.
You see. I'm continually bothered by people who want to
know things. What is a tank of being? What was
President Rutherford B. Hayes' middle name? Where did I lose
my diamond bracelet? What does Tatsibo Boshoi moon. The answers, respectively,
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are a South American product used for flavoring cigarette tobacco.
Burchyard in the laundry hamper in your bathroom, under your
green unmentionables, and thank you very much in Russian, quite welcome.
I'm sure I said it's a little awkward at times.
I mean by that it's shall I say unpleasant, I
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shall say unpresented. When I get to thinking about myself,
I know all about menatch is Mister Burray Bowl in
the specific Palisades, California often said, I am aware that
my spleen is two centimeters to hide, but I have
a tendency to high pretension, and that I shall probably
perish if an ordeal aneurism. However, don't let those ailments
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of mine bother you. I shall not tell you about
them in any more detailed It was of yourself I
wish to speak, and I hope you will bear with me.
As a matter of fact, I know you will bear
with me. Excuse me, there is a gentleman at the
door with a very interesting question. Come in. How do
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you do mister Perry Bymporth of Payolap, Washington. You will
sit down. My name is Twelves. Your name is Perry Bymforth.
You were formerly the bicycle repair business and Puyallup. You
were convicted of baritary in nineteen thirty four but released
on a technicality. In nineteen forty seven you broke to
your right ankle, and last October you went through bankruptcy
with liabilities of eighty three thousand dollars. And as said two,
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I've heard about you obviously, but I came here to
secure the combination of the vault at the Cord Winners
National Bank on thirteenth Street. Exactly the combination is you
better write it down eleven left right, two left sixteen
write twenty four left six right, five and open. Have
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you got it? Thank you very much. Are there any
other questions, mister Binford? How much is the end of
all one million, six hundred and ten thousand dollars? Sir?
One many of the six hundred ten thousand? Well, thanks
very much. Any other questions? No, I think not very well.
Good day, sir, Good day. That's him. How a burglar?
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They bothered me to death? But I was starting to
talk about you. May I go on? Think I know
a few facts that I think you ought to know too.
Do you know these people by their descriptions? A tall,
grossly fat man with a bald head, an absolutely bald head,
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then an extremely unpleasant deep voice, just the pace of
an accident, probably six feet six inches tall, weighed about
three hundred pounds. Then the man and the woman with him,
both of them not more than four feet tall. The
man very fat too, in a sort of unhealthy way,
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wearing a little black mustache. No woman, short and dumpy,
wears glasses perched on a very sharp nose, has a
very red face. They know you, They were talking about
you in a certain restaurant Wednesday nights, Wednesday night. Does
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I'll give you any ideas? We'll think? Please think. Let
me describe him a little more. The tall, gross, cruel
looking man wore a tan gabardine suit with a white
shirt and a knitted red and black tie. He was
eating a breaded v a cup that I think it
was rather unpleasant watching. And a smaller man with a
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blue serge suit, rather shiny blue shirt and a bow tie.
He was drinking beer Pilsner quo, although he mispronounced that
he called it the quell. A woman has a very
red place. It looks as if she grouped it all
over shot pictures kind of modified hollikin glasses, dark gray,
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dressed with an ornament that looks like a woman's hand.
I don't like the hand of Fatma, but cause I'm
sure it couldn't be bad to uh this woman a
dark blue hat with a cup of callie feather on us.
You know it well, she knows you. I wish you'd
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search your memory. That really is quite important. Do you
must excuse me a moment, Miss Schragersant was coming into
the male Come in, Miss Tragisant. Good, good morning, Miss Dragissant. Uh.
The safety thing will put you fashioned your girdle when
you broke the zipper this morning is open, Miss s Tragisthant,
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and it will presently stick to you, and the it
will presently stick you if you do not fix your thinking.
That is one of the unfortunate aspects knowing everything. But
miss drag Asant is more or less you's to my
knowing everything. I noticed you stop when she addressed me
by my name. I I'm sorry. I should have introduced
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myself long ago. Here We've been sitting and talking all
this time, and I'm sorry. My name is Charles W.
Afternoon of Woodbury, New Jersey. Our ancestral home on North
Trexas Street and Woodbury is one of the sites of
the city. A Miss strag Astant has affected the repairs.
She's returned. Come on, Miss Tragistant, that's mis tracking. You're
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entirely welcomes Strakistans. I see you have only two letters today.
Take a letter to missus Groverick Cleveland McNulty. The dells
are again, dear missus McNulty, No yours, truly, no Miss Tragasantha.
I do not need to see the letters. I know
what is in them. The next one to mister Marshall Birddog, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Dear mister Birddog, your great grandfather's name was
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thirteen Thumbs period. He was a station of the Stone
Boiler Indians and Upper Athabasca. Comma then was captured in
eighteen twelve and converted to the Shinto faith by a
band of wandering Japanese fishermen periods Parragad. He escaped seven
years later. Comma emigrated to Doylestn, Pennsylvania. Comma and became
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the father of a large family which later removed to Albuquerque, Comma,
although your great grandfather deserted the apaches near Anton Chico,
New Mexico, Comma and resumed his former life as a
station period girse. Truly it was another man, Miss racking
n Slo never mind, Miss Tragissante, was from my uncle
spread asking for money. Send them a check for sixty
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dollars and give my best regards to him, and that
he'll do. You have a cold, Tragisan. I hope I'll
get over it. You will must be wonderful to know everything.
People either get over the colder, they eventually die from it.
I know that you are not going to die from
a colder. Go you will get over this one and
all the others you may have, which in your case
is fourteen more before you die. What am I going
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to die? Out, mister Afternoon? Never mind? Please? I don't
know you? No, I don't why JAA? Will I be murdered? No?
Will it be an accident? No? Will I behind? No?
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Please go away, Miss t You're a means to Afternoon?
Where will I die? Will you tell me that? Why?
Should I? Well? Then I wouldn't never go? Then? Please
go away, missus tragisthanth there's somebody at the door. Well,
I mean that's the door. It will ring there. Oh,
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can I go? You will, whether I give you permission
or not. Miss Tragisant is going to die of old
reading at phe eighty one, I'm man at the door.
Now that's a policeman. It's opposite Shapiro, an old friend
of mine. He's come to tell me that he has
arrested a gentleman from Puyola, Washington. Mister Bamforth, you remember
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the man who wanted the combination of the bank ball.
You thought I was being an accessory to a crime,
didn't you. It was quite all right to give him
the combination. You see, I knew the police were looking
for him. I'd have told him that. He didn't ask me.
You see, I do know everything, but generally I don't
tell unless I'm asked. But in your case, these people
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I was telling you about, Yes, I know you don't
know them, but I do know. You've seen them separately wraps,
a tall, fat man with a cruel mouth and the
eyes that always seemed to be looking over your shoulder
and yet never miss a movement. And the greasy little
man with a black mustache, and the heavy thing in
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his left hand coatd cottle he's left handed him and
the sharp faced woman with the glasses with the mecre
chrome stains on her right thumb and a brand new
Corette handbag that has nothing in it but an ice pick.
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He wouldn't kid me, or did it? You can't kid me?
The the smater you fidgeting about? You see, remember this
morning when you felt as if there were someone watching you?
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Then tell me something. Did you coffee taste funny this morning?
You see? Maybe you do know them after all. Now
I'm let's try it that. I don't want you to
fetch me a sentence. She's going out there have a peanut,
butter and chutney sandwich. She usually has a cream cheese
and spam on Russian ry, but she changed her mind
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to day. By the way, wasn't that door to your
bedroom open? You didn't close it? No, I wouldn't go
look yet if I were you. Matter of fact, I
wouldn't like to be you. No. I don't know exactly
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what is going to happen, but I don't know when
it does happen. I find it rather difficult to predict happenings,
except of course, perfectly obvious things like my secretary dying
of overeating the age of eighty one and my own demise,
and they lagneurism, but I'm not sure when that will occur.
And your own case. I know that something rather dreadful
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will occur to you, and I actually want to warn
you about it so that it won't come as a
complete surprise to you. There's nothing I can do about
it except warn you. Incidentally, the windows in that room
could stand a watching. Now, don't look, you might see
something you don't want to see. Listen to me. This
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tall gross man I told you about. He limps slightly
in his left leg a knife cut. He's unhealthy too,
has oltziers in the way he eats fried food. But
he's quite dangerous. Not a nice person at all. And
those accomplices it is. The woman's name is Mami. Recognize
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that name. I don't need to tell your last name,
do I? Or have you forgotten it? Maybe? And her
ice pick the little man? Oh, he has several names. No,
I'm not trying to kid you. I just don't think
it's a good idea to tell you right here in
front of everybody. Oh, lean over here and I whispered
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to you one of his names is you know and
now uh. He didn't have the mustache maybe then, but
you'll recognize him by it now, a little mustache kind
of like Hitler's. You wouldn't forget Hipler's mustache, would you.
I always carry He's a book. He had it on
the table beside his plate Wednesday night, mccover. He had
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all stained with beer. He's a little slappy. His name,
that Judge, Rodney Erickson. He's trying clapper Claw Duddy, you know,
the gangster there accusing of putting his enemies in the
dep three's up in Connecticut. I like Jude Jackson. No,
Clapperclaw Dotty is innocent, Judge. It was his lawyer that
did it, Oli Thopp. Hang him, Judge, issue a bench
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warrant and he'll confess. Crapperclaw Dotty really was in jail
in Michigan when it happened. Ollie Pop did it. You're welcome, judge,
always ready to help out justice. Here's missus tragistans. I
know it, Oh John, Can I ever tell you anything
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you don't know? Of course? Not an every face and
eyes that don't machine. He's wearing a brown Gabardine suit,
and he said he saw you in a restaurant anesday
nights you would show him. Miss, how do you I mean? Hello,
mister Dukecraft, I want you to know something, mister afternoon,
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I already know it. My right name is. My name
is not Amadeus Wolfgang Ducrot, but that is the name
you are using a present. It is sure I have
a message for me. I will tell you the message.
Of course, you are in communication with a certain party
I am. I want to walk away from that keyhole,
Miss Tragothino. You want to warn me that I must
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not communicate further with this certain person party. I'm sorry, then,
I'm afraid that I shall have to take steps you
mean kill me? That is what I mean, mister, that
you will not kill me. Oh yes, sir, I beg
to differ with you. You will attempt to kill me,
But your gun, which you are carrying in your hand
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with your broad brim de Texas style hat, will miss fire.
A Miss Tragocians will call the police, but you'll escape
before they arrive. You think so, I know so? No,
but yes, Miss n to see if the gun will
miss fire? Rings? Now you see, you'd better runs to
do that. Certainly can move fast, indeed too fast. Time
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afraid the police are arriving, Miss trag asad candy telling
they won't be needed.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, did you recognize his voice.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
When you hear him knock at your door and you
ask who's there? And you've heard that voice again? Well,
by the way, perhaps you'd better double lock your door.
He's quite powerful, and this Miss tragisat says, he moves
fast for a batman. There's a card driving away quite
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rapidly down the street. I could see it from the window,
but I don't need to. I know who's in it.
No woman with the sharp features, and the little man
with a hit the mustache, the man who calls himself
good crocked. You don't know where they're going. I do well.
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I know everything. I even know why they're after you.
Even if you can't think why. You could think why
if you wanted to. There isn't much time left. It's
five fifty, Miss Drake aside, what time did you get?
You ask? Oh? No, there isn't much time left, and
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it isn't far to your place. Besides, they've been there before,
you know, and they know all the short cuts. I
think if I were you, I put something against the door,
cause he only knew what I overheard in the restaurant
Wednesday night, while a tall fat man talked, a tall
fat man with a cold killer's eyes, and the gun
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that won't miss fire the next time, and he's taking
care of that. It would have frightened you a great
deal more if you had heard what he said to
the woman he calls Mamie, a woman with a brand
new corrette purse and nothing in it made an ice pick.
And what the little greasy man said to him the
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man in the blue sward suit was something heavy in
the left hand coat pocket. It frightens me, and I'm
not easily frightened. And then a tall fat man coming
to see me. I didn't expect that, even if I
did know who he was. In the king to the
front door. I know what he's got in his pocket.
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What the fat man's carrying? A coil of piano wire.
And I know what they're talking about right now as
they lab along on the way to your house. Don't
you know? Can't you figure it out? Don't you know
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what they want? I do think? Won't you? No? I
don't want to tell you don't be obstinate that you
do know who they are, all three of them. Don't
answer the telephone of the rings. That wasn't your phone,
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it was mine. It's the police. Just wait a second. Yes,
opposite Rucker, for the boys that you have played a
little while ago. And it is quite true, Officer Drucker.
He try to shoot me, but he escaped. He is
in a car with two other persons, a man and
a woman, and he ran down an old man and
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a corporal in the Air Force at the street intersection.
And the corporal has internal injuries. He will survive. Yes,
I know where they're going. Why no, Officer Drucker. I
I haven't the faintest idea, And I'm sorry. I don't
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know I had to do that. Well, you don't want
the police in on this to you? Oh of course
you don't listen. Is that is that something at your door?
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With the people next door they're listening to I think
they're getting ready to go out. They don't wanna get
involved in this. I'm sure I don't blame them, not
after what I heard Wednesday night. No, it's too late
for you to go out. You wouldn't have a chance,
you know, that time's getting short. When I was there
with you, I might be able to help. Do I
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say that? I know I could help you, but I'm
not there unfortunately. And please don't call the police. Stay
away from the telephone if you're sick, don't you I
told you about the coffee. Are you sure there hasn't
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been somebody in your house? I know you don't think
it's possible, but don't be too sure. Wasn't there a
drawer open when you came home yesterday? The drawer you
thought you'd closed. Remember when you woke up in the
middle of the night Friday night and wondered what it
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was that woke you up? Sure? How you frightened? I'd
be I know, because you don't know what's going to happen.
That's why you're not so scared. But I know what's
going to happen, and it scares me. It scares me
to know everything. You had no idea of all the
things I know, frightening things, funny things, strange things, what
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dogs talk about, and how to make a pisco punch?
What's hidden in that cave under Radio City in New York?
The beach where Captain Kid buried his treasure, and how
much it costs to put an ad on the London
Daily Mail with size at that staling wars, And what
Miss tragisanthe wants for Christmas next year? How I'm going
to die sometime of the naordlandeurism? The name of the
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mayor of Peory, Illinois, And what's going to happen to you?
A tall fat man, a little sharp featured woman with glasses,
and the little man of the Hitler mustache. In the
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presents they're bringing you? You do know them, don't you
come in? Miss Tragosand he brought the letters on it
A side'll be all for to day, Miss Dragasand I
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don't feel.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I thank you, must strike your saf You can go now.
I'm busy. I had to get a litter in a hurry.
I've got something more to tell you. You've only got
a few more minutes to wait. I I hope you're ready.
It's not somebody outside your door. Now listen closely, listen out, Okay,
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I'll thought you what to do. There's only one thing
that I feel dizzy. Any one thing you can do?
All right? Your door? How did you put something against it?
I said, and I'm out of breath. I'll tell you
what to do it. Just take oh, just take Oh.
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I have to hurry. I told you about that d
order and heurism. I'm afraid. All you have to do
they're at the door. All you have to do is hope.
You just take it. Just take. It's come, it's come. Help,
Let's try. I'm just going home. I'm trying to come.
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What can I do? What's your Can I get the water?
All you have to do, I'm at the door that
they're coming in. Just take it out. I'm sorry. You
gotta take to l the door.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
M m.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
She's stared. H m hmmm mmm. The title of today's
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Quiet Please story is The Man who Knew Everything is
written and directed by Willis Cooper. The Man who Spoke
to you was Ernest Champel and others in the cast
for James goss article and Jean McBride. Music for Choie
Please is by Albert Bert. Now for worry about next week,
here is our writer, director Willis Cooper. Thank you for
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listening to Quiet Please. Next week for all my Irish friends,
I have a story for it called doak ROSWI And
so until next week at the same time, I am
quietly yours and his church. And now a listening reminder.
In just a little while, you'll want to hear the
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predictions of things to come that will come your way
from Drew Pearson. This is ABC the America. I'm Broadcasting Company. MHM.
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please,
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which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, which features
Ernest Chappels. Quiet Please for today is called The Man
Who Knew Everything? How do you do? That's just the
matter of speaking, isn't it? When I know perfectly well,
(00:57):
how you do? I know you're all right, except for
the well and all that I should have said. How
do you know? I mean, good day? Yeah, that's better.
I excuse me, yester moment. I know who that is? Hello? Yes, yes,
I know. While the name of the mystery tune is
(01:18):
Interlude Dramatique. But Piero Cropola was formerly conductor of the
Paris Conservatory Orchestra. Thank you, I know, a brand new automobile,
two refrigerators, yes, yes, yes, yes, I know, yes, thank you.
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But you forgot a dozen pair of Primium played it stilts. Yes,
thank you. No, I'm not very excited. Thank you. I
knew I was going to win the jackpot, yes, and
send everything to my home. That's always the way, that is.
They're so surprised when I know the end sees. I
can't really help it, you see, I know everything. It's
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a little awkward at times knowing everything, and sometimes I
find it difficult to explain. You see, I never know
anything until I think about it. My goodness, similar things
I think about. I'll be sitting here, for instance, just
diiling away the time, and all of a sudden I think,
what is the square root of seven hundred and seventy seven?
It's two seven point sixty seven four seventh plus. Ornamental
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but hardly useful. Mister Willis Cooper's telephone number in Chicago
in nineteen twenty two was Buckingham one five to seven. Oh,
it's interesting. Mister Dorothy Elia Woodland Hills, California, has a
dog named Kilty, a Scottish terrier. Ernest Chappel went to
North High School in Syracuse. Joseph Silverman of New York
City speaks Chinese, and I don't know who that is. Hello, Yes,
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I know it's the weather burea. Tomorrow I be fair
and colder, moderate depression. All that they wins. You're welcome.
You see. I'm continually bothered by people who want to
know things. What is a tank of being? What was
President Rutherford B. Hayes' middle name? Where did I lose
my diamond bracelet? What does Tatsibo Boshoi moon. The answers, respectively,
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are a South American product used for flavoring cigarette tobacco.
Burchyard in the laundry hamper in your bathroom, under your
green unmentionables, and thank you very much in Russian, quite welcome.
I'm sure I said it's a little awkward at times.
I mean by that it's shall I say unpleasant, I
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shall say unpresented. When I get to thinking about myself,
I know all about menatch is Mister Burray Bowl in
the specific Palisades, California often said, I am aware that
my spleen is two centimeters to hide, but I have
a tendency to high pretension, and that I shall probably
perish if an ordeal aneurism. However, don't let those ailments
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of mine bother you. I shall not tell you about
them in any more detailed It was of yourself I
wish to speak, and I hope you will bear with me.
As a matter of fact, I know you will bear
with me. Excuse me, there is a gentleman at the
door with a very interesting question. Come in. How do
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you do mister Perry Bymporth of Payolap, Washington. You will
sit down. My name is Twelves. Your name is Perry Bymforth.
You were formerly the bicycle repair business and Puyallup. You
were convicted of baritary in nineteen thirty four but released
on a technicality. In nineteen forty seven you broke to
your right ankle, and last October you went through bankruptcy
with liabilities of eighty three thousand dollars. And as said two,
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I've heard about you obviously, but I came here to
secure the combination of the vault at the Cord Winners
National Bank on thirteenth Street. Exactly the combination is you
better write it down eleven left right, two left sixteen
write twenty four left six right, five and open. Have
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you got it? Thank you very much. Are there any
other questions, mister Binford? How much is the end of
all one million, six hundred and ten thousand dollars? Sir?
One many of the six hundred ten thousand? Well, thanks
very much. Any other questions? No, I think not very well.
Good day, sir, Good day. That's him. How a burglar?
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They bothered me to death? But I was starting to
talk about you. May I go on? Think I know
a few facts that I think you ought to know too.
Do you know these people by their descriptions? A tall,
grossly fat man with a bald head, an absolutely bald head,
(05:56):
then an extremely unpleasant deep voice, just the pace of
an accident, probably six feet six inches tall, weighed about
three hundred pounds. Then the man and the woman with him,
both of them not more than four feet tall. The
man very fat too, in a sort of unhealthy way,
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wearing a little black mustache. No woman, short and dumpy,
wears glasses perched on a very sharp nose, has a
very red face. They know you, They were talking about
you in a certain restaurant Wednesday nights, Wednesday night. Does
(06:42):
I'll give you any ideas? We'll think? Please think. Let
me describe him a little more. The tall, gross, cruel
looking man wore a tan gabardine suit with a white
shirt and a knitted red and black tie. He was
eating a breaded v a cup that I think it
was rather unpleasant watching. And a smaller man with a
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blue serge suit, rather shiny blue shirt and a bow tie.
He was drinking beer Pilsner quo, although he mispronounced that
he called it the quell. A woman has a very
red place. It looks as if she grouped it all
over shot pictures kind of modified hollikin glasses, dark gray,
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dressed with an ornament that looks like a woman's hand.
I don't like the hand of Fatma, but cause I'm
sure it couldn't be bad to uh this woman a
dark blue hat with a cup of callie feather on us.
You know it well, she knows you. I wish you'd
(07:51):
search your memory. That really is quite important. Do you
must excuse me a moment, Miss Schragersant was coming into
the male Come in, Miss Tragisant. Good, good morning, Miss Dragissant. Uh.
The safety thing will put you fashioned your girdle when
you broke the zipper this morning is open, Miss s Tragisthant,
(08:12):
and it will presently stick to you, and the it
will presently stick you if you do not fix your thinking.
That is one of the unfortunate aspects knowing everything. But
miss drag Asant is more or less you's to my
knowing everything. I noticed you stop when she addressed me
by my name. I I'm sorry. I should have introduced
(08:32):
myself long ago. Here We've been sitting and talking all
this time, and I'm sorry. My name is Charles W.
Afternoon of Woodbury, New Jersey. Our ancestral home on North
Trexas Street and Woodbury is one of the sites of
the city. A Miss strag Astant has affected the repairs.
She's returned. Come on, Miss Tragistant, that's mis tracking. You're
(08:56):
entirely welcomes Strakistans. I see you have only two letters today.
Take a letter to missus Groverick Cleveland McNulty. The dells
are again, dear missus McNulty, No yours, truly, no Miss Tragasantha.
I do not need to see the letters. I know
what is in them. The next one to mister Marshall Birddog, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Dear mister Birddog, your great grandfather's name was
(09:20):
thirteen Thumbs period. He was a station of the Stone
Boiler Indians and Upper Athabasca. Comma then was captured in
eighteen twelve and converted to the Shinto faith by a
band of wandering Japanese fishermen periods Parragad. He escaped seven
years later. Comma emigrated to Doylestn, Pennsylvania. Comma and became
(09:40):
the father of a large family which later removed to Albuquerque, Comma,
although your great grandfather deserted the apaches near Anton Chico,
New Mexico, Comma and resumed his former life as a
station period girse. Truly it was another man, Miss racking
n Slo never mind, Miss Tragissante, was from my uncle
spread asking for money. Send them a check for sixty
(10:01):
dollars and give my best regards to him, and that
he'll do. You have a cold, Tragisan. I hope I'll
get over it. You will must be wonderful to know everything.
People either get over the colder, they eventually die from it.
I know that you are not going to die from
a colder. Go you will get over this one and
all the others you may have, which in your case
is fourteen more before you die. What am I going
(10:23):
to die? Out, mister Afternoon? Never mind? Please? I don't
know you? No, I don't why JAA? Will I be murdered? No?
Will it be an accident? No? Will I behind? No?
(10:44):
Please go away, Miss t You're a means to Afternoon?
Where will I die? Will you tell me that? Why?
Should I? Well? Then I wouldn't never go? Then? Please
go away, missus tragisthanth there's somebody at the door. Well,
I mean that's the door. It will ring there. Oh,
(11:09):
can I go? You will, whether I give you permission
or not. Miss Tragisant is going to die of old
reading at phe eighty one, I'm man at the door.
Now that's a policeman. It's opposite Shapiro, an old friend
of mine. He's come to tell me that he has
arrested a gentleman from Puyola, Washington. Mister Bamforth, you remember
(11:31):
the man who wanted the combination of the bank ball.
You thought I was being an accessory to a crime,
didn't you. It was quite all right to give him
the combination. You see, I knew the police were looking
for him. I'd have told him that. He didn't ask me.
You see, I do know everything, but generally I don't
tell unless I'm asked. But in your case, these people
(11:57):
I was telling you about, Yes, I know you don't
know them, but I do know. You've seen them separately wraps,
a tall, fat man with a cruel mouth and the
eyes that always seemed to be looking over your shoulder
and yet never miss a movement. And the greasy little
man with a black mustache, and the heavy thing in
(12:20):
his left hand coatd cottle he's left handed him and
the sharp faced woman with the glasses with the mecre
chrome stains on her right thumb and a brand new
Corette handbag that has nothing in it but an ice pick.
(12:44):
He wouldn't kid me, or did it? You can't kid me?
The the smater you fidgeting about? You see, remember this
morning when you felt as if there were someone watching you?
(13:04):
Then tell me something. Did you coffee taste funny this morning?
You see? Maybe you do know them after all. Now
I'm let's try it that. I don't want you to
fetch me a sentence. She's going out there have a peanut,
butter and chutney sandwich. She usually has a cream cheese
and spam on Russian ry, but she changed her mind
(13:25):
to day. By the way, wasn't that door to your
bedroom open? You didn't close it? No, I wouldn't go
look yet if I were you. Matter of fact, I
wouldn't like to be you. No. I don't know exactly
(13:47):
what is going to happen, but I don't know when
it does happen. I find it rather difficult to predict happenings,
except of course, perfectly obvious things like my secretary dying
of overeating the age of eighty one and my own demise,
and they lagneurism, but I'm not sure when that will occur.
And your own case. I know that something rather dreadful
(14:10):
will occur to you, and I actually want to warn
you about it so that it won't come as a
complete surprise to you. There's nothing I can do about
it except warn you. Incidentally, the windows in that room
could stand a watching. Now, don't look, you might see
something you don't want to see. Listen to me. This
(14:33):
tall gross man I told you about. He limps slightly
in his left leg a knife cut. He's unhealthy too,
has oltziers in the way he eats fried food. But
he's quite dangerous. Not a nice person at all. And
those accomplices it is. The woman's name is Mami. Recognize
(14:58):
that name. I don't need to tell your last name,
do I? Or have you forgotten it? Maybe? And her
ice pick the little man? Oh, he has several names. No,
I'm not trying to kid you. I just don't think
it's a good idea to tell you right here in
front of everybody. Oh, lean over here and I whispered
(15:23):
to you one of his names is you know and
now uh. He didn't have the mustache maybe then, but
you'll recognize him by it now, a little mustache kind
of like Hitler's. You wouldn't forget Hipler's mustache, would you.
I always carry He's a book. He had it on
the table beside his plate Wednesday night, mccover. He had
(15:45):
all stained with beer. He's a little slappy. His name,
that Judge, Rodney Erickson. He's trying clapper Claw Duddy, you know,
the gangster there accusing of putting his enemies in the
dep three's up in Connecticut. I like Jude Jackson. No,
Clapperclaw Dotty is innocent, Judge. It was his lawyer that
did it, Oli Thopp. Hang him, Judge, issue a bench
(16:09):
warrant and he'll confess. Crapperclaw Dotty really was in jail
in Michigan when it happened. Ollie Pop did it. You're welcome, judge,
always ready to help out justice. Here's missus tragistans. I
know it, Oh John, Can I ever tell you anything
(16:29):
you don't know? Of course? Not an every face and
eyes that don't machine. He's wearing a brown Gabardine suit,
and he said he saw you in a restaurant anesday
nights you would show him. Miss, how do you I mean? Hello,
mister Dukecraft, I want you to know something, mister afternoon,
(16:50):
I already know it. My right name is. My name
is not Amadeus Wolfgang Ducrot, but that is the name
you are using a present. It is sure I have
a message for me. I will tell you the message.
Of course, you are in communication with a certain party
I am. I want to walk away from that keyhole,
Miss Tragothino. You want to warn me that I must
(17:11):
not communicate further with this certain person party. I'm sorry, then,
I'm afraid that I shall have to take steps you
mean kill me? That is what I mean, mister, that
you will not kill me. Oh yes, sir, I beg
to differ with you. You will attempt to kill me,
But your gun, which you are carrying in your hand
(17:32):
with your broad brim de Texas style hat, will miss fire.
A Miss Tragocians will call the police, but you'll escape
before they arrive. You think so, I know so? No,
but yes, Miss n to see if the gun will
miss fire? Rings? Now you see, you'd better runs to
do that. Certainly can move fast, indeed too fast. Time
(17:59):
afraid the police are arriving, Miss trag asad candy telling
they won't be needed.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, did you recognize his voice.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
When you hear him knock at your door and you
ask who's there? And you've heard that voice again? Well,
by the way, perhaps you'd better double lock your door.
He's quite powerful, and this Miss tragisat says, he moves
fast for a batman. There's a card driving away quite
(18:40):
rapidly down the street. I could see it from the window,
but I don't need to. I know who's in it.
No woman with the sharp features, and the little man
with a hit the mustache, the man who calls himself
good crocked. You don't know where they're going. I do well.
(19:03):
I know everything. I even know why they're after you.
Even if you can't think why. You could think why
if you wanted to. There isn't much time left. It's
five fifty, Miss Drake aside, what time did you get?
You ask? Oh? No, there isn't much time left, and
(19:28):
it isn't far to your place. Besides, they've been there before,
you know, and they know all the short cuts. I
think if I were you, I put something against the door,
cause he only knew what I overheard in the restaurant
Wednesday night, while a tall fat man talked, a tall
fat man with a cold killer's eyes, and the gun
(19:48):
that won't miss fire the next time, and he's taking
care of that. It would have frightened you a great
deal more if you had heard what he said to
the woman he calls Mamie, a woman with a brand
new corrette purse and nothing in it made an ice pick.
And what the little greasy man said to him the
(20:09):
man in the blue sward suit was something heavy in
the left hand coat pocket. It frightens me, and I'm
not easily frightened. And then a tall fat man coming
to see me. I didn't expect that, even if I
did know who he was. In the king to the
front door. I know what he's got in his pocket.
(20:31):
What the fat man's carrying? A coil of piano wire.
And I know what they're talking about right now as
they lab along on the way to your house. Don't
you know? Can't you figure it out? Don't you know
(20:53):
what they want? I do think? Won't you? No? I
don't want to tell you don't be obstinate that you
do know who they are, all three of them. Don't
answer the telephone of the rings. That wasn't your phone,
(21:17):
it was mine. It's the police. Just wait a second. Yes,
opposite Rucker, for the boys that you have played a
little while ago. And it is quite true, Officer Drucker.
He try to shoot me, but he escaped. He is
in a car with two other persons, a man and
a woman, and he ran down an old man and
(21:37):
a corporal in the Air Force at the street intersection.
And the corporal has internal injuries. He will survive. Yes,
I know where they're going. Why no, Officer Drucker. I
I haven't the faintest idea, And I'm sorry. I don't
(21:59):
know I had to do that. Well, you don't want
the police in on this to you? Oh of course
you don't listen. Is that is that something at your door?
(22:23):
With the people next door they're listening to I think
they're getting ready to go out. They don't wanna get
involved in this. I'm sure I don't blame them, not
after what I heard Wednesday night. No, it's too late
for you to go out. You wouldn't have a chance,
you know, that time's getting short. When I was there
with you, I might be able to help. Do I
(22:45):
say that? I know I could help you, but I'm
not there unfortunately. And please don't call the police. Stay
away from the telephone if you're sick, don't you I
told you about the coffee. Are you sure there hasn't
(23:06):
been somebody in your house? I know you don't think
it's possible, but don't be too sure. Wasn't there a
drawer open when you came home yesterday? The drawer you
thought you'd closed. Remember when you woke up in the
middle of the night Friday night and wondered what it
(23:29):
was that woke you up? Sure? How you frightened? I'd
be I know, because you don't know what's going to happen.
That's why you're not so scared. But I know what's
going to happen, and it scares me. It scares me
to know everything. You had no idea of all the
things I know, frightening things, funny things, strange things, what
(23:53):
dogs talk about, and how to make a pisco punch?
What's hidden in that cave under Radio City in New York?
The beach where Captain Kid buried his treasure, and how
much it costs to put an ad on the London
Daily Mail with size at that staling wars, And what
Miss tragisanthe wants for Christmas next year? How I'm going
to die sometime of the naordlandeurism? The name of the
(24:13):
mayor of Peory, Illinois, And what's going to happen to you?
A tall fat man, a little sharp featured woman with glasses,
and the little man of the Hitler mustache. In the
(24:35):
presents they're bringing you? You do know them, don't you
come in? Miss Tragosand he brought the letters on it
A side'll be all for to day, Miss Dragasand I
(24:58):
don't feel.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I thank you, must strike your saf You can go now.
I'm busy. I had to get a litter in a hurry.
I've got something more to tell you. You've only got
a few more minutes to wait. I I hope you're ready.
It's not somebody outside your door. Now listen closely, listen out, Okay,
(25:33):
I'll thought you what to do. There's only one thing
that I feel dizzy. Any one thing you can do?
All right? Your door? How did you put something against it?
I said, and I'm out of breath. I'll tell you
what to do it. Just take oh, just take Oh.
(25:55):
I have to hurry. I told you about that d
order and heurism. I'm afraid. All you have to do
they're at the door. All you have to do is hope.
You just take it. Just take. It's come, it's come. Help,
Let's try. I'm just going home. I'm trying to come.
(26:21):
What can I do? What's your Can I get the water?
All you have to do, I'm at the door that
they're coming in. Just take it out. I'm sorry. You
gotta take to l the door.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
M m.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
She's stared. H m hmmm mmm. The title of today's
(27:12):
Quiet Please story is The Man who Knew Everything is
written and directed by Willis Cooper. The Man who Spoke
to you was Ernest Champel and others in the cast
for James goss article and Jean McBride. Music for Choie
Please is by Albert Bert. Now for worry about next week,
here is our writer, director Willis Cooper. Thank you for
(27:33):
listening to Quiet Please. Next week for all my Irish friends,
I have a story for it called doak ROSWI And
so until next week at the same time, I am
quietly yours and his church. And now a listening reminder.
In just a little while, you'll want to hear the
(27:53):
predictions of things to come that will come your way
from Drew Pearson. This is ABC the America. I'm Broadcasting Company. MHM.
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