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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
M a mutual broadcasting system because I'm Quiet Pleased, which
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is written and directed by Willis Hooper and teachers Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Quiet Please for tonight is called free.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Practically nobody is named Sebastian, and I have taken in
my lifetime a good deal of kidding above my name.
Sebastian is an unusual name and a great belie. Amateur
humorists seemed to enjoy working on it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And when Evelyn was.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Wright said revisited came out. At least seven of my
friends sent me huge teddy bears. It's usually happened tonit
a teddy bear. But I didn't come here to talk
about teddy bears. I thought maybe you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Might help me. Well, at least I can tell you
may I.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, it's uh kind of uh. I suppose you'd say
it's it's an obsession. So on the other hand, I
guess you have to have a thing quite a while
before you could call it an obsession. This has only
been bothering me since day before yesterday, so I suppose
maybe we've got to call it a premonition. I was
walking down the street and there was absolutely nobody near me,
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and the voice spoke to me right in my ear,
a very quiet little voice.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You just said one word three? Did you hear You
must have forged it? What was it?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I tell you, there wasn't anybody hear me there. There
wasn't anybody within a block of me. Well, I thought, then,
I was, you know, hearing things? And you know, how
did you You think you hear your name called or something?
And it's just some kind of subconscious thought that jars
its way into whatever you're thinking of. And well, maybe
it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Maybe somebody does call you somewhere. And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I suppose I might have forgotten it except for one thing.
And I walked on down to the office, and I
went into the lobby and I stood in front of
the elevator. The door opened finally I got in. Another
man got in behind me. He stood right in front
of the door in the middle of the car. The
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operator started to close the door, and the other man
spoke three, and it suddenly came It was the same voice,
and I was suddenly seized with the most dreadful fear
I've ever known. I scrambled past the man as the
doors grew together.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hey, look, mister, what do you think of me of
let me out? Well, Pete, take me up behind, will you.
I stood panting in the card.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Watching the indicator above the doors as the car went
up two three. We haven't found out yet what car
is it. Apparently, though the operator, who was a new man,
mishandled the controls that the clared war and the cry
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dropped down to the sub basement. There's no way of selling,
of course, because the operator was killed. We think we're fortunate, however,
that there was nobody else in the car.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Did you hear that there was nobody else in the car? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
What about the man who said three? No, nothing more
happened that first day? I walked upstairs on my offs
and I stayed there. I didn't do very well on
the job that day. Oh yes, I forgot something.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Did happen? No, nothing like the elevator thing.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It was just the telephone and it rang three times
at three o'clock in the afternoon. No, I know, there's
nothing unusual about a telephone ringing three times. Only this one.
I picked up the receiver when it rang the first time,
and it rang two more times. Telephones don't do that.
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And that was all the first day, I went home
very carefully. I remember I waited at the corner very conscientiously,
and until the number three bus went past.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'll never ride a number three bus again.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'll walk the extra four blocks of rund the number twelve,
and I was pretty conscious of that number. I saw
threes everywhere, three men in the restaurant, and I began
looking for threes, three three letters in my mailbox. I
found threes everywhere. Three pennies fell out of my trouser's
pocket when I was undressing, three of those black wartime
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ones made out of sink or something. You don't see
many of them the days. They looked somehow sinister, lying
there on the bed spread, three black pennies. And all
of a sudden I remembered I used to put pennies
on dead men's eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
But then I thought, there's three of 'em.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I haven't got three eyes. And you know what I
said to myself, I wonder, I wonder if maybe I
have got three eyes. And I walked over to the
mirror and looked, No, no, I haven't got three eyes.
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But you see what a thing like this can do
to you. Yeah, that's settled it. I went in the bathroom,
and I I took down the pills, and I took
three of 'em. And I remember it just as I
was drifting off.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
The three pills. There were enough to put a man
to sleep permanently, but I couldn't do a thing about it. Man,
Oh no, no, I didn't go to sleep permanently. I
woke up.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Do you guess what time? I didn't sleep anymore? When
I sat up and smoked cigarettes. When it was daylight
at last, I dressed and went up. First though I
counted the cigarette box, I'd smoked one whole package and
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thirteen Besides, you can out it up and the street
was deserted. Early in the morning, I walked past the
movie house. The sign of the marquis said last three days.
Coming down to the office, walked all the way I
walked upstairs.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This was only seven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
My Joe, I unlocked the door, and there were three
men in my office at seven o'clock in the morning.
I just I just stood there and looked at them.
Good morning, Sebastian.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Who are you? My name is Lee Sebastian. Well, what
are you doing in my office at this time of
the day? Sebastian. This is mister Takes. Good morning, Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I said, what are you doing in my office? And
this is mister Gaye Sebastian. Did you hear me? What
are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Please? Sebastian, have you answer me? Or do I have
to call an officer? I think we'll put the desk
over here, Dick. I'd like it better along this wall. Lee.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You have to have a new rug and new draperies.
Listen you three, certainly, Sebastian. What is it Sebastian speak
of Sebastian.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I want to know what you're doing in my office?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh don't mind that, of course not Now about the
filing cases?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Lean, I don't want them? Do you gain? I'm sure
I don't. What are you doing here? Do you hear me? Why, Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We're just looking it over, deciding on the change, and
we don't like it this way?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And what business is it of yours? Why are you going?
You're going to move in here? You know what? When
you leave? What are you talking about? I'm not going
to leave? Yes, sure I am not. Certainly you are, Sebastian.
Are you people crazy? Why? No, Sebastian, are you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Oh why, I don't know what you're talking about. And night, Sebastian.
Come here over here by the window. Come on, No,
you're not gonna get me to that window.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I know what you're up to. I'm gonna get a policeman.
We're not going to push you up. I should say,
you're not.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We don't have to, of course not. Just look, Sebastian.
I looked out the window, and right below me was
the sign of the movie house. I told you about
big red letters. They said last three days. When I
hadn't noticed before, or maybe it wasn't there before, the
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three had a big red ex across it, and there
was a two painted.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
On top of it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And when my eyes had focused again, I turned around.
There wasn't anybody in the room with me. Yeah, that's right,
I know it was closing. There's only one door. The
only thing that was different from the way I'd left
it yesterday was the calendar bat on my desk, and
there were just three pages left on it, and the
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top one had a big red X crawl across it.
I never took a drink in my life before five o'clock.
I seldom touched the stuff, but I do keep.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
A bottom in my desk for an occasional client who
likes anith in the daytime.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I took two nips, and I got very brave and
very matter of fact when I found the second one.
Well after the third. One night, I went out in
the hall and I walked downstairs the elevator started.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Was just coming to work. He looked at you with
a very strange expression.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
When the whiskey and I spoke to him a loud
twice about three strange men invading.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
An office at seven in the morning, and then he
asked me, more or less politely to describe the man.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Do you know I couldn't remember a single thing about
any one of the three.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He looked at me as if I were crazy, and
I remembered what Dix had said. No, we're not crazy,
he said, Bastian, are you. I don't know. Maybe I
am a.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Man can't be haunted by a number Kenny or Kenny,
you remember what I told you about being careful about
the number three bus. But a number three bus ran
into a light stander last night I.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Caught I fired. No, only only one man was killed.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I s always pat here in the paper. I thought
there was something familiar about his face.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And then it came to me and walked.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Over to the mirror above the washstand in the corner.
Why the man looking up like.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Me to be my twin brother? Want to be me?
For that matter? What is this? Hey? So so then
I sat down at the desk and I thought some more.
Maybe maybe I've been working too I maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, Well, anyway, I gotta do something about it. Remember
what I'll call up doctor Mandel.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I say to myself, Doctor.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Mandel can tell me if I'm going crazy or what?
They give me the fourth So let's see what what's
his number.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Of four or eight seven? Good morning?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Maybe we be of service to you?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What they said, good morning, Maybe we be of service
to you. Is this doctor Mandel's office? Oh my, no, sir,
is this four O eight seven? This is the Beverage Funeral?
Father said, uh huh. The other taker said, isn't this
four eight seven? No, sir, this is three three three three?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
How did I get that number? I couldn't lisit that much?
Four oh eight.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Seven? Good morning? May we be of service to you?
Who is this? You die of three three three three, sir?
This is the.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Beverage Funeral Father I'm sorry, alright, I can't be that drunk.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Huh hum huh ah, good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Maybe be of service to you, Oh but I'm sure
going to be. Where's that bottle? This is the telephone company.
Look here, there's an insane man who keeps dialing this
number and telling me it's the wrong one. Can't you
put a stop to it?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
What free?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Solid hours? Now? He's been ringing this number and we
have clients all our own to take care of it. Well,
I don't care what you do, but stop that man.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
No matter what I dialed, it always came out three
three three three. I called doctor Mandel, I called the police,
I called my uncle Hubert, and always there with that
man with a fat voice wanting to be of service.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Good morning, May we be of service? Do you? That
was yesterday? Today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yes? Look up a tree this morning? Somebody in my
b No, I don't know. I'm getting offully tired of
these things happening to me too. But you should complain.
Are they not happening to you?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I want from you with a little sympathy, or at
least a chance to tell my story.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Just tell my story story. No really, I'm sorry, just
the stuff that's beginning to.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Get me down, beginning got you. I don't know what's
happened to me either somebody's trying to make me lose
my mind and commits suicide or something, or.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Or it's true. All I can hear is three dream
man M three day and now there's only one day there.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well second lea from my camera to Pat had a
big red X on it this morning. And everywhere I
go things happen in threes. I hear streetcar going, I
hear them.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I hear that on doors, I hear lords is in
my head. All of a sudden, I remember I heard
on the radio that is going to be a radio
program that I called for. What are they doing to me?
Help me? Please? Please, please please You'll hear that you're
here the way I was talking, you'll hear me.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So bad. Look, look, I can't stand it any longer.
I gotta do something. Well it'll be it'll be three
o'clock in just a little while, and I know that's
going to be the deadline.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well I know it. So do you know it, don't you?
Who is it that hates me? Who is it that's
going to cut me?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Er all right, all right, I know what I'll do.
I'm going in here. I'm going to have it to rain.
You stay out there, all three of you. I walk
inside the bartenders standing behind the bar.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Hello, bartender, Hello, it's a bass you. How did you
know my name? Why you told it to me? I did?
When did I tell it to you? Well? Last night?
Last night? I wasn't here last night. Well this morning? Then?
Why I wasn't here? I've never been here before. Now
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I'm last Tuesday. You gotta hang over? Oh no, I
don't remember. Well, sure you was in here with them
three men? What three men? You know?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Fellas were the funny names? Funny names? Yeah, you know,
all three of 'em.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Were the three letter names. Dix, Sure, Dick, Lee, Gabe,
the three threes.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
When was this bartender? Three o'clock this morning?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Hm, I'm trying to pull myself together. I try, I
try hard. What my my.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Head is all mixed up? I'm getting scared, partender? What
you share it out? Samattine? Three? Three? Just three? Oh?
That reminds me what fellow telephone just before you came in,
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said he'd be here at three o'clock. Co into him? Then?
Who I didn't say said if you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Wanted to call him back, call him at three three
three three, Yes, yes, I know who he is.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You wanna drink? No? No, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, Just talk to me with you, sure, Sebastian, till
three o'clock? What your friends will be here?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Then? Oh, I'm scared. Why somebody's after me? That's all?
What am I going to do? Why? I don't know
anything you can do, Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No, talk to me, talk to me, take my mind
off it. What I like talking about anything? Anything except.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Anything? Well, let's see talk talk I'm scared. Well, let's
see now.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well you take names, names, sure, like yours? For instance, Sebastian,
it's a very odd name.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I think I've only seen it once before in my
life where a gravestone somewhere. Don't talk like that. Well,
it is an odd name. It's unusual. Names have got
a lot of meaning.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, mine means it to be reverenced that Nike does it?
Ain't that odd now, ain't it? He's still scared?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Talk some more. I'm talking. What time is it got over?
Four to three? Talk? Well, talk about names now? I
got a funny name too, for a bartender. You have
for a bartender? What is it?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You are scared, ain't you? Why are you looking up?
He's so funny.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's pretty near three martender? What's a list about three?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I was gonna tell you a funny coincident. Talk talk,
please talk, Well, you're so worried about this streets talk
when you're talk talk to me. I'm just going to
tell you about my name.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
What is your name? Is it Joe or Tom or
Harry or charlier? Hello? Wishes? How's to buy it? These
are microw That's what's so funny.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's dry dry cool. That's very funny. Oh, that's extremely funny.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh, that's that's funny. Bartender. A bartender named dry, A
dry bartender? Well, that sure is funny.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, but of course that ain't the way you spell it.
See what? Oh you see it's a German name, is it?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Sure, spelled d r E I it means three, you know,
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no more three, no more three? No more bartender named dry?
What do you suppose it?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Why? I'm never going to hear anymore threes again? Am I? Oh?
Oh yes I am. You remember.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
When the judge says to be hanged by the neck
until dead. Dead Dead.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
MM.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and
directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Chappell, and others who played in tonight's story
were Les Germaine, Vinton Hayworth, Cameron Prudong and Kermit Murdoch.
Music for Quiet Please, as usual, is composed and played
by Jeane Bresso.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now for the word about next week's Quiet Please. Here
is our writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Next week our story is about a man who couldn't
escape his plate.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It's called Kill Me Again.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And so until next week at the same time, I
am quietly yours, Ernest Chappell. Quiet Please come to you
from New York. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
M a mutual broadcasting system because I'm Quiet Pleased, which
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is written and directed by Willis Hooper and teachers Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Quiet Please for tonight is called free.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Practically nobody is named Sebastian, and I have taken in
my lifetime a good deal of kidding above my name.
Sebastian is an unusual name and a great belie. Amateur
humorists seemed to enjoy working on it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And when Evelyn was.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Wright said revisited came out. At least seven of my
friends sent me huge teddy bears. It's usually happened tonit
a teddy bear. But I didn't come here to talk
about teddy bears. I thought maybe you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Might help me. Well, at least I can tell you
may I.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, it's uh kind of uh. I suppose you'd say
it's it's an obsession. So on the other hand, I
guess you have to have a thing quite a while
before you could call it an obsession. This has only
been bothering me since day before yesterday, so I suppose
maybe we've got to call it a premonition. I was
walking down the street and there was absolutely nobody near me,
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and the voice spoke to me right in my ear,
a very quiet little voice.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You just said one word three? Did you hear You
must have forged it? What was it?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I tell you, there wasn't anybody hear me there. There
wasn't anybody within a block of me. Well, I thought, then,
I was, you know, hearing things? And you know, how
did you You think you hear your name called or something?
And it's just some kind of subconscious thought that jars
its way into whatever you're thinking of. And well, maybe
it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Maybe somebody does call you somewhere. And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I suppose I might have forgotten it except for one thing.
And I walked on down to the office, and I
went into the lobby and I stood in front of
the elevator. The door opened finally I got in. Another
man got in behind me. He stood right in front
of the door in the middle of the car. The
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operator started to close the door, and the other man
spoke three, and it suddenly came It was the same voice,
and I was suddenly seized with the most dreadful fear
I've ever known. I scrambled past the man as the
doors grew together.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hey, look, mister, what do you think of me of
let me out? Well, Pete, take me up behind, will you.
I stood panting in the card.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Watching the indicator above the doors as the car went
up two three. We haven't found out yet what car
is it. Apparently, though the operator, who was a new man,
mishandled the controls that the clared war and the cry
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dropped down to the sub basement. There's no way of selling,
of course, because the operator was killed. We think we're fortunate, however,
that there was nobody else in the car.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Did you hear that there was nobody else in the car? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
What about the man who said three? No, nothing more
happened that first day? I walked upstairs on my offs
and I stayed there. I didn't do very well on
the job that day. Oh yes, I forgot something.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Did happen? No, nothing like the elevator thing.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It was just the telephone and it rang three times
at three o'clock in the afternoon. No, I know, there's
nothing unusual about a telephone ringing three times. Only this one.
I picked up the receiver when it rang the first time,
and it rang two more times. Telephones don't do that.
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And that was all the first day, I went home
very carefully. I remember I waited at the corner very conscientiously,
and until the number three bus went past.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'll never ride a number three bus again.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'll walk the extra four blocks of rund the number twelve,
and I was pretty conscious of that number. I saw
threes everywhere, three men in the restaurant, and I began
looking for threes, three three letters in my mailbox. I
found threes everywhere. Three pennies fell out of my trouser's
pocket when I was undressing, three of those black wartime
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ones made out of sink or something. You don't see
many of them the days. They looked somehow sinister, lying
there on the bed spread, three black pennies. And all
of a sudden I remembered I used to put pennies
on dead men's eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
But then I thought, there's three of 'em.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I haven't got three eyes. And you know what I
said to myself, I wonder, I wonder if maybe I
have got three eyes. And I walked over to the
mirror and looked, No, no, I haven't got three eyes.
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But you see what a thing like this can do
to you. Yeah, that's settled it. I went in the bathroom,
and I I took down the pills, and I took
three of 'em. And I remember it just as I
was drifting off.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
The three pills. There were enough to put a man
to sleep permanently, but I couldn't do a thing about it. Man,
Oh no, no, I didn't go to sleep permanently. I
woke up.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Do you guess what time? I didn't sleep anymore? When
I sat up and smoked cigarettes. When it was daylight
at last, I dressed and went up. First though I
counted the cigarette box, I'd smoked one whole package and
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thirteen Besides, you can out it up and the street
was deserted. Early in the morning, I walked past the
movie house. The sign of the marquis said last three days.
Coming down to the office, walked all the way I
walked upstairs.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This was only seven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
My Joe, I unlocked the door, and there were three
men in my office at seven o'clock in the morning.
I just I just stood there and looked at them.
Good morning, Sebastian.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Who are you? My name is Lee Sebastian. Well, what
are you doing in my office at this time of
the day? Sebastian. This is mister Takes. Good morning, Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I said, what are you doing in my office? And
this is mister Gaye Sebastian. Did you hear me? What
are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Please? Sebastian, have you answer me? Or do I have
to call an officer? I think we'll put the desk
over here, Dick. I'd like it better along this wall. Lee.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You have to have a new rug and new draperies.
Listen you three, certainly, Sebastian. What is it Sebastian speak
of Sebastian.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I want to know what you're doing in my office?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh don't mind that, of course not Now about the
filing cases?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Lean, I don't want them? Do you gain? I'm sure
I don't. What are you doing here? Do you hear me? Why, Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We're just looking it over, deciding on the change, and
we don't like it this way?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And what business is it of yours? Why are you going?
You're going to move in here? You know what? When
you leave? What are you talking about? I'm not going
to leave? Yes, sure I am not. Certainly you are, Sebastian.
Are you people crazy? Why? No, Sebastian, are you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Oh why, I don't know what you're talking about. And night, Sebastian.
Come here over here by the window. Come on, No,
you're not gonna get me to that window.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I know what you're up to. I'm gonna get a policeman.
We're not going to push you up. I should say,
you're not.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We don't have to, of course not. Just look, Sebastian.
I looked out the window, and right below me was
the sign of the movie house. I told you about
big red letters. They said last three days. When I
hadn't noticed before, or maybe it wasn't there before, the
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three had a big red ex across it, and there
was a two painted.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
On top of it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And when my eyes had focused again, I turned around.
There wasn't anybody in the room with me. Yeah, that's right,
I know it was closing. There's only one door. The
only thing that was different from the way I'd left
it yesterday was the calendar bat on my desk, and
there were just three pages left on it, and the
(10:06):
top one had a big red X crawl across it.
I never took a drink in my life before five o'clock.
I seldom touched the stuff, but I do keep.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
A bottom in my desk for an occasional client who
likes anith in the daytime.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I took two nips, and I got very brave and
very matter of fact when I found the second one.
Well after the third. One night, I went out in
the hall and I walked downstairs the elevator started.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Was just coming to work. He looked at you with
a very strange expression.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
When the whiskey and I spoke to him a loud
twice about three strange men invading.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
An office at seven in the morning, and then he
asked me, more or less politely to describe the man.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Do you know I couldn't remember a single thing about
any one of the three.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He looked at me as if I were crazy, and
I remembered what Dix had said. No, we're not crazy,
he said, Bastian, are you. I don't know. Maybe I
am a.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Man can't be haunted by a number Kenny or Kenny,
you remember what I told you about being careful about
the number three bus. But a number three bus ran
into a light stander last night I.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Caught I fired. No, only only one man was killed.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I s always pat here in the paper. I thought
there was something familiar about his face.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And then it came to me and walked.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Over to the mirror above the washstand in the corner.
Why the man looking up like.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Me to be my twin brother? Want to be me?
For that matter? What is this? Hey? So so then
I sat down at the desk and I thought some more.
Maybe maybe I've been working too I maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, Well, anyway, I gotta do something about it. Remember
what I'll call up doctor Mandel.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I say to myself, Doctor.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Mandel can tell me if I'm going crazy or what?
They give me the fourth So let's see what what's
his number.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Of four or eight seven? Good morning?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Maybe we be of service to you?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What they said, good morning, Maybe we be of service
to you. Is this doctor Mandel's office? Oh my, no, sir,
is this four O eight seven? This is the Beverage Funeral?
Father said, uh huh. The other taker said, isn't this
four eight seven? No, sir, this is three three three three?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
How did I get that number? I couldn't lisit that much?
Four oh eight.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Seven? Good morning? May we be of service to you?
Who is this? You die of three three three three, sir?
This is the.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Beverage Funeral Father I'm sorry, alright, I can't be that drunk.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Huh hum huh ah, good morning.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Maybe be of service to you, Oh but I'm sure
going to be. Where's that bottle? This is the telephone company.
Look here, there's an insane man who keeps dialing this
number and telling me it's the wrong one. Can't you
put a stop to it?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
What free?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Solid hours? Now? He's been ringing this number and we
have clients all our own to take care of it. Well,
I don't care what you do, but stop that man.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
No matter what I dialed, it always came out three
three three three. I called doctor Mandel, I called the police,
I called my uncle Hubert, and always there with that
man with a fat voice wanting to be of service.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Good morning, May we be of service? Do you? That
was yesterday? Today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yes? Look up a tree this morning? Somebody in my
b No, I don't know. I'm getting offully tired of
these things happening to me too. But you should complain.
Are they not happening to you?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I want from you with a little sympathy, or at
least a chance to tell my story.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Just tell my story story. No really, I'm sorry, just
the stuff that's beginning to.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Get me down, beginning got you. I don't know what's
happened to me either somebody's trying to make me lose
my mind and commits suicide or something, or.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Or it's true. All I can hear is three dream
man M three day and now there's only one day there.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well second lea from my camera to Pat had a
big red X on it this morning. And everywhere I
go things happen in threes. I hear streetcar going, I
hear them.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I hear that on doors, I hear lords is in
my head. All of a sudden, I remember I heard
on the radio that is going to be a radio
program that I called for. What are they doing to me?
Help me? Please? Please, please please You'll hear that you're
here the way I was talking, you'll hear me.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So bad. Look, look, I can't stand it any longer.
I gotta do something. Well it'll be it'll be three
o'clock in just a little while, and I know that's
going to be the deadline.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well I know it. So do you know it, don't you?
Who is it that hates me? Who is it that's
going to cut me?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Er all right, all right, I know what I'll do.
I'm going in here. I'm going to have it to rain.
You stay out there, all three of you. I walk
inside the bartenders standing behind the bar.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Hello, bartender, Hello, it's a bass you. How did you
know my name? Why you told it to me? I did?
When did I tell it to you? Well? Last night?
Last night? I wasn't here last night. Well this morning? Then?
Why I wasn't here? I've never been here before. Now
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I'm last Tuesday. You gotta hang over? Oh no, I
don't remember. Well, sure you was in here with them
three men? What three men? You know?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Fellas were the funny names? Funny names? Yeah, you know,
all three of 'em.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Were the three letter names. Dix, Sure, Dick, Lee, Gabe,
the three threes.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
When was this bartender? Three o'clock this morning?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Hm, I'm trying to pull myself together. I try, I
try hard. What my my.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Head is all mixed up? I'm getting scared, partender? What
you share it out? Samattine? Three? Three? Just three? Oh?
That reminds me what fellow telephone just before you came in,
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said he'd be here at three o'clock. Co into him? Then?
Who I didn't say said if you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Wanted to call him back, call him at three three
three three, Yes, yes, I know who he is.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You wanna drink? No? No, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, Just talk to me with you, sure, Sebastian, till
three o'clock? What your friends will be here?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Then? Oh, I'm scared. Why somebody's after me? That's all?
What am I going to do? Why? I don't know
anything you can do, Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No, talk to me, talk to me, take my mind
off it. What I like talking about anything? Anything except.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Anything? Well, let's see talk talk I'm scared. Well, let's
see now.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well you take names, names, sure, like yours? For instance, Sebastian,
it's a very odd name.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I think I've only seen it once before in my
life where a gravestone somewhere. Don't talk like that. Well,
it is an odd name. It's unusual. Names have got
a lot of meaning.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, mine means it to be reverenced that Nike does it?
Ain't that odd now, ain't it? He's still scared?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Talk some more. I'm talking. What time is it got over?
Four to three? Talk? Well, talk about names now? I
got a funny name too, for a bartender. You have
for a bartender? What is it?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You are scared, ain't you? Why are you looking up?
He's so funny.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's pretty near three martender? What's a list about three?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I was gonna tell you a funny coincident. Talk talk,
please talk, Well, you're so worried about this streets talk
when you're talk talk to me. I'm just going to
tell you about my name.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
What is your name? Is it Joe or Tom or
Harry or charlier? Hello? Wishes? How's to buy it? These
are microw That's what's so funny.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's dry dry cool. That's very funny. Oh, that's extremely funny.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh, that's that's funny. Bartender. A bartender named dry, A
dry bartender? Well, that sure is funny.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, but of course that ain't the way you spell it.
See what? Oh you see it's a German name, is it?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Sure, spelled d r E I it means three, you know,
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no more three, no more three? No more bartender named dry?
What do you suppose it?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Why? I'm never going to hear anymore threes again? Am I? Oh?
Oh yes I am. You remember.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
When the judge says to be hanged by the neck
until dead. Dead Dead.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
MM.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and
directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Chappell, and others who played in tonight's story
were Les Germaine, Vinton Hayworth, Cameron Prudong and Kermit Murdoch.
Music for Quiet Please, as usual, is composed and played
by Jeane Bresso.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now for the word about next week's Quiet Please. Here
is our writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Next week our story is about a man who couldn't
escape his plate.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It's called Kill Me Again.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And so until next week at the same time, I
am quietly yours, Ernest Chappell. Quiet Please come to you
from New York. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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