August 16, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chapel.
Quiet Please for tonight is called The Hat, The Bed
and John J.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Catherine.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
When I talk to you about John J. Catherine, I
am talking about me. I've gone in the more battles about.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
My last name.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I've had to make it clear to at least four
million people that Catherine is my last name, not my first.
And in the process I've accumulated more numerous contusions, fractures,
superficial abrasions, black eyes, and bloody noses, and can readily
become by one person. So I disregard my personal adventures
in the field of fisticus for a moment, and to
tune your shell like ear to the singular story of the.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hat and the Bed and Me.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
However, don't get carried away to the extent of thinking
of me as Kitty or Kate or any of the
other diminutives of my last name, or I am quite
likely to wrap you smartly over the scans with a
stage brace.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I must prefer, if you must.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Be familiar, to be addressed by my usual sobriquet of gentlemen, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
However, I am just as happy when you call me
mister Catherine. Just wanted to make myself perfectly clear.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
My profession is out of a stage hand. To continue
our brief gander of my personal history and to orient
you somewhat concerning myself. I've carried a card in the
IATs ever since the actors strike, which more or less
dates me as a matter of fact, and strictly.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Between you and I as me.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
There was a time when I entertained certain ambitions myself.
When I left Rockford as a young man valedictorian of
my class at Rockford High I studied with Christenson in
Chicago for four months. Dan the lamented Thomas wood Stevens
once said that I had legs like Bert Lightell's. And
(02:22):
though I have devoted my energies to another phase of
the theater for lo these many years, I am still
able to offer slight competition to these young upstarts who
people is stage to day. Indeed, I very often linger
after an evening performance to try my slightly decrepit wings
alone in the house at midnight. Nay, I will win
(02:43):
my wager better yet and show more signs of her obedience,
her new built virtue and obedience.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
See where she.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Comes and brings your froward wives as prisoners to her
womanly persuasion. By there's a wench, come and kiss me,
Kates the boy. Timing of the Shuack five, Scene two,
Patricia speaking to Catherine, and I could go on for
three days.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Before you go on for three days, mister Catherine, suppose
you step over here and give these boys a handle
with the scenery for the next act. Huh? And make
it snappy, mister Cattrick. That, oh boy, mister.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Ketty two too solid flesh wooden melts have that one?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Seemed to John Cathern been telling you how it have
Wadam and Grand Rappers if he'd stuck to his first love,
the theater. Don't you listen to it first time? You
know what? Have you talked into angeling a production of
Sakespeare in repertory in Somebody's cow Barn for the summer,
starring John J. Catherine as King Lear, Macbeth, Shylock and
assorted kings Henry And I'm not going to let anybody
(03:45):
spoil the best stage hand I ever saw to make
a fourth rade Ham actor out of him? Not that
he isn't a fourth right ham actor already means I'm
Evelyn Pearce. I produce plays and things, and I think
John j and hates my viser. I don't mean to
be mean to John.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I like him.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
We'll got work to do putting on a play. And
that's the stage n's business. Hello John back so quickly,
Miss Pearce.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I quit.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
A june or positively the last final, definitive time, Miss Pierce,
I quit.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I am done. I resign. I won't take it up
at the union.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That need be.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But I am unequivocably. Is that it, Honey, equivocably resign?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Is that clear? Miss Pears?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Why?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
John? But why?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you please?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's said presser.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Man, that unspeakable man that goes around putting things on things,
Flowers on tables and telephone books on stands, candle sticks.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
On the metal. He puts my hat on the bed.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And so Miss Pierce, I unequivocably this sign it is so.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Fare you well?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Where you're going?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
John?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I said? I quit, mister, where are you going? I'm
going to the magicians.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'm going, Miss Piers, to the morticians to talk about
certain details. Funeral miss a funeral, John, my funerals peers.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I don't quite understand you, John, Miss peers, are you
unaware that a hat placed on a bed is a
sure sign of death?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Please omit the flowers, Miss Pears.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I wish you people would, oh John Cassin.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Miss Pears. But you no, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Did I wake you up?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
John?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Is there something I do for you? Yes, ma'am? Yes,
Miss Pierce, Oh god, I was teaching you. There you
were to sleep. I was hope tired. I didn't get
much sleep last night. No, not the night before either.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Sleep that knits up the reveled sleeve of care like
bath actors seem to.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That's kind offit Act two seemed three.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It scares me?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What scares you?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Like that sleep? I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm
so sleepy.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So can I do something for you? John?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I could tell you about my dream?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
John, Really, I'm afraid, so am I.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Something's got to be done. You want me to do something?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
You mean you want to come back to work, John,
I want to tell you about my dream, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, come on.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
In, Well, thank you, sit down, John, thank you? Will
I a cigarette?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Cigarette?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
John? I don't smoke miss peers. Oh, yes, I forgot well,
I hardly know where to begin.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I haven't got much time.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I know, never do I go ahead?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
John? Well, the hat you know, and the bed.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It's only a superstitis, that's what people say. I didn't
know you were superstitious.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh, I don't know whether I am or not. I'm
so sleepy all the time. I can't remember things.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I don't know what I don't know now see here, John, Yes, ma'am,
I'm just afraid of dying.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are you afraid of dying? This piece I've never thought
of its specialists.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I don't want to die, you see, I know
what it's like kind.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Of now, John, If that's all, I was really.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Scared when I love the fair last night, I really
didn't call up a mortician to arrange things, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I couldn't get him on the PHO.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So after a while I lay down, as one who
wraps the drapery of his couch about.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Him and lie down to peaceful dreams sanatosas William Cullen Dryer.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I thank you, But I didn't dream peacefully or unpeacefully.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
But you said you do, Oh, ma'am. I just went
to sleep.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But you said you dreamed, John, You said you want
to tell me your dream, that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
When I woke up, it was real late, really late,
I mean very late.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It was dark, black dock. I could hardly see.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The light from the window, couldn't see it all, as
a matter of fact, black dark.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I was so thirsty I had to have a
drink of water. My mouth was just parched.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Sleeping with your mouth open, I suppose. Well, after a while,
I couldn't stand it any longer, so I got up.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Now, the bathroom's here, you see.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
My bed is like this, and the dresser's over here,
and there's a chair.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I got up, and I couldn't find the light switch.
I knew I could find my way in the dock
to the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
All right, and I did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I got my drink of water, and my goodness, it
tasted good, and then I started back to bed. When
I came back, the bed was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There wasn't any bed, There wasn't any chair where I
knew the chair was, and.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The dresser was gone too. There wasn't anything in the room.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
John, you were dreaming.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Oh, I wasn't dreaming.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I wandered around there in the dock for ever so long.
There wasn't anything in the room. I tell you, my
gracious Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I can walk three steps from my bathroom door right
to the edge of my bed.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's a little low bed. I'd bump it with my knee.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Is a little room, Miss Pierce. You can't walk around
there in the light without bumby in or something chair
or the dresser, the bed, or the little table I
forgot for I keep my collect the place of Shakespeare
right kind of by my bed, where the light is.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I couldn't find the light. I couldn't find any light.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And I don't understand it, John, because.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Of the hat on the bed.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Or John, that's right, that's because you had a bad dream.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Wasn't a dream?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You said you wanted to tell.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Me your dream the only way I could think to
describe it. But it wasn't a dream, just.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
A big empty place, dark, black, dark empty.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've been very badly frightened, Miss Piers.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What happened when you wake up?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
John, I wasn't asleep.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It wasn't a dream.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It was a kind of preview of death, Miss Piers.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh no, John, a dream. Now, don't sit there and
shake your head John, I've had dreams like that myself,
extraordinarily vivid dreams that leave me wondering when I wake
up whether I John, you're not listening to me. Well,
you're not going to sleep in my house now, I
won't go.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To sleep, Miss Piers, afraid to go to sleep, afraid
of dreaming.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I don't know what I'm afraid of. Well, John, I
don't smoke from spears. I forgot. It's all right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, it is an extraordinary experience, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, I I mean, well, why did you come to
tell me about it? I mean, I'll be glad you
have to go back to work if you want to.
You want to do that?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, No, I don't think so. I I just wanted
to tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I mean, especially John.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh gracious, don't you know?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
John? A very flattered?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Really?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And you know I don't know you were there?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I was there. Yes, I've never heard anything so absurd
in all my life.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
How was I doing this in the dark? What were
you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Why?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I don't know what you would do? You were just there?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Now, John, that's absurd. How do you know I was there?
You said it was dark, you couldn't see anything. You, John,
I don't know what you're talking about, your drunker.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't drink mispach.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And I wasn't at your house, you know perfectly well.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I wasn't at my house, I said. I came out
of the bathroom and I thought it was my room,
but it wasn't. It was just a great, big, dark
empty space.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
By last night, I went right home from the theater,
you know, And and I went to bed.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Like when you saw the hat on the bed, and
you came to me and said, you quit.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Of course last night, John, it was Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You quit?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
What three days ago? Not last night? Three days ago, John.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Three days ago?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Where have you been for three days? John? Why?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Why? Yes, I've been dead, John.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I think you'd better get this.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What are you staring at?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You got your hat on the bed.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
All right, John, Come on, come on where.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I'm gonna take.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
My hat off the bed?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Late now, too late.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh, stop that nonsense. I'm gonna put all my hat
and get back to the theater that play I'm trying
to do and die the dead. Come on, you go
back with me, go back to where if you want
to see.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I've got my hat.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Time to go, John, something will.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Happen to Christmas Pears get run over by attacking.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Don't talk that?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh stop it, Catherine Pierce.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No, I don't like to be called by my last
name sometimes I'm not sure whether that's your last name.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Or your current you're to me that way, miss Pears?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
All right, then stop acting like an old maiden.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Come along you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Just stop talking nonsense then and come on with me.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Come eh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I said?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Are you coming with me? No? I'm not coming John.
You're not going either.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Now, Love, this is really why aren't you? I'm afraid
but you're not going to stay here?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Please?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No, come on, now, get up.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And come with me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Won't you go either?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
John? Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm afraid?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What am I going to do with you?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
The hat on the bed that was his time of
death for me, and I died a little the other
nights whenever.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
It was you had a bad dream.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now your hat was on the bed. That's a kind
of death for you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's ridiculous you're going to do now, John, I've listened
just about everything. I'm going to listen to you. Just
get up out of that chair and come on. No, yes, please, John,
would you like it if I left you here.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, look John, it's had passed too.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
When I've gone to be at the theater at three. Here,
I'll put this nice pillow into your head. I won't
that be nice and comfortable? John, you're Johnny cass You'll
be all right. You just stay there nice in the
big chair, and I'll go to the theater. Then i'll
come back.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You'll see, we'll just kill me, of course I won't.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I'll be all right, Johnny Casson, and you'll be all
right too. Right here, go on, go to sleep, Johnson,
poor guys. All on now, when you sleep, boy, i'll
be back around ten o'clock. John, good, heavens this quarter
to three already? Oh darn, I won't answer it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Oh I'm late already, I tell you, all.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Right, all right, all right, yeso Tony, Yes, I'm on
my way to the theaters. I've got a minute to talk. Yeah, yes,
if i'll be home about ten, I hope. Matter of fact,
I think you're better. I'll tell you when I see you.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, it's here. It's a house. Well, I might have.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Somebody I want you to get rid of. Wait, No,
he's just sleep.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
No, I'm not living a Life from sin. This is
one of the stage ads from the John J. Catherine
no less, that's tries to distinguished Shakespearean actor and quarter.
I don't know pot it I think or else that
he's losing.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
His buttons too much?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
King learra I guess. Oh no, I'm leaving him here
to sleep it off. Oh, hats on a bed, all
that stuff. We'se all right now as long as I'm
not here. Look, Tony, I'm late. Supposed you to meet
me here at the house around ten.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
If he's still here, I'll let you throw a buck.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I'm gonna run, goodbye. I'll see you tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Bye, you all right?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
John Cassy, you sleep, Josh, poor fella. M m oh
(17:21):
h oh that's thirsty. What time is it? Quarter? Quarter?
Do I can't read? My watch wears all the lights?
Where do I get a drink of water? We'll take
nothing the blankets? Hey, where's missus?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Peers?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Miss trust a pendant but like a powl.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Like a punnet, like a cape on missars?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh yes, yes, she went up. What am I doing here? Oh?
I remember, I'm gracious.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have to get out of here before she comes back.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
My mouth. You shouldn't have had those cocktails before I
came over here. I should know I can't drink. What
I need is a big cold drink of water. Yeah.
Nice place you got here, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Nice place you got although I can't say I like philodendrons.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Where's your kitchen? I want to drink of water.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I wish I could find a light that's there. It
is a whole quarter to twelve, it is. I better
be getting out of here after I get a drink. Kitchen,
mighty little kitchen, Nice little kitchen. Now where as the glass, sir,
we have glasses?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Ah, nothing like cold water. H Thank you, Miss Pierce,
Thank you very much, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I find you drinking water excellent.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Although it could be just a spot colder.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I dislike you intensely. I do not love THEE doctor Fellow.
Reason why I cannot tell, but this I know and
know ful well. I do not love THEE Miss Pierce.
I don't know why he's not in my mind. In
the mind of John Jay captured my friends who might
be the idol of millions and eight billions if Miss
Evelyn Pierced, the eminent producer would give them a chance
to tread the bud may tread the boards, tread the boards,
(19:38):
and sock and muskin hand me my sock ballet. I
pready trust my points and I will reward you with
a cup of sack, a couple of sack, sack of cups.
Trust my points, whatever that is one, but I will
reward you with.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
A couple of sack. Yeah, sir Walter Scott must have
been a little stiffly.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Robett Nows looked upon the wine when it is red,
thou wast looked upon it when it bite is like
a serpent and sting it like an adding machine.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, and I are very funny this night, Sir John J.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Catherine, albeit a playful corny say, I've got to get
my large bulky concress out of here before miss Pears
comes back or else Miss Pears and I will get
in the fight and then I will get my job back,
much less get a job as a broad jedder and
sock and buskin.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Remind me to ask miss Pierce what is a buskin?
I know what a soak is, Miss Pears.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
The stock is what I'm going to give you in
your pretty teeth if you don't stop being so mean
to me, To Sir John J.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Catherine, the sock and buskin man.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
From Rockford, Illinois, he had not to mention, for sooth
pisanio my head hangeth over.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I am now I'm drunk.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Well, they would my fare and care the middling friendly
withold it. Thou would speel to me whether this bell
dam had perchance a small flagon of bourbon concealed honor
about the premises, For I would drink of same and
restore myself.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
An yeah, is there no way?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Is Pierre Louis, as the little girls say to Demetrius,
is it no bourbon but drink is stop Pierce.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
No scotch, no creme vet, no vintage whine, no ha ha,
I see you, I see you.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
John Jamieson's excellent potstool, product of which our miss Pierce
will miss, not a jotteridle out of a bottle which
I will tipple.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Thank you, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You have a regrettable habit of leaving hats and beds.
But here's to you, Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Het is meat and drink.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Not to mention pie in the sky, see miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
No mademoiselle Pierce out here, remarked in his flawless bench,
flawless flinch Eh, thank you, I will have another dollar
for the same, Miss Pierce. You want delightful obago sacho
cover sack adigatto pier san, He remarked in Florish Japanese.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And for this short snort which will.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Cure my hangover completely, I will say in my florist
devil talk framis on the screamaday. Now I will replace
this somewhat attenuation spot over in which I.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Have received back my body and my soul, reading from.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Left to right, and before I retire into the stilly night,
I will favor this large and intelligent audience with a
selection from the bad not Ben Bard. He is a comic,
the Bard of Avon, situated by an not coincidence hard
by the banks of the river Stratford, or vice versus.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
The case may be in sunny England, which I will
favor you with a large jagged hunker.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Shakespeare or as my ancient and deceased friend, what was
his name in the shops three many many years ago,
as want to say Jack Spear Russian for Shakespeare. I
crave your at ten, signed mister jan Jay Catherine as Macbeth.
(23:26):
Is this dagger which I see before me, the handle
toward my hand. Come, let me clutch THEE.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I have THEE not and yet I see THEE. Still
art thou not fatal visions? Sensible?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
The feeling is the sight orta but a dagger of
the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat depressive brain.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I see THEE yet inform ast palpable as this, which
now I draw? The lights went out? Where's the lights?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
This Pierce?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Turn on the light? Miss Peers isn't here? Where's miss Pierce?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm going to get out of here. Miss Pierce. You
come in your nice house in the dock? Find me
hero full of your linger? Here? Where's the door? You
can't find the door? I can't find w is the chair?
Where's the door? Miss Piers? Here's Miss Piers? And washed
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again in the top. Miss Pierce has happened again. You
did it to me this time, Miss Pears.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
You put your hat on the bed and you made
a dock in your house too, Miss Pears.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Time loss. This is no grim, Miss Piers? Where are you?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Very high?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Where's the door?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Here's the doll?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Where does the goat?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I know where this door goes? This is the door
that mis pears go? No, where did it he went?
And you put your hat on the bed?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You did?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You put your hat on the bed. You put your
hat in the bed. That's a sign of death. Miss
Pierce is putting your hat on the bed. I can't
see you.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I know where I am now.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh, I am so scared. Never mind, miss Pierce, I
know where I am. Now. There's a chair. Hellow chair.
There's a little table, good evening. Little table is a dog.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I beg your pardon, table and I'm all right now,
Miss Pearce, howell get out just as soon as I
can find.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
The door in the darkness. Pas Oh, how I hate
miss Pierce. I'm going. Oh, here's the bed, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
The bed?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The bed, Miss Piers, that's where you threw your hat.
Hat on the bed. Sign of death.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Only Pierce.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I guess I'll just night. I'm taking the rest. Wait, well,
your hat's still here in the bed, Miss Pierce. Sign
of death. Miss Pierce leaving her head in the bed,
sign of death for sure, silly old miss Pierce leaving
her hat on the bed.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Why miss Pierce, you left your head inside your hat?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The title of tonight's Quiet Please story is The Hats,
the Bed and John Jay Catherine.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell, and
Miss Pierce was played by Nancy Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
As usual, and music for Quiet pleases by Albert Burman.
Well A worried about next week's Quiet Please yours our
right a director, my good friend Willis Cooper.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Okay, Bill, thank you for listening to Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Next week's star is called La fill yoshived Lain, the
Girl of the Flax and the Hair.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And so until next week, I love for yoshevid. I
am glad that yours Ernest chum A listening reminder.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
United America makes us strong America. That's why each of
us should work to rid our community of racial and
religious prejudice. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chapel.
Quiet Please for tonight is called The Hat, The Bed
and John J.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Catherine.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
When I talk to you about John J. Catherine, I
am talking about me. I've gone in the more battles about.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
My last name.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I've had to make it clear to at least four
million people that Catherine is my last name, not my first.
And in the process I've accumulated more numerous contusions, fractures,
superficial abrasions, black eyes, and bloody noses, and can readily
become by one person. So I disregard my personal adventures
in the field of fisticus for a moment, and to
tune your shell like ear to the singular story of the.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hat and the Bed and Me.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
However, don't get carried away to the extent of thinking
of me as Kitty or Kate or any of the
other diminutives of my last name, or I am quite
likely to wrap you smartly over the scans with a
stage brace.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I must prefer, if you must.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Be familiar, to be addressed by my usual sobriquet of gentlemen, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
However, I am just as happy when you call me
mister Catherine. Just wanted to make myself perfectly clear.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
My profession is out of a stage hand. To continue
our brief gander of my personal history and to orient
you somewhat concerning myself. I've carried a card in the
IATs ever since the actors strike, which more or less
dates me as a matter of fact, and strictly.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Between you and I as me.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
There was a time when I entertained certain ambitions myself.
When I left Rockford as a young man valedictorian of
my class at Rockford High I studied with Christenson in
Chicago for four months. Dan the lamented Thomas wood Stevens
once said that I had legs like Bert Lightell's. And
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though I have devoted my energies to another phase of
the theater for lo these many years, I am still
able to offer slight competition to these young upstarts who
people is stage to day. Indeed, I very often linger
after an evening performance to try my slightly decrepit wings
alone in the house at midnight. Nay, I will win
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my wager better yet and show more signs of her obedience,
her new built virtue and obedience.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
See where she.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Comes and brings your froward wives as prisoners to her
womanly persuasion. By there's a wench, come and kiss me,
Kates the boy. Timing of the Shuack five, Scene two,
Patricia speaking to Catherine, and I could go on for
three days.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Before you go on for three days, mister Catherine, suppose
you step over here and give these boys a handle
with the scenery for the next act. Huh? And make
it snappy, mister Cattrick. That, oh boy, mister.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Ketty two too solid flesh wooden melts have that one?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Seemed to John Cathern been telling you how it have
Wadam and Grand Rappers if he'd stuck to his first love,
the theater. Don't you listen to it first time? You
know what? Have you talked into angeling a production of
Sakespeare in repertory in Somebody's cow Barn for the summer,
starring John J. Catherine as King Lear, Macbeth, Shylock and
assorted kings Henry And I'm not going to let anybody
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spoil the best stage hand I ever saw to make
a fourth rade Ham actor out of him? Not that
he isn't a fourth right ham actor already means I'm
Evelyn Pearce. I produce plays and things, and I think
John j and hates my viser. I don't mean to
be mean to John.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I like him.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
We'll got work to do putting on a play. And
that's the stage n's business. Hello John back so quickly,
Miss Pearce.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I quit.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
A june or positively the last final, definitive time, Miss Pierce,
I quit.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I am done. I resign. I won't take it up
at the union.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That need be.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But I am unequivocably. Is that it, Honey, equivocably resign?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Is that clear? Miss Pears?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Why?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
John? But why?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you please?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's said presser.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Man, that unspeakable man that goes around putting things on things,
Flowers on tables and telephone books on stands, candle sticks.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
On the metal. He puts my hat on the bed.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And so Miss Pierce, I unequivocably this sign it is so.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Fare you well?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Where you're going?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
John?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I said? I quit, mister, where are you going? I'm
going to the magicians.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'm going, Miss Piers, to the morticians to talk about
certain details. Funeral miss a funeral, John, my funerals peers.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I don't quite understand you, John, Miss peers, are you
unaware that a hat placed on a bed is a
sure sign of death?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Please omit the flowers, Miss Pears.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I wish you people would, oh John Cassin.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Miss Pears. But you no, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Did I wake you up?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
John?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Is there something I do for you? Yes, ma'am? Yes,
Miss Pierce, Oh god, I was teaching you. There you
were to sleep. I was hope tired. I didn't get
much sleep last night. No, not the night before either.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Sleep that knits up the reveled sleeve of care like
bath actors seem to.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That's kind offit Act two seemed three.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It scares me?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What scares you?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Like that sleep? I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm
so sleepy.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So can I do something for you? John?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I could tell you about my dream?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
John, Really, I'm afraid, so am I.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Something's got to be done. You want me to do something?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
You mean you want to come back to work, John,
I want to tell you about my dream, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, come on.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
In, Well, thank you, sit down, John, thank you? Will
I a cigarette?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Cigarette?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
John? I don't smoke miss peers. Oh, yes, I forgot well,
I hardly know where to begin.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I haven't got much time.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I know, never do I go ahead?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
John? Well, the hat you know, and the bed.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It's only a superstitis, that's what people say. I didn't
know you were superstitious.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh, I don't know whether I am or not. I'm
so sleepy all the time. I can't remember things.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I don't know what I don't know now see here, John, Yes, ma'am,
I'm just afraid of dying.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are you afraid of dying? This piece I've never thought
of its specialists.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I don't want to die, you see, I know
what it's like kind.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Of now, John, If that's all, I was really.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Scared when I love the fair last night, I really
didn't call up a mortician to arrange things, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I couldn't get him on the PHO.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So after a while I lay down, as one who
wraps the drapery of his couch about.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Him and lie down to peaceful dreams sanatosas William Cullen Dryer.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I thank you, But I didn't dream peacefully or unpeacefully.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
But you said you do, Oh, ma'am. I just went
to sleep.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But you said you dreamed, John, You said you want
to tell me your dream, that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
When I woke up, it was real late, really late,
I mean very late.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It was dark, black dock. I could hardly see.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The light from the window, couldn't see it all, as
a matter of fact, black dark.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I was so thirsty I had to have a
drink of water. My mouth was just parched.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Sleeping with your mouth open, I suppose. Well, after a while,
I couldn't stand it any longer, so I got up.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Now, the bathroom's here, you see.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
My bed is like this, and the dresser's over here,
and there's a chair.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I got up, and I couldn't find the light switch.
I knew I could find my way in the dock
to the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
All right, and I did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I got my drink of water, and my goodness, it
tasted good, and then I started back to bed. When
I came back, the bed was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There wasn't any bed, There wasn't any chair where I
knew the chair was, and.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The dresser was gone too. There wasn't anything in the room.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
John, you were dreaming.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Oh, I wasn't dreaming.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I wandered around there in the dock for ever so long.
There wasn't anything in the room. I tell you, my
gracious Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I can walk three steps from my bathroom door right
to the edge of my bed.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's a little low bed. I'd bump it with my knee.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Is a little room, Miss Pierce. You can't walk around
there in the light without bumby in or something chair
or the dresser, the bed, or the little table I
forgot for I keep my collect the place of Shakespeare
right kind of by my bed, where the light is.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I couldn't find the light. I couldn't find any light.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And I don't understand it, John, because.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Of the hat on the bed.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Or John, that's right, that's because you had a bad dream.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Wasn't a dream?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You said you wanted to tell.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Me your dream the only way I could think to
describe it. But it wasn't a dream, just.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
A big empty place, dark, black, dark empty.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've been very badly frightened, Miss Piers.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What happened when you wake up?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
John, I wasn't asleep.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It wasn't a dream.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It was a kind of preview of death, Miss Piers.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh no, John, a dream. Now, don't sit there and
shake your head John, I've had dreams like that myself,
extraordinarily vivid dreams that leave me wondering when I wake
up whether I John, you're not listening to me. Well,
you're not going to sleep in my house now, I
won't go.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To sleep, Miss Piers, afraid to go to sleep, afraid
of dreaming.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I don't know what I'm afraid of. Well, John, I
don't smoke from spears. I forgot. It's all right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, it is an extraordinary experience, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, I I mean, well, why did you come to
tell me about it? I mean, I'll be glad you
have to go back to work if you want to.
You want to do that?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, No, I don't think so. I I just wanted
to tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I mean, especially John.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh gracious, don't you know?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
John? A very flattered?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Really?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And you know I don't know you were there?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I was there. Yes, I've never heard anything so absurd
in all my life.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
How was I doing this in the dark? What were
you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Why?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I don't know what you would do? You were just there?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Now, John, that's absurd. How do you know I was there?
You said it was dark, you couldn't see anything. You, John,
I don't know what you're talking about, your drunker.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't drink mispach.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And I wasn't at your house, you know perfectly well.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I wasn't at my house, I said. I came out
of the bathroom and I thought it was my room,
but it wasn't. It was just a great, big, dark
empty space.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
By last night, I went right home from the theater,
you know, And and I went to bed.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Like when you saw the hat on the bed, and
you came to me and said, you quit.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Of course last night, John, it was Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You quit?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
What three days ago? Not last night? Three days ago, John.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Three days ago?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Where have you been for three days? John? Why?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Why? Yes, I've been dead, John.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I think you'd better get this.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
What are you staring at?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You got your hat on the bed.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
All right, John, Come on, come on where.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I'm gonna take.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
My hat off the bed?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Late now, too late.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh, stop that nonsense. I'm gonna put all my hat
and get back to the theater that play I'm trying
to do and die the dead. Come on, you go
back with me, go back to where if you want
to see.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I've got my hat.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Time to go, John, something will.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Happen to Christmas Pears get run over by attacking.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Don't talk that?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh stop it, Catherine Pierce.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No, I don't like to be called by my last
name sometimes I'm not sure whether that's your last name.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Or your current you're to me that way, miss Pears?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
All right, then stop acting like an old maiden.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Come along you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Just stop talking nonsense then and come on with me.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Come eh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I said?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Are you coming with me? No? I'm not coming John.
You're not going either.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Now, Love, this is really why aren't you? I'm afraid
but you're not going to stay here?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Please?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No, come on, now, get up.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And come with me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Won't you go either?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
John? Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm afraid?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What am I going to do with you?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
The hat on the bed that was his time of
death for me, and I died a little the other
nights whenever.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
It was you had a bad dream.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now your hat was on the bed. That's a kind
of death for you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That's ridiculous you're going to do now, John, I've listened
just about everything. I'm going to listen to you. Just
get up out of that chair and come on. No, yes, please, John,
would you like it if I left you here.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, look John, it's had passed too.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
When I've gone to be at the theater at three. Here,
I'll put this nice pillow into your head. I won't
that be nice and comfortable? John, you're Johnny cass You'll
be all right. You just stay there nice in the
big chair, and I'll go to the theater. Then i'll
come back.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You'll see, we'll just kill me, of course I won't.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I'll be all right, Johnny Casson, and you'll be all
right too. Right here, go on, go to sleep, Johnson,
poor guys. All on now, when you sleep, boy, i'll
be back around ten o'clock. John, good, heavens this quarter
to three already? Oh darn, I won't answer it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Oh I'm late already, I tell you, all.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Right, all right, all right, yeso Tony, Yes, I'm on
my way to the theaters. I've got a minute to talk. Yeah, yes,
if i'll be home about ten, I hope. Matter of fact,
I think you're better. I'll tell you when I see you.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, it's here. It's a house. Well, I might have.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Somebody I want you to get rid of. Wait, No,
he's just sleep.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
No, I'm not living a Life from sin. This is
one of the stage ads from the John J. Catherine
no less, that's tries to distinguished Shakespearean actor and quarter.
I don't know pot it I think or else that
he's losing.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
His buttons too much?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
King learra I guess. Oh no, I'm leaving him here
to sleep it off. Oh, hats on a bed, all
that stuff. We'se all right now as long as I'm
not here. Look, Tony, I'm late. Supposed you to meet
me here at the house around ten.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
If he's still here, I'll let you throw a buck.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I'm gonna run, goodbye. I'll see you tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Bye, you all right?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
John Cassy, you sleep, Josh, poor fella. M m oh
(17:21):
h oh that's thirsty. What time is it? Quarter? Quarter?
Do I can't read? My watch wears all the lights?
Where do I get a drink of water? We'll take
nothing the blankets? Hey, where's missus?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Peers?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Miss trust a pendant but like a powl.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Like a punnet, like a cape on missars?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh yes, yes, she went up. What am I doing here? Oh?
I remember, I'm gracious.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have to get out of here before she comes back.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
My mouth. You shouldn't have had those cocktails before I
came over here. I should know I can't drink. What
I need is a big cold drink of water. Yeah.
Nice place you got here, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Nice place you got although I can't say I like philodendrons.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Where's your kitchen? I want to drink of water.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I wish I could find a light that's there. It
is a whole quarter to twelve, it is. I better
be getting out of here after I get a drink. Kitchen,
mighty little kitchen, Nice little kitchen. Now where as the glass, sir,
we have glasses?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Ah, nothing like cold water. H Thank you, Miss Pierce,
Thank you very much, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I find you drinking water excellent.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Although it could be just a spot colder.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I dislike you intensely. I do not love THEE doctor Fellow.
Reason why I cannot tell, but this I know and
know ful well. I do not love THEE Miss Pierce.
I don't know why he's not in my mind. In
the mind of John Jay captured my friends who might
be the idol of millions and eight billions if Miss
Evelyn Pierced, the eminent producer would give them a chance
to tread the bud may tread the boards, tread the boards,
(19:38):
and sock and muskin hand me my sock ballet. I
pready trust my points and I will reward you with
a cup of sack, a couple of sack, sack of cups.
Trust my points, whatever that is one, but I will
reward you with.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
A couple of sack. Yeah, sir Walter Scott must have
been a little stiffly.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Robett Nows looked upon the wine when it is red,
thou wast looked upon it when it bite is like
a serpent and sting it like an adding machine.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, and I are very funny this night, Sir John J.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Catherine, albeit a playful corny say, I've got to get
my large bulky concress out of here before miss Pears
comes back or else Miss Pears and I will get
in the fight and then I will get my job back,
much less get a job as a broad jedder and
sock and buskin.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Remind me to ask miss Pierce what is a buskin?
I know what a soak is, Miss Pears.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
The stock is what I'm going to give you in
your pretty teeth if you don't stop being so mean
to me, To Sir John J.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Catherine, the sock and buskin man.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
From Rockford, Illinois, he had not to mention, for sooth
pisanio my head hangeth over.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I am now I'm drunk.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Well, they would my fare and care the middling friendly
withold it. Thou would speel to me whether this bell
dam had perchance a small flagon of bourbon concealed honor
about the premises, For I would drink of same and
restore myself.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
An yeah, is there no way?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Is Pierre Louis, as the little girls say to Demetrius,
is it no bourbon but drink is stop Pierce.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
No scotch, no creme vet, no vintage whine, no ha ha,
I see you, I see you.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
John Jamieson's excellent potstool, product of which our miss Pierce
will miss, not a jotteridle out of a bottle which
I will tipple.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Thank you, Miss Pierce.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You have a regrettable habit of leaving hats and beds.
But here's to you, Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Het is meat and drink.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Not to mention pie in the sky, see miss Pierce.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
No mademoiselle Pierce out here, remarked in his flawless bench,
flawless flinch Eh, thank you, I will have another dollar
for the same, Miss Pierce. You want delightful obago sacho
cover sack adigatto pier san, He remarked in Florish Japanese.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And for this short snort which will.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Cure my hangover completely, I will say in my florist
devil talk framis on the screamaday. Now I will replace
this somewhat attenuation spot over in which I.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Have received back my body and my soul, reading from.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Left to right, and before I retire into the stilly night,
I will favor this large and intelligent audience with a
selection from the bad not Ben Bard. He is a comic,
the Bard of Avon, situated by an not coincidence hard
by the banks of the river Stratford, or vice versus.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
The case may be in sunny England, which I will
favor you with a large jagged hunker.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Shakespeare or as my ancient and deceased friend, what was
his name in the shops three many many years ago,
as want to say Jack Spear Russian for Shakespeare. I
crave your at ten, signed mister jan Jay Catherine as Macbeth.
(23:26):
Is this dagger which I see before me, the handle
toward my hand. Come, let me clutch THEE.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I have THEE not and yet I see THEE. Still
art thou not fatal visions? Sensible?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
The feeling is the sight orta but a dagger of
the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat depressive brain.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I see THEE yet inform ast palpable as this, which
now I draw? The lights went out? Where's the lights?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
This Pierce?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Turn on the light? Miss Peers isn't here? Where's miss Pierce?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm going to get out of here. Miss Pierce. You
come in your nice house in the dock? Find me
hero full of your linger? Here? Where's the door? You
can't find the door? I can't find w is the chair?
Where's the door? Miss Piers? Here's Miss Piers? And washed
(24:26):
again in the top. Miss Pierce has happened again. You
did it to me this time, Miss Pears.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
You put your hat on the bed and you made
a dock in your house too, Miss Pears.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Time loss. This is no grim, Miss Piers? Where are you?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Very high?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Where's the door?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Here's the doll?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Where does the goat?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I know where this door goes? This is the door
that mis pears go? No, where did it he went?
And you put your hat on the bed?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You did?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You put your hat on the bed. You put your
hat in the bed. That's a sign of death. Miss
Pierce is putting your hat on the bed. I can't
see you.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I know where I am now.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh, I am so scared. Never mind, miss Pierce, I
know where I am. Now. There's a chair. Hellow chair.
There's a little table, good evening. Little table is a dog.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I beg your pardon, table and I'm all right now,
Miss Pearce, howell get out just as soon as I
can find.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
The door in the darkness. Pas Oh, how I hate
miss Pierce. I'm going. Oh, here's the bed, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
The bed?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The bed, Miss Piers, that's where you threw your hat.
Hat on the bed. Sign of death.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Only Pierce.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I guess I'll just night. I'm taking the rest. Wait, well,
your hat's still here in the bed, Miss Pierce. Sign
of death. Miss Pierce leaving her head in the bed,
sign of death for sure, silly old miss Pierce leaving
her hat on the bed.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Why miss Pierce, you left your head inside your hat?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The title of tonight's Quiet Please story is The Hats,
the Bed and John Jay Catherine.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell, and
Miss Pierce was played by Nancy Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
As usual, and music for Quiet pleases by Albert Burman.
Well A worried about next week's Quiet Please yours our
right a director, my good friend Willis Cooper.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Okay, Bill, thank you for listening to Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Next week's star is called La fill yoshived Lain, the
Girl of the Flax and the Hair.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And so until next week, I love for yoshevid. I
am glad that yours Ernest chum A listening reminder.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
United America makes us strong America. That's why each of
us should work to rid our community of racial and
religious prejudice. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
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