July 31, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
M m m m hm.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest champells Quiet.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Please for tonight is called there are shadows here.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Look at my hands trembling like a belief and there's
nothing I can do to stop it either. Well, if
you've been through what I've been through last week.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Last Wednesday, I commended TAM's bar, I said, I'm a stool.
I say you I the.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Scotch, Miss Patty, Oh hire woody Scotch, Miss Patty Scotch.
Miss Hey, there's a lady in here looking for you? Lady, Yeah,
what kind of scotch? Uh got any glenn living?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This white horse that's sixty nine? Uh, maybe there's a little.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Less than a hagg bottle. Yeah, lady looking for you?
Who was she? I don't know. I never seen her.
Kim told me about her.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
When would she hear?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Patty?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
A while ago?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well? What she want? I don't know? You looking for you?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Scotchmaste? Well did she say what she wanted?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just wanted to that stuff?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Good?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's all right?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Just wondered? I never tasted it? Don't you ever take
a drink? Patty me? Oh, I never take a drink
except ginger beer.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You can't get that anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So how is the little storm jugs Crocks like? Funny
about that woman?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah? I sure used to like ginger beer.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I think Tim said her name.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Was Esther, Esther knowing He asked esther, Esther, esther, something
like that, Esther, huh yeah, Esther, Esther.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Lester.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I don't know you know what? She was good looking?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Tien didn't know what Tim said. He didn't see her face.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
See, you don't know her, well, I don't think so.
It's funny, Dave.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You learn another of them things. Yeah, I'll have another.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh sure, I wish I could get some ginger beer.
Used to drink it up in Canada wilbera hotel in Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Drink it to the court. I wonder who could have been?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh the woman that was looking for me.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Scutch me.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Thanks Esther huh yeah, that's what Tim said.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know any esther.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Well, she knows Joe Woody. She said, that's your minute.
Sure I could give her your phone number? Oh no,
don't do that. Okay, if she comes in again. Tell
her to leave her phone number. I could call her up. Yeah,
I'll tell Tim. Hey, Yeah, how come Tim didn't see
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her face?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Patty?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh, it's always darkened him always shatterers in here? Oh
shatters such a nuts sometimes? Yeah, yeah, good thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't drink nothing but ginger beer, even if I
could get it. You drink these here shatters? Such a nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's darken here?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh that Tim? Look at them? Shattered? Would he? The ut?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There one in the corner by the cannibal's head. Don't
it look like the cannibal's head is making faces at you?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Look now?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, yeah, it looks funny.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean here all along. If putting near sets me nuts, yea,
there's one there by the second booth you see, looks
like a big black cat.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You got a terrific imagination, Paddy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
There's one under the bar.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Every time I stoop down to pick up a beer glass,
I jump, looks like a hand reaching out for me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It makes me junk.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Hello to say it's a good thing you don't drink
nothing but ginger beer.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I go nuts. Well, I'm gonna get out of here
before I.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Go nuts too, Okay, uh dollar thirty and dying for you. Paddy, Oh,
looks obliged if she comes in again. I'm telling you
I was here.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Every place you go.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
When I say that was next Wednesday. The things that
can happen in less than a week with my hands,
I can't stop shaking Patty and his shadows.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I said to.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Myself, I'm not going to Tims anymore. That the bar
in the hotel where I can drink my Scotch miss and.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Not have him mumbling in my ear all the time.
I got to thinking about shadows though myself. I was
sitting in the Italian place, waiting for mysaya and stuff,
and wondering if I should order a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
There was a candle on the table, there was a
little draft in the room, the plane was.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Jumping up and down. And the shadows on the wall.
It doesn't take much imagination to see things and shadows,
does it? Game?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Everybody? Please, you want a little bit of advice, though, friend,
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Huh Oh, I'll tell you first thing I found myself
making shadows.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
On the wall with my hands. A rabbit, old man
waggling his beard.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh, now, I get fascinated with that kind of stuff.
Wait a minus, I thought I was crazy. I know
he didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I jumped up and knocked the table on my dishes.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Hey, hey, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Mister?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You see what made that shadow?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
What a shadow? I see you making with the hands
from the shadows on the wall.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I didn't make that shadow?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
What a shadow?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You talk? There was a shadow of a woman there?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You talk of crazy, mister.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
There wasn't to be no woman here for two weeks,
but not since Esther got a mad and quip esther.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Who she?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
She's a waitress here the last week and this quipped.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
The bonds are saying is not gonna have a knowing
woman in this place, and never especially.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I ordered a bottle of wine and I drank it
because I'm telling you I did see the shadow of
a woman's head on the wall next to me. And
I'm also telling you I didn't have anything to do
with it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All right, think whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I tell you I saw it, and Esther too. Now
what do you think of that? My friend? Well, let
me go on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I went home.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I went to bed.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sure, of course I gained about shadows.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
What don't you expect?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, I I live in a hotel, as I said,
all by myself in a little room on the eighth floor.
I didn't think I was gonna get to sleep, but
I did.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I read a while.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I left the light on in the bathroom, didn't go
for the dock. You see, I woke up in the
middle of the night, thirsty from all that wine I drank.
I started get up and go to the bathroom for
a drink of water. As I sat up in bed, see,
there was a square of light on the wall opposite
my bed from the bathroom light. And right in the
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middle of that patch of light there was a shadow,
the shadow of a woman, just stand there, not the moving,
just standing there. I was scared, and the darn was
stuck coming into my mind. Scared as I was, I
didn't get out of bed at first, I just sat
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there and I said, Esther. There wasn't any answer, and
I tried it again, Esther, ever, feel your hair actually
stand on end?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And it does?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All right, mind did, and I managed to speak again.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I said, what do you want, Ester, did you come
with someone?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And the shadow sort of straights out its arms to
me in a gesture that was like a little girl.
And yeah, it wasn't it was. I don't know how
to say it, like like someone who was in.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Love with me, someone someone that I loved.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I can't explain it. I got up and threw my
robe around me, and I walked toward the light. The
shadow moved too, and moved toward the door of the room,
the door of that they got into the hall. The
shadow's hands touched the doorknob. I'd love to see what
it was it was casting the shadow? Can I tell
you I was alone in that room, Yes, sir, I
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I was alone in the room. I turned back to
the door just as the shadow seemed that kind of
melt into the wood. Men seemed to go on through
the locked door, and I reached for the door and
opened it. The shadow was moving down the hall, toward
the stairway, beyond the dot of the elevators. And there
wasn't a soul in the hallway, I tell you there wasn't.
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The halls brought me lighted, and all there was was
this woman's shadow gliding away from me along the wall.
I stood there with my mouth hanging open. Just as
as the shadow reached the end of the hall, it
stopped and put out its arms again, and you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Come with me.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And I slammed the door shut, turned all the other
lights in my room off, and I stuck my head
on the coal shower.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was scared of that.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And you know what, there was a smell of perfume
in the room. Russia letter. I remember that from a
girl I used to know in New York that they
had always used it. I believe me, whether I haven't
gotten he rushed another perfume in my room, but I
smelled it. Playing well, all right, maybe somebody's playing tricks
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on me. But if you can tell me how to
play that one, brother, I'll put in with you.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I was riding down on the elevator the next morning
with Franky, the wise kid that runs the car.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You know what he did?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Listen, Hey, Woodie, huh you stay swell?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
What perfume? I didn't know that about you? What are
you talking about?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
M Sure smells expensive? Whyn't you got it?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You try to kid me? Franky?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Oh goodness no, And I could smell it myself. Then
Russia leather. Well, I don't know why I ever go
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to TNS. It's doc in there and Patty, now you
know Patty Hey gets you down, mumbling, always mumbling about
the shadows. And that's where I first heard about ast too.
It's a depressing place. So's got your miss buddy. Yeah,
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they don't see why you drink these things.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We had some junior beer now, but you can't get it.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Why do you drink these things? I like him, Jim says,
your girls in here again today? Oh miss esther whatever
her name is, she was in.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Tim said, when today she asked for you? Why did
you tell her? I didn't tell her anything.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Was Tim seen her?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Or rather he didn't see her? Why didn't they see her?
The shadows you know?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, he didn't see her face to the face then,
just kind of like a shadow.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I see what you want? Uh you? He said?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
She said, I wanted you to go someplace with her.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Mm hmm. That's all I know you. Uh what another
scotch miss.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
H Yeah, I guess so, Patty, do.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You even goes? Yes?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Oh sutch me.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Sure you work around a place like this as long
as I have you believe in everything.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Lease here shutters.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
There was a fellow murdered here once when it was
his feet fella hit a fellar with a chair.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, yeah, if you see.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Over there on the end of the back bar. That's
one leg of the chair. Kim always likes to keep
these here silver there.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't care much about it, you know, I shouldn't
think you would.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Oh the things are consciously well you ought to be
here sometimes late at nights when I'm alone.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why the things that happen?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Hey, give me the willies? What thing's daddy?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh? Shudders and things scare your right out of your years.
Both you know what for? Inst what these here shutters? Well,
nothing worse than.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
A shadow, they're telling me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I unless it's not a shadow. What do you mean anyways?
People that don't have no shadow? See? You know, I think, Paddy,
but I think either you or me is crazy. Huh,
And maybe it's both of us. What makes you think so?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Talking this way?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What are you scared of?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
It says, I'm scared. But your hands trembling for that way?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I drink too much.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It ain't that kind of trembling, Woody, it is too.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Wait a minute, huh, don't look now? What right behind you?
Take it easy now, got a shadow on the wall
behind your Woody? Cut it out with a shadow of
a woman on the wall right behind your woody.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
They ate nothing. It's making a shadow. A woman. Yeah,
a woman looking right at her. Go ahead, turn around
and look.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And I turned around slowly on my stool and I
looked at the wall where Patty was pointing.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I looked hard.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Patty got crazy. There's gonna shadow there. There's true, there
is not. I go show you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
There. You see.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
My overcoat here.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
On the bench. Where where's that perfume all come from? Hello, Frankie, Hi,
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whatddy are Dad at the opice? Yeah? No, especially Oh
he does look kind of pig.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
And you know, I feel all right? You love me?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What who was the bag looking point? Babe? Looking for me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
A little wild.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I don't know any babe, Frankie. Why does she look like?
I'm not I tell you.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
It's Clark, it's Flor. Listen, Frankie, Ye, listen. There is
a woman that's been looking for me. I don't know
who she is?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
In a jam? Yes, well, I didn't see her. What on?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was just closing the doors around the twelft to
pick up.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
The old guy with the teeth.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You know, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I drop the second chest to you, and the old
guy was punching up out.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know how he doesn't. Oh, I thought was kind
of a shadow.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think a shadow, Yeah, I kind of.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
You know, Hey, what that's perfume? I was kidding about
this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well she had some of it on too.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Does that make you think of anybody?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yes, Frankie, Yes, it does make me think of somebody.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What's God's Frankie?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Huh? Who is that me? Patty? Can't your wuddy? What
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are you doing here, Patty? I come to visit her? Well?
Come in? Hey? Has she been here? Woody?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know what I mean? Miss esther? Whoever she is,
she was here you see her? No, go ahead, Patty?
What is this?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
It's ascending? What ascending? Like they used to have in
the old country. My grandpa used to tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I don't know what you're talking about. She's asked you,
she's come to get her.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Now listen.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Did she ask you to come with? Yeah? She did
last night. Oh man, how do you How do you
know so much about all this?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Patty?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I know a lot of things. You ain't got the idea.
I know.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
My grandpa was born with a call what A called
a thing on his head. Look, I know what I'm
talking about. For he I'm going to make her go away.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Patty, listen, No, you listen.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Is she a real woman? She is a shadow, Patty.
If you're playing a dirty tech with me, I was never.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
More serious in my life. Oh what are we gonna do?
You watch? And you do just like I said, Well,
turn off the lights, Patty, turn off the lights.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Well go on, and I turn off the lights in
the room. Feeling like another idiot, Hetty and I sat down.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The darkness to wait, and we waited and waited, and
at last I.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Heard a noise. I think, strange, uncanny noise, I whispered, Patty.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
There was no other sound, and it was fully five
minutes before I realized at the sound that had set
my hair stand on end again.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It was Patty's snoring.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And then so I got up and turned the.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Lights on again and kicked Patty off, went to bed. Yeah,
maybe I dreamed it, Maybe I didn't. And somewhere in
the darkness I heard the sound of someone stirring in
my room.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And a voice where you were?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
How you?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And I awoke in the sense of her perfume was
heavy in the room. That would be last Thursday, wouldn't
it well? The next night I came straight home and
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Patty was in my room waiting, I tell you, would
he you're in danger? And so we sat late again,
Patty with a curious collection of books and implements that
he said would get rid of the sending for once
and all.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But there was no sending.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Patty stayed all night with me, and we heard no sound.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Saw no shadows, smell of perfume. But there was dust
on the shelf of my bathroom. And when morning came,
Patty showed me something scrawled in the dust by a finger.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
A woman's singer.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
If I'm any judge, it was.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Just one word, a name Ester. Maybe Patty did that himself,
maybe not.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I didn't know what he was up to. I can't
get away from the fact that there is someone named
Esther who wants to see me, whose shadow I have seen.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Whose voice I have heard.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Glemina leaves the said of Russia letter behind her, whose
drawls her name in the dust in the dust.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's curious, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Dust? Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Now, Patty and I said again in the dark, waiting
this time, I know something's gonna happen, Patty says, you'll
send her back where she came from, send her back alone,
though it can be done with you.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
All you have to know is the secrets, like my
grandpa and you, and they've got oh this stuff right here,
everything is.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Maybe she knows that she won't come when explain here
and see.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Patty, But I'm telling you it's something that better happened.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
But at the end of my strength, if she comes,
she'll go with you, I hope so, yes, sir, shadows
the terrible things. And the only other thing that's worse
is for a man not to have a shadow. How
could that be? How could there be a shaddow without
anything for it to be a shadow? Well? Yes, quiet,
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it's late.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
It's past midnight, I think, and I'm so sleepy I
can hardly keep.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
My eyes open.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Patty, are you awake?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And the little light from the bathroom cast a square
of light on the green wall alongside the dresser, and
I can just barely hear the traffic in the street below.
The night I'll taxi you somebody yelling, and goodbye the
belated friend, And.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Be still woody. What look at the wall? And then
I look at the wall and there is a shadow
in the square of light on the green wall alongside
the vendor, and there is a hag and rush of
leather in the air, and the shadow stretches out its
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arms to me.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Time and I blind myself getting up from my chair,
and the shadowy arms are about to take me. And
hear Patty muttering something and he seems so far away,
and the arms are still reaching for me, so I
think it is Patty's voice again.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Loud wheel on the room. Turn on the light.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Towards all tend the lights on, Patty and I do
turn on the lights and it's just the room again,
and the shadow is still there. The arms are still
reaching out for me and the shadow. The shadow starts
towards the door. Suddenly Patty screams again, you.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Are a shadow is gone, and so my shadow is gone.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
So it is.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
And I followed the other shadow, Best's shadow to the door,
and I opened the door, and I follow the shadow
at him of the hall and I'm down the hall
and it seems so odd to me walking along in
my life.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
There's no shadow for me.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
The elevator door is open, and I walk in the
shadow drives in ahead of me. There's a woman standing
at the back of the elevator. The shadow just seems
to melt under her figure. And I look at her
and I say esther. She looks, She looks back at me. Answer,
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she never saw me in her whole life. The elevator
jack Suddenly it starts to plunge faster and faster down
the shaft.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
She turned horrified eyes to me and she screams.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And I know the sending is completed. Master, and I
are done with shadows forever.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Quiet Please for the night was called There are Shadows Here.
It was written directed by Willis Cooper. The man who
spoke to you was a Chapel and Alan Sparrow was Esther.
Naddy was played by av Latimer. The writer was said Cataro.
Frank Thomas was franking as usual. Music for Quiet Please
(28:15):
is played by Albert Burman. Our Worst Michael Friends Till Cooper.
Nobody living or dead was even hinted at, and Tonight's
Quiet Please starts.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I thought of the characters and the story without any
outside skinners at all. Next week's Quiet Please will be called.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Gem of purest Ray, and so until next week at
the same time, I am quietly yours Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Wyat pleece comes you from New York. This is a
mutual broadcasting system.
Quiet Please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
M m m m hm.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest champells Quiet.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Please for tonight is called there are shadows here.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Look at my hands trembling like a belief and there's
nothing I can do to stop it either. Well, if
you've been through what I've been through last week.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Last Wednesday, I commended TAM's bar, I said, I'm a stool.
I say you I the.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Scotch, Miss Patty, Oh hire woody Scotch, Miss Patty Scotch.
Miss Hey, there's a lady in here looking for you? Lady, Yeah,
what kind of scotch? Uh got any glenn living?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This white horse that's sixty nine? Uh, maybe there's a little.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Less than a hagg bottle. Yeah, lady looking for you?
Who was she? I don't know. I never seen her.
Kim told me about her.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
When would she hear?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Patty?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
A while ago?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well? What she want? I don't know? You looking for you?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Scotchmaste? Well did she say what she wanted?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just wanted to that stuff?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Good?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's all right?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Just wondered? I never tasted it? Don't you ever take
a drink? Patty me? Oh, I never take a drink
except ginger beer.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You can't get that anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So how is the little storm jugs Crocks like? Funny
about that woman?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah? I sure used to like ginger beer.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I think Tim said her name.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Was Esther, Esther knowing He asked esther, Esther, esther, something
like that, Esther, huh yeah, Esther, Esther.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Lester.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I don't know you know what? She was good looking?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Tien didn't know what Tim said. He didn't see her face.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
See, you don't know her, well, I don't think so.
It's funny, Dave.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You learn another of them things. Yeah, I'll have another.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh sure, I wish I could get some ginger beer.
Used to drink it up in Canada wilbera hotel in Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Drink it to the court. I wonder who could have been?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh the woman that was looking for me.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Scutch me.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Thanks Esther huh yeah, that's what Tim said.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know any esther.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Well, she knows Joe Woody. She said, that's your minute.
Sure I could give her your phone number? Oh no,
don't do that. Okay, if she comes in again. Tell
her to leave her phone number. I could call her up. Yeah,
I'll tell Tim. Hey, Yeah, how come Tim didn't see
(04:17):
her face?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Patty?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh, it's always darkened him always shatterers in here? Oh
shatters such a nuts sometimes? Yeah, yeah, good thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't drink nothing but ginger beer, even if I
could get it. You drink these here shatters? Such a nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's darken here?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh that Tim? Look at them? Shattered? Would he? The ut?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There one in the corner by the cannibal's head. Don't
it look like the cannibal's head is making faces at you?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Look now?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, yeah, it looks funny.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean here all along. If putting near sets me nuts, yea,
there's one there by the second booth you see, looks
like a big black cat.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You got a terrific imagination, Paddy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
There's one under the bar.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Every time I stoop down to pick up a beer glass,
I jump, looks like a hand reaching out for me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It makes me junk.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Hello to say it's a good thing you don't drink
nothing but ginger beer.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I go nuts. Well, I'm gonna get out of here
before I.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Go nuts too, Okay, uh dollar thirty and dying for you. Paddy, Oh,
looks obliged if she comes in again. I'm telling you
I was here.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Every place you go.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
When I say that was next Wednesday. The things that
can happen in less than a week with my hands,
I can't stop shaking Patty and his shadows.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I said to.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Myself, I'm not going to Tims anymore. That the bar
in the hotel where I can drink my Scotch miss and.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Not have him mumbling in my ear all the time.
I got to thinking about shadows though myself. I was
sitting in the Italian place, waiting for mysaya and stuff,
and wondering if I should order a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
There was a candle on the table, there was a
little draft in the room, the plane was.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Jumping up and down. And the shadows on the wall.
It doesn't take much imagination to see things and shadows,
does it? Game?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Everybody? Please, you want a little bit of advice, though, friend,
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Huh Oh, I'll tell you first thing I found myself
making shadows.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
On the wall with my hands. A rabbit, old man
waggling his beard.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh, now, I get fascinated with that kind of stuff.
Wait a minus, I thought I was crazy. I know
he didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I jumped up and knocked the table on my dishes.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Hey, hey, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Mister?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You see what made that shadow?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
What a shadow? I see you making with the hands
from the shadows on the wall.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I didn't make that shadow?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
What a shadow?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You talk? There was a shadow of a woman there?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You talk of crazy, mister.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
There wasn't to be no woman here for two weeks,
but not since Esther got a mad and quip esther.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Who she?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
She's a waitress here the last week and this quipped.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
The bonds are saying is not gonna have a knowing
woman in this place, and never especially.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I ordered a bottle of wine and I drank it
because I'm telling you I did see the shadow of
a woman's head on the wall next to me. And
I'm also telling you I didn't have anything to do
with it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All right, think whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I tell you I saw it, and Esther too. Now
what do you think of that? My friend? Well, let
me go on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I went home.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I went to bed.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sure, of course I gained about shadows.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
What don't you expect?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, I I live in a hotel, as I said,
all by myself in a little room on the eighth floor.
I didn't think I was gonna get to sleep, but
I did.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I read a while.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I left the light on in the bathroom, didn't go
for the dock. You see, I woke up in the
middle of the night, thirsty from all that wine I drank.
I started get up and go to the bathroom for
a drink of water. As I sat up in bed, see,
there was a square of light on the wall opposite
my bed from the bathroom light. And right in the
(09:13):
middle of that patch of light there was a shadow,
the shadow of a woman, just stand there, not the moving,
just standing there. I was scared, and the darn was
stuck coming into my mind. Scared as I was, I
didn't get out of bed at first, I just sat
(09:35):
there and I said, Esther. There wasn't any answer, and
I tried it again, Esther, ever, feel your hair actually
stand on end?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And it does?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All right, mind did, and I managed to speak again.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I said, what do you want, Ester, did you come
with someone?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And the shadow sort of straights out its arms to
me in a gesture that was like a little girl.
And yeah, it wasn't it was. I don't know how
to say it, like like someone who was in.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Love with me, someone someone that I loved.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I can't explain it. I got up and threw my
robe around me, and I walked toward the light. The
shadow moved too, and moved toward the door of the room,
the door of that they got into the hall. The
shadow's hands touched the doorknob. I'd love to see what
it was it was casting the shadow? Can I tell
you I was alone in that room, Yes, sir, I
(10:55):
I was alone in the room. I turned back to
the door just as the shadow seemed that kind of
melt into the wood. Men seemed to go on through
the locked door, and I reached for the door and
opened it. The shadow was moving down the hall, toward
the stairway, beyond the dot of the elevators. And there
wasn't a soul in the hallway, I tell you there wasn't.
(11:19):
The halls brought me lighted, and all there was was
this woman's shadow gliding away from me along the wall.
I stood there with my mouth hanging open. Just as
as the shadow reached the end of the hall, it
stopped and put out its arms again, and you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Come with me.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And I slammed the door shut, turned all the other
lights in my room off, and I stuck my head
on the coal shower.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was scared of that.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And you know what, there was a smell of perfume
in the room. Russia letter. I remember that from a
girl I used to know in New York that they
had always used it. I believe me, whether I haven't
gotten he rushed another perfume in my room, but I
smelled it. Playing well, all right, maybe somebody's playing tricks
(12:20):
on me. But if you can tell me how to
play that one, brother, I'll put in with you.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I was riding down on the elevator the next morning
with Franky, the wise kid that runs the car.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You know what he did?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Listen, Hey, Woodie, huh you stay swell?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
What perfume? I didn't know that about you? What are
you talking about?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
M Sure smells expensive? Whyn't you got it?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You try to kid me? Franky?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Oh goodness no, And I could smell it myself. Then
Russia leather. Well, I don't know why I ever go
(13:18):
to TNS. It's doc in there and Patty, now you
know Patty Hey gets you down, mumbling, always mumbling about
the shadows. And that's where I first heard about ast too.
It's a depressing place. So's got your miss buddy. Yeah,
(13:38):
they don't see why you drink these things.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We had some junior beer now, but you can't get it.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Why do you drink these things? I like him, Jim says,
your girls in here again today? Oh miss esther whatever
her name is, she was in.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Tim said, when today she asked for you? Why did
you tell her? I didn't tell her anything.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Was Tim seen her?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Or rather he didn't see her? Why didn't they see her?
The shadows you know?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, he didn't see her face to the face then,
just kind of like a shadow.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I see what you want? Uh you? He said?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
She said, I wanted you to go someplace with her.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Mm hmm. That's all I know you. Uh what another
scotch miss.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
H Yeah, I guess so, Patty, do.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You even goes? Yes?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Oh sutch me.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Sure you work around a place like this as long
as I have you believe in everything.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Lease here shutters.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
There was a fellow murdered here once when it was
his feet fella hit a fellar with a chair.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, yeah, if you see.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Over there on the end of the back bar. That's
one leg of the chair. Kim always likes to keep
these here silver there.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't care much about it, you know, I shouldn't
think you would.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Oh the things are consciously well you ought to be
here sometimes late at nights when I'm alone.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Why the things that happen?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Hey, give me the willies? What thing's daddy?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh? Shudders and things scare your right out of your years.
Both you know what for? Inst what these here shutters? Well,
nothing worse than.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
A shadow, they're telling me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I unless it's not a shadow. What do you mean anyways?
People that don't have no shadow? See? You know, I think, Paddy,
but I think either you or me is crazy. Huh,
And maybe it's both of us. What makes you think so?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Talking this way?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What are you scared of?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
It says, I'm scared. But your hands trembling for that way?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I drink too much.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It ain't that kind of trembling, Woody, it is too.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Wait a minute, huh, don't look now? What right behind you?
Take it easy now, got a shadow on the wall
behind your Woody? Cut it out with a shadow of
a woman on the wall right behind your woody.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
They ate nothing. It's making a shadow. A woman. Yeah,
a woman looking right at her. Go ahead, turn around
and look.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And I turned around slowly on my stool and I
looked at the wall where Patty was pointing.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I looked hard.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Patty got crazy. There's gonna shadow there. There's true, there
is not. I go show you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
There. You see.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
My overcoat here.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
On the bench. Where where's that perfume all come from? Hello, Frankie, Hi,
(17:47):
whatddy are Dad at the opice? Yeah? No, especially Oh
he does look kind of pig.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
And you know, I feel all right? You love me?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What who was the bag looking point? Babe? Looking for me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
A little wild.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I don't know any babe, Frankie. Why does she look like?
I'm not I tell you.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
It's Clark, it's Flor. Listen, Frankie, Ye, listen. There is
a woman that's been looking for me. I don't know
who she is?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
In a jam? Yes, well, I didn't see her. What on?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was just closing the doors around the twelft to
pick up.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
The old guy with the teeth.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You know, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I drop the second chest to you, and the old
guy was punching up out.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know how he doesn't. Oh, I thought was kind
of a shadow.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think a shadow, Yeah, I kind of.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
You know, Hey, what that's perfume? I was kidding about
this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well she had some of it on too.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Does that make you think of anybody?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yes, Frankie, Yes, it does make me think of somebody.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What's God's Frankie?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Huh? Who is that me? Patty? Can't your wuddy? What
(19:25):
are you doing here, Patty? I come to visit her? Well?
Come in? Hey? Has she been here? Woody?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know what I mean? Miss esther? Whoever she is,
she was here you see her? No, go ahead, Patty?
What is this?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
It's ascending? What ascending? Like they used to have in
the old country. My grandpa used to tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I don't know what you're talking about. She's asked you,
she's come to get her.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Now listen.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Did she ask you to come with? Yeah? She did
last night. Oh man, how do you How do you
know so much about all this?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Patty?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I know a lot of things. You ain't got the idea.
I know.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
My grandpa was born with a call what A called
a thing on his head. Look, I know what I'm
talking about. For he I'm going to make her go away.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Patty, listen, No, you listen.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Is she a real woman? She is a shadow, Patty.
If you're playing a dirty tech with me, I was never.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
More serious in my life. Oh what are we gonna do?
You watch? And you do just like I said, Well,
turn off the lights, Patty, turn off the lights.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Well go on, and I turn off the lights in
the room. Feeling like another idiot, Hetty and I sat down.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The darkness to wait, and we waited and waited, and
at last I.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Heard a noise. I think, strange, uncanny noise, I whispered, Patty.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
There was no other sound, and it was fully five
minutes before I realized at the sound that had set
my hair stand on end again.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It was Patty's snoring.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And then so I got up and turned the.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Lights on again and kicked Patty off, went to bed. Yeah,
maybe I dreamed it, Maybe I didn't. And somewhere in
the darkness I heard the sound of someone stirring in
my room.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And a voice where you were?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
How you?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And I awoke in the sense of her perfume was
heavy in the room. That would be last Thursday, wouldn't
it well? The next night I came straight home and
(22:11):
Patty was in my room waiting, I tell you, would
he you're in danger? And so we sat late again,
Patty with a curious collection of books and implements that
he said would get rid of the sending for once
and all.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But there was no sending.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Patty stayed all night with me, and we heard no sound.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Saw no shadows, smell of perfume. But there was dust
on the shelf of my bathroom. And when morning came,
Patty showed me something scrawled in the dust by a finger.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
A woman's singer.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
If I'm any judge, it was.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Just one word, a name Ester. Maybe Patty did that himself,
maybe not.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I didn't know what he was up to. I can't
get away from the fact that there is someone named
Esther who wants to see me, whose shadow I have seen.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Whose voice I have heard.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Glemina leaves the said of Russia letter behind her, whose
drawls her name in the dust in the dust.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's curious, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Dust? Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Now, Patty and I said again in the dark, waiting
this time, I know something's gonna happen, Patty says, you'll
send her back where she came from, send her back alone,
though it can be done with you.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
All you have to know is the secrets, like my
grandpa and you, and they've got oh this stuff right here,
everything is.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Maybe she knows that she won't come when explain here
and see.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Patty, But I'm telling you it's something that better happened.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
But at the end of my strength, if she comes,
she'll go with you, I hope so, yes, sir, shadows
the terrible things. And the only other thing that's worse
is for a man not to have a shadow. How
could that be? How could there be a shaddow without
anything for it to be a shadow? Well? Yes, quiet,
(24:29):
it's late.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
It's past midnight, I think, and I'm so sleepy I
can hardly keep.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
My eyes open.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Patty, are you awake?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And the little light from the bathroom cast a square
of light on the green wall alongside the dresser, and
I can just barely hear the traffic in the street below.
The night I'll taxi you somebody yelling, and goodbye the
belated friend, And.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Be still woody. What look at the wall? And then
I look at the wall and there is a shadow
in the square of light on the green wall alongside
the vendor, and there is a hag and rush of
leather in the air, and the shadow stretches out its
(25:19):
arms to me.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Time and I blind myself getting up from my chair,
and the shadowy arms are about to take me. And
hear Patty muttering something and he seems so far away,
and the arms are still reaching for me, so I
think it is Patty's voice again.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Loud wheel on the room. Turn on the light.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Towards all tend the lights on, Patty and I do
turn on the lights and it's just the room again,
and the shadow is still there. The arms are still
reaching out for me and the shadow. The shadow starts
towards the door. Suddenly Patty screams again, you.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Are a shadow is gone, and so my shadow is gone.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
So it is.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
And I followed the other shadow, Best's shadow to the door,
and I opened the door, and I follow the shadow
at him of the hall and I'm down the hall
and it seems so odd to me walking along in
my life.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
There's no shadow for me.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
The elevator door is open, and I walk in the
shadow drives in ahead of me. There's a woman standing
at the back of the elevator. The shadow just seems
to melt under her figure. And I look at her
and I say esther. She looks, She looks back at me. Answer,
(26:57):
she never saw me in her whole life. The elevator
jack Suddenly it starts to plunge faster and faster down
the shaft.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
She turned horrified eyes to me and she screams.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And I know the sending is completed. Master, and I
are done with shadows forever.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Quiet Please for the night was called There are Shadows Here.
It was written directed by Willis Cooper. The man who
spoke to you was a Chapel and Alan Sparrow was Esther.
Naddy was played by av Latimer. The writer was said Cataro.
Frank Thomas was franking as usual. Music for Quiet Please
(28:15):
is played by Albert Burman. Our Worst Michael Friends Till Cooper.
Nobody living or dead was even hinted at, and Tonight's
Quiet Please starts.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I thought of the characters and the story without any
outside skinners at all. Next week's Quiet Please will be called.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Gem of purest Ray, and so until next week at
the same time, I am quietly yours Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Wyat pleece comes you from New York. This is a
mutual broadcasting system.
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