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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet, Please, Quiet please m A usual broadcasting system was
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as Quiet Please, which is waking and directed by Willis
Cooper Lang, which features Ernest Cuff. Quiet please, won't night
us called twelve to five? Yes, ma'am at doug in Lockton,
down here? What oh? Sure of being able to talk
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to people on the phone to help? But how would
you like to be stuck away down the basement all
by yourself from midnight to five am? There's nothing but
a microphone to turntable and some telephones. I'm sure I
get coffee. I bring in fourth thermis judges and I
go on, I'm coffee up to here. Oh, well only
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four and a half hours more than I can go
home and have breakfast. No, no, ma'am, I don't drink
coffee for breakfast. Well you guess what I drink?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, no, you're getting warm? Sure? Three of them? Well,
after all, it really isn't breakfast. You see the supper,
dinner or something. Sure? Well, thank you very much for calling.
Good morning? Hello? Yes, this county doffin Hello, big think
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what oh I haven't got I'll be glad when you're
dead to Rascal you yeah, we're not supposed to play it.
This is about nineteen thirty four five or sometime. Oh,
no kidding, sure, I'll play or something. Just that's a
little while. The other phone's ringing. We'll stick around, keep
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tuning to us, and you shall hear.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Music says you.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Good morning, Hello, connye Dophin speaking, and how are you?
I'll find thanks?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That little bit i'll try now is the hor well.
It's generally sung in four fourth time, yeah, but it
was originally written in three four times.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's why I bring your walst time until I get
you both winner, you're both owned or something. Uh, You're welcome,
good morning, fine, how are you? Yes, ma'am. The theme
he's done quiet leads has taken from the second movement
of the Symphony in d Mia, nobody says up front,
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I'll be glad. That plays a little bit point in
just a second. Let's see. Uh. Yes, said by the
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. You want h hello, Yes,
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this is KINDI uppin. No, ma'am, I never lived in Denburg,
those divers ben and Omaha. I played vibra hof and
xylophone there in nineteen thirty two, and now on the
air hotel. I s, I'm sorry, I guess I am
not your cousins. Okay, have one for me? Good morning?
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What what? Why? Sure? I'm now I'm all alone? Any game? No,
it's just a little plate, but big get too telephone booths.
They get all the engineers upstairs master control or we're
the only people in the station. No, I guess there's
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a janitor upstairs. The city of fourteen. They had a
question up there to night, and there's probably dusted to
file over the stage. Cool. Well, thank you. They don't
allow me to have visitors besides my wife's listening. Sure vernon, No,
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he can't even come down to see me when I'm
on the air. Well, well, thanks very much. Sure, sure
until five o'clock five am, all five hundred when you
say in the.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Navy, well thanks very much. Good morning, Francis.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Is your friend Connie up and on the talk to
five ship for playing music in the sand? Words too.
If you can't sleep, call me up and let's talk.
We talked to everybody night. Alls bought tenders please for
burglars music lovers, you know the number. Give us a
ring now for a little music. Let's see what we
have here. Uh now the Miles Brothers singing till then
and Wireless singing. I'm going to have you a little
coffee and a cigarette to lean back. Listen you then, darling,
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wait for you then matter when it will be one,
I know I'll be way do then? Oh all, oh,
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uh hello, I'm Herbie Buchanan. Well hello, I didn't know
there's anybody else around here, said Bob upstairs in the
control room. I'm round every night. What you got there? Coffee? Yeah?
You like him? Help yourself, take the top off the
thermos and wte you blind? You're a new guy. No
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you instead, you're here every night. Yeah, I haven't a
ride here, think Yeah, well, I never get around here
in the daytime, so I don't know very many people
over upstairs the cashier's office. Yeah, what you doing. I've
brought down some news bulletins to read. I don't mind
what you say. Not So he's wearing there on my
vocal cords. You're in the newsroom part of the time.
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I having a disc Jackie, and everything's Mike baby and lighters
run tom Oh you want to put me on for sure? Well, friends,
we've got something for you tonight. My good friend, Herbie
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Buchanan had just come in with a pocket pull of newsplashes,
and while I have one more cigarette, Herby will sell
you what's going on in the world. Okay, Herbie Buchannan,
thank you. Connie Duffin. Well, there's not much new in
the way of international affairs. Everybody hates everybody else just
as much as they did yesterday and about as much
as they will tomorrow. So let's see what's going on
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right here in our own fair city, if you want
to call it a fair city. Keep of Police Dean's
low pairs will be startled to know that a murderer
was committed this evening, only two doors away from the
South Side police station. Hubert W. Cronkyde, a retired broker
of twenty three to nineteen West Seventeenth Street, discovered a
burglar prowling in his the park who shot and killed
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mister Cronkott in his bedroom. There are no clues to
the murderer's identity. A taxi cab glided with a street
car at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Maple Grove,
killing a passenger and seriously injuring two of the passengers.
In the cab the weather today. The temperature is now
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fifty two degrees and as you no doubt no rain
is falling heavily. The correct time is one thirty two
pm Standard time. Hey, Hervey, he got the time? Roll right,
We'll look at the clock. If jerk it's one o
two or a half hour ahead of time? Hello this
colly dupin? What not? Raining? White? Herbie said?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Okay? I will look out the windshole of home.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, hey, herby, Herby.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But yes, ma'am you're right. Oh, I'm sorry, Herbie. You
must have been mixed up or something. Thank you very much. Yes, ma'am.
Hey where did Herbie? Where did.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
This? Is it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Tony Duffin?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Look here?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What kind of nonsense?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Days?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about, sir.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
People going to sue you?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
What far?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
For goodness sake? Huh me? Oh uh? Why no, sir?
That was a man from the newsroom. Listen, friend, who
are you? I don't get it? Well all right, sir,
but who are you? Quickly?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I was not killed by a worker.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You weren't. I mean, what why sis be chilled?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Okay you man?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I demand the public apology. Wait, a minute. What I
wait a minute, I hear.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Somebody my bedroom.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, but okay, hello, this is Connie Dupplin. Who oh sure,
good morning. No, sir, I don't think I do know either.
Why police? No, No, it was a gag. Oh, it
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couldn't be. I was just talking to mister Conky on
the phone. While he's on the phone right now, I'm
just waiting for him to come back. Hello, mister Conky.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Hello, Hello, hello, mister Conky.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No he doesn't answer. Well, wait a second, I gotta
put on some music. Music for God's sake, just a
radio station. Friends, Here is music for you from yours truly,
Connie Duffin to you wherever you are. Should they have
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you back home? Yeah, you're glad to be back with you.
Haven't changed money, got also lonesome for you, though I
know I was longing too. You were awful. At some
point I say.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Them, let's not ever play again, une, No you love
'em awful? Lot you love me or anything? No, No,
let's get sick. Quiet and listened to the.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Put your arm around me exactly now, Lucian Milton listening
to me? Are you there? Let's seeing milklon What goes
on here. That's the red h You've been away a
long time, Milkon, since you and Lucy have that quarrel
and you walked out and are in the rest of her.
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She knows that it's too bad. Really, you were so
much in and then this thing happened to break you up.
Now it's great to be together. Who is happiness last
such a little while? That's it's such a shame that
yours can't last longer. Keep talking. I'd hate to have
to be the one that tells you that going to
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happen tonight. You're going to quarrel again, but you are not,
and this time are not going to run out of
nothing now because Lucy won't take it again. Lucy's got
a gun helping, and this quarrel is really going to endything.
That's good? What's good? Lucy? What have you gotta come?
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Have you? None of you got no right to come
in this house after must have stop jumping on this
is my house. But this is my house.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You run away from?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What your reason to run away from?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What aheadn't count? Now? Do you think you're talking?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I never need to come down.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't know why I didn't, will I will not.
Your time is now two am Standard time? Huh oh,
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I must have been asleep. I guess you were conning.
Say where did you go upstairs for a minute? Yeah?
You sure got me in a hassle.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Ah, talking about that guy getting killed by a burglary?
Oh that and getting the time wrong. I'll put it
in the log upstairs. And what's his name? Will jump
down my throat tomorrow? It's today? M h it's too bad.
He'll hello, it's County Upping. Oh the police? What he did?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I don't know. Yes, I'll come in sure, okay, yep.
Listen when he did get killed by a burger? Well
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all right, huh that's what I said, didn't I w Yeah,
but hadn't You gotta get down the air? Oh yeah,
sure right. Uh. This is your friend's friends Johnny Duffin
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Just say temple of apples, Please do your neighborhood apple
do there? And they accept no substitute. First thing tomorrow,
temple d apples, And now you's go. I can take
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a guy as big as an X call save that
one's fun Wow? And what is it? Why is what not?
If you know that fellow was gonna get killed? Look
sign the paper? Where did that come from? Ips room news? True,
there's nobody in the news alla types. They are right,
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they shouldn't been out this time of night. Whaty l A?
I you've got that off the teletype? That's n How
do you know it isn't kidding somebody?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
It is?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, but how do you know? Believe me?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I don't get funny to me and I never heard
of before. Yeah, that's good. I don't care I don't know.
How about that taxicab accident? Don't happen anywhere. You wouldn't
be kidding a guy.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That mean.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You've got a union card? Uh an africcord? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, Reb,
that'll be cannon pay up too. Yep, Hell's County dumping.
Good morning? Oh hello Bob, Yeah, probably good Canada thereby
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del canon, I said, what's the matter? Can't you understand English?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Me?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
That would be a PLATONI on the end, Let take
the least. And I never had any trouble with people
understanding me in the poor.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Latinity yours bert Less a huge program, I believe with you,
it would be playing the fume you.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
No, Mar, we're playing jeans crumpler is opus number one? No,
it is in time, that's what it. Oh, good morning,
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County Dupin's thinking. How are you laugh? What I know?
I just turned it off, yes, ma'am FORP to five
only a little while ago. Now, oh you're glad A man? Sorry,
oh man, you have no idea how rugged it is here? First,
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for some reason, everything is likely mixed up this morning. No,
I have not been drinking. I do not drink on
the job. Yeah, I'm sorry, ma'am, what would you like
the guys play? Hey, you got a clock in the morning?
Hang on here it comes. Listen, man, all right, what're
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you saying that? The man am? I can hear it?
Well listen, d D can't you? Maybe I'll tell you
SNA I've given at mark. I'm fell I'm kind of
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a it's a baby fo. I ask where you're going?
Oh huh, well wait listen. Can't you help me get
the salt straightened out? Oh? I'm overdo help it? Wait?
Uh wait herb me? I no, I don't, I'll see you.
L Oh oh my hair, I wonder if I have
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been if it's too long? Who is this guy? But
the Yeah, I don't get it? Hello home man' too money?
Now it's I say no, say we're not playing games.
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I don't know, I know it. Now play for me? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Wait like you don't like?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You want your turn? If you're ready on the back
up back? Oh? Oh man, he did it? Ohwa's punch
his name hurt that one? Oh wow? If that guy
comes back in here, I'm gonna beat his brains up,
you know, pull.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Out of me.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hell on a man? Don't over to you. Oh h yeah,
let's heard me. If you're cannon the some of I
was here with me. Never hear right, what's down? Get thicker.
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I'm going after the newsroom a minute, Bob, Okay, hurry back.
Oh well, and so we listen to a little music.
All right, we'll listen to a little music.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And I.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Got a heat of experien nobody here, I thought he was. Oh,
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there goes a teletype. Well what you Herbert? How you canon?
Former announcer I'm disc jump on local radio stations. Was
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was instantly killed in an accident this evening with a
taxi cab in which he was writing, was struck by
a street car at the corner of the Pacific Cabin
on Maple Rold. What no, I Hey, yeah, Connie Herbie,
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what a man? You just you're dead?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Huh here right, mister? What did I get on a
couple of minutes? Well, yes, but I've been to the news. Yeah, yeah,
I better read this to the customer. What is it?
I'll have to hurry. It's pretty near five. Hold it.
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A presentment of imminent death felt by the well known
master of ceremonies of a popular radio record program earned
from twelve to five each morning was the actual preliminary
to the death of Cornelius Connie Duffin. This morning, Hey,
mister Duffin fell on the cooma as he left his
studio this morning at five o'clock. Had this program concluded,
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he died on the way to the hospital. It's five o'clock.
Maybe for Jack Mosten that no time? M school m.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
M m.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
M five Please What a night? Was called twelve to
five and is risenly directed by Willis Cooper and Connie Dumplin.
A man of Spefield was Ernest Coupain, and the intruder
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Herbie Buchanan was none of that. In the well known
dis Ducky and commentator Jacklins cooling others the castle or
Connie let me Balley Doves and at Letier musing the
quiet please I Jji was played by Albert Ferma. Uh No,
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my good friend with a Scooper for a word with you.
Nobody in this story is at all like anybody else
in the world, living a dead all of them staying
the last of my type and the completely thick ticket.
Next week's clients leaves called clinicson uh and so until
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next week at the same time and clarensa I am quietly.
Your Ernest Champel quiet please comes to you from New York.
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