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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, that please.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and the features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Quiet Please for Today is called Good Ghost.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I never did anything wrong in my life. That's why
I was so upset when Shuster murdered me. I'm just
standing in mind of my own business and shoes to
be pulled off his cannon and he points it at
me and it goes boom, and I say out and
I'm lying there and he walks away down Lake Street.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Towards meeting an Avenue.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, right there on the corner of Lake in Wabach,
to the corner. After one in the morning, out, I said,
And I just laid there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
After a while, I got up and I walked away.
I was all mixed up.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I guess I didn't realize I was dead because I
walked over the Randolph Street. I started up the elevated
steps with something to stop me, something like a rope
or something across the bottom of the.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Stairsteps, and I couldn't get up.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So I looked around to see what it was, and
there was nothing. There was a voice speaking kind in
my ear.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You can't go up there, That's what the voice said,
and there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Wasn't anybody there. I looked, well, all right, I said
to myself, there's one one way this kin of cats.
So I walked over to State Street and I started
down the subway stairs.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You know what, I couldn't go down there either. There
was this same voice whispering in my ear. You can't
go down there us fall man. I said, where am
I gonna go? But I didn't hear any answer to that.
So I put one foot in front of the other.
And you know what I did.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I walked, and for the first time in my life,
for the first time, my feet didn't get So there's
one consolation, I said, being a ghost of.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Your feet won't hurt. Well.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I was bewildered to see I walked when I walk
And I walked in pretty soon about five o'clock in
the morning, and I'm out in Logan Square. And I
said to myself, why shoester Li's dry someplace, don't he?
And I am in Shuster's house. See, I was a
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pretty new, inexperienced ghost, and gosh, if I had a node,
I wouldn't. I had to walked all the way out
of Logan Square, and I put a fleu or whatever
it is I do. But I've learned now I'll tell
you about it. Well, like I said, there, I am
in Shuster's house. Well he didn't know Shoster, did you.
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He was laying there, sounded asleep on the bed, and
he was pretty good looking fella in the kind of
that way.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
He was laying there snoring.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He had his hand hanging over the edge of the bed,
and I I never thought. I just went over a
night took cold of his hand, and I said.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Hey, Shuster, h Sester, Hey shostera uh uh, we just
to wake up? Who's there? Wake up Shuster? It's me?
Oh well, jee where Shuster to bed? Enough to murder?
My god? You have to spare the life on him?
Somebody had gold to my hand. It was me, a
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cold hand. It was me. I told you, who's that.
It's me, Shoesterre. That's a hand. It's got God got guys.
You awake now, you'll get away from me. You did, Yeah,
I know, And I didn't mean to wake up so violent. Shoot,
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I was sleep by that. I don't even know. Shoot,
I'm sorry, I'm hearing things. Oh why did I knock
him off? Hey? Why did you knock me off? It
is that meaning you? Guys? Sure did you come to
across me? Not especially? I was just wondering, why did
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you shoot me? I'm gonna turn on the light. There
ain't nobody here. I had a nightmare. There you see
your chump. There ain't nobody here. I'm here. It's a nightmare. Guys, sir,
I hear you. Sure, what do you want? I told you,
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why did you kill me? When you go away? If
I tell you well, it was had a yeah when
you way out and leave me? Shuster? H Shuster? Is
your intentions towards Ada? Honorable?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why? Why? Sure? Gush? Where you go?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Way?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now? Move over, Schuster. I wanted up do a little thinking, well, Schuster.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He put his head underneath the covers, and he shriveled
all up in the knot, and I thought and talked.
He kept shivering and shaking a bed, and so pretty
soon I went to sleep, and when I awoke, Shuster
was gone.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So I got to thinking about Ada. She who is Aida?
Was cute? I sure did lie Ada. Ada always wore
her hair and a pompadoor, and her hair.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Was so black, and her eyebrows was so cute as
she always smells so nice.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I see Aida. I always thought Aida liked me pretty
much too. Whenever I had a couple of bucks, he
used to take Aid out of the tree and on
a dance. He was about the three four and just
tallert me that we danced all right together.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's where Shuster run into us at the three or none.
She wish I never thought he'd fall for Shuster. Funny
in that you're always the last one to find out.
I thought she'd liked me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I never even had a chance to be jealous of Shuster.
He sure did like Ada. I was thinking about the.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Time Shuster drove us out to the forest preserved me.
The three of us had a picnic Wheeni's and she
made potatoes talent and we.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Had a swell time. And then I remember I didn't
notice it. Then she kept sitting next to Shoesbar all
the time. Man, I thought, playing there on Shooter's been
I'm too late.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And if Ada liked Shuster, we all like in doing
it trying to help him out Shoester Man, I could
do without him.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But Ada, I want her to be happy. I am
thinking about it all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I mean AIDA's apartment, and Shuster's there with her, and
Ada's crying.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A little bit. It sure is too bad, Aida. He
he was a nice little fella. I can't hardly believe,
he said, Shuster, well he is. I'll say it to you.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I didn't say nothing. I thought you did. Oh, poor
little fella, to.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Go so sunny.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Too bad. Jeez boy, Shuster, you've done it. I was
so fond of him. I know you are, Ada, and
now I'm all alone in the world. I know ye
ain't Aida. I'm here, Sure, Aida, he's here. Oh it's Shuster.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I do LOASO.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Put your head on my shoulder, aid to Honey, and
leave us weep together.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Shoot, And so she put her head on the Shuster's shoulder,
but she wish he didn't weep.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He kissed her, and so I come away after out.
How much can you take?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Well, so it looks like it's on the up and up.
And besides, what could I do?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I am dead. So I sat down on a bench
and they can park. And I think, funny.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Then concrete benches used to feel cold when I said
on them, But now they don't feel cold anymore. I
guess because I'm a cold Well, I figure I have
to talk to Shuster again.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What well, I figure I have to help mout that
help Aida out. I mean, I don't want Ada to
go around being unhappy.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And so if her and Shuster is going to get married, well,
at least I can do is give my hand. I
know she's ain't got a quarter, and there's ways a
guy in my position can help.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
See.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
No, I don't know how I knowed, but it's true.
A ghost can do pretty nearly anything if he works
it right. So I wait till night, and I start
to walk out the logan square and then I don't
have to walk and zing. I am in Shuster's room.
Shuster is sitting there thinking, and I.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Say, shu'ster, Hey, Sho's there. He don't give me a tumble,
but I can see his eyes moving looking around the room. Hey, Shuster,
I say again, I want to talk to you. And
you know what he'd done. He jumped out the window.
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Well I'm so surprised. I can't even follow him out
the window. You know what, that Shuster, He was the
hardest guy to haunt I ever seen. And look, I
didn't want to do nothing. All I wanted to do.
There was help Aida. Sure, what if he does shoot me?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's sober. I gotta help Aida. Heck, guy loved he
to see. A Couple of nights later, I seen him
get in his car.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I run.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I got in alongside him, and I figured, this is fine.
We're all alone in the car.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And then I begin to worry if I say something
while we're driving. The a property wreck the car. So
I wait till we're stopped by the light of Diversity
in Lincoln Park. We're standing still, what can happen? So
I put my hand on top of his on the
gearshift and I say, hey, shoes, the damn crash, jingle, bounce.
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He takes his foot off in the clutch and we're
throw a high iron fencing. The car is upside down
on Shooter has got a sprained ankle. She WHI is.
I said, I'm a heck of a ghost. But he's
laying there, and I.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Think this is a good time to talk to him
before the ambulance comes. He can't move, but he crosses
me up, he thinks. And while Sea's laid up with
his ankle all bandage, that Ada comes and sees him
and the way she puts her arms around him and
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kisses him.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I says, this is no place for me, so I
come away again.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I couldn't take it, but that only made it worse.
I should talk to him and see what I can
do for aiden him. So after a while he's well,
and I see him and Aida every once in a while,
and they yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
He treated her like she puts the way I wished
I could have treated her, and she headed up well.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
One night, Shuster goes into a movie. I saw the
movie before. You got a lot of time on your hands.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
When it goes usually you can get the movies free.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I followed them inside and Wiley was running the sign
on the screen and said next week hollow triumph.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I lean over close to him and I say, shoes there.
She whizzy went up like a balloon. People was hollering,
and he was hollering on the ashes coming the cops,
and they drug him away. Do you know what the
upshot of that was? He kept hollering to the cops
that he was haunted, and they thought he was touched
in the head, and they put him in a wagon.
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They took him out the psychopathic for observation. I sure
have made a mess out of things, didn't I? And
all I'm trying to do is be a good guy,
a good ghost timing, So come eating out the psychopathic.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I go, well, I want a place, and I hunt
high and low for shooter tolet's about two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Then I hear a kind of gargle. I think it's some.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Duar, and I go through a little door and oh boy,
there he is in a straight jacket. Well, for pity's sake, Shuster,
I says, stop it, I gonna hurt you.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
GIRs. They listened to me, Shoster. Don't you bust something? Now? Listen, Shoester,
listen to me. I ain't mad, nah Shoester, I ain't
mad at all. I want to kill me? What ain't
kill you, nah, Shoester. All I want to do is
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help you, don't, Shooter. Somebody will hear you. Look, I'm
only allowed to kill one person, see, Shuster. You ain't
allowed to kill the color that kills you. See. I
can only knock off one fella, and he has to
be a bad fellow.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I know you're kind of bad, but you can't be
all bad, Shooster. I'll say, they wouldn't love you, do
I say they love you, and do you love her?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's what I thought. Don't kill me? What listen? I said,
I wasn't going to kill you. I just want to
help you. Yeah, that goes can do lots of things. Shuster.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah you need money, shuster, Yeah yeah, bro. Yeah, well
you can't marry Ada without money.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah. I'll get you the money. I'm not kidding. Only
when you promised to marry Aida. As soon as you
get the money.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah. Well, I say it's okay then, And I reached
over and patted him on the forehead and he heat
himself up and the gang.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Come out of his mouth.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So I have to start all over again. I stepped
the thing back in his posts and all he can
tell you is there go, I go. And I lay
it all out to him again.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
He was found and determined. I was going to knock
him off. He must have had a yearly conscience or something.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But it was daylight when I finally told him a
Billy Goods look. I kept saying, it's Adam, think enough.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I want Ada to be happy. I have to help you.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
If I'm gonna help Aida, can't you see? And it was,
like I said, broad daylight, and I took the guy
away from him again, and I was already to put
it back.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
But okay, guys, okay, I believe it. You got to
believe me. But you gotta remember, if you hurt me,
you'll be hurting data. Guys. I don't know what Shuster.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Why else would I go to all this trouble. Heck shuster,
I love data. And he just looked at me funny,
and I said.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay, I'll need h Rollos next.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Wednesday night, and I come away. Rollers, I don't suppose
you ever been there.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Again lunch. I used to go there once in a
while when I was alive, pick.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Up a couple of dollars, shop and crats or something.
Shooster goes there a lot too.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Time, standing by the wheel.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When Shoster comes in, I'm just standing there, and of
course Shosta can't see me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
When it comes up. You stood there looking a minute.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Roller, GIVEM hello, Hello, s justter Tyrollo gets your bets down, gents,
just so you gotta.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Play seventeen what'd you say? I said, you gotta play,
get your money dollars said seventeen five? On seventeen our
best down that dog jents and I left the spinner man,
and I pushed his finger on just seventeen and I
stopped it seventeen. Hey, yeah, it's just there's.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It bets down jacks four four, one hundred dollars, one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh, gudge man, you said, spin the wheel.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I'll bets down around and round she goes, and like
she stops.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Nobody knows, nobody knows. I know he stops. Some four.
Oh wow, nice calls their Yeah, it is nice in it.
Eleven shoesters eleven, five hundred dollars. I get easy shoes.
Spin the wheel. There was an awful short spin Roller
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theodated about it. Stuff that far.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Hey Shuster, what ain't you got enough enough to marry Aida?
You went three times?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh come on, Gus, that's not quit yet, okay, thirteen
thirteen a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
At half past four in the morning, Roller declared that
the bank was busted Shuster and took every diamond a joint.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Well, Shuster would need a help.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
An He went out of that place with money sticking
out every pocket and his hat. Hey, Shuster, I said, well,
because you're terrific, I'm set for life.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You ain't set for life, Shuster, I said, not yet
you What do you mean you forgot about Aida? Aida? Oh?
Oh yeah, this story is to get married on Schuster.
Remember what do you know? Pretty did forget about Ada?
Can you measure that?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And so two days afterwards, Shuster and Nada driver over
the ground, point to a little justice of the peace,
and they get married.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
She was it was a happy day. Do that.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
S're looked pretty with her pompadoor on the new dress
and Carson Pirie's in her eyes shining, and she was
nervous and cute, and even Shoester looked pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
In a double breast of dream suit.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I got sentimental and I climb a ball stand there watching.
Only of course nobody knows I was there, and I thought, gee,
that might have been me.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Maybe I Only it's too late. I do and at
least I can do it to see that she has
everything she wants. I can do that.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I'm a con, I'm a ghost, and I can do
practice for anything. Every day of looking at taking about
the bus, she's so happy, and Sister hoping his arms
around her and grinning in the old JP grinning too,
and looking at the hundred dollar bill.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I couldn't help it. I stepped right up close. What's that, honey?
And it was only me, just in the brains. I
love you though, Oh sure, they was as happy as bumblebees.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Heck no, I wouldn't never intrude him to their privacy.
I never went to their house. When I used to
meet Schuster once in a while, and I'd.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Say, Sester, how they're going? Oh fine, guys, fine, well,
guys happy and not always.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
She's glad happy about it? And then one day I
meet Schuster and ask him the same question. He kind
of stutter and stammers.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
For a minute. Well, look, I s a don't want
something cold? Why don't you get her?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What? Well?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I yet, I'm not holding guys. I made a couple
of bad investments there.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So Shuster and me we busted the bank and rollers again.
ROLLERI wasn't very happy about it, but what could.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
The man do? It was his business, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And Ada was happy. I figured Showster hit me again.
When the islandon race season started.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I say, guys, can you do anything about horses? Like?
What you know? What's the matter? You broke again? No?
But I kind of like to get a new Carfarada,
But the name of.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Lollipopsy come into one hundred and thirty four to one,
and I nearly worn myself out flagging down the other horses.
Shuster he had two hundred dollars on Lollipopsy's nose. She
whis said, I'd ought to get two cars, both of
them coronium plated. Shuster said to me, Hey, gus, see,
I was always around some place that went no place
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for me to go. I kept trying the subway in
the elevated but no soap.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I was stuck, so I.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Stayed within calling distance. Made it was awful nice gee whiz,
Shuster said to me, said, guys, say, guys, what uh
you know the sweepstakes?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah? Well, what I got a ticket? Gee wish Uster?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, Ada, what's a house in lake Forest that cross bucks?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Wow, Well island is a nice place. But starting through
all of them ticket steps to find BB forty six.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Seven twenty eight twenty nine was quite the job of work.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What one hundred and ten thousand dollars you can buy
quite a jointing lique Forest for that kind of mola.
Oh boy, I thought it was doing all right, and
I'm glad even if shoes there is.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Getting to be kind of a paint in the neck.
Everything about this stock market gush. No, that's where the
guy could really clean up or lose his shirt.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Not with my little mask at my little towsy wellsie.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Who's that? You me? Sure? Well? I I don't know. Oh,
I guess you can do anything. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Ada wants to go to Mexico for the summer.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Well, oh boy, a million dollars. Guy, let's get another
million and another million? What Parker fit? He say? Why
for raider guys? Her birthday's tomorrow, right, boy? You know
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what I forgot that?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I used to buy her a box of the Mets candy,
or when I had the money to Penny May's.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And now I forgot her birthday. She whiz Well.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
First I went over to Los Alt Street, and I
went up to the stock Exchange, and I sent Consolidated
and something up eighty one points.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
And then I said to myself, I just got to
see it on her.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Birthday and see how happy she is. She and me
cold and a new automobile. I bet it's a rose
Roe the house in Lake Forest. Oh, she's in Mexico,
I thought, But I'll say happy birthday in Mexican. Even
that she won't hear it, and so.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
She wasn't in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I looked all over Lake Forest and there wasn't any
shoester living there.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And then I just thought, Ada, I wanna see Ada,
And that was right alongside her. Ada didn't have any mint.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Coat, she didn't have any automobiles. She was living in
a flat on Taylor Street, and there wasn't any eating
my house. There wasn't anything to eat either. She was
laying on a cotton. I hardly even recognized her. The
pompadoor was all stringy and kind of dirty gray.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And her eyes you had a black eye. She was sick,
she was hungry, she was lonesome. She was pretty close
to dyeing. How do you like that? My Aida and
shoesters of wheel horses.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Sweep steaks. The stock market a million dollars? I kids stated, Oh,
I need didn't know that was there.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I spoke my name.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
She laid back on the cope. She cried, I couldn't
take that. Gee, Where's I come away?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Shuster was in Rollos. Did I tell you? Roller had
some very tough customers around? And I did. I went
up to Schuster and they said Chester just there. I said,
Roller wants to see in his office. I'm busy. Guys,
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better go on interest her. There's something for you in there?
Is there? No go see? So Shuster went on in
and I after him. Rollo, where do you went? Rollo?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh he's dead, Shuster, look at that knife in his aspects. Yes,
got your name on it. I know you didn't, but
they'll think you did. Get out the big guy samn ah.
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Well the guy with the brass knocks Ralph, the guy
that bites me. I said, no, I've done.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It, Shuster. You sure remember I told you I was
allowed to knock.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Off one guy. One bad guy was an awful bad guy.
Should sorry you for that matter? Them guys like Rollo
an awful lot. What they'll do to a guy they
think killing? Lock from the outside, Shoester, the doors locked.
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The tough boys are coming.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Can you pray Shostery not to me? Shoes her so long, lad.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And I walked out just as the tough guys the
bodyguard of the dead man started hammering on the door.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I could still hearses to cry, and then moaned them
there and you know what. Out there in the big
room there was a set of stairs. I never seen before.
I started up the stairsteps and.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
There wasn't anybody to stop me. And I climbed up
and up and up, and the stairway went right on
up ahead of me, and there was somebody at the
top black comperability. Nya, nyes, what I'm not such a
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bad go stack?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Call am I.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is good Ghost
has written and directed by Willis Cooper. The man who
spoke to you was Ernest Chapel, and.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Murray Fobbes was Schuster, Ada was Ruth Last and Rollo
was played by Arthur Cole.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
As us your music for five pleased by Albert Burman.
Al for a word about next week here, as I'll
write a director, my good friend will Us Cooper, thank.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You for listening to Quiet Please for next week. I
have a sorry for you boy. It's called Calling All Souls,
and so until next week. At the same time, I
am quietly yours.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Ernest Chappell, and now a listening reminder.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The war against organized rackets makes for exciting and dramatic
entertainment and you can enjoy it every Sunday afternoon over
your ABC station. When David Harding, condor spy becomes involved
and another daring adventure with the underworld.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Don't miss this afternoon St.