December 28, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet Please for today is called Northern Lights.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
This is a story about the temporal displacement of mass.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It is also a story about teleportation. Do you know
what those terms mean?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I didn't think it did.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
But you stay right where you are, my charming friend,
and you're quite likely to find out.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You just stay right there and listen. Now.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'll tell you everything you want to know, and maybe,
well maybe a couple of.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Things you're not terribly anxious to know.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
See the Northern Lights.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Or Aura borealis is their right name. You don't see
them very often below the fiftieth parallel of latitude in
this country, but up in northern Minnesota and Canada, Upper
New York places like that, they're.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Quite common of the winter night. If you've seen them,
you know what they look like. If they haven't, there's
no use t trying to describe them. Sometimes they fill
the whole northern sky with waves of color, like a
fire burning way beyond the horizon. Sometimes they're just long
streamers of fire filling up the whole sky, And another
time they look like gigantic, cringed curtains of pure light,
(01:51):
swaying as if some cold cosmic breeze plucked at them,
way far off there, to the north. You can hear
them too, sometimes, well maybe not exactly hear them, but
there's a sound, a humming, that crackling somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Inside your head.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And there are times when you'd swear it's a voice
talking to you, talking in some kind of strange language
you can almost understand, filling your whole being with a
kind of desperate inescapable terror.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
At night, in the cold night, voice is talking and
saying things to you that you can almost understand, filling
the night sky with signs of.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Importance of inescapability.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And nobody, nobody in the whole world knows what they are,
nobody in this world, at least except me.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And after I get done talking.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To you, you'll know too, and you won't be happy.
Let me show you something now. This is from a
recording I made on let's see December thirteenth, nineteen forty eight,
a little more than a month a half ago. I
started the recorder while Norman and I were just about
(03:17):
finished with our work that afternoon here in the laboratory.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I just set the.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Microphone on top of the five cabinet there and turned
on the machine.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Listen, I'm going to play it back for you.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The quality isn't still very good, but you can recognize
my voice and the normans.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think here, I got.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
The club rewand now I guess I've got attested. When
I said I just got a reward almost six o'clock, Yeah,
we'll start that. I didn't realize the time.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Do you display the night? Just poke?
Speaker 7 (03:52):
How do I know?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Been a displayed the last three nights when I was
a diinger last night?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Woman?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, the machine wasn't ready.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Hey, listen, do you think you can do better than
I can't?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Ouch?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Finger?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I did?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Why did you put the conference cel fate?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I'm about to sink?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Wow, I got.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What are you doing testing the coral? It looks okay?
Hey wait a minute, Yeah, it's okay. I'll be right
with you. Ok it up. What do you understand? You're
trying my cigarette ladder? That will work anyway. I won't
miss it if we don't get it back.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
I don't know how to single work when the northern
lights aren't shining.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Maybe they aren't shining.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We're off the road line.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's see, all right, pretty early, I.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
What's the matter? He look.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Not earlier than that.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh bo, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
The whole sky look blue and yellow. I never saw
those long prinses. I'll say you turn on the recorder. Yeah,
it's turning over.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Now is the time for all good men to come.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
To the aid of their party.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Leave it alone that you about ready? Now, it's funny
about the Aurora northern lights. Remember what I told you.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
You can almost hear the darn things.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Not hear them, I mean, but it's it's kind of
like somebody talking to you in the language you can
you can almost understand.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't know. I mean, you ever notice this sure
high frequencies.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I guess some awful lot we don't understand.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Oh God, you'll go there at the recorder and talk
in the light talk.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, let's just describe what happens for the record.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Just say what you see so.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We'll have an accurate record.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, now go ahead.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
This is an expanidment in the temporal displacement of.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
A solid object.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
In other words, the first actual demonstration of a time machine.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If it works, it works all right.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
On Paul is now placing his old piece up cigarette
later on the stage of the Hyperchycambi later, and he
is now saying.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The micro chronometer to determine how far into the future
he's going to send the lighter.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Well, how far Paul?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ten seconds?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Ten seconds.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
At the end of that time, If our calculations are correct,
and we hope they are, the cigarette.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Later will reappear.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
In that period of time, it will have been into
the future. We could send it further into the future
if we wanted to, I guess, but we just have
to wait that much longer for time to catch up
with it and make it reappear. But ten seconds, well,
I mean, we can prove our point by sending it
ten seconds into the future just as well as ten
years ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And this where we don't have to wait so long.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Hey, I'm I don't fall.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
When Paul presses a little button, a singarette later returns
to nothing, that's not.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Rightet it'll be here.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, now it's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Mister Paul mcglegate, a famous mad Simeus, is about to
press the big old button and send his lighter into
the future.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Ready, Paul, here we go. Yeah, by.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Why gully it is gone.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It just disappeared. Dang like that close the mike fauls
over a tory.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Yeah, the written sign of the lighter of the little
stage on which Paul place it is empty, and it
tripped appear again. And that's the second for really good work.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Three two one.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It works. Oh man, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
On the lighter, old Paul. Oh, here it takes take
take a freezing.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Cold What do you mold.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
The turn things like a piece of ice? Where are
the difference?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
You're supposed it's been.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Caught up with it, Paul.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Look where did that come from?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
What they are on the stage where the lighter was.
Where did that come from? In the middle of winter?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Okay, it's a caterpillar.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Paul, A brown and black cate door.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Where do you suppose it came from?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I'll tell you where it came from, Paul. What it
came from the same place where the cigarette lighter went.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What are you talking about? Feels? First thing gets this gold.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
As ice too.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Her caterpillar, her little brown and black caterpillar, the kind
they call wooly bears, you know, lava of the tiger mothe.
I see Isabella in the dead of winter and as
cold as ice. Where did it come from?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You want to know?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Incidentally, you know the old timers say that the wooly
bear caterpillar is a weather prophet. If the brown bands
on his fur or narrow, there's a severe winter ahead.
If they're wide, it's going to be a mild winter.
And maybe this one you could.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Hardly see the brown band. It's tough weather ahead. That's
what the old timers would say. But where'd she come from?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
She wasn't there when we put the cigarette lader on
the stage. When time caught up again, there she was.
She sure, Isabella, I see her? Isabella good?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You remember well?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
She was wriggling happily when she arrived from her in
the future. But as she warmed up, she seemed to
go into a trance, almost a deathlike trance. So Norman said,
put her in the deep freeze. Maybe she'll come to
again in the cold. So we put her in the
deep trees, and in half an hour when we looked
(10:18):
in at her, she was wiggling happily at ten degrees
below zero, friend, can you tie that? My goodness, she
should have been frozen solid. Well, nothing special happened for
a couple of days. Not you remember it was a
month and a half ago, December thirteenth, nineteen forty eight.
Where were you on the night of December eighteenth, Saturday night,
(10:40):
a week before Christmas? I'd been Christmas shopping in the afternoon,
I remember, I came back to the laboratory to check
up on some stuff. Norman was there fiddling with things.
Hi and Alma said, how's Isabella?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know something funny? Paul? What's the matter with you? Me?
He looks so pale. You're sick?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Eat something disagree with you? Paul is a bella singing singing?
What's Abella singing?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You're dotty?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
He's singing the caterpillars singing, not tap dancing. I hope
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
The cut it out. Open the deep freezing listen. You've
been at the sea two h five.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Oh, I haven't had a drink since Thursday night. Well,
open the deep freezing listen.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No kidding, no kidden?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, we don't know where she came from. I won't
be surprised at anything. Hello is a bella don't do that,
no matter if French, She'll has to be back.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hello is a bella? Hey here you're singing.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I listen, Paul, I haven't lost my button. I've been
hearing it all afternoon. I couldn't figure out what was
doing it, and then I noticed it was louder alongside
deep freeze here, so I opened it up and stuck
my head inside, and it was coming from her.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
What does it sound like? No, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I mean it's kind of like a.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
A ei.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Didn't she say AEI O you? And sometimes why don't
written me? I tell you I heard it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I think you better take a Christmas vacation. I no kid,
I know, but listen, we've been playing around with some
pretty deep cosmic secrets, you and me. We've managed temporal displacement, which.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Nobody in the world has ever done. See, maybe we
both need a rest. You know what I think, Paul?
What I think? We've managed teleportation too, and we don't
know it.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Teleportation do you mean like Charles Sport talks about, I
mean transporting tangible objects from one place to another without
any mechanical means electronically.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I don't know, Paul.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
All I know is that that cigarette lighter was someplace
where it was awful cold, and it wasn't cold here
in this room. WHOA, And where did that caterpillar come from?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know it came from.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Wherever that cigarette lighter went.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Paul, But where I don't know? Somewhere?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And you know what, I'm going to find out where
it came from.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You are, and how may I ask you?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I'm going to.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Modify this gadget of ours, this hypercucanbulator, so it'll carry
a man, and then, my dear boss, I'm going to
sit down in it and have you send me out
there somewhere in time.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And space and come back and tell you all about it.
That's all for tonight. But come on, I'll take you
out and buy you drinks.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I'm not pooling, Paul.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Okay, okay, you're not pulling norm. Get your hat and
cold and come on. I prescribe hot buttered rum. Well,
turn off the lights, will turn off the lights. I
want hot buttered rum. Okay, okay, guys, look out of
that window.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Northern lights they really bright. Look how me, Paul, h up, down,
up down, norm up, fun look at the deep freeze
there in the dark. What about do you see it?
(14:14):
Light bulb light you get? I see it normal, it's right,
and step with the northern lights and the.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Same color red, red, blue, blue, hop down.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Up coming on the deep freeze where our little friend
Isabella was singing to you, Now.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What are you all listen? I don't listen. H We
(15:02):
never did get that hoot budded rum.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We stayed there in the laboratory for a long time,
listening to the voice of the thing a fox, endlessly repeating.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Aiou the vowel sounds of.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Our speech, and watching the light that pout stopped from
the depres and perfect rhythm with the flickering of and
all the lights were watching the wink. And we thought long,
long thoughts that I don't remember any too clearly now
I do know. We both of us thought of ways
to protect our little mechanism, our time machine, on a
machine that brought back a little cold, brown and black
(15:36):
caterpillar from sunder. And when it was morning and the
lights had faded from an autumn sky, we found that our.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Machine was very different. The stage where we found the.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Caterpillar was large enough. I had only a vague collection
of what had happened in the night.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I said to Norman. Norman, I said, what do we
do last? I don't know for sure? Could we rebuild
that thing? Make it lodge it?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I I thinks, well, I mean, I think I dreamed
I was working on it. I think I hit my
finger with a hammer, and I see hm, hmm, somem's
all bruised. Certainly looks it.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Nobody could have gotten in here.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
The door's locked. The machine is certainly different. This coil.
I look, if we wound it, would I do that?
The head hurts too. M I don't get it. I
don't either. I wish I could listen Norm what Maybe
(16:50):
we did change it?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But well, how could we have done all that by ourselves?
I've got an idea why. I maybe Isabella helped it
the caterpillar. Oh, let me shall we opened the DP bree.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well? I opened it. It was empty.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There wasn't any brown and black caterpillar.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
In the d deep tree. It took a flashlight and
looked over every inch of it. Stood there and looked
at each other for a whole minute.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Pauman said, well, I just shook my head and we
went over and sat down. All of a sudden, I said,
I found in on them. And as she was there
was little Isabella the caterpillar.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Crumpled up the stone, dead on the floor of the
labor time. Now you know, caterpillars have little, tiny paws,
and none of.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Isabella's paws was the end of a long piece of
wire that ran up to the generator coil. How did
she get out? And I said the thing couldn't be
opened from the inside. I said, it was fastened down type.
And I took a lit off just now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
But she did get out.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Maybe maybe she did help us, And I said, And
he just stopped there and stared at me. And I
got up and put on my overcoat.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Where are you going? Where are you going, Paul?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I said, I'm going to find out something wrong. Where
I'm going it's cold, I said, I know that, And
I'm going to find out what's been going on and
where that kind of put I came from. No, I'm
goggled at me. I stepped in the stage and the
machine was to take me away somewhere in time in
the space, I said, nor, I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Turn it on, but.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
He reached over and touched the switch. He didn't say
a word, and I braced myself. I nodded at him.
Go ahead, I said, and he pressed the switch. Nothing
happened at all.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Why I know, Paul, I know it's daylight and there
aren't any morthern life.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well it was just as well.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So I had a chance to think about it a little,
and I realized that justin overcoat wouldn't do me any
good where I might be going. And so when it
was dark night again and northern lights were flickering and
dancing in the sky, I put on a high altitude
aviators too, that had its own source of heat supply.
Robin shook his head as I got back on the stage.
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Nodded for him to press the switch.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Cold.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You've never been cold, friend, Dark. He wouldn't know how
dark at Candy, And I was standing on an immense
plane that stretched so far, so far into the distance,
the plane of snow and eternal ice.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
A dead, cold, white world, with the blackest sky above me.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
When the northern lights reached from horizon to horizon, even
through the high altitude suit, I could feel a biting cold.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I was afraid shivering me abjectly afraid.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The streamers of the Northern Lights reached down fart me
and wrapped without me. I heard the sound of voices
streaming into my mind. I could understand them. I wish
hardly had ever played around with plasmic horses. I yelled
inside the heavy helmet. I yelled, Norman Harmon, bring me back,
And there was nobody to hear me.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
No, I don't know what I was, and not the planet,
maybe the north cold. Maybe the lights were all around me.
Maybe that's where it was.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But he's the most terrible, awful, cold, lonely place you
could imagine in a hundred years. The lights and the
flickering living lights crawl up on me and.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Beat at me.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I could almost understand what they had seen. And then
the crash, sudden blackness. I was standing again in the
laboratory I'd left only a few short seconds ago, and
Normal was tearing at the fastenings of my suit and
beating at me with both hands. I wondered what in
the world he was doing until I got the helmet off.
(21:30):
He was rushing chattap to this offening thousands of cold, freezing, cold,
brown and black Isabella caterpillars. I wasn't dead for a week.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Or more, I don't know how long.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Wherever it was, I'd then, I'd barely frozen to death
in those short seconds, and at last I was able
to come back to the laboratory.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I sat there that night with Norman, and outside the
windows the northern lights.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Were try and they had ever been before, purple green, yellow,
black lights even and there was a new rhythm tonight.
What kind of cold almost words, flocks not quite formed,
and yet curiously disturbing. Romano didn't seem the beast disturbed
(22:23):
as I was. He just sat quietly. I looked at me.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Where did those caterpillars come from? Paul? I don't know
where I was? That's all I knew. Did you? Did
they attack you? Or? I don't know? They came from
the lights, the light, the northern lights. Where are they all?
A catepart? Yes?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Where are they in the deep freeze? Where Isabella was?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Poor Isabella? What's the matter with you? Paul? Listening listening
to what? Don't you hear them? I don't hear anything,
don't you I don't hear anything. Listen, listen, I don't
(23:17):
hear anything. Turn on the recording machine. I want to
see if we could pick up their voices. Turn it on.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I want to recording, quick, quick, numb, and they're talking
to us. Listen, friendly, I want to play another recording.
This is what came out of our tape recorder that
night when I was listening to the voices and Norman
(23:47):
couldn't hear anything.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Just listen, I still don't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Paul, I tell you, what's that? Look at the decrease.
The top's coming over. Look at the light around Paul.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Quiet?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
What how did they? Good?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Lord?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Look the catapillars are coming on.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Paul act it's lem.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
We'se still want me? But Paul your voice still?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I said, what's the matter with your voice?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
We want to talk? You know what you said?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
We why, of course, morm We prove for that.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It is Paul's voice.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Moment, Paul's voice voice, but it is not Paul speaking.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Listen.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
We speak to Paul, not Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
We the people of the lights, we from the cold.
We are speaking to you with Paul's voice. I tell you,
Paul's voice will tell you what to do. When the
time comes wrong me we go to the machine.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Paul's mind is ours for a little time.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Now we go to the machine, the machine that brought
us to your world.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
From the world of the lights. Who are you?
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Who are the people of the lights? To take over
this world of yours? Only this world of yours is
so hot. We must have the cold world, and we
know how to make a cold that's so No, No, quick, Norman,
turn on the machine. Send us to places in.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Your world, know our world.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Hurry, so hot, hurry, so hot, holl hurry, hurry, turn
on the machine.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's the end of the recording. No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't have any recollection of it at all. What
the recordings there isn't it? That must be what happened. Anyway,
when I woke up, Norman was gone, and there were
no catapults. Was in the place here and on machine,
my machine that took people and things away in the
time and space, it was wrecked.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I don't know why became. You heard what they said
about my voice.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They're going to take over this world or make it
a cold world like the one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
They came from, whatever that is. And wherever they went, No,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Where they went, where the machine sent them. I do
have ideas, Yes, are you cold. It's freezing in here.
And just for example, you read the papers, look at
the newsreas. Did you see the pictures of the snow
(26:49):
in Los Angeles, in subtropical Los Angeles where it hasn't
snowed for so many many years.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I wanted to buy it too. I wonder if anybody.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Sony Brown and black Woolie bear catculares in Los Angs
last Attiger love I see Isabella.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
M M.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The title of today's Quiet Face story is Northern Lights.
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper. The man
who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell, and.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
My laboratory assistant Raman was played by Dan Sutter. The
voices of Isabella and her friends is that of Cecil Roy.
As usual, music for Quiet Lease is played by Albert Berman.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now for a worried about next week? All right, a director,
my good friend Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to
quiet for next week. I have a story for it
that comes from the steel mills out South Chicago Way.
It's called Cat the Heat Bog done and so until
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next week.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
At the same time, I am quietly or Therenest Chapel,
And now a listening reminder, how are your predictions of
things to come?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
What's your batting average? Compare your average with a man
who has made predicting his business. Listen to Drew Pearson
tonight on ABC. This is ABC, the American broadcasting company
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet Please for today is called Northern Lights.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
This is a story about the temporal displacement of mass.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It is also a story about teleportation. Do you know
what those terms mean?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I didn't think it did.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
But you stay right where you are, my charming friend,
and you're quite likely to find out.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You just stay right there and listen. Now.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'll tell you everything you want to know, and maybe,
well maybe a couple of.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Things you're not terribly anxious to know.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
See the Northern Lights.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Or Aura borealis is their right name. You don't see
them very often below the fiftieth parallel of latitude in
this country, but up in northern Minnesota and Canada, Upper
New York places like that, they're.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Quite common of the winter night. If you've seen them,
you know what they look like. If they haven't, there's
no use t trying to describe them. Sometimes they fill
the whole northern sky with waves of color, like a
fire burning way beyond the horizon. Sometimes they're just long
streamers of fire filling up the whole sky, And another
time they look like gigantic, cringed curtains of pure light,
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swaying as if some cold cosmic breeze plucked at them,
way far off there, to the north. You can hear
them too, sometimes, well maybe not exactly hear them, but
there's a sound, a humming, that crackling somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Inside your head.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And there are times when you'd swear it's a voice
talking to you, talking in some kind of strange language
you can almost understand, filling your whole being with a
kind of desperate inescapable terror.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
At night, in the cold night, voice is talking and
saying things to you that you can almost understand, filling
the night sky with signs of.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Importance of inescapability.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And nobody, nobody in the whole world knows what they are,
nobody in this world, at least except me.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And after I get done talking.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To you, you'll know too, and you won't be happy.
Let me show you something now. This is from a
recording I made on let's see December thirteenth, nineteen forty eight,
a little more than a month a half ago. I
started the recorder while Norman and I were just about
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finished with our work that afternoon here in the laboratory.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I just set the.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Microphone on top of the five cabinet there and turned
on the machine.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Listen, I'm going to play it back for you.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The quality isn't still very good, but you can recognize
my voice and the normans.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think here, I got.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
The club rewand now I guess I've got attested. When
I said I just got a reward almost six o'clock, Yeah,
we'll start that. I didn't realize the time.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Do you display the night? Just poke?
Speaker 7 (03:52):
How do I know?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Been a displayed the last three nights when I was
a diinger last night?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Woman?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, the machine wasn't ready.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Hey, listen, do you think you can do better than
I can't?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Ouch?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Finger?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I did?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Why did you put the conference cel fate?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I'm about to sink?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Wow, I got.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What are you doing testing the coral? It looks okay?
Hey wait a minute, Yeah, it's okay. I'll be right
with you. Ok it up. What do you understand? You're
trying my cigarette ladder? That will work anyway. I won't
miss it if we don't get it back.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
I don't know how to single work when the northern
lights aren't shining.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Maybe they aren't shining.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We're off the road line.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's see, all right, pretty early, I.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
What's the matter? He look.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Not earlier than that.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh bo, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
The whole sky look blue and yellow. I never saw
those long prinses. I'll say you turn on the recorder. Yeah,
it's turning over.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Now is the time for all good men to come.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
To the aid of their party.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Leave it alone that you about ready? Now, it's funny
about the Aurora northern lights. Remember what I told you.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
You can almost hear the darn things.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Not hear them, I mean, but it's it's kind of
like somebody talking to you in the language you can
you can almost understand.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't know. I mean, you ever notice this sure
high frequencies.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I guess some awful lot we don't understand.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Oh God, you'll go there at the recorder and talk
in the light talk.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, let's just describe what happens for the record.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Just say what you see so.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We'll have an accurate record.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, now go ahead.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
This is an expanidment in the temporal displacement of.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
A solid object.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
In other words, the first actual demonstration of a time machine.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If it works, it works all right.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
On Paul is now placing his old piece up cigarette
later on the stage of the Hyperchycambi later, and he
is now saying.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The micro chronometer to determine how far into the future
he's going to send the lighter.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Well, how far Paul?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ten seconds?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Ten seconds.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
At the end of that time, If our calculations are correct,
and we hope they are, the cigarette.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Later will reappear.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
In that period of time, it will have been into
the future. We could send it further into the future
if we wanted to, I guess, but we just have
to wait that much longer for time to catch up
with it and make it reappear. But ten seconds, well,
I mean, we can prove our point by sending it
ten seconds into the future just as well as ten
years ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And this where we don't have to wait so long.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Hey, I'm I don't fall.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
When Paul presses a little button, a singarette later returns
to nothing, that's not.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Rightet it'll be here.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, now it's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Mister Paul mcglegate, a famous mad Simeus, is about to
press the big old button and send his lighter into
the future.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Ready, Paul, here we go. Yeah, by.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Why gully it is gone.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It just disappeared. Dang like that close the mike fauls
over a tory.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Yeah, the written sign of the lighter of the little
stage on which Paul place it is empty, and it
tripped appear again. And that's the second for really good work.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Three two one.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It works. Oh man, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
On the lighter, old Paul. Oh, here it takes take
take a freezing.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Cold What do you mold.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
The turn things like a piece of ice? Where are
the difference?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
You're supposed it's been.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Caught up with it, Paul.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Look where did that come from?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
What they are on the stage where the lighter was.
Where did that come from? In the middle of winter?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Okay, it's a caterpillar.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Paul, A brown and black cate door.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Where do you suppose it came from?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I'll tell you where it came from, Paul. What it
came from the same place where the cigarette lighter went.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What are you talking about? Feels? First thing gets this gold.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
As ice too.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Her caterpillar, her little brown and black caterpillar, the kind
they call wooly bears, you know, lava of the tiger mothe.
I see Isabella in the dead of winter and as
cold as ice. Where did it come from?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You want to know?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Incidentally, you know the old timers say that the wooly
bear caterpillar is a weather prophet. If the brown bands
on his fur or narrow, there's a severe winter ahead.
If they're wide, it's going to be a mild winter.
And maybe this one you could.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Hardly see the brown band. It's tough weather ahead. That's
what the old timers would say. But where'd she come from?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
She wasn't there when we put the cigarette lader on
the stage. When time caught up again, there she was.
She sure, Isabella, I see her? Isabella good?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You remember well?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
She was wriggling happily when she arrived from her in
the future. But as she warmed up, she seemed to
go into a trance, almost a deathlike trance. So Norman said,
put her in the deep freeze. Maybe she'll come to
again in the cold. So we put her in the
deep trees, and in half an hour when we looked
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in at her, she was wiggling happily at ten degrees
below zero, friend, can you tie that? My goodness, she
should have been frozen solid. Well, nothing special happened for
a couple of days. Not you remember it was a
month and a half ago, December thirteenth, nineteen forty eight.
Where were you on the night of December eighteenth, Saturday night,
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a week before Christmas? I'd been Christmas shopping in the afternoon,
I remember, I came back to the laboratory to check
up on some stuff. Norman was there fiddling with things.
Hi and Alma said, how's Isabella?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know something funny? Paul? What's the matter with you? Me?
He looks so pale. You're sick?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Eat something disagree with you? Paul is a bella singing singing?
What's Abella singing?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You're dotty?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
He's singing the caterpillars singing, not tap dancing. I hope
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
The cut it out. Open the deep freezing listen. You've
been at the sea two h five.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Oh, I haven't had a drink since Thursday night. Well,
open the deep freezing listen.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No kidding, no kidden?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, we don't know where she came from. I won't
be surprised at anything. Hello is a bella don't do that,
no matter if French, She'll has to be back.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hello is a bella? Hey here you're singing.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I listen, Paul, I haven't lost my button. I've been
hearing it all afternoon. I couldn't figure out what was
doing it, and then I noticed it was louder alongside
deep freeze here, so I opened it up and stuck
my head inside, and it was coming from her.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
What does it sound like? No, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I mean it's kind of like a.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
A ei.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Didn't she say AEI O you? And sometimes why don't
written me? I tell you I heard it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I think you better take a Christmas vacation. I no kid,
I know, but listen, we've been playing around with some
pretty deep cosmic secrets, you and me. We've managed temporal displacement, which.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Nobody in the world has ever done. See, maybe we
both need a rest. You know what I think, Paul?
What I think? We've managed teleportation too, and we don't
know it.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Teleportation do you mean like Charles Sport talks about, I
mean transporting tangible objects from one place to another without
any mechanical means electronically.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I don't know, Paul.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
All I know is that that cigarette lighter was someplace
where it was awful cold, and it wasn't cold here
in this room. WHOA, And where did that caterpillar come from?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know it came from.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Wherever that cigarette lighter went.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Paul, But where I don't know? Somewhere?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And you know what, I'm going to find out where
it came from.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You are, and how may I ask you?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I'm going to.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Modify this gadget of ours, this hypercucanbulator, so it'll carry
a man, and then, my dear boss, I'm going to
sit down in it and have you send me out
there somewhere in time.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And space and come back and tell you all about it.
That's all for tonight. But come on, I'll take you
out and buy you drinks.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I'm not pooling, Paul.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Okay, okay, you're not pulling norm. Get your hat and
cold and come on. I prescribe hot buttered rum. Well,
turn off the lights, will turn off the lights. I
want hot buttered rum. Okay, okay, guys, look out of
that window.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Northern lights they really bright. Look how me, Paul, h up, down,
up down, norm up, fun look at the deep freeze
there in the dark. What about do you see it?
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Light bulb light you get? I see it normal, it's right,
and step with the northern lights and the.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Same color red, red, blue, blue, hop down.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Up coming on the deep freeze where our little friend
Isabella was singing to you, Now.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What are you all listen? I don't listen. H We
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never did get that hoot budded rum.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We stayed there in the laboratory for a long time,
listening to the voice of the thing a fox, endlessly repeating.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Aiou the vowel sounds of.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Our speech, and watching the light that pout stopped from
the depres and perfect rhythm with the flickering of and
all the lights were watching the wink. And we thought long,
long thoughts that I don't remember any too clearly now
I do know. We both of us thought of ways
to protect our little mechanism, our time machine, on a
machine that brought back a little cold, brown and black
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caterpillar from sunder. And when it was morning and the
lights had faded from an autumn sky, we found that our.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Machine was very different. The stage where we found the.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Caterpillar was large enough. I had only a vague collection
of what had happened in the night.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I said to Norman. Norman, I said, what do we
do last? I don't know for sure? Could we rebuild
that thing? Make it lodge it?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I I thinks, well, I mean, I think I dreamed
I was working on it. I think I hit my
finger with a hammer, and I see hm, hmm, somem's
all bruised. Certainly looks it.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Nobody could have gotten in here.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
The door's locked. The machine is certainly different. This coil.
I look, if we wound it, would I do that?
The head hurts too. M I don't get it. I
don't either. I wish I could listen Norm what Maybe
(16:50):
we did change it?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But well, how could we have done all that by ourselves?
I've got an idea why. I maybe Isabella helped it
the caterpillar. Oh, let me shall we opened the DP bree.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well? I opened it. It was empty.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There wasn't any brown and black caterpillar.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
In the d deep tree. It took a flashlight and
looked over every inch of it. Stood there and looked
at each other for a whole minute.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Pauman said, well, I just shook my head and we
went over and sat down. All of a sudden, I said,
I found in on them. And as she was there
was little Isabella the caterpillar.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Crumpled up the stone, dead on the floor of the
labor time. Now you know, caterpillars have little, tiny paws,
and none of.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Isabella's paws was the end of a long piece of
wire that ran up to the generator coil. How did
she get out? And I said the thing couldn't be
opened from the inside. I said, it was fastened down type.
And I took a lit off just now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
But she did get out.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Maybe maybe she did help us, And I said, And
he just stopped there and stared at me. And I
got up and put on my overcoat.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Where are you going? Where are you going, Paul?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I said, I'm going to find out something wrong. Where
I'm going it's cold, I said, I know that, And
I'm going to find out what's been going on and
where that kind of put I came from. No, I'm
goggled at me. I stepped in the stage and the
machine was to take me away somewhere in time in
the space, I said, nor, I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Turn it on, but.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
He reached over and touched the switch. He didn't say
a word, and I braced myself. I nodded at him.
Go ahead, I said, and he pressed the switch. Nothing
happened at all.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Why I know, Paul, I know it's daylight and there
aren't any morthern life.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well it was just as well.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So I had a chance to think about it a little,
and I realized that justin overcoat wouldn't do me any
good where I might be going. And so when it
was dark night again and northern lights were flickering and
dancing in the sky, I put on a high altitude
aviators too, that had its own source of heat supply.
Robin shook his head as I got back on the stage.
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Nodded for him to press the switch.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Cold.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You've never been cold, friend, Dark. He wouldn't know how
dark at Candy, And I was standing on an immense
plane that stretched so far, so far into the distance,
the plane of snow and eternal ice.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
A dead, cold, white world, with the blackest sky above me.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
When the northern lights reached from horizon to horizon, even
through the high altitude suit, I could feel a biting cold.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I was afraid shivering me abjectly afraid.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The streamers of the Northern Lights reached down fart me
and wrapped without me. I heard the sound of voices
streaming into my mind. I could understand them. I wish
hardly had ever played around with plasmic horses. I yelled
inside the heavy helmet. I yelled, Norman Harmon, bring me back,
And there was nobody to hear me.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
No, I don't know what I was, and not the planet,
maybe the north cold. Maybe the lights were all around me.
Maybe that's where it was.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But he's the most terrible, awful, cold, lonely place you
could imagine in a hundred years. The lights and the
flickering living lights crawl up on me and.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Beat at me.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I could almost understand what they had seen. And then
the crash, sudden blackness. I was standing again in the
laboratory I'd left only a few short seconds ago, and
Normal was tearing at the fastenings of my suit and
beating at me with both hands. I wondered what in
the world he was doing until I got the helmet off.
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He was rushing chattap to this offening thousands of cold, freezing, cold,
brown and black Isabella caterpillars. I wasn't dead for a week.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Or more, I don't know how long.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Wherever it was, I'd then, I'd barely frozen to death
in those short seconds, and at last I was able
to come back to the laboratory.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I sat there that night with Norman, and outside the
windows the northern lights.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Were try and they had ever been before, purple green, yellow,
black lights even and there was a new rhythm tonight.
What kind of cold almost words, flocks not quite formed,
and yet curiously disturbing. Romano didn't seem the beast disturbed
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as I was. He just sat quietly. I looked at me.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Where did those caterpillars come from? Paul? I don't know
where I was? That's all I knew. Did you? Did
they attack you? Or? I don't know? They came from
the lights, the light, the northern lights. Where are they all?
A catepart? Yes?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Where are they in the deep freeze? Where Isabella was?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Poor Isabella? What's the matter with you? Paul? Listening listening
to what? Don't you hear them? I don't hear anything,
don't you I don't hear anything. Listen, listen, I don't
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hear anything. Turn on the recording machine. I want to
see if we could pick up their voices. Turn it on.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I want to recording, quick, quick, numb, and they're talking
to us. Listen, friendly, I want to play another recording.
This is what came out of our tape recorder that
night when I was listening to the voices and Norman
(23:47):
couldn't hear anything.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Just listen, I still don't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Paul, I tell you, what's that? Look at the decrease.
The top's coming over. Look at the light around Paul.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Quiet?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
What how did they? Good?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Lord?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Look the catapillars are coming on.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Paul act it's lem.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
We'se still want me? But Paul your voice still?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I said, what's the matter with your voice?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
We want to talk? You know what you said?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
We why, of course, morm We prove for that.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It is Paul's voice.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Moment, Paul's voice voice, but it is not Paul speaking.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Listen.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
We speak to Paul, not Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
We the people of the lights, we from the cold.
We are speaking to you with Paul's voice. I tell you,
Paul's voice will tell you what to do. When the
time comes wrong me we go to the machine.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Paul's mind is ours for a little time.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Now we go to the machine, the machine that brought
us to your world.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
From the world of the lights. Who are you?
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Who are the people of the lights? To take over
this world of yours? Only this world of yours is
so hot. We must have the cold world, and we
know how to make a cold that's so No, No, quick, Norman,
turn on the machine. Send us to places in.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Your world, know our world.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Hurry, so hot, hurry, so hot, holl hurry, hurry, turn
on the machine.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's the end of the recording. No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't have any recollection of it at all. What
the recordings there isn't it? That must be what happened. Anyway,
when I woke up, Norman was gone, and there were
no catapults. Was in the place here and on machine,
my machine that took people and things away in the
time and space, it was wrecked.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I don't know why became. You heard what they said
about my voice.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They're going to take over this world or make it
a cold world like the one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
They came from, whatever that is. And wherever they went, No,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Where they went, where the machine sent them. I do
have ideas, Yes, are you cold. It's freezing in here.
And just for example, you read the papers, look at
the newsreas. Did you see the pictures of the snow
(26:49):
in Los Angeles, in subtropical Los Angeles where it hasn't
snowed for so many many years.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I wanted to buy it too. I wonder if anybody.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Sony Brown and black Woolie bear catculares in Los Angs
last Attiger love I see Isabella.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
M M.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The title of today's Quiet Face story is Northern Lights.
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper. The man
who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell, and.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
My laboratory assistant Raman was played by Dan Sutter. The
voices of Isabella and her friends is that of Cecil Roy.
As usual, music for Quiet Lease is played by Albert Berman.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now for a worried about next week? All right, a director,
my good friend Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to
quiet for next week. I have a story for it
that comes from the steel mills out South Chicago Way.
It's called Cat the Heat Bog done and so until
(28:31):
next week.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
At the same time, I am quietly or Therenest Chapel,
And now a listening reminder, how are your predictions of
things to come?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
What's your batting average? Compare your average with a man
who has made predicting his business. Listen to Drew Pearson
tonight on ABC. This is ABC, the American broadcasting company
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