December 22, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The American Podcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapple.
Your Quiet Please story for tonight takes its name from
the title of the series, Quiet Please. There are books left,
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many books, and I suppose I have read them all.
I remember things too. I remember a long white road
between the shoulders of the hills and the distant clusters
of the live oaks, against the uplands beyond.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And the wide, light blue of the sky.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There was a wind that wandered the edges of the hills,
that brought the salt smell of the sea, so that
it mingled with the loamy scent of the grass, and
made a perfume that I had not smelt in so
many years. There was a great plain where the hills
fell away in tumbled, rocky magnificence.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
A plain all cut into green and brown and.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yellowing squares, and a little stream with bridges of stone,
that strolled its way across the wide plain and sparkled
at last into the distant western ocean. There was life
on the hills and on the plains, the field beasts
that moved serenely through the pleasant grasses and rested at
noon into the shadowed kindness of the green.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Gray oaks.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
There were men and cheerful women in the white walled
houses where the road curved, and the children that played
noisily and sweetly in the cottage dooryards.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I long since dust.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Shall I tell you of the graceful beaches where the
sound of the surf was a measured, majestic melody we
thought would never cease. Shall I speak of the great
ships prone upon the breast of the ocean, the ships
that are seen no more?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Would you hear?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Of the wind whipt nights, and the lightning in the forests,
and the general rain in the dawn time?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Would you remember and not forget? I remember I alone.
Remember this was a temple. From this a place dedicated
to the arts.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
From there, where the waves fed up on the beach,
the shattered walls of stone we made remained to mock us.
From there, where the white road was is the destination.
The winds died down, and the sun waves and the
moon is sickly. Yet I remember the lights on the hillsides,
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and the stars above.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Them, wheelding their ancient way across the sky.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There was a day when I could name them all,
they seem very far away tonight, Antaris, and better goose now,
debrahon Arcturis, and vegan procyon in these days, Orion the
mighty hundred draws away from us, and the glory of
Berenice's hair is dimmed. In the heavens, I would welcome
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the sound of the thunder again on the horizon, But
all the manifestations of nature are ended, and only the
twilight of eternity remains.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Above the bleakness.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I would welcome the voice of a hungry wolf even
this night, or the hiss of the serpents that once
we hated, that once we trampled upon.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I would welcome even the voice of old Krogue, and
listen with.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Delight, who laugh happily to hear him tell again the
schemes he dreamed that brought us today.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That men cannot live without wars amongst themselves, why should
not we be the ones to win the war? Every
man plots against every other, and men speak of honor
and laws and fair fighting.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But if a war is to be won, then go
away with.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Fairness and honor, and let us win and be the master.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And they are sleeps.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, I could laugh to hear that voice, and to
see those hard black eyes glitter again in the light
of the little lamps. I could take old krog and
lift them up and say, look upon your work, old krog,
your work and mine, and the work of all of
those who could not live without wars. The krog is
dust and may not speak, and for a little time
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while I live, the dust shall speak its final words
to those who would listen.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It was a fair world, our world, and I would
not happy believe.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That all who dwelt in it were like old Krogue,
plotting wars and seeding the countrysides with discontent.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We knew love, too, and all the virtues, some of
them we even practiced.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I am old now, and my speech is set in
somber ways, for I have looked on somber things for long.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But there was a time when I was young in
this very world, and my speech was the speech of
the young of every world, careless, gay, happy. And there
was one whose speech was like mine, young and gay
and very dear to me morn.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There was a night on the shores of a lake
when there was music and laughter and light. Somewhere in
the distance, and we sat along together, and I remember
I would speak, but more than I laid a hand
on my lips and laugh.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And for a long time there was only the music,
and we watched the stars tour. You love me, silly question?
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Do you? What do you think.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Now? What I think?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I don't think? You love me very much? If you don't,
maybe you love me? You would kiss me?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, lean over this way?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Why you concede it?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You hear the one wanted to be kissed?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, I don't anymore? All right, just for that you're
going to get kissed.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
H come here?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Oh look you're moping, myne Please.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I ty you do it? Just don't any words to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh. Then the music began again, and we sat silently,
and the stars moved above us.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The stars are so beautiful to Ye're not all stars?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
What?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
What are them?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Some of the planets? All my Sure.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
You suppose there are people and some of the other
plans Probably that's the nearest one, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I think?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
So you suppose there are people there? I would know
people that look like us and have music and and
knights like you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Nobody on earth good have a night like this?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You no, I mean it too.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Do you suppose they have houses and automobiles and wonderful
stores like ours, and they have babies like we do
and everything, and they're.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Probably eighty feet tall and have six sons and sixteen
Oh no, no, Well.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Someday they'll come roaring out of space that is in
terrific big spaceships and disintegrated guns and and.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
We'll say boot and they'll all turn around and go
right back where they came from.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Maybe they will, and maybe they won't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What would we do if they invaded us? Fool?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Why?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I hope we're not alive when it happened, yes?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Or do I?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Oh, maybe they'd be.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't kid yourself about that.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I wonder what they call our world?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Why? Probably the same thing we do? Mark for sure?
Why not? After all, it is marked, isn't it. Oh? No,
we were not eighty feet tall either. We did not
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have six arms or sixteen highs, and we didn't dream
of conquering your world either. We were like you. We
were human.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Beings too, and we lived and loved and worked and
died very much as you do. Look upon your own earth.
If you would see us as we were, stand at
your window tonight and look out upon the lights of
your fellow beings homes, look upon the faces of your
sleeping children, and see the reflection of ours. Lets your
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mind's eye wander across your oceans, beyond your mouth, and
see all the lights of the world and its darknesses.
In the sunrising, and and beyond much your thoughts. Dwell
upon the people of your earth, and you shall know
us as we were, neither happierness sadder, neither better, no worse,
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Oh Krogue, the prophet of war, muttering away of disaster,
might be one of your own. Marna, with her golden
hair and her laughing eyes. Might be the girl you
passed unseeing in the street this afternoon, and the triumphal
arts to a long dead general brooding above a little
park in the city where children race and shot. Might
be the one who stood in the city in another world,
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one hundred yards from where I speak to you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And here.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No stone remains upon another Oh Krogue has said that
wars are inevitable?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Have you found it so?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
In the years when I was a reporter for a
great newspaper, I sat in his study and heard him
speak to us, and through us, to all our world.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Is written from the standpoint of the winners of the wars.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And thus wars are essential to the progress of the race.
Had our enemies won in the last war, then their
cause would have proved the just one, and we I,
losing would have been in the wrong. For future events
would then have shaped themselves upon the basis of their winning,
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and the.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Decision would have been irrevitable.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Future would be changed, our nation's bid for leadership forgotten,
and thus it will always be.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And then there was silence in the room for a
little time, and at last I spoke, doctor Krog, I said,
doctor Krog, well Son, doctor Krog.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Fifty years ago we fought a war, were we right?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
We won, And by winning we've charted the course of
history in the fifty years since. Had they won, the
last fifty years might have been very different. And Quitch
is right, Quack is right, son, and Quak is wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then another war came against another nation, and the
ones we had defeated before were allied with us. And
no crow made notes in the Great Black Book that
was one day to be published to all our world,
and no.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Man's eyes of his have seen it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But the sands are running out let me speak of
the things that have perished our cities, where people worked
at a hundred occupations, and the muddied brown slums of
the cities.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And the great green parks.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Go up tomorrow in your own city and set your
feet upon the smooth concrete of the sidewalk. See the
gleaming windows, and marvel at the wonders within them that
you men have created. What's the garment of the passer by?
And joy to know that this too, this humble thing,
man is created. And know that I too have done
these things, and that I have seen man destroy them,
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and that I helped. Do you know the good black
smell of the mold of the earth in springtime? Will
your heart leap at the first green shoots of the
body that lies in that earth? Have you seen the
lilies and heard the bells of your churches? My bells
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rang in my world once the flowers bloomed, and men
laughed and sang and hated. We have run our course,
the course we chose, back to the ineffable dust from
which we sprang.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And there was another time when Mauna, when I had
been married for many years, and the war that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Had raged across our world had at last flickered out
and died. Who sat long at table at night silently,
each of us dreaming of a world purged by fire
and sword and full again are the promise of peace
and perhaps happiness.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I'm glad you didn't have to go to her.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I suppose I shouldn't say so, but I am too.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You're not a coward to her.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I don't think I am warner.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But now we can get started all over again.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We need so many things we haven't been able to get.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I can hardly wait to go.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, at least we can afford them, some of them.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
It's just a shame, isn't it what I hate those people,
the things they've done to us, All those boys dead in.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Our cities small, and we lost the warm and we
killed plenty of the Yes we did. We should have
killed them all.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Quiet, Please do all right.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You're always saying that, go to shot me up.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It help, doesn't it. I suppose if we could have
only said it to them when the war started. Quiet, Please,
they have gone away.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We said it all right, only in a different way.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yes, he'll be quiet for a long time, some of
them and some of us. Who's that? Yeah? I know
a good way to find out where you go.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
I've got my email. Well, hello, Dale, we are you Dale?
When did you get back?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Just now?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm wonner, I'm home. Hey, don't break my rib. It's
great to see your boys. Oh excuse me, Well I
wondered when you were going to pay attention. I'm sorry.
Well who I want you to meet?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
My wife?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
How wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Ray.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is my sister Morna and her husband, my brother
in law, tork ayre you dying?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Thank you, thank you, it's so nice to know.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Dave's well come in, come on. Oh, I'm so glad
to see you. Do and go ahead, thank you we
have We haven't heard from you for so long. There
we were beginning to get work. I was all right,
didn't get a scratch. Say, price looks not the same.
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Where's old chef?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He died last Summerdale. Oh I'm sorry about that. He
was the greatest dog in the world.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Ray, Well, sit down, have you had some? Wouldn't you
like some coffee? Room? I was loved Make some fresh?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
No, this will be fine.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I'm finding it hard to get used to coffee again.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well, how is the Wardale? I got all the war?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I want that coffee deal.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Thank you, sister.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
God.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
She hasn't had much coffee the last seven years. Why you,
poor thing? Why not Dale Warment and she had coffee?
I'd better tell.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Them, dear, tell us, well, Ray was one of our enemies.
What do you mean by that? Dale? She? Yes? Should
we go there?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Thanks for the coffee, runer, of course. Where are you going,
my sir town sister?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Do you think i'd from my brand new sister in
law of my house? Come on, let's go make some
fresh coffee blossom?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And in the early hours of the morning, I was
awakened by mourners sobbing. I put my arm around her.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Oh that's sports laughs.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It actually thought we were going to turn her und
Oh two?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
How can people thinks the dreadful thoughts of us?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And she's so sweet?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, I have never solved the problem either, why people
can love individually and hate collectively. And the children of
Ray and Dale were very dear to me, no different
from the other children who played with him in our yard,
who went to school with them, mo.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Read history with them. I suppose it's only strangers we hate.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
For Ray was the daughter of the nation we had
fought bitterly with Yet when our friends became acquainted, whether
they too grew to love her. And some of those
who wept most bitterly at her funeral were the ones
who at first had pointed her out as the enemy woman.
Well Krogue said, wars are inevitable. Perhaps they are. There
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has never been a year in all the thousand centuries
of our recorded history when there has not been a
war in some part of our planet. And always history
told us men have been striving for a means to
end it. A war to end war, they said, a
war to end war. They achieved it. They ended everything.
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Wars had grown more and more destructive, and at last
men laid wicked fingers upon secrets that were.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not for men, And all men of.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
All was pride at the locks that nature set upon
our deepest secrets, seeking the power that was never intended
for them. And step by tedious step they came to
the final awful knowledge, to the very corridor of creation
and of destruction. Ours was a fair world, I said.
There was beauty in everything, Beauty in the mornings and
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in the red sunsets, Beauty in the long, low hills
and the mountains that bore themselves majestically aloof above us,
and beauty too in the humble things of our world,
the simple, unnoticed things that had haunt my memory to night,
the turning wheel, in the flight of a bird, the
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sound of a train whistled in the night, the rustle
the wind in the trees, and unforgettably the voices of people,
the voice of all krog.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Now we have the supreme wealth, there is no defense,
and no on them will bring us undisputed mastery of
all the planets.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But why should we be masters of the world? Why
should any one people be the masters? Is it not
written how good and how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And said that cannot then practiced it?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
And the voice of Mona there will never be any
more war after this next one tour.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Every one of our enemies will be destroyed, and we'll
live happily. Ever after, no.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Mourner, there never will be war again. There never will
be anything again.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
For now Morner men have plotted against the green hillsides
and the towering mountains. They have declared war upon the
flowers and the grass and the forests. They have made
our planet an offer on which to sacrifice us all.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
In the voice of Deal, I'll not go to war again.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
If they bring it to me, I'll fight, but they'll
have to bring.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It to me.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They brought it to your Deal, They brought it to
your very home, to your doorstep, to the gay little
blue and white curtains at your windows.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And you died before you knew it.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
In the voice of Ray, the displaced person, the Asian
and a strange land.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Who is my enemy? Now?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
There was my enemy once?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And you and Lorna.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Well my own people, as surely as if I had
been born among you?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Who will be my enemy? When this new voice don.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You will have no enemy, Ray, for there will be
none left to hate or to love. Fortunate for you
that you died before the war came. Your last sight
was of the faces of those who loved you, and
my own voice speaking to you at long last, remembering
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the thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We had of you, of towering, eighty foot giants swarming.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Down upon us out of the cold black reaches of space,
seeking to prey upon us and conquer us and at
last destroy us.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Did you have thoughts of us as demons too?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Did you think because we were another world we must
be monsters ravening for your blood.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We were not. We were people like you, older perhaps,
but with the the same instincts you have, the very same.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
We growed in the summertime, in the white winters. We
loved individually and hated collectively as you do. We lived,
we fought, we died. Here Astronomers have watched us for
so many years, speculating on the possibility of life here. Well,
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there was life, great cities, wide, peaceful farms, tall lands
holding back the might of great rivers, great deserts flowering
in the spring, with all the dazzling lavishness that can
be packed into a brief span of life.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We had rivers and oceans and lakes, forests and deep.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Valleys, great monuments to our dead, giant buildings to house
our living. We had music and books, and great schools
and statesmen. Are astronomers tell you of the canals that
cover our planet. I saw those owls created. I saw
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the solid earth splash and boil beneath me. I saw
the mountains melt in the rivers of molten fiery stone.
I saw a great twenty mushrooms of cloudy rough from
the floor of the ocean. And I smelt destruction near
at hand. Yes, there will be no more wars on
our planet. There is only silence and cold.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And dust.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There was once a people in the civilization. There is
only one man. I tore the last man of Mars
to say the last words. The two looms that circle
our planet are rising now Faubas and de Moss, fear
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and madness. Death himself muches back to the black grape cavern,
and he pauses beside me to lay his icy fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Upon my arm.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Is the end of the world and the people that
you might have mistaken for your very selves. Honorous at last,
with your silence at the end, and pray, friends of Earth,
Pray not for us, for that is too late.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Pray for yourselves. Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You have listened Quiet Please, which is written and directed
by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was
Ernest Chapel, and I was in the cast where Floyd
Buckley as Krogue Vinton Hayworth's Dale a Lot of Stavskys
ray Manna was played by Paulia Morgan Miss Ernest Chapel.
Music for Quiet Please is by Albert Berman. His present
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series of Quiet Please comes to an end with this
broadcast after more than two years. We've enjoyed bringing these
stories to you. Thanks for your comments. My personal gratitude
to my friend and associate Bill Cooper for his writing,
console and cooperation.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Here he is Bill Cooper, Thank you for listening to
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Thank you, Chappie, Thank you, Bill mcclinteck, thank you Bert Berman,
thank you, Bob Docherty, and thank you all your people.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I hope we'll meet against some kind.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
M h.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I was interested in the Quiet Please themes based on
the second movement of the sas I Franky Minor Symphony.
So the last time this a furnist chapel saying quietly yours.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
H m hm.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
M hmmm.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Mm hmmmm. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. H
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The American Podcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapple.
Your Quiet Please story for tonight takes its name from
the title of the series, Quiet Please. There are books left,
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many books, and I suppose I have read them all.
I remember things too. I remember a long white road
between the shoulders of the hills and the distant clusters
of the live oaks, against the uplands beyond.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And the wide, light blue of the sky.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There was a wind that wandered the edges of the hills,
that brought the salt smell of the sea, so that
it mingled with the loamy scent of the grass, and
made a perfume that I had not smelt in so
many years. There was a great plain where the hills
fell away in tumbled, rocky magnificence.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
A plain all cut into green and brown and.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yellowing squares, and a little stream with bridges of stone,
that strolled its way across the wide plain and sparkled
at last into the distant western ocean. There was life
on the hills and on the plains, the field beasts
that moved serenely through the pleasant grasses and rested at
noon into the shadowed kindness of the green.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Gray oaks.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
There were men and cheerful women in the white walled
houses where the road curved, and the children that played
noisily and sweetly in the cottage dooryards.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I long since dust.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Shall I tell you of the graceful beaches where the
sound of the surf was a measured, majestic melody we
thought would never cease. Shall I speak of the great
ships prone upon the breast of the ocean, the ships
that are seen no more?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Would you hear?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Of the wind whipt nights, and the lightning in the forests,
and the general rain in the dawn time?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Would you remember and not forget? I remember I alone.
Remember this was a temple. From this a place dedicated
to the arts.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
From there, where the waves fed up on the beach,
the shattered walls of stone we made remained to mock us.
From there, where the white road was is the destination.
The winds died down, and the sun waves and the
moon is sickly. Yet I remember the lights on the hillsides,
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and the stars above.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Them, wheelding their ancient way across the sky.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There was a day when I could name them all,
they seem very far away tonight, Antaris, and better goose now,
debrahon Arcturis, and vegan procyon in these days, Orion the
mighty hundred draws away from us, and the glory of
Berenice's hair is dimmed. In the heavens, I would welcome
(03:30):
the sound of the thunder again on the horizon, But
all the manifestations of nature are ended, and only the
twilight of eternity remains.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Above the bleakness.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I would welcome the voice of a hungry wolf even
this night, or the hiss of the serpents that once
we hated, that once we trampled upon.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I would welcome even the voice of old Krogue, and
listen with.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Delight, who laugh happily to hear him tell again the
schemes he dreamed that brought us today.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That men cannot live without wars amongst themselves, why should
not we be the ones to win the war? Every
man plots against every other, and men speak of honor
and laws and fair fighting.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But if a war is to be won, then go
away with.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Fairness and honor, and let us win and be the master.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And they are sleeps.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, I could laugh to hear that voice, and to
see those hard black eyes glitter again in the light
of the little lamps. I could take old krog and
lift them up and say, look upon your work, old krog,
your work and mine, and the work of all of
those who could not live without wars. The krog is
dust and may not speak, and for a little time
(04:54):
while I live, the dust shall speak its final words
to those who would listen.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It was a fair world, our world, and I would
not happy believe.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That all who dwelt in it were like old Krogue,
plotting wars and seeding the countrysides with discontent.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We knew love, too, and all the virtues, some of
them we even practiced.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I am old now, and my speech is set in
somber ways, for I have looked on somber things for long.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But there was a time when I was young in
this very world, and my speech was the speech of
the young of every world, careless, gay, happy. And there
was one whose speech was like mine, young and gay
and very dear to me morn.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There was a night on the shores of a lake
when there was music and laughter and light. Somewhere in
the distance, and we sat along together, and I remember
I would speak, but more than I laid a hand
on my lips and laugh.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And for a long time there was only the music,
and we watched the stars tour. You love me, silly question?
(06:39):
Do you? What do you think.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Now? What I think?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I don't think? You love me very much? If you don't,
maybe you love me? You would kiss me?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, lean over this way?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Why you concede it?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You hear the one wanted to be kissed?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, I don't anymore? All right, just for that you're
going to get kissed.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
H come here?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Oh look you're moping, myne Please.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I ty you do it? Just don't any words to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh. Then the music began again, and we sat silently,
and the stars moved above us.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The stars are so beautiful to Ye're not all stars?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
What?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
What are them?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Some of the planets? All my Sure.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
You suppose there are people and some of the other
plans Probably that's the nearest one, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I think?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
So you suppose there are people there? I would know
people that look like us and have music and and
knights like you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Nobody on earth good have a night like this?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You no, I mean it too.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Do you suppose they have houses and automobiles and wonderful
stores like ours, and they have babies like we do
and everything, and they're.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Probably eighty feet tall and have six sons and sixteen
Oh no, no, Well.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Someday they'll come roaring out of space that is in
terrific big spaceships and disintegrated guns and and.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
We'll say boot and they'll all turn around and go
right back where they came from.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Maybe they will, and maybe they won't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What would we do if they invaded us? Fool?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Why?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I hope we're not alive when it happened, yes?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Or do I?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Oh, maybe they'd be.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't kid yourself about that.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I wonder what they call our world?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Why? Probably the same thing we do? Mark for sure?
Why not? After all, it is marked, isn't it. Oh? No,
we were not eighty feet tall either. We did not
(09:46):
have six arms or sixteen highs, and we didn't dream
of conquering your world either. We were like you. We
were human.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Beings too, and we lived and loved and worked and
died very much as you do. Look upon your own earth.
If you would see us as we were, stand at
your window tonight and look out upon the lights of
your fellow beings homes, look upon the faces of your
sleeping children, and see the reflection of ours. Lets your
(10:17):
mind's eye wander across your oceans, beyond your mouth, and
see all the lights of the world and its darknesses.
In the sunrising, and and beyond much your thoughts. Dwell
upon the people of your earth, and you shall know
us as we were, neither happierness sadder, neither better, no worse,
(10:39):
Oh Krogue, the prophet of war, muttering away of disaster,
might be one of your own. Marna, with her golden
hair and her laughing eyes. Might be the girl you
passed unseeing in the street this afternoon, and the triumphal
arts to a long dead general brooding above a little
park in the city where children race and shot. Might
be the one who stood in the city in another world,
(11:01):
one hundred yards from where I speak to you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And here.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No stone remains upon another Oh Krogue has said that
wars are inevitable?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Have you found it so?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
In the years when I was a reporter for a
great newspaper, I sat in his study and heard him
speak to us, and through us, to all our world.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Is written from the standpoint of the winners of the wars.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And thus wars are essential to the progress of the race.
Had our enemies won in the last war, then their
cause would have proved the just one, and we I,
losing would have been in the wrong. For future events
would then have shaped themselves upon the basis of their winning,
(11:55):
and the.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Decision would have been irrevitable.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Future would be changed, our nation's bid for leadership forgotten,
and thus it will always be.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And then there was silence in the room for a
little time, and at last I spoke, doctor Krog, I said,
doctor Krog, well Son, doctor Krog.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Fifty years ago we fought a war, were we right?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
We won, And by winning we've charted the course of
history in the fifty years since. Had they won, the
last fifty years might have been very different. And Quitch
is right, Quack is right, son, and Quak is wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then another war came against another nation, and the
ones we had defeated before were allied with us. And
no crow made notes in the Great Black Book that
was one day to be published to all our world,
and no.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Man's eyes of his have seen it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But the sands are running out let me speak of
the things that have perished our cities, where people worked
at a hundred occupations, and the muddied brown slums of
the cities.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And the great green parks.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Go up tomorrow in your own city and set your
feet upon the smooth concrete of the sidewalk. See the
gleaming windows, and marvel at the wonders within them that
you men have created. What's the garment of the passer by?
And joy to know that this too, this humble thing,
man is created. And know that I too have done
these things, and that I have seen man destroy them,
(13:50):
and that I helped. Do you know the good black
smell of the mold of the earth in springtime? Will
your heart leap at the first green shoots of the
body that lies in that earth? Have you seen the
lilies and heard the bells of your churches? My bells
(14:13):
rang in my world once the flowers bloomed, and men
laughed and sang and hated. We have run our course,
the course we chose, back to the ineffable dust from
which we sprang.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And there was another time when Mauna, when I had
been married for many years, and the war that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Had raged across our world had at last flickered out
and died. Who sat long at table at night silently,
each of us dreaming of a world purged by fire
and sword and full again are the promise of peace
and perhaps happiness.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I'm glad you didn't have to go to her.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I suppose I shouldn't say so, but I am too.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You're not a coward to her.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I don't think I am warner.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But now we can get started all over again.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We need so many things we haven't been able to get.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I can hardly wait to go.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, at least we can afford them, some of them.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
It's just a shame, isn't it what I hate those people,
the things they've done to us, All those boys dead in.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Our cities small, and we lost the warm and we
killed plenty of the Yes we did. We should have
killed them all.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Quiet, Please do all right.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You're always saying that, go to shot me up.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It help, doesn't it. I suppose if we could have
only said it to them when the war started. Quiet, Please,
they have gone away.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We said it all right, only in a different way.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yes, he'll be quiet for a long time, some of
them and some of us. Who's that? Yeah? I know
a good way to find out where you go.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
I've got my email. Well, hello, Dale, we are you Dale?
When did you get back?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Just now?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm wonner, I'm home. Hey, don't break my rib. It's
great to see your boys. Oh excuse me, Well I
wondered when you were going to pay attention. I'm sorry.
Well who I want you to meet?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
My wife?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
How wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Ray.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is my sister Morna and her husband, my brother
in law, tork ayre you dying?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Thank you, thank you, it's so nice to know.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Dave's well come in, come on. Oh, I'm so glad
to see you. Do and go ahead, thank you we
have We haven't heard from you for so long. There
we were beginning to get work. I was all right,
didn't get a scratch. Say, price looks not the same.
(17:41):
Where's old chef?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He died last Summerdale. Oh I'm sorry about that. He
was the greatest dog in the world.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Ray, Well, sit down, have you had some? Wouldn't you
like some coffee? Room? I was loved Make some fresh?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
No, this will be fine.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I'm finding it hard to get used to coffee again.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well, how is the Wardale? I got all the war?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I want that coffee deal.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Thank you, sister.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
God.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
She hasn't had much coffee the last seven years. Why you,
poor thing? Why not Dale Warment and she had coffee?
I'd better tell.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Them, dear, tell us, well, Ray was one of our enemies.
What do you mean by that? Dale? She? Yes? Should
we go there?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Thanks for the coffee, runer, of course. Where are you going,
my sir town sister?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Do you think i'd from my brand new sister in
law of my house? Come on, let's go make some
fresh coffee blossom?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And in the early hours of the morning, I was
awakened by mourners sobbing. I put my arm around her.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Oh that's sports laughs.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It actually thought we were going to turn her und
Oh two?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
How can people thinks the dreadful thoughts of us?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And she's so sweet?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, I have never solved the problem either, why people
can love individually and hate collectively. And the children of
Ray and Dale were very dear to me, no different
from the other children who played with him in our yard,
who went to school with them, mo.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Read history with them. I suppose it's only strangers we hate.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
For Ray was the daughter of the nation we had
fought bitterly with Yet when our friends became acquainted, whether
they too grew to love her. And some of those
who wept most bitterly at her funeral were the ones
who at first had pointed her out as the enemy woman.
Well Krogue said, wars are inevitable. Perhaps they are. There
(20:28):
has never been a year in all the thousand centuries
of our recorded history when there has not been a
war in some part of our planet. And always history
told us men have been striving for a means to
end it. A war to end war, they said, a
war to end war. They achieved it. They ended everything.
(20:57):
Wars had grown more and more destructive, and at last
men laid wicked fingers upon secrets that were.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not for men, And all men of.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
All was pride at the locks that nature set upon
our deepest secrets, seeking the power that was never intended
for them. And step by tedious step they came to
the final awful knowledge, to the very corridor of creation
and of destruction. Ours was a fair world, I said.
There was beauty in everything, Beauty in the mornings and
(21:29):
in the red sunsets, Beauty in the long, low hills
and the mountains that bore themselves majestically aloof above us,
and beauty too in the humble things of our world,
the simple, unnoticed things that had haunt my memory to night,
the turning wheel, in the flight of a bird, the
(21:54):
sound of a train whistled in the night, the rustle
the wind in the trees, and unforgettably the voices of people,
the voice of all krog.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Now we have the supreme wealth, there is no defense,
and no on them will bring us undisputed mastery of
all the planets.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But why should we be masters of the world? Why
should any one people be the masters? Is it not
written how good and how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And said that cannot then practiced it?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
And the voice of Mona there will never be any
more war after this next one tour.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Every one of our enemies will be destroyed, and we'll
live happily. Ever after, no.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Mourner, there never will be war again. There never will
be anything again.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
For now Morner men have plotted against the green hillsides
and the towering mountains. They have declared war upon the
flowers and the grass and the forests. They have made
our planet an offer on which to sacrifice us all.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
In the voice of Deal, I'll not go to war again.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
If they bring it to me, I'll fight, but they'll
have to bring.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It to me.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They brought it to your Deal, They brought it to
your very home, to your doorstep, to the gay little
blue and white curtains at your windows.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And you died before you knew it.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
In the voice of Ray, the displaced person, the Asian
and a strange land.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Who is my enemy? Now?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
There was my enemy once?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And you and Lorna.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Well my own people, as surely as if I had
been born among you?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Who will be my enemy? When this new voice don.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You will have no enemy, Ray, for there will be
none left to hate or to love. Fortunate for you
that you died before the war came. Your last sight
was of the faces of those who loved you, and
my own voice speaking to you at long last, remembering
(24:32):
the thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We had of you, of towering, eighty foot giants swarming.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Down upon us out of the cold black reaches of space,
seeking to prey upon us and conquer us and at
last destroy us.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Did you have thoughts of us as demons too?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Did you think because we were another world we must
be monsters ravening for your blood.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We were not. We were people like you, older perhaps,
but with the the same instincts you have, the very same.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
We growed in the summertime, in the white winters. We
loved individually and hated collectively as you do. We lived,
we fought, we died. Here Astronomers have watched us for
so many years, speculating on the possibility of life here. Well,
(25:26):
there was life, great cities, wide, peaceful farms, tall lands
holding back the might of great rivers, great deserts flowering
in the spring, with all the dazzling lavishness that can
be packed into a brief span of life.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We had rivers and oceans and lakes, forests and deep.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Valleys, great monuments to our dead, giant buildings to house
our living. We had music and books, and great schools
and statesmen. Are astronomers tell you of the canals that
cover our planet. I saw those owls created. I saw
(26:03):
the solid earth splash and boil beneath me. I saw
the mountains melt in the rivers of molten fiery stone.
I saw a great twenty mushrooms of cloudy rough from
the floor of the ocean. And I smelt destruction near
at hand. Yes, there will be no more wars on
our planet. There is only silence and cold.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And dust.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There was once a people in the civilization. There is
only one man. I tore the last man of Mars
to say the last words. The two looms that circle
our planet are rising now Faubas and de Moss, fear
(26:49):
and madness. Death himself muches back to the black grape cavern,
and he pauses beside me to lay his icy fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Upon my arm.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Is the end of the world and the people that
you might have mistaken for your very selves. Honorous at last,
with your silence at the end, and pray, friends of Earth,
Pray not for us, for that is too late.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Pray for yourselves. Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You have listened Quiet Please, which is written and directed
by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was
Ernest Chapel, and I was in the cast where Floyd
Buckley as Krogue Vinton Hayworth's Dale a Lot of Stavskys
ray Manna was played by Paulia Morgan Miss Ernest Chapel.
Music for Quiet Please is by Albert Berman. His present
(28:21):
series of Quiet Please comes to an end with this
broadcast after more than two years. We've enjoyed bringing these
stories to you. Thanks for your comments. My personal gratitude
to my friend and associate Bill Cooper for his writing,
console and cooperation.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Here he is Bill Cooper, Thank you for listening to
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Thank you, Chappie, Thank you, Bill mcclinteck, thank you Bert Berman,
thank you, Bob Docherty, and thank you all your people.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I hope we'll meet against some kind.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
M h.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I was interested in the Quiet Please themes based on
the second movement of the sas I Franky Minor Symphony.
So the last time this a furnist chapel saying quietly yours.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
H m hm.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
M hmmm.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Mm hmmmm. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. H
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