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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for tonight is called The Pathetic Fallacy. I had very little to do with it, really. I don't even know how it works. No, I'll take that back. I do know how it works in general, but the details, nobody but the old gentleman knows them. And I sometimes wonder if he does, really. You see, after all…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

C

Charita Bauer

E

Ernest Chappell

Michael Fitzmaurice

V

Vicki Vola

Network›

M

Mutual net

Network

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Quiet, Please, Episode 35

The Pathetic Fallacy

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Quiet, Please, Episode 35

The Pathetic Fallacy

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