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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 Wear the Dead Man's Coat. Let me see. Yesterday, that's one day, the day before. Well, that's two. The day before that, that's three. Three days. It's three days, all right. And Doc was right, so that fixes me. You think it don't? Well, listen, you wouldn't know Kidney Fort…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

E

Ed Latimer

E

Ernest Chappell

L

Leora Thatcher

M

Morton Lawrence

Network›

M

Mutual net

Network

"Wear the dead man's coat...and nobody takes note." An easy path to invisibility, and Kidneyfoot Cassidy takes the path. A good story!

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Wear the Dead Man's Coat

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Quiet, Please, Episode 38

Wear the Dead Man's Coat

Monday, February 23, 1948 · 29:12

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That night in history

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  • 1948 — In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
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