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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. Which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, please, for tonight is called Three Thousand Words. What did you do if you heard a knock on your door some cold winter night? You went to the door and opened it, there was a fellow about three feet high standing on your front porch in the snow. Jump about ten feet in the air and yell? Sure, probably. Only Hubert didn't jump. He couldn't. I was as surprised…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

Anne Seymour

D

Don Briggs

E

Ernest Chappell

K

Kathleen Deday

L

Lon Clark

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Quiet, Please, Episode 62

3000 Words

Monday, August 23, 1948 · 21:36

Quiet, Please, Episode 62

3000 Words

Monday, August 23, 1948 · 21:36

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