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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 Symphony in D Minor. Personally, I believe in the law of the jungle. I believe that the fight goes to the strong, to the one that's smarter, to the one that ought to win. I've made my way in life that way, you can't tell me anything different. I never got past high school m…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

C

Charita Bauer

E

Ernest Chappell

J

James Van Dyk

P

Pat O'Malley

Network›

M

Mutual net

Network

A good story about a blind hypnotist who gives a post-hypnotic suggestion to his wife's lover. He orders the lover to kill the wife when he hears the Cesar Franck symphony (that happens to be the program's theme song). The last show of the series on the Mutual net.

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Quiet, Please, Episode 65

Symphony in Minor

Monday, September 13, 1948 · 24:17

Quiet, Please, Episode 65

Symphony in Minor

Monday, September 13, 1948 · 24:17

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