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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for today is called Portrait of a Character. Mr., you suppose you can fix this horn for me? I don't know, the, the mouthpiece is kind of worn, I guess, and has some, dents in it. See, hear on a bell? I dropped it one day. No, no, I don't want a new one, this old horn's good enough for me. I'v…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

A

Athena Lorde

C

Charles Egleston

E

Ernest Chappell

Network›

A

ABC net

Network

A musician has a big job coming up and needs his horn repaired...fast!

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