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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 Valentine. The little towns, I never see them anymore. Pekin, Delavan, Bloomington, Galesburg, Lewiston, all the little towns above the river where the cobblestones going down to the steamboat landing. The little towns under the hills and the shocks of corn standing lonely and sn…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

Anne Seymour

E

Ernest Chappell

J

Jack Arthur

L

Leora Thatcher

Network›

A

ABC net

Network

An Illinois romance almost founders, due to lack of a Valentine.

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Quiet, Please, Episode 87

Valentine

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Quiet, Please, Episode 87

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