At the end of the previous weeks episode, Cooper had announced:
"Thank you for listening to "Quiet, Please!" Our story for next week is called 'Be Whose Valentine?'"
However, the actual airing was simply titled: Valentine.
Sunday
WEAV - 8:30 - Quiet Please --Plattsburgh press-Republican., Saturday February 12, 1949, Page 7 RADIO
"An Illinois romance almost founders, due to lack of a Valentine." - Goldin Index
Original Airdate and Times:
Sunday February 13, 1949
5:30 PM ABC 8:30 PM WEAV
(and other stations on the network)
(and other networked stations)
"..Sometimes a valentine can be more in the form of emotion than in the form of a physical object. Even a memory can be a sort of valentine. All physical things decay and disappear over the centuries. Emotion and memory endure."
Just a reminder.. The post in this blog are just bits and pieces of the complete Quiet Please dedication website of mine which is currently hosted on a free server from the UK. Google doesn't seem to pick it up very well in search results, but I highly recommend you check it out. It consist of a very thorough and interesting compilation of research, and I think an excellent source of structured information about everything concerning the show.. Also be sure to check out the Quiet Please Enhanced Episodic Log, and information on Radio Archives restored version.. http://quietplease.96.lt/
Quiet Please page 35 full page ad in the February 1948 issue of Variety, announcing their schedule change to Monday..
The following was announced at the end of episode 33, "Green Light" - Wed. Jan. 28 1948 - 8:30pm).
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COOPER:
Next weeks Quiet Please is called "Pathetic Fallacy" in which I shall attempt to dramatize a figure of speech, which will probably be about as much surprised as you are.
ANNC: Next Monday night Quiet Please will be heard at a new time over most of these Mutual stations. Consult your local paper for time and station.
ANNC2: Quiet Please comes to you from New York, and will be heard next week at half past nine. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Newspaper mentions from the week:
"MBS is moving Quiet Please, its eerie series of dramas from Wednesday nights to 9:30 on Monday." -Morning Herald - Feb 2 1948
"There's been a switch in broadcast times for Mutual network's two "whodunits"--High Adventure and Quiet Please--thus bringing the latter to the 9.30 o'clock WEBR spot tonight while High Adventure moves over to Wednesdays at 8.30 p. m. Quiet Please, as many dialers know, is written by Wyllis Cooper, who preceded Arch Oboler on the original Lights Out series. His writings, as in earlier days, incline to the psychological as is evidenced in tonight's stanza--Pathetic Fallacy--which casts Ernest Chappell, actor-narrator, in the role of a college professor of philosophy who learns even inanimate objects hold strange secrets.". -Buffalo Courier-Express (NY) February 2, 1948.
"Wyllis Cooper, writer-director of Mutual's eerie "Quiet Please" series, has titled and plotted his stories on many subjects. He plans to dramatize a figure of speech when he presents "Pathetic Fallacy," as the program moves to a new MBS time period tonight (9:30 to 10 p. m., EST) over WESB. Ernest Chappell will play the role of a college professor of philosophy who learns that even inanimate objects hold strange secrets." -The Era, Bradford, (PA) Feb. 2 1948
The Pathetic Fallacy
Audio quality: Very good Monday, February 2, 1948 9:30 PM.
Episode 19: "La fille aux cheveux de lin" This episode is usually logged with the title "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" which is what it means, but it's not the actual tile. This is confirmed by the fact it was announced as such at the end of the previous episode: COOPER: The music of Claude Debussy was the inspiration for next week's story which, borrowing the composer's title, I have called "La fille aux cheveux de lin" -- "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" .. If you like charming ghost, you'll probably like her. As well as in the original script: ANNCR: The Mutual Broadcasting System presents "Quiet, Please!" which is written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. "Quiet, Please!" for tonight is called "La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin." However, at least one newspaper of the time did show in it's listings as follows: "7:30 p.m.--Quiet Please (WGN): musician meets "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair." - Wisconsin State Journal October 22, 1947 The cast consist of Ernest Chappell, Joan Lazer, Melville Ruick, and Mary Kay Simmons, with in-house musical composistions performed by Gene Parazzo. Original broadcast was Monday, October 20, 1947 8:30PM on WOR, and again the following Wednesday, October 22, 1947 at 7:30PM over MBS, on WGN, and other mutual stations.
No recording of this episode is known to exist, and thus classified as one of the lost episodes ..
However, The script was rebroadcast as episode #104 with a different cast and retitled as "Pavane" on Saturday, June 18, 1949, at 9:00 PM over the ABC network. (WJZ listed Pavane on schedule in the Ogdensburg Journal, June 18, 1949, on Page 5)
Cast: Ernest Chappell, Anne Seymour, Don Briggs, and Joan Lazer, with Albert Buhrman (music), and William J. McClintock (Sound).
This version does still exist, and is the episode featured tonight... Episode 104: Pavane: (aka: "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair")or Download mp3 An entertaining story about a mysterious
little girl who stays hidden in the dark
corners, and is never seen. Who is she? a
ghost? an angel? or is she just a little
girl? Heartwarming, charming, &
memorable. Mild
crackle, with clear audio.
