Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading), credited to Rupert Hughes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading) by Rupert Hughes. Read in English by volunteer readers. What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. One serviceman and his bride-to-be are trying desperately to get married but can't find a clergyman to perform the rites. They don't know that right in their midst is a preacher disguised as a man of the world so he and his wife can enjoy a carefree vacation. Then there is a drunk mourning his separation from the wife who just happens to be on the same train. There is even a confirmed bachelor who discovers that a confirmed spinster is his long-lost love from years ago. How these lives intertwine makes up the plot of this rollicking comedy. The piece contains racial slurs, which, although acceptable in the time and place of the story's setting, may offend modern listeners. (Summary by Bill Boerst)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Rupert Hughes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 6:27:13

Catalogue topics

• comedy
• travel
• railroads
• slapstick

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - The Wreck of the Taxicab — 8:22
2. 02 - The Early Birds and the Worm — 12:21
3. 03 - In Darkest Chicago — 12:21
4. 04 - A Mouse and a Mountain — 16:57
5. 05 - A Queen Among Women — 7:23
6. 06 - A Conspiracy in Satin — 9:36
7. 07 - The Masked Minister — 5:50
8. 08 - A Mixed Pickle — 12:40
9. 09 - All Aboard! — 12:01
10. 10 - Excess Baggage — 5:42
11. 11 - A Chance Rencounter — 4:24
12. 12 - The Needle in the Haystack — 8:31
13. 13 - Hostilities Begin — 4:40
14. 14 - The Dormitory on Wheels — 4:40
15. 15 - A Premature Divorce — 11:22
16. 16 - Good Night, All! — 8:36
17. 17 - Last Call for Breakfast — 7:43
18. 18 - In the Composite Car — 14:08
19. 19 - Foiled! — 3:37
20. 20 - Foiled Again — 6:12
21. 21 - Matrimony To and Fro — 11:12
22. 22 - In the Smoking Room — 9:55
23. 23 - Through a Tunnel — 11:49
24. 24 - The Train Butcher — 8:30

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