November 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Today's Adventure: A young New England farmer with a toothache finds himself in the middle of the start of the American Revolution.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: September 9, 1944
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Starring Roger De Koven, Kermit Murdock, John Thomas, Joseph Wiseman, Jackie Ayers, Eleanor Audley, Jean Gillespie, Fred Baron, Paul Ford.
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: September 9, 1944
Originating from New York
Starring Roger De Koven, Kermit Murdock, John Thomas, Joseph Wiseman, Jackie Ayers, Eleanor Audley, Jean Gillespie, Fred Baron, Paul Ford.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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But now, from September ninth, not forty four, here is
a Tooth for Paul Revere.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Adventure aheads this week.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
A stirring tale of young unknown participant in the Revolutionary War,
A fantasy of history by Stephen Vincent Benet. It is
a story of a tooth for Paul Revere and.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Now Adventure Ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
There was talk of trouble in the air in April
seventeen seventy five, and all of Massachusetts colony was trembling
with whispers, rumors, talk of revolution.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think we can do against urinated taxation, this oppression.
Three men can never live this way. There is no
hope unless we planned to fight organized time the million men.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, it was enough to make men think that day
in April seventeen seventy five, to wonder if we both
was right or wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
One three four, that'll be one shilling sixpence for the
seeds master.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Butterwick, all right, they are one. Hope you have good
luck with your plant in this spring, lidge. I hope
so too, mister thought.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Don't know any farmer around Lexington that deserves to have
good crop. Isn't you losing your folks last year? Having
to run the farm or by yourself? No easy job
for young boy. Keeps me busy, all right?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Was there something else you wanted? Lige? Well, yes, got
me think for toothache?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Toothache?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Uh huh? This one here mmmm.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Gray to having the thing to kill a tooth pain Lodge.
Expect you to see the barber Billy Murphy. He can
fix your tooth.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Well, I hope so. It's a terrible heagon. Don't know
when i've had such trouble and pain.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
These are troubled times, master, Butterwick, huh what do you mean,
mister Thorpe, what trouble about the grievances of the colonies?
Oh that postly talk.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Come a time for action, and we'll need every man.
We can muster every volunteer, and we'll need you.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Lodge. Butterwick me yes, Lodge.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
But mister Thought, I just don't care about fighters.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I won't have time host everybody. And Lexington's joined up
with us, Lodge, they found time. If your father was alive,
he'd bring his gun and join us too, I know
he would. Maybe he was still got his old flintlock,
haven't you uh.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Huh, and you can fire it hollable? Good?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Then won't you reconsider Lodge. We'll need every man we
can muster.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
No, mister Thought, I just can't see my way clear
to join you a minute, man, Well.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Suit yourself.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
But someday I'm hoping you'll be part of us, A
part of the new growing tree.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Huh, new growing tree.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
It's a symbol, lide, a growing tree and a new republic.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You see what I mean? One of these days?
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Well, maybe so, but I don't quite understand what all
the troubles about myself? Too busy with my farm. Besides,
I just don't see no sense to fighting.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
Hello, Lige, you want your haircut? No, mister Murphy, it
looks like you could use one.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
No call about my tooth?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Oh got me a bad tooth, mister Murphy, hurts me
something fierce?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, sit down here in me chair, Ledge, and i'd
have a look at it. It's gonna bother me sometime,
just aching and painting, and we'll just drop your head
back a little. Yeah. There, that's it. You see anything
in there? Huh? You say anything? Afraid? You've got a
real bad tooth?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
There, Liedge?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Which warners are you've got a bad one? All right?
It's on the side right here. Sure hurts like it
was bad. M I expect that tooth ought to come out, Liige?
You do, mm hmmm, Well, well then pull her out.
I could pull her out, all right.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
But she's got long roots and she's going to leave
an awful big gap.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
When she's gone.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
She will.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yes, yes, Do you know what you ought to do?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Liige?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What? Well? What you really need that it's taking away
me business? To tell you?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Is one of these here artificial teeth to go into
the hole after she's pulled out an artificial tooth.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yes, why that's fine in the face of nature.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Well, no, Elijia, I wouldn't say that. Then, silver teeth
is all to go these days, and lection toon not
to be right up with the times. Well, it would
do me good to see you with the silver tooth.
It would, indeed.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Might do you good. But what about me.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
You'll like it, Lige, you'll feel fine, and it's real silver.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, suppose I did want one on Tuckett. Will I
ever get one here in Lexington?
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Well, you might have to write up to Boston for
it to Boston, but it'll be worth the trouble.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And I know just the man to help you. It
seems like I saw that paper notice around here, So
let me see just here it is.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
What's that, mister, m notice in the paper from a
man in Boston makes them tea?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Oh who isy?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
A silversmith name of Revere, Paul Revere. Ever hear to him,
he comes through here once in a while.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I listen to this, Lige.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Whereas many persons these days are so unfortunate as to
lose their fortey that you're lige, which is to their detriment,
not only in looks, but in speaking. This is to
inform all such persons that they may have defective teeth
(07:06):
replaced with artificial ones that look just as well as
natural teeth.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Oh my goodness, there's your chance. Loge sounds good enough,
But what's going to cost?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh? I know Revere. He wouldn't charge hi muth, and
it'd be worth it.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Ligeing well in for penny and for pound too. They're
driving me mad. It's got to come out. Reckon, I'll
be able to find him.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Yes, if you lose your way in Boston, just ask
anybody for Paul Revere.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Spect Norse.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Everybody has heard of him, even the Tories. The Tories
re here's a pretty big bug in the sons of liberty.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Oh well, I.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Don't care to be mixing them with politics, but I'll
ask how. The main thing is to get this tooth
fixed today, if I can, reckon all ride up to
Boston and find this mister Paul Revere. Uh excuse me, please,
(08:17):
huh could you help me please as certainly as I can.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Don't know my way around Boston very well.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Well, it seems like I've spent most of all afternoon
trying to find a special man to take care of
my tooth feet. Eh, yes, sir, I'm from Lexington, middle
stakes man.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Uh huh, I had you figured wrongst mean what you mean? Well,
I had you figured for.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
A Tory Tory? No, not me. I am no politician,
never was one. You belonging to the Liberty Party on you? Well?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yes and no?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What do you mean yes or no? It's one or
the other? I mean, I mean I don't know for sure.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Well, you better decide to stranger. Huh, there's thunder in
the air and grow in me. The time is both
in hands. Won't belong, it won't belong.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yes, but but wait, Oh, I wonder what he meant
by that. Yes, young man, you wanted something, well, just
some information.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Oh, I'm a stranger here in Boston, don't know my
way around by I'd.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
Be glad to help you, my friend, if I'm able
to thank you. You're a stranger from the Westerhead. I've
got a farm near Lexington. Oh, Lexington, and you are
a rebel, I presume me. Oh no, you're not.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
No, I'm certainly pleased to find another true hearted loyalist
in this pestilent, rebellious city.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Loyalist. Well, no, I don't know about that. What do
you mean.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
I came to Boston mainly to get my tooth fixed,
not to talk politics. You see, I'm looking for mister Reverance.
If I haven't, you say Paul Revere?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Why? Yes, what's the matter? What's your grinning about? So
it's Paul Revere. You want my clever young friends from
the country. Would you help me? Course, I'd be glad
to tell you how to find him.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
All right, Just go up to the first red coated
soldier that you see and ask.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
The way will will? They tell me? Couse? But you
have to give the password first, the password.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Yes, First, you say to the soldiers any lobsters today,
and then you ask about Revere.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
But but why talk about lobsters?
Speaker 10 (10:38):
Well, you see, my friend, the soldiers all wear red coats,
and they like being called lobsters.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
They do.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Yes, Try it, my friends, and you'll find out.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's well enough, madam.
Speaker 11 (11:10):
The silver you made for me, Oh, the silver, I
don't understand.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I paid for the very best.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
I wanted a beautiful service set, something I could show
my friends with pride.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And what have you given me?
Speaker 12 (11:21):
Why, madam, the best which I'm capable. I worked on
the set for almost two months.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Oh it's silver, if you choose. But it's so plain
and simple as a as a picket fence.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Simple. You pay me high compliments.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Compliments indeed I am sending it all back tomorrow. Why
there isn't so much as a single lion or a
unicorn on a cream jug. And I told you I
wanted the sugar bowl simply covered with silver crowns. You've
given me something as plain and as bare as as
the hills of New England. And what's more, I won't
stand for it, mister Ravia. I'll send to England instead,
(11:57):
to London.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
Then send away, madam. We're making new things in this country,
new men, new silver, even perhaps a new nation. Indeed,
simple and bare as the hills and rocks of New England,
graceful as the boughs of her elm trees. If my
silver were only like that, that's for you, madam.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Now you look here.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
You can have your lions and unicorns and crowns and
your nonsense of bad ornamentation. You can have your important
taste in your important manner.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
Oh, my word, I was never so incouted in my life, my.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Work, silver crowns of the sugar bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
William, Oh, William, Yes, sir, front William, Yes, sir, Yes,
mister Revere.
Speaker 13 (12:45):
No word jet from doctor Warren knows you're nothing yet
strange that's somewhere from by. Now what if this is
the wind m getting dark? William might as well put
up the shutters. Were not likely to have any more
customers tonight.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Now, Sir, I'll put them up.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Wonder I haven't heard from doctor Warren.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
M mister Revere, mister Revere. What's up, William. There's a man, sir,
running down this side of the street. Red coats after him.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Oh, must be a patriot.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Look sir, through the shutter.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
Yes, indeed, a lot of soldiers after him.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Here They open the door.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Quickly, Yes, sir, here you come quickly in here. Oh,
thank you, thank you. I'm the dog, William, Yes, been
chasing me most a mile. Hell, that's something.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Here they come.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh you saved me then, all right, thank you.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
There's nothing at least I could do. Aren't we all
hounded and chased by the red coats these days? Huh
excuse me just a minute, Uh, William. Yes, sir, I
think you better run.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Over to doctor Warren's house see if he has a
message for me.
Speaker 12 (13:52):
Yes, sir, well, ill that you've had your breath, Sir,
may I help you?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Maybe I can? I hope. So. My name's Lidge Butterwick.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
I'm looking for mister Paul Revere round these pots of Boston.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
Well, this is a surprise, Master Butterwick. Huh, my name
happens to be Paul Revere.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Well, I'm glad of that. I tell you, mister Revere.
I had a hard time of it here in Boston
trying to find you.
Speaker 12 (14:16):
I'm sorry to hear that. But now that you found me,
how may I served you?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well? The barber sent me, Barbara. You see, it's about
my tooth.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Oh, it's this way. This tooth's knacking up real bad lately.
So this morning I went in to see Billy Murphy.
He's the barber and at Lexington, and he says that
you're from Xington. Well, yes, And mister Murphy said, were
you there this morning? I just said I wasn't the
barber to mind the.
Speaker 12 (14:38):
Barber, mister Hancock, mister Adams, were they still at Parson COO's.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Oh? Yes, I reckon, I I reckon. I saw him
when I wrote by this morning on my way up here.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Thank goodness they're still there.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Why I suppose so?
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Why Brittish ready to march and conquered tonight? Well'll belong.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Can't be long, tell me.
Speaker 12 (15:00):
Mister Butterwick, Yes, sir, did you see many soldiers as
you came to my shop tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
See them? They chased me all away from boils.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
I know, I know. But where there are others? Did
you see anymore?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh? There's a whole.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Parcel of them up by the common, with guns and
flags and everything, all lined up in their red coats
ready to match.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Why, Master Butterwick, I can't thank you enough for what
you've told me tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Gives me courage.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Told you, huh, you're a very short observer, and you've
done me and the colony is an invaluable service.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, well that's nice. But about this tooth of my
mister Revere, I just got a.
Speaker 12 (15:33):
Header A stubborn young man, Master Betterwick, but all the better.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I like stubborn men.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Wish we had more of them. What about you too?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
You'll have to be drawn off?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Been aching something awful and I want to get a
nice new silver one.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
To stop up the hole.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Well, I've made lots of artificial teeth, all right, for
drawing them out is hardly my trade, young man.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh it isn't.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
But one good turn deserves another. You've helped me. I'll
do my best to help you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 12 (16:01):
Just sit yourself here in this chair, young man, would
help him mite, Yeah, drink this draft. In the morning
you'll feel more like having your tooth straw on there.
I just think it's right down, master.
Speaker 14 (16:16):
But to medicine, all right, whatever you say, Watch.
Speaker 15 (16:31):
Something, mister Rebet will help pain. Some seems to be
better already.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
Go to an inn for the night, and then in
the morning we'll find.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
A tooth drawer. All right, If you say so, it
might bother you some later tonight.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'd better give you a box a Minimus or be
a botch.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Say you've got quite a cabinet here, mister River, Yes,
I have.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Master by the week.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Oh what's in that little pink bottle over there, Oh,
little experiment of mine?
Speaker 12 (17:11):
I call that the essence of Boston. It's like perfume,
but there's a good deal of the East wind in it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Essence of Boston.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Well I never boba told me you were a wizard,
mister Rivere, with genuine magic.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I suppose, of course.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Hey, here's your liniment in this pot, and here's a
little box you might like to see, made of wood
and silver. My goodness, just finished making it day.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Well you did pick it up.
Speaker 12 (17:41):
See that's my own design on the cover, a growing
tree and a negle fighting a lion.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Well, I've grown tree. It's awful pretty.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
You see those stars around the edge, thirteen of them. Well,
you make a very attractive design with those stars, Say
for a new country.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Oh it's the most wonderful wooden silver box. But what's
in it?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
What's in it? What's in the air around us? Gunpowder?
War and the making of a new nation?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's what you mean? You mean this here? Revolution folks
keep talking about, is in.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
Here right in there, brighten that little wooden silver box,
and fighting and war all in there.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Just waiting to be let out. But it's locked.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
Of course, time's not ripe yet to open it. Oh,
when the time comes, box can be open.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
It'll have to be open.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
And then there'll be a revolution.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes, then there'll be a revolution.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Well, well, I never must be my boy coming back you, William.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Mister Revere, doctor Warrem. Yes, he gave me this message
for you, said to run pastes.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
That hoops marching on conquered Lexington tonight.
Speaker 12 (19:10):
These supplies my boats, William, Yes, sir, get my horse ready.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Yes, sir, yes, mister Revere. Is something wrong wrong?
Speaker 12 (19:16):
No, I think everything's going to be all right.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
You'll have to leave. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh that's all right. Take your box here and hurry please.
I have much to do tonight, yes, sir. Well, well,
good night, mister Revere.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
I'll help you with the door.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Good night, good night. Well what could make him stir
around so much this time of night? Most likely nothing? Yes,
young man, you want a room? Yes I do. I
(19:47):
had a hard time finding an inn open in Boston
this time of night. Oh we're always open here. Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Well, I'll be needing a nice quiet room so as
I can sleep late. Got a bad tooth and I
want to see. Uh watch matter this box here in
my pocket?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
What about it?
Speaker 7 (20:04):
It's not the liniment box linen, un fox, I must
have took the wrong box. This is the wooden silver
box mister Revere's own bond. Don't see how I got
this one by mistake? Oh my goodness, there's something wrong wrong?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Do you know what's inside this box? Nah?
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Why there's gunpowder and warn the makings of a new nation,
that's what who says?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
So? Why Paul Revere himself? I'm almost afraid to touchet.
Are you sure about about what's in it? Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I'm sure enough.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Why I can hold it up to my ear like this,
and almost here the revolution inside?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You can well almost? Reckon, mister Reveral want this all right?
You're gonna take it back? Of course, I've got to
take it back.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
If I was to open this little box now, why
did there'd be war all around us?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I've got to take this to Paul Revere tonight.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Hey, mister Revere, is there anybody here?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
You heard him talk about a doctor Warren? Reckon? I
could find him.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
Hey, you you want down there waking honest people up
this hour of the night.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I'm looking for mister Paul Revere.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
He's not here, who you?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Friend of his? I got a little box here for him.
No where he is done chow down.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
Across the river, rode down in his horse, took a
boat two hours ago, No, sir, don't get me both
from me. There was a crazy man long here hour
or so ago. There was my husband road him moment,
and you know what.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
That man is, No, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
What made my husband tear up my best petticoat? Yes,
enos on the oas so the wooden splash when they
rode by that Nina wall, I'll say it was his
name Revere. I reckon something like that.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Can I get a boat somewhere?
Speaker 11 (22:09):
Don't know, lad? Sell it down to the walls? Night,
bro ya, bas.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Why very sit you hurried? I've gotten to find this man,
mister Paul Revere. Couldn't it wait till morning?
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Might be too late? That I got a little box
here for him. He's just gotta get it tonight before
it's too late. I'm lies Butterwick. I just come across
the river from Boston, and I must get me a horse.
I blow you on a horse trying to catch up
with a friend of mine, Paul Revere.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Paul Revere, Well, why don't you say so? He comes
out here? He got a horse from me about two
hours ago. You do, you can find him if you're
ride fast, But I have no horse. Fling down to
the barn with me.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
If you're a friend of Paul Revere, I'll give you
a horse.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Why cart he's didn't do here?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
He rode off that a way.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Why do you want, young man? Sorry to bother your
middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
But I saw y'all laugh.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Let reckon all Middlesex. Tony's waiting tonight looking for the rest.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Of the man.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Well, I'm looking for you. Let's start it off with
the guns.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
About two hours ago, in after hurry they went off
on lexingdon.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Reckon. I've lost him.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
I guess everybody said he's coming this way. I can't
find him. Almost morning, Yah, Lexington up ahead?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Got there? Who goes there? Huh? Oh it's me? Why
me Lies? Butterwick? Oh hello, Lies? Didn't see you for
the dark with the thought what you're doing up so
early in the morning.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I was just gonna ask you that lde the time
has almost come to plant that you growing trees?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Did you come to help with slide? Oh? I I
don't know. I'm looking for mister Paul Revere. Revere, you've
seen anything of a mister pier Of course he's with us.
He just arrived. Well where is he? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Then?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well straight along the road, up over the hill by
those down trees.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You can't miss him, Thank you, mister thought.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Oh, mister Revere, mister Revere, Hello on, mister Revere.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I thought i'd never find you.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
Well you did a good job, followed me all the way.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Huh. I had to be on time for my appointment.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Appointment from a tooth.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Oh, but I've got something here for you for one
point of my tooth, your little box, where my little
wooden silver bar. Yes, sir, you see I I took
it by mistake, Sir.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I didn't mean all right, did need? I just had
to hurry.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
What do you mean, Well, like you said, the whole
revolutions right inside this box.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I just had to bring it to you as soon
as I could.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
I begin to see it all now, the story I
told you about the fox.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
You believed that.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
It's true, isn't it about the revolution and liberty being
inside this box?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Of course it is, young man. Fortunately you're just in time.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Just in time, you mean you mean it's about to happen.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Getting light, I think you can see.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
I got along the hill there, behind every rock and
tree and fence, waiting waiting.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
My men there's that's a man. Minute men, master, those
are the minute men. Yes, but over there across the
green bright man the red coat.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Yes, I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
So this is the beginning of a lie long struggle. Well,
I don't know what we're waiting for. Then, what do
you mean the box? This little box, the box, But
you don't think we've got to open it. You've got
the key, mister Vereer, Well, well.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
What are you doing.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
We've got to open this box and let out the revolution.
Don't frank it, don't break the box. It's about time
they listen. Huh listen. I hear it, I hear it.
I let out the revolution.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Yes, slide Butterwick, I guess you did, and it was
about time too.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'm glad I did it. I reckon.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I just never realized before that I had to be
a part of it, the new grown tree. Well, mister
rivere it was nice knowing you, but I'll hard to
be getting back to my farm.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Now, getting back to your farm. Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
I got my puzzle fitlock hanging on the wall back there.
Allow as I'll be needing it today and maybe tomorrow,
maybe for a.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Long time to come. So goodbye. Mister Revere, but what
about you, too poor?
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Tooth to tooth for the country's a country and anyhow,
mister Revere, it just now stopped.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Aiken.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Adventurer Ahead has presented the story A Tooth for Paul
Revere by Stephen Vincent Benet in a radio dramatization written
by Tom Gute. Music was composed by Leo Kampinski and
the orchestra was conducted by Henrin Nosco. The entire production
was under the direction of Joseph Mansfield. In today's play,
the part of blij Butterwick was played by John Thomas.
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Paul Revere was played by Roger Di Cobyn. Others in
the cast were Kermit Murdoch, James Tanzi, Joseph Wiseman, Jackie Ayres,
eleanor Audley, Jean Gillespie, Fred.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Baron, and Paul Ford.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And its affiliated independent stations present Adventure Ahead as a
public service. Did you know that in peacetime ninety three
(28:34):
percent of all transportation in this country was by private autobile.
Even today, it is estimated that four out of five
war workers must depend on private cars to get them
to their essential jobs.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
This is but one of the.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Reasons why America's civilian and war production economy depends largely
upon the continued operations of the nation's passenger automobiles. And
now here are some more statistics for you. At the
beginning of the war, twenty seven million passenger cars were
operating on America's highways. Today, the number of cars on
the road has dwindled to a law twenty four million.
An our stock file of new vehicles i've been reduced
to less than thirty thousand, a pre war three day supply.
(29:07):
Transportation experts estimate that is a total number of cars
on the road drops to twenty million. A breakdown in
essential transportation can be expected if you have not operated
in the car pool. Start now. This is a national
broadcasting company.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
This is actually the second old time radio adaptation of
this story, which was written in nineteen forty two. The
first adaptation was done that very year on Cavalcada of America.
It would later be adapted on Escape as a Fourth
of July program. It's interesting to think about the number
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of episodes that played year round during World War Two,
that in year after the war could really only be
aired on the fourth of July. I think that It's
a fun and relatively lighthearted story of a simple, naive
young man who just kind of stumbles into history. The
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story was written by Stephen Vincent Binney, and a lot
of people could relate to it and to the hero
Liij Butterwick. Prior to Pearl Harbor, they weren't particularly political.
They had never spent a lot of time thinking about
the situation in Europe or the Japanese activity in Manchuria.
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They were concerned with their own affairs and their own problems,
and if we want to judge them harshly, that's really
how most people are most of the time. But like lies,
they learn. After Pearl Harbor, they began to find out
what Hitler and the Japanese military have been doing and
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the evil that they represented. They came around. Many reached
the conclusion not just that the war was just as
a war of necessity because of what happened at Pearl Harbor,
but that it was something that Morley had to be done.
This was a little story with some great funny moments,
but that really connected with that initial audience. Now, some
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parts of the story might seem silly outside of the
World War two context, like Paul Revere's argument with the
lady about the silver order in the context of World
War II, where due to necessity and the wartime shortages,
plain and functional items became a priority, and this would
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have felt very patriotic. In practicality, the argument, I didn't
make your order, that you were the way you requested
it because of grand political reason is a pretty boor
business practice. The author, mister Bennet, was better known for
his epic poem John Brown's Body, as well as for
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that famous story which so many of us read in
high school, The Devil and Daniel Webster. He also wrote
the story Soaben Women, which became the basis for the
musical and later the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
A very creative writer whose final writings were focused very
much on supporting the war effort. Well, now we turn
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to listener comments and feedback, and we go to Mechanics
sixty six, who offered a comment regarding the episode inside
the FBI, this was basically a half hour recruitment ad
for the FBI. Well, I can understand the perspective, and
I don't think that he's wrong that it was a
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bit of propaganda. I would probably see a different purpose though,
and you will hear that in other things. I was
listening listening several years back to one of the early
episodes of This is Your FBI, and it was said
very clearly the message that essentially, cannot stop, cannot bet
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in no way are you able to overcome the power,
the intelligence, or the strength of the FBI. And really
it occurs to me, and this is something very different
and something very unique about World War Two. There was
an active belief that you needed to have confidence in
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the government, and maybe some of that came through in
the depression, but it really reached a fever pitch during
the war of our need for confidence in our civilian
and military leadership. And this is probably the bit of
messaging that I most struggle with from the World War
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two era, and it's probably the thing that is most
different from the way Americans have lived because there's always
been throughout American history a skepticism about government and about
those in power, and that skepticism would come from any
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political ideology. Now, depending on the ideology, it might be
more suspicious of one part of the government or one
branch of the government than the other. But you kind
of got the idea during the war, that skepticism about
government became reboting in a way that it never was
before and has never been since. And so I get
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the idea of what Mechanic sixty six said, but it
was much more about the idea your government strong, capable,
going to get the job done. You can't outsmart them,
you might as well not try. And it was certainly
a sentiment of that moment. All right, time to thank
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But now, from September ninth, not forty four, here is
a Tooth for Paul Revere.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Adventure aheads this week.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
A stirring tale of young unknown participant in the Revolutionary War,
A fantasy of history by Stephen Vincent Benet. It is
a story of a tooth for Paul Revere and.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Now Adventure Ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
There was talk of trouble in the air in April
seventeen seventy five, and all of Massachusetts colony was trembling
with whispers, rumors, talk of revolution.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think we can do against urinated taxation, this oppression.
Three men can never live this way. There is no
hope unless we planned to fight organized time the million men.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, it was enough to make men think that day
in April seventeen seventy five, to wonder if we both
was right or wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
One three four, that'll be one shilling sixpence for the
seeds master.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Butterwick, all right, they are one. Hope you have good
luck with your plant in this spring, lidge. I hope
so too, mister thought.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Don't know any farmer around Lexington that deserves to have
good crop. Isn't you losing your folks last year? Having
to run the farm or by yourself? No easy job
for young boy. Keeps me busy, all right?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Was there something else you wanted? Lige? Well, yes, got
me think for toothache?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Toothache?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Uh huh? This one here mmmm.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Gray to having the thing to kill a tooth pain Lodge.
Expect you to see the barber Billy Murphy. He can
fix your tooth.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Well, I hope so. It's a terrible heagon. Don't know
when i've had such trouble and pain.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
These are troubled times, master, Butterwick, huh what do you mean,
mister Thorpe, what trouble about the grievances of the colonies?
Oh that postly talk.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Come a time for action, and we'll need every man.
We can muster every volunteer, and we'll need you.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Lodge. Butterwick me yes, Lodge.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
But mister Thought, I just don't care about fighters.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I won't have time host everybody. And Lexington's joined up
with us, Lodge, they found time. If your father was alive,
he'd bring his gun and join us too, I know
he would. Maybe he was still got his old flintlock,
haven't you uh.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Huh, and you can fire it hollable? Good?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Then won't you reconsider Lodge. We'll need every man we
can muster.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
No, mister Thought, I just can't see my way clear
to join you a minute, man, Well.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Suit yourself.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
But someday I'm hoping you'll be part of us, A
part of the new growing tree.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Huh, new growing tree.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
It's a symbol, lide, a growing tree and a new republic.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You see what I mean? One of these days?
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Well, maybe so, but I don't quite understand what all
the troubles about myself? Too busy with my farm. Besides,
I just don't see no sense to fighting.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
Hello, Lige, you want your haircut? No, mister Murphy, it
looks like you could use one.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
No call about my tooth?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Oh got me a bad tooth, mister Murphy, hurts me
something fierce?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, sit down here in me chair, Ledge, and i'd
have a look at it. It's gonna bother me sometime,
just aching and painting, and we'll just drop your head
back a little. Yeah. There, that's it. You see anything
in there? Huh? You say anything? Afraid? You've got a
real bad tooth?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
There, Liedge?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Which warners are you've got a bad one? All right?
It's on the side right here. Sure hurts like it
was bad. M I expect that tooth ought to come out, Liige?
You do, mm hmmm, Well, well then pull her out.
I could pull her out, all right.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
But she's got long roots and she's going to leave
an awful big gap.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
When she's gone.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
She will.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yes, yes, Do you know what you ought to do?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Liige?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What? Well? What you really need that it's taking away
me business? To tell you?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Is one of these here artificial teeth to go into
the hole after she's pulled out an artificial tooth.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yes, why that's fine in the face of nature.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Well, no, Elijia, I wouldn't say that. Then, silver teeth
is all to go these days, and lection toon not
to be right up with the times. Well, it would
do me good to see you with the silver tooth.
It would, indeed.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Might do you good. But what about me.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
You'll like it, Lige, you'll feel fine, and it's real silver.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, suppose I did want one on Tuckett. Will I
ever get one here in Lexington?
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Well, you might have to write up to Boston for
it to Boston, but it'll be worth the trouble.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And I know just the man to help you. It
seems like I saw that paper notice around here, So
let me see just here it is.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
What's that, mister, m notice in the paper from a
man in Boston makes them tea?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Oh who isy?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
A silversmith name of Revere, Paul Revere. Ever hear to him,
he comes through here once in a while.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I listen to this, Lige.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Whereas many persons these days are so unfortunate as to
lose their fortey that you're lige, which is to their detriment,
not only in looks, but in speaking. This is to
inform all such persons that they may have defective teeth
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replaced with artificial ones that look just as well as
natural teeth.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Oh my goodness, there's your chance. Loge sounds good enough,
But what's going to cost?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh? I know Revere. He wouldn't charge hi muth, and
it'd be worth it.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Ligeing well in for penny and for pound too. They're
driving me mad. It's got to come out. Reckon, I'll
be able to find him.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Yes, if you lose your way in Boston, just ask
anybody for Paul Revere.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Spect Norse.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Everybody has heard of him, even the Tories. The Tories
re here's a pretty big bug in the sons of liberty.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Oh well, I.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Don't care to be mixing them with politics, but I'll
ask how. The main thing is to get this tooth
fixed today, if I can, reckon all ride up to
Boston and find this mister Paul Revere. Uh excuse me, please,
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huh could you help me please as certainly as I can.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Don't know my way around Boston very well.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Well, it seems like I've spent most of all afternoon
trying to find a special man to take care of
my tooth feet. Eh, yes, sir, I'm from Lexington, middle
stakes man.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Uh huh, I had you figured wrongst mean what you mean? Well,
I had you figured for.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
A Tory Tory? No, not me. I am no politician,
never was one. You belonging to the Liberty Party on you? Well?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yes and no?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What do you mean yes or no? It's one or
the other? I mean, I mean I don't know for sure.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Well, you better decide to stranger. Huh, there's thunder in
the air and grow in me. The time is both
in hands. Won't belong, it won't belong.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yes, but but wait, Oh, I wonder what he meant
by that. Yes, young man, you wanted something, well, just
some information.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Oh, I'm a stranger here in Boston, don't know my
way around by I'd.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
Be glad to help you, my friend, if I'm able
to thank you. You're a stranger from the Westerhead. I've
got a farm near Lexington. Oh, Lexington, and you are
a rebel, I presume me. Oh no, you're not.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
No, I'm certainly pleased to find another true hearted loyalist
in this pestilent, rebellious city.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Loyalist. Well, no, I don't know about that. What do
you mean.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
I came to Boston mainly to get my tooth fixed,
not to talk politics. You see, I'm looking for mister Reverance.
If I haven't, you say Paul Revere?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Why? Yes, what's the matter? What's your grinning about? So
it's Paul Revere. You want my clever young friends from
the country. Would you help me? Course, I'd be glad
to tell you how to find him.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
All right, Just go up to the first red coated
soldier that you see and ask.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
The way will will? They tell me? Couse? But you
have to give the password first, the password.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Yes, First, you say to the soldiers any lobsters today,
and then you ask about Revere.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
But but why talk about lobsters?
Speaker 10 (10:38):
Well, you see, my friend, the soldiers all wear red coats,
and they like being called lobsters.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
They do.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Yes, Try it, my friends, and you'll find out.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's well enough, madam.
Speaker 11 (11:10):
The silver you made for me, Oh, the silver, I
don't understand.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I paid for the very best.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
I wanted a beautiful service set, something I could show
my friends with pride.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And what have you given me?
Speaker 12 (11:21):
Why, madam, the best which I'm capable. I worked on
the set for almost two months.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Oh it's silver, if you choose. But it's so plain
and simple as a as a picket fence.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Simple. You pay me high compliments.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Compliments indeed I am sending it all back tomorrow. Why
there isn't so much as a single lion or a
unicorn on a cream jug. And I told you I
wanted the sugar bowl simply covered with silver crowns. You've
given me something as plain and as bare as as
the hills of New England. And what's more, I won't
stand for it, mister Ravia. I'll send to England instead,
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to London.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
Then send away, madam. We're making new things in this country,
new men, new silver, even perhaps a new nation. Indeed,
simple and bare as the hills and rocks of New England,
graceful as the boughs of her elm trees. If my
silver were only like that, that's for you, madam.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Now you look here.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
You can have your lions and unicorns and crowns and
your nonsense of bad ornamentation. You can have your important
taste in your important manner.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
Oh, my word, I was never so incouted in my life, my.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Work, silver crowns of the sugar bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
William, Oh, William, Yes, sir, front William, Yes, sir, Yes,
mister Revere.
Speaker 13 (12:45):
No word jet from doctor Warren knows you're nothing yet
strange that's somewhere from by. Now what if this is
the wind m getting dark? William might as well put
up the shutters. Were not likely to have any more
customers tonight.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Now, Sir, I'll put them up.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Wonder I haven't heard from doctor Warren.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
M mister Revere, mister Revere. What's up, William. There's a man, sir,
running down this side of the street. Red coats after him.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Oh, must be a patriot.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Look sir, through the shutter.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
Yes, indeed, a lot of soldiers after him.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Here They open the door.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Quickly, Yes, sir, here you come quickly in here. Oh,
thank you, thank you. I'm the dog, William, Yes, been
chasing me most a mile. Hell, that's something.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Here they come.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh you saved me then, all right, thank you.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
There's nothing at least I could do. Aren't we all
hounded and chased by the red coats these days? Huh
excuse me just a minute, Uh, William. Yes, sir, I
think you better run.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Over to doctor Warren's house see if he has a
message for me.
Speaker 12 (13:52):
Yes, sir, well, ill that you've had your breath, Sir,
may I help you?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Maybe I can? I hope. So. My name's Lidge Butterwick.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
I'm looking for mister Paul Revere round these pots of Boston.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
Well, this is a surprise, Master Butterwick. Huh, my name
happens to be Paul Revere.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Well, I'm glad of that. I tell you, mister Revere.
I had a hard time of it here in Boston
trying to find you.
Speaker 12 (14:16):
I'm sorry to hear that. But now that you found me,
how may I served you?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well? The barber sent me, Barbara. You see, it's about
my tooth.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Oh, it's this way. This tooth's knacking up real bad lately.
So this morning I went in to see Billy Murphy.
He's the barber and at Lexington, and he says that
you're from Xington. Well, yes, And mister Murphy said, were
you there this morning? I just said I wasn't the
barber to mind the.
Speaker 12 (14:38):
Barber, mister Hancock, mister Adams, were they still at Parson COO's.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Oh? Yes, I reckon, I I reckon. I saw him
when I wrote by this morning on my way up here.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Thank goodness they're still there.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Why I suppose so?
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Why Brittish ready to march and conquered tonight? Well'll belong.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Can't be long, tell me.
Speaker 12 (15:00):
Mister Butterwick, Yes, sir, did you see many soldiers as
you came to my shop tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
See them? They chased me all away from boils.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
I know, I know. But where there are others? Did
you see anymore?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh? There's a whole.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Parcel of them up by the common, with guns and
flags and everything, all lined up in their red coats
ready to match.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Why, Master Butterwick, I can't thank you enough for what
you've told me tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Gives me courage.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Told you, huh, you're a very short observer, and you've
done me and the colony is an invaluable service.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, well that's nice. But about this tooth of my
mister Revere, I just got a.
Speaker 12 (15:33):
Header A stubborn young man, Master Betterwick, but all the better.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I like stubborn men.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Wish we had more of them. What about you too?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
You'll have to be drawn off?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Been aching something awful and I want to get a
nice new silver one.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
To stop up the hole.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Well, I've made lots of artificial teeth, all right, for
drawing them out is hardly my trade, young man.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh it isn't.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
But one good turn deserves another. You've helped me. I'll
do my best to help you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 12 (16:01):
Just sit yourself here in this chair, young man, would
help him mite, Yeah, drink this draft. In the morning
you'll feel more like having your tooth straw on there.
I just think it's right down, master.
Speaker 14 (16:16):
But to medicine, all right, whatever you say, Watch.
Speaker 15 (16:31):
Something, mister Rebet will help pain. Some seems to be
better already.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
Go to an inn for the night, and then in
the morning we'll find.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
A tooth drawer. All right, If you say so, it
might bother you some later tonight.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'd better give you a box a Minimus or be
a botch.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Say you've got quite a cabinet here, mister River, Yes,
I have.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Master by the week.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Oh what's in that little pink bottle over there, Oh,
little experiment of mine?
Speaker 12 (17:11):
I call that the essence of Boston. It's like perfume,
but there's a good deal of the East wind in it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Essence of Boston.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Well I never boba told me you were a wizard,
mister Rivere, with genuine magic.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I suppose, of course.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Hey, here's your liniment in this pot, and here's a
little box you might like to see, made of wood
and silver. My goodness, just finished making it day.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Well you did pick it up.
Speaker 12 (17:41):
See that's my own design on the cover, a growing
tree and a negle fighting a lion.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Well, I've grown tree. It's awful pretty.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
You see those stars around the edge, thirteen of them. Well,
you make a very attractive design with those stars, Say
for a new country.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Oh it's the most wonderful wooden silver box. But what's
in it?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
What's in it? What's in the air around us? Gunpowder?
War and the making of a new nation?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's what you mean? You mean this here? Revolution folks
keep talking about, is in.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
Here right in there, brighten that little wooden silver box,
and fighting and war all in there.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Just waiting to be let out. But it's locked.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
Of course, time's not ripe yet to open it. Oh,
when the time comes, box can be open.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
It'll have to be open.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
And then there'll be a revolution.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes, then there'll be a revolution.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Well, well, I never must be my boy coming back you, William.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Mister Revere, doctor Warrem. Yes, he gave me this message
for you, said to run pastes.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
That hoops marching on conquered Lexington tonight.
Speaker 12 (19:10):
These supplies my boats, William, Yes, sir, get my horse ready.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Yes, sir, yes, mister Revere. Is something wrong wrong?
Speaker 12 (19:16):
No, I think everything's going to be all right.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
You'll have to leave. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh that's all right. Take your box here and hurry please.
I have much to do tonight, yes, sir. Well, well,
good night, mister Revere.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
I'll help you with the door.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Good night, good night. Well what could make him stir
around so much this time of night? Most likely nothing? Yes,
young man, you want a room? Yes I do. I
(19:47):
had a hard time finding an inn open in Boston
this time of night. Oh we're always open here. Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Well, I'll be needing a nice quiet room so as
I can sleep late. Got a bad tooth and I
want to see. Uh watch matter this box here in
my pocket?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
What about it?
Speaker 7 (20:04):
It's not the liniment box linen, un fox, I must
have took the wrong box. This is the wooden silver
box mister Revere's own bond. Don't see how I got
this one by mistake? Oh my goodness, there's something wrong wrong?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Do you know what's inside this box? Nah?
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Why there's gunpowder and warn the makings of a new nation,
that's what who says?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
So? Why Paul Revere himself? I'm almost afraid to touchet.
Are you sure about about what's in it? Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I'm sure enough.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Why I can hold it up to my ear like this,
and almost here the revolution inside?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You can well almost? Reckon, mister Reveral want this all right?
You're gonna take it back? Of course, I've got to
take it back.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
If I was to open this little box now, why
did there'd be war all around us?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I've got to take this to Paul Revere tonight.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Hey, mister Revere, is there anybody here?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
You heard him talk about a doctor Warren? Reckon? I
could find him.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
Hey, you you want down there waking honest people up
this hour of the night.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I'm looking for mister Paul Revere.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
He's not here, who you?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Friend of his? I got a little box here for him.
No where he is done chow down.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
Across the river, rode down in his horse, took a
boat two hours ago, No, sir, don't get me both
from me. There was a crazy man long here hour
or so ago. There was my husband road him moment,
and you know what.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
That man is, No, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
What made my husband tear up my best petticoat? Yes,
enos on the oas so the wooden splash when they
rode by that Nina wall, I'll say it was his
name Revere. I reckon something like that.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Can I get a boat somewhere?
Speaker 11 (22:09):
Don't know, lad? Sell it down to the walls? Night,
bro ya, bas.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Why very sit you hurried? I've gotten to find this man,
mister Paul Revere. Couldn't it wait till morning?
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Might be too late? That I got a little box
here for him. He's just gotta get it tonight before
it's too late. I'm lies Butterwick. I just come across
the river from Boston, and I must get me a horse.
I blow you on a horse trying to catch up
with a friend of mine, Paul Revere.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Paul Revere, Well, why don't you say so? He comes
out here? He got a horse from me about two
hours ago. You do, you can find him if you're
ride fast, But I have no horse. Fling down to
the barn with me.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
If you're a friend of Paul Revere, I'll give you
a horse.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Why cart he's didn't do here?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
He rode off that a way.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Why do you want, young man? Sorry to bother your
middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
But I saw y'all laugh.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Let reckon all Middlesex. Tony's waiting tonight looking for the rest.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Of the man.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Well, I'm looking for you. Let's start it off with
the guns.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
About two hours ago, in after hurry they went off
on lexingdon.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Reckon. I've lost him.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
I guess everybody said he's coming this way. I can't
find him. Almost morning, Yah, Lexington up ahead?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Got there? Who goes there? Huh? Oh it's me? Why
me Lies? Butterwick? Oh hello, Lies? Didn't see you for
the dark with the thought what you're doing up so
early in the morning.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I was just gonna ask you that lde the time
has almost come to plant that you growing trees?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Did you come to help with slide? Oh? I I
don't know. I'm looking for mister Paul Revere. Revere, you've
seen anything of a mister pier Of course he's with us.
He just arrived. Well where is he? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Then?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well straight along the road, up over the hill by
those down trees.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You can't miss him, Thank you, mister thought.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Oh, mister Revere, mister Revere, Hello on, mister Revere.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I thought i'd never find you.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
Well you did a good job, followed me all the way.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Huh. I had to be on time for my appointment.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Appointment from a tooth.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Oh, but I've got something here for you for one
point of my tooth, your little box, where my little
wooden silver bar. Yes, sir, you see I I took
it by mistake, Sir.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I didn't mean all right, did need? I just had
to hurry.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
What do you mean, Well, like you said, the whole
revolutions right inside this box.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I just had to bring it to you as soon
as I could.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (25:11):
I begin to see it all now, the story I
told you about the fox.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
You believed that.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
It's true, isn't it about the revolution and liberty being
inside this box?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Of course it is, young man. Fortunately you're just in time.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Just in time, you mean you mean it's about to happen.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Getting light, I think you can see.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
I got along the hill there, behind every rock and
tree and fence, waiting waiting.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
My men there's that's a man. Minute men, master, those
are the minute men. Yes, but over there across the
green bright man the red coat.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Yes, I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
So this is the beginning of a lie long struggle. Well,
I don't know what we're waiting for. Then, what do
you mean the box? This little box, the box, But
you don't think we've got to open it. You've got
the key, mister Vereer, Well, well.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
What are you doing.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
We've got to open this box and let out the revolution.
Don't frank it, don't break the box. It's about time
they listen. Huh listen. I hear it, I hear it.
I let out the revolution.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Yes, slide Butterwick, I guess you did, and it was
about time too.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'm glad I did it. I reckon.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I just never realized before that I had to be
a part of it, the new grown tree. Well, mister
rivere it was nice knowing you, but I'll hard to
be getting back to my farm.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Now, getting back to your farm. Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
I got my puzzle fitlock hanging on the wall back there.
Allow as I'll be needing it today and maybe tomorrow,
maybe for a.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Long time to come. So goodbye. Mister Revere, but what
about you, too poor?
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Tooth to tooth for the country's a country and anyhow,
mister Revere, it just now stopped.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Aiken.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Adventurer Ahead has presented the story A Tooth for Paul
Revere by Stephen Vincent Benet in a radio dramatization written
by Tom Gute. Music was composed by Leo Kampinski and
the orchestra was conducted by Henrin Nosco. The entire production
was under the direction of Joseph Mansfield. In today's play,
the part of blij Butterwick was played by John Thomas.
(27:47):
Paul Revere was played by Roger Di Cobyn. Others in
the cast were Kermit Murdoch, James Tanzi, Joseph Wiseman, Jackie Ayres,
eleanor Audley, Jean Gillespie, Fred.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Baron, and Paul Ford.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And its affiliated independent stations present Adventure Ahead as a
public service. Did you know that in peacetime ninety three
(28:34):
percent of all transportation in this country was by private autobile.
Even today, it is estimated that four out of five
war workers must depend on private cars to get them
to their essential jobs.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
This is but one of the.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Reasons why America's civilian and war production economy depends largely
upon the continued operations of the nation's passenger automobiles. And
now here are some more statistics for you. At the
beginning of the war, twenty seven million passenger cars were
operating on America's highways. Today, the number of cars on
the road has dwindled to a law twenty four million.
An our stock file of new vehicles i've been reduced
to less than thirty thousand, a pre war three day supply.
(29:07):
Transportation experts estimate that is a total number of cars
on the road drops to twenty million. A breakdown in
essential transportation can be expected if you have not operated
in the car pool. Start now. This is a national
broadcasting company.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
This is actually the second old time radio adaptation of
this story, which was written in nineteen forty two. The
first adaptation was done that very year on Cavalcada of America.
It would later be adapted on Escape as a Fourth
of July program. It's interesting to think about the number
(29:53):
of episodes that played year round during World War Two,
that in year after the war could really only be
aired on the fourth of July. I think that It's
a fun and relatively lighthearted story of a simple, naive
young man who just kind of stumbles into history. The
(30:16):
story was written by Stephen Vincent Binney, and a lot
of people could relate to it and to the hero
Liij Butterwick. Prior to Pearl Harbor, they weren't particularly political.
They had never spent a lot of time thinking about
the situation in Europe or the Japanese activity in Manchuria.
(30:36):
They were concerned with their own affairs and their own problems,
and if we want to judge them harshly, that's really
how most people are most of the time. But like lies,
they learn. After Pearl Harbor, they began to find out
what Hitler and the Japanese military have been doing and
(30:56):
the evil that they represented. They came around. Many reached
the conclusion not just that the war was just as
a war of necessity because of what happened at Pearl Harbor,
but that it was something that Morley had to be done.
This was a little story with some great funny moments,
but that really connected with that initial audience. Now, some
(31:20):
parts of the story might seem silly outside of the
World War two context, like Paul Revere's argument with the
lady about the silver order in the context of World
War II, where due to necessity and the wartime shortages,
plain and functional items became a priority, and this would
(31:40):
have felt very patriotic. In practicality, the argument, I didn't
make your order, that you were the way you requested
it because of grand political reason is a pretty boor
business practice. The author, mister Bennet, was better known for
his epic poem John Brown's Body, as well as for
(32:01):
that famous story which so many of us read in
high school, The Devil and Daniel Webster. He also wrote
the story Soaben Women, which became the basis for the
musical and later the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
A very creative writer whose final writings were focused very
much on supporting the war effort. Well, now we turn
(32:23):
to listener comments and feedback, and we go to Mechanics
sixty six, who offered a comment regarding the episode inside
the FBI, this was basically a half hour recruitment ad
for the FBI. Well, I can understand the perspective, and
I don't think that he's wrong that it was a
(32:45):
bit of propaganda. I would probably see a different purpose though,
and you will hear that in other things. I was
listening listening several years back to one of the early
episodes of This is Your FBI, and it was said
very clearly the message that essentially, cannot stop, cannot bet
(33:07):
in no way are you able to overcome the power,
the intelligence, or the strength of the FBI. And really
it occurs to me, and this is something very different
and something very unique about World War Two. There was
an active belief that you needed to have confidence in
(33:32):
the government, and maybe some of that came through in
the depression, but it really reached a fever pitch during
the war of our need for confidence in our civilian
and military leadership. And this is probably the bit of
messaging that I most struggle with from the World War
(33:53):
two era, and it's probably the thing that is most
different from the way Americans have lived because there's always
been throughout American history a skepticism about government and about
those in power, and that skepticism would come from any
(34:18):
political ideology. Now, depending on the ideology, it might be
more suspicious of one part of the government or one
branch of the government than the other. But you kind
of got the idea during the war, that skepticism about
government became reboting in a way that it never was
before and has never been since. And so I get
(34:41):
the idea of what Mechanic sixty six said, but it
was much more about the idea your government strong, capable,
going to get the job done. You can't outsmart them,
you might as well not try. And it was certainly
a sentiment of that moment. All right, time to thank
our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
(35:02):
go ahead and thank Daniel, Patreon supporter since August twenty
twenty four, currently supporting the podcast at the first mate
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Thanks so much for your support, Daniel, and that will
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