This is the NBC University theater presenting another in our series of radio plays based on the world's great story. Tonight, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, with Henry hole as a lover.
In 1727, when Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, he intended it to be nothing more than a sharp and biting commentary on the customs and politics of his time. But knowing that the most Dangerous truth be told safely only under the mask of humor. He veiled his attacks with the most imaginative of stories. And as a result, his book did not die with a customs and men which it ridiculed. Instead, with a passage of two centuries and more, it has become more than just a brilliant satire. It has become, in fact, one of the greatest of all children's classics, a story it's a charm, a delight, the young of every generation, and every century.
My name lemuel Gulliver. for 16 years and seven months I sail the seas on several vessels, first as a surgeon and then as Captain Amir 1699 accepted an offer from Captain William Prichard master the antelope was making a voyage to the South Sea. I shall not trouble you with the particulars of our adventures in these scenes. That is suffice to say that in our passage we ran afoul of a traffic storm.
The weather being very hazy we within the hopper cables length of a giant lock before our lookout spider.
six of us made shift to get the long boat into the sea. But Holly clear the ship side she would driven on the rock can spit a Sunday
became a my companions I cannot tell or conclude that they were lost. But my part I swam was fortune directed and was pushed forward by wind and tide to a point where I found myself within my depth. When I finally struggled to shore, I was in so weak a condition that I I lay down on the grass and fell asleep.
Some hours later, I was awakened by a noise like the humming of insects, a silken whispering like grass in the wind. I tried to raise or cover my arms and legs fastened securely to the ground, my hair tied down in the same manner. And once I became aware of something lame, moving on my leg, advancing gently forward over my breast, walking ball To my chin. I bet me my eyes down when I was able to perceive that it was a human creature that six inches high with a bow and arrow in his hands. And even though I look at least 50 more of the same kind of follow the first, the gradually became clear to me that it was these tiny creatures who have made me a prisoner with boundary security while I slept, records no thicker than a thread of soup. Out maids at first, but the absurdity of a man of my statue of industry did. I then began to ponder how light my plight was compared to that of thousands of my own countrymen, who too were bound by invisible threads of cast, custom and circumstance where they are prisoners as much as i the only difference being that I was aware of my plight, and they were not they didn't appreciate us but that was the name of my tiny captors got me food in range center there. By the Emperor's orders, free when buying hands so that I could eat Institute as in my own island, the state of a man's stomach is likely to govern his thinking. I topped off my meal but the opposite of good wine, then fell asleep. While I slept. I was bound in chains, and carbon by 1500 horses for the Palace of the Emperor
is Imperial Majesty.
Your Imperial Majesty, your most humble servant,
Imperial Majesty
proposes to the
following articles
to the articles proposed but not altogether to my liking, but overwhelmed by the presence of royalty. I could only prostrate myself I just not just his feet and acquiesce he didn't have a mind to entertain me with one of his country's best loved shoulder. Read. So, his minister of private affairs, ascended to my shoulder to interpret the performance for me. When
candidates petitioning for entertain the court by cutting paper somewhere, whoever judged the highest without falling off when is the office
candidate for the Office of Treasurer performing now he's super
colossal like he he's a sensation
for years. What is it it's
just occurred to me Is this rope dancing really true testaments qualifications for public office?
Surely I thought, surely in the setting of idea loveliness, these tiny doll like people so energetic, so resourceful, must have attained a state of happiness and perfection that we larger models only dream of. But I was doomed to disillusion I had I'd been there scarcely a month but my friend red Brazil, came and climbed up on my shoulder and began to whisper in my ear.
We labor under two mighty evils of violence.
cism hidden little bit here.
Well, how do you differ politically?
profoundly, one party adheres to the wearing of high heeled shoes. The other
high and low heels,
favors lesser heels in his administration. Therefore, the animosity of the two parties run so high, they will neither eat nor
drink with each other. There's no hope of a compromise.
neither party will yield a fraction. Meanwhile, the country is split. And at the same time, we are threatened with an invasion from the neighboring kingdom engaged in the most absolute war for 636 and
13. moons amazing. Even in Europe, we are not often able to sustain our wars that long was charted your world with the love for scorpions, and egg.
It's allowed.
Naturally,
present members great grandfather However, during his reign, published books Eating
smaller and the people saw resentment this
rebellious uprisings Emperor lost his life and another is chrome
but you are a rational people gotta be made clear to you the utility of such conflicts. Many hundreds of volumes
have been published on the second that the Emperor has ordered all books that do not support the little endian point of view, suppressed by sea or start all over again. The enemy is already
preparing to descend upon
if there's anything I can do next is placing great
confidence in your stroke.
I'm greatly flattered. Please present my humble duty to His Majesty and inform him that I stand ready with my life to defend his person and state against invaders.
When the invasion was at hand, I waded out into the channel between Bluebird and breakfast you cut the moorings of the enemy's fleet, tied the ships lines together, then waited back again with the enemy's vessels in the whole kingdom of the liquid awaited on the show to me on.
The last is to learn how fickle is the public mind? how short lived the heroes Leros early the next month.
Register What brings you out so where they
come on to express?
What does he want
now, all the rest of the enemy ships in
great heavens that would leave the empire of blue fescue entirely undefended. He says
it's our national destiny.
He's out of his mind.
But he is laying plans to destroy the entire race of big Indians
to break their eggs on the smaller end, and
if they refuse,
you may return to his majesty and say that I refused his request. I shall never be the instrument of bringing a race of free and brave people into slavery.
Did you give the Emperor my message?
What do you mean?
Angry actor refusal, he intends to blind blind me
Yes, he's clever. He recognizes that the loss of your sight will no wise impair your bodily strength, you will still be useful to him. In fact, he feels you will be of greater service to him blind.
Low contemptible means nibbling, treacherous, selfish ratio, our habitual red facade. Why are you here?
I couldn't bear to think from you.
My friend, he must have come to warn me at a great risk the rest of my life. I am deeply grateful to you. Because of you, I can still believe in men, even in a leopard among as low specimens of humanity as I have yet encountered. You have proved to me there are those who are not governed by self interest alone. Those capable of idealism, human love and sacrifice. I shall not depart from your country entirely cynical
My next voyage, after many misadventures brought me to the kingdom of the bobbing negations race of giants as tall as people's files, whose voices Lord like waterfalls, none of these giants I looked upon as a freak. The Queen chanced upon me when I was being displayed in a box in the marketplace, and delighted by the fact that I was 30 times smaller than her court dwarf, persuaded the kingdom by me for her play thing. At the court, my luck was in tolerably humiliating behavior, occasionally gales of laughter. Just as in my country, children I looked upon as objects of fun and division. I became obsessed with the idea of proving to the king and his court that I was indeed a man after all. At length, I hit up all the way to accomplish This, I offered to reveal to the king the secret of an intention and invention that after this time is the most significant achievement of my race.
Tell me my diminutive brand, but is this wonderful invention
well saya between three and 400 years ago, that was compounded to a certain powder, which, when kindled, will fly up into the air with a noise and agitation greater than Thunder
water diverting idea for a feast days and celebrations
like wait Your Majesty, when the proper quantity of this powder into a hollow tube of brass or iron, and it will drive a ball of labor such violence and speed that nothing can sustain its force, but might that not prove destructive? It will rip up pavements, can houses the pieces Lay Waste cities, dash out the brains of all who are near you could become the master of the lives liberties and fortunes of all your people.
Whoever disputed your absolute authority, are
you too ignorant to understand that I neither have nor want
absolute authority you are King. You cannot be without ambition, you must wish to live in the annals of your people. Now, by the use of this formula, our principle on why
some evil genius enemy of mankind must have been the first contrived or this powder, if you value your life, never mentioned it again, as you will say, but it
is claimed to be seen that here you have not reduced to politics and the conquest of power do inexact science, as a more acute with sub Europe have done
power politics. It is my opinion that whosoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, does more essential service to his country than the whole race of polish. To put together
I was forced to conclude that the Kings narrowness of view was the miserably perverted effect of a limited education. Eventually, I reached home again, but such as my restless nature that I had not been there 10 days before.
Man, the capstan cast off the stern line.
Yes, I was embarked upon another voyage, and it was part of my Spain's destiny that in time, I should have found myself cut adrift by pirates and subsequently saved but the inhabitants of La Kuta nella Puja is the most remarkable place, a flying Island suspended several thousand feet above the heads of ordinary mortals. The leptons, unlike the bob logins are most scientific. Indeed, they are so wrapped up in intense speculation that they never enjoy a minute's peace. adjustments are endless feats bump heads, and are often in manifest danger of falling off the island. Really great thinkers among the deputies will not talk about $1 however, but I put away an institution called the grand Academy, a projector. Being a great admirer of projects myself, I immediately asked to be allowed to visit this institution at a great door. I was stopped in Japan,
show your identification pass please. Very good and your travel permit. All in order. Thank you.
We will find the research laboratories
one mile down this corridor then turn left then right and then left again and the
agricultural projects
two miles to the left at the opposite end of the building. Thank
you very much.
Yes, I am the coordinator of all architectural research projects. It was I who first introduced the idea of beginning old buildings at the top and working down.
My friend, food is our business stuff of life. You know, I've just perfected a method of plowing so simple, you'll wonder you did not think of it yourself. The farmer plants is filled with a crop of acorns, turns a drop of hogs loose in the fields.
Our aim is to perfect a universal language. Now I hold that by leaving out verbs and
participle nonsense, Professor X,
you're only wasting your time with minor changes of that sort. Now, I propose that we abolished words all together.
abolish words altogether and carry about in a second or Beck's
such object is unnecessary to express a thought. There's your universal language, you can
do it. I tell you, they won't let you do away with words who won't let me pray
the women, the women,
the school of political projectors right through that door. And I propose that as a solution to all political problems. We endeavor to persuade the people to choose leaders for their wisdom, capacity and
virtue, that we teach officeholders to consult the public good. And we reward methods ability and eminent service, and exalt leaders to subordinate their own interests
to those people.
Except for the fantastic ideas I heard expounded in the School of political projectors, I must say that I was impressed with the grand Academy of laputa. The only inconvenience is that none of the projects of any of the projectors have yet been brought to perfection. And in the meantime, the whole country lies a miserable waste, houses in ruins and the people without food and clothes. However, I dare say in time, they will get around to doing something about that, too.
My last voyage took me to a country where horses called in the land, Williams, other masters and the men called the yahoos are the beasts of burden, because of the profound difference between their conception of good and evil and our own took me the better part of a year against respect from the premium and who was home I stayed to discuss these matters with me. But first he considered me only a cleaner and slightly more rational Yahoo. And those he kept in his table. The whole race at Yahoo was he insisted were the most treacherous and irrational of all brutes.
All you need to do is throw among five Yahoo's as much food as would be sufficient for 50. Instead of eating peaceably, they will fall to quarreling and fighting, each single one determined to have it all to himself.
I'm afraid that Yahoo's a mainland country are inclined toward similar behavior. And yet you tell me that in your country, the yahoos are the
masters and the Williams the beast of burden. How can that be? What you
fail to recognize is that in my country, the Yahoo was a civilized, civilized?
What is civilized? So many of your words I don't understand. Lying, deceit, power, lust, government, malice. envy evil. But go on.
Tell me what is civilized well amongst us We have wonderful things such as you have never dreamed of magnificent castles. God just clothing the noblest most costly meats and drinks. Our ships go to the ends of the earth to bring these luxuries back for the rich
rich. What is rich?
Well, a rich yeah who is one who has enough money to buy these luxuries I have just described
than they are not free to all
know by no means
how many of your Yahoo's do enjoy them.
Oh, but one in every thousand I should say. The bulk of our people live miserably by laboring every day for small wages, wages, money, the most prized and precious substance amongst us.
What do you say amazes me now among us winners. It is our supposition that all animals have a title to their To share in the productions of the earth, but then of course, we are not civilized. Tell me those Yahoo's who do not have the luxuries you described. How do they feel
they are in a continual ferment of endeavor to earn sufficient money to live as the rich do and what does this endeavor consist of There are numerous kinds of begging, robbing, stealing, cheating for swearing, flattering, forging, gaming, hectoring, voting, labeling, scribbling stargazing, then there are other recognized professions of course, like, doctoring. Please explain. Well, it is part of our civilization that we eat when we are not hungry. Drink without the publication of the first set whole night's imbibing strong liquors most extraordinary all of which disposes us to slough inflames our bodies and prevents digestion. Then there are diseases to which your husbands or wives growing weary of their needs are subject incredible, all of which makes the professional doctoring and most lucrative one amongst us Yahoo's. But I must tell you of another profession, the law please, please spare
me. I do not feel equal to hearing about the law today. To be frank, your whole discourse has only increased my abhorrence for the whole speeches of Yahoo's for the Yahoo's amongst us. I've always felt a kind of pity for their ignorance, but the yahoos of your country you say, pretend to reason. Instead of reason, it seems to me You're possessed only of some quality fitted to increase your natural vices. Do you realize that for all your talk of civilization, or your fine words, you have never mentioned the one word we will surprise most deeply. Love. Love. It is the law of Ireland, we need no other. amongst us love is not confined to any particular object that universal to the whole race. We show the same affection for our neighbors issue as for our own, and wherever wynnum goes to whatever part of the land, he looks upon that as his home. Thus we live together without conflict, in peace and happiness. peace,
happiness, no. Now you are using words with which I am not familiar.
But in time, dwelling amongst the winnings, I was to learn the full meaning of peace and happiness. I enjoyed perfect health of mind and body. I did not feel the treachery or inconsistency of a friend, I know occasion of bribing of flattering to procure the favor of a great man or isn't it I wanted no offense against fraud, or oppression, in the midst of all this happiness and when I looked upon myself to be fully settled for life, my whole set for me one morning a little earlier than usual,
it is with great sorrow that I must tell you what I must, you will have to leave us
leave you go from this peaceful country or no, no, no, not that don't. Don't send me away. It is
the opinion of the majority of the winnings that we jeopardize our well being by keeping you here. It is fear that you since you have the rudiments of reason added to the natural depravity of a Yahoo that you may influence the other yahoos to rise up against
a thought of that kind never entered my mind. I swear
it so I told the other winners, but they replied that you yourself have told us that your kind excels in the art of lying and dissimulation How can you be trusted?
You must go
Thus gentle listener, I've given the faithful account of my travels for 16 years and above seven months, wherein I have not been as studious of ornament, as I could perhaps have astounded the strange improbable tales but I, I chose really plain Matter of fact, in manner and style. It is my belief that the travelers chief aim should be not to form wonderful descriptions of both land and sea, but to make men wiser and better
The curtain of the NBC University theater falls on Gulliver's Travels, another in our series of radio plays based on stories that live. Tonight's adaptation of the Jonathan Swift story was written by Frank wells and starred Henry hole as lemuel Gulliver with Anthony Boras, as the Lilliputian can Christie as the robbing noggin, and Gail Gordon as the William Henry hole may soon be seen as general Mike McCready in the Warner Brothers picture Fighter Command. Others in the cast were Bruce Cameron Stanley Ferrara, sighs Stevens, jack crucian, early jack Carroll and Cliff Clark. It is with real pleasure that the NBC University theater announces that beginning with our next performance, our productions will be a full hour in length. The first of these attractions will be an adaptation of the Henry James novel, The American with Alan Hale and the starring role. We suggest that you watch your local newspaper for time and station
Tonight's production of Gulliver's Travels was directed by Max huddle. original music was composed and conducted by Henry Russell. productions of the NBC University theatre are currently being used in conjunction with a course in American and British fiction under a college by radio plan at the University of Louisville.
