 The CBS radio workshop dedicated to man's imagination the theater of the mind tonight the Toledo war a new opera performed for the first time with words by Edward Eager and music composed and conducted by David Brookman. It was in 1835 when Michigan was still a territory that the young governor Stevens Thompson Mason claimed that a strip of land including the town of Toledo rightfully belonged to Michigan but some people in Ohio thought differently and so it was war the first war between the states exactly what happened isn't too clear but it might have been something like this of Toledo, Ohio. Sparing news of war sales are in, Michigan have made complete. So now with savage skill and aim a draw, it is from the draw to stink me. Once who came, my brother three, my brother four, the Terry man, and he named the spy, I'm in a groove, and he trained us in the truth to be as mill attention, and he sneak and spy come here to peak and cry, we'll hit him in the eye and sit around and watch him die. I lost my way and having my mandolin with me improvised a serenade to warm my fingers. Every word I sang was true. In Michiganders not to wear a very full on the powder status quo. I came from Detroit with the band to make for the courthouse with a fiddle. But the night it was dark and the way it was tricky, I got lost in the swamp and the swamp it was sticky, and I couldn't find the courthouse for my knowledge it was scanty. So I finally came to this house of your auntie. Isn't a quantum light, Toledo still is shining bright. Tonight the CBS radio workshop has presented the Toledo war, a parlor piece for music with words by Edward Eager and music composed and conducted by David Brookman. The cast included Arthur Newman as Judge Phineas Fustion, Jean Hanslick as his wife, Lois Winter as Annabelle, Shirley Emmons as Isabelle, Peyton Higginson as the hero, and Mike Pollock as Stinkney too. Others included John Wilson, Jack Brown and Bill Marine. The CBS radio workshop is produced in New York by Paul Roberts. This is Bob Hyatt inviting you to join us again next week when we present When He Shall Appear. This is the CBS radio network.