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Yep, I remember when I first came to America and Pasquale started me an antique business. I heard the great American saying, to be bigger, you gotta think about it. Well, that's the night I went to sleep thinking about elephants. But in the morning, I was still as poor as a mouse. Then, little by little, I must start to understand what this saying means. If you want to be big success, you gotta work hard and always think up new ways to make money. Like to take a Thomas Edison, this is a great demand, so a lot of empty sockets in the ceiling so he's to go out and invent the electric like this. But the reason I'm writing all this is because I'm realized if I'm gonna be big, I'm gonna do things instead of a weapon. So today, I'm gonna make a big move. I'm gonna give a deposit on a new store. And tomorrow, I'm gonna move all of my antiques out of Pasquale's store into a new place. Oh, I can hardly wait to tell my friends in the night school about the new Luigi Bascò. And Luigi Bascò, who's gonna be a big American business man. America, I love you. You like a papa to me. Bravo, son of two. Give me the Luigi, that sounds wonderful. A new store, your name up in electric lights, advertisements in the papers. Luigi, you're really spoiling, splurging, he's exploding. Which I never thought you got so much push in you. Well, if your time must figure out, if you think a little, you're gonna be little. But if you think a big, then you're gonna get the big. Try the new delicatessen, you should. When you're making his alarming sandwich and you think big, those 20 pound slices could lead to bankruptcy. Punch my Luigi. I'm glad we got one good businessman in our gang. What other improvements are you going to make, Luigi? Well, the main thing is to bring up the sales. This I'm gonna do with smart American advertisers. Good. Then when the money is coming, I invest in a new store. Then they open up another store. Then another store. Stop, Luigi. You are pushing Marshall Field into Lake Michigan. Thank you, many, Luigi. Where did you get all those ideas? Yeah. Did you? Good evening, Claes. Claes, what was all the excitement about when I came into the room? It's Luigi, he's expanding. Expanding? Yeah. In what way? From now on, Miss Balding, it's Luigi and Roebuck. Why? Miss Balding. Luigi has become a human dynamo, a captain of industry, a force to be reckoned with, who is seeking to broaden his horizons and reach new shores of endeavor. Oh, now you're talking about Luigi or launching the Green Mary? All this makes sense, but I'm afraid I don't understand. Did you come into an inheritance, Mr.Basco? No, Miss Balding. It's just that I'm a suddenly decided to be a biggest success, and I'm already left at a new start with a new location, and I'm not going to try out lots of new ideas on how to make money. Well, I certainly must give you credit, Mr.Basco. But the big idea's he's got, he's going to need that credit. Mr.Basco, what made you suddenly decide to expand your business? Well, Miss Balding, I'm going to tell you, I did a little figurine. We're living now in a boom of time, with inflation, lots of money is going around. And if you read the stock market, if you see how stocks are going up, real stakes are climbing up, and this isn't the time to use up your money in the business. Thank you, Bernard Basco Baruch. I'm only joking, Luigi. I only wish that I had the courage to do with my delicatessen, but you are doing this at the antique shop. Well, I should send to pick a shop with delicatessen, and I'll make any difference. Oh, excuse me, Miss Balding, I'm going to go back to my store and move in a manager coming to move me out. Well, I... Thank you. Where? Himmel. Suddenly, I feel like I was visited by a rich relative. Olsen, what do you think about Luigi changing store so suddenly? Sure, eh? I don't know. Eh, Schultz, what do you think? Ach, it's got me a little so shimmery, too. I'm worried about the crazy way that that little Wiener Schnitzel is talking. I think he's getting a little too sure of himself. Funny thing, I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if he's going to change. No, look, fellow Luigi is not the type to forget his old friends. I believe me, he's as loyal as a coca spaniel. You are? Eh, I don't know, Schultz. Ambition does strange things sometimes to people. I wonder what Pasquale will say about Luigi's moving out. How bet he hits the ceiling. Hits the ceiling. Pasquale will go right through the ceiling into the straddle sphere and become another planet. Luigi, if you leave the antique shop, it's going to be over your dead body. Pasquale, stop a-weaving your hands and my mind is a-met up. Well, un-make it. Look, Mr. Big Business, I brought you over from Italy. I said you'll put an antique shop right next door to me, and why do you suppose? Well, because you've got a big heart. No, because I've got a bigger daughter. And you know the reason all the time. Yeah, but Pasquale, please, you've got to make things are so hard for me. I'm not going to make myself a big success. All right, Luigi, go, but I warn you, terrible things are going to happen. To me? Terrible things? Yes, to you. Soon as you change the locations, the FBI right away puts your name in the AMA journal. AMA. Where the climate is to stand for? Aliens moving around. Oh, Pasquale, stop it. You can't scare me. No more with those silly stories. Luigi, tell me the real reason why you suddenly decided to move away. Well, Pasquale, it's because I'm going to find out the big American secret, the heart of becoming rich. To be big, you've got to think big. That's what I say, and believe me, Luigi, once you marry Rosa, you're thinking the biggest that a man can think. But, Pasquale, that's not the big I'm thinking about. Oh, it's a heart to explain to you, but, but I tell you, spaghetti place, same location all the ways it was the same with customers, you never made a million dollars. And are you in no way? Sure I know why. Those are free breadsticks I give out. No, Pasquale, it's because you've got to think big. You ain't to what's it called the hept. Hept? Yeah, that's the slang I'm learning, Pasquale. It means that you ain't on a ball or you ain't a cookin'. If I ain't a cookin', a lot of people in this neighborhood have been eating raw meatballs for 27 years. Luigi, stop with this crazy slang and talk. You sound like you fell down and broke your English. That's not it. I'm pretty busy now. Time is the money, but I'm going to take one minute of it to explain to you. That's very nice of you, Luigi. I appreciate it. Have a cigarette, Pasquale? Sure. Since when you took up a smoke? Since this morning. And maybe next week I'm going to start on a cigar. It's like a real American and a bigger business man. Cigarettes and cigars. Only last week your biggest pleasure was a chocolate a popsicle. All right, Pasquale. Time is a passing. The movement of truckers are going to leave on my stuff pretty soon. I'm going to make this a quick. So listen. Go ahead. I'm listening. All right. America has got the boomer times now, right? Uh-huh. It's a boomer. So everything is an afflation. Follow me, my friend? I'm a writer behind. An afflation means lots of dollars have gone out. The money has been spent. The merchant days are moving a fast. And follow me. What am I? A motorcycle a cop? Go ahead, Mr. Big a business man. Teach me some more. Well, I said the Pasquale isn't no more. Time awaits us for nobody. American a business is a fast but if you want to be on the top, you got to think the big. All right. I'm thinking a big. I'm thinking when a big dope I wasn't to bring you from Italy. I'd have been better off with the important can of sardines. Well, that's a life of Pasquale. Now, if you'll excuse me, I see the moving truck is ready to leave my store now. No, no, Luigi. Please. Don't go. It doesn't talk like a big baby. But I I'm going to miss you, Luigi. And in a row soon. No, no. Well, Pasquale, I'm not going to come and see you sometime. Luigi, stay. Stay here. I call you rent and a half for full 25 percent. What do you say, little cabbage pussy? Pasquale, I'm in need of the location. All right. Look, I'll let you rent the free. Just stay. What do you say, Luigi? No, huh? I've got to do something. I've got to call in Rosa. Rosa. Rosa. Rosa. Rosa. Rosa. Rosa, say hello to Luigi. Rosa, I tried, but it's of no use. He's still going. Luigi, if you've got a half of heart in your stomach, you want to go and leave. You don't know Rosa. Once she feels bad, she eats it to forget. And in six weeks, she's allowed to forget herself for the four hundred of pounds. Well, Pasquale, it's of no use. My mind isn't met up. Rosa, stop it. She doesn't fall on him, Papa. Go. All right, Mr. Movement of Man. Well, good bye, Pasquale. Rosa. Bye, baby. Well, Luigi, if you've got a goal, then go quick. That's right. You always have got to act quick in America. Come on, Pasquale. We're seven hours. I'm a seven hour for you, Mr. Movement of Man. And now, you want to shake hands and wish me luck, Pasquale? All right. Well, we'll go by Pasquale. Rosa. We'll go by neighborhood. Don't worry, I'm coming to see you sometime, but I'm not going to come back when I'm a big Gisucase. Pasquale's are going to be big German, you know. It's not what you think I am. Besides, I've got my own height. Before we return to life with Luigi, here's a suggestion that'll make it easier and pleasanter. From time to time while you're working, chew a stick of refreshing, delicious, Wigley's Spearmint Gum. You see friends, having a smooth piece of gum in your mouth to chew on helps you feel good. The pleasant chewing goes right along with whatever you're doing, helps reduce tension and gives you a feeling of satisfaction. Then, too, chewing Wigley's Spearmint freshens your taste and helps keep your mouth and throat moist and comfortable. As a result, you'll feel better and work better. So enjoy chewing Wigley's Spearmint Gum while you work. See how it makes your job seem easier and pleasanter just as it does for millions of people. Now, let's turn to page two of Luigi Vasco's letter to his mother in Italy. Well, my mother here, my biggest dream is to come true. It's been one week since I opened up my antique shop in a new location and already I'm making a purchase just as a ring like a file-on box and today I'm going to sell my first the $50 bill. Believe me, Mamma Mia, you silly sass the grant there was a more surprise to see me than I was to see him. And also, I'm going to do so much your business I'm going to hire myself for sales again. Mr. Abbey, I'm a better answer to phone. Never mind. I've got it. When is it going to be my turn? Hello, Vasco's antique shop. Mr. Abbey speaking. A Lincoln mug. Oh, yes, we have a very fine one. Please, please, Mr. Abbey, if it's about Lincoln, I'm a wanna talk. Fine. You come on in anytime. No. I'm asking you doesn't it time's a miss Abbey, if it's about the Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, then I'm a wanna talk. That's my big pleasure. excellent dinners for you but i'm not care i'm a could have been bought the shoemaker grocery man a stock of rocker anything if i'm only want to make a business but i'm an antique a business because i'm a love america and all the medicanity mister basco on the one hand you talk about making lots of money being a success and then you talk as though you don't care excuse me if i'm confused all right then i'm gonna ask you you should excuse me too thank you sir those who have to wait until saturday for delivery though we're very rushed certainly being discovered mr basco goodness yes are you sure that's the name of what's probably isn't a call to me no have you hired that delivery boy yet no not yet sure it's also in harrowing miss spoiler nobody is a call by that name no now have you found a location for another store no you sure it wasn't a sure set i'm a doctor for sure that he would have come wait a minute is he a tall thin man and does he laugh all the time yeah and after he's left he's always saying oh my woman doesn't miss a killing of me that's him he was in yesterday while you were outpacing the ad shoulds oh shoulds it wasn't here how did he look what did he say oh and i told him i worked here for you and that you were hiring another delivery boy and adding a new store he said uh that little vener schnitzel he's discovering more in america than columbus i have to show you well tonight i'm going to my night school i'm having a chance to see my other friends well evidently you had no chance to even see your mail either i wanted to show you this letter from your school from my school what's happened but i must have been mad because i'm having no coming for so long and let me see now office over the principal then mr bascoe we received the notice of changer address and write to inform you that you are now living in different school school district kindly report to your new school that oh my mommy that's no good is something wrong mr bascoe everything is wrong and they're deporting me from my other school come on let me i'm gonna do something let's all be quick and call up the first quality is the number is a central at seven eight eight to nine seven and find out that for my old stories are entered out to get well all right mr bascoe i'm i'm i'm gonna get the back to the old neighborhood call up bascoe and ask him but don't tell him who's you calling her for he's a mad enemy that's all you can eat for all you can pay sir bascoe i understand you have a vacant store for two late two late has already rented out the joseph barbershop he's gonna open up the soda goodbye i heard them come on mommy what what i'm gonna do mr bascoe aren't you acting too hasty after all one night school is pretty much like any other no no i'm i'm used to those are friends and that teacher and that a night school and bascoe does it have to be a night school sure everything i'm learning in america i'm learning in the back miss ovary watch the story i'm gonna talk to miss balding right now and america take me back i miss balding is a left the door open i'm i'm gonna listen mr howard mr olsson and mr shoal here well you've been answering to your name for a whole week now without trying to be funny shows you're beginning to take your work seriously shows are beginning to run out of jokes since what did you left this miss balding show shows is like in a different world it's your hobby we all feel like we lost a dear friend a man who was a gentleman true blue so a man who was loved by all olsson when you talk like that stop looking six feet down it makes me smell i know how you all feel about mr bascoe leaving us but remember it was what he wanted that's right if it's good for him it's good for us job you're there there's no use to bother him if he's gotten too big too big when they talk about i'm small like a cockroach the bottom of the hall is closed the door so that we can start the lesson with or without mr bascoe the class goes on mommy i'm a shutout there it is as in my all antique story and a postcard he's got a sign in the window watch for opening a son of joseph barbershopper that's the postcard here right here he's he's always a spelling shopper with a three-page well i'm i'm gonna see him in the restaurant uh this is louis g or is a ghost what's happening louis g you're going to slumber than the old neighborhood how'd you suppose to buy i i thought i would have dropped in and say hello that's nice uh they tell me you make so much money you hand now to five dollar bills as a souvenirs i'm gonna fill it up as quality like i'm a seller though but uh you gotta think about i know i know i know trouble with my business i think a big but the spaghetti never stretches more than a six inches oh fine fine so far this week she's got a date every night with the same boy oh it's a good is it somebody uh somebody i know but no no no he's just some rich millionaires his son you know winters in hawaii summers in akoni island oh that's a nice he's a promise to teach you rosa how to play a water polo but i told him i'm not gonna do and i don't like the idea of dragging them poor horses through the water and i've done it neither but uh well uh well i'm glad that ours is a happy pasquale at pasquale i see you got the got a barbershop moving us on into my old store that's all right the joe caravello he's gonna pay me more rent than you used to pay me when you paid me i'm all the ways i paid you when i'm when i'm a hatter what do you never had it i'm gonna get it to now all right don't push it in my face well i wasn't pushing it into your face you are and i don't like it well i don't like the need all right then excuse me i gotta go and finish a game i'm a playing with some will we play canack well you play the canack i'm gonna go back to my store i'm gonna get a big deal on it so goodbye let's all be quick thank you the telephone hey yes sir don't call me my name is abasco quick go to pasquale again this is the time of telling me you're calling for some a new millionaire anybody tell them tell them we're gonna give them twice as much an answer all right and we've got to stop the joke from moving in a barbershop um mr pasquale i represent a very wealthy client who is interested in renting a former antique shop at 21 north hall sted street lady i'm tired of people calling me the stores already oh but we're prepared to pay twice as much double no mama me tell him it's three times as much as we'll make it triple lady i don't care if you're making a double triple or four full or triple it's a rental and that's all mama that's no good what am i going to do i'm i'm i don't know how am i going to beg him to take me back mr abray watch you to start a play mr basco when will you come back never i hope and i'm gonna open the door is the rest and then and it's super how are you louis uh what are you gonna first you tell me where you was going well if i'm here then you know where i was going what are you trying to do make a dope out of me i'm not a marooner you know please the pasquale no more fight huh well but squali i'm doing a very good in my new store but but i'm never gonna be happy i'm gonna come back to here i want to my old store back i'm gonna care if i have to pay 10 the times the more i i wanted back louis jack got a confession to make when we just bumped it together i was out of my way to you yours huh that's all right a little banana nose i wasn't gonna ask you to come back ahead here but what about the the barbershop what about this job oh he's a never was an old joe i just put up the sign so people shouldn't bother me about renting it welcome home of my son i said is he is it good is it good to be back yes my daughter i mean that was the end of louis the big american and businessman that the night that we we had a biggest celebration in the old store then hello which is you said louis g in behalf of the whole neighborhood welcome back to civilization then i found out you were moving back then i thought that was too good to be true and words just failed me and when words fail all the webster is gonna start writing it a new dictionary you made us all so happy by coming back for once mr. Schultz you express the sentiments of everybody so you see mom and me why i'm so happy tonight i'm gonna learn something i'm like to tell it to everybody when you got your friends around you people who like you you have to start working on your second a million a dollars you already got to your first tonight the mama mea i'm hoping you feel a good like of me you're loving the son louis jebasko the little magenta the makers of wriggly spear mint chewing gum hope you enjoyed tonight's episode of life with louis g and they want to remind you that wriggly spear mint gum is an ideal taste treat to bring home to your family it's a grand between meal treat for children for instance because it satisfies them without spoiling their appetites it's good to pass around the table after meals because chewing wriggly spear mint gum freshens the taste helps cleanse the teeth and aids digestion and best of all wriggly spear mint chewing gum is a delicious treat to just about everyone really enjoys so next time you go to the store get a few packages of helpful refreshing wriggly spear mint gum penny for penny you can't buy a better taste treat for your family the makers of wriggly spear mint chewing gum invite you to listen next week at this time when louis jebasko writes another letter to his mama basco in italy life with louis g is a sigh howard production pat burton is associate producer the script is written by mac benoff and lou dermin and directed by mr benoff jay carol max is starred as louis jebasko with alan reed as pascuale conch conreed as joe jody gilbert as rosa mary ship as list folding joe forkay as horowitz and ken keeter as the musical director of london this is charles lyon this is the cdf radio network