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J Carol Nash with Alan Reed as On this night of Christmas We in America are happy to be living where we are free to act toward each other in the spirit of friendliness and goodwill and the makers of Wrigley's Spear Mint chewing gum are especially glad to bring you life with Luigi tonight because we feel that In its good-natured way life with Luigi expresses the spirit of tolerance and understanding that means so much to all of us And now let's look in on Luigi as he writes another letter describing his adventures in America to his mama basco in Italy He's a now Christmas night and a Christmas shopping season is all over But what excitement there was at doing the shopping all the good Americans that they moved out of their houses And they started to live in a one in a bigger place the department of stars You should have seen the crowd yesterday I was a went to see the rose a bucket to buy a two-center washer for my sink, which is a leacon Five times I'm started off to the hardware department and a five times of the crowd is a push me back to the ladies a house coach Finally, I'm gonna come home with a two-sense washer for the sink which the clerk is a gift rack Tied with a pink ribbon and a stamp that don't open it before Christmas Who has it turned out anyway? This is Christmas. Even though my sink was a surprise to with a present Mama me last week. I'm a sent to you your Christmas a present a bread the toaster. Oh This is a wonderful American invention, but it's the one thing. I'm a want to warn you about that Don't try to stuff in a whole a bread at the one time Put in just the one a slice of bread and don't do nothing until you see the smoke to come out Today you take out the bread to scrape off with the black apart in it This is a taste almost as good as a plain bread. That's a stale But a Christmas time everybody had a list with their names on it I'm a had a mind too Everybody's name was on it except to my country man up a squali because for him I'm a gotta something extra special all year long I was a put away dollar a week in my bank a Christmas a club till I had a $50 just for this a big surprise If a bus quality how was a wonderful a surprise and hand was a big big secret I was even afraid of to tell him myself But anyway, mama me to tell you the whole story just like it was a happen I'm gonna go back to last the Friday when I was a check-in under my Christmas list to make sure everybody's I got a surprise and suddenly my daughter was open up and in is it come a windy Christmas a spirit My friend And a Merry Christmas to you little banana nose Luigi, I know you're short of money, so don't get me nothing. You can't pay out for the 12 easy installments All right, I've got it. I've got it. You finished with it. Were you Christmas shopping yesterday? Luigi? How would you like it to see television every night and next year? Oh? Pascuali you shouldn't don't worry. I didn't I'm only teasing I'm gonna buy you a bigger beautiful television is that oh? How wonderful and I'm not gonna get you just a plain little 10-inch screen This is gonna have a big 20-inch screen there is gonna keep out all the flies Thank you. Thank you, but also Luigi. This is set is it gonna have a hundred foot electric record Yeah, but a Pascualia. I'm got a little room. I'm gonna donate a hundred foot electric cord to reach the socket Oh, I forgot to tell you something a little cabbage pussy You're gonna plug in the cord and you store but the television is set is they're gonna play in my daughter roses a room You mean every time I'm gonna watch you my television set. I'm I gotta do it to what are you daughter? That's the right for you lucky pops you But what are your daughter Ross in the room of who's is it gonna be able to see it? Luigi stop over the fat talk a water for my roses away 250 pounds. That's not so big It's all the way you look on you don't mind. I'm rather not to look Oh Look, I'm talking for you all good a bachelor's single a life is running around in no place You drive me self-acracy get married, you know where you go and marry Rosa your life will have a plan No, but I'm better off with a blue cross the hospital a plan No, it's what are you think about it'll be fair remember is it two sides of two every day two sides Rosa's got a more sides than a four-way called a tablet So mad and you'll remind me after you give me my Christmas a present. I should have never speak with you again All right, the best guy enough. You don't mind it. Please. I'm gonna go to my night school. All right Go go now remember don't go spending any money on me for Christmas. See my waist is a 56 My neck size is a 19 Also, I like to play cards and I could use a tray automatic the shopper and a two plastic a dex for when I play canada All right, the best guy and goodbye, but I'm gonna see you later Yeah, little popular head Where's he gonna get money to buy any good presents anyway, so was it gonna come to me for money? I'm is a private little marshal of plan Hey, what's the DC left behind there's a little envelope I'm gonna like a peek but at the inside of the envelope wants to peek on me What's it's a fifty dollars? Oh He's gonna do something to behind of my back. Let's see what is a rip and it's a paper Christmas and esti. Well, my name must to be on the top Miss Baldwin Sure, so how it's all sir. Hey, he must be saving me for the last male man Rosa window cleaner Officer Flanagan a sandy the newsboy Jake in a pickle of man He's left to me out Fifty dollars. He's a hit away from me and he's a left to me out to me He's a guy here in America when he's a come here from Italy. I give him as a first pair of shoes first the haircut First the comic book When he's enough could have read it. I helped him out. I've got a somebody to read it to him No president for Pasquale, huh? Well, I'm gonna show him this list And this money I ain't gonna keep but I just gonna hold it for him till Christmas Christmas of 1999 All right class quiet, please I'll call the roll. Mr. Basko here. Mr. Howard. Yeah, Mr. Olson Mr. Schultz Sure, are you supposed to be Santa Claus? That's what my wife's relatives think My miss Paulie, it's just a Christmas spirit. Yeah, here's a present. I brought for you some voodoo perfume Thank you, Mr. Schultz and that's falling. I brought you something to My gift to miss folding I brought you something also miss folding what a bunch of koopie cats Well class, this is it's wonderful. I can't find the words Shoot the hardware to not see me here. Here. I'm a brought to you some little things it too. Thank you, Lavin You thank you so much fellow should I do it to him now? Oh Luigi we all got together yesterday after class and Well, we talked about you and what a nice little fellow you bought and Well, we shipped in and here's your Christmas present and that's our merry-go-round Friends and friends and what a wonderful of present. Oh, this is a much a beautiful fountain of pen I'm ever on Is it the only fountain of pen I'm ever on Go on the top and a beautiful insight Luigi go ahead read the inscription that we wrote you on the pen Yeah, I'll leave the end and they come straight from our hearts to you. All right. I'm I'm ready 14 a character go to field. I mean you are reading the point You're on the cap you're in Weakness in a set of friendship Christmas in 1951 Classes isn't beautiful and I'm a kind of think of any other words if you could have added more words If we added any more words, you would have ended up with two fountain pens Luigi we're glad you're like it. It was just a slightly turn for the present. You got us Luigi, what did you get for Pascalee? Well for Pascalee. I'm I'm getting to something extra special You see, he's the one who's brought to me to this wonderful a country America and he's a watch over me all the time So I'm getting him a big surprise a wallet a box a necktie a noose Was none of those things is a surprise and we'll give us a hint Luigi Well, is there is a something of Pascalee no kind of touch smell off feeling is it not going to keep it But once he's a guy he's a no kind exchange Come Luigi you just got our curiosity all around. Yeah, what are you going to give Pascalee Luigi? Well yesterday. I'm a went to the bank took out the money and I'm a set to myself What I'm I can get a Pascalee. That's a different something that a nobody is ever given nobody before Aha, so you're getting him a shrunken mummy head Mr. Schultz, please stop interrupting and let Mr. Basko finish Well, anyway, I'ma took this the money and I'm a went Mama Mia something wrong It's a Christmas of money. It's a mission. I'm a lost it Luigi wait first look in all your pockets You're entitled to think where you might have left. No, no, no, I'm elected an old place up. I'm a lost it It's a terrible. Please. I'm a spotter. You excuse me. I'm gonna go look before it certainly Mr. Basko Oh Luigi don't take it so hard smile After all it's only money No, you lost it. What are you going to do jump off the bridge? How much money did you lose? This is a dollar $50. Yeah, Luigi move over and I'll jump off with you We'll return to life with Luigi in just a few moments Friends we know that many of you have enjoyed Wrigley spearman chewing gum today Because it's a well-known custom to pass Wrigley spearman around on Christmas and other occasions when folks get together When you open up that familiar little package of Wrigley spearman gum and say have a stick You're really showing friendly thoughtfulness that people really appreciate That's because just about everyone enjoys chewing Wrigley spearman chewing gum So friends for your own enjoyment and for the enjoyment of others We'd like to suggest that you keep Wrigley spearman chewing gum handy at all times. That's Wrigley's spearman healthful refreshing Delicious now, let's turn to page two of Luigi Vasco's letter to his mother in Italy And I saw my mamiya I thought it would be no use even to tell you what the wonderful of present I was going to get the football squali because I was a lost the $50. I was a safe for it all night long I'm looking the streets you wouldn't my search light. I'm gonna find the $50 and I'm gonna have a fight with a couple in the Park the car Also in my house. I'm gonna look all over under my rug in a flower pot in a chandelier And all I'm a fun is a dust two flowers and a lamp. It's a no worker Also, I'm a push away all the furniture swept up at the floor is a duster under the couch in a bed I'm gonna find the money my mamiya, but today I'm I got the cleanest of bedroom in the Chicago My mamiya, I'm gonna get the hat to look at a post quality right now I'm assuming through the window and he's he's a talking to Rosa very mad I can adjust the mad. You know what he's a Santa how about the meat Rosa stop eating for a minute? I want to talk with you Rosa who's are the best of friend of Luigi ever had you Papa and who's a treated him a better Fairer than anybody in this country you Papa and who's a turn out to be a rotten ungrateful jackass But this is kind of talk I send you to school. I can't you say nothing but you Papa Back to you Papa Rosa from now on You and me we through with a Luigi don't ever associate with him don't go near him Don't ever let me even see you Not even that Rosa if he wasn't to come back to you on his hands and knees, so what would you say to him? The way do you want to play piggyback? Oh Mad out of him. He's never gonna get back as a $50 Summer Christmas list he's had a presence for everybody even the Jake and the Pickler man, but if for me not This is not the president so much. I wouldn't care if he was to give me a cheap for 29 seven necktie Same one. I gave him a last year I'm a so mad on him. I'm gonna cut him out of my will Papa you got a wheel no, but I'm gonna make one out. They're just so I can cut them out But maybe Luigi just forgot about you impossible. I've been a hint ever since Thanksgiving God Ross you mind the store. I'm gonna talk with that little popsqueak This I'm gonna find out why he's left me out as a Christmas list. He better have a good reason else I'm gonna break his neck Hello Hello, Pascuali Merry Christmas that all it depends Well, what are you looking so sad about? You did something you saw before maybe that's why I'm lost a little white envelope Maybe you was a fan. Absolutely not that I could approve with the six of witnesses I believe you Pascuali Luigi What the best quality it tell me you didn't forget that a thing lately. I Forget that. Yeah, see you know is now the season of the Santa Claus people to be a generous Stockings over the fireplace. I'm sorry, but they're down about to me now but say Luigi all the year long You've been a cryin about that a broken down old radio. You got is always a blowing tubes So yesterday I went out to the ball you something no radio. No three new tubes Was it gonna be your present including a few other things I was a good again, but now you're gonna forget about After all fellows of forget. I'm alive. That's what I am. I'm I'm I didn't forget to you What you got a something for me, Luigi? He's saving for a surprise. I'll wait. Yeah. Yeah, sure. That's why Here's your present and and a Merry Christmas Which what a beautiful fountain of pan and look at all the cap of 14 carrots pointed It's the right thing on it here when it's in safe friendship for Christmas in 1951 Luigi, I got to apologize to you. I have you all wrong It's all right of us quality as long as you're happy now. Oh, Luigi I'm a very happy and now you did me a favor. I'm gonna do you a favor Squally, please no, sir. No Oh, it's just something else when you left the store yesterday, Luigi, I was a stand there and suddenly Luigi my fellow Everybody even to you Merry Christmas, Mr. Delicatessen a man. I never got a chance to really thank you for that little wallet You gave me for a present. That's all right. It should say use it in a good. Have I love that little secret compartment inside where you can hide some money You know, it's really very tricky. It took my wife ten minutes to find that Smile everybody like me. I always have me always My room It's too bad you didn't find sure sir. I want to talk with you No, just a second Luigi for squally. It's too bad that Luigi couldn't get you a present this year What are you talking about? Luigi would have never forget is the best friend of Pasquale Sure That's a very expensive present Luigi ain't up the very same fountain pens the class gave you You know something I'm well, I'm like it is so much. I'm a winner and got a semi-wonderful bus rally When we asked yours, Luigi, I'm I know well Well, I was over the issues and I went home from the school. I'm a lost mine Yeah, then tell me Luigi. How could you buy Pasquale a fountain pen if you lost the $50? All right. It's a my fountain a pen You mean you couldn't buy a present when you lost your money, so you gave me the fountain of penny classes to give you Merry Christmas, Mr. Pasquale Luigi You'd be divided and you tell him by you didn't give him a present Pasquale, do you know that that little? Veena schnitzel has been saving a dollar a week from his lunches and coffee as all year So so he could prepare a big surprise for you With you was it gonna spend all of the $50 on me. Well, could you buy a suit coat shoes? Down payment on automobile And I was clever wasn't nothing like that. It was I was whether not any you could aware to eat or play with Where was it something? Something for the heart. Well, what tell us all I did To make Christmas is a not to just a given things is it for the spirit Peace son out there and a good will towards the man Pasquale if what I was gonna give you would have made you feel that way Well, it would have been a really Christmas a present Luigi where is this present or maybe if you was a suddenly to find the money you could still buy No, no, Pasquale is a not in a store You see I was I went to the church and and I said to Farrakhani Farrakhani I'm gonna be glad to give it a church your $50 If I'm a Christmas and I did the little boys it would acquire and with a beautiful of voices It wasn't was it the commonest thing outside of Pasquale's at Aston Yeah, I could read you only you could think of a thing like that Well, what's the use I was supposed to be there this morning, but I'm I'm didn't have the money I'm sorry Pasquale That's why where you're going I'm gonna kill myself What Luigi I'm the worst the rabbits ever crawled on a piece of this You see I was the one who? Which? What's that? That's why it's a little boys Yeah, there was a come anyway. Look at there's a father kindly open the doors. Let's hear Oh I'm gonna bring you the money Luigi the church never asked for money in advance Advance but a father. I'm gonna got to nothing you you see I was a loser the witchy Look under the table, huh? There's envelopes. That's actually look like my envelope. I'm gonna look in his side Yeah, yeah, here's the money in his side of my money 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 you see Luigi you found your money after all. Yeah, but I'm gonna find out how's it possible who was only 50 in the envelope and I was a hundred is a Christmas day a Miracle can happen. Yeah, Pasquale. I I Wonder who's made the miracle Pasquale is a guy as a Christmas present after all And I'm finished with this letter to you with a brand new fountain appendix Pasquale is I wanted to write some extra words on it like your best friend the Pasquale But it shows isn't I'll let him so it's now a pen and a pencil set mommy Maybe you're thinking to yourself How much the present was a mean to Pasquale Well, I'm gonna tell you After everybody is worn away the father the choir shows I'm a looked at the empty envelope and I must said to Pasquale Pasquale you made the miracle and a Pasquale is he said to me knowledge You did it It's a take a miracle to make a miracle Merry Christmas Mamma Mia Chewing gum hope you enjoyed tonight's Christmas episode of life with Luigi and they join with Cy Howard MacBenoff Jay Carol Nash Alan Reed Lou Derman Hans Conrad Mary ship Jody Gilbert Ken Peters Joe Forte Pat Burton and the Robert Mitchell choir boys in wishing you all a very Merry Christmas It's a pleasure for all of us to bring you life with Luigi each week Thanks for listening and thanks to all of you who chew and enjoy Wrigley's Spearmint gum Makers of Wrigley's Spearmint chewing gum invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi Basco writes another letter to his mama Basco in Italy. This is Charles Lyon Life with Luigi was transcribed. This is the CBS radio network