 We invite you to enjoy life, life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Psyhard, and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Carol Nash, with Alan Reed as Pascale. A year ago when Luigi Basko left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would rife and tell her about his adventures. So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Basko in Italy. Dear Mamma Mia! It's now spring time in Chicago, and that's a mean no more snow and the cold. Just like Italy, that's a mean the weather is going to get nice and warm. You know something Mamma Mia? There's no difference. Spring is a mean the same thing to the people in Italy and the people in America. Days are getting longer and underwear is getting shorter. Right now the Americans are busy with what they call spring cleaning, and here is one big difference between America and all the country. In Italy when a woman is a cleaner house she's used a broom, a mop, a soap, a water, and her two strong hands. When American a woman is a cleaner house she's used only one thing, her husband. You know Mamma Mia, comes the spring the birds of fly north. Well as Uncle Pietro is always the same. Who cares where the birds of fly as long as the girls will stay here. Mamma Mia, American a girls, they're really beautiful, very beautiful. Anyway it's not time enough to take a girl because it's time for me to go to my night school or class and to see my teacher Miss Spaulding. She's so nice. When I'm at the blackboard and Miss Spaulding is a teaching me penmanship and the hold in my hand I'm going to get so nervous I'm going to move. Mamma Mia the chalk is going to write by itself. Well I'm going out to school. Class alright, attention quiet please. Now I'll call the roll. Mr. Basco. Present. Mr. Harwood. Present. Mr. Olson. Present. Mr. Stop I give up. Please Mr. Schultz don't answer until I call your name. Now our lesson for today is geography, taking up the physical aspects of the earth including the various zones. Well I'm going to call my name. Alright, Mr. Schultz. Now I put an answer in temperamento. Class please. Now Mr. Harwood, our first geography question is what do we call the imaginary belt that runs around the center of the earth? Hickok. No. Mr. Basco. I don't know. Mr. Olson. I don't know. Mr. Schultz. Don't ask me I'm no Schreeler. Mr. Schultz you're not helping one bit. Now think class. Think of a great big mass. What name do we give to the thing that goes around the middle? Go ahead no teacher. Good for you Mr. Olson. What is it? A girdle. No no no it's the aquaher. Believe me the way the world is falling apart today it could use a girdle. Class I just told you what it is. Now the name of this imaginary line that goes around the earth is called Mr. Basco. Is it called the Mr. Basco? No. Mr. Basco. All during the class you've been staring out the window. What have you been thinking of? You. That young lady over there is spraying the weed. She is in love with the teacher. She loves Mr. Basco. Yes please please stop at this minute. I'm sorry Mr. Schultz. I'm sorry I'm making you nervous. Well I'm not nervous. Now back to our lesson. The aquaher is a girdle and it's called Mr. Basco. No. I mean Mr. Basco is bounded by. Thieves by the bell. Class is missed and Mr. Schultz you may remain here with me. I'm too old. Give Luigi a chance. Good night. Good night. Heavens what a class. Let me look at myself. This new lipstick does do something for me. Luigi wait for me. Don't listen to me. I'm breathing like an old accordion that's got one squeeze left in the box. Hello Schultz. Oh Luigi I got to apologize for the way I was acting in class. Well I was acting a foolish myself for Schultz. Instead of thinking about the geography my mind was on a little birds flying around together. The squirrels all are playing with each other. The boys and the girls are holding a hand. Ach you silly you. Schultz sit down and spring a minute nothing to you. Sure that's when I defrost the ice bar. I got it. Luigi in spring you should go out with a girl. Oh please Schultz. Oh stop you're going out with my cousin Wolfgang's daughter Matilda. Sure sure this Saturday night you're taking her to the movies. But Schultz I'm never take a girl to the movies. Oh Luigi it's the same thing like going by yourself. Only when you go with a girl you don't look at the picture. Schultz why should I go if I'm not going to enjoy myself. Stop that Luigi stop. Now here's Matilda's telephone number. Go ahead call her up right away and take her to the movies this Saturday. No Schultz sir thanks sir but I'm taking her maybe I better not to run. Oh stop that don't put it off remember. He who hesitates never gets to the movies before the prices change. Come on Luigi I call Matilda and make the date for you. But Schultz don't be afraid. Are you a man or are you a mouse drop. All right Schultz you give him a courage. I'm going to start the spring off at the right away. This Saturday night the Luigi is taking a girl to the movies. And you know what the picture we're going to see Schultz. The picture about a fine Italian boy the life of a rally. Hey Schultz I'm making jokes like you. It's a spring all the way. Luigi my friend I love Luigi I love I love. Hello Charlie. Oh it's a nice day today huh. Smell of that spring. Luigi what are you so happy about. You fall it down on your head maybe. Somebody should die and they leave you fifty dollars. Come on Schultz it's better than that. This Saturday I'm going to date the little girl. Oh Luigi I've been so glad to hear this. You finally going to go out with my daughter Rosa. No I'm going out with a girl. What do you think a rose is and don't answer that. Luigi why you'd better go out with a Rosa. She's a two fat. Fat the fat the fat. Every time we talk about a Rosa that's all you could say. That's all I can see. You want to go out with a girl that's as skinny like a tooth to pick. You go out with a Rosa you get a nice arm before. I'm going to go out with a Rosa I'm going to get a nice room before. There's an oil super squalor. Saturday night the Luigi's are going to go to the movie. Oh you're going to take this girl to the movies eh. That's to show how big a green horn you are. What's the wrong with that. Everything. You go to the movies so what's to happen. For three hours are you girls are you looking at a cloud game. Well are you looking at a lantern. By the time you come out you both hate each other. And by the time you come out you're not talking at all. Besides Luigi don't you know is a law against taking American a girl to movies on a first day. That's a violation of Emily's a poster. Emily's a poster what's that. That's like a Saturday evening a poster only Emily's a poster to take care of the rest of the week. Mamma Mia is a so much to learn. But if I'm a no can go to the movies or what else I'm a can do with a girl. First the day do you got to take her dancing. That's the American way. But a per squalor you know me. I'm a no kind of dance. In Italy all I'm a dance is a tarantella. And if I'm a go to American a dance I'm a just to stand around and do nothing. That's right you where they call a wall a flower. Luigi my road sir she's a just like you. Oh she's a wall a flower too. Sure. So why you two wall a flowers and don't get married and have a little creeper. Stop. You know you're super squally. The dancer for me is a no possible. I think I'm a take a chance to call up a this a girl and ask if she's a want to go to the movies. Oh you ain't a call up. Yeah. No. Luigi you ain't going to call this a girl yourself. I'm a hope. Why not the first one. Oh you call yourself a telephone the company is a call that a person a person a cost you twice as much. Besides the she's the libel I want to go to a dance and then you really stuck. But squally what am I going to do. What am I going to do. What do you always do. You how to help her comes up a squally Luigi. I'm going to call her up for you. But squally you think if you talk to her she's a go to a movie with a man instead of a day. Oh I got a lot of experience with American girls. I must say hello baby. How's your body you paint in the town of Redwood Luigi. He's a good for that. He's got a handle like a paint the brush. You see I make her laugh but she's a do I take it for you. Well that's the sound to find the first one. So should I give me her name on the telephone number. I got to call her here and thank you very much. You're a real friend. Sure sure go go take a walk is a nothing I wouldn't do for you nothing. That's just what I'm going to do for him and nothing. Hello. Is this a Matilda. And my friend Luigi Bosco is asking me to call you to say he's not going to take you to the movies. Well you see the pictures in a technicolor and he's a color blind. That's right. If he's to go to see that the picture yellow sky to him it's a come out the red river. But don't worry Matilda Luigi's got a better idea. You like it to dance. That's fine. Luigi's are just the crazy to dance. And he's a liker to me that you're sad at night in front of the arrogant ballroom. You like her. Can he really dance. He's a whole the family is a dancer. So his sister is a Gina Kelly. Life with Luigi continues in just a moment. But first Loretta Young Robert Cummings and Wendell Corrie will play starring visits to CBS Lux Radio Theater tomorrow night. And you'll hear them recreating their original motion picture roles in the current psychological screen drama The Accused. Be sure to hear this tense drama of the police courts tomorrow night on Lux Radio Theater. And now for the second act of Luigi Bosco's adventures in Chicago. We turn to page two of his letter to his mother. And so Mamma Mia tonight is a finally come at the big night. For Squally is a tell me he's a fix everything up. And I'm going to take him a tilde to the movie. Mamma Mia you should see how nice summer dressed up. I'm a look in a men's fashion magazine and Tony's a shoe shine a parlor. And it's a say that a man's clothes should always a match. Well I'm aware in a purple shirt and an orange tie. Also sucks to match. One sock is a purple the other is. Also I'm a wanna smell a good. But there was no aftershave a lotion in the medicine a chest. So I'm a make of my own the mixture. I'm a taker summer clothes summer rub and alcohol. Some oil the winter green glycerin and a rose water boil the whole thing up for 15 a minute. Then I'm a bottle of sweet there from the kitchen and a poor the whole thing over myself. Mamma Mia you should smell me. Just like a drugstore. Anywhere I'm a stand and a look at it to myself in the mirror when it's in the commercial. I don't know who you are. No good looking today. What do I smell. What's the matter shows Luigi what's your burning rubber tire. Open the windows let some fresh air in. Oh that's better. Luigi I was just talking to my daughter's mama and she tells me the girl is all excited about going dancing with you tonight. Yes I'm all excited. Dancing. What a post quality is a karma till then tell her I'm taking it to the movies. Pasquale cost all Luigi are you a dumb cop. You know for quality is going to shimmy you up with any other girl. But why why he asked Rosa why should Pasquale help you with a molehill when he can't get rid of his mountain shoes. It's a look to like my big day is a fall apart. I'm a no kind of dance shows how many you call up a motel then I see if she's a good for a movie with me. I love to Luigi but Matilda has already bought a special dress on dancing shoes. Now Luigi Luigi don't be afraid. There's nothing to dancing. It's the same thing like wrestling only it's not fixed. Come here close to me close to me now. I show you how. All right. Now first you take the girl you hold her close to you like this. Oh shut up please. Can you squeeze it too hard. That's the way you hold a girl. What are you thinking of dancing. Just dancing. You're just a waste of your time away to me. No no wait Luigi I just got an idea. Why don't you go take a professional dancing lesson. Sure sure they're going to learn your quick. Why don't you go dance with Arthur Murray. Arthur Murray. No thanks I'm not that sort of man. What am I going to do with you Luigi Arthur Murray is a dancing school. Here let me look in the paper. Sure sure here here I got it. You see Arthur Murray's dance studio. With the magic step you can learn to dance in one lesson. Sure so you think they can teach me. Listen to this. With our beautiful young teachers holding you in their arms. Gliding you across the floor. You can learn this. Luigi I just got another idea. Who are the Schultz. You stay here on Argo. Schultz you're going to convince me. I'm going to go to Arthur Murray right now. Well Mr. Basko that's the simple Arthur Murray one two three step. So much for theory. Now shall we put it into practice. Oh well. Fine now just put your arm around me. Put your arm around me. Please maybe you got some more theory. Mr. Basko if you expect to do any dancing tonight you'd better start now. Well all right. Put your arm around me. Like this. Not both arms just one. Which one. The right one put it around me. But what are you waiting for. I'm wondering where I should have put it. Right here. Now I take my other hand and come closer. Like this. Closer. Huh. Closer. Mama me if I'm coming close I'm going to be behind you. Music. All right. Now Mr. Basko do as I taught you. Lead me. Mr. Burton I'm a no kind of move. Don't you remember what I told you. I'm a remember but I don't think of my feet was a listener. It's just beginner's pride. Just move your legs. There that's it. Hey. Look at me I'm a dancing. And the width of my other feet. Now just remember while we're dancing keep counting. One two three. I'm a remember. Mr. Basko are you counting. Yeah I'm up to 96. The step one two three. Why are you letting go of my hand. I'm a got a signal for a time. Driving a car. Now hold on to me and turn around. That's the way now we do. Back. Back. Back. I guess I'm a dipper too far back here. Mr. Burton is no use. I'm never going to learn in time with the dancer tonight. Oh nonsense Mr. Basko. Your girl will be surprised at how well you dance. Now just let's try that. Luigi thanks for taking me to this dance. You're a nice fella. I think you're a nice too Matilda. Want a life to save her. Well there's a five different flavors. Before you know what the lemon. But this time is orange on the top. Well I try you later on the butterscotch. Okay. Gee if there's anything I like at dancing. Then why we just standing here watching. Before was a wall see you know what a dance. Now is a foxy trap. You still in the dance. I'm waiting for my kind of music. There's no place to go. Matilda. Is it a dance over. Then I'm pleased to get off on my shoulder. Oh Luigi what a deadbeat you turned out to be. Excuse me Matilda. I'm going to wash up a little. I'm going to be right the back. To some place. I'm going to come here in the street the car. I'm going to think I'm going to go home in an ambulance. My friend. Hello Luigi. Hello hello. Hello Pascuali. Hey Pascuali what are you doing in this a dance hall. Just to pass it by. Hey that's the matter with you. Hair's all over your face. The ties are gone. The clothes are all a mess. What's going to happen. You ever fight with a vacuum cleaner. No Pascuali I was a dancing. With a girl. And what a girl. She's a jumper on like Uncle Pietro's a goat. After he's back into the barbed wire fence. And how she's a holler. Beating me with a rug. Ascending me. Tearing off some skin of Jackson. Luigi you was a dancer with a jitterbug. This place is a full of jitterbugs. If I'm going to know that. I'm going to come here with DDT. The body is all your fault. You told Matilda I'm going to take her to a dance. Luigi I didn't know how I was going to turn out. I was only trying to help you. Well Pascuali you want to help me. Then you dance with the Matilda. I'm going to home. I got a better idea Luigi. How's it going to be if some other girl is to go over to Matilda and say. Pardon me miss. You dancing with my boyfriend. And my finance. The house about. Before I change the direction of your nose. Pascuali where I'm going to get a girl. Who's to do that for me. Where do you think. I'm going to just to the girl. She also happens to be passing by. Papa you want me. Not yet. Wait till I call you. Rosa. Now. No. Rosa. Now. No. Can you play hard to get. Rosa. Yes Papa. Rosa say hello to Luigi. Rosa. Rosa Luigi wants you to do a little favor. You go over to Luigi the guy that you say. Hey Pascuali Matilda he's a gun. There she is. She's a walk away with another fella. Now I'm going to go home and get a pair of hot water and soak my feet up to my neck. Hey hey Luigi why are you running. You have a bad time. You should have a little fun. Well you know relax. Rosa is such a wonderful and nice dancer. She is. Sure. Rosa is so good. They named a bigger dancer hall after her in New York. It's called a Rosa land. She stands the wall to box the trot. Well I'm a pretty tired but I try. Luigi drive you. What. Come on. And there's so many of me even though it's a spring and I'm sure to be walking in a park with a bird. For me is a turn out the other way. I'm laying here in a bed with a bandages. Don't worry I'm not to have such a big accident. It's just the way I was a dancer. Rosa is a fall on me. Doctor is a saying no bones are broken. Is it just that I'm a suffer from a shock. Anyway why I'm laying here. I'm thinking things over. And you know something about me. I think I'm a like it is a jive. With a rebop a bebop and a shut up. I think I'm going to try dancing again. He has some on the me every day in every way. I'm getting to be more like an American. You're loving his son the Luigi Bosco the little immigrant. Why. Is written by Matt Benoff and Lou German and directed by Matt Benoff. Jay Carol Nasser starred as Luigi Basko with Alan Reed as well. And I'll stay tuned to it. I'll stay tuned to it. Thanks to the ignorant which follows immediately over most of these things. This is CBS for Columbia broadcasting.