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If you turn on the radio, you hear the jazz blues, the swing, the boogie boogie, and the b-wraps and the re-wraps. And if they even write songs for people who sell all the clothes, it's a curly rag time. The Americans, they write songs about everything, even about their beautiful cities in the states. They got to sing the Louisa Blues inside the Walks of New York, Missouri, Wall Street, Chattanooga, Sunshine, and Shoe Shiner. And then, I'm a herder, they got a song about a people who's played cards in a Pittsburgh. Yes, they call it Pennsylvania Poker. Somebody writes an album and we all in America are singing a wonderful song. That's the most friendly song I've ever heard. It's called The Command of My House. People, they're inviting each other to come over to their house. It reminds me of our little town in the Castellamare. We were always having a door open, anybody could come in and... Like the song is just saying they could eat the food in a dote, in a grope. They want to put it for everybody. Even when Uncle Pietro's a dote, does he come in? We had a tin of cans for him to eat. But all that song is making me feel so good. And it's a nice thing when I go to school and I'm walking and we're going to be singing. How come I'm in my house, I'm in my house, I'm going to give you candy. Oh, hey, how's it going? How are you, Luigi? Hey, nice to see you, how's it going? How do you feel to business? Yeah. What business do you have? Good or bad? Business is good, I'm making money, but I don't get a kick out of it anymore. Why are you not getting a kick? Well, in the old days, people not only bought the food, but they come in and talk to me. We'd have beautiful arguments and fights. A man's business was more than a business. It was a place where he could meet his friends. Isn't there more to that stuff? Yeah. Now everybody's too busy and worried to be friends. They call up, they order on a telephone. Or when they do come in, they say, Hey, Otto, give me a half a dozen oranges and plums, wrap it up, I'm in a hurry. I say, why don't we talk a little? They say, just give me this stuff, I'm in a hurry. Well, let's see what the men ask now. My best customer, Joe Thompson. Do you remember what friends we were? Yeah. He wasn't just a customer, he used to come in here and buy, we'd start to talk, and in no time at all we'd get into an argument. What fights we used to have. Yeah, I remember. Once somebody would come in and my store tells me, I should have run it quicker for you, somebody to try and kill you. That's what I mean. It was just Joe Thompson and me discussing world events. But no more, no friendship. That's the trouble, Luigi. It's becoming a dollars and cents world. Luigi, if I had a buyer for a food store, I'd take a loss and get out. Oh, no, no, I said I'm gonna talk like that. Why not? Once this neighborhood told me like a mother. But now there's no love lost between us. Mama, mama, things, things in such a better shape over here. When a man took a shop, I ain't gotta got trouble. Nobody comes in. Well, ask anybody, Luigi, ask your friend, Shost, he's got a delicatessen, he'll tell ya, what's they use to talk, the neighborhoods want the pot. It's like I always say. The tension please, I'll call the roll. Mr. Basko, Mr. Howard, Mr. Olson, Mr. Shost. Mr. Shost. Mr. Shost, why do I have to call your name twice? That's inflation. Oh, thank you, fellow pupils. I'm so happy when you smile. Mr. Shost, Mr. Shost. That's an office building, you're trying to stop inflation. Ah, smile, be happy. Remember, life is a headache and a smile is the aspirin. All right, that'll be enough for today. Now to last, today's lesson was on civics. Who will review for us the traits of a good citizen? Mr. Howard? With pleasure. A good citizen votes on election day. Yes. He takes an interest in his government and in current events. That's very good. Mr. Shost, you go on. Well, ah, he votes on election day. And Mr. Howard's already said that. In spite of the totality of his votes, it don't mean that I can't vote. Please, Mr. Shost. Mr. Vasco, continue. It's the traits of a good citizen. Well, ah, he should have bought his fruits and vegetables at the master. Trask, how can you make up all those silly answers? Such sheer genius. That's enough, Mr. Shost. And it's for you, Mr. Vasco. Your answer was the worst of all. What is this, Mr. Astro? One of them is following it. He's got a fruit store down in my block. But what is the fruit store down to do with good citizenship? Well, it's obvious. If you don't vote on election day, we're going to get lemons in Congress. Ah, smile, everybody. That's a terrible joke, but I say it's so cute. Mr. Shost, please. I don't think it is something to make jokes about. It is something important. It is about the good citizenship and to astro is a mean everything. Well, Mr. Vasco, just what is the connection between Mr. Astro's fruit store and good citizenship? What I was calling him, I'm glad to tell you. It's one thing to know all that's said it in the books, but it's another thing to be good at said it. To make a good citizen is a man who is a good person. To go to people's type, to go to for other people. Is it not just enough to be customer? Is it a question to be good at neighbors? Otherwise, the stock keepers don't care if a neighborhood affords to pieces. And what's going to happen to the neighborhoods and to the cities and throughout the whole of the country? We're only thinking about the money, not the people. And that's what I mean by good citizenship. He will put a beard on him and I will shred out the evil I am lingo. Mr. Astro, I'm sorry I criticized you before. Yeah, I'm sorry I made fun of you, too. I'm sorry I told you not to worry about other people. Well, I didn't say anything, so I got nothing to be sorry about. Who was a sore loser? Well, anyway, even though what you say is true, Luigi, in my store, don't I see, people, they come in for two items. I start to talk about the weather. They say, rababah salami. You know, I never got to think about it, but years ago, when I first started on my milk drought, people, they would invite me in for a visit. Now, everything is so cold, that they leave a note in the bottle and that's all. Sure that there's not like it used to be. Well, perhaps it's too late to change things. The world moves forward. Now, Mr. Butler, where are the mozirans? Sometimes, sometimes it's not the fort, it's the backwood. I'm not going to go round and talk to everybody in the neighborhood. Yeah, and you'll get finished in January 1960, just in time to hand in the new ventures. Show us it's right, Luigi, the neighborhood is too big. Well, then we make a bigger party and bring the whole neighborhood to us. Of course, eh? No, that's good, but maybe you find a place big, you know? Right on the street, Alton, it's going to be block the party. A block party. It's a wonderful idea, Luigi. But you think this will bring the neighborhood together? Well, it's worth a try, Mr. Howard. Mr. D'Arceau, if it works, you'll get an A for this mountain civic. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ferdinand. And then you want to invite it to the block party right outside of my store. All the neighborhood is invited and then we're going to dance and a sing and a dance. Sounds good to me. It sounds like it should be a lot of fun. Ah, that's Luigi. You skit one day buying fruit for Astro, and from this he creates an international situation. Mr. Ferdinand, Mr. Ferdinand. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello, hello. Mr. Ferdinand, I guess what's happening? Astro fruit man is a field of bad because the customers are no longer talk. The chutes are wrapping a salami. I'm going to get a hand at silly because everybody's coming to my block party this Saturday night until they build up at the neighborhood. Luigi, how come when you put together some American words that they come out in a foreign language? That's funny. That's funny, Mr. Ferdinand. And just a minute, calm down and relax. I like that. Now you're listening to me, my little banana nose. Rest the ball. Here's a present. Two tickets to the annual restaurant owner's ball. That's the big affair of the year, Luigi. I'm giving them to you. To me? That's all I have to take. They are all paid up. Free a charger for nothing, a gratis. Oh, that's funny. How come you're so kind to me? Because I love you, little cabbage. You're pretty. What? Dancer tickets are belonging to you. Can I pretend if I tell anybody I'm a one-two? Sure. As long as it's to my daughter Rosa. That's funny. Suddenly, I'm going to feel like a dancer. Why? Didn't you dance with Rosa before? Tell the truth, you little pumpkin-seed eyes. Didn't you feel it so bad dancing with Rosa? Did it? All night, I'm affected like a Saturday in the picking a fight that we're away. That was the night that Rosa's a foreign man. I'm a broker to ribs. That was your fault. I told you a thousand times with Rosa, you don't try to lead. I know. You're just a swimmer with a towel. Welcome, Mr. Smart Alex. All of my friends expect to see you there with my Rosa. That's orders. I'm not going to argue with you. I'm going to think about it. Maybe you're going to help me out. You ain't got so much time to think about it. This ball is a side of the night. A side of the... That's the most important thing for me. To have everybody get friendly with each other. Luigi, how many times I've got to teach you how to find your own business, stay in your own little backyard and keep your nose in your own tablecloth. No, no, you're wrong, first of all, because even a Miss Squadron needs a girl with me. If the neighborhoods aren't the happy, cities aren't the happy, and that's the girls that put a hole in the country. How come you suddenly become a happiness of boys? You really want to go around and spread my happiness to start the worst? First of all, she's a donor. How long has she spread them? Oh, what an ungray that you are. I'll give you two tickets to look at how you act. Yeah, but you tell me, I could have taken everybody I want to. All right, so I gave you the tickets with a little catch. You first of all, he adds to no catch. That's a trap. Come on, Luigi. Forget this, a block bar. Take a rose up to the dance. You can have a swell card. No, nothing to do now. I'm not going to monitor the dance. Is it that definite? If you don't believe me, here's your tickets to back in a goodbye. Ooh, a little pop of squeaker. He's a fixer, many things. Say, well, I'm going to fix it. Here's the block party, but it's good. No rose, no block party. Hello? Hello, police department? Say, if a crowd is going to gather in the street, don't they have to have a primary? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That's a lack of time. Well, you come around at 21 and north of Holsteaders Street on Saturday night to buy an antique shop. You're going to see the biggest crowd you ever saw, and they ain't got no primary. That's a lie, baby. My name? Look, what difference does it make? J. Edgar Hoover just calls me exit 38. No, no, that's no joke. You want to stop the problem, you better be here. These are the same people that started that tea party in Boston. Before we return to life with Luigi, we'd like to mention that Wrigley Spearman's chewing gum is an ideal taste sheet to enjoy between meals. During the morning or afternoon, when you get a little pack range of something tasty, flip a stick of Wrigley Spearman's in your mouth. Chew on it and get the full enjoyment of the pleasant chewing and the refreshing, delicious, real Spearman's flavor. You'll find that it satisfies you without spoiling your appetite for lunch or supper. So do as millions do. Enjoy chewing Wrigley Spearman's gum between your meals. It isn't rich, it isn't heavy, but it's your taste good. Now, let's turn to page two of Luigi Basto's letter to his mother in Italy. Well, I'm a man to manage the big and nice of a block of paddock. And now I'm going to really see what's to happen to the neighborhood. Lots of people, they don't care about it. But anyway, all week I'm going to run around from a door to door, pushing a doorbell. I'm going to sit like a tiger in a pallet of air. Luigi, my telephone bird. Ah, hello, sir. Well, how you met out there with a photo collector? Luigi, it's the food I collected. You couldn't see the pigeon that holds us. Don't care? Or they don't want to come to Luigi? Why should I give food? Well, if Jeff Hanson is all the customer, who'd you stop buying it from him? My man, if you look to buy it for the block of paddock, huh? Luigi, don't you worry. I stand behind you with the food for my delicatessen. The salami will flow like lumber in a large jam. You can tell everybody, full guarantees each and every person who attends the block party, a heartburn you remember for me. That's my Luigi. Ah, thank you, thank you, thank you. You're a little friendly. Luigi, what else is life for? Thank you, friend, some good food. It's not the first time when your wife is on vacation. That's why I'm on the moon. Well, well, well. Look to who we got here. The old friends to deal with the antiques of salami, say, listen. Ah, good, Luigi. I am going out where the air is fresh. When you walk out of Schultz, the air is going to be pleasure in the air. Stop crying. Why couldn't you fall into a place of your spaghetti sometimes and join the other meatballs? I better get out while I'm ahead, Luigi. I feel the block party and smile. Happy is me like me. Always happy, always happy. You! My rheumatism is killing me. I'm going to love a rheumatism. I'm going to know what I deal with you. Whose are you and what are you? I was a tanker, Luigi. After all, I should certainly be at this block party. I got in my restaurant here 20, 60 years, and if anybody is ahead at this block, it's amazing. You're so right, Mr. Spallier. You're the ruler of blockers. That's the funny thing, Luigi. I'd say it is to come out of different. Anyway, Luigi, I'm going to be very happy to be there. That's a nice of a story. And I'm hoping you're going to enjoy yourself when you see what's to happen. Luigi, when you're going to see what's to happen, then I know I'm going to enjoy myself. Bye. When it hits you go, like that I know there's nothing to laugh about you. You're having a nice time? Well, I'm enjoying myself, Luigi. Okay, who put up those detour signs on both ends of the street? Well, it shows you the pen is on the right side, and it's along the right side. It's the detour with three O's. Well, as long as the cars are kind of there. That's good. Luigi, you've got a good card, all right, but there's some music. The card is getting in the deep. Yeah, I know. I'm going to ask the punters to bring me the card, and some other music to send it, but they're going to show up here soon. Yeah, well, I hope they do too. Maybe that will get the young young thing. Oh, I know I've been watching. Have you ever been watching a bunch of vultures eating up the food? I've been watching a bunch of vultures eating up the food. I don't know, Luigi. They just finished the basket of pieces, and now I think they are waiting to throw stones at each other. It was out of the neighborhood to fall in the past. You would think the middle of the street is the 38th parallel. So, I'm still a palatable half. My dough is already a part of the warm-up. You think it is? You're actually going to light a fire under Thompson. Excuse me, I think I can still start with a salami on my back. Well, let's not stand around. Let's enjoy, huh? Have you tried to make everybody friends? Yes, I wish it was a musical video. We're going to come over there. Hey, Luigi, come on up. You enjoying yourself? What do you think? Oh, by the way, I've got a surprise for you. A certain party was supposed to go to a certain event. Just didn't go. I've got to rough up my sleeves. That's right, if I'm another certain party, there's no clue if I'm big enough to hold up. All right, the wise guy, I'm going to call her out anyway. Rosa! Rosa! Rosa! This is my little second day. Say hello to Luigi. Hello, Rosa. Don't be a ghost. People don't care if they never get together. You don't spend your time. Why don't you take a look at the dance before you get into some real trouble? What? Tony is here with your accordion, and he brought a few friends. That's so wonderful. I got him, I got him. Come on, a thingy of friends are here. Come on, make a little room everybody. What have the musicians been doing? Oh, good, good, good. I see you brought the rancor musicians. Rancor, I know it's been a little bit cold tonight, huh? It ought to be. Come on, let's start off at your home. No, no, no, no. It's just the startling is going to be all right. Now, music is a hit, and I'm going to like to start off in the evening for some adventure with a new song, all the merrikes are falling in love with you. Rancor, listen up. And I want you to like to join in a few because that's to the idea. All right, Tony, push up and it's through the back. Come out of my house in my high house. I'm going to give you candy. Come out of my house in my high house. I'm going to give you apple and a plum. And I hope to put it to rest. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. I'm going to give you fish and a bass and a dress and a cage. And buy them from our store. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. I'm going to give you wine and a banana piece. It's like a regular business convention. I just got back seven of my old customers and the returns ain't in yet for me Yeah, I didn't tell you but every once in a while. I was sick with some bad tomatoes in the bottom of the bag Come on everybody Just a minute Who's Mr. Luigi Vasco? I'm off of their hottest traffic detail. We had a complaint about a black party without a permit Didn't I see you dancing, you know? That's right. I had a great time, but actually you shouldn't have been doing this without a permit Officer, your majesty Well, it'll be a $2 fine for a person of striking time. All right. I'm glad to pay the fine Yeah, but there's 300 people here. That'll be $600 What? People that's the first time the Atom bomb hit just one person by himself All right, I don't think I could find anybody. This black party's a great idea. There should be more Yeah, how do you have more time? Mr. Laffer, can you hear your wonderful name? And wait, don't relate, don't relate. Everybody, I feel it's so good. It's just a week from my roast I got a suggestion This party was very good, but I know one thing everybody says You are not kidding. If I tighten my belt any more, it's going to go hide through me All right friends and all I want to say is come on to my restaurant. Come on, my man's america. Come on Friends, the makers of Wrigley's experiment to engum hope to enjoy tonight's episode of life with Luigi And they'd like to remind you that it's a good idea to carry a package of Wrigley's experiment done with you wherever you go Two or six from time to time to freshen up your face to sweeten your breath Enjoy a stick while out walking or driving your car And when you meet someone, you know offer a stick of Wrigley's experiment. It's always a treat Yes, millions of people carry Wrigley's experiment with them during the day because it offers refreshment and enjoyment whenever they want It costs so little too. Get a few packages of good tasting Wrigley's experiment to engum next time you're at the store The makers of Wrigley's experiment to engum invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi Vasco writes another letter to his mama Vasco in Italy Life with Luigi is a thigh Howard for Darcy and is directed by Mack Benhoff. The script is written by Mack Benhoff and Lou Deming J. Carol Max is starred as Luigi Vasco with our leader Suspraw A. Hans Tom Lee, the short Jody Gilbert Rosa, Mary Shippen, Miss Fauley, Joe Forte, and Carl Witt And Tim Keeter is as open. The music is under the direction of Love Gluston. This is Charles Weier This is the CBS Radio Network