 The Wrigley Company invites you to enjoy Life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Si Howard and starring that celebrated actor J. Carol Mash with Alan Reed as Pasquale. You see, friends, the Wrigley people feel the same as you do about Life with Luigi, that it's a friendly, enjoyable show that sort of symbolizes the American spirit of tolerance and goodwill. So they're glad to be able to bring you Life with Luigi each week and have you join them in this pleasant half-hours entertainment. So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes about his adventures in America to his mama basco in Italy. Hello, bud. Very conducted as it says. Step to the rear of the carriage, y'all. Macabud, y'all. See, already I'm going to start to look in the no more like a Luigi. It's harder to explain to mama and me how I'm a feeler. Proud and nervous. All week long I'm studying in my city and the ship of questions are very hard. I'm all about the president, the congress, the states, the rivers, the square miles and the bridges. Mama, mommy, I'ma know so much, I'ma gotta hurry. For example, I'ma find out the president has got a 12 secretaries, state, the treasury, in theory, agriculture, labor, and the more. But I'm also find out what a terribly shortage of houses that they got in Washington. The president is a keeper. All of these are 12 secretaries in a one cabinet. Anyway, mama, here's a time and now I should have got to my night to school at class. I'ma write to you some more later. America, I love you. You like a papa to me. Promotion. All right, class, quiet, please. I'll call the roll. Mr. Basco. Present. Mr. Howard. Present. Mr. Olsen. Present. Mr. Schultz. Absent. Mr. Schultz, you're present. Why do you say absent? I just wanted to break the monotony. Thank you, fellow boobers. Oh, I'm so lovable. All right, Mr. Schultz. Now, class, today we will dispense with our regular lesson and instead we'll all help Mr. Basco because tomorrow he's going down for his first citizenship papers. That's right. Congratulations, Luigi. It'll be a pleasure to help. You're going to make a Yim Dandy citizen. You get your first papers and soon you can vote. Yeah, and when you get your second papers, you can vote twice. Correction, Mr. Schultz. You can vote only once. That's civic. Correction, Miss Barley. You can vote twice. That's politics. My, everybody. All right, Mr. Schultz. Now, class, let's begin the question. Mr. Basco, here's one I'm sure the judge will ask you. How many houses does Congress have? Two. Senator, Senator, and... Don't you remember, Mr. Basco? I do, Miss Barley, but when I'm going to get the nervous something has happened and my mind doesn't stop talking to me. Mr. Basco, hundreds of my students have passed their first citizenship test. And I assure you if you just keep calm, you'll have no trouble at all. Quite a thank you, Miss Barley. I'm going to try to keep calm. Good. Now, how long is the president's term of office? Forty years. How many senators does each state have? Two. Who presides over the Senate? The vice president. And what's his name? Mr. Vice President. No, come, come. The vice president's name. Don't get nervous. Bark, bark. If I'm a bark, I'm going to get nervous. Oh, come now, Mr. Basco. It's such a simple question. Class, who will tell Mr. Basco the name of the vice president? Any volunteers? No volunteers? It looks like somebody has got to be drafted. Mass folding. As long as no one seems to be able to supply you with the correct answer to such a simple question, I will be overjoyed to give it to you. There he goes, the quiz kid with rinker. Never mind him, Mr. Olsen. Mr. Basco, you listen now while Mr. Olsen tells us the name of the vice president. All right. His name is Albin W. Barkley. Perfect, Mr. Olsen. I can always depend on you for the right answer. Yeah, well, I always study hardness folding. To me, the brain is like a telephone exchange. I store it full of facts, and when I want to reach one fact, I begin to think. The little wires in my head send a message to my brain. A little bell rings. Oh, am I praying he gets the wrong number? To Miss Baldwin. Yes, Mr. Basco. I'm, I'm going to start to feel a little worried. You think I'm enough to pass this test tomorrow? Now, now, Mr. Basco, you're getting a case of jitters, and that's no good. Luigi, I got an idea. We'll all go with you tomorrow to the courthouse, and after the last minute, we'll give you encouragement. You're a wonderful idea. I'm going to thank you, class, and I'll have a feeling much better. Besides in my country, you're all going to come down with me. Sure, Luigi, and smile. Don't be a pessimist. We are octopus. In great shape. Look at what happened to my cousin Wolfgang when he went down for his third paper. What's happened to Schultz? Well, he studied the names of the president. He studied the laws of the country. He studied everything you could think of. Still, he didn't pass. Why not the Schultz? He was so busy studying, he forgot to learn English. Mr. Bascolli? Well, well, tomorrow is a bigger day for you. Our little banana nose. Mr. Bascolli, it's a bigger day. Ah, Luigi, it seemed like only yesterday I'm abroad to you here, planted you in America. Every day, sprinkling you with love and kindness. Let you stand in the sun, and then you grow up, and now there you are, standing in a full bloom. My only little cabbage you put. Mr. Bascolli, you're making a big blusher. Thank you. Oh, Luigi, you don't have to thank me. Your depreciation's enough for me. Hey, you know what else I'm going to do for you tomorrow, Luigi? Huh? In your honor, I'm going to take you to my car out of the garage for the first time in three years. Mr. Bascolli, you are it. Just for you. Boy, you're going to make a big impression of riding down that car house in my 1926 appears arrow. I'm going to fold down to the top, and you're going to sit on the back, waving to the whole neighborhood like a General Eisenhower. Oh, Mr. Bascolli, that sounds wonderful. By the way, Luigi, on the side of my car, as it so happens, there's a little writing on it. You know what it says? What? Just to marry. You know why? Mr. Bascolli, you can't. Is it just to get a marriage? Luigi, stop with the jokes. Tomorrow, after you get your first papers, while you're still standing around in front of the judge, I'm aware that he should have joined you with a certain party. Initial begins with an R. Can you guess who? A Republican party. Bigger than that. A Democratic party. Oh, stop. I'm talking about my daughter Rosa. Now, Luigi, I'm laying on my cards on the table, and I'm not to play in canazza. America was not for the purpose of increasing the population, was for the purpose of finding a husband for my daughter Rosa. All right, Mr. Bascolli, I'll help you look. Luigi, don't make me see you. Not going to do it. I'm going to never marry Rosa. She's a too frat for me. She's a little fat. She's just a little pudgy. Is it too much of a pudgy? Stupid boob. I'm washing my hands off of your face. Tomorrow, you go by yourself. You get in front of the judge, and you're going to... Judge? What's the matter, Bascolli? Luigi, you're right. We forget about Rosa. We wipe her just to marry the side or for the car. I'm going to get down with you anyway. We in a citizen are more important than you and I should have squabbed. That's right, Bascolli. No squabbed. Monsieur, now go, Luigi, go study up your questions, because I'm aware you should have passed. Goodbye, goodbye. All right, Bascolli, and thanks for everything. Thanks for everything, eh? He's the thinker. Once he's again, he's the first of the papers. I'm going to know more God here than he's ever after Mara Rosa. Well, I'm going to throw a monkey into his ranch. I think I'm going to write a little letter to that judge. What's his name? Oh, yes, Judge Mitchell. Dear Judge of Your Highness, my name is Luigi Basco, and are you going to examine me for first the citizen of papers today? Please ask me easy questions for which I'm enclosed at 25 dollars. I'm ascending it in a single dollar bill, so you can spend it in a different place, as people shouldn't think you suddenly got a rich. Sign the Luigi Basco, 21 and North, the whole state is three. Now I'm going to mail it. Of course you wouldn't, Luigi, as you come around, I'm going to stop at a whole thing. I'm not a mean man, but when somebody is across from me with my daughter Rosa, that's a bring it a jackal out of my hide. Well, the makers of Wrigley's Spearmint Con invite you to turn to page two of Luigi's letter to his mother in Italy. And so Mamma Mia is finally coming today, when I'm about to go to court for my first citizen of papers. I'm so nervous this morning already, I'm ashamed of myself three times. Then I'm a found out there was an old blade in the razor. Anyway, I'm in my antique shop right now, and all of my friends are from a night school today here, ready to go with them. Luigi, the important thing is you shouldn't get nervous. You'll know whatever happens, don't get yumpy or yetery. Oh, stop, everybody. Let's not remind him or he'll really get nervous. Oh, smile, Luigi. Remember what they say from the finance company, always be calm and collected. How many amendments are there in the Constitution? 21. How many states are there in the Union? 48. How many strides are there in the flag? 13. Should some I write there? Don't ask me. I'm a citizen. I don't have to know. Everybody. I got in my cap out of my goggles and my drive in the coat that of my purse arrow is the waiting outside. Oh, right. Yeah, well, are we going in that rolling firetrap? Bless you, Mr. Delicate. That's for the matter. Oh, please, please. Enough, right there. Yeah. Smile. Let's go. Come on. You're all right. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, everybody's in. I'm going to start at the car now. All right. That's all right. Hey, Luigi, come on. Sit up on the back of the neighbor. Yeah. What are you doing? Why the judges are examining everybody else before me? Why he's leaving me to the last? Well, it's just the formalities. There's nothing to worry about. I'm Mr. Spauldi. Yes, that's right. Now, Mr. Basko, don't get nervous. How do you feel? I'm a feel of fine. Luigi Basko? OK, step into the courtroom and walk up to the judge. May we go in with him? If you want. The judge, Ioanna, is a great pleasure for me today. I'm bringing you this flower. I also received that letter you sent me. A letter? Send me for the bench. For the judge, I'm going to understand. You'll understand soon enough. I'm going to ask you some easy questions. The judge, please, why are you so excited? Explain the Atlantic Pact. Atlantic Pact, the Pact, that's a bit too much. Answer the question. Who's the head of the Supreme Court? Let me thank you, judge. How many senators are elected from each state? Senators, Luigi, you knew that answer a half hour ago. Don't let the judge get you for seven minutes. There'll be no interference, or I'll clear the court. Now, Mr. Basko, there are 21 amendments to the Constitution. Name the first three. All right, one, two, three. This part. Besides knowing nothing about your government, Mr. Basko, I don't think you'll ever make a good citizen. Oh, please, the judge, you don't have to say that. Since I'm coming here, I'm going to try to be a good citizen. I'm going to do everything to obey the laws. Sign in the state, as I say, speed a limit of 25 miles an hour. Believe in me, judge, I'm a never walker more than a 20-year-old. 25 miles an hour. First, today, I'm arriving in America. A man on my radio is a say, stay tuned to this station. Judge, I've been here 13 months, and that's the only station I'm ever in. In the park, in the park, a mile away from my store, there's a little garbage you can at the safe deposit attraction. Judge, you believe me? Every morning at six o'clock, I get up in a walker one a mile to make up my deposit. Mr. Basko, you've never broken a law? No. Oh, yes. Judge, I've got a confession to make once I'm a broker of the law. Today. Yes, today, I'm going to make a good impression on you, so I'm going inside to wash you my hands in the face. I'm a use of towel, and a sign is a say, rub, but don't the blot. Judge, I'm a lost in my head, I'm a blot it. You've made your plea. In view of all the circumstances, application for first citizen papers, denied. Mamma mia. He can't do that to me. Your Honor, I must speak to you. Who are you, young lady? My name is Mary Spaulding. I'm Mr. Basko's night school teacher. Apparently, you didn't teach him a nut, Miss Spaulding. But you're a terrible mistake has been made. You've seen Mr. Basko as one of my... Oh, there's a matter. Pascuali. Pascuali, this is the worst of the day of my life. What's happened to me? Come out here in the hallway. I'll talk to you. Now, the first thing you've got to do is to take it easy. Calm down, relax. I'm going to Pascuali. Pascuali, Pascuali, you don't understand. I'm going to go to the papers. I mean, what would have happened if I was to tell you I couldn't get you those papers? You? Pascuali, it would have made me the happiest man in the world. Well, Luigi, all I'm going to do is whisper a certain few words to the judge, and he's the letter you're taking to test again. Pascuali, you ought to do this for me. Well, if it's to make you happy, Luigi, sure. You know I'm going to hard as big as a baloney. And if for you, it's always a slice. That's right, Pascuali. You're so full of baloney. It's a funny thing when I'm a sayer that you come out of there for it. Now wait, Luigi. I'll do you a little favor. You're going to do me a little favor. Come and do anything, Pascuali. What's in this little favor you want me to do? Just to marry my daughter, Rose. What a Pascuali! No buts, so you've got two choices with a Rosa. Yes, or absolutely? All right, Pascuali. If you'll get me the first of peppers, I'm not going to marry your daughter. That's what I like, a real love of mansion. All right, I'm going to call him the blush and the bribe. Rosa! How would you like? He should have taken you to Niagara Falls. Mr. Vasco, the judge would like to see you immediately. The judge, if he wants to see me, what for? Don't worry, Luigi. I'm going to go with you. All right. Mr. Vasco, your teacher has just spent ten minutes talking to me about you. I'm coming straight to the point. Did you or did you not send me this bribery note? Bribery note? No, Your Honor. I'm going to never see that in my life. That's right, Your Highness. Luigi Vasco isn't going to have got a twenty-five dollars to be sent in around to the judges. What twenty-five dollars are you talking about? You know those are twenty-five, a single, a dollar. I'm going to put in the... This man to my chambers. I'll talk to him later. I'm very happy we've straightened this out. Now, just be very calm and tell me. What is Congress made up of? Two houses. Senate and representatives. Two senators from each state, congressmen according to the population. Very good. Name the three amendments which came as a result of the Civil War. Civil War? What would you become? Three amendments. Thirteen or fourteen and a fifteenth. Thirteen is forbidding slavery. Fourteen is making the slaves the citizens. And a fifteenth is to give them the right to do what? Is there any further demonstration? Mr. Vasco, what can you tell us about our flag? Our flag. He's got a three colors. White and a blue. He's got a thirteen stripes. One for each of the first to thirteen states. He's got a forty-eight stars. Red is a standard for courage. White is a standard for truth. Blue is a standard for... Before you applicants receive your first papers for citizenship, raise your right hand and read the paper which has been handed you. I believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And so, Mamma Mia, my biggest today is to come out to fight. I forgot to my first citizenship papers. You should have seen how angry the judges have got the widow Pasquale later on. He's told them there's no reason in the world why any man should do what the Pasquale has done to me. And he's given them thirty days in a jail. Then the judge is a Sorosa, and he's a parolee Pasquale right then and then. But in my first citizenship papers in Mamma Mia, you should have seen them. They're hanging on a wall between Washington and Lincoln. Washington has got a big, broad smile on his face. Lincoln is wearing a beard. I don't know what he's a donor. But I'm sure he's happy, too. Mamma Mia, I'm going to hardly wait for the day when I'm going to be a fuller citizen, and I'm going to sign this letter. Luigi Bosco, American. You're loving his son, Luigi Bosco, a little immigrant. So, Luigi Bosco has received his first citizenship papers. This is the signal of Anthony's life. And so tonight, we are honored to have with us in our Washington studios the Deputy Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization of the Department of Justice, Mr. Alger Mackey. To hear what he has to say to Luigi, we take you now to Washington and Mr. Mackey. Luigi, we of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Department of Justice feel that you are especially deserving of this cherished recognition of your efforts to become a good American. You have worked hard to learn of our democratic form of government, and generally speaking, our way of life. You are a credit to your adopted country, as well as a source of delightful entertainment on your radio program to millions composed not only of newcomers like yourself, but also those of us already so fortunate to be citizens of this great country. Juan Capadiano, Buonanati, and good wishes to all of you on Life with Luigi. Wrigley Company hopes you enjoyed tonight's episode of Life with Luigi. They present this program each week because they feel that millions of Americans like to listen to the adventures of Luigi just as millions enjoy chewing Wrigley's spearmint gum. And the Wrigley people invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi Bosco writes another letter to his mama, Vasco, in Italy. Life with Luigi is a Sy Howard production. It is written by Mack Benhoff and Lou Derman and directed by Mack Benhoff. J. Carol Masch is starred as Luigi Bosco with Alan Redis-Basquale, Hans Connery-Discholtz, Jody Gilbert is Rosa, Mary Ship is Miss Faulding, Joe Forte is Horowitz. Ken Peters is Olsen and Sarah Burner is Miss Pellegrino. These are directed by Lud Gruskin, Bob Stephenson speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.