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It's refreshing and the goodies he chewing gives you comfort and satisfaction So chew Wrigley's Spearman gum often every day Millions enjoy it and you will too Now Wrigley's Spearman chewing gum brings you Luigi as he writes another letter describing his adventures in America to his mama Vasco in Italy And I'm so excited to meet the cousin Mario whose train is it coming to Chicago tomorrow on the way to California Already I made a slip in a place for him in my bedroom for one night He's gonna stay I'm gonna squeeze together two easy chairs and I push him against the wall That's a so cousin of Mario can I fall down on here from one side I would have given my bed to mama here, but I'm taking no chances. I'm gonna lumpy mattress It's took me two years to learn how to sleep it between the lumps Yesterday from a cousin of Mario himself and he says I'm gonna recognize him from the train very easy He's gonna wear his a green a hat with the little red a feather Then it along a jacket with the four buttons in the front the brown the corduroy pants and adjust to make sure He's gonna be wearing a piece of paper with his a name and a big electus Mummy I got only one to worry what's gonna happen if somebody else is it gonna be dressed like that? Well, I'm a me. I feel so excited about a meeting the cousin of Mario tomorrow I find myself singing a Hanoi to my night to school America I love you you like a papa to me Oh So your cousin is coming in tomorrow, how are we? What train? What time? Oh for 30 p.m. What for? I'm just as excited as the rest of you. I know you are To me that is my fondest memory my first joyful week in America My uncle only got me a new suit of clothes and a beautiful job at six dollars a week Luigi in those days you can raise our family on six dollars a week Yeah, but today the government is part of your family. You need six hundred Quiet gentlemen. Here comes a teacher. Good evening class I'll call the role mr. Basko here and I guess you're what the most quality just answer here mr. Basko Mr.. Harwood here and Luigi's cousin is coming in tomorrow from Italy Please no unnecessary talking mr. Olson here And he's going to spend the night with Luigi before he goes on the California to live with his uncle The next one who talks out of turn gets a zero mr. Schultz The spotty, I wish you would change the batting order once in a while You have that zero no no no no please please mr. Sporting I'm responsible because my cousin and Mario's are coming in from Italy and and they all excited just like me All right, mr. Basko. Did you say your cousin was going to stay with you for one a day? Then he's gonna live with an uncle in a California Luigi You know for the short time he's going to be in Chicago. You should show him a good time Oh, sure to her it's how am I gonna take him on a bus ride and show him the loop wriggly bedding Marshall fields I like a Michigan stop the bus Luigi You got him half way to California Mr.. Basko, I think your cousin will enjoy that little bus trip sure and and also I'm thinking about making him a little welcome party of wonderful Luigi Where will the party be about time and should become formal or bring our wives? Everybody is invited shows also. I'm gonna have a Pasquale and a rosa and and Well, that's all I know get too much money. It says it's gonna be a little party Oh, Luigi the food is of minor importance your cousin will enjoy a real bang up in dandy time with our own jolly little Luigi we're making feel real homely. Good. And I'm a spotty. Are you gonna come too? Well, I can't say for sure. I'm a spotty. I want to he should have see you Good When your cousin takes one look at the teacher we got here, it's gonna be good bye, California Chicago Was you smart tonight in the school a little banana nose Just just a so-so But it was funny, you know how I'm gonna surprise in my cousin Mario tomorrow Yes, you're not gonna show up at the trailer to meet it No, no, come on. Yes, all right First you're gonna take a Mario to a suspensive at night club where's you're gonna eat the five-dollar steaks Drinking the best of champagne pinching the beautiful and dancing the girls Go ahead. What are we gonna do in this tonight the club wash the dishes in the kitchen or what else? I'm just gonna make plain little party for cousin Mario in the back of my store That's a good tool nothing like a good home cook a feast that get him a nicer fact of 20 pound to take he Can he a salad a soup or pies and nuts? No, but squali. I only got a six dollars to spend it for the whole party Uh-huh. What kind of meat I can buy for this money, but squali with a six dollars and Luigi You can't even afford to be a vegetarian I thought the maybe maybe six dollars could buy sandwiches Sandwiches a poor fellow travels at 10,000 miles over the ocean finally comes to a relative and what does he get to eat? Ham on rye without the ham Maybe I could lend us some money from family somebody a wonder who you know somebody Pascal could be you think this a fellow with the lend me the money for the party he might if you left the summer security What the security he would want was calling marriage a license made out to it of my daughter rose Oh, my mommy a backer with a ham on a rye Luigi don't be so stubborn after all I got at the daughter and my losses are gonna be your game Yeah, but it's not the healthy. I should have gained 250 pounds at the one time Right Luigi back cousin of Mario a little bag is a sandwich a party show off your porno So maybe should write home to your mama or son as a bigger failure America. No, no, yes Yes, then it may be mama's are gonna go to work in the town So she can send her star with American a son a few dollars every week No, but if a squally, please let me a few dollars until the next the weekend. I promise you I'm gonna pay you back Alright, alright a little cabbage pussy Show you how you good angel of Pasquale is a real sport. Hey, you're gonna lend me the money for squatting Luigi you think I wouldn't help you when you're facing a cat that's a free Look at close in this eye go ahead. What do you say there? I mean a selfish old man always out there for a buck or a kindly gentle of fellows and love is a fellow man Well, what do you say? Let's go to give me the other eye. You ain't doing it so good with this one Through sometimes I might seem a hard-of-hand Luigi, but that's a just a rough shell that hides a soft inside Hi, are you sorry? I thought was curry inside your hot shell. Is it a soft as a head? I'm ever seen That's a funny thing when I say it as it come out of different Look, Luigi, why aren't you dancing around? I'm gonna give you enough money to make a cousin of Mario such a bigger party He's gonna take you middle name is a Rockefeller Center. Oh, are you wonderful? Just one thing Huh I Do you a little favor? I wanted the party you should do me a little favor for anything a post quality except a married ocean No, no, not that I'm annoyed. We're gonna ask you to a low-poeter one of them What's this favor for Scali just the promise of me blind the Luigi that you're gonna do this for me All right, all right, you got to my promise. I do you and this favor you ask good And are we gonna make cousin of Mario a bigger welcome party? They gave the word Luigi Mario is it gonna have such a great the welcome people are gonna take Eisenhower is making a return to trip Before we return to life with Luigi here's a suggestion that'll help carry you through a busy strenuous day feeling more relaxed and Satisfied from time to time Especially when your tents are under pressure chew a stick of wriggly spear mint gum You see the good easy chewing goes right along with what you're doing It helps relieve that feeling of strain and tension so that work goes smoother and time passes more pleasantly Wrigley spear mint chewing gum tastes good, too It freshens your mouth sweetens your breath and gives you long-lasting enjoyment and satisfaction So when you've got a job to do and you've got to keep going at your best chew refreshing delicious Wrigley spear mint gum millions find it helpful and you will too Now let's turn to page two of Luigi Basko's letter to his mother in Italy And one more hour me in the shorts. We're going to railroad station to meet the cousin of Mario But squally is a land on us. He's a big in 1926 a piece out of car In a minute I'm here in the meantime is a fixing up a food for the big welcome party and the roses are helping him with the cook I just look in his kitchen and the food must be good because a rose just again The five pounds are just from a smell in it So now she'll say to me we're going to the station She'll say I hope a Mario is a train ain't late Maybe we should ask some conductor. Maybe he's got the lost some place And maybe you stop already Maybe he got off the boat in the middle of the ocean and decided to come the rest of the way by taxi Should I know he's Luigi How you know she'll say because he is coming in on track 5 and this is track 5 But I should say only sit to tracks That's right Luigi star. You're getting me all for shimmels What's your hair? Hey, why did not come out yet? Because the doors are locked and people are funny. They hate to jump out so closed windows I Come out now. Look how that we might lose a cousin a mario. Yeah, sure He's only bearing a green hat with a yellow feather, you know, that's right. So look a good a show see He's a new in this country and I think I see him come on Luigi follow me Sonno tonto content to do it I mean it. Yes, I'm a dude. I'm a little better Oh Mario What am I supposed to do Luigi kisses him Oh, hey, you look good Does he speak some English well, I don't know I'm gonna ask him Hey, Mario, did he follow the English? See And you think I'm a foreigner Understand him better if he was Hungarian and I was shiny He learned to speak English and the boat. Oh, he did But good you tell him to say something in English, huh, Maria Father English Shuffle board Shuffle ball like he came back from the Olympics. How was your drip that you enjoy yourself? Shuffle board But could he go for a quick game of pool on the spot him ten pines How you like a bus car is a car Mario automobile Automobile You will just tell me who is this fellow Benny he keeps talking about But a baby that means good in Italian a short Rook Mario, there's a Buckingham fountain. Oh, that's beautiful Shuffle ball Mario The Adler Luigi tell him what it is that's a place where they show you the stars just like in the sky Mario You Is I should talk on the English he understands me then Shuffle ball Luigi, I still don't understand why you brought your cousin here to your bank Well, I want him to meet the vice-president issues. I want him to meet him and then that's gonna make a me look of any important Mario Scusei scusei Luigi English I still want you to talk English to me. Yeah, that's right. Well, here we go for shuffleboard again Let's go home. Pasquale is waiting the party. What's up start? Mr. Vasco, what can we do for you today? How much the vice-president? Well, I got a little favor I want to I want to ask you I want you should have made to my cousin of family Italy, that's a Mario novello Pleasure, mr. Novello Well, Mr. Vice-president, he's only a few days in America and Mr. Vice-president, he's only speak few words English you few one Mr. Vice-president and maybe maybe maybe you you tell him how much your money we got in our bank here Oh, yeah, certainly we have assets of over 83 million dollars Mario la mia Banco e pie di 80 3,000,000 di dollari Dimi dimi quanti appartene alley. Hey, what does he want to know mr. Basco? He wants to know How much is that the money belongs it to me? Sure. So what do you think I should have told him? Well, you could lie to him in English or tell him the bitter truth in Italian No, come on Mario. Well, I go by mr. Vice-president. Thank you so much for talking with us. It's quite all right, mr. Basco, well, I'll have a dirty mr. Novello What did he say? Well, he wants to know if you talk to Italian. Well, it's just they shuffleboards Me Jagger I handed to you this pizza is out of this world. I'm glad you enjoy And the lasagna Luigi I got in me enough spaghetti to knit three sweaters It's a wonderful party smile everybody have fun. Are you having a good time Mario? Ask him what he's gonna do out in California California sento D. J. K. Hanna Bella. I got Say He has they got the beautiful girls there. This boy don't have to know the language Ask him what work he did in Italy Maria Can I borrow of a chair in Italy? You tell me Papa. Oh is I have to his a pop. I bought it is Papa do You cook a case of fire to a part of it. I'm sorry. He says it's a Papa don't know what is it to all Hello everybody my very late Excuse me a minute. I'm a spotting. I wanted you should have made to my cousin of Maria Maria, what's that? I'm here my extra miss Paul Oh What does he mean by that English translation you want to stop you know, Maria? I'm a spotting. He wants to know if he you married Tell him no, but I do have a boyfriend Mario You Come a side a minute. I want to talk with you. Oh, sure. Excuse me a minute to Fox. I Like the first colleague. What do you want to talk about? Well, I made you this big part of your cousin. I Luigi. That is a wonderful It takes you real big shots in America. That's the right of this car. All right, Luigi I kept for my promise to you and I'll keep you promise to me. You gotta do me that a certain of favor That's a right of us calling any favorite except that I should have married us. I don't want to you should have married Rosa, why don't you cousin a shop for the body should have married? He's never even seen her actually only chance I got Tell him there's a five thousand a dollar reward. It goes to the lucky groom That's right. If he stays here in Chicago, he gets a five thousand if he goes to California. All he gets is a smug Oh, you're backing up on your promise. All right, Mr. Big shots I'm gonna go in there and tell your cousin the truth that I had to make this a party for him because you Luigi must goes the biggest to bust America had since the 1929 I'm at the bargain with you bargain show him a rush Then then I'm gonna say a lot of nicer things about it. That's a true like she's she's got a good the character Nice to face. She's a good cook. Well, all right Soon all ladies I gotta get his face up from the five thousand to look at the girl anyway Come on a weird producer of lovebirds And that was how my first haircut in America turned out to be a crew cock Three to the party Mario is he gonna have the pleasure of meeting the my daughter Ross because it easy Luigi What up a square? I guess it's a better than the president party Sonofia. Ah, baby, baby, baby Yeah, I don't think Benny. It's gonna be so happy Really Mario Rosa Rosa Rosa by the cop say hello to Luigi's a cousin of Mario Introduce a special guest Miss Mary Virginia Morris president of the California Teachers Association southern section Thank you. It is indeed a pleasure to be here on behalf of 30,000 public school teachers. I should like to say it this time that the thing that makes America a Unique and great nation is its fine system of free public education The classroom is the as a laboratory for democracy because children are really learning to live democracy in the classroom therefore in recognition of Materious service to public education and thereby to American youth and the teaching profession the California Teachers Association Southern section presents this certificate of recognition to you. Mr. J Carol Nash Thank you. Thank you Thank you so much miss Mars It's really a great honor and privilege to accept this certificate of recognition as Radio chairman for this week's observance of American Education Week I would like to remind everyone that the public school teachers are your partners in the education of your children your boys and girls are the beneficiaries of home school and Community teamwork. 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Benoff J. Carol Luigi Basko with Alan Reed as Pascuale Conn Reed as Schultz, Jody Gilbert as Rosa, Mary Schiff as Miss Faulding, Joe Forte as Horowitz, Ken Peters as Olsen, with J. Novello as Mario and Jack Moyles as the vice president Music is under the direction of Ludgust and Charles Lyon speaking Friends, this is a little wage telling you that this is Sunday November 16th, and you favorite the CBS radio station You can hear two of your favorite American James and that's in a 10,000 ready-up broadcast