 The makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum invite you to enjoy life. Life with Luigi, a comedy show created by Psy Howard and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Carol Nash with Alan Reedus Disclose. Friends, Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum is a typically American product that appeals to people of all ages and nationalities in all parts of our country. And the Wrigley people feel that Life with Luigi is a typically American radio program, a friendly, enjoyable show that sort of symbolizes the American spirit of tolerance and goodwill. So the makers of refreshing, delicious Wrigley's Spearman Gum are glad to bring you Life with Luigi each week and have you join them in this pleasant, half-hours entertainment. And now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes about his adventures in America to his mama basco in Italy. Dear mama me. Today I was noticed something very strange about all the people. Everybody was a look of sick with the lines in their faces. I thought maybe it was the war or the atom Obama was a war in them. So I'm asked, now I know why everybody looks so tired and worn out. They all are just to come back from a vacation. Here's the funny thing about the American. When he's going on his vacation, he's never laid down in the taekwere. Nope. He's a dancer, swim, run around and go fishing, boat and a horseback riding, a play golf, a tennis, a baseball. It's a good thing American has only got a two weeks of vacation. If he's got a four, he's got a nervous breakdown. But another funny thing about the Americans. All a year they work. Then one day everybody's a stopper worker. And I guess so what they call it, Labor Day. Well, not to me. Comes the Labor Day, I'm a worker twice as hard. I was a figure out all the new antiques I would need for my new fall stock. But after I'm a figure it out, and I'm a figure, how much money I'm a got to buy it, I'm gonna spend the whole day polishing up on my old summer stock so it should look like in my new fall stock. With me, the only thing that's a fall is in my bank account. And I'm afraid as a fall is so hard there's no way I'll be able to get up or no more. If only it was a summer way. Summer way I could have got some extra money. Excuse me, Mamma Mia. I see my countryman, Pasquale. He's coming into my store and I'm finished. It's a little late. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi, hello, hello. Hello, Pasquale. That's not a little of a cab but you're poor. You look so sad, dragging your nose between your ears. Pasquale, I'm worried very much about my business. Your business? Yeah, all over I'm reading how business people, they're stacking up goods for the new fall season. And I may have got no money to buy more antiques. Luigi, that's a talk for the birdies. Look at me, I own a spaghetti restaurant, right? That's right. Do you see me cooking at 10,000 meatballs and stocking them up into my salad? Yeah, but it's different to what are you, Pasquale. If you stock a meatballs into your salad, they get a stale and it tastes terrible. So what? Do you ever hear the way my customers talk about my meatballs now? Yeah, but you carry a little of everything up, Pasquale. In my business, the lady comes in, she asks if I'm going to get a colonial desk. Well, that's a sale, if I'm going to get it, but if I ate it, then she's going to get it from a fellow Dezsigata. Oh, what a doubler talk! Luigi, don't have got to me no Anagatsa plays. Besides, it's a very easy way out of your trouble, huh? You know what that is? I was expecting that. You mean a married daughter. Is there no doubts about sitting between those of sideburns and there's a brain? That's all right. If you want to get a big stock, marry my daughter Rosa. But Pasquale, that's a no stock. That's a whole warehouse. Luigi, you're a businessman. So look at it this way. When you marry a skinny girl, that's like an investment in a small business. When you marry a girl like Rosa, that's like a buy-in in the General Motors. Especially the trucking division. All right, all right, to be a wise guy, Mr. Dumbledore. But remember this, there's only a few ways a fellow can get money in America. He can work harder for it. And you were a bad example of that. Then there's four other ways. Three is he can beg a borrower or steal it. Do you want to try one of those? No. Well, Danny, you faced with the last alternative. You can marry a nicer girl with a big fat bank account. You mean a bigger fat girl with a nicer bank account? That's a funny thing. When I'm saying it, it's a come out of different. Ah, what's the use of talking to you, Luigi? I'm washing my hands off of your face. Go back. No, no, no, wait, wait, Pasquale. Don't be mad. You know, I'ma think of you like a father. Father can be a father without a sudden law should be married to a daughter. That's husbandry. Yeah, but then... Luigi, my fellow boob. Oh, hello, Schultz. Hello, Pasquale. Hello, Schultz. What's the matter? Was you two having a fight? If it was, we don't need a no referee. Well, I don't like it, Pasquale. When I see you two fight, well, it's like a B-29 is attacking a kite. No, no, no, we're not fighting the Schultz. I was asking Pasquale a advice, like from a father. But he says against the husband that he's going to be my father without a sudden law, so I'm going to be his daughter. Ah, Luigi, are you forshimmelt? Come on with me. I stopped by on the way to night school. We are late. Oh, oh, is it late already? Yes. I forgot all about the time. Go, go, Luigi. Go ahead. Get advice from your classmates. They all are so smart. They're still in a two-way. Yeah, but a pleasure, Pasquale. Don't a pleasure me. No pleasure, Pasquale. Maybe Mr. Delicatessen, a man here, can show you how to make extra money. Stuff for the balonies, or pouring a whiskey down the herrings of throat. They should get a pickle. If they're going to help you, Luigi, then I'm a monkey's uncle. Listen, you spaghetti salesman, don't brag. A monkey wouldn't have you for a relative. Where's the talking? The whole neighborhood is talking about how you hoarding potato salad. That's a lie. Now, you take that back. No, no, no, no. Please, please, please. Please, wait, wait. No fight, no fight. Pasquale, thanks for your help. Come on, Schultz, we go to night school. All right, Luigi. Goodbye, meatball maker. Goodbye, pickle pusher. Hey, Schultz, do you think I'm maybe somebody in a class that can help me out to make some extra money so I'm going to buy four of that? Sure, Luigi. I'm positive. And smile, Luigi. All right. That's right. Be like me. Always happy. Always loving. My rheumatism is killing me. All right, class. Quiet, please, please. Now I'll call the roll. Mr. Basco. Present. Mr. Harvey. Present. Mr. Olsen. Present. Mr. Schultz. Stop. This is where I get off. Thank you, fellow pupils. You know, a smile is like an umbrella on a rainy, rainy day. And the way umbrellas are going up in price, it's cheaper to carry a smile. Very good, Mr. Schultz. That was an excellent example of humor, philosophy, and economics. Now, suppose we find out how well you can do an arithmetic. Miss Spaulding with me, that's a sore spot. Well then, spelling? That's another sore spot. History? Himal, today I'm just full of bruises. I thought so. Well then, let's continue our lesson for today and quiet... Miss Spaulding. Oh, yes, Mr. Olsen. Miss Spaulding, if you wish, I would be very happy to go into any of the subjects you just mentioned. I could go into arithmetic and dwell upon the various tables, multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition. Or I could go into spelling and dwell upon the various ruse. Or I could go into history and dwell upon Washington's inaugural, Lincoln's assassination, or anything else up to the last war under the feet of the German generals. Olsen, why don't you go into a deep freeze and just dwell there for a few months? Please, we will have no more interruptions. Now we'll devote the rest of our time to some arithmetic problem. Miss Spaulding. Mr. Baskow, do you have a problem? Yes. How am I going to make some extra money to buy antics for the fall of the season? Mr. Baskow, that is not a problem. I'm sorry, Miss Spaulding, but I must disagree with you. That is a problem. A businessman must constantly refresh his stock, otherwise he can't exist. Luigi, I got an idea. Maybe you could get a job as a salesman. Yeah, sure, that's right. We've got to find a part-time salesman's job where no experience is necessary and you need only little or no money to start. Wait, wait, I got it, I got it. Luigi, you're going to sell ice cream. Oh, yeah, that was a good idea. Everyone needs ice cream. And the weather is still hot enough. Sure. And Luigi, you don't have to give up your business. Sunday when you'll close, you go to the ice cream factory buy as much as you have money for and you're in business. That's a wonderful idea, Mr. Horowitz. You don't need any experience and on Sunday everybody's out on the street. You could make it a clean up, Luigi. You just have to holler ice cream. Can you do that? Sure. Ice cream. Ice cream. Here you are to get the red hot ice cream. Yeah, but wait, wait. Wait, I'm going to get a truck to carry the ice cream. Yeah, that's right. Luigi, I will solve that for you. You can use my horse and wagon. It's Sunday and my mill company won't even know it's out of the garage. And you can even use the ice. You will be selling grade A ice cream. Olsen, you got a big heart, but you make very small jokes. Oh, friends, friends are you wonderful. I don't know how I'm going to thank you. Well, I do, and vanilla is my favorite flavor. Luigi, I hope you make a big success. Well, thanks, Mr. Horowitz. Who knows? Maybe I'm going to sell all of my ice cream in one hour. Then I'm going to go back and get a more. Then I sell it back and I go back and I get some more. Oh, then you have to get extra trucks and hire people to work for you. If you get so big, you'll give up your antique shop. Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm going to never do that. No matter how big my ice cream in the business I get, I'm still going to have my antique shop. I can just see it now when Luigi combines both businesses. It's going to be Luigi Basko's antiques and ice cream. And for a trademark, he'll have a picture of Paul Revere sucking a bob-sig. Before we return to life with Luigi, I'd like to mention that Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum is an ideal family treat to have in your home. Just about everyone enjoys a refreshing stick of Wrigley's Spearmint, and you can pass it around freely. 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Because I'm gonna sell lots of cans in the factory, and if I tell them somebody's a spill of water in the ice cream, they're gonna go out of business. Anyway, I'ma drove out over the factory. It was a beautiful Sunday morning. Honey, you son of the week is a beginner's and new business. Sell an ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Get you an ice refresh. You call it delicious ice cream. It's a good for you. Don't believe me. I ask you, doctor, it's a good for you. Ice cream. All the kind of flavors. Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. And for half a price, sherbet. Ice cream. Strawberry, ice cream. You got real strawberries across my heart. I'm gonna like real strawberries big like your thumb. Ice cream. Nobody wants ice cream. I'm in the streets for two hours, so far there's only three ice creams sold. One to me and two to the horse. I don't know more for you. You get the money, I'ma give you more. All right, all right, I give you more. It's hard to refuse a horse. He doesn't understand a business. All right, three scoops. Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. Here you are. And that's the last one for you, Annabella. You hear me? I'ma make the way that a horse eats is the one that the milk company makes any money. Ice cream. Somebody please buy ice cream. Is it got a real strawberry? Honest. Each one is as big as your fist. All right, Annabella, don't look at me like that. There's something that sort of people should buy. Hey, mister. Yes, yes, what the flavor you want, mister? Can I have a dime for a cup of coffee? You want the coffee? Yeah. Don't have nobody in this neighborhood want ice cream. Look, bud, I would appreciate a dime. I'm no dream. I'm just weak from hunger. Weak, you know? Hunger, you say? I'm done on my luck, and I could sure use a dime. Oh, you poor man. Here. Here's a two dimes. Buy two cups of coffee. Thanks. So long, friend. You'll be rewarded. Rewarded. That's all right. Yeah, sure, that's all right. Goodbye. Hmm. Poor fella, look at him. He's so weak from not eating, he's made a mistake in walking to a saloon instead of a restaurant. Well, I better try to sell him more ice cream. Come on, get it up, Annabella. Get it up. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Oh, man. Maybe just when I'm going to business, everybody is an ice cream striker. Ice cream. Oh. Hey, little boy. Yeah? Maybe you like some, some nice, delicious, good ice cream. Oh, sure. Oh, it's wonderful. Little boy, you're just the savior of my life. Huh? Hey, ramen, Mitchell, come here. Here's some ice cream. Oh, come on, call all the little bambina, little boy. Okay. Oh, it's so wonderful, it's so wonderful. What a fluffy you want, the chocolate vanilla strawberry. You got 2D fruity? 2D whaty? Is it something like a short birthday? No, it's got fruit in it. You like strawberry. Oh, this summer got, you want a one or two? Two. Good, good. Everybody's going to get the two. All right, here you are. Gee, thanks. And you too, huh? And you over there. Hey, he's a good, huh? All of these kids are your friends, little boy? No, ramen's my sister and Mitchell's my little brother. And today's Mitchie's birthday. He's four years old. Well, how do you like that? Then it's a good thing you all got ice cream. I eat the ice cream with you. And I even give my horse, Sanne, the bell. She's the helper Mitchie celebrates his birthday. Come on, come on. Come on, come on, kids. Come on, everybody. We all are seeing a happy birthday to this bigger bambino, Mitchie. That's so nice. That's good. Well, now I'm going to figure out everything. Let me see. That's the one. It was a two, three, four, and a five. And then there's a six. And it was an eight. Eight dinner children with a double ice cream. Now, who's going to pay for all of this? Hey. Sure, ice cream is a cost of money. Everybody knows that. Well, we don't have any money. Oh, you don't? What? You asked me if I wanted some ice cream, so I said sure. Mommy. Don't tell my mommy. Please, don't cry. I'm going to like this little bambino cry. Besides, well, besides, we all had a good time so I'm going to pay for everybody. Here, Mitchie, another corner for your birthday. Giddy up, Annabella. Party's over. Goodbye, children. Goodbye. Hey, you got any ice cream? Ice cream, I'm going to get another one. Come on, giddy up, Annabella. We're not taking any more chances with the kids today. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. All the day long, all I'm a soldier, three dollars a word. Unless the president of Truman is asking me for special government order, I'm going to see how I'm going to make a profit today. Oh, maybe. Oh, goodness, a beautiful apartment. Oh, it's a nice, nice music. Come on, mummy. Look at that crowd. There must be 10,000 people at that concert. If I'm a canone seller just with one ice cream, then everybody's going to get jealous and I'm going to sell out everything. I'm going to climb. I'm going to climb up here in the back of behind the benches. Ice cream. Hey, mister, you want an ice-cooler ice cream this afternoon? What? Oh, goodness' sake, be quiet. I'm sorry. Hey, lady. Hey, lady, maybe you do me a favor and buy ice cream. Is it go fine over the music? How dare you, be quiet. Ice cream, money, money. Ice cream. Please, please buy ice cream. Hey, you. You sell an ice cream? Yes, sure. Sure, officer. You want I'm sure to give you some? No, but I want to give you something. What's the charge, officer? Your Honor, I found this man peddling ice cream without a license. Yeah, but that's not all. It's on a ticketed judge. He said peddling without a foot, the handler's apartment, the stubborn peace, walking on the grass, stealing a horse in a wagon and a property damage. Property damage? What was that? The horse ate the policeman's hat. You see, judge, Your Honor, I'm holding nothing back. I'm telling everything. That's because someday I'm going to be a citizen and I'm going to keep the record clean. Your Honor, may I say something? And what is it, officer? The charges aren't as serious as they appear. This man just wanted to make a little extra money. He borrowed the horse in a wagon from a friend. As for my hat, well, it was an old one anyway. As long as the horse coughed up the badge, it's okay. Well, under those circumstances, I'll make this as light a sentence as possible. $10 or 10 days. Oh, thank you, Judge, for such a light a sentence. But I'm afraid it's not that so good. I only got a $3. Oh, well, I hate to send you to jail, Mr. Baskov. Can you borrow this money from a friend? Oh, sure, Judge. Can I ask my friend a Pascuali? Well, certainly. A Pascuali? Pascuali, will you lend me $7? With the pleasure, Luigi. Judge, that's my best friend. I'm lending him the money and I want a condition. What condition is that? I call in the condition. Rosa! Rosa! Rosa! She's my little bailaband. Rosa, say hello to Luigi. Hello, Rosa. Hello, Luigi. Hello, Rosa. Well, Luigi, what do you say, my son? Judge, which way is of the jail? Mr. Baskov, you've been peddling ice cream all day. Didn't you sell $10 worth of ice cream? Well, you see, you see, Judge, maybe I would have had more money, but I'm going to give it to a poor man two dimes of a coffee. We're celebrating a boy's birthday and they all took ice cream and we got such a nice party. Lots of fun and we're singing it. But they're only a little bambini and they got no money to pay for the ice cream. What am I going to do? Why is it a little chill? Well, we need $7. Say, I've been sitting here all day and I feel like some refreshment. How about an ice cream cone? I'm a sorry, Judge. No license. Well, that's all right. How about you, officer? I'll take a dollar's worth. What a flavor you want, the vanilla? Mayleaf? Same for me. Good. Everybody in the court will have some. $7 worth. Oh, thank you, thank you. Case dismissed. Recess declared while we all go out for some ice cream. And so, Mamma Mia, this letter shows you once more what a wonderful country is America. For a little fella like me gets arrested and ends up sitting on a sidewalk eating ice cream with a judge. Which it goes to show in America they not only examine a ticket, they examine a person. But it was a lucky thing I was a half a sherbet. It was the judge's favorite. You're loving a son of Luigi Bosco? Little immigrant. Folks, the makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum hope you enjoyed tonight's episode of Life with Luigi. And they'd like to remind you that Wrigley's Spearman Gum is not only good, but also good for you. For instance, when you're working under pressure or you're feeling tense or upset, chewing on a good piece of gum gives you a natural, pleasant outlet for some of that tension. You enjoy the smooth, easy chewing and you enjoy the refreshing flavor of Wrigley's Spearman too. And if you're in the range of delicious Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum handy, remember it's a treat that's not only good, but also good for you. The makers of Wrigley's Spearman Gum invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi Bosco writes another letter to his mama Bosco in Italy. Life with Luigi is produced and directed by Psy Howard. Mac Benhoff writes the script with Lou Durman. J. Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Bosco with Alan Redis-Basquale, Hans Conradish Schultz, Jody Gilbert as Rosa, Mary Ship as Miss Baldwin, and Ken Peters as Olson. Music directed by Ludbust. Bob Stevenson speaking. This is CDS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.