 Ladies and gentlemen Ladies and gentlemen Just about a year ago a young fellow here at Columbia Created a brand new radio show That met with very popular claim with all you listeners Perhaps you've heard of my friend Irma Yes Well now this young man has created a brand new show Fully, we think as good as Irma and we think you'll enjoy meeting the man himself ladies and gentlemen Si Howard our producer Thank you about a year ago Same building same stage. We brought you my friend Irma. That was a little blonde girl And now we're bringing you a new character and this is Luigi Bosco and this is a little Italian immigrant Who came over from Italy and he settled in Chicago? Luigi Bosco is like every other person Except he doesn't understand English too well and he doesn't embrace American customs. He crushes them He's the type of man and when he walks in the park and he sees a policeman He says I think I'll pick a flower and give it to the nice policeman You know what happens to him This is Luigi Bosco who comes over to this country You can laugh at him because you'd be just as funny as it if you were in Italy a Luigi Bosco happens to be Italian Could be anybody could be an Irishman could be a Dutchman could be a Jew could be a pole But this is a little fellow Italian a warm little wonderful Italian who was brought over here Now he was brought over here by a man called Pascuali Who paid his passage because Pascuali happens to have a daughter. He cannot get rid of Everybody on the block knows Rosa. Well, you'll see that what happens So he figures if he gets little Luigi over here, boom, he's got a marriage So he sets up little Luigi in business and little Luigi runs an antique shop and this is his adventures He writes to his mother in Italy Explaining all these wonderful things about America. You know, we take everything in America so much for granted We walk in cops don't bother us if they do you try to get a ticket fixed and all that sort of thing But Luigi is different. This is a very inquisitive man. He asked an awful lot of questions So we want you to meet Luigi Bosco a little immigrant and it's really a historic occasion because you are the first people There's a greatest collection of guinea pigs. I've ever seen But you're all nice guinea pigs We're gonna try it on you because after all you build radio shows for people and you're all nice people and if you like it and The other people will like it because you're all pretty much of a cross-section of America And so you can laugh at them have a good time. It's a comedy show. He don't mind He'll go ahead and talk in his broken little Italian just the same as ever now in the cast he has a school teacher and Who teaches him and this is miss balding and She's played by Mary Jane Croft a wonderful actress Mary Jane Now Luigi Bosco is broke, but he figured he needed a general manager And he's the type of man. He got a general manager. He got an 11 year old kid Who handles all his bookkeeping for him and Luigi Bosco's general manager is played by Bobby Ellis You've seen him with Jack Carson and April showers and a wonderful little actor Bobby Ellis Now for squally That's the man who runs for squally spaghetti house in Chicago He is played by a man who you've known as false staff and the Fred Allen show played so many various Wonderful parts a very great comic Alan Reed our Pascuali Now for Luigi Bosco the little immigrant. We finally got a man Minute you see him and I announced his name You must know that he would personify the first little attack the only little Italian immigrant would come over to America and have this Tremendous love of America wonderful sensitive wonderful warm Lovable person you've seen him in a medal for Benny mr. J. Carol Nash And we want you to have a good time laugh and you all tell us if you like our show the little immigrant And As every American school child knows on October 12 1492 an Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America on September 27th 1947 a young Italian immigrant Luigi Bosco rediscovered America Christopher Columbus arrived with three vessels Luigi Bosco arrived with three dollars When Christopher Columbus landed in America, he said I named the San Salvador when Luigi Bosco landed in New York He said please they give me a ticket for Chicago And so from Chicago's little Italy the Columbia broadcasting system brings you a new comedy the little immigrant Created by Cy Howard and starring J. Carol Nash Christopher Columbus described his adventures through Queen Isabella in Spain from Chicago Luigi Bosco describes his adventures to his mother in Italy dear a mama Mia I Make a promise to write to you so I write In the United States when a fellow keeper promise to write is called promissory note In six months since I've been in America my writing is already so good words that don't even have Italian accent I have a story here in a Chicago just to like it to other business a man Marshall and the field They got same kind of store only better location Mama Mia how you like my new business a stationery see on top it say Luigi Bosco founder and a prop prop is short to for a long A word. I don't know Also my line of business old and the new antiques Everybody here are crazy for all things all the furniture all the lamps all the chairs Also is a lots of people are crazy about all the granddad must to be a finer man Our countrymen a Pasquale who bring me to this a country and a rent to me store has a nicer place next door Is it called the Pasquale spaghetti palace? Sometimes at night when a breeze from Lake of Michigan is adjust the right then the smell from a Pasquale's a palace is Reminding me of a home, and I'm a much alone summer for you But in the morning when I wake up, I'm a soap pleasant to be in America and Like uncle Pietro always a say is no rose without a little aton and in this case is a very big aton Because now I found out the why a Pasquale is a bringer me here. He's always the one thing. I should marry his a daughter Rosa You remember when Rosa was a nice little girl Mama me a summer thing has happened How how can I describe her? You know the bull uncle Pietro has Well, I go in a pasture look at a bull take off her horns. That's a rose Pasquale he argue with me. He say rose is a wonder find a girl. I say rose is a to find a girl But out the side Rosa America is a great the country and in my business issues are fine. I'm a making of money hand over a foot I'm so rich that that I happen to get a general manager So I hire me a little a 12-year-old a bambino Jimmy O'Connor who said to me this morning Boss one more week like this and we start what's matter Jimmy business isn't a good mr. Luigi here the books in front of you. Let's face it. Well, that's a fine Then why are you upset Jimmy? We're in the hall. What's fine about it in America when the things is a good Then you in a groove, huh? Yeah, hole is a bigger than a groove. It's so everything is Terrible take a look at the books that tells this story. Okay here is the one page of money going out Yep, here's another page of money coming in but there's nothing on that page That's the trouble of Jim money coming in and money going out if only she could have stand still so we could grab How much do we got in a cash box $2 and 87 cents how much I hope a squalor for the rent $40. It's enough come on even It's a too bad for Pasquale It's too bad for you because if you don't pay him the rent he's got a right to kick you out not in America This is a free country is a free speech is a free press, but not free rent You gotta pay him ah Jimmy. I work so hard for this place I have all of my beautiful statues what I do what I do I've got a suggestion, but I don't think you'll like it anything a Jimmy. You're a smart American boy anything I'm a drowning. I'm a clutching at straws. I'm a drowning. Okay, Barry Rosen. Okay. I drown Luigi after all this man-to-man a fella's got to get married sometime if for Rosie is the last woman on the face of The earth and then I rather marry the face of the earth Okay, mr. Luigi, I've got another suggestion anything a Jimmy. I'm a drowning. I'm a clutching at straws I'm a drowning. Okay, so what are your statues? I'm gonna down again a Jimmy You don't want to sell anything as soon as somebody comes in to buy something you discourage him I don't discourage. I only say not the for sale You could have sold that one a general grant. I never sell a president of a United States You won't even sell Robert E. Lee. He's a nice man. I missed the lead Bullfella pick a wrong aside. So why I sell him I Excuse him You got 18 Abraham Lincoln's 19 I buy another one yesterday Mr. Luigi, I know how we can clear up all our debts and pay the rent. How just sell one statue George, Washington George Washington Founder in the prop of our country. I never sell him You don't sell something mr. Luigi never sell a Washington at least put him in the window. It'll attract customers Okay, Jimmy make you feel better. I put Washington in a window, but I don't sell Okay, George up you go in a window Don't worry George. I put you way in the back. They never see you Jimmy you were just coming from school. You must be hungry. You go back in the kitchen eat a little lunch. Okay, boss He's a good boy. Mr. Washington only he don't understand us. Don't worry. I don't sell you When Jimmy go back to school, I take you out of window. I Put in college Pardon me. Is that for sale? I Say is that for sale which you one of us you want to buy that? That's statue the one in the window. Supposedly you one of my window you for sale I'm interested in buying that statue of George Washington George Washington across the Delaware, but the Luigi's a winner never That's too bad. You see I'm looking for items that we can sell this afternoon The Americana society is having a charity auction. It's an oil salami. I never sell a George Washington. Okay, Mr. Luigi. Oh So you got a customer that's good. Lady don't want to buy anything a goodbye lady, but I did want to I never mind that goodbye lady Hey, what's going on here? Well? I'm just trying to buy that statue of George Washington great shut up a Jimmy Go back and I have dessert. I'll give you a hundred dollars for it. So you fire the Jimmy. I quit. Oh, no, you don't I Quit you can't quit. I'm the boss. I do anything. I like The unifier that's all a goodbye lady, but you promised me it sell the statue if you had a customer And that's right to Jimmy. I I promised Look lady, I come to this country with only two things this statue of Washington and bandana. I Sell you bandana. I Understand but you see the auction is only interested in historical items. Oh, I got a plenty Here's Admiral do it fighting at the manila. No, thanks. Then here's a governor. Do we running at all? How about the three nice around the vice presidents, please it's Washington? I want but I cannot sell the father of our country Oh, I have a heart mr. Luigi. We don't have a start tomorrow. All your statues will be out in the street Well, all right. I'm a stock. I'm a stock either way you break my heart. I Take George Washington in the back. I wrap him up with my own hands Lady, I got a suggestion. Yes, maybe you take a two-general on McArthur's Free Well George, I gotta sell you what I do If I don't sell I don't pay the rent I get a push start. Well, that's all right. Maybe I But then I got a marry Rosa If you ever see her George, you don't blame me Please George. Don't look at me like that This auction lady nice. She finds a better place for you All the way since I'm a little boy. I know about you You'll find a man. You rich man. You have a bigger farm But when a poor people say hello George you we need a general You say okay You give a plantation June 17 is 75 Now I give you up can't be helped a lot of things that we do in a wartime Right now is a Luigi bus goes a while Come on, George say goodbye Like you say goodbye in farewell address this September 17 and 96 Is very sad for me to George Shake your hands and mr. President the Washington I wrap you up warm or so you don't freeze like in a valley for winter 17 is 77 I'll have a ditchy Giuseppe washing it off Yeah, Jimmy put the statue and the ladies a car. Here's your hundred dollars. Thank you And don't feel too badly because all the proceeds from this auction go to charity If you'd like to come here's the address the auction will be held in my home. Thank you lady. Goodbye. Good day Okay, mr. Luigi, I put the statue in the car. She must be loaded. She drove off in a beautiful Lincoln It's a funny country when the Washington drives away in a link Put them under the mattress someday someone will come in here and steal you and the mattress not in a Chicago Take my word for it in America. Everybody puts their money in the bank. I don't take your word in Jimmy I anytime I got a problem. I go to see my teacher mrs. Spaulding take care of the story Jimmy America, I love you Hello, my teacher mrs. Spaulding I brought to you after. Oh, thank you, Luigi. I'll be with you in a minute I wait as soon as I finish with Mary here Now Mary I was very surprised this morning when you didn't know who invented the electric light Well, I'm a surprise it to it a little bambino everybody she ought to know who in event electric light There you see Mary here's a man who's only been in this country for six months, and he knows Go on Luigi. Tell her who invented the electric light. Marconi. Marconi, he invented everything No, Luigi Edison invented the electric light then a Marconi in event Edison I See you need some more private lessons Luigi. All right, Mary you can run along now. Be sure you have better answers tomorrow All right, Miss Balding. Goodbye, Mr. Luigi. Goodbye, little Mary Well, tell me Luigi. How are you and Jimmy O'Connor getting along? He's a finer boy every day We have a fight is very pleasant Well, I'm so glad he found a home and a job with you. He's a good businessman But he make me do wrong the thing today He make me sell a statue of a georgia Washington is Not the patriotic, huh? Luigi Patriotism isn't measured by statues. It's something you feel good. I feel him what you better But but what I do with a hundred dollars a Jimmy say put him in a bank. Well, he's right I suggest you put it your money in the Chase National Bank Why why a bank because in America you don't carry on business with cash. You need checks Martial appeals They put the money in a bank. Oh, yes is good enough for me. I Go tell Pasquale and I give him a check for the rent Well, you can see Pasquale later go straight to the bank Don't walk around with so much cash after all there are some dishonest people in the world Don't worry about the me. I'm a smart man. Yes, but you look out for strangers They'll try to sell you the Union station for a hundred dollars. Not to me Mrs. Spaulding second the day. I'm in Chicago. I buy it the four or five dollars So mama Mia six months in this a country and I'm a partner with a martial field Who can I tell maybe in a six or more months a martial have a fighter with a field He throw him out that then it's gonna be martial basco In a six or months more I have a fighter with a martial or to throw him out In a one year of mama Mia is a normal martial field is a basco basco But now like I might teach him a spaulding and say I go to bank But as Uncle Pietro all the way to say every cloud that she has a silver lining But the for me is a no silver lining Because I'm looking into go the teeth of our country man up a squally who's smiling at me like a cat Luigi Luigi my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello. Hello. Hello, Pascuali That's a matter for you. I'm your countryman. Why you passing my place without coming in Have a glass of wine. I'm in a hurry. No, wait a minute. Oh, Luigi You're breaking my arm Somebody's he been asking for you if it's a who I think it is go by Come in a Luigi just for what a middle. I'm a gonna to the bank. Get a check. Pay your rent forget the business I'm a no worry about the rent. Do you like a son of to me? I'm a bringing you from the older country. Why? You don't know either Listen to me Luigi, I'ma bring you here to marry a rose and I'll come inside a stupid you call me Papa Rosa my little Bambino Luigi's here Hello, that's in a way to say hello to a bachelor man. Stay hello. Nice Luigi hello, Rosa. That's a nice Nice Conversation you two just to have you made for each other is the perfect the combination Okay, Rosa go back in the kitchen and help your mama pop. Is it gonna take care of your future? She's a like a little angel when I go to heaven I look her up Luigi I'm a got a surprise for you next to Sunday. How you like to go with me to a wedding Who is it getting a married you are? Then you will be my son. What do you say? Goodbye, Papa All the way to roses a big but she's a wonderful a girl. She's got a such a comfortable lap You sit there reading the paper smoking a pipe a drink of wine. What do you say? I want a wife Not the poster chair Is this you last the word my son? Yes, you very last the word yes, you positive Absolutely sure. Yes. Where's my rent the money? I throw you off the street I got the rent the money. I go to bank now. I give you check Luigi. You make me nervous. Are you here? I hear money here Transaction, Pasquale, you know understand you like at the Greenhorn. That's him out. Are you crazy? I'm here 26 years. Don't get excited. I explain you see here is a $40 rent. I take you in page Take them slow First I take a money to bank. You're gonna pay my rent to the bank. No, no Mrs. Balding Mrs. Balding she explained it to me. I explain it to you. All right. I Take this money to bank. You take this money to the bank. They take the money from me They take it money from you. They depart. They depart. They give me check give you check a book I take one a check you take a water check. All right. You're right Pay to water Pasquale spaghetti palace of $40 in no sense. They to water Pasquale's a spaghetti palace of $40 in no sense I bring you check you bring me check you make a cross on the back I make a cross on the back then you go to back I go to back you stand on line stand on line You tell the fella you want the money. I tell the fella I want the money He give you $40 he giving me $40 is a very simple everybody's happy Everybody's a happy see seems very simple. I'm not happy Money's right here on the table. Give me. No, I tell you this once more. I Take money to bank you take a money to bank. They take money from me. They take your money from you They depart they give me check give you check a book I take a one check you take a one a check. All right. You're right Pay to water Pasquale spaghetti palace of $40 in no sense. They to water Pasquale's a spaghetti palace of $40 in no sense I bring you check you bring me check you make cross on the back make cross on the back Then you go to back I go to back you stand in line you tell a fella you want the money I tell a fella I want the money he give you $40 he give me $40 What's the simple? That's a what's a simple wait, I explain you once more Take a money to bank. Please Luigi. I've been to the bank twice I'm tired Please give me my money wait once more I explain I Go to the bank you go to the bank They take the money from me Excuse me, is this chase the national bank? Yes, I like it to talk to mr. Chase Mr. Chase is dead. I wait He's a mr. Chase's a son here. He has no son That's too bad. He's got a finer building here. If he's got a daughter. I'm a single Look sir, this is a bank. Do you wish to open an account here? See fine Is this your first bank account see all right now? We have the necessary papers right here It'll just take a few minutes now then what did you say your name was I don't say Well, what is it? What for you needed my name? For our records now. What is your surname first the time anybody calling me sir? Thank you. I Mean your second name you want my second the name of first, please and am I my first the name of second Precisely that's up a side down That's our system now if you don't mind sir, how much would you like to start with? I like it to start with a thousand dollars That's a good round some but I only got a hundred Just give me the money and I'll open up an account for you. You want a checking account Yes, I want to write a check. I have to pay Pasquale the rent or I have to marry Rose and then I find that's fine Here's your deposit slip and here's your checkbook now if you'll give me the money Is that necessary? Yes, all right first What do you do with this money? Why we We invest it Yes, yes, that's what we do with it Where you invest? where Why we what did you say? Where you invest you invest all this money? I ask you first Perhaps you'd better talk to our vice president Mr. Thurston, would you help me here with a problem certainly Parker? There's a person here who wants to open an account Parker. I must leave in a few minutes Can't you take care of it sir? He wants to know what we do with our money what? That's a ridiculous question. I agree with you, sir, but what do we do with our money? Invested but where where? Yes, where well get back to your cage Parker. I'll handle this myself How do you do sir, my name is Thurston I'm vice president of this bank ordinarily I don't handle matters such as this but I have always had a slogan the small Depositor of today is the big depositor of tomorrow, then I come back at tomorrow No, I I didn't mean it that way now, sir. You want to know what we do with our money. See he's important Is the first 100 the dollars I ever have? Yeah, I understand your feelings. Well, this is what we do with your 100 dollars We buy railroads telephone companies light and power public utilities street cars real estate and government bonds You satisfied seems like a lot for $100 No, no, you don't understand you see we pool all of our deposits We take your money and pay you an interest and then it works for us. We reinvest it That's how we make our money by using your money. You understand. I'm I'm a very nervous Let me now try another approach What business are you in? Antique a business. All right now you make your money by buying and selling antiques, right? See now a lot of times you can sell an antique for a high price and buy back the same antique at an auction at a cheaper price That means that your money is working for you now if you give your money to That's a good for you, but it's a better for me. I'm not putting the money in this a bank. I Got the other ideas or what to do. No just a minute, sir How dare you question my business sense for your information mr. Vasco, I've been with the Chase National Bank for ten years before that I was with a third national bank for five years before that I was with the second national bank for three years before that I was with the first national bank for two years That's my professional record. What do you say to that? It's a two-barrier. You couldn't a whole a job All to mrs. Moore the original needle used by Betsy Ross She was a born in 1752 died 18 at 36 was a wonderful a woman. Oh, mr. Varsgaard didn't see you I just to come is it all right? You're perfectly welcome in fact we're just about to auction off your statue of George Washington Good is the main reason I come now ladies and gentlemen This statue of George Washington has an unusual history the last owner gave it up at a great personal sacrifice If I don't give it up. I have to take a rose Now this statue as you all know came from Luigi Vasco's a window 21 and ought to hold a status tree to open a night in a day and no and all and it All right, who'll start with 500 all this some oxy this lady only pay me one Now ladies and gentlemen remember this is George Washington, he's been elected. He's not campaigning Come now who'll say 300? We'll say to Come ladies and gentlemen who'll start the ball rolling ten dollars ten dollars is innocent I think mr. Vasco is right Can't I hear 25 dollars for the father of our country you bet you hear a more than a 25 dollars for the father of our country You hear a hundred dollars and two dollars and eighty-seven cents Thank You mr. Vasco. You're a real American not yet. You see I only come here September 1947, so I don't get a first the papers Gentlemen you've heard this man's bid is there another bid No Mr. Vasco, thank you, but you don't have to bid that high There's only a ten dollar bid ahead of you you can buy the statue for anything over ten dollars No, my beta stands even that's not enough for George Washington if I have a more I bid more But it's a great personal sacrifice. So what so Pasquale throw me out in the street He's all right with me. So I stay out in the street with a George Washington. He's a worth it He's a great man a brave a man brave like a garabaldi He's a braver maybe he crossed the Delaware in a smaller boat December 25th 1776 He defeated the British of the Trenton next day in the morning He beat the whole British army October 19th 1781 so people are making him a first the president twice 1789 1796 Maybe you don't know how great a man he is because you're born here and you used to him like children to father Maybe is why you don't know how much is it worth to have a george of washington in your house But to me I know I have him in my store and Every morning I say good morning, mr. President And every night I say sleep will go to mr. President is a fine country america That's the way I louis jebasco bid the 100 the two dollars and 87 Eight cents. I found another penny Thank you, mr. Basco going once going twice $1,000 bid by mr. Thurston of the chase national bank money. Are there any other bids? Mrs. Wells I I don't got the money now, but I work a harder next year Maybe you take my money now and I give you a rest and an installment. Oh, I'm sorry. We must have cash A thousand once twice Three times sold to mr. Thurston. Mamma mia Mr. Thurston, where do you want the statue delivered 21 north halstead street? Mr. Thurston at samaya dress exactly That's where george washington belongs Thank you. Thank you, mr. Thurston. I pay you back here Here's a downer payment of my 100 a dollars. I'll take this money and open an account for you at the bank But the statue is yours It's a gift Is impossible in america mr. Basco Everything is possible So mama mia, I got a george washington a bank I got a 100 dollars in a bank here. So I parented to pasquale with a check. So i'm a saved from a rose set ps PS here's a checker for you for five dollars is a good check on a chase national bank Assets a 16 a million dollars a yesterday Today a 16 a million and one a hundred and a two dollars and eighty eight a second One more ps Today I see in a movie magazine Pictures of bery grable lanatona and read the haywire Pick out the witcher one of you like a for daughter-in-law and let them in all Don't laugh for mama mia because in america Everything is impossible You're a son of louis g the little immigrant Be sure to listen in again next week at this same time when the columbia broadcasting system Will deliver another letter describing the adventures of louis g basco the little immigrants Tonight's script was directed by sye howard and written by sye howard and high craft It starred j carol nash as the little immigrants with alan reed as pasquale bobby ellis is jimmy and mary jane croft as nan spaulding Music was under the direction of wilbur hatch. 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