 The makers of Wrigley 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 Reed as the star. 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 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 letters. He writes about his adventures in America to his mama Vasco in it. Dear mama mia. His sons and all the good Americans that they move on out of their houses and they start to live in a wonderful, bigger place, sir. Department of stores. Mama mia, you should see the crowd, sir. Yesterday I went to Susan Rosebuck to buy a two-center washer for my sink, which is a leaking. Five times I must start off to the hardware department. And five times the crowd is pushing me back to the lady's house, of course. But finally I'm gonna come home with a two-center washer for the sink, for which the clerk is a gift to wrap the tidal with a pink ribbon and a stamp to dawn up and up before a Christmas. So why does it turn out the nice anyway? This a Christmas, even if my sink is gonna be surprised with a present. Mama mia, yesterday I must send to you, you're a Christmas present, a bread toaster. This is a wonderful American invention, but it's the one thing I'm gonna warn you about. Don't try to stuff the whole of bread in at one time. Put in just one slice of bread, and don't do nothing until you see the smoker come out. Then you take out the bread, scrape off the black part beneath it. This is a taste almost as good as a plain bread that's a stale. But at a Christmas time, everybody has got a list with their friends in their names on it. I'm gonna get the minor two. Everybody's name is on it, except my countryman Pasquale, because for him I'm gonna get something extra special. All year long I'm gonna put away a dollar a weekend of my banks at Christmas and fund it, and now I'm gonna get a fifty dollars, just for this, a big surprise for Pasquale. He's a wonderful surprise, and it's such a big secret, I'm gonna hate even a teller myself. But you and me can tell them I'm Maria. You see, everybody, is they get to somebody, they gotta, oh wait, the Pasquale's are coming to my store, now I'm gonna write to you later. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi, hello, hello. Hello, Pasquale. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you too, little banana nose. Luigi, I know you're short of money, so don't get me nothing, you can't pay out to the twelve easy installments. Hello, Pasquale. Pasquale, are you finished with your Christmas shopping yet? Luigi, how would you like to see television every night the next year? No, no, Pasquale, you shouldn't. Don't worry, I didn't. Huh? Luigi, I'm only teasing. I'm gonna buy you a big, beautiful television set. Oh, Pasquale, how wonderful. And I'm not gonna get you just a plain little ten-inch screen and all. Well, this is gonna have a big twenty-inch screen. It's gonna keep out all the flies. Oh, thank you, thank you, Pasquale. Also, with this set it's gonna have a hundred-foot electric cord. Yeah, but Pasquale, I'm gonna get a little room. I'm gonna donate a hundred-foot electric cord to reach the socket. I forgot to tell you something, little cabbage person. You're gonna plug in the cord into your store, but the television is set, it's gonna play into my daughter Rosa's room. Pasquale, you mean every time I'm gonna watch my television set, I'm gonna do to with your daughter? That's right, you lucky pups, you. Pasquale, if you don't mind, I'm ready to listen to my radio. That's not it, don't you think it's enough for the sea on a television? Yeah, sure, Pasquale, but with your daughter Rosa in the room, who's gonna be able to see it? Luigi, will you stop with a fat talk? So what if my rose is the way to 150 pounds? It's not as so big as all the way you look at it. Pasquale, if you don't mind, I'm rather not to look. Luigi, why don't you think about it, it'd be fair. Remember, there's two sides to everything. Two sides of roses, you got more sides than a four-way cul-de-tablet. Luigi, you make me so mad, reminding me after you give me my Christmas oppressin', I should have never speak to you again. All right, Pasquale, now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go to my night school. All right, go, Luigi. Now remember, don't spend any money on me for Christmas. My waist is a 46, my neck size is 19. Also, I'm alike at the play cards. I could use a tray, an automatic shuffling, two plastic decks. That's for when I play canazza. All right, Pasquale, goodbye, I'm gonna see you later. Goodbye. A little bit of pumpkin heavy. Well, he's gonna get the money to buy the good presents anyway. He's always got to come up to me for money. I'm his private little marshal of plan. Hey, what's this, he's left behind. A little envelope. I'ma know like at the peak, over once a peak on a million. Hey, what's this, 50 dollars? Oh, he's gonna do something behind my back. Let's see what is right on this paper. Christmas elast. Well, my name must be on the top. Mrs. Baldwin. Schultz, Horowitz, Olsen. He must be saving me for the last. A male man? Rosa, window cleaner? Officer Flanagan and Tommy the newsboy? Jake to the pickle, a man? He's left to me out. 50 dollars, he's a hit away from me, and he's left to me out. Me, he's a guardian in America. When he's come here from Italy, I give him his first pair of shoes, his first haircut, his first comic book. And when he's a knocker to read it, I help them out. I've got a somebody to read it to. No president for Pascuali, huh? Well, I'm gonna show him this list. And this money, I ain't gonna keep, but I just gonna hold it for him till Christmas. Christmas of 1999. All right class, quiet please, after all the roll. Mr. Lasko? Here. Mr. Howard? Mr. Olsen? Mr. Schultz? Mr. Schultz, are you supposed to be Santa Claus? That's what my wife's relatives think. Come on, Danza, come on, Danza. Mr. Schultz, enough of that, and stop cracking your belt. All right, down, hickok. Smile, Miss Spaulding. It's just a Christmas spirit. Here, here's a present I bought for you. Some voodoo perfume. Oh, thank you, Mr. Schultz. Miss Spaulding, I brought you something, too. Here's my gift to Miss Spaulding. I brought you something, also. What a bunch of copycats. Well, class, this is wonderful. I can't find the words. Who cares? Just so long as you don't find the price tags. Hey, Schultz, a heart of which starts in here. I brought you some little things, too. Thank you, Luigi. Thank you very much. Well, should I do it to him now? Sure, go ahead. Luigi, we all got together yesterday after class, and, well, we all talked about you and what a nice little fellow you were. But we shipped in, and here's your Christmas present, and that's all. Merry Christmas. Oh, oh, friends, who had a wonderful present. This is the most beautiful fountain of pen I've ever owned. This is the only fountain of pen I've ever owned. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Look, a gold top and a beautiful inner side. Luigi, go ahead. Read the inscription that we wrote you on the pen. Yeah, all of it, yeah, and it comes straight from the heart. All right, I'm ready. 14 carats of gold filled. Luigi, you are reading the point. Here are the cap, you read. Oh, oh, with the Sincere Friendship Christmas in 1950. Oh, class, that's beautiful. I can't think of any other words that you could have added. More words? See, if we added any more words, you'd have ended up with two fountain pens. Luigi, we're glad you liked it. It was just a slight return for the present you got us. No, Luigi, what did you get for Pascuali? Well, for Pascuali, I'm getting something extra special. You see, he's the one who's brought me to this country. This wonderful country, America. And you see, well, he's a watcher of me all the time, so I'm getting him a big surprise. A wallet? Of what? A necktie. A noose? No, no, no, no, class, none of those things. It's a surprise and a... Give us a hint, then. Well, is it something that Pascuali not gonna touch, smell, or feel? He's not gonna keep it, but once he's got it, he's not gonna exchange it. Stop, Luigi, you're getting us all for shimmel. Come on, Luigi, you've got our curiosity all around. Why are you gonna give Pascuali? Well, yesterday I went to the bank, took out the money, and I'ma send it to myself. What am I gonna get up to, Pascuali? That's the difference. Something that nobody has ever gave anybody before. Aha, so you're getting him a shrunken mummy head, huh? Mr. Schultz, please stop interrupting and let Mr. Basko finish. Well, anyway, I'ma take the money, and I'ma... I'ma... I'ma money it. Something wrong, Mr. Basko? What? Hey, Pascuali's a Christmas of money. It's a missin', I'ma lost it. Luigi, wait, wait. First look in all your pockets. And try to think where you might have left it. No, no, no, I'ma left it in our place. I'ma lost it. That's terrible. Please, please, Mr. Schultz, and you excuse me. I'ma gotta go look for it, sir. Certainly, Mr. Basko. Luigi, don't take it so hard. Schmei, let only money. Though you lousy, what are you going to do? Chomp off the branch? How much money did you lose? Fifty dollars. Fifty dollars? Luigi, move over, and I'll chomp off with you. One suggestion that'll add to your family's Christmas fun and enjoyment. 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All night long I'm looking the streets with my searchlight, I'm gonna find the fifty dollars, and I'm gonna hide a fight with the two people in a parked car. Also into my house I'm gonna look all over under my rug, in the flower pot in the chandelier, and all I'm gonna find is a dust of two flowers and a lamp that's in no work. Also I'm gonna push the way all the furnaces, I'm gonna push the swept up all the floors, the dust under the couch and the bed. I'm gonna find the money, Mamma Mia, but today I'm gonna get the cleanest house or room in Chicago. Mamma Mia, I'm gonna get the hard to look at the Pasquale, right now I'm assume it's through my window, and he's talking to Ross and he's very mad. Yeah, I'm gonna just imagine what he's saying to her about the meeting. Ross, stop eating for a minute, I wanna talk to you. Ross, who's the best friend that Luigi's ever had? You, Papa. Yes, and who's the treated in better, fairer than anybody else in the country? You, Papa. Yes, and who's the turned out to be a rotten, ungrateful jackass? You, Papa. Yes. But this, I send you to school, can't you say nothing but you, Papa? Go back to you, Papa. Ross, if from now on are we true to Luigi, don't ever associate with him, don't go near him, and don't ever let me see you thinking about him. Can't I marry you, Papa? Not even that. Ross, if he was to come back to you, what is the hands and knees, what would you say to him? Luigi, you wanna play piggyball? I'm so mad at him, he's never gonna get him back as a $50. Some Christmas, the last days, I had presents for everybody, even a jake and a pickler man. But if for me, nothing. It's not the presents so much. I wouldn't have cared if he was to give me a cheaper $0.99 a necktie. The same one I gave to him the last year. Oh, I'm so mad at him, I gotta cut him out of my will. Papa, you got a will? I gotta make one, just so I could have cut him out. About you. Now, it's impossible. I've been a hintin' since the Thanksgiving. God, huh? Ross, mind the stall, I'm gonna talk you with that little pup squeaky. I gotta find out why he's left me out of his Christmas list. He'd better have a good reason or else I'm gonna break his neck. Hello, Luigi. Hello, Busquely. Merry Christmas. That all depends. What are you looking so sad about? You did something you sorry for, maybe? Busquely, I'm a lost little white envelope. Maybe you was a funder? Absolutely not that I could approve it with a six of witnesses. I'm a believer, you're Busquely. Uh, Luigi. What? You, uh, didn't forget anything lately, huh? Forget it? Yeah, I see you know. It was a season and now for Santa Claus, some people have been generous, filled the stockings over the fireplace. Busquely, I'm sorry, but... Don't about me, no buts. Luigi, all year long you've been crying about that, a broken down old radio you got that's always a blow to the tubes. So yesterday I went out to the body or something. Uh, a new radio? No, three new tubes. That wasn't gonna be your present, including a few other things I was gonna get you. But now you couldn't forget them. Busquely, Busquely, please listen. After all, a fellow who's a forget, I'm alive. Yeah, but at Busquely, I'm... I'm... Hey, I didn't forget you. Huh? You got something familiar, Luigi? You're saving for a surprise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Busquely. Yeah, here's your present and a Merry Christmas. Oh, Luigi, what a beautiful fountain of pain. Yeah. Look, a gold cap, 14 carats of point. Oh, it's the right now, isn't it? Yeah. With a sincere friendship, Christmas of 1950. Luigi, I gotta apologize. How do you want it all? It's all right, Busquely. As long as you're happy now. Luigi, I can't tell you how happy I am, but now you did me a favor. I gotta do you a little favor. Busquely, please, no roses. No, it's not the roses, it's something else. Luigi, when you left the stall yesterday, I was a stay there and suddenly... Luigi, my fellow boob. Oh, precious. Oh, my, Luigi, a merry Christmas to everybody, even you, Busquely. Merry Christmas, Mr. Bellicottas and the man. Luigi, I never got the chance to really thank you for that little wallet you gave me for a present. I'd say I should say you's in a good health. I love that little secret compartment inside where you can hide some money, you know. You know, that's really very tricky. It took my wife ten minutes to find it. Oh, smile, everybody. Be like me, always laughing. My rheumatism is killing me. Anyway, Luigi, thanks for the wallet. It's too bad that you didn't find your money. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure. I want to talk to you. No, just a second, Luigi. Busquely, it's too bad that Luigi couldn't get your present this year. No. What are you talking about? Luigi would have never forgotten the best of presents. No, sure. Busquely, I was just... No, sure. Luigi has given this to me. It's a very expensive present. He will end up at the very same fountain. The fountain pens the class gave you, Luigi. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sir. I'm like so much. I'm going out and I got the same wonderful busquely. Uh-huh. And where's yours, Luigi? Well, mine is, uh... Well, uh... Well, what do you see, sir? I'm away home from school. I'm lost in mine. Oh, you did, huh? Then tell me this, Luigi. How could you buy busquely a fountain pen if you lost the $50? Luigi, you mean that you couldn't have bought me a present when you lost the money, so you gave me the fountain and pen the classes it gave you? Merry Christmas, Mr. Busquely. Luigi. Luigi, why didn't you tell him why you didn't give him a present? Busquely, do you know that this little wiener schnitzel has been saving a dollar a week from his lunches and coffers just so he could prepare a big surprise for you? Luigi, you were just going to spend all the $50 out of me? Well, what could you buy? A suit, a coat, shoes, a dow to pay for that automobile? No, no, Busquely. It wasn't nothing like it. That was... It wasn't nothing that you could wear or eat or play with. It was, uh... Well, uh... It was something for the heart. And what else, already? To me... To me, Christmas is not just a given of things. Christmas is a for the spirit. Peace, sonnet, goodwill toward the man. And, uh, Busquely, if what I was going to give you would have made you feel that way, that would have been a really Christmas present. Luigi, where is the present? Maybe if you were just suddenly to find the money you could have still bought. No, no, Busquely. It is not in the store. You see, I... Well, I was a went to the church and I said to Father Connie, Father Connie, I'm gonna be glad to give it to church. $50 if on a Christmas night, your little boy's a choir with the beautiful voices. Was it to come and sing outside of Pasquale's restaurant? Little boy's a choir? Yes. Ah, Luigi, only you could think of a thing like that. Yeah, but... Well, what's the use? I wasn't supposed to be there this morning, but I didn't have the money. I'm sorry, Busquely, I'm... Hey, Busquely, where you going? I've got to kill myself. What? Luigi, I'm the worst of rats. I have a crawl and a face to research. You see, I was the one that found the... Hey, Luigi, what's that? Hey, Busquely, that's... that's the little boy's a choir. Yeah, there was... Hey, there was a come anyway. And there's a Father Connie. Open the doors, let's hear. Yeah, yeah, listen. Maria, Gratia Plena... It was a beautiful night. Yeah, but... But I'm not expecting you to come. I'm gonna bring you the money. Luigi, the church never asks for money in advance. In advance? But Father, I'm gonna go to nothing. You see, I was lost... Luigi, look, under the table. What the envelope? Hey, that's looking like my envelope. Wait a minute. I'm gonna look inside. Yeah, yeah, there's the money inside. Yeah, my money. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. You see, Luigi, you found your money after all. Yeah, but... But Father, how is it possible? It was only 50 in the envelope and now it's 100. Luigi, it's a Christmas of time. A miracle can happen. Yeah. Yeah, Busquely. But I'm... I'm a wonder who's made the miracle. Mommy, and Busquely got his Christmas present after all. And I'm gonna finish this letter to you with my brand new fountain of pen. Busquely is the one who writes some extra words on it like, you best friend of Busquely and, well, everybody shoots his own letter. So now it's a pen and a pencil set. Mommy, maybe you're thinking it to yourself what my present was meant to to Busquely. Well, I'm gonna tell you. After everybody has gone away, the father, the choir, Schultz, everybody. Have a look at the empty envelope and I'm excited to Busquely. Busquely, you made the miracle. And Busquely is excited to me. No, Luigi. You did that. It's a type of miracle to make a miracle. Merry Christmas, mommy. The makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum hope you've enjoyed tonight's Christmas episode of Life with Luigi. And they'd like to remind you that with Christmas just ahead, you want to have an extra supply of Wrigley's Spearman Gum in your house. A few colorful packages of Wrigley's Spearman to hang in your Christmas tree, some to put in the children's stockings and some to pass around before and after those hearty holiday meals. Remember, Wrigley's Spearman Gum is an ideal treat to top off a meal because chewing Wrigley's Spearman aids digestion, sweetens the breath and freshens the taste. So when you're doing your final Christmas shopping week, include a supply of healthful, delicious Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum. Wrigley's Spearman will add to your family's fun and enjoyment during the holidays. The makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi Basko writes another letter to his mama Basko in Italy. Life with Luigi is a Psy Howard production and is directed by Mr. Howard. Mac Benhoff writes the script with Lou Dermott. J. Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Basko with Alan Reed as Pasquale Jody Gilbert as Rosa Hobbs Conrad as Schultz Mary Schiff as Miss Balding Joe Forte as Horowitz and Ten Feeters as Olson and featuring the Robert Mitchell Fireball. Music is under the direction of Love Russell. Bob Stevenson speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.