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I'm a notice about the American. He's a like to join a lot of clubs Yeah, they got a mason's a club a shrine is else a moose is a rotarians alliance Even I got a kennel a club, but it's a one a strict rule You don't get in and unless you're a dog I don't think all the clubs they only for the bigger people a mama me America's a got what's it called Boy Scouts Here the young boy is a learn how to cross all ladies in the street and how to tie himself up in a not But me I'm like all Americans. I'm also belong to the antique deal Association and I'm a feel a very proud there because they're taking me in this week I'm a feel all excited because in a couple of days that they're gonna run a bigger dance And today I'm supposed to get to my tickets in a mail. Oh, excuse me. I'm me. I see Mr. Vasco, yes, yes, I'm Mr. Crawford from the antique dealers association I'm a belong at that too. Mr. Vasco. I'm on the entertainment committee I mean you mean association is a send you down adjusted to entertain to me No, it's about your dance tickets. I was supposed to mail them and since I was passing by your neighborhood I thought I'd drop them off personally. Here you are one for you and one for your wife What the wife? Oh, I didn't know you were single. That's all right as long as I'm a no Anyway, mr. Vasco be sure to be there or expecting some mighty important people there our past presidents with a spoon tilling gas with a bottom Then he's a spoon of winter gas than a winter bottom No with a spoon tilling gas than with a bottom. They're all big American names Yeah, so American. I'm a can even a pronouncing them Well, I'll see you at the dance. Hey, let's go My one extra ticket wonder who I'm gonna go with with me Maybe some again Oh Hey, Louis, Joe was not a fancy look at a fellow just walked out of the store the exterminator No, but what he's a from my antique dealer association my antique dealer association. That's right. So what that's a nothing That's a just to the AS a PCA for data furniture Don't make a fun of my sociations are really important American club. Oh stop You would have joined any American a club. That's a willing to take you including the YWCA No, who joined the auto club even though he ain't got a car whatever was it because I'm oh go away Go away. Listen, you would have joined the Alcatraz if they would have changed their name to the American Crooks Association The way just since I'm part of you from Italy you become an assault American you make a George Washington look like a foreigner Don't don't please it don't make a funner from Washington. I'm not and the worst thing you ever did was a join-up with this antique Dealer association. What are this fellow one anyway? Well, he's gonna give me two tickets for a big dancer this week Two tickets, I Don't get me wrong Luigi. I ain't against all the clubs That's why I'm not taking a rose Who's asking you what makes you think I'm gonna get down on my hands and knees and beg you to take my daughter to that old dance Don't you give me credit for some proudness? I'm a spoker too quick. That's a better Luigi, please thank a rose Maybe some other dancer not to disappoint because it's going to be lots of big Americans at this event So what the rose is the biggest American I believe Please please try understanding. I understand a plenty rose ain't a good enough for you high class of friends Who thinks they're gonna be there anyway Rockefeller Morgan? She's a robuck They're gonna have a some big American of people important names are like a withers a spoon of telling in a gas in a win There's a bottom. All right All right, take a rose so long. I'm gonna change your her name to taff the Hartley Well, I'm I didn't expect that you would understand it. I understand only one thing that you became a bigger snoop No, but what's that? That's a snob and a boob. That's why But excuse me now Pascal, I'm gonna go to my night to school go go Let's see if you can find some American born a ritzy pitzy girl is gonna go with a green on a boob like you Well, don't worry about me by quality. I'm gonna find never you want to be satisfied unless you can dig up A Betsy Ross for a dance and a partner So you gotta get a girl for the dance Lovici did you think about Rosa? Yeah, and I'm still I gotta get a girl Wait, I got just a girl for you college graduate American born everything. Oh good. Yes. Yeah. No, no wait No, she wouldn't be so good for you. Why not her husband is the cello time I Smile to be she will get your girl even if I got to put on some blonde curls and go along with you Clats I was teaching good evening class Well, let's see how smart we are today I assigned you the chapter on the amendments to the federal Constitution Who can tell us how many amendments there are mr. Horowitz? Well, I got to figure out my system the Constitution was 1789 I drop off the 8 to 9 take the 17 which is my nephew Seymour's age add on his sister Shirley's age Which is six now get 23. So there is 23 amendments to the Constitution wrong It's folding you're gonna tell me how old Seymour is Stick around Horowitz if they ever limit the president to two terms and Hawaii becomes a state your answers gonna be perfect Well, I suppose we take a piece meal what were the first ten amendments called mr. Olsen the bill of rights Now tell us what the 13th amendment is about the 13th amendment abolished slavery mr. Horowitz the 16th amendment income taxes were Authorized mr. Basko the 19th amendment. Huh, mr. Olsen tell him woman suffering. That's my trouble, mr. Boling what I'm got the woman a suffered in Basko what on earth are you talking about? I'm a suffer because I'm not gonna find the woman. I don't listen to him Mr. Boling. He's just a for shimmered bachelor Luigi means for his antique dealers dance this week. He needs a girl. Yeah, I'm gonna find some some a nice American a girl some Why are you staring at me? Last week a very nice young girl moved into my building. I saw her name in the letterbox chain brown Oh, it's a wine the final wonderful American name. What a good looker. Yeah, but it should say hi, you know, she's a gonna Well, I mean, I mean, who's it gonna ask her don't be bashful Luigi You just go right up to and say pardon me miss Brown, but don't I know you from someplace from a where? Landy city, maybe no, I'm I'm I never was there St. Louis. I'm never was it there neither. I'll we just think of someplace where you was and put hair there I Should some I'm a no got to the nerve. All right, I do it for you. You're gonna ask it for me. Yeah for you Luigi I'm gonna be Cyrano the Schultz a rock Reggie, this is Cyrano Listen at all settled. I got you chain brown. Oh, my mommy. Oh, sure something could kiss you. Please save that for the girl I Should say she nice Luigi if I was 20 years younger, I will be calling you from Niagara Falls now Sure, sir. Hey, but but are you sure she's a she's gonna go with me positive. I gave you a great big buildup Buildup. Yeah, sure. Don't disappoint her Luigi. Yeah, but not sure. So you didn't tell her no lies about How good What did you say about to me shows nothing only that you are a combination of Gregory Peck on Jimmy Stewart with a mad dash of Before we return to life with Luigi, here's a suggestion that will help carry you through a busy strenuous day feeling more relaxed and Satisfied from time to time, especially when your tents or under pressure to a stick of wriggly spearmint 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 Wriggly spearmint 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 spearmint gum millions find it helpful and you will too Now let's turn to page two of Luigi Basco's letter to his mother in Italy Tonight is the big dance from my association and it shows you they got me a really nice American a girl Jane a brand who I'm gonna soon. They're gonna meet them. I'm so nervous I'm I'm wonder what I'm gonna do to make impression because maybe she's gonna be disappointed in me. Oh Luigi, why don't you take a rosa she can dance a cat she's got a two feet ain't she? Let's call it when you dance with Rossi. You're gonna sweat. She's I got a six a feet Luigi adds it because of you always are making the same mistake you try to lead the rosa instead of following her But it was calling with the rossa. You don't leave it. You just a follow and you pray for the armistice It's like I'm already got a girl a pascale nice American a girl. Her name is a Jane a brown. What? You two face a double-time and a no-goody Please stop a step you you making a bigger thing or a little thing please don't teach me the father-in-law business All right to go go on and make a fool of yourself. Just look out of you What what her jacket with a belt in the back and that bunch of wild curly hair Nobody's gonna laugh on me. Pascale. I'm going out right now for no shooting a haircut Good now. Look if you want to make a big impression to make sure you get the latest American a haircut What's it is a Pascale the butch? I Surreal American a haircut show Everybody in America is a garden if you don't blame me see that a new picture my six convicts Yeah, but if it's got a way, where am I gonna get this a butcher haircut in a butcher shop where else? That's probably I'm gonna get in the title you're making a fun in it And I'm gonna gonna have to buy a good a new shooter for myself. We'll go by Yes, sir, can I help you yes, I'm I'm I like to buy a new suit Something is gonna look a nice of American a girl certainly one or two pairs of pants Huh? Would you like a suit with two pairs of pants? You think I'm gonna be too warm What do you mean too warm? I'm gonna use the weather no one a pair. Thank you. Oh Very Now here on this rack we have some of our finest suits just imported from England how much they cost only a hundred and fifty dollars There's a way you keep an American a suit Well here on this rack now. How do you like this tweet? No, no, thanks this herringbone perhaps This what? Herringbone One the fuller country where they make a suit from a little herring You're making it a wonderful afternoon for me Here's a nice number sir. It's going like hotcakes. Would you like to try on the jacket? All right, sir No, no, no, no, no take off your jacket first That's a necessary Yes, yes, but wait a way to wait how much of this is the cost only 8950 and believe me. It's a steal I'm a shawty. I'm a no-cut afford even to steal it You're delightful sir, just How much are you prepared to spend on a suit? 20 20 Dollars what do you think I'm in a sense? Sure, that's all how follow me Careful going down the seller steps, please Is it so that good down here? Yeah, well frankly you're the first customer We've had down here since we ran our closing business sale ten years ago All right, this is it anything you see on the rack twenty dollars. They all look a nice This one has got a beautiful a weaver. What the color is it? You wait a minute. I'll light a match Beautiful weave that's a spider web Hey, look a mr. Please. I'm gonna have a suit of a bigger than sit my antique association Is it gonna get the for tomorrow night, huh? And I'm gonna look good because It's a for some a nice American a girl that that I'm gonna ever met this up So what do you think I'm a sure to do? Stay home tomorrow and listen to the radio But I'm gonna get a suit. Oh wait, wait, what have we here here's something that might be good a blue surge Size 38 it should fit you the 38 Would this would be good for the party you think my friend blue surges always in good taste at formal affairs I had an uncle who was buried in one last month Number Part of my apartment twenty one twenty. That's it. Jenna Brown. I'm so nervous. I think of my stomach is it gonna fall out Well, I'll pick up your cottage Luigi ring a bell and say hello to the American a girlfriend Hello Won't you come in? Huh? You are Luigi Bosco. Yes, Anna And are you you mailboxes inside jenna brown? Oh, my name is Janice Brogan, but it's easier for a mailman Jane Brown here, but But the buddy buddy buddy you coming from the other side. Oh, that's right. Same side as you come from Yeah, but I've been here longer How long have you been here three years or how long you've been here ten months ten months and you still a speaker with an accent You take me to the dance mr. Bosco. Well, yeah, yeah, sure. I'm a That is sure some American a girl. I'm more American than she is Bosco As honest if you don't mind I'm gonna call you jenny brown it sure I'd like you to meet some of our oldest members now This is mr. Witherspoon. Oh you basco. Oh, I'm pretty good If it's the last the week I'm had a little cold, but this is mr. Telling gas How are you basco? Pretty good. And it last week. I'm having a little cold and this is our last club president, mr Wait about how are you mr. Basco? Well, am I called over here? Mommy, I could catch a pneumonia. Nobody's are gonna listen Charming young lady with you basco. My name is my excuse me friends I'm I'm I'm gonna see mr. Crawford. He's over then. I see he's away back to me. I'll wait here, Luigi I'm glad you could make it. Are you having fun? Well, did you bring a girl? Yeah, but but I'm a left-out with a telling a spawner went the gas than a call about them I'm in with you. Will you please be a doll and hold my earring it fell off again. All right, dear Oh, well, mr. Basco meet my daughter Doris charmed. I'm sure charmed and I'm a positive Doris has a week off from her study at tonight. So what happened? I close it down a unite school Oh, Doris is a Wellesley girl. Yeah, I'm thinking she's a look of very well silly, too As a matter of fact, I stole a week's vacation. Oh come now, mr. Basco Don't look at me so disapprovingly. Haven't you ever cribbed cribbed? Oh, sure until I was a five then I slept on a bed Door the continental type of foreign origin Are you from France or Spain or Italy perhaps? Well, I could listen forever to a continental accident So romantic and different are you from Spain? I adore that mommy you talk a whole English language, you know when it's time That's my little girl a basket. Don't leave before 10 o'clock I'm going to present a gold watch to Tillingass for having found the most interesting antique of the year. That's a nice What she found some metal that once belonged to General Koskiusko Shall we dance mr. Basco? Maybe later. Oh, come on now. You don't want to be a wallflower. Do you want a flower? Slang basco a wallflower is someone who doesn't dance at a party. Mommy. I think Americans He's left them all words out to the dictionary than they put in That girl waving to you from the corner of the room I never shall be further in my life. Come on. I thought we'd then see Then daddy bought me a Cadillac for my birthday. Oh, it was adorable and Tommy borrowed it and smashed it to pieces We had an awful time with the insurance company and mr. Basco. Am I boring you? Oh I'm gonna listen to you all night. Well, anyway, this year I decided I might go out for the tennis team You should see my back. Mommy. Don't tell me you got another hand on the back of you I can see you've never been on the court. I only want to one of them. I got a ticket for jaywalking You can come over some Saturday I can give my Cadillac a rest and we can drive to the courts and yours. Do you have a caddy? I asked the buddy you mean a kitty I mean a caddy kitty caddy mine. I had a nine of babies the last the week Right everybody attention ladies and gentlemen, please quiet Will you please be seated? Luigi, I'm looking for you. All right Hello Jenna. No, come on over here sit down and please a fellow members We come now to the high point of the evening's entertainment the presentation of the prize watch to the member who discovered the most interesting Antique of the year this year the gold watch goes to one of our most revered members and here he is after telling us Thank you fellow members. This is a great honor My discovery was this authentic metal which was worn by General Koski Oscoe during his famous war campaigns Look at it. Definitely circa 1750 and in remarkably rare conditions Frankly, I haven't prepared very much on Mr. Koski Oscoe. Thaddeus. I believe his first name was Excuse me, sir. Yes. The name is Is it gonna make a trouble? Yes, young lady in Poland. We say his name But in America Thaddeus Koski Oscoe is fine. Jenna Jenna, please. Please. Thank you young lady Thaddeus is Kosciuszko. How's that? Very good. You say it like you got a sneeze and you got it I'm a man. I'm not they all are laughing at it. Well, as I was saying I'm afraid I'm somewhat of a disappointment in as much as I Didn't study much much on Mr. Kosciuszko. Good for you. Jenna, Jenna, please. Perhaps the young lady can tell us something I shall be very happy to We polled out proud of Kosciuszko. We regard him as our Thomas Jefferson He volunteered in your American Revolution and General Washington made him his chief officer Go on, please. Well, your Congress gave him special thanks. Also the privilege of American citizenship Also the annual pension Kosciuszko never forgot America the rest of his life till he died 1817 he always fight very hard to make Poland free. Thank you very much young lady Naturally, you're Polish. I am Polish soon to be American like General Kosciuszko and my friend Who brought me Mr. Luigi Basco. Oh, that's very very nice. I'm a very happy. I'm a brought her here. Fine. What's her name? Her name is Anna Shibrovan. Luigi We say good night here in the hallway. All right Yeah, but but Jen, I'm I'm all your big apology Why Luigi? Well, because I'm acting terrible all night Jen, only reason I'm gonna talk you out was Schultz is told me you was American And I I owe you a big apology to Luigi. Here you go Schultz told me you were born in Boston You meant you've been you was expected to some American fellow. I think so Then I guess Guess it was a disappointment, huh? At first, maybe You know, I was a very stupid After all all Americans that come over from my side only some a little before the others Luigi Yes, yeah, she'll be a loop. Yeah What's a that in Polish? I like you Jane Yes, Luigi. Yeah, I'm And this means in English at the means in English say good night now Time of the dance I'm a lot of nicer people Who wonderful a girl and I'm found out what the one thing I'm a couldn't believe is it true But I'm a found out really Something I happen at ten years in a Chicago Crawford Avenue was a change to Pulaski Street In honor of another great Polish general who was a with the cash us go Mama me who knows it and maybe some of that you're gonna come to Chicago I'm gonna take you down a market is straight, but then it's gonna be changed and maybe to Baskov Boulevard The makers of Wrigley experiment chewing gum Hope you enjoyed tonight's episode of life with Luigi and they want to remind you that chewing Wrigley Spearmint gum is the easy enjoyable way to sweeten your breath and help keep your mouth feeling fresh and clean There's lots of lively full-bodied real spearmint flavor and Wrigley spearmint chewing gum And you can chew and enjoy a stick of Wrigley's as long as you like any time any place So do as millions of people do keep a package of Wrigley's spearmint chewing gum with you all the time And whenever you want to taste treat or you want to freshen your mouth chew a stick Remember Wrigley's spearmint gum gives you chewing enjoyment plus refreshing long-lasting flavor And it costs so little you can enjoy it often every day. That's Wrigley's spearmint healthful refreshing delicious The makers of Wrigley's spearmint chewing gum invite you to be sure to listen next week at the same time when Luigi Basko writes another letter to his mama Basko in Italy life with Luigi is a Psy Howard production Pat Burton is associate producer the script is written by Mac Benhoff and Lou Derman and directed by mr. Benhoff Jay Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Basko and Alan Reed as Pasquale Mary Schiff is Miss Faulding Joe Forte has borrowed with Ken Peters as Olson and Hans Connery as Joe Music under the direction of Lud Bluskin. This is Charles Land. This is CBS Radio Network