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The Raffle

Life with Luigi · March 13, 1949 · 29 min · 4,083 words

The transcript of “The Raffle”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast March 13, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Life with Luigi plays Life with Luigi free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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to enjoy life, life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Sigh Howard and starring that celebrated actor Mr. J. Caron Ash with Alan Reid as the quality. A year ago in Luigi Basko left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would write and tell her about his adventures.

So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Basko in Italy. I'm in the mirror. In your last letter, you write I should tell you more about this big city of Chicago. Well, first of all, Chicago is called the Windy City.

It's hard for me to describe how windy it is. But yesterday, I'm reading the nose of paper. That on a Michigan Avenue, a 500-pounder safer was a blown open. Mummy-a-must have been a summer wind.

I'm an afternoon I exactly how many millions of people is in it's the greatest city but same an user paper is say in Chicago is a baby born every minute mama me that's a funny way of a talent time Chicago Street they're very busy mama me a full of a street the cars are butts is an attack fee all the so they

I got to what is it called? The subway. This is a big hall in the ground. That's the way the people can arrive and also hide themselves from the street, the cars, the buses and the taxi.

It's true Chicago is a wonderful city. What do you know? Sometimes I'm a philoncim for you. And I'm a little town, Castellamare. It's more than a year that I'm not to see you Mamamier. And I'm to Margarita and Uncle Pietro and he's a goat.

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