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The Registered Letter

Life with Luigi · July 10, 1949 · 29 min · 3,948 words

The transcript of “The Registered Letter”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast July 10, 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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We invite you to enjoy life. Life with Luigi, a new comedy show of free is it by Sigh Howard and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Carol Nash with Alan Reed as Bob Wall-A. When Luigi Basko left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would write and tell her about his adventure.

So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Basko in Italy. Dear Mamma Mia! You know how in the older country some places have electricity? Where a he and America is different. Everything is run by electricity.

They've got electric cars, electric fans, electric heaps, electric blankets. They even have electric chairs. But this must be very expensive because I never see it and nobody is out. Another great thing is the television.

Television is a wonderful and new invention of a show and all the moving of pictures. It's a funny thing about American people. Why don't they enjoy themselves? They like to eat. They go to baseball again? They must eat the peanut.

They go to the movies? They must eat the popcorn? Had they got to see television? They must drink a beer. Mom, let me have a stop, I'm making a pin up, the popcorn is in a beer, America's gonna have no place to go but a Turkish bath.

But, Mom, let me have, today's a bad day for me, because this morning when I open up a store, under the door, I find a letter. First, I think maybe any side is a cash, because on the outside it's a register.

Then I open up and in the side as I say, a violation of a fire department. Also, it's a lot of bigger words I don't understand. So I think I go to my night school of class and ask you my teacher Mrs. Pong.

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