Life with Luigi · September 27, 1949 · 29 min · 4,346 words
The transcript of “Stock Investments”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast September 27, 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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I invite you to enjoy life. Life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Sigh Howard, and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Carol Nash, with Alan Reed as the swelling. Luigi Vasco 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 Vasco in it. Hello, Mama. He and I are brave of this, and I'm no like to brag.
I'm only two years in America and already I'm a server for $48. That's pretty good, huh? Just a think, come on, man, yeah. If I'm gonna keep a saving up of $24 a year, at the end of a 10 years I'm gonna get $240 and I can afford a brand new 1950 car in the 1960s.
This $48 I'm gonna keep in a bank. In America, bank is a place where you keep your money and also catch your cold from air conditioning. Anyway, a couple of days ago, I was seeing ads on the paper that say, Grow with America.
Invest in your money. So I'm going to try to take my money out of the bank and the grow. I'm going to talk to the bank manager. This manager, he's going to talk to me about a saving.
And he'd say, how if I'm a leave of my $48 in a bank, it's a gonna work for me. I'm a think who would have strained your country. In the only country, man has to go to work to make a money.
Over here, he's a stay-home and a send his money out to work. But to make a long story in a little piece, I'm a man here. Oh, oh. This morning, I went to the bank and I took out my $48.
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