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Columbus Day Play

Life with Luigi · October 11, 1949 · 29 min · 4,076 words

The transcript of “Columbus Day Play”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast October 11, 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 with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Sighard and starring that celebrated actor Mr. J. Carol Nash with Alan Reed as Bespacely. 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. Who has a pleasure to read you last letter, especially when you write it about who when I was a little boy?

Yes, this is true. I'm always a wise and slow one in a family. Take even a thing like America. Humber discovered it for 450 years after Columbus. Tomorrow, all Americans are going to celebrate the Columbus today.

You know, he's a lucky thing for Columbus. He's a decide to discover American of 1492. Because if he's a try to discover it today, and he's a got nobody to bring him over from Italy, he's never gonna get a past immigration department.

Yeah. Yeah. Mom, if Columbus could only see his America, how it's a look today, he could not recognize it. Everything is a change. In a state of Italy, the cabins is a building. in instead of a forest is a rots, and in instead of a wild Indians is a traffic cops.

And while so, Columbus would be surprised to see such a big interventions, like a de radio, the telephony airplane, and the greatest American intervention, the hot dog. But tomorrow is gonna be a big day for me.

All of the night school classes that they're gonna have a Columbus day exercises in a main high school. Every class is going to do something and my class is going to put on a play and I'm going to be Columbus Of course, someone not really going to sound like a Columbus because I'm a speaker English it's too good

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