What happens
Luigi Vasco, a newcomer to America who has saved $48, decides to invest his savings after reading newspaper advertisements urging people to grow with America. Advised by his friend Mr. Basko and his teacher Miss Spaulding, he buys stock in a telephone company, while his neighbor Pasquale offers his own sharp, skeptical opinions about the stock market. Luigi writes to his mother in Italy to describe his adventures in Chicago. The episode is part of the Life with Luigi comedy series, which was created by Cy Howard and starred J. Carrol Naish with Alan Reed as Pasquale. It aired on September 27, 1949.
Chicago, 1949
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Mr. Basko, Pasquale, Miss Spaulding, Mr. Wentworth, Rosa, Mama Vasco
Listen for: Luigi's letters to his mother and his comic misunderstandings of the stock market, the telephone company and the stockholders' meeting
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.