 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the famous play and novels by rose franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself have a coke and now Claudia That's a pretty nice fire you made this evening mrs. Norton Hey, hey, what are you doing over there? Oh? Darling darling Bobby's ripping all the knees out of all his britches She'd stop creeping around so much Your chair up when he starts walking you'll be darning his socks. Well, that's something to look forward to There's one advantage with women stockings once they tear they're gone. No extravagant little woman aren't you just lazy? What are you walking around looking for how can you tell I'm looking for something? Just the way you look not aimless Got him. Got him. I was looking for my matches. Well, I just hope you've got him I strewed them all over the living room in every nook and cranny you will find matches the perfect wife me well No, I'm all subtle good What would you do all day? Perfect wife told you I strewed matches. You must be exhausted. I am What'd you do all day? Nothing special Sounds to me as if it was a pretty good day from the way you sound well matter of fact. It was What was everything? David don't tease me. Tell me come on. Oh my aren't we curious listen now Let's get one thing straight right here only one thing firstly I happen to know you're positively bursting to tell me all about what happened today Yes, I'm just bursting bursting been bursting ever since you came into this house I have you've been walking around you've been Tentative and vague you've been starting sentences and not finishing them What do you what do you want to do you tell me what you did all day down and get it off your chest? I'm all settled back. I'm ready to listen, but I am not curious Well go on talk you're you're making me self-conscious talk. No, all right. All right. I'll talk good No, no, there's nothing really worth telling you about To think that only two minutes ago. I thought you were so nice Well then to bring back your faith. I I had lunch with a very interesting champ. Hi He's with the building commission building commission. He's sort of a Architectural engineer. Well, that's nice. Where New York. I mean where did you have lunch with him? Is that all you were interested in? Well, isn't that what you started to tell me? Well, he's he's working on a new kind of roof darling Oh lovely, it would reduce the cost of housing. It's good. You see the average layman doesn't realize how important roof tiling is No, I'm sure we don't the weight of tiling for instance affects the entire structure of the house Fascinating then has to be laid The man hours involved is very important in any housing estimate David you really like being an architect. Don't you? It's what I be must be nice to talk to other people who are interested in the same thing very fascinating exciting You know that boy had some really good ideas darling Where did you have lunch? I? Knew you'd come back to that again, and why don't you tell me we had lunch in a restaurant You don't say and I ate calves liver with onions lots of onions lots of onions. Mmm sounds delicious. What? He told me about some modern housing developments in Brazil that he worked on a year ago You know they're really making great strides down there Well, what strides David tell me? You're not very interested. Of course. I am very Well, what else to do all day? Now come on now you haven't told me what you had for lunch and where I had lunch right here Remember what it was. Oh, yes, scrambled eggs. I'm a leg. They were too soft and too wet Well, I don't like them soft and well neither did I and why did you eat them soft and wet because Bertha was doing the laundry. Oh Well, that explained everything anyway, I just couldn't be bothered. I thought they'd be all right. Oh, well, what's the difference? I ate them. No, I guess I wasn't hungry Couldn't seem to get enough salt into anything. You know, you're making an awful lot of sense. Oh, you know, nothing tasted really right But oh well, what's the difference a bit different David? Tell me what else did you do? Oh, I talked to mama on the phone. Mama. Why didn't you tell me what you have to say? How is she? She misses. Yeah, she had things to say. Yes. She is fine. Yes. She misses us Mama was very amusing today Sound as if everybody was amusing today. Everybody was I wish you were contagious Come on. Tell me more about mama Well Mama hoped you were well. I am She hoped the baby was well. Yes She hoped I was well. Oh Well, mama certainly was amusing today. Well, that's all my what a thrilling conversation It was nice Considering it was my mother-in-law. It was nice. It's nice to find one of my mother-in-law Takes after a daughter and her son-in-law. Well, I won't argue Didn't mama say anything else? What do you want her to say? Nothing and Roger too Roger to what? Roger seemed to be very happy today. He was feeling very chipper. Do you mean to say he didn't have one little stomachache all day? Not one that is a record sure is he was Even was all full of schemes for making a million dollars. Nothing seemed impossible to just goes to show you what no indigestion does for people Sure does. Tell me a very amusing story about himself. Oh, tell me now. You had to get Roger to tell you himself Well, the main thing that was amusing about was that he was so delighted with it that he laughed all the way through it I hardly heard a word. He was saying it didn't matter You know Roger's all right Must be very pleasant spending a day in an office with him Particularly when everything goes well like today We received an order for a new job and checks arrived and we heard from clients that we hadn't expected to get from Oh, we're going to make out darling. Now you just wait to see. I don't have to wait darling. I know you'll make out Oh Oh What a sigh just went by. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sigh I was just wondering what it'd be like to be busy busy busy all day Well, aren't you busy busy busy all day. You always say you are Well, I suppose I am but in a different way than you Oh, I see you spend all day talking to people and learning new things and doing business and I have to That all seems very full and exciting and well Exciting you said that now. What do I do really the world can get along without me beautifully I dress the baby and I play with him and Feed him and I feed myself and I talk to people like the grocer and the butcher and the cleaners and the male woman and You sound very busy as if you did a great deal of talking. Oh, I don't have much time to sit around. It's not that but I'd just like to have been a fly on your wall today David right in the thick of things It's funny. I knew the minute you walked into the house You'd had a good day And I knew the minute that I walked into the house that you were down in the dump I was not down the dumps. I'm not now either. Maybe just Just a little down Not a down in the dumps person and I'd certainly hate myself if I were that's silly that that is the silly Now look, you have as much right to be down in the dumps as anybody else. That's sweet only. It's not true. I'm no right You know what all day. I thought it was going to snow and then you know what it rained Well, that's a fine. How do you do? Well, that's that's life Was the baby upset today? No, why? No reason Well, I suppose it was just one of those days One of what days be be be specific with him one of those days when I comb my hair nothing happened Would you say that again? Well, for instance, I was sitting around feeling something that had just had to happen soon When nothing happened. I thought Well, I'll comb my hair And nothing happened I suppose that a mind reader might understand what you're saying But you really understand David. There it was hanging limp What was my hair? Of course. What do you think we're talking about? And it was hanging limp utterly limp It doesn't look hanging limp to me. Well, it feels hanging limp You know, maybe I'd have it all cut off shaved. Maybe shave. That's a good idea Now I guess I'll wash it soon and it'll be better But I just did wash it, didn't I? Oh well Mm-hmm. Now I see Now you see what? Now I see behind that hair hanging limp Well, then you must be a ventriloquist A what? No, that's somebody who talks without talking Right David, what is a man who sees through things? A husband Only very special husbands, darling So you were sitting here wishing that you were me, is that it? No, no, no, no, I didn't say that Well, you may not even realize it, but that's what you were wishing Oh, not that You're a little jealous of my going down to New York every day All sounds very exciting to you, doesn't it? Well, when you tell about it, it does sound exciting But I'm not jealous David, I love you. How can I be jealous of you? I love and being jealous have nothing to do with each other And darling, I'm not criticizing I do Of course not Things only seem good to me because of you What does, what does? Everything, work, play, people, architect you even David, I know I'm not bright, but Einstein wouldn't understand you now Well, now you just listen and learn You see, when I see somebody interesting, I say to myself I must tell Claudia about this Or if we get a new contract or a new job, that means the second cow that we want to buy Or the break front you saw and fell in love with That is the simple meaning of everything, darling David, you're not just saying all this No, no, why should I? Well, you just might You know, I bet you sometimes during the day, you forget that I love you I never forget I love you That's good David, when tomorrow comes, you don't have to send me one single Valentine No, I had no intention to Because you've just given me the best Valentine of all You know, it's funny, a person sometimes forgets the The bottom of things Hey, did you say tomorrow? Yeah, Valentine's Day Well, isn't today the 14th? So? Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, let me look at my calendar Yep, yep, yes sir, look at that, there it is, it's today What is, what is today? The 14th, right there in front of you And the 14th in anybody's calendar is Valentine's Day You mean today is the- I certainly do Today is, then it is today We're a fine couple, aren't we? We both forgot Oh darling, doesn't matter if we forget Valentine's Day So long as we never forget to love each other These broadcasts are adapted for radio by Mania Star And the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney When holidays are as frivolous and gay as Saint Valentine's Day They call for equally gay celebration with bright decorations like music And for refreshment, ice cold Coca-Cola As a matter of fact, you can dispense with the decorations If you have enough Coke to go around For Coke brings to any social gathering the pause that refreshes Every day, Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you transcribed With the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying Au revoir And remember, whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be When you think of refreshment, think of Coca-Cola For Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes And ice cold Coca-Cola is everywhere