 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents 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 Johnny who Johnny on the spot. Oh that Johnny come on in Hey, aren't you out of your makeup yet practically? I'm just about to oop my face up with cold cream That sounds attractive then in a few death strokes. I should be returned to my simple unglamorous self Whoa is me. Whoa is me or should I keep on my makeup and go forth in the world with my glamorous face on I'll take the face under the glamorous face. Thank you. You mean you love Cinderella after all I've gotten accustomed to Cinderella. Take off your makeup. No, I almost hate to look at those Beautiful long eyelashes this rose but of a mouth. Ah, yes, the theater is indeed magic Eight o'clock. I am transformed into a beautiful princess and at midnight back into your pumpkin must you call me names Was it a good house tonight filled the last row hard to play good It went pretty well Another couple of months and you'll give quite a decent performance another couple of days I won't have to give a performance at all. Well, how are you going to face coming back to our normal world of the dull Relentless routine of everyday. I will face it with a smile on my face smiling through tears without a backward glance. Oh David it has been wonderful, but I've missed you so well here. I am Have you liked your freedom? I've driven under it notice the wrinkles have gone away from my eyes Those are smiling wrinkles. I like them stop talking take off that makeup. What are you to give me if I do you see Does anybody out front we knew tonight? I didn't see a soul. You've run out of admirers my love. Oh, isn't it sad? Oh fickle is the world a fickle indeed Take off that make I'm taking it off. Don't nag me. It's a free country Who is it? Oh, just a second mr. Tucker Tell me he was here. I didn't know he was here. He must have come out of the woodwork Is that a nice thing to say about my most handsome my most devoted admirer after you could do worse than Jared Tucker Shut up. Hand me my dress. Why don't you get yourself a handmaid my next engagement mr. Tucker come in I Just come to pay my respects. I had no idea you were in the theater tonight Apple was set in the second row in the balcony Heard every word you said to Well, if you didn't it'd be just too bad. We'd known you were coming mr. Tucker You and David could have come together. I'd travel alone on the inspiration at the moment Mrs. Norton gave her right good performance coming from you mr. Tucker I believe it. Yep. You looked as if you knew what you was doing your words come fast and neat Sure do think them up fast. No, she should know them by now She's been saying them over and over for days You got to really say them same things every night exactly the same thing isn't it silly must be a mighty bore Too bad you can't sort of make them up as you go along. Well, don't think I don't worry that she will of course You a professional actor saying no better than amateurs except you get paid for what you do and some are greatly overpaid You're talking about Victorian manners. Yeah, seems like an awful easy way to make a living coming up here every night Repeating same old words same old words Half the time you're even sitting down on stage It's my mighty easy way to make a living. Oh, that's what I used to think too Maybe I should have taken other fork in the road when I was lad Maybe I should have hold the easy road and chose the theater for myself Well that reading you gave us the other day of the ancient mariner I I would say that you would have had a big success John Barrymore would have had to fight for his love Ain't got such a bad profile either now. Have I say it was just as fine as John Barrymore He's been dead for years, too I was an actor I might even be a millionaire such as life come in You still here we're closing up the theater Ronnie. I'd like you to meet a neighbor of ours Mr. Jared Tucker Please to meet you son my pleasure. Mr. Varni's the director of this theater. He staged this play tonight Hey, they're pretty young rooster to be directed. Oh, I've been crawling many years already Did a pretty good job too, of course I don't hold completely with the way you had things turned out for my money I'd like to see miss Norton here with the man even though he wasn't much of a man Wasn't much of an actor either. I agree with you on that Mr. Tucker Fiddled around him myself. Maybe I ain't as surprised I used to be five years ago But theatrical talent never leaves you till you turn the dust Mr. Tucker is a very talented actor. Oh why the the other day he gave us a reading of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coley is really stupendous. Wasn't it David? It was indeed stupendous Y'all to hear me when I get into the boy stood on the burning deck Someday I'll come over and recite a bit for you. Oh, listen do it now. Mr. Mr. Tucker He's really good. Mr. Course I don't like the parts of old men. Oh, no, of course not a missus Norton here She looks like quite something else on stage no reason why I can't neither no reason at all really mr. Vanya You should should hear mr. Tucker recite. Well, I could give you smidgen now could now Why not no time like the present? Well, the present is getting late. Oh, listen the theater is all my theater is empty Let's well, I'm ready. I'm ready now. Well, all right, and we'll hear you now, mr. Tucker I will show you to the stage setter now. That's very nice you boy. Come on. Long I just hope Barney doesn't make too much fun over David you don't think he will do you I mean He realizes this isn't serious. I don't know how much of a sense of humor Barney has. I just hope he doesn't make Tucker feel like a fool Barney's a pretty tough character, you know I hadn't thought David maybe we should find a way to stop this You stand right there mr. Tucker right square in the spotlight Are you sure it isn't Isn't too late mr. Barney it is pretty late, you know why Claudia? I want you the one who said it's never too late to discover a brilliant new actor Now come on sit down right here We have the whole theater to ourselves. Hey look Barney this man takes himself pretty serious I wouldn't want to him to be offended or anything. Oh relax I've seen a lot of these old cages in my day and no vaudeville skitters ever as funny What have I done? Say yeah, now that I'm up here. Why do I say I say anything you like well Kind of forgetting the boy stood on the burning deck the Norton's here already heard the ancient mariner Oh, we don't mind hearing it again. No, I never repeat myself when I can start afresh Don't you remember something from school? That was only about 80 years ago. Let me see third grade Fourth grade an old song or something would do fine. Hold on I'm recollecting When I recollect I can go pretty far back Sure is dark here all dark except for that one light Can't see nothing but with my mind's eye But it can see pretty far pretty far back Seems it every now and then of course the human events It becomes necessary for people to declare their independence and their freedom and to this end they said We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain rights and That among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and To this end they fought a bloody war Wasn't the first Wasn't the last cause a they always seemed to need a heap of reminding So less than a hundred years later another American this time a Tall six-foot-four hungry-looking man gathered some forgetting folks around him and read them a lesson I remember it word-for-word because it it ain't something anybody ought to forget For score and seven years ago Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated Remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather To be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced It is rather for us To be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that this nation under God Shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people By the people for the people Shall not perish from the earth then Less than a hundred years later the world started forgetting again Seems as if we ain't got much of a memory for the important things in life Took another war and another man to make us remember that what we live for is peace What we pray for is freedom Freedom of speech everywhere in the world God everywhere in the world freedom from want everywhere in the world and Greatest of all freedom from fear anywhere in the world now That ain't something to worry about tomorrow. That's to worry about tonight if I Kind of sound as if I've been preaching It's only that standing here in this dark theater. I couldn't see so well except into my own heart and well my heart's like every other Americans and That's my recitation Yes, I ain't so so much of an actor after all because What I give is just a piece of old Jared Tucker You know, mr. King. I just very nearly made a fool of myself Why what happened? Well, I was sitting back there in the theater looking at that little old man Tucker Standing in the spotlight on the stage I was all set to have a big laugh. I wasn't paying any attention to what he was saying And all of a sudden it hit me. It was pretty impressive, wasn't it? The stage of my theater hasn't been put to such good use in a long time I only wish we had not been an audience of three in a dark theater But an audience of millions. Yes, some of the best performances are played to the smallest audiences For instance tomorrow David and mrs. Brown give a four star performance to an audience of one Claudia the audience and the cause of the performance Little bobby noton. I hope that claudia doesn't forget that she has a matinee tomorrow She won't forget tomorrow's the day for a lot of pretending by all of it It seems particularly hard to get things done during lazy indian summer days But I'm going to suggest an idea that's good anytime of the year. It's this Follow the example of your men folks in offices and factories pause during work hours for ice cold coca-cola You'll enjoy the delicious refreshment. You'll relax and you'll get back to work refreshed 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 all of war 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 The part of jared tucker was played by cameron andrews And this broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola