 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the 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 Just because you're nervous you don't have to be pacing up and down like a caged lion I'm not nervous. I'm never nervous. I've been nervous in years. You aren't nervous Why are you sitting still and reading the evening papers while I get dinner ready? I just don't feel like reading the newspapers tonight. What's so awful about that? Nothing But why'd you put your pipe down three times in the last ten minutes and then have to go looking for it every time? I like bending over that's why it's good exercise and and your nostrils twitch twice Why would they twitch if you weren't nervous? How many dishes have you broken today? Oh? Only two and you wouldn't buy any chance have cut yourself peeling something or maybe that bandage is just for decoration 18-carat cotton with a marquee shaped McCuricone I cut myself, but it's only a little cock. It would have to be It's only your little finger David. When do you think we'll hear well? We send the letter yesterday He got it this morning He could have opened it up right away and sent us a telegram and said that the deal was all settled And there wasn't anything to do but move right in things don't happen that way. You said show yourself When did I ever say anything like that this morning for one time? You said that buying a house was so complicated that even if mr. Tucker accepted our offer We still wouldn't have the house. No, that's true, of course You mean There might be a hitch and we might have to buy the house after all have to buy it You mean we mightn't be able to buy it. Oh, of course, that's what I mean There is a chance David. No sure there might be something wrong with the titles the title Is it that kind of a house? Gosh, you'd never know it to look at it What sort of a house is it that you'd never know it to look at it house of the title you never guess it would you David What kind of a title do you think I was talking about I thought you meant a title like twin oaks or Hickory Hill or Something like that Doesn't sound right to me anymore. You're getting warmer I mean the kind of title that proves that the person who is selling it to us really owns it himself. Mr. Tucker You mean you think that mr. Tucker doesn't own the house and now he's trying to sell it to us David That's just honest you better send him a telegram right away and get him to send you your offer back Well, I'm glad we found out about that right this at the beginning I didn't say that mr. Tucker doesn't own the house All I said was that he has to prove that he owns it before we can buy it. Oh, I know he owns it Otherwise he wouldn't be living in it Isn't there anything else that might happen? I mean even if mr. Tucker accepted the offer. I suppose so hey What are you trying to do make me think of all the things that can go wrong later? Even if the bid is high enough Are you trying to make me feel better just in case he turns it down you you oh, no You're just wasting your time darling, but it's very sweet of you if the bid's too low. I'll feel lower Now come on. We're going out for dinner. Oh good David. Where where what difference that make some place where we can get our minds off bids and houses and mortgages David Maybe you can tell me what a mortgage is on the way to the restaurant I'll go change and you can sound made me with a herty dirty. Why do women always have to change? What would you like to hear? Chopin Tristan and a soldier mate open Smith and So Zarina we play now from Chakosti The symphony at the geek quiet, please and ze balcony one two three three Oh David you can't find an Italian restaurant just walking around you can't a well Mrs. Norton an Italian but the name of Columbus found this country by just Sailing around so I don't see why we can't try some more of the same But how do you know it'll do any good the Italian restaurant isn't made that isn't any good I think it's always best to go to a restaurant. You've heard about don't you you've got no wild sweet spirit of adventure Claudia that's what a wild sweet spirit of adventure is I've got it But suppose something happens heaven's sake what's going to happen in an Italian restaurant? You can't tell something like don't be silly No, I've been listening to the radio all day long And I'm beginning to think that we're the only people in the world nothing ever happens something may happen to us tomorrow We may get the house David we promise you working to talk about the house. So we did You were just about to tell me all the things that haven't happened to us nothing happens to us David You should listen to the stories on the radio. Everybody's always having all kinds of trouble You you remember the day bluff ran out of the door if we were people on the radio He would have bitten that little boy and the little boy's mother would have been Mr. Carrington's aunt and Mr. Carrington wouldn't have allowed you and Roger to go ahead with building that freight terminal And when you heard this from Bertha who had been listening at the little boy's mother's keyhole all morning You rushed down to tell me about it at the office And the taxi Grand Driver was the brother of Lottie's sister's husband and since she was desperately jealous of me He ran into a bus deliberately and you were taken to a hospital And when you came to nobody knew whether you had ever walked again and Lottie told you that it all happened because Mr Carrington was secretly in love with you and you lost your memory and wandered off and when you came back the police Held you for murder and when we buy a house in the country, of course It has a hidden treasure in the attic David nothing ever happens to us And now we're going up to the country to live and nothing's ever going to get a chance to happen so nothing happens Didn't you once get a sender in your eye mrs. Not that doesn't count because someone came along and took it out for me That doesn't count either. I suppose Because all you did was marry did I I almost forgot and then Nothing else happened except we found an apartment to happen, but not at the same time and if I Recall correctly didn't something happen to you once at an auction I scratched my ear and won a white elephant that was too big to go in the room And then you scratched the other ear and sold it again I guess that was easy and aren't you just finished running into somebody else's car, but he was very nice David He wasn't mr. Carrington's maniac nephew who embezzled all kinds of money from the first National Bank Yes, well, I'm well aware of just how nice he was mrs. And David something very big is going to happen in June It won't even be twin. How can you say such a thing after dr. Roland promised to make us a special rate? It can't possibly be twins darling. We're not that exciting Say, what was I saying just a minute ago? You mean about nothing ever happening to us? Seems silly doesn't it? Hey wait for the light Come back here Yeah, it seems very silly The things that have happened have been such big things and such small things We just don't even talk about them half of the time. They're the things that make living and marriage real and exciting Oh David I'm happy tonight. I Feel that everyone loves me and I can love everything back and Behind it all there's a reason and what we feel now This is only the beginning The page in front of the first page David You're so very sure of everything Must think I'm an awful coward when I worry all the time. It's just that I don't ever want anything to change from the way It is Never darling Someday something will happen You'll stand it You will be braver than you can imagine You know Ever since I first looked at that house I've had the feeling that I could see exactly how everything's going to turn out I Known it has to be ours. How happy we'll be in it Of course all of that was Before I started sweating out mr. Tucker in our bid with a bid again. You promised you weren't gonna mention it all evening Come on we can go now You don't feed a man. How do you expect him to keep any promises? Yeah, I know there's going to be a fine place right around the corner bet you bet you here we go Zarya what's that mean? Means I win my bet and keep my promise. Come on. Let's go in Good evening. Good evening. Good evening a lady and a gentleman for dinner. We certainly are that's a fine We have a nice table over here by the wall. Thank you My best nice picture you have on the wall. Is that Naples? Yes, madame That is Naples and that on our other wall. That is Jamaica Bay most Italians they can talk all they want to but lady You can take it from Luigi Jamaica Bay. She's a lot better looking than that. That's fine. Luigi David what part of Italy is Jamaica Bay? I've never heard of it Jamaica Bay my dear is in the far Western part of Italy. Oh Very far as a matter of fact, it's about five miles from where you're sitting It's right here on the south side of Brooklyn. Why doesn't anybody tell me these things? We're doing our best. Well, Luigi. What can you give us for dinner some? Antipasto you like antipasto. Claudia. Do you like antipasto? Oh, what are they? Yes, you you like them and Missed ministrone Luigi. You have good ministrone. It's all a homemade the minister. It's a best minister in New York It's a real minister and Bolognese. That's fine. And a little spaghetti. Oh, you like Gravioli both And what will you have to eat to eat? Scalapini I bring a chicken cacciatore for the lady and Scalapini for you and a salad Of course and a bottle of wine. Senor would like a lacrimatristi. Ah, senor. You have a fine dinner. You see David this sounds wonderful. What is it? What do you mean the wine? It's quite wine dear. Is it very expensive? It can be Claudia David, what's wrong? We just got through saying that Nothing ever happens to us now something has what's happened. I walked out of the house without my wallet I have exactly 18 cents in my pocket. Oh Isn't it too bad we aren't in a restaurant. We know Could I do such a silly thing I wonder I wonder I would never happen to me before Maybe you're right. You know, you've never been nervous before. I'm not nervous Why should I be nervous about a little bit on a little house? I'm sure I don't know I'm not a bit nervous. You do seem awfully calm about the whole thing Don't you even consider the possibility of washing the dishes in here all night long? Because you forget your wallet. I have to wash the dishes. That is not fair. All right. All right, you win I'm just as nervous as you are about the bed just as nervous, but for a different reason What did you say? I Said Look darling. I'm holding your wallet Isn't that wonderful David? We both don't get nervous in the same way This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney When dad brings home a case of coke in the car the youngsters think I'll ask some of the kids in after school tomorrow You think just in time for my club meeting and dad thinks now There'll be plenty of coke if I want a spot of refreshment after my chores Yes, everyone in the family enjoys a feeling of extra well-being and anticipated pleasure When that hospitable case of coca-cola crosses the threshold 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 joking saying olive water and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola For ice-cold coca-cola makes any pause the pause that represses