 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the play and novels by Rose Frank and brought to you transcribe 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 Ask silly questions silly about that. I don't know the answer you won't understand even if I do tell you Try me and see After all I'm married to an architect the least you can do it. Tell me why blueprints are blue. Well because blueprints are negatives You mean negatives like photographs that aren't photographed yet exactly But they aren't photographed are they and never will be darling They have to be able to be photographed because they're negative except photographs are usually positive and positive as a photograph printed Why are they blue? Claudia isn't there something that you have to do. There's nothing I have to do It's 8 30 and finished with the dishes and we're spending a quiet evening at home discussing our new house And all I want to know is why are blueprints blue and why they're negatives of positives And you said they're photographs and they're not even photographed heavens send me patience I had to go and be an architect I look darling Imagine a photograph I'm imagining the photograph is a print Of what of a negative? Oh And a blueprint is a negative exactly But uh printed I see But David you said that a photograph is a print of a negative And the blueprint is a negative printed Then why isn't it a photograph because it's a print of a negative a photograph is a print of a positive Oh Why don't they print it positive you could have a positive made out of it Which would be a photograph and it would be in black and white A blueprint is a positive negative in blue Printed you've even got me mixed up Claudia go back to your knitting. Goodbye. I'm not mixed up. It really is so simple Goodbye David Do they have to be blue of course they would have to be or they wouldn't be called blueprints Well, if it's just for the name then there could be red prints or pink prints or purple there could not be Why because they are blueprints, but they are only blueprints because Honestly, you need one little thing like this up to men and they make it so complicated Have to be blue Why did you make your blueprints red darling? Why don't you I love red? All right, I'll make them red. Well, you don't have to make them all red just make the ones for our house red Wouldn't be any trouble would it? Oh, no, no, no, not at all all we would have to do is Revolutionize the printing industry. Well, that's silly. There's plenty of red paper around I've got lots left from christmas. I'm so glad for you David, what are you drawing? I'm just trying to make a few sketches of some of the things I want to do to the house Like for instance, well, it's nothing definite, but I want to get things going so I can go up to eastbrook the beginning of the week with a Blueprint red print so we can Get the contractor working on remodeling the house. How long will it take? Well, I'd like to have it ready to move in by spring Yeah, please darling, please let me go on sketching in some of my suggestions. Oh, I want to help Certainly you can help You can keep perfectly still for 25 minutes or so and then I'll show you what I've sketched and Then you suggest to me all your suggestions and then we'll combine the two of them And then I'll make a final sketch which I will then make into a Blueprint red print. Well, I don't want to wait till then David. Why can't we combine our suggestions in the first place? I knew this was going to happen now David. I want you to be sure there are enough closets Closets may not mean anything to you, but they mean everything to a woman. They do I never realized that Everything well Practically everything how many closets would you like at least 10 in each room? Of course not silly too in each room will be enough darling You know, of course You need wall space before you can have closets. Why I don't need walls and closets too. Sorry. I brought it up And David Yes, I like a bay window in each room Darling bay windows in every room it will look absurd on an old american salt box We're having plumbing aren't we? What's that got to do with it when the house was built? It didn't have any plumbing So if we're gonna have plumbing why can't we have bay windows too because plumbing doesn't show and bay windows do I'll let you have one in the dining room What a plumbing? I refused to answer. I'd rather have it in the living room. David the window. I mean Why because I'm in the living room more than I am in the dining room. That's why Oh, I don't see why it's more difficult to have it in one room than in the other darling Give me a chance will you let me try and make out this plan and then I'll let you make all right darling I don't mind if you'd rather we'll do it your way David I like high ceilings That's nice Can I have high ceilings? No Why not because the ceilings in these old american houses are low Well, can't you push them up a little? Are you serious? Of course. I'm serious push them up a little and you've been out a few inches on the walls to hold the ceilings up It's very simple. I'll take it into consideration And then of course I want a store room and lots of extra shells in the kitchen and a playroom in the cellar I thought we'd put the heater and the boiler in the cellar. Do you mind? Do we have to I'd rather have a playroom Where would you like the heater and the boiler in the living room with the bay window? Well, are they very big? We'll get a small one there so that they won't be in your way Oh, that's very sweet of you, david Now let me see There are a lot of other things I want to tell you while we're at it I think it would be very important to have it Who's that? I don't know. Why don't you open it and see? All right, I will I'm coming. You don't have to repeat yourself Why mama thought you might want your glove Who is it? Who do you think it is? Just who I thought it was come on in. I will not. I'm going home Come on in mama. We were just discussing what we're going to do to the house. You are Oh, that's wonderful. I'm just in time. Are you coming or are you going to coax me? I'm coming. Hello, mother. Hello, david Uh, mother You can do me a big favor anything david you keep claudia busy while I try and sketch out a rough idea of the work We've got to do on this new house of ours. I I hope you're going to change the stairs david. They seem awfully steep to me mama's right david steep stairs are dangerous So Go home mother why I just came you asked me in oh and david I've been thinking of what mama Well, I don't think you ought to make the attic into spare rooms Much too warm in the summer too damp in the winter Of course, I don't want to butt in oh, of course David I think mama's right You suggested that we make the attic into a spare room Well, that was before you told me about the extension. Oh, you're building an extension Well while you're at it, I suggest you put in a theater closet You know right off where you go down into that too many cooks mama. What do you think about bay windows? They're lovely claudia, but a room needs more heat and you have that's right david if you put the bay window in the living room Is that where I said I wanted it? I don't know Look, uh, you two girls Why don't you get yourselves a piece of paper and write all these things down and then while I'm sketching David your bedroom. Which way does it say face what mama east south west or north? I don't know. I I haven't decided yet Of course, I I wouldn't want to butt in david and I know you're an architect But when I was a girl we lived in a house and my mother's room faced the south. This is a plot plot Who's he? I don't know anybody called clock I'm coming. I am insulted Roger. Hello. Hello claudia. Are you and david home busy? We're home. We're not busy And mama's here too. Come on. I love you I'm just going by and I had an idea for david about reconstructing the entry without spoiling any of the rogers that you Indeed it is. Uh, sure. You don't mind my dropping in can't tell you how glad I am to see you Maybe you can protect me from these Would be female architects david. I was thinking about that front entry. Oh, no, you too Say it isn't so. Oh, hello, mrs. Brown glad glad to see you And mr. Killian, this is very nice. Well, as I was saying david you don't want to spoil the simplicity of that entry But at the same time we will need more space david, what do you think me? You mean you want my opinion? Why not? Well I think perfectly right david now. Let me see claudia. I wanted to ask you about something I thought of here's a little sketch I made while I was having dinner Oh sit down on the sofa roger and mommy you sit on one side of him and i'll sit on the other david you can come and look too. Thank you very much Well now here we are Here are the stares is that where they are Well, I thought they were over here these go up. Is that right right to the second floor Oh, I think I'd rather have him going down to the cellar. That's not a bad idea make sort of a little pantry Oh, I love pantries. I keep cookies and oh and roger What do you think of having a window in this room here? I think a southern exposure is just marvelous to have. Yes very nice by all means mama. Yes Where do you think the bay window ought to be? Well, I'd put it on the wall opposite the fireplace in the living room That's a marvelous idea But don't you think we ought to have one in the dining room too? That's where david wants it Why not um here? Oh, no in there facing this way then you'll get cross ventilation Oh, I love cross ventilation too. I don't think any of this will be terribly difficult to do and not very expensive either Claudia you want to be sure you have enough closet space Oh, particularly on the down floor so that you don't have to run up downstairs all the time. How about a closet? Here then it'll work for the kitchen in the living room in the dining room too. Excellent david said that David darling, why aren't you over here? What's the matter so humble there's no Nothing nothing's a matter just didn't want to interrupt you. Are you interested david? We'd love to have your advice Well, yes david. We're in this together. Well To tell you the truth. I've been taking notes on your suggestion You have I figured you wouldn't remember very well or all of your ideas So I've been sitting over here jotting them down. Oh, that's an excellent idea So glad you thought of it. Would you like me to go over them for you? Yes, that'll be very nice Then we'll know just where we're at go on david. Well, now. Let me see here. We are There's a pair of stairs here and a pair of stairs there Two pairs that's what you said darling one to go up and one to come down Did I say that you did and you roger you wanted one bay window facing down the cellar stairs Did I say that you did and oh claudia You planned on the closet opening into the downstairs bath and mrs. Brown You suggested a window southern exposure opening out with a beautiful view Into the pantry did I say that if I may call in a phrase You have all said a household This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown meloni What if marketing does take a little more time and effort than it used to You can ease the strain by stopping for an ice cold coca-cola When you shop refreshed you shop more wisely and you feel better at the day's end You'll see that familiar red cooler in food stores now as well as at poutons lunchrooms and service stations It's there to remind you of 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? 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