 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 I heard your footsteps crunch on the drive so I got up you get back in bed you haven't even got your slippers off Is that all you have to say to me get back into bed? That's better Hello. Hello. I couldn't go to sleep all alone like this too lonesome. I've been waiting for you to come home Hmm. It's very late. It's after 11. Well, then it's late for you, too Who cares what time is anyway? Now it's early. I missed you so I got home as early as I could of course you did. I just missed you I should hope you did miss me. I did. I'd have been mighty hurry if you hadn't It's just amazing how long an evening can be isn't it? That kiss almost makes me forget No Not a bad listen. You didn't tell me how the meeting go nothing was decided, but there was a lot of talk You're gonna get the contract. I certainly hope so Be in the chips if we did I will keep me fingers crossed good for you Not that I give a hoot about the chips But just because I hope you get the contract because you want it well the chips come in handy when you're home darling I don't need nothing else not even chips. You are a unique little woman I say in the magazine the only chip I'm really interested in is the little chip off the old block sleeping in the next room Oh David so nice to have you home. I'm starting to think that you miss me Why should you think that come on bed? Do you mind if I brush my teeth? Brush them all everyone coming back on the train. I thought I'd never get here was crawling no express after 9 30 It's funny. You think that's when they need it most expresses Say David does it seems queer to you when you don't come home of an evening as it seems to me when you don't come home? Queer because I'm the one who's not coming home. I'm certainly glad you didn't spend the whole night in town Still is a terrible trip for you to make for just a few hours sleeping. I don't mind Here it is after 11 o'clock and you're just coming home in less than eight hours You'll have to get ready to go back to New York again. I know but I do You'll be exhausted if this keeps up. It's an awful strain. No strain on the train train does all the work Well, I'm not so sure as a matter of fact I might have to stay in town quite a bit until he's planned to submit it in the contract bid settle David wouldn't it be simple for the time like this? We live in New York It'll take you just ten minutes to get to the office ten minutes to get home And when you had to work in the evenings, we can still have dinner together. Well, we'll have breakfast together instead Life is so simple in the city. Isn't it not people usually say that life is simple in the country though Well, those people don't know what they're talking about. That's all I've got to say In the city, there you are. Now that is a profound remark right in the hubbub In the hubbub of nothing Where your life gets ground away between cement walls David, how can you say that? In the city everything is done for you plumbing, heating, lighting Sidewalks are swept, snow is taken away Well, you don't have to walk upstairs. They're elevators. You don't spend hours going to and fro Well, I can even drop into the office to see you a million times a day if I want Well, you just try it and I can call you for a nickel only The country certainly has its advantages Your bed's all open David Oh boy, does it look inviting This maybe you can take a later train in tomorrow so you can sleep a little later Yeah, I wish I could but I have a 930 appointment David you're working too hard Nonsense No, no, no nonsense about it Well life is certainly a queer business When work is slow you have time to do all the other things you like to do besides work And then you worry because work is slow. You're not making enough money and there's no future to it So when you start thinking that as an architect you're a flop and I start thinking that as a husband You're a great success No great because I can't provide for my family decently. I am a big success Robbish and you know it and then business picks up So you get orders for this building and that building and you start drawing plans and you make Estimates and you have endless meetings. You have no time to eat decently. You can't get home for dinner Finally make it at midnight and you collapse in bed and that I suppose is supposed to be better It is a pretty poor choice, isn't it? No, it's the way we live We and everyone else Because it's the kind of world we live in David Why can't we just go and sit on the moon just the four of us you and barbie and mama and me Sitting on the moon. I think you are asleep. Nope. I'm making great sense Because it's so nice having you home and listen you better go to sleep. You don't have much time left How's bed? Oh boy Feels wonderful Clean sheets is nothing like fresh laundry and pillowcases is there. I always hate to put a crease in them Well, I guess I'll sleep carefully I'm putting out the light david That's better You gotta read. No, I guess not. Well, don't go to sleep with your light on. I won't What are you thinking about? Who said I'm thinking the pleats in your forehand David stop thinking about the meeting tonight and going over every word that was said You won't ever go to sleep that way. Yeah, I was thinking of that Darling, how would you like to go back to new york? What do you mean? I mean you've made a lot of sense tonight Although you probably didn't know it. Oh, well, listen, can't you just give me a compliment straight? Of course I made sense. I knew it too What'd I say about new york? How would you like to go back to new york To new york for a few days for weeks a month. Maybe if you like David why Well, I'm going to be kept pretty busy these next few weeks I'm going to have a lot of conferences and smoke filled rooms and talk and business and I have to work nights And I don't like having you sit up here in eastbrook all the way And I'm not all by myself. I have a whole house full of fritz and bertha and the baby That's certainly a house full not not counting the two dogs and the cat and the cow and the calf and the pig Heaven knows what else. Well, all those things are not the proper company for a young woman of 19 What's improper about it just not enough You should be seeing other people your own age other people my age are too young for me to see listen to I am listening go on Well, why shouldn't you come into new york? We'll take a couple of rooms in the hotel or we could No, no mama wouldn't matter she'd insist on having a stay with me for once I wouldn't mind then you wouldn't be alone all day and all evening how many times do I have to tell you I'm not all alone and I like it here. You certainly are perverse What do you mean just five minutes ago? You were telling me all of the advantages of living in new york Besides the mere mechanical conveniences you gave me a long speech on how much easier it would be for Me these next few weeks and for you. Well, that's true. It would be then And now I suggest you come and stay in new york for a while and why do you look so surprised? Because what I said had nothing to do with me darling. Why not? David are you really serious? Yes. I'm really serious. You mean you're not just saying this because of everything I said No, there wouldn't be anything wrong with that. But as a matter of fact, I thought of it all by myself on the way home It's been a long winter. It hasn't been an easy one either. I know it You can't transplant a tender little flower like you And not have it feel the change of the soil Am I a tender little flower? You certainly are a small cactus. Oh, I love cactuses. Well, cacti, I mean What do you say? Do I have to decide tonight? Why not? New york It is february. That's true Listen, there are a lot of plays on broadway. I haven't seen yet and mama's been alone for two months She must be lonesome and david you do look tired darling and when you come in at 11 like this is no good The door newspapers at the door steam heating subways nickel phone calls my office just 10 minutes away It's all set david. What about the baby? It'll be awfully crowded at mama's for the four of us No, we'll leave the baby here birth will take care of it even behind Why not? Birthday takes much better care of them than you do. He's much fonder of her than he is of you That's a fine way to talk to your child's mother. We'll face it. I will not face it What you say probably is so but I won't face it You really mean that about leaving the baby here really? Of course You don't want him to be a mommy mama baby. Do you this needs only seven and a half months old Then already you're tying him to your apron string. You have no feelings. That's the trouble My son doesn't need to be coddled by his mother. Don't coddle him a couple of weeks away from the baby It'll do him good. Do you good too? Certainly won't hurt him. He won't even notice a little hurt me and I'll notice You were you long before you were a mother. Yes, but being a mother is a lot stronger than just being me Strange as it may seem. I feel like a mother first and me afterwards. That's all right, too That doesn't mean it's the only thing Besides being me It's true. I was a wife before I was Bobby's mother David first come first serve. We can leave Bobby here. We didn't have birth and fritz. I wouldn't do it for five minutes No, not even two minutes. All right, then we'll call mama the first thing in the morning. How soon will we move? We're not moving. We're just going to take a little visit this week. Well, I'll know better tomorrow Maybe not until next week. No good The way you talked about living in the city I thought you'd be delighted when I suggested it. Oh, David Don't you know how I love this farm? Yeah, I guess I do Funny old saltbox house with its slamming roof And our poor old crow who flies around during the day The majesty blowing away in the stable Yeah, good old majesty I even love all the trouble with the electricity and the oil bill Shoveling the snow out of the front hall. No, I tell you right now that I don't like shoveling the snow out of the front hall I'll tell you that any day of the week any time any month any year I love it when it rains. I love it when it snows. I love being alone in the middle of nowhere listening to the drops on the window panes The roof I love the big festive fires. We build in the fireplace in the evenings I love to take out the ashes and sweep up the heart and all the way David, you're so unromantic here. I'm being poetic go for a change and you I love looking out over our land and seeing jarred tucker mincing up the road David, I love this farm. I don't ever want to leave Neither do I I want us to live here the rest of our lives Become ancestors here No, we will there'll be generations and generations and Generations of ancestors of us right here All right, David. I made up my mind Because we love it here We'll go to new york Maybe that doesn't make such a good sense does it? It's not good sense darling. It's a profound sense It's like loving someone when you're sure You can't let go Put out your light darling How dark it is david beautifully beautifully quiet This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown maloney Remember the little man who sorted oranges for a living and complained that his job involved decisions decisions all day long decisions Well, shopping often gives you that same confused feeling If you grow weary during a shopping expedition head for the nearest coke cooler Have yourself a nice cold sparkling delicious coca-cola and you'll be able to shop 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 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