 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories 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 You mean the flood waters have receded You wouldn't know anything the only real casualty is mama's double boiler chalk up one double boiler we owe to mama Half of it's all right. I mean there's only a hole in one pot It ought a single boil pretty well that sounds on the complicated side David yes, darling Really is nice to be an architect. What do you mean nice? I mean it is fun and architect must have a good time being an architect. Come on in darling. I can't hear you Nicked myself with this confounded razor. I forgot to bring a new blade with me when we came over to mother's last night You nick yourself badly. I'll live Sure an architect has a good time with his ouch. Now what's happened? I just nicked myself again with this confounded razor. Oh, yes. I'm not used to talking while I shave Why talk then? It wasn't until you started. No, but you were singing. That's different I Don't know what I'm so happy about it contagious. You caught it from me. I just uncaught it I just remembered that we have to have dinner with your Aunt Louisa tonight Well, we have to eat some where it might as well be that Louisa's on the theory that if you're going to be shot You might as well be hung we wouldn't be settled enough to eat at home anyway. We can leave early Mm-hmm Certainly takes more time for two people to get up in the morning than for one naturally it takes twice as long David stop if you kiss me it'll take twice as long again. Oh Darling you smell pretty. Well, that's a nice way for a man to smell I love the way men smell of shaving soap. Have you had a lot of experience? Oh dear and I tried so hard to keep my past David I never dreamed an architect did more than just draw pictures on paper You never dreamed an architect doesn't do what doesn't do more than just draw pretty pictures on pieces of colored paper. Oh Where's my tie? Oh here it is That's only the beginning He supervises the construction Schedules the work gets the mason finished before the carbon to start and the carbon is out before the plumbers and the plumbers out Before the electricians the electricians out before the painters and architects work is never done in that case a woman should be very useful to an architect very useful to this architect and Dispensable in fact I Don't know how this particular architect ever got along without you. Oh, David will never get to breakfast All right Come along if you'd rather eat. I wouldn't rather Oh Darling, I can't believe we'll be in our own apartment tonight. It'll be like a honeymoon. I Wish I could be sure the painters will be finished. They will I told them we couldn't wait and they promised they'd be out I don't trust painters promises my woman's charm Are you sure we'll have something to sleep on the store promise too? I ordered the beds to be delivered the staff and and and the kitchen stuff's coming Maybe I have been missing out and not having a woman partner Well, you've got one now Here you are there was a lot of furniture and boxes delivered for us Yes, I put everything in the bedroom everything in that little room. This is going to be awfully crowded Oh, I move it out again when the painter is finished when the painter finish He promised to be all through today He will be a five o'clock sharpie will be finished the floors and out so you've got to hurry Mrs. Certainly will hurry Mr. Norton will be here any minute. I give you your keys and I will be downstairs if you want me Thank you, but I don't think I need you till tomorrow for it. You just call me. I will Look out Mrs. Oh, you're the painter. What are you doing here painting? Hello, Mrs But you promise faithfully you'd be finished with the painting this afternoon. Won't you be sure? I'll be out just a little more to go careful where you walk over there I left the path for you in the bedroom. Thank you. It never fails. What the path into the bedroom? No, lady tenants wanting things in the hurry. They just don't seem to want to let paint dry Oh, I'm sorry. I've been a nuisance to you, but I was so anxious to always people are anxious to get in and then Come the moving men and they don't care a thing for paint. Just slam bang their way around Well, that's too bad. Nobody cares about a painter paper hangers is the worst of all paper and pastes All over the place Competition I guess that's what it is. Yes, I guess that's what it is But we're lucky. We aren't having any paper at least all paint. Yeah, but you'll be having moving there Look out lady for the wet floor going to the bedroom. Oh, that's what they all say Someone else coming. Hey mister, not so fast wet paint. You can't come in Now he'll watch out. How am I gonna get this floor painted if people are gonna be Trumping across it. I promise I won't trump. You see I live here. Oh, that's Depp and the lady of the house She's in the back Did you hear what he called me isn't it wonderful what the painter he called me the lady of the house I don't know when anything has made me feel as Now he does Oh Look David what son's gone. Well, maybe it has a date with some other apartment down the street We better hurry now and get dressed for Aunt Louisa's dinner. Did you say dress? Oh, didn't I tell you? I was so busy. I just she called this morning and now especially and I I told her we would that was nice of you You promised your Aunt Louisa and I'm the one that has to crawl into a boiled shirt Why do we have to dress up? Well, that's what I didn't tell you. Well, tell me now Well, Aunt Louisa thought it would be a good idea for us to meet her friends the van Merrill. Why? Because they are going to do over their house and she thought it would be nice for them to meet an architect in a boiled shirt You know what I think nope. I think Aunt Louisa is a colossal pain in the neck, but you'll go There's no possible way of getting out of it. I'm afraid not Well, anyway, mom will be there David, so it won't be so terribly bad for you now Let's see if our friend the painter is finished The coast is clear. Come on good. I'm all ready. Hold on a minute. What's wrong? Your painter with the persecution complex has painted himself out the front door and he's painted us in David he couldn't have he promised he'd be finished and we could move in this afternoon stop and think Did he actually promise that we could move in this afternoon? Well, did he or didn't he? Well, maybe not exactly, but that's what he implied He said he'd be finished this afternoon And any sensible person would think that with the painters gone any sensible person would know that paint takes a number of hours to Drive, that's very inconsiderate of it Anyway, couldn't we tiptoe across on the theory that tiptoes don't count? Yeah, yes, we could We'd leave our pretty little tiptoes permanently recorded on our living room floor. Oh But couldn't they paint it over tomorrow? They could When you would undoubtedly get yourself painted in again Only next time might not be my luck to be painted in with you We've got to get out what paint would say we're not going to get out You seem to be enjoying this I have an idea you planned it all me I I had Absolutely nothing to do with David. This isn't any joke. What about Aunt Louisa's dinner party? Yeah, I was thinking of that What were you thinking? I was thinking how nice it was we couldn't go It's so terrible about being cooped up with me The best laid schemes of mice and men Often work out in the most wonderful way David the van Merrill's and the cousins and the dinner was really being given for us Darling, I've ruined everything and I wanted to be such a whole you're a magnificent help You couldn't have done better even if you'd known what you were doing To be really honest. I don't want to go either only I only what? Only there's a cloud to every silver lining If we miss out Louisa's dinner party, we want everything to eat with stars We'll get food now. You say wait a minute free amount of a window like that the neighbors. What do they think I don't give a Oh David you've ruined our reputation. That's better than ruining the pain. I'm not sure I am Darling, I feel like an awful fool Did I say you weren't it is such a silly thing to have done people do lots sillier things They fall out of love get divorced mr. Norton. Oh, here Fritz Mrs. Norton The painter told me you had gone out, but you had not gone out very Definitely, we had not gone out and now it would seem that very definitely we are not going to go out No troubles at all. In fact, we can manage beautifully with your help. What could I do? Well, if you get a long broom for an example you could reach some food across to us without touching the floor Yeah, that would be good. There's the food. Well, if you could run down to the delicatessen for an example You could get some for roast beef salad. No, no, no two cheese and two roast beef Then we can split all right with mustard and some pickles and I Yes, I know Aunt Louisa I'll fix that too. Can you reach the telephone there in the for your friends? Yes I can reach it Plaza 5407 seven. I am dialing it Plaza 5407 So I dialed it and now what do I do you ask for Mrs. Brown tell her you have a message from mr. Norton mom will be there by now David. You're not an architect. You're a genius. Oh, hello, Mrs. Brown, please who? Oh, who am I? I'm Fritz Yeah, I hold on Somebody speaking Irish. That's what I do want to speak to Mrs. Brown about What oh it is mrs. Norton's mother now. Oh, just a minute, please. No, no, this is Fritz I have a message to give you from mr. Norton A message from mr. Norton. I think something terrible has happened. No, there hasn't been an accident He is with mrs. Norton in the bedroom and he can't come to the phone No, the painter painted him in Yeah painted him in with a brush like like painting Fritz you're a genius tell her we can't come to dinner He says we can't come to dinner. I mean they can't come to dinner. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, goodbye Oh, she was very excited then she was laughing She said she doesn't doubt you bribed the painter to do this mom is off the understanding But at louisa just lives to organize other people's lives. Well, there's one thing at louisa can't organize and that's wet paint This broadcast of claudio was supervised and directed by william brown meloni Let's see what's needed to make thursday's holiday complete How about your supply of coca-cola? You'll want plenty of ice on that day of all days You can have dad pick up a case at the food store or service station when he's driving by He's always glad to oblige when it's coke you ask him to bring home And the children are happy to see that case of refreshment and hospitality Every day monday through friday claudio 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 or if war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do Wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or ice cold coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes