 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 David is that you home to roost grandma was very hot in the city today Not too bad sort of muggy rained a lot rain practically all day here to came down in buckets ought to be cooler tonight How's everything at home? I haven't the matches mom. Yeah, that's new pipe. No same old pipe Bobby all right everything at home is 100% you sound like Claudia. There is Claudia feeding Bobby. She'll be done in a moment David why are you standing around smiling like that? Hmm? Then my uh, am I smiling like an advertisement for a tooth powder? Been a fine day. Mrs. Brown a fine day. I really do think you and Claudia are telepathic Claudia's been going around with a smile on her face all day too. I've been wondering how she'd be It's really the first day. She's been home alone since her play clothes. She didn't seem to mind especially with the rain, I guess You know, I was I was afraid she'd be restless and sort of low Last week was such an exciting and busy week now all of a sudden Nothing to do. Well, as I say, she's been acting delighted with herself all day Going around singing smiling to herself just like you Every now and then I've noticed that counting on her fingers. Let me think if she were Figuring out some complicated mathematical problem, but she wouldn't tell me what it was all about Well, we'll soon find out. We'll drag it out of her. In the meantime, Mrs. Brown, let me let me give you some good news I'm always ready to hear that. Well, Harrington sent us a first payment on that freight terminal that we designed for it That is good news. And Roger insisted that I take a bonus on it. Well, we eat. Oh, we not only eat We eat caviar and baked Alaska Just because you come into some money, David, doesn't mean we all have to have indigestion. Well, the rich always have indigestion Now Mrs. Brown, here. Now, beast your eyes on this lovely green check Take a look at that I've never seen so many zeros in all my life. David, I am delighted for you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you Aside from investing in caviar and baked Alaska. What are you going to do with all this thousand dollars? Well You remember last week, mother. We decided that we were going to get going on furnishing this house Well, Claudia has so much time on her hands and you don't want her to get restless or impatient Anyway Why don't we just give her this money and let her enter upon a career of interior decorating? I think you're very generous today. No, no, not at all. This is my house, too isn't it? I have a right to Drapes, look at those windows. They look good with drapes on them. Love it. A carpet. We need a carpet down here We need a carpet in the hall. Yes, we really do. Some other necessities. I have a right to those things, haven't I? Yes, you certainly do trust Claudia You think she'll be pleased, mother? She'll be ecstatic Intoxicated drunk with her own wealth. Come on now. Thousand dollars isn't that much money. Oh, yes It is more than Claudia has ever had in one bulk some to spend the she-choose it Yeah, if we can get her to spend it. I don't think you'll have any trouble. How are you going to tell her? Do the simplest and quickest way possible. No secrets or surprises this time. This is a genuine gift Why didn't you tell me you were home? How long have you been here? Why didn't you come up and say hello? No, wait a minute. I'll go back and start the game. Let's see. Why didn't I tell you we're home? I just this minute put my hat in the garage and took my car off Bobby's fine. Oh, that's good. He ate his whole dinner without a murmur. That's fine. I had a beautiful day. That's fine It was a wonderful rain. I couldn't leave the house. Is that fine? Very fine. Good It was nice spending a whole day at home after having practically lived at that theater for two weeks I guess I'm just a homebody at heart Don't forget the baked Alaska mrs. Brown baked Alaska. Yeah from now on nothing absolutely nothing but the best I have had nothing but the best for a whole year darling David you realize we're married almost a year. I certainly do every time I look at myself in the mirror It's a reminder two more days, and it's our anniversary. I love being married, don't you? Wasn't as bad as I expected either David you realize how rich we are today. You never spoke a truer word I don't mean rich the way you mean rich. Well, how do you mean I mean? I don't mean the baby and the farm and mama and you because That way we're rich every day and every night I mean rich the way other people mean rich Well, this is as clear as mud now. Which way is that money rich mama mama was absolute We are without a doubt telepathic You know, I'm not interested much in money, but it's nice when you get it in a lump, isn't it? Well money has a place in the scheme of things. It's not really important I know I know I know I know I apologize it comes in handy But tell me How did you know? You mean about money being handy Everyone knows that. No, no, I don't mean that at all. I mean about the check Did mama guess oh I was waiting to tell you both at the same time You were going to tell me. Yes say now wait a minute hold it right there Did you call the office today when I wasn't there? I did not david you're talking in riddles again So are you my love? Well, I'm going to stop this minute What I have to say is too exciting to beat around the bank Now I'd rather have some news of my own. Thank you. Here comes mama mama Do as I tell you don't I always with no arguments mrs. Brown No arguments mama sit down on that chair by the fireplace and david you sit there right across from me We better sit down mama. It looks like she's got a whip I I I'm sitting claudia. What is all this? No arguments mama. You gave your word. I did not Well as good as now come on sit down mrs. Brown right over there That's a girl now claudia has some news for you david have you told her yet? I shut mother Master claudia has the floor. What's more? I have the check check What check it came this morning in the mail Oh, so that's why just look at this will you a check from the eastbrook summer theater for one hundred dollars Ooh One hundred dollars. What do you think of that? What's so exciting about one hundred dollars? What's so exciting about a hundred dollars? A hundred dollars is a fortune an enormous sum of money enormous You mean they paid you one hundred dollars for being in a play for one week I had no idea it was so easy to make money There I was having a wonderful time being in a professional play with a Wonderful part and right here in eastbrook and they paid me a hundred dollars more overpaid or underpaid Overpaid I should have paid them Look at this david. It's not the money, but it's it's the first money I've ever earned Well, I ought to turn you out to pasture more often. I could retire Just think david without lifting a finger you could live off the path of the land. Oh, it's wonderful Absolutely wonderful to have a wealthy wife and a wealthy daughter little did I know when I gave birth to her some 19 Years ago. She takes such good care of me in my old age. You know you two aren't taking this seriously. We are we are I'm terribly impressed mrs. Norton. There's only uh one thing that worries me. What's that? Well, how are you going to tolerate me? You could make so much money. Why aren't you going to get very independent and snooted? Well, I am I'm going to go right out and buy myself a mink coat to wear while I'm milking the cow The cow which I'm going to buy for you dad. You will just about be able to afford a quart of milk And mama, I'm going to buy you a pig a small little pig. You can call all your own I'll be waiting for this day. Now. Let me see a mink coat for me How do you make a nose like a mink coat one on each arm? I'm the one that'll have two minks mrs. Brown both on the same and I'm going to buy a hen for the rooster And a wife for bluff. Oh not another great day in this house, bro Call for david Pig for mama And um, let's see that leaves you about 99 dollars. I'll buy a mouse for shakespeare A few mouse a house mouse or a church mouse house mouse, of course shakespeare is a house mouse. I mean cat Well, that reminds me. I'll buy a house coat for bertha. What about fritz? See, oh fritz is admiring a new scythe. He saw downtown. I'll buy him a scythe What about bobby? Oh bobby doesn't need anything. He's still getting presents just for being born What are you going to do with the rest of your money put it in the bank? This is some hundred dollars the biggest hundred dollars. I've ever seen seriously david. It's a lot of money, isn't it? It most certainly is I think I earned it all by myself If I didn't want to be a wife and a mother more I could be a millionaires you are a millionaires now and you don't know it. I know it This is just extra dividend perhaps. No the baby's the dividend david. I see the money is Just extra Maybe I should put it all away and save it for the dividend's education. Now you'll have one you spend your money. It's yours Honestly, I have nothing to spend money. You find a way if you set your mind to it Here david you take it. Nope. Nope. Nope. I will not. I will not. Go on. Go on. Go on. Please take it. No, stop pushing it under my nose claudy I won't know the part of your wealth Don't you know that husbands are very proud. Oh, don't be proud of us. I most certainly will be I'll touch not a sue of this now go out buy yourself that mink coat see if I can Please take it david put it in the bank pay off the mortgage. I like the mortgage. I've grown very fond of the mortgage It wouldn't dream of paying it off Then pay off something else. There's nothing else to pay off. I take this check and put it in your stocking for a rainy day Today was a rainy day. I didn't have any use for it at all Oh, it's so nice to know that in a pinch I need to be a waiter on your neck david You know, I've gotten rather fond of my ball and chain You're proud of me busting with pride. It's going to get conceited david. I am conceited. I'm conceited now and I have been for month Right. Hey, where are you going? I haven't shown my check to fritz and bertha. I wanted you to be the first but I think they have a right to see it. They certainly have they'll be very proud working for such a wealthy woman No wonder she's been smiling all day mother david you haven't told her yet about your thousand dollars. Have you? Oh, it's it's not very important. Isn't it? No We've we've gotten along fine without it. So why make a fuss? You're going to tell her though, aren't you? Of course I am but not today No, not today Because today a hundred dollars seems worth a great deal more than a thousand. Is that it? You know, mrs. Brown sometimes Just sometimes my dear I think you're absolutely brilliant Shall we uh dance? Mama you're very graceful on my feet Maybe we ought to go and vote for mama When high school youngsters get together there seem to be two requirements for a good time coke and music At their own youth centers, they drop a nickel in the jukebox drop another nickel in the coca-cola cooler and the fun begins That same kind of wholesome pleasure can be offered them at home If there's a radio or phonograph all you have to do is buy a case of coke Stow a good supply in the refrigerator And the young folks can play host to their friends at any time Well, what do you think of claudia as a breadwinner, mr. King if she were my wife I'd retire And be satisfied with very little from that day forth. Well, I don't know about that But seriously, uh, how does claudia plan to spend her fortune eight ways? But the first of them is at an auction sale. Oh auction sale Oh, that could also be the last of them. That's why my fingers are crossed and they will remain crossed Until we are home from that auction tomorrow. Well, I'll be here to lend you the car fair home if you happen to need it Say there joe. Yes, david. Maybe I'll need a little of that car fair david I'm sure you will I'm not going to the auction mama and claudia are but I'm not I know better Well, you'll get the result when they get home Goodbye. Goodbye joe 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 or of war and remember Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice cold coca-cola is everywhere These broadcasts are adapted for radio by mania star and the entire production is supervised and directed by William brown maloney and now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola