 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 Pass me the cream darling You are very cheerful this morning Mrs. No any objections Mrs. Brown not a one I woke up cheerful for no reason at all. What do you mean for no reason at all? There are plenty of reasons. No Gertrude now that you mention it that is a rather a relief something nice and private about eating breakfast without a maid around Isn't that it is cozy? That's not the half of all you I know why you like it You like it because you don't dare tell Gertrude you won't eat her prunes and cereals But it's only me you don't eat my meeting or meeting orange juice toast and coffee What kind of breakfast is that for a farmer? I'm not a farmer. I'm an architect very Convenient when you want to be a farmer you're a farmer when you don't want to eat you're an architect Go on starve yourself for all I care only Gertrude will be here any minute then watch out I shall flee like a rabbit like a coward you too. You're worse than children What's the matter with children grandmother nothing when the children how about another piece of toast all right? There's one mother flip the jigger on the toaster. Would you please hey? What's the matter with me flipping the jigger toasters nearer to me? You are not to overexert yourself making toast is not exerting now. Let's assemble David's right I shall make the toast I was a mere simple woman not a future mother only four weeks of future left thank goodness I shall ignore the interruptions as I said when I was a mere simple woman I was perfectly able to make the toast just to my husband's taste are you trying to tell me I'm usurping your wifely rights I am good that's exactly what I'm here for and the more you usurp these next few weeks mother to have your I'll be past the Zerp with you now darling we're opening up a brand new week so tell me how you're going to spend it I'm not going to spend it. I'm going to waste it. Claudia hates to spend anything David No, I just like to get my money's worth out of my time if I don't it's wasting it then how do you plan to waste it? I'm doing nothing. I'm perfectly resigned willing and cheerful to spend the next four weeks sitting up here on the farm like a log like a bump like a Anything that just sits and sits and sits and my that's good news David I am going to be a vegetable completely and utterly a vegetable if that's what you want me to be Oh, I'm very fond of vegetable except beets and spinach and egg and squash and be like a bean darling You know my passion for beans. I bean a bean for weeks. It's bean very becoming. Oh, you're looking fine Thank you same to you mama. How about another cup of coffee David? No, thanks mine's still warm Oh, you're lucky going into New York like a man every morning and I haven't to be a man. Just your luck so don't drag Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. You're taking a good breakfast without the truth Managed but just sorry couldn't make it. I was planning Buckwheat Cakes. Oh, It's perfectly. All right Gertrude really I make fine Buckwheat cakes, but my late husband's sister come in on the train I felt I had to be there at the station to call out welcome I'd have felt exactly the same way to go to admit the Male woman at the post office, so I brought along your mail all marvelous mail at breakfast just like New York not much Of it a couple of letters some bills in the seed catalog here. Yeah. Oh, thank well guess I'll be going Lot to be done. No time for prattling. Anyway, I sure like to get my hands on Marvelous woman get rude has a false but a marvelous woman who's a male from glad I'm just looking at it Oh, here's a letter for you David from the Hardware store hmm an ad and one from hand-packed farm Another ad What's that letter there out of the seed catalog? Where? Yeah, right there. Oh, yes. I didn't notice it I'm probably just another ad for a change. No, it's a It's for me congratulations. It's from Well for heaven's sakes. I wonder what it's about. I just can't believe it's for me Sutton such an event for the poor child to get a letter touching isn't it David? Yes tears start to my eyes Imagine what it's about. You said that already come on Claudia open it. You get me nervous just sitting there looking at it I'm opening give me half a chance. I Bet it's an ad Well, well, it's not an ad David. It's a bill for something. She bought and forgot Well, I couldn't be more surprised and she forgot how expensive it was too She's so quiet mother must be fascinating. It is. It's the most amazing thing that ever happened to me What has happened to you? Well, I I I It's just um a letter from an old admirer Well in a way. Yes It's the last thing on earth. I expected to get in the mail a letter Nothing unusual about getting a letter in the mail. Oh, shh both of you. I want to read it again My what a dreamy look in your eyes, darling and pink spots on her cheeks David what time would it be absolutely terrible of me to go into? I mean go on go on say it With nothing much What's tomorrow, David? Oh? Tomorrow Tuesday. I know it's Tuesday. What's the date? May? 25th today is the 24th 24 Mama, what are you doing tomorrow? Got an appointment with my knitting needles and the Adirondack chair under the apple tree at 9 a.m. Sharp Why no reason I just thought if you're going to be here all day You could take care of Gertrude and bluff and Shakespeare. That's all. Why should I be the zookeeper? Where are you going to be? Oh, no, no, no, no place special, but I I Thought I'd run down to New York for the day say that again You don't have to look like that both of you. New York is not the moon my dear young carrots And peas just a few minutes ago you announced that you were utterly resigned to be utterly a vegetable on the farm Oh, that was utterly a few minutes ago. I will turn up that was before Before the famous letter that shook the world if you don't tell me what's in that letter I'll ring your neck Mother mother mother I draw the line at using force now. It isn't really anything important. It's just that I feel I Want to go to New York? That's so often you're not making sense. It's not that I want to have a secret from you darling. It's just that I I Don't want to tell you that's all. Well, why did you say so in the first place in that case darling? You're angry Angry me ridiculous you promise. I don't have to promise Only women are so nosy that they can't bear not knowing what's in a another person's private man Oh, it must be wonderful to be a man and have no petty vices. It is wonderful So wonderful that I'm going to put on my hat and coat and go to New York and leave you to all your little plots and make Believe letters David isn't all right about tomorrow. What about it? What have we been talking about going to New York darling if you want to go New York would love to have oh, thank you And on its behalf I extend to you an invitation and I accept I must admit this is all above my head How would you like to drive me to the stage? I'll be ready when you are Well now Claudia confess Confess what? Enough's enough. I'm your mother Maybe you're right But those are different Maybe that's why I don't want to tell David. Tell him what? Claudia you feeling all right feeling marvelous never felt better If you're not if you're going into New York to see the doctor if you're using a silly letter as an excuse I wouldn't do that mama That's too serious to pretend about all right. I'll take your word for it Don't have to tell me anymore, but I have every intention of telling you mama. I just don't want to tell David I mean not yet This letter was from Jim Varney Jim Varney never heard of him. He's a Broadway theatrical producer What on earth is he doing writing to you that is just the point He's writing to me because he's opening a summer theater in Eastbrook this summer And he wants to know if I'd be interested in acting with his company. He must be mad Speaks my one and only loving parent but Claudia you're not an actress. Well Jim Varney doesn't seem to agree with you He saw me in a play at dramatic school. He says and that's why he wants to see me I think it's because you're convenient. You'll be a neighbor of his theater. So will you be he didn't ask you But why on earth didn't you tell David well because nothing's settled and I I thought maybe David Because his wife's a potential Sarah Bernhardt maybe he'd think I wasn't satisfied with just living up here on the farm and being a mother Then if the job doesn't come through he'd have been hurt for nothing every now and then you show a little sense And I am satisfied mom only Well, this is a chance to To act And I love it. I don't know how the theaters gotten on without you. Oh you then it settled I'll go into New York tomorrow and see mr. Varney may I at least warn you that your mr. Varney is going to be a bit surprised when It's easier Why he says to come he says for you to come doesn't expect a whole family What I don't think he expects to see you looking So very much like a mother Well, I So much like a mother Besides I'm not going to look like this forever It's always a little difficult to make a strange man realize that forget that mr. Varney saw me before I was having a baby Mama, you know, I don't think you want me to go and see him tomorrow. I don't want you to be disappointed. Oh, I won't be Let's see now. I've got a navy blue suit. That makes me look positively Self-like. I'd like to see the silks you have in mind. You will Mama, you know, it's funny just now at breakfast. I was perfectly contended Beautiful day You hear David sweet darling everything perfect Now all I can think of is being an actress again I could kick myself wait when David found finds out what this big secrets about you probably save you the trouble Don't you tell him or I'll never forgive you The station I'm already in willing what about you mother? No, thank you my knitting's waiting baby blankets take such a long time You know mother you have an extraordinary daughter. That's no news to me David. She really had me fooled. I had you fooled Well, you fooled me into thinking you really received an important letter It wasn't until I got out from under the spell of your performance that I realized how I'd been taken in David It's true. I'm going to New York tomorrow. Of course you are if you want to you don't have to Pretend about a letter such a fuss about nothing, but David. I'm not pretending. You see mother Your daughter is really quite a little actress. Mama. Did you hear him? David say that again, please? You certainly had me fooled. I said you really quite a little actress. Oh Darling, that is the most beautiful thing you ever said to me and for once I Certainly hope you're right When you run into a friend at the market these days Why not step over to the familiar red cooler and invite her to pause and refresh? Over a friendly Coca-Cola you can relax and visit You'll find coke coolers in more and more food stores now as well as in service stations and apartment stores They certainly make pleasant spots to enjoy a refreshing interlude What do you think of my daughter, mr. King? Claudia I think she's wonderful. I think she's mad She really seems convinced that she's going to get that summer theater job. Maybe she will maybe she won't hope she won't be Too disappointed if she doesn't well We don't have long to wait till we find out just till tomorrow. I hook up our crook She's going to get herself into New York tomorrow. That's much. I'm sure of without telling David That's her intention Of course, I don't think Claudia can keep a secret from David. How many women can I wish it were tomorrow And I knew how this we're all going to turn out. I'm a little bit worried Well, I don't blame you but tomorrow will come very quickly. See you then mrs. Brown 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 or of war 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 These broadcasts are adapted for radio by mania and Roger 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