 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 Boom David what do you suppose has happened to Roger? Oh, he'll be down any minute sure you woke him up Of course, I woke him up. Maybe you better go upstairs and take a look why maybe you went back to sleep not Roger Why not Roger because that partner of mine is a real real fish now What's being a real real fisherman got to do with sleeping? Well, he'll want to get started fishing good and early It may still be good, but it certainly isn't early anymore. It's almost half past seven. Well, it's still early for Roger Is it early for the fish to know just about right for the fish? Oh poor little fish Say if Roger doesn't come downstairs soon, you're not going to have time for breakfast Oh, we'll grab some on the way. You will not you'll grab it right here before you leave I'm not going to have you standing hip-high and water with nothing on your stomach. I look darling One has nothing to do with the other having a decent breakfast has something to do with everything You win. I'll go out and see what's keeping Roger. You know, I never thought Roger'd be a fisherman. Why not? I don't know. You don't expect anyone with an ulcer to be a fisherman. Do you don't you? Well, he just doesn't seem to type for fish. He does for an ulcer, but not for fish What? What is the tide? Oh more blood thirsty angrier More outdoor-ish. Well, there's a lot you don't know about Roger. He's a very complicated person that much I do know and while I think of it Mrs. Norton. Am I the fisherman type blood thirsty and angry? Well a little bit round the edges I Like it on a man You know, you ought to go fishing more. I should you feel very nice in this big woolly shirt Well, that's a fine reason name a better one. You're not wearing it for the weather. It's been warm It's always pretty cool on a trout streamer in the morning in May nonsense You're wearing it because fishermen always wear woolly shirts You think you're very smart, don't you? Do I? Darling you can wear this shirt for me anytime. You don't have to wait for the trout. Thank you. Thank you for the permission Hello. Oh, hello. This is a very pretty domestic scene Roger. We're just wondering what had happened to you The Claudia was wondering Roger. I Slapped gorgeously good now breakfast breakfast good heavens. No, no what now thing except I don't take anything for at least an hour after I'm up. You don't well, that's awful What's so awful about it? I wake up starving. So does David. I hadn't realized Now you know now come on the two of you into the dining room Breakfast has been waiting for half an hour coming Roger. Well, I'll watch you eat when Claudia says eat you eat Everything's on the table. So help yourselves orange juice. Take all the pits out. So go on drink it. Do you good? Oh All right, we'd better hurry to Jared tuckle be along any minute. I'm rather looking forward to seeing him again I'll never forget the first time I drove up here and saw the for sale sign on the house I fell in love with it at first sight Then Jared Tucker said he wouldn't sell. Oh, don't remind me No, I still can't believe he sold the farm to us David It was a stroke of brilliance getting Jared Tucker to guide us today Oh, he knows all of the best streams around here. He said sure He's been fishing in them for the best part of a century pass me the cream aren't you surely there's only one thing I can't understand only one thing. Thanks. Why you two are going fishing in a dinky little stream When there's a whole ocean not too far away. You can hardly call what they do in the ocean fishing You can't that business with heavy tackle and big lines. That's not fishing. That's Organized murder I see Your fishing isn't trout fishing that is something else again. Oh There's no sport quite like it not like dry fly fishing there isn't Dry fly What is it just what it sounds like Little bits of feather all pretty colored thread and a hook made quite ingeniously to look like a fly Really the things you men think of what? What was that? Trout fishing could be so simple you could be sitting safe and dry on the riverbank But you decide to have wet feet and dry flies instead don't you pay any attention to a Roger? I won't I think I'll go and ask our handyman if he's got the worms ready for you worms Did you say worms? Of course? You're going fishing aren't you but that's what the dry flies are for What for the fishing we use them instead of worms? Why? Why? You explain it to her David. Mmm. Certainly Darling a trout bite better on dry flies than they do on worms. I don't believe it She doesn't believe it. Well, how can I when people have been using worms for thousands of years? That doesn't prove anything. It's all the proof I need good Of course, I know the real reason why you prefer dry flies. Oh, you won't admit it. Mm-hmm, and What is the real reason? I don't blame you for it. Oh, I'd feel the same way. What way? Worms that is not the reason David you don't have to pretend Everybody feels the same way about worms Claudia a man who fishes for trout with flies has nothing nothing on earth But contempt for people who use worms Claudia I have never fished with anybody who used worms and I trust that the occasion will never arise I hasten to explain that this is not because of my feeling against the worm But because of my respect for the trout very nicely put right well you can give any excuse you like I Wouldn't mind even going fishing with dry flies, but worms Never Claudia a man who would use worms to catch trout is a man who would steal from his mother pilfer from the poor box And hunt deer with machine guns and hand grenade You haven't even finished your orange juice Oh, so I haven't now we should Jared Tucker would get here I want to get started good thing. He didn't get here at 715 when he was supposed to you say he really knows the stream Oh, he's promised us excellent fishing. We each ought to catch at least a dozen Well, that doesn't sound like very much. That's a great deal for trout What a fuss for 12 little fish If I'd known you're so crazy about trout David, I'd have bought you some a long time ago Why didn't you say so buying trout and catching trout are two entirely different? Not when you eat them especially when you eat them. Well, maybe you're right. Maybe I wouldn't like to eat a fish I caught uh Roger meant to just the Opposite he did Roger, I am surprised at you darling. What about our lunch? Is it ready? Of course, it's ready It's in the kitchen. I hope you haven't wrapped a lot of sandwiches Oh, I don't think it'll be too much and I filled a thermos with coffee I love coffee in the thermos. It has a much better taste that is a matter of opinion Sort of a way except for the fishing part. I wish I were going with you You can drink your coffee out of a thermos right here at home whenever you like may I not that is sweet Oh, I can't wait to be standing in that sunny stream the birds singing the trout biting I don't think there's anything that compares with trout fishing on a beautiful Crisp spring day like this one will be I'm with you on that. Oh, there's Janet Tucker Got your equipment ready David standing in the front hall waiting for Hello, Mr. Tucker. Morning, Miss Norton. What's matter anything wrong? Hey, you ain't dressed yet. Oh, yes, I am You ain't coming fishing. I expected you to be out there with us pulling them trout in No, I'm not coming. I thought you men would like to be off by yourselves a little privacy Well, Mrs. Norton, you're the first woman I met who understands what a man's like. Yep the first Got a right smart work wife, Mr. Norton. Yep, right smart that's news to me Maybe she could even tell you what that nice red sunrise I saw this morning mean bright red sunrise a nice Means a beautiful day. You see he's not so smart. Oh, yes. She is Red sunrise means a beautiful day for fishing. You think it may rain. Yep. Yep begin to cloud up right now Oh, David, I'm sorry. Sorry. Why there's why there's why there's nothing like an overcast day for bringing fish right up To the top of the water come a little drizzle a silly fish Don't know where the water ends in the air begins nothing like rain. Did you say rain did it did it did No wonder my rheumatism has been so bad. I can hardly lift my arm this morning I hope the Sun would help it fishings just what you need in the rain in the rain But sure hope it don't start before we're finished climbing the ledge Climbing the lead sure got to climb over the big ledge to get to the other side of the hill a hill Streams at the bottom of it that ledge gets slippery in the rain dangerous Hmm when and if we make it I hope the fish will be biting mr. Tucker. Mr. Uh, mr. Killian just slipped the name. I know you're mr. Norton's partner in architecture. Well, mr. Gillian There's three things I never tried to predict three. I never tried to predict how a woman is going to act at any given moment I ain't never tried to predict what day the ice is gone out in East Brook Lake I ain't never tried to tell a body if he's going to catch fish or if he ain't that makes sense So if there's a fish you want to you don't take no chance I recommend you walk yourself down to the fish market and buy yourself a frozen flounder Well, we'd better get started. Hey, don't forget that box David this enormous crate. What is it your lunch that much in that? You're going to get awfully hungry climbing rocks and ledges in the rain I'm going to get awfully hungry carrying this good, and you'll eat it all all but Claudia David We'd better just go quietly yep that reminds me there's one thing I insist on I don't want no talk not a sound It scares the fish away. No talking at all not a beep. Well, I certainly hope you have a good time Well, we'd better stop this silly shally and get moving. I left my can of worms outside on the porch David did you hear what I heard? I Heard it. I I think Roger I think I heard it too, but I'm hoping I didn't did you say? Worms mr. Tucker sure said worms that's what I thought you said and you left them on the port Of course it did. I ain't the kind of a man who comes into a bodice parlor dragging his worms in with him Why of course not mr. Tucker, but you you you do like using worms. Oh sure. I do like using them What do you think I use my bare hand? I was wishing you did well come on. Let's go. I love I'll take the lunch And here's your rain poncho darling. Goodbye darling take care yourself a box lunch and a crate It started to rain my arm aches no talking and Tucker uses worms David just one thing more What please don't catch too many trout what well after all your three grown man against one little fish Somehow it doesn't seem quite sporting to me. It doesn't matter of fact I think you'll be a little ashamed to catch a perfectly harmless helpless trout Oh David one of the most profoundly mysterious things about women is why they always take the side of the fish Mmm Sometimes a mere snack takes on the aspects of a festive lunch For instance if you reach into the refrigerator and add a bottle of ice-cold coca-cola to your noonday meal a Sandwich a salad or any leftovers somehow becomes an appetizing treat That's one more reason for keeping your refrigerator well supplied with coke You'll find the afternoon's duties are easier to face if you lunch refreshed Every day Monday you're a fisherman mr. King Why of sorts mr. Tucker. I I only like it when the fish bite then you ain't no fisherman The fish is the least important thing does yep the least well Maybe you take me fishing someday mr. Tucker in spite of that sure will sure will out I'll take you Monday Monday. Oh, sorry. Can't Monday. We'll all be back in New York on Monday mr. Mrs. Norton going in I think they'll be planning to whether they catch their train or not is something else again All you got to do to catch a train is set your alarm clock early enough Nope, that's not all to catch a train. You mustn't let Claudia park the car But that's what you'll find out on Monday. Well, so long mr. King got to get to my fishing. Yep. Goodbye, mr. Tucker And as I was saying 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 Monday 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 For coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice-cold coca-cola is everywhere These programs star Catherine Bard as Claudia and Paul Crabtree as David 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