 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the play and novel 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 what happened is something wrong what I fell that's what happened Since they took the Carpets out yesterday this floor is less like a bedroom than it is like a skating rink. Did you hurt yourself? Are you all right? Who are you doing out of bed anyway David? Are you hurt? Nothing that won't heal by itself You'd better be careful when you get out of bed If I never knew why people use carpets. I know now. What are you doing out of bed? I'm getting up It's morning Good morning, Mrs. Norton morning. We just went to bed that bright yellow light you see seeping through the window That's not the moon or a flashlight That madame is the Sun It is morning. Let's be very early half past six Six mm-hmm. Good morning. Good night Thought you were going to be a real farm Oh Thought you were going to get up every morning at five o'clock and milk the cow What are you getting up for at this early hour? I'm trying to get ready for tonight. Do a little packing for tonight. Oh Oh, I just remembered mr. Carrington is coming say David. That's awful. What are we gonna do without any furniture? I must say it it does look kind of barren in the living room It does I didn't know how big it was until they took out the furniture. It's wonderful for dancing Yes, except they didn't leave us the radio. Oh, I wish I'd never invited him to New York in the first place But I had to go and invite him for dinner only one thing to do and that is take him out to dinner We'll have to get all dressed up all dressed up. Mm-hmm our evening clothes are packed already now You know why I'm getting up early. You're going to unpack them. That's right and have my dinner jacket pressed Probably needs pressing. They're in the trunk at the bottom of everything. That's why I got up at 6 30 You have to take everything out and put it all back in again You certainly were in a hurry to pack our clothes But I didn't know the furniture was going to be moved yesterday and The expressman is coming for the trunks tomorrow morning first thing. Oh, that's fine And we'll have to spend the whole night after we're through with mr. Carrington putting everything back in the trunks again I don't see why we have to take our good clothes to Connecticut anyway Sometimes I think that you think that Connecticut isn't right next to New York at all Anyway, we'd better take along our evening clothes to Eastbrook Maybe someday there'll be a masquerade and we can go as city folks. Maybe I better get up too I'll do the unpacking there and the repacking. I don't want you to be up all night after he goes When's he coming? We'll hear from him at the office and as soon as I hear from him and know exactly what we're going to do I'll call you David we should be hearing from Victor Carrington at any moment. I guess we should we're very fortunate that Claudia asked him to come to New York that day Invited him I should say Guess we are. Oh indeed. He's undoubtedly looking forward to it as a pleasant change from the ordinary routine of his trips to New York Change eh? Well, it will be that all right Round the formal banquets and a man of his position is invited to the endless dinners at large houses all the palm and circumstances Yes, that must become very tiring Eating standing up can become very tiring too. Oh Yes, I must say the buffet dinners people like to serve at formal parties balancing your plate in one hand and your knife in the other Better setting for a juggling act in the conversation. I wasn't thinking of a buffet supper, Roger I was thinking and when Claudia described the farm to him on the telephone Well, you know how many of these captains of industry feel the more they get out of life the more they start to worry about the things They're missing you mean you think Carrington would like to be moving to a farm himself part of him would David believe me One part of Victor Carrington's personality would like nothing better than to be moving to a farm But life has a way of becoming Very complicated if you let it Sometimes it gets complicated without you letting it sometimes it just that's true David That's why I think Carrington is coming to New York at Claudia's suggestion when he was not interested in coming at yours and mine Then you think he expects to go to our house for dinner David It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he were keeping his entire trip to New York a secret I think he's coming as a sort of Sentimental pilgrimage to put himself for a day or two in your place to see how it feels perhaps to be looking forward Well life that's a bit fuller Bit rounder perhaps and the gloriously successful one. He's achieved for himself Roger I sincerely hope that you're wrong You see Roger we can't have Carrington to dinner tonight. You can't no, but David Why not our furniture? We haven't got any The moving people came yesterday and took it away. No furniture all the better David all the better That's precisely the sort of thing that I think Carrington would enjoy enjoy Eating off the windowsill Roger aren't you being a little impractical impractical? Oh, I don't mean that no furniture is a pleasure But you heard the way Claudia talked with what with the telephone the other day I heard Claudia's end of the conversation. That's all one had to hear but we we literally haven't got a Table to eat from we haven't got silverware nothing David David don't let your respect for mr. Carrington's position to pry him of a very great pleasure Well, if we have to arrange a dinner nothing complicated the simpler the better You know, I don't care how simple if we have to arrange a dinner. I'd better call Claudia right away good I think you've made a very wise a very kind decision I'd feel a little sure of myself if you were Carrington Roger, but well Didn't I just hear somebody coming in the outer office? I think so. That's probably Carrington I'll be with you as soon as I get Claudia. Hello, David You sound as though you're in a terrible hurry his carrying didn't come yet dinner here the darling Seven o'clock Well, I guess we can get a table from Bertha and chairs and we've got two chairs in the bedroom and we have the everyday China and the pots and the pans and and and We can use paper napkins and I guess I can make hamburgers and Then we're going to have salad and oh, I have some canned apricots and David it's almost seven o'clock Carrington will be here any minute Claudia. You're marvelous. Don't you think I'm very efficient. Aren't you surprised? I am never surprised when you do something. Well, but what makes you think I like surprises Darling, I I hated to ask you to do this But Roger made me feel that it was almost an act of charity. It's really better this way Britha helped and she's going to cook dinner and I packed away to eat and close again and everything looks wonderful Isn't it wonderful? It's as bare as the Yankee Stadium in February. I hope Mr. Carrington thinks so There he is now Could be Bertha, I guess maybe she had to go downstairs and get the French's dinner ready. I Would you go see who it is? Oh, hello, Mrs. Norton. Well, hello, you're all dressed. Oh dear perhaps I'm a little early I was so anxious to get here and see you again Well, please come in. We haven't any furniture. We're just moving. Yeah, so your husband tells me. Oh, hello, Norton Hello, Mr. Carrington You really shouldn't have dressed. I Mean it wasn't necessary to dress. I am a little early. I suppose there's no great hurry You know, you'll have plenty of time to dress while I talk to your wife I haven't seen her in quite a while, but but Mr. Carrington these dinners never begin very promptly either We're going to a dinner. Good heavens did I forget to tell you? I Guess you did. Well, well, I was so interested in what you and mr. Kidion were telling me today It must have completely slipped my mind at least I thought my secretary had am I going to are you going I should say so Why you're going to sit right beside me. I expect to enjoy this dinner more than any dinner I've been to in quite some time. What dinner is it mr. It's our annual industry-wide banquet main reason I'm in New York is to attend it Is it a very big dinner? Very big and very important Fine opportunity for your husband to meet some men with problems similar to mine Next year. I think our freight terminal will be the sensation of the banquet. I'll expect your husband to give an address David, I think you better start getting dressed dressed Dress Claudia, where did you put my there at the bottom at the bottom you need any help? No, I can manage we we haven't got much time at that northern when you're ready We can talk freight terminal while Claudia dresses. I'll be right back just as soon as I can find Well, it certainly is nice to see you again your husband is a fine architect. He's done wonderful things to our farm, mr. Carrington. I hope you'll come to see it sometime soon Well farms are out of my line and I'm surprised that you don't find them a little out of yours out of our line Well, I'd say that you were a little too sophisticated for farm life. You're a real New Yorkers I think but we're both looking forward to we can hardly wait here I forget to tell your husband that we're going to a formal banquet and it doesn't seem to bother him or you a bit You're just perfectly casual about it both of you Banquets or farming doesn't matter You take both of them right in your stride For you New Yorkers everything is a party. Oh What was that I think I'd better go and see excuse me. Please hurry back. There's a great deal more. I want to say before I David what happened? Oh nothing much I just pushed over a small trunk, but the evening clothes aren't in that one They're in the other one that steamer trunk at the bottom push it over here. I hope he isn't getting impatient He's going to introduce you to some very important people on the bottom. Yes Why did you have to put my dinner jacket on the bottom? You said you wouldn't wear it for years in Connecticut. Not that we go to a fancy dress party remember? Well, here goes Oh, now don't don't make too much mess, but we can't keep Carrington waiting your shoes are in the other trunk David I'll get them out. Why did they have to have his Industry-wide banquet tonight of all nights in the year. He thinks we go to parties every night I hope the next party we see is that fancy dress ball up at Eastbrook. Why couldn't it have been a masquerade tonight? Then everything would have been perfect In Connecticut, we'll be able to dress up like New Yorkers and tonight darling We could go as a as a couple of Yankees from the farm Next time you're in a food store notice how many women pause during marketing for ice cold Coca-Cola? Having a coke cooler right in the store makes it easy Why don't you stop for coke as a pleasant break in the day's routine? You'll probably find as others do that selection is easier when you shop refreshed I guess Claudia and David are inside dressing. Mr. King all they'll be ready in a moment, Mr. Carrington You'll probably find as others do that selection is easier when you shop refreshed I guess Claudia and David are inside dressing Mr. King all they'll be ready in a moment Mr. Carrington Claudia and David never take very long for anything quite a young couple. I like them I'm surprised they're going to live on a farm. They didn't seem like that to me all they didn't seem like that at first to Claudia either But she's gotten so she really loves the idea you don't say and Mrs. Brown Claudia's mother loves it too Oh, is she moving up to Eastbrook with them too? Well, that problem hasn't been settled yet But I understand it's due tomorrow. I wonder whether Mrs. Brown is going to move with David and Claudia or not Well, the pleasure's all hers Hmm, they ought to be ready for now. Goodbye, Mr. King. Goodbye, Mr. Carrington 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 all of wire 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 This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola