 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the 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 and see about my hat good It'll just take me a moment my sweet and then we'll go to the hotel for a couple of hours. I'll be fine Norton good afternoon. We've been expecting you good afternoon miss Eleanor I've been trying to get down here for weeks. This is my sister-in-law. Mrs. David Norton. Oh, so glad to meet you Hello, won't you sit down? You're looking very well, Mrs. Norton. Here's an ashtray. I'll tell mr. Rowan You're here. I would appreciate it's coming right over. I don't hardly see any hats around You don't where I get hats. They're all over the place. Well hats are mostly made to order here Claudia why don't you get yourself a hat this afternoon get one here? This is the best place in New York Roland and Francis have a superb winter collection, but I don't need a hat. I've got a hat which you're carrying in your hand That's why I always wear them. That's where they look best on me It's a very nice hat that you can always use another I Hate to ask Julia, but I they're not expensive here at all for what you get. It's the cheapest place in town. Oh Oh what well it sounds terribly expensive You're a funny child. We'll ask mr. Roland what kind of hat you want. He knows what I want of course He even knows what I want. Oh, Mrs. Norton one moment, and I'll be right with you, Mrs. Norton Julia I am not going to buy a hat. I don't think I want the kind of hat I want well, Mrs. Norton you're looking marvelous simply Marvelous thank you. This is my sister-in-law. Mrs. David Norton. Yeah, how do you do so pleased to meet you? Well now happen There were kind of hats every kind of hat I've got one special one that will look drenchingly lovely on you really Drenchingly lovely. I don't think I'd mind that all it sounds like a rain hat a rain of inspiration perhaps Now Mrs. Norton the model for this hat is in pusher and mode But I shall have it made for you in sharp shirts and I'll it much better for you as you say Of course the young mrs. Norton here could wear the future and move, but I'm not buying a hat Thank you, but you're making a fearful mistake. Well, I shall fetch it for you You're really going to love it. How much do you think it's going to cost Julia? Oh between 85 and 110 what? Yes, that's right Heaven's sakes That's a third of the price for having a baby. Well, you can't compare prices that way my sweet Why not it's the same money isn't it? Well here we are. I call this one surprise Very gay and why not mrs. Norton? You should be very gay New York in the winter just cries for this hat here. Let me put it on for you You're sure it's not too big a hat for me too big if anything Too small. How do you like it Claudio? It doesn't look like a hat at all. And what more could you ask of a hat than that? Well, this is not just look at yourself. Well, yes, I see what you mean Really it is if I must say so myself. It is Stunning yes, but how many things have I got that I can wear it with this hat with everything With nothing it would dress up a hat rack. Oh, yes, that is your hat. I like it. It's very mad What else have you got? You may keep it on mrs. Norton. Yeah, I'll be right back I want to glean the shelves and ransack every nook of inspiration for you, but it'll just take me a moment All right, don't hurry Well, Claudia you haven't said very much Don't you hate having someone put a hat on for you usually, but I wouldn't know how some of these hats went on otherwise Darling, why are you here? Are you sure you don't want to get a hat? I'm sure David would love it I don't think so David wants me to wear a sunbonnet. Oh, what a sunbonnet. Isn't that what milkmaids wear? You don't look the least bit like a milkmaid and don't let that husband of yours tell you that you do It's the farm Juliet Eastbrook David wants to buy it. Oh, it might be rather nice to have for weekends Eastbrooks are very chic community. There's Nancy Riddle, of course and the frosts and the frailing hyacinths, but Julia This isn't for weekends. It's for good Bury yourself in the country at your age. Oh, Claudia. You mustn't let him do this in the first place It's probably not a good investment buying at the top of the market like this. Oh Why don't you have David speak to Hartley about it? I'll discuss it with Hartley tonight and tomorrow have David call and they'll lunch together and Well, that may settle everything. Oh Julia that would be wonderful. You don't know how much I appreciate this. No sense It's nothing at all. Men get this way my dear. All they need is a little sense. David's sensible except for this. I Suppose he wants it very much You know, maybe that's why I sort of not tried to talk him out of it I guess only I didn't know it till now because you love David so much. You mean Well, darling that love is fine, but you can have it in the city too Hartley will settle everything tomorrow. Well here we are if you saw these hats one at a time You wouldn't think that could ever be another hat was beautiful. Perhaps we needn't fool each other Mrs. Norton, so I brought you the three most beautiful of all heavens I won't be able to decide but don't decide take them all four hats four hats is nothing It's almost too baby. So how could it be nothing yet? Oh, I don't quite understand. I do Mrs. Norton wouldn't your sister-in-law like to try on a little hat Mrs. Norton your sister-in-law would not this hat Is the only hat in the entire salon that I would recommend to you the only one? It's just right for your features It'll emphasize the ephemeral quality of your beauty really well Go on Claudia try it on you need a hat and when David sees you in that he won't try and stick your way in the country Maybe that is a good idea and this hat is only 66 dollars a special price for Mrs. Norton's sister-in-law 66 dollars So little well frankly we're trying to lure you into buying all your hats here And of course you understand that for 66 dollars. I mean this isn't really an original But it is one of our best models. I meant so little the hat not so little the money You should wear little hats to match the tilt of your nose go on well and try it on well I'll try it on no harm in that just to permit me, but if you don't mind. I'd rather do it myself But of course some ladies must do it themselves, but you're going to love this Mrs. Norton I should think all that tool and that large bow would be very becoming do you Claudia How do you like it stunning? Oh really stunning here, but that's not yet. Yeah, but that's backwards Back to front you mean I am wrong But it's so very becoming like that But it's beautiful Perfect just like that From now on it must be worn backwards all hats with bows in front must be worn with bows in the back Why is it inspiration a whole new flood of inspiration? Are you sure it looks all right Julia? I didn't think I'd look like me at all. It is the wrenchingly beautiful Till I guess I better not get it. It's too expensive too expensive You shall receive it as a gift. I give it to you You wear it backwards and between you and me we shall start an entirely new vote that will sweep the country It's a gift. Oh, I couldn't go on take it my lamb with all my grateful. Thanks. The hat is yours. Yeah backwards always backwards Been home for an hour. Where have you been? Lemon or cream sugar. Hello, David. Hello sugar. Oh You you haven't been home for an hour at all. What do you mean? I haven't your ears are still red from the wind and your cheeks are cool Nice, what's in that box box the box. You're not carrying in your left hand. Oh that box It's a hat but your hat is in your right hand. That is my old hat. Now. We're getting someplace You bought a new hat. Well, I didn't exactly buy it. Not exactly You see I met Julia at Rowland and Francis. Who are they? Hatters mad Hatter's I really David they charge one hundred dollars a hat. You mean each hat put it on Put it on Doesn't have to look good. I didn't pay for it. You didn't then I was given it to lure me into being a customer Are you kidding? It is a joke isn't it? You took that hat under a false pretence That's not the only reason it was given me because I started a flood of inspiration when I put it on sounds wet and because I'm Drenchingly beautiful it sounds very wet. Well, I like it whether or not you'll think so Drink to me only with thine hat darling put it on really curious, aren't you? It looks nice We'll go down and pay the man for we'll do nothing in the store. It was a present. He'd be insulted David one thing first what now am I never going to see this gift horse of a hat I told Julia about the house in Eastbrook. What'd she say? She thinks she knows the place If it's an old salt box, it must be a beautiful house. She says Julia has excellent taste. She liked his hat, too Just remember that Anyway, Julia would like you to talk to Hartley before you do anything about the house. Why? Because she says he might have some very good business advice to offer you. He knows a lot about investing in real estate David the farm is a real estate isn't it? Yes, darling. It is a real estate I'll call Hartley tomorrow and lunch with him no harm in hearing what he has to say. Would you be influenced by my mind? To load off my mind now. I'll put on that. Oh and put a load right back on it, huh? It says when you see me in this hat, you'll even change your mind about the farm. Do you want me to? Don't worry. Nothing will change it now that I know you want it, too. I Don't think you're so smart after all Yeah, how do I look? Well, what's so funny? You look like a milkmaid all dressed up David darling. It's it's silly It'll scare the daylight out of the cows not for the cows David. Don't you like it? Well, well, of course, I like it. You look wonderful very glamorous. I do Like a Christmas tree. Oh, I hate you turn around. Why? Claudia you've got that hat on backwards backwards is front words for this hat. I beg your pardon. Backwards is what started the flood But I think you've got it on Backwards back. Oh you But I like you best of all Backwards frontwards frontwards backwards backwards In your way Come here hat. All right now I Careful David, you'll knock it off. Who cares about a hat Not me darling Not me This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney The friendliest house on the block is usually the house with plenty of coke in the refrigerator That's the house that kids like to stop at the house the neighbors like to visit Yours can be such an inviting hospitable spot if you keep the refrigerator well stocked with coca-cola You can still get this matchless way to hospitality for only five cents Mighty little to pay you'll agree for the pause that refreshes 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 olive wire 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