 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 now Claudia Downtown or you're going downtown now David. I'm gonna pick up some tobacco and there's a new book out of how I get it out Stationary store. I'm disappointed. Oh, I'm not that means we'll be home all evening Perfect evening for a new book and an old white Overcome my disappointment if while you're in the village David you buy me a card of safety pins a spool of number 50 white thread What happens if I buy number 60 you will get We don't want to do that Now let me see if I can remember everything tobacco Book safe and large for Bobby. I can't imagine how a baby goes through so many safety pins He probably wears them out. Let's see a white thread 50. Oh when a bottle of ink for me blue pink blue I should have never opened my mouth. Why not all I said was I was going downtown for a mere can of tobacco He didn't look at me with enough orders to keep a notion shop in business for a year He likes to object mama. It's manly to object men always object to errands. How anything else while you're at it David, you know, you're starting to look shaggy around the edges. Very shaggy Tack-fully you're trying to tell me that I need a haircut. Is that it tactfully? Yes Oh, I thought you were planning to give a violin recital next week. They tell her mama He's a little big for violin, but maybe we didn't know it Claudia and men are wearing their hair longer this year Maybe you're right. Maybe they brought their hairlines to match our hemline Well, it might interest you to know that I know that I need a haircut. He knows that's the first step David now seriously, why haven't you gotten the haircut down because Francis has appendicitis who is Francis? Francis is my barber. Oh Of course and he has appendicitis that makes everything clear. Well, is he the only barber in the world David as far as the Nape of my neck is concerned. Yes Took me years to find and training. How long has it been that he's ill from the looks of the back of your neck I'd say a month at least or that's too long for appendicitis. Well, Francis had complications Do they arrest men for long hair mama for vagrancy? I guess the vagrancy is not very stylish No barber besides Francis has touched my hair in the last two years and no barber has touched it in the last two months Period. I must admit Claudia David always looks quite trim. They're well barbed never with that flowery look Mama stop sabotaging. I Simply refuse to believe there's only one barber in the world who can cut your hair David. Why what's it to you? Well, only that if it's true, it's it's worse than being a woman Speaking of women They certainly don't make the fuss about their hairdresser that men make about their barber. Don't they? Anyway, no more than Mrs. Norton may I go now go go where I was under the impression that there were some errands You want to run downtown? Don't forget your tobacco and your book David. That's right. That's right. Don't Your thoughtfulness overwhelms me. Mama's very fond of you David. Don't let her actions Try not to oh David while you're at the stationery store. There's the sweetest little barber next door. How'd you know he's sweet? He's Italian and he looks sweet. He has a turned up moustache and He's an excellent barber. When will you last barbered and shave this last week? Please don't come home looking all sure and naked David all what Sure and naked you see men like that all over the streets, you know I Think the reason most men get such bad haircuts is that they just don't pay attention. They read the stock market instead Can't expect the barber to be interested in your hair if you're not can you David? I'm not following you I lost you in the in the middle of the stock market It's all the same to you now ladies. I'm still intending to go down the village for a can of tobacco You'll be the next to break them, huh? Thank you. Step up to the chair. We clip you good very good, huh? Mr. Chair here, please. I hang up your coat that would you put all those packages with them or I'll forget them Oh, yes, Tony. He will remind you. I You were new up here, huh? Fairly the name is she's an alternate and you live on a river road. Yes You are mind reader. Ah, your wife is she's a sweet to look in again She walk around with a bigger dog right to buy my window and your men are freaks. He's a comedy too. How's your cow? cows fine good Cow as she can act up and up to so good to be for cat for she come. Oh, yes Yes, yesterday Jared the talky. He say you are not the so bad the neighbor. Well, it's very kind of Jared Say does everybody in Eastbrook have their hair cut here? My show. I am a native. He's the brook. I cut your hair You are native of a tool. How are you on to your haircut? Not like fritz, please are Jared. Just trim the little on the side him on the side and use the scissors in the back Not the clippers not the clip no and not too much off the top not too much off of the top, right Just one more question. All right, go ahead just to why you want a haircut why I won't Well, look my hair is too long on top and on the sides in the back. It's it's shaggy But don't you think I need one you don't seem to think so you throw away 75 cents if you know let the let me give you a haircut the farmers and the other men that they'd like a real good the haircut You just to throw away your money. Well, don't you worry about my money? You just cut it the way I said and You will have earned it but either hurt me. Well, it hurts me more if you don't my wife will divorce me If I don't get a haircut and she'll scold you if it's a bad one. Okay. Okay. I do what you say, but does she hurt? At least you want a nice treatment then oil and no no no treatment. Thanks. Just just a haircut massage no massage and What do you like on your hair afterwards? Nothing nothing nothing Father meal you want a nothing Look look I have a such nice lotion sweet like the perfume from a head No, it's smeller like at the rose like the lily or even I like the back of you don't want to smell at all Well, just the haircut no no smell please Please it don't say haircut you dignify it too much when you say haircut What do you want a girl with the manicure ceases and not talent that can give you But what do you want? Do you want that's that's what you're gonna get? I hope so Now relax and stop thinking and your head is is it between at Tony's and yes And I feel a cold breath on the back of my neck As a nicer. Hey, you got not the best. I'm gonna cut a fine. I Wish I could show you how good I cut the hay Maybe maybe some other time. I guess no, I'll I'll take your word for it Yes, yes, whenever a man he come to the shop, he knows what he wants. He's a married man And no married the man he's a coming and he says Tony he say cut to my hair and Tony he cuts You sing a nice I think that's enough there on the left side enough How much used to begin so far is only the idea. That's just right. It's neat, but it's not got it That's trim, but it's not showing You know, she's gonna be called a wint and what do you think I'm gonna say call the wint And the stock market that she will go down in a match You don't say look I have a costumie coming here the other day is a city man He come a true by the card to go to Boston and he telling me if I ever got to the stock is to sell it in a February and to buy in a match Yes, da da da da and look I'm a pest of the information to you He was a finer man. He say that the political situation in this country That's just about right on that side Tony, that's fine. Just about the right there. Look I Clip three hairs only mr. Nottingham. That's fine. No, but the costuma I allow him to have an opinion Thank you. He's a free man. I like a pony This is gonna be the quickest they had caught in my shop the longest they had caught in the shortest the time You understand and look mr. Nottingham. If a Tony was a rich man for this a haircut I charge it for you David if that is you why don't you answer me for having sex? David mama I can recognize David singing But he has a quality for cutie Hey, David, why are you loitering out in the front hall? Come on in we've been waiting dinner hours for you You can't a man take off his coat and hat and comb his hair. No man supposed to kiss his wife first What have you been running errands for you and mama? Did you remember everything? I refused to answer that means he did mama Well, certainly took you a long while if I hadn't decided there was nothing to worry about I'd worry about you I'll go tell both of us Can hardly believe it took you so long just to buy a spool of thread but you say so and you sound suspicious Maybe I better confess There is more to this than meets the eye Well, it should meet the eye just to show you there's not an ounce of suspicion in me David I don't want to hear another word about what took you so long Couldn't you find a parking space? Hmm? What's that? David why are you staring in the mirror like that? Oh just Looking at myself. You're very handsome So you didn't have a flat tire or something or something maybe honestly when you're not talking you're just impossible Claudia What nothing? You are behaving strangely David. You don't usually go around looking at yourself in the mirror Well, as you said, I'm a very handsome guy. Well, you act as if you never knew it before. Well, maybe I didn't so much Claudia what? I Am surprised at you. What have I done? What have I said? You're the one who's acting so strange. I just small wonder Fine world when a man's own wife Acting very strange mama look strange. I do how just strange I think it's the way you're holding your eyebrow. Oh, why what did you expect me to say? No, no more than your daughter. You're right Claudia that little trip to the village to buy a spool of thread and he's come back very weird Well, man's got a right to behave weird sometimes Hey David, you know something what? You need a haircut I what? Donnie maybe maybe if you had a haircut you wouldn't so strange that helps a lot You know it makes big difference David for heaven's sakes. We stop rolling your eyes around that way. All I said is you need a haircut Now what is so terrible about that? As you buy your daily household supplies It's nice to be able to pause and refresh right where you're doing your shopping More and more stores are installing coca-cola coolers to enable customers to shop refreshed It's a pleasant service that everyone appreciates. Well, how do you like that, Joe? You mean she didn't even notice After all the fuss you made she never even noticed Say tell me Joe What does a man do to a wife or a thing like that? That David is not written in any of the books But you'll think of something. I think of nothing else until I do. Maybe you'll get even with her tomorrow. Tomorrow? Really? Well, I don't know Better not say now. We'll find out tomorrow Certainly be around Look Joe, don't you warn Claudia? Don't worry now. Don't worry. I'm on I'm on your side on this one. We men will have to stick to get it And even then it's tough You never said a truer thing The women have a way of dividing the men 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 if we're 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 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