 Your coca-cola bottler presents 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 Oh Claudia Claudia, I'm not staying. I'm going home as you very well. No I have no intention of coming between you and your interior decorator What do you think I am just another roll of wallpaper that he stuck up anywhere you two want we too. Don't want anything I haven't even met my interior decorator. I'm sure you'll get along fine, and I just be in the way mommy You can't go. How are you going to tell him that I don't want him? How am I going to tell him what makes you think I do such a thing, but I don't want him that's your privilege But not my responsibility if you don't want him, and I must say I think you're rather foolish not to just tell him I know mama, but how well I could make a few suggestions You stand where you're standing and I'll stand where I'm standing and I'll be the interior decorator and you say to me I'm sorry. Mr. Mr. Hillary. I'm sorry, but just right now it's present I have no need for your services, and if in the future I do want you I'll call you up and then it's Mr. Hillary I put on my coat and I leave mommy you can't leave now I won't let you and that was a dirty trick a dirty trick you asked for demonstration now be serious This is brown. How can I tell him that we don't want an interior decorator? I suppose there's a good reason why you can't say just that don't you understand Julia told him We did want him does that make a difference Of course it makes a difference Well, I can see this is so complicated that I'm of no possible help to you. I'm going home to feed my parrot Oh, I wish we'd never given you that parrot every time you have to do something you don't want to do you suddenly start thinking about him He's a perfect alibi. Well, I'm tired of being your perfect alibi Besides, I think maybe you ought to have an interior decorator now You sound more like Julia because I think you ought to have somebody help you and I know David will want you too You don't know David at all. He'll feel just the way I do and the arrival of your friend Mr. Hillary isn't going to delay me more than one minute. Please mama when you tell Mr. Hillary We don't want him. Please try to be polite Mrs. Norton I presume Mrs. David Norton. Yes, I'm Mrs. Norton and I bet you're Mr. Hillary. I trust your wages are always so successful Mrs. Norton I am he indeed You're sure it isn't him. I beg your pardon. No, I guess you'd know wouldn't you? I'm not quite sure. I Understand Mr. Hillary. This is my mother. Mrs. Brown. She was just coming. How do you do Mrs. Brown? How do you do Mr. Hillary? I'm afraid my daughter's a trifle confused She meant to say that I'm just going but I'm glad to have had this chance to meet you I'm taking dinner to a cranky friend. I'll see you tomorrow, dear Would it only take a moment Mrs. Brown? Only a few sketches. That appears to be rather a large folder Mr. Hillary Oh, I did bring a few renderings I made for some of my other country clients the riddles and the frilling hyzens and the pines I'd love to see them some other time. Goodbye, Mr. Hillary. Goodbye, Claudia Well, Mrs. Norton, so this is your town place It isn't very big is it? Oh, I'm sure you'll be much more comfortable in your new home in Eastbrook on the river road Did Mrs. Harton Norton say yes? Yes, it is delightful part of the world Did a little place up that way last year for Ethan frilling hyzen 32 rooms 32 rooms. Oh, but some of them were quite small. Well, I'm afraid our house isn't like that at all Your sister knows described it to me. That's what enabled me to make the sketches Oh, you've made them already just a hint of what I'd like to do with this place I've been screaming to do something like this for years But my friends insist on settling in such vast and chilly places that I haven't had the chance to try it You mean you know it's a little place? My dear, I understand it's a miniscule It's what? A miniscule It's tiny a compact charming. Oh Oh, oh, oh indeed. Yes, and I want you to look at these drawings merely as a suggestion Has the guess a mere intuition of the final result. Oh The final result will always astound you Mrs. Norton because once my client has given me an insight into her requirement I am adamant You're what? I forbid my ladies to enter my establishment from the day I'm engaged the final responsibility is mine. I Want no watering down of my conception. No haggling. No Interference you must trust completely a mrs. Norton Will you trust me? Well, I don't know what to say. I mean Do I have to trust you now? It's it's getting awfully late. Mr. Hillary. Couldn't we do this some other time my husband? Oh husbands The natural peril of my craft mrs. Norton, but I anticipate them every Hillary house has one husband room Indestructible letter a designed like an old shoe my husband likes old pipes better Me David you're home. How are you? Isn't that nice? So is mr. Hillary? Oh this mr. Hillary You might as well introduce us. I'm Channing Hillary. I'm David Norton. How do you do mr. Norton? How do you do I was just about to show mrs. Norton several Suggestions of a shadow of an idea that crossed my mind for your new home in Eastbrook. You mean you're thinking of decorating Our house your sister-in-law mrs. Hartley Norton suggested that I might be interested Mr. Norton and speaking quite frankly I rules to the idea like a salmon Well, I didn't know that Claudia my wife had considered having a decorator my dear mr. Norton The sort of thing one really doesn't have to consider any more than than one would have to consider calling the Doctor in the event of pneumonia David. I meant you don't have to apologize Claudia as a matter of fact I was going to suggest it, but I didn't know how you would like the idea. I'm sorry. I didn't get a chance. I mean Isn't my idea? David you're a traitor. I thought you'd agree. I am not a traitor I've just been a little worried about you're going out and roaming from shop to shop picking up wallpaper and Cuppers I I don't think you ought to do things like that just now the David. I like bargains mr. Norton I forbid my ladies to enter a shop Does high fits allow his audience to set his tempos or will Helen Hayes permit prompting from the seventh row as a husband? I applaud you as an architect. I envy you my dear mr. Norton It's really a question of temperament. I terrorize my clientele you do I've been known to dash rare china to the floor To silence a client's conversation Well, I've often wanted to do that with one of my clients factories once we've agreed on a master plan I want nothing from the householder, but money. Well, I think this is going to work out just fine Claudia why don't we look at mr. Hillary sketches? You mean you really want to do it this way David under the circumstances. I think it's a fine idea What are we waiting for? You don't want me to go around and pick up things and go shopping or anything Darling, I I don't mean that you wouldn't do it beautifully. I mean with the baby and moving I think it's a little too much for you. You're sure you don't mean that I wouldn't do it the way you want Mr. Hillary darling is known as one of the best decorators in New York my dear mr. Norton I've worked also in Florida Chicago, Kentucky and California. Oh, I'm sorry mr. Hillary. Let me amend that He is one of the finest if not the finest decorator in the country But darling, I'd rather live in a house that you decorated any time. That is any other time You mean that David? I do and I don't think mr. Hillary will fail to understand that rather not Well, I think it's going to be wonderful to have mr. Hillary do the decorating then because there were some things that I Really didn't know what to do about the problems. I thrive on problems Well, I'm thinking about the turkeys You know David if we're going to raise turkeys behind the kitchen stove turkeys behind the kitchen stove Well, we may not we and I know they're going to run into the dining room and the living room And I don't know what mr. Hillary can do for carpets with turkeys pecking on them That is rather an unusual problem And then there's that terrible leak in the ceiling over the living room that we can't do anything about what leak is that? Darling we have to be frank with mr. Hillary. Don't we mr. Frankness isn't an essential and then there's a car shed right next to the dining room I don't know what he's going to do about that and the Victorian annex that Jared Tucker's uncle built in 1718 70 That's pretty built it very well. It fits right in with the rest of the house Oh, I know but I wonder how mr. Hillary feels about the mixture of colonial and Victorian Combination is somewhat less happy than tea and scones or as you would say scones No, I think I would say hot biscuits Mr. Hillary for the first three weeks we had the house I don't think my wife even noticed it the combination and then how are we going to fix up the guest room So the farm and his wife can live there if we can find a couple but we haven't found a couple yet Oh, I know but we still would have to have mr. Hillary designs. I'm kind of a compromise How do you feel about compromises mr. Hillary test them but miss Really, it isn't as bad. In fact, I I don't know that I do want more dogs David I insist upon keeping them in the house in the living room. Oh my Poodles I trust great day when Mrs. Hartley Norton described the place to me I don't think she quite realized and then we've got to have furniture that the children won't hurt drapes That the cats can't scratch a poster that the dogs can sit on rugs that the turkeys won't hurt Tables that the chickens won't hurt chairs that the cars won't break and and what are we gonna do about the room without windows? I'm afraid there's been something of a misunderstanding There has no wonder there has missed a Hillary heard a picture of this place that I miss you And allow me to interrupt you sir a little frankness at this stage of the proceedings is a very valuable commodity Your sister-in-law has seriously misinformed me you don't need an interior decorator Turkeys chickens great Danes cows children mid-victorians Mrs. Norton you don't need a decorator what you need is an animal tamer. I did you good afternoon, but mr. Hillary It is temperamental isn't it temperamental after the things you said about our house whatever made you talk that way I'll call him back tomorrow, and maybe we can get him to work for David now. What come here Darling did you mean it when you said you'd rather live in a place that I decorated of course I did But I don't want you to have all the trouble right now You are a little minx me. I knew what you were doing You were getting your arrival decorator out of the way because David I'm not always going to be having a baby and just till I can really get it furnished You wouldn't mind camping out with me on a couple of kitchen chairs in an old table I'd camp out with you without chairs Even if we had to eat off the man, and then we'll have so much fun decorating it ourselves later on Darling if that's what you want just bring on your mantle I won't have to darling because I know where I can get two marvelous kitchen chairs to start out with and David they're real bargains Oh Delicacies and special tidbits may be hard to come by these days But there's one special treat that's more plentiful, and it hasn't gone up in price either I'm referring as you may have guessed to coca-cola which still brings you the pause that refreshes for only five cents Your grocer or service station attendant will be glad to put a case in the car for you And there are always willing hands to unload that welcome refreshment when you get home Yes, miss Brown well, I I guess Claudia managed to get what she wanted again without hurting anybody's feelings All that daughter here seems to have a way of making things come out the way she wants them to I wish there was some way She could make us get rid of these cold days It's been a bad winter mrs. Brown But I can tell you that your daughter will end it tomorrow with a little help from a man named Giuseppe Between the two of them spring weather will be here tomorrow just in time for Easter. Well, thanks, Mr.. King I hope you'll recognize me in my new spring hat. Oh, I'll recognize you anywhere mrs. Brown bug bye And as I was about to say 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 a bar 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 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