 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottled coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia Just about excited course terribly Fritz and breathed out the house sounded wonderful Well, Roger be there. He's probably waiting for us now. Oh, we're a little off schedule Anybody else be there? Mr. Tucker, of course. Where do you see him? He's a lollipal loser of an old car I think he must be at least a hundred a hundred. Well, maybe 90 90s old enough. You don't have to exaggerate Is he really 90? Well, maybe 80 then I'll probably find he's 38 and looks like 20. You'll find nothing of the sort You'll find an old New Englander with one tooth in his head Who's as gnarled as the bramliest bush on his place and as stubborn as the biggest oath When you meet mr. Tucker, you'll know how this country managed to get settled. He's quite a guy I don't see how a man like that could own a beautiful house with a brook and meadows and barns and things No, he owns it. All right has for generations all here. Oh, I wish we were there. I wish we were there You really pleased about this aren't you pleased I'm busting darling Are you really serious about wanting to move to Eastbrook or are you just curious about seeing this house? Well, I know it's all right. I know you're just curious But once you see the place you'll get just the way I am. I hope so It must be a beautiful house darling with tall trees and old stairways How big is it big as you want it to be and every inch authentic This is almost as exciting as having a baby Except a baby takes months and months and a house takes just a few minutes Which side let beyond this side. What do you think of the country around here? Fine? It's in a while though. Nobody else seems to be living in the neighborhood. Of course not. It's farmland. Oh Oh David look at the cow. That's not a cow. It's a bull. How can you tell let's just try milking her? What's the matter? We running out of gas You goop. We're here Is this it? It is and there's Roger. Hey, Roger How do you like the way it looks today marvelous and we weren't wrong Roger I wouldn't touch that entrance. It's a crime to even paint it Be right with you. Just want to look at these eaves here a minute Claudia close your mouth darling. You look like a guppy fish. I do Well, what do you think of it? Is it the way you pictured it? Well, not exactly no I thought it would set farther back from the road. All old houses are close to the road darling. Is that good or bad? Good You'd have to be plowed out in a snowstorm if you weren't near the road David it's awfully shrubby here, isn't it? There isn't any lawn at all. Of course not. It's the best kind of farmland. Oh House looks littleer than I thought. Well, it's deceptive from this view Well, do you want to go inside or look around outside? I I just want to stand here and look at it Do you mind David? Mine? I should say not The first time I saw it It took my breath away too You stand here and look at it as long as you like Thank you I'll be inside with Roger Say you better let bluff out of the car that dog's so darn quiet. I keep forgetting him except when he knocks me down See you later darling. Hey Roger Come on bluff out you get Hello there bluff Well, what do you think? It's like an old matchbox to me with windows and a roof, doesn't it? I wouldn't live in a house like that if it were raining out. Would you? Oh, I'm morning there, ma'am Oh, good morning. Marne house, eh? Well, uh, not exactly I I I sure do hate to sell it matter of fact. I've been ruminating it in my mind Not to sell it. Oh, then you're mr. Tucker. Jared Tucker, ma'am at the service. I'm mrs. Norton. Hello Your husband there sure took a shine to my old place His eyes lit up real bright when he seen it He knows a piece of property when he stumbles onto it. He does my husband is an architect This house was built. There wasn't no architect's necessary head Just got itself built. So I see I'd be living in it still if it wasn't for my sister, but oh Delilah's getting on she ain't the chickens used to be no no And she sort of wants me around to take care of things for her. I can understand that She uh, she uh, she turned 65 last monday lame and one leg and a little deep in one ear here perfectly himself Been here in perfect for 77 years now 77 don't don't aim to stop 77 I thought you said Delilah was getting on. What's that say? I said speak up young woman. Stop with me. I said you look wonderful for 77 Oh, oh, yes, feeling wonderful and kinderks Delilah. So I got to watch out for Right, I sure do hate the idea sharing house with a woman after all these years Our women just don't understand us fellas even though she'd be my sister I Can't think if I'd kept this here place. I wouldn't mind it so much Uh, give me a roof of moan, you know some place to get away to and Delilah starts wearing thin Then mr. Tucker, you shouldn't sell it I don't think you should sell it at all a man should have a place of his own Especially when he's as full of energy as you are Well, I could use money and I don't see how I can keep up both farms things Things things uh venus are these days and Delilah she keeps nagging me nagging me to sell So I put up the sign plum out of the blue comes your husband Here we are, but I sold again. Thank goodness I really think you ought to think it over carefully mr. Tucker And don't let Delilah talk you into something. No People do try to talk other people into things. Yeah I'm sure there are other houses around my husband would like Yep. I uh, I uh, I showed him one you did the leech place little ways down the road nine miles Did he like it? That's uh, it's uh, it's a big white house up on the hill about as old as mine here But not the same type of door city folks house that with a long drive An old trees and a beautiful staircase and doors And with a brook and a hill That sounds more like it. That sounds like my kind of a house. That's got all kinds of fancy plumbing into it Ways to good money way. I wonder if my house got spring in the well You don't need nothing else. Just just just complicates things. Tell me mr. Tucker Did my husband like the other house the leech place? Well Yep, nope No, I think I understand everything. Well young woman I think I'll shinny along and see what your husband has to say Mind you now. I I ain't said I'm going to sell Of course not Man's got a right to his home Delilah. No Delilah women think they can make a man slow up Just because they're starting to feel the cold in their bones, but no sir. Oh bluff you beautiful dog I'm such a goop. This isn't the house at all David and Roger are playing a joke on me because they think I don't know anything about old houses And they expect me to be disappointed Well, it's simple I'll rave about this old rickety shack and when they take me to see the real house I'll pretend not to like it. That'll fool them. They think this is smart Well, I'll outsmart them this time. Claudia Claudia better come inside out of the cold. I'm coming darling. I just couldn't take my eyes off our darling house Where you see the inside? Smells a little stale, but that'll pass off Now tell me darling Do you really like it? I just caught my breath. Were you surprised? Surprised for a moment then like in my senses. I was paralyzed. Well, that's the way I like to hear you talk You look so excited and pleased. I am I'm thrilled. I can't tell you what fun I'm having Let's go in I love it Such wonderful low ceilings David. It's built that way because it helps keep the rooms warm And and and look at those beautiful worn spots in the floor planks. They have such personality And the fireplace David it's almost as nice as the one in our apartment. It's nicer. I prefer it just the way my forefather had it It's good enough for them. It's good enough for me Well, I I must say that you should oh David that delightful old stairway So much more charm than the big circular one down south. You like it better. It's not the same thing at all Well houses like that have their place too That gorgeous old latch Let's be original It is It dates back from before the house was built a veritable museum piece Well, darling, I I didn't know you had it in you. Did you imagine I was an utter imbecile. Do you know I think he did Oh, roger. Hello. Hello Claudia I'll confess that David warned me that you didn't know the first thing about old houses Well, what I mean is so that's what That's all right, darling It's just as well for you to learn that you don't know everything I know She really seems to like it roger. I've never been so thrilled in my whole life Hurry and show me upstairs. Oh, there isn't much upstairs Now here Hey notice the floors Isn't that I have they almost broke my neck. Well, they do need a little repairing but They are perfectly beautiful and here here here. Look over here now. That's some of the paneling up here That's the original color We have a client who'd pay a thousand dollars for that strip just as it is. I wouldn't sell it not for all the money in the world Hey, what's up? What's up? Oh, that's nothing they always do in old houses But won't we have to pay somebody for it? Oh pay for it Who should we pay it belongs to us at least it will it will Well, you're going to buy the place aren't you buy it this place darling All I needed was for you to love it as much as I do But but I I thought there was another house. There's no other house in the whole world for us now Is it but mr. Tucker's that old boy? He's a better salesman than he knows Then you You're serious about it. I certainly am all I needed was the word from you Just like you darling. I wouldn't sell this house for all the money in the world What world I knew you'd love it once you saw it me hold on you have to buy it first Oh, it's as good as both David Claudia What's the matter you're as white as a ghost shock. Yes shock I don't wonder a lot of people don't like ceilings falling down on them Claudia's not the sort of person who mine ceilings falling down on a darling. Uh, are you sick? Well, I feel take her down to car david. She does look a little pale Don't worry darling. Dr. Roland said you'd be like this sometime Dr. Roland thinks I'm only gonna have a new baby He doesn't know I'm gonna have an old house too These programs star kathryn bard is claudia and paul crab tree is david And the entire production is supervised and directed by william brown meloni Does it ever occur to you to offer your household helper ice cold coke during the day's work? 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