 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Frankin 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 just smell the air David the evening air in Eastbrook is so wonderfully Fraggly just another five minutes drive and we'll be a home. It seems even sweeter on the farm I hope so did you tell Claudia I was coming? I didn't have a chance to call her we left the office in such a hurry But it'll be a pleasant surprise for doesn't she mind this kind of pleasant surprise Good heavens know she thrives on them. You have quite an extraordinary wife. I know I have that reminds me What about your lunch? What about it? Well, do we or do we not tell Claudia? Do we or do we not tell her what David? Don't pretend to be dull. Tell her about with whom you had your lunch Oh, you mean about my lunching with Victoria Manners had last after all It's not every day that you lunch with Broadway's handsome a star or is it it isn't thank heavens. Thank heavens. I Thought she was a glorious looking creature. I ate so much I was so sleepy all afternoon. I could hardly keep my head up But you must have had beautiful dreams of the beautiful Victoria Manners I don't know whether to take you seriously or not take me seriously and answer me Are you going to tell Claudia about your having lunch with Victoria Manners? Of course I am why not Well, I mean it isn't the sort of thing one usually tells a wife. Is it frankly? I don't know I Haven't had lunch with a blonde unattached single female since the day I was married I suppose it isn't the thing one tells a wife now you're making sense at least it isn't what one tells an average every day typical wife, but Claudia isn't that kind of wife. They never are until they are You are very profound today, Roger, but David why tell Claudia something that may hurt her unnecessarily Because I think enough of Claudia that I know it isn't going to hurt her After all I was going out to lunch in the first place because I promised Claudia. I was going to eat a decent meal Then when Miss Manners just happened by and invited me to join happened by She took an elevator up 22 floors knocked on our office door and invited you to take her to dinner And that isn't just a casual chance occurrence as far as I'm concerned. It was Personally, I think she's a rather dull young person Miss Manners has lived a great deal too much without having understood enough of it So I shall tell Claudia I'll make a bet with you Roger Anything you say I'll bet you that Claudia doesn't raise an eyebrow. I'll bet you that Claudia is Absolutely delighted and pleased and will suggest that I do it more often ten dollars on that ten dollars It is Well, this is going to be an easy way of getting my money back for what I considered was a very expensive lunch. Ho-ho-ho Here we are Home sweet home All right, all out Look David, let's forget that silly bet. Don't tell Claudia about Victoria Manners What's the what's the use? You're really serious You really think she'll be upset. Oh, not necessarily, but it was so innocent There's no need to tell her that's exactly why oh now. I wish I'd gone straight under Boston And now you're starting to get me worried Hello darling and Roger what a wonderful surprise. I do hope you don't mind but David insisted mind It's wonderful. The sheets came back from the laundry and everything. I am not spending the night I am merely borrowing a little dinner and then I'll be on my way. We will discuss that later. Oh It's so nice to have you home. Come on. Come on both of you into the house But tell me what you do all day. Oh, I I played a little golf a couple of sets of tennis Swimming a while and then I flew my airplane down to Texas. You worked hard. He did he worked all day He hardly stopped. Oh, come on. Let's sit in the living room and talk. You can wash up afterwards Roger, did you say that David hardly stopped working all day? Hardly and he accomplished worlds of work David answer me. Did you stop for lunch barely Roger? But Roger when I called you told me David had gone out to lunch, but he was going to eat enormously Oh, so I did and I did eat enormously. He hardly took any time over it Did you David only two hours two hours two hours? I told you he is 12 course dinner not a 24 course one. Well, David eats very slowly Say what is going on here first he hardly stops to take a deep breath and he eats so slowly it takes two hours Now wait a minute now listen Roger Get this straight a bet is a bet David David. Let's call it off. I warned you. What's the big secret? Did you have a stomach ache David not quite? Darling tell me the truth. Tell me you had a decent meal. You hardly had any breakfast. Tell me that I ate at Laplace A French restaurant. I ate everything on the menu. I'll never do it again. I was sleepy all afternoon. Oh Is that what the mystery is about? That's all and Claudia this partner of mine is living in the past He is so consumed with intrigue and romance He's afraid. I'll tell you darling that I had a beautiful blonde for lunch. No wonder it took you two hours Was she tougher tender? You see Roger. Did you have a broiled baked or fried you see David? She still doesn't believe you. I don't believe what darling. I am not Jack the giant killer. No, I thought you were I did not eat the blonde I had lunch with her blonde. I didn't know you knew a blonde What's blonde tell me all about it. You met her the other night dear Victoria Manners. You had lunch with Victoria Manners Ho ho ho a shop. Well, how come you had lunch with her? Well, I was just leaving the office because I'd promised you that I would eat a good Don't blame her on me. Oh, oh, oh There I was with my hat and coat on warm for a coat today Figuratively speaking I was I was just about to leave the office when miss Manners came in simply point blank invited me to Have lunch with her. Yeah, that was very forward of her wasn't it? Did you have to accept? well Didn't want to be rude. I see after all she's a friend of a friend of yours. I was practically a relative and she was She was very nice and just how nice was she David? Well She was very friendly. She just Very friendly. I bet she was friendly David. Don't say I didn't warn you darling You're not jealous. I well not exactly jealous, but The last time I asked you to have lunch with me. You said you were busy Working I was but but today you made me promise. I'd Well, I don't have to say it again. I must say David. This is pretty sudden. I suggest you eat and Was she very friendly? Very Maybe someday you'll listen to me David I told you I've had more experience with this sort of thing. What sort of thing you mean by this sort of thing Well, I mean well, it's just that after all a husband. Yes, oh I thought to have had enough sense to keep quiet David stop blushing and tell me what she have to say. Well, she Hoped you were feeling well, but oh me. I'm fine. What else did she say look David Why don't you just give me my ten dollars and let me on to be on my way to Boston? I refuse to feel guilty Roger why go so fast for heaven's sake. Well, I Would rather not be in the way while you two were while we to what? Thrash this thing out shall we say what's there to thrash about? What's that ten dollars Roger says you owe? Oh, we just made a bet a skip it, please Oh Claudia is there anything more you want to know about the lunch I had with Victoria? Oh this sort of talk is fatal Let's get it over with that go on Claudia. You really enjoy it is a good restaurant. Should we go there sometime? What did you say? I simply asked if we should go whole whole whole now What kind of an answer is that whole whole whole? I think you owe me ten dollars Roger who are not making any sense at all giving each other ten dollar bills as if they were dimes You haven't told me yet. If you had a decent lunch. I had a very decent lunch But it's not going to cost me a cent Darling tell me straight the truth straight. I am guilty So do you mind that I had lunch with Victoria Manners now? Let me see. Do you mean? Do I want to scratch your eyes out? Well, you don't have to be so violent about you mean that I'm so jealous that I can't see straight I wouldn't exaggerate you mean that I'm furious with you for having had lunch with another one. I didn't know you'd be so upset I'd have never preferred if I just didn't care at all who you gallivanted around well I just didn't think you'd take it so serious You want to know whether I'm angry at you for having not to Victoria Manners is that it? I still wish you hadn't said anything David. Were you afraid to tell me not until Roger started to make me feel guilty What do you think I think I'm so mixed up? I don't know what one minute you're talking about She was very friendly the next minute you want to know was it a good lunch and now you're threatening to scratch your eyes Out you've got me so mixed up. I don't be mixed up. I was spoofing and I don't want to scratch your eyes out darling. I think it's an awful shame. What is an awful shame poor Victoria Manners Poor Victoria Manners. She's obviously falling very much in love with you. I can't blame her at all I did too. I don't believe my ears must be awful to find yourself falling in love with a man not being able to help it and Having the sort of feeling that it's hopeless what on earth makes you say she's falling in love with Well any girl even Victoria Manners who'd ask a married man to lunch must be love I'm glad I'm not her. I would like to sit down This is moment why Roger because I can't be jealous of somebody. I feel so sorry for David, maybe I'm a fool to trust you Especially with somebody like Miss Manners is out to get to But I love you that makes me an idiot doesn't it? Anything but you win Both of you You're not like anything. I've ever seen before Here you are David Ten dollars. Thank you Roger You're welcome because Claudia is the most extraordinary woman. I have ever laid eyes on thank you, Roger Darling, you mean you've won ten dollars because of me. I have indeed a nice crisp ten dollar bill Because you are a wonderful idiot and I love that's wonderful It means you can have lunch with Victoria Manners again For nothing and then I'll know you'll eat a really decent meal. It's wonderful I'll go on up and wash you too. Well. I set an extra place for dinner It's nice isn't it that you can get coca-cola around the corner from anywhere today You can stop when you're marketing and have an ice cold coke right in the grocery You can pause during shopping for a coke in your department store or a variety store When you're driving you'll find coke at the gas station too This friendly service enables you to shop refreshed drive refreshed work refreshed Whoever you are and whatever you do. Well, mr. King, it looks like I lost ten dollars Well, it does look like you did. Claudia is absolutely unpredictable She reacts absolutely differently than any other wife or woman. I've ever known. That's what makes her Claudia It would be delighted that her husband took another woman to lunch then to be sorry for the other woman Amazing. Oh, well, you'll get used to it, mr. Killian. You know a surprise every day. What's the surprise tomorrow? Well, I understand that david's going to stay home from the office for a few days Yes, he has a great deal of work to do drawing up the plans for the freight terminal we're designing So I suggested he stay on the farm to do the work uninterrupted by phones and other office distractions Are you suggesting that there will be no interruptions or distractions at home with claudia and mama claudia promised me She'd keep his nose to the drawing board. Well, we'll see how it works out tomorrow 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 joking saying olivar 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 meloni And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola