 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 Oh No, that's I was lonesome already you deserve a scolding I do why because I'm lonesome for you can't help it No, that's not it. What else have I done? You don't trust me at all. I don't since when you have Absolutely, no faith in me whatsoever not a bit. Why? Do you think that I'd leave this house in the morning and go to the office without saying goodbye to you yet? You're right. I would the wood you never have I haven't well remind me to someday. I won't This is nothing Do you know that you are a particularly beautiful girl this morning girl? I'm almost a mother. This is one of the longest almost I've ever heard about it's less than five months now A little bit more than four to go Make it sound so Complicated, but you'd never know would you you'd never know what but I'm going to have a baby I know mama knows birth of knows Fritz knows Roger knows Reggie and I know they all know But they know because they do I met the man on the street the man on the street. What? He doesn't know Hope not. I mean you couldn't tell this by looking at me. Could you of course not really no modern science and marvelous Here I am practically about to be a mother and the man on the street doesn't know He's not looking at me darling. It's not modern science. It's your imagination. What is skip it I can't wait for the end of June to creep up on it. Well nine o'clock is creeping up faster I better be getting underway. We've been married over six months darling and it gets more wonderful all the time Just think by the time we're 60. It'll be so wonderful. I'll just bust well That's something to look forward to it is Will you call me when when you're 60 and bust You know what I mean darling. What's gotten into you this morning first Do you think I left the house without saying goodbye and then you think I'm going to spend the whole day without calling you And I've never committed either one of those crimes. I think got into me But I love you Will you call I will not I don't blame you I wouldn't call such a forward girl as me either I've got some nerve asking you haven't you have will you call I won't David you're joking. I'm not All right, then don't see if I care. I'll save you care now Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Good bye That all I get what have you done to deserve more nothing Bye Goodbye, it's wonderful being a wife. I wouldn't be anything else Goodbye Claudia isn't there anybody who sells the Simmons nearer to where we live nobody just because David called you six times today And because you love him and he loves the Simmons I have to trap all the way over to 1st Avenue and heaven knows what street in order to get them for any objection not one I think it's wonderful Mama what now how do I look? You look fine. Why is that all just fine? You prefer to look some other way. No, but I mean you don't notice anything about me Claudia What are you talking about nothing if you don't notice that's all I wanted to know As a matter of fact, I've never seen you look so well Having a baby seems to agree with you. I think it's having a baby that makes me look well I think it's a very good reason. Don't you I don't know David says I don't look any different at all. David's very sweet. I don't feel a bit different No reason why you should and I don't intend to until I'm practically in the hospital Well, nobody can say your attitude isn't an optimistic one. Well, here we are mama. Here's the fruit store Tiny practically only a window. Good morning. Good morning. What can I do for you today for Simmons, too? Two for 25 and the right you can eat them tonight. Oh, they are wonderful and soft and cushy They'll be delicious. I give you three for 25 three But there's only two of us. Mama doesn't like them. I give you three one for your husband one for you and One for the baby for the baby for the little baby that will come with my compliments for good happiness I get you the best Mama, how did he know I didn't tell him needed an eye and David said I Mama, how do I look tell me? You're going to have a baby in four or five months. You look very well Oh, then I do look do what? Well, then it does make a difference. It's bound to it should Never thought it did David hasn't said and I didn't know this. It's all right. It says it should be there you are three He will be beautiful Come again soon. We will and thank you very much Claudia what's the matter? Nothing. Come on. What's eating you? I'm I just realized the baby will make a difference. Of course, it will. It'll make a very big difference in every way I'm starting to look different. I'm starting to feel different Think I'm not going to be only David's wife anymore I'm going to be his children's mother too. What did you expect to be there on? Change things between David and me won't it in a way, but I don't want them changed I want them just the way they are. I like them this way You like your cake and you like to eat it too. I know you're Awful, but I I'm a little scared. I Think that's the nicest part of it. I don't This morning. It was just the two of us David me. It was wonderful But now since even the fruit man knows about the baby, it's not the two of us anymore and it's sort of different I wonder if David will mind I should anything be the matter. Well, you've been so quiet hardly said a word since dinner And I hadn't noticed. Well, I have These less verbal moments of yours are quite an occasion. Good or bad Terrible. I prefer you nice and talkative even if you don't say anything Just you just the way you are What way am I David? Oh? Not very bright not very beautiful not very quiet But very just the way I want you That's nice Aren't you feeling well clubbing? I'm feeling fine. Why shouldn't I feel fine? No reason except I I just want to be sure David why didn't you tell me tell you what? Nothing come over here. Why sit on my lap Darling you don't have to I I'm too heavy to sit on your lap. Oh since when just since Must be since today Last night you didn't think you were too heavy last night. I didn't think well. You don't have to feel so bad about it You don't usually now come on. Come on sit on here on my lap Now what is it? Why didn't I tell you what? But I'm going to have a baby that you're what remember you told me and this has been going on for months I didn't mean it that way. I meant that Why didn't you tell me that it's changed me? well Who has it David of course it has you don't have to pretend The little Greek man who saw me the persimmons he knew Well, he's not blind is it I have changed it does show David. You never told me Darling if you must know the truth. I haven't noticed I'm so used to looking at you that I don't even look at you anymore In a way, I don't know if I mind that or not. All I do know is David is it going to make any difference to you? Of course not What my being a mother and not just your wife? well, I Don't quite understand should it make a difference. Well, it might won't be just the two of us anymore And I won't look like me for a while There'll be lots of other sorts of changes too. Claudia darling Is it going to make you feel different towards me me towards you? Mm-hmm. Oh David. I'll still hate to see you go to the office in the morning I'll still want you to call me up ten times a day. I'll still But it'll be different no matter of what we say Of course You know Claudia I've been thinking the the same sort of things What sort of things? Well If it's going to make you feel any different Toward me. No, that's absurd Well, is it? You start thinking about it now Taking care of the baby will take a lot of your time We won't be as free as we are now and You'll have someone else to look after And love as much as you love me Perhaps more never more It might make a great deal of difference. I won't let it David. You'll have to let it and And I want you to let it we both will At least I think we both will I guess that as long as it's both of us willing it together Then it's all right You're it's all right Anything that's both of us darling is wonderful. It's the best Funny this morning. I knew I was having a baby. I knew it But I never thought about it or thought about how it might change you and me. I Didn't think anybody else could tell now tonight Now I know Everybody can know All the difference in the world what kind of a difference of a good difference. What do you think? Oh David he's gonna grow up to be tall and strong and Just like you and no matter how much I love him. I'm sure it'll make me just Love you more Me too. You know what? I've been thinking all day long what darling. I Wish I wish that we wouldn't hurry up and have it. Oh hurry up I'm hurrying up all I can oh darling. It's months and months and months yet. Oh David why does it have to take such an awfully long time? This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney When unexpected company drops in you heave a sigh of relief if you know there's plenty of Coca-Cola in the house It's mighty sensible to keep a good supply of coke on ice now that there's plenty to go round again For nothing spells hospitality as surely as delicious ice-cold Coca-Cola and Nothing could be easier on your pocketbook and your energies 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 or if war 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