 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 And now Claudia Here we have the most beautiful alarm clock in the world, you don't even listen to it What time is it? It's morning. I mean it's after midnight Good night. It's really morning. Listen to the bird. They're singing They want you to get up and so do I Or may not much you mean if I open my eyes I'll see light you'll see sunlight it's streaming in the room David and I won't open them Ever since we moved to the country. You've been sleepy I'm asleep. Oh, I just love to lie here all day listening to the birds singing to us. I feel like Adam and Eve Where's the snake? I feel like Adam and Eve before the snake came. Oh It's wonderful living in the country so quiet and peaceful. It was quiet and peaceful and until someone I know started talking now I'm going back to sleep. Then I'm going to listen to the birds What kind of birds are they do you know? I was just going to ask you there. Oh, they're parrots and nightingales and ostriches That's it and dogs. Don't forget the dogs. It must be dogs because it's so peaceful David what was that? One of your doves just fell out of the tree. I wonder what he fell on I never heard that's a no I don't like to say this but your dove is falling upstairs Do you think there are ghosts in the house ghosts with hobnail boots coming this way? I'm going back to sleep It's the most dangerous of all ghosts. It's the carpenter David he came right in this room Don't you think we ought to tell him we're here? I'm not sure I know how Excuse me, sir. I mean We're still in bed. Hi folks just like this though. I'm not here Gotta finish this wiring job into the annex before we put up the land Wonderful now I really don't have to get up I don't want to stand bed all day long darling. It's so nice and peaceful. Oh, shh. I'm asleep Push that wire up to the wall. I'm not getting you Push that wire up Billy David. Don't you have to go to the office today? Quiet quiet. I'm trying to hear the birds Now I know what kind of birds they are. They're woodpeckers. They're wide-throated nail drivers. That's what they are Claudia why didn't you tell me I I've got to get up There must be some way we can get him to go hammer somewhere else for a while preferably on Billy's head Excuse me, how's that mister? I wonder if you could go downstairs for a moment while Mrs. Norton and I get out of bed and get dressed Well, anything you say mister. Yeah, you're paying for it All I know is I was told to get here an hour ahead of my regular starting time So we could get this job finished right away quick. Hey, man, hold it Billy. What are you doing up there going back to sleep? Hold your horses Billy. I'm talking to the owner. All of this energy is a little frightening It's too bad you fellas didn't hurry a week ago. You might have been through today. Well, we're doing our best, mister So long I'll be right outside That's a lot better. Hmm. I can hear the birds singing again It certainly is nice and peaceful in the country What was that? I don't know, but I'm going to find out in a hurry meet you downstairs Don't forget you have to catch a train. Who cares about the train. I think half the house just fell in Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Mitchell, what was that? What was what that crash? What crash just now? Didn't you hear? Oh, oh that they just to live in a lot of sighting in Milworth. Is that all? Sounded like an earthquake My train's in 35 minutes I'll get breakfast ready. You get dressed. Hello. Good. Bye. Oh, good. Bye. Hello. Good. Bye. Good. Bye My you got dressed quickly Wonderful what the country can do for a woman. Do you get me? I get you Billy. It's 7 20 You got my breakfast ready on the stove. We'll take it off. We'll need at least 20 minutes to get to the station I don't like gives us Five minutes to eat. Well, it's not ready. Yeah, hurry up. Hurry up. Doesn't it know. I'm waiting I'm the one who's waiting and don't rush me Took you a very long time to get dressed. Let me ask you something. Did you ever shave with cold water? Didn't you get any hot water either? I thought there'd be some by the time you got there. Yeah, well, there wasn't I repeat Did you ever shave with cold water? Is it better better? Let me tell you it's like pulling out each hair with a tweezer. Oh and a rusty tweezer at that You don't look as though anything very terrible happened my face feels like it's been Caught in a subway door subways crawls noises. Aren't you glad we're in the country? Delight they like it It's so peaceful What? No crash Every time I say that there's been a crash There that's better. I Wonder what it was this time. Oh, just a couple of carpenters chopping down a tree probably isn't that coffee perking yet and My why is it so cold in this kitchen? I don't know why it's so cold. That's your department my department My department is in full retreat What's uh, what's going on in your department coffee is not perking yet. Let me see Hmm No wonder a little item here. You forgot to turn the stove on That electric burner is as cold as the water. I shaved I I did so turn it on see look Let me look down here It isn't underneath darling. It's up here. Yeah, there's something not quite all right here something everything And look you have 23 minutes left to catch your train. Hey Mitch Maybe he brought some coffee at a thermos bottle. I'm not reduced to pinching from other men's lunchboxes. Thank you Mitch okay, mr That's all the noise about I just wanted to bother you for a minute. This uh, this stove isn't working You're very right. It isn't work Billy and me are installing some wiring. You think we're trying to knock ourselves out He means he turned the current off Obviously Hey, you have 22 minutes to catch your train 22 minutes. I'll I'll take a glass of milk What's him toast? Where are you going to make the toast under the cold water? Oh dear? I guess you really do need electricity in the country to especially in the country where everything is so nice and peaceful There goes the rest of the siding there goes the rest of my appetite. Come on, Claudia We've got 21 minutes to get to the station. Maybe I can get a cup of coffee on the train It's in the closet under the stairs so long Mitch. I'll see you tomorrow. It's a long mr. Oh, uh, I hope you like it in the country Cold that's all maybe the car didn't get its breakfast coffee either Have to use the choke or something. What do you think I'm using? Oh, is that the joke? Yes, that's the joke That lot of good it is too. Maybe I have to get it out and push We only have 18 minutes and you said it takes 20 to the station. Oh, I just got an idea Maybe the train didn't get started either. Oh, let the motor rest for a moment. Then try it again Thanks, thanks for the professional opinion. That is what I'm here for to give professional opinions call on me at any time Thanks very much. I'll I'll do that. Oh, now. Let's try it again ready Get set go I told you to let it rest little I told you so now. Let's see now. We've got only 17 minutes left and it takes 20 Let's back out of here Now what that truck look at turning in our driver. That's just great. We'll either have to go over it or under it Or he'll have to back up Hear you hey, hey you and that truck Back up. He wants you to back up me that isn't going to do any good. Hey, hey you Back up back up back up He heard you he's backing up. He's awfully slow about it. What does he think this is anyhow? Doesn't anybody around here realize that people have to go to the work in the morning Well, that's what they're all doing. Isn't it going to work? Hey, whose side are you on? Oh? Look darling River road beautiful early in the morning I think early in the morning is the best time of all. Hmm. There's still a mist on those fields down by the brook Looks nice doesn't everything looks so quiet half asleep Still, you know, there's all kinds of life inside it. Don't I know the Carpenters and the plumbers aren't asleep if that's what you mean. No, I mean the fields They look as if they were still asleep But if you stopped and listened you could hear the birds and the frogs But they flew rabbits and cows though teeming with I like the country I like it better with warm water and coffee for breakfast, but I like it too Oh, the country doesn't care if you notice it or not It isn't like New York where everything tries to make you stare at it Here everything is just there. He's the rest up to you. I think that's a nice way to be don't you? I think you're a nice way to be darling. David. We've only got 14 minutes to make your train We won't be able to make any time when we get near the station too many cars The same kind of places we came from the first time I've really realized you're leaving but only for the day It's just the same as my going to the office in New York But you're getting on a train so it isn't the same thing at all. Don't be lonesome darling. It's just for today Remember I'm bringing mom up tonight. Please don't miss your train tonight I'm going to miss my train this morning if we just sit here talking We're almost only only a block from the station may never get in here. Look at all the other commuters There comes the train. I'll have to run. Goodbye. Don't do anything foolish. No, and you'd better get some breakfast before you go home Oh David. Goodbye. I'm glad we had so much trouble this morning glad Well, this way all I had time to think about was getting you to the station on time No time to think how much I hate to watch you go away. Goodbye darling. Goodbye. Bye. So long Mrs. Having a club meeting or an afternoon bridge wondering what to serve If you want to keep the bills down and the company happy just order a case of coca-cola See that there is plenty on ice and what goes with it doesn't much matter Moreover, there'll be precious little bother for you and it goes without saying that everyone enjoys a party more When the hostess doesn't have to exert herself say mr. King Do you happen to know if mr. Norton made a strain well He made it all right, but by the proverbial skin of his teeth Oh good good Well, we'll get finished with their house as soon as we can then the Norton's really will start to enjoy living in the country Well, I think they will like it in spite of you and Billy Mitch say how come they move up to Eastbrook Do they know many folks around here? I don't think they do know any Eastbrookers And that's one thing that Claudia is gonna start working on tomorrow. Well, I hope she likes us think she will She's gonna meet some of her neighbors tomorrow. It'll be a little unconventional, but she'll meet them wait and see how I'll be around so long was the king so long 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 if war 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 These broadcasts are adapted for directed by William Brown Maloney and now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola