 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 bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia David you thirsty. No, not a bit. Thanks. Oh Think I'll have a glass of milk But before I have my glass of milk, I think I like a kiss Why don't you have them both at the same time? I'd be clever. Hmm. Consider yourself kissed Now go get your milk. You know one little kiss gives me an enormous thirst. Mmm. My kisses do that to you Do they? Yes. Yes. Now skadoodle. Well, that wasn't much of a kiss David You know a kiss like that could give a girl quite a complex. No, you don't say. Yes, I do Next thing you know, I'll be going around with a twitch What's his last name? Oh, dear, I guess I better get that milk. I don't sound so pathetic about it. No fun drinking alone What is not my fault if you've driven me to solitary drink? You know, they say clear path to a bathed in milk and she was the most beautiful of women Well, you're beautiful enough with me and just to prove how beautiful. I think you are I might even have a glass of milk with you Oh, yeah, what are you standing there for? What's going on in here? What are we whispering for? Where's a mouse I don't see a mouse we brown mouse right there see on the pantry floor. I Don't see any mouse. You're saying pink elephants. No, I know a mouse from a pink elephant when I see one I thought we just little brown mouse with a little black eyes like shoe buttons Right there in the crack of the pantry cause a door looks Well, what do you know a country mouse sweet adorable little mouse David, what are we going to do? We're not going to lay a finger on that poor helpless little mouse So that's what you think of course. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm thinking of Shakespeare Shakespeare. Yes That great big brave cat. Well, don't you worry about Shakespeare catch him Shakespeare hasn't caught him now or the chances are they won't I found out you went and squeaked on the mouse and told Shakespeare where he was I will never forgive you now listen I am much fond of much fond of this mouse, and I am that cat of yours Because you like mouses is no reason why you should insult cats is Hey, he's disappeared back in the pantry closet David I sent you a door mouse. Oh, you do just a door mouse. I'll tell you what I'll do What I'll get you one for a watch for Well, come on All right, let's tiptoe come on Come on. Hey, why are we tiptoeing? Oh, we don't want to scare the little mouse. Oh, of course Do you know that's our first country mouse David? Mm-hmm as hey in his hair. Mm-hmm. It's the first one we've seen I wonder how'd he get in the house? I wonder Listen, you didn't leave any holes in the floors of the walls when you rebuild it. Did you know not a hole a Mouse can always find his way in everybody hard on the chimney. Maybe oh the water pipe probably water pipe. They're so sweet David remember the mouse we had in the city. Oh, you mean Goliath He was some mouse That mouse had a pedigree So the coffee tame to me didn't it you? Mm-hmm Let's go back. He's probably hello. Good evening. He's probably from a mouse circus, you know Oh, yeah, it's probably we can feel at home. Yeah, we go back. We'll scare him How do you know it's a him? Oh mice are him. No, no, I think rats are hymns Mouses are she's no, that's that's that's a nice thing to say She's so tame she's staring right at us David can you imagine how not enormous we look to a mouse? Hello there my hit-a-bell. Oh, no, that's a silly name for a mouse This mouse looks exactly like my head about so much bigger than the mouse is though No, no, we can't call him a hit-a-ball. We'll do it all what about Um-hmm, what about a la-wishes a la-wishes. We'll do it Wishes a la-wishes stand up shake hands. Yeah, I thought it should be pronounced a la-seus Fine. We'll call him a la-seus. Yeah pussy pussy. Come on. I like that now Oops, there goes back in the closet again. That's because you said pussy pussy pussy Maybe doesn't like his name. Oh, he loves his name. I can tell David you better not tell mama. Oh, you don't think the mama would stay in the same house with a mouse Oh, I'm sure she wouldn't well then out goes mama back to New York on the next train She may not darken my doorstep again Well any man would prefer a mouse to his mother-in-law any day and I'm no different Well, maybe we can convince mama to keep the mouse and then we can keep mama. Oh, I see One big happy family Again, hello, I'll always see us. Oh, he's charming. Aloy see us. We see you I think your brain is about as big as that mouse is it's really He seems to be going back and forth into the closet out. He's commuting. Hey, here comes the express big boy Get on that goes again into the closet out of the closet into the closet. That's boring, isn't it? I can tell Hello mousey mousey mousey Hey, I bet you I bet you I can get him to come up and sit on my hand. Oh, but you bet you I can tell you what I'll do I'll hypnotize him here here little mouse David if you could see yourself now now look me in the eye Know the other eye. Come on. Come on now. Now. Don't be afraid Poor thing's shaking all over you're scaring him that mouse adores me. You go away Oh, I wish we had some cheese now. So I bet it adores cheese more than adores you Look, I'm the big cheese in this house. Don't you forget it? Now stop giving that mouse ideas Come over here you monster. Where are you? No way to talk to a mouse. You have to be gentle and sweet Like I am to you mice mice like to be treated rough. Oh He's so sweet. He's crawling up. David. He's coming towards you I always knew I had a fatal attraction for my oh, that's why I love you darling. Mm-hmm. That's not why is it? You need to share you I don't know why people have a prejudice against poor little things like that because they're smaller than we are a great deal brighter Yes, I guess that's why Come on pussy pussy pussy. Oh, it's not mrs. Not Look what you have done. I have done what I see you both kneeling on the floor is something wrong You have just done something terrible What's coated back into the closet where the new household pet of course Doesn't make any more sense than two children what households pet scooted back into the closet Shakespeare is in the bedroom with Fred's we just tiny as shaky as little brown darling. You ever saw a bit All right, so you cannot tell me I'll go into the closet and see myself over my dead body Maybe we ought to tell her Claudia after all she She does have to live with it. Yes, I guess you're right David. You're right. All right Britha, it's a mouse a mouse mouse in my kitchen mouse in your kitchen We just discovered him Bertha. His name is my hit-a-bell. I'll oh see us not You like that name Bertha? No, you don't know when he does we want you to treat him with utmost respect No, a mouse in my pantry. Mm-hmm. How did it happen? Oh the mouse knew a good thing when he saw it Scrubbed that closet tomorrow and good. Mrs. Norton. I'm so sorry, but the mouse. I don't know how it got in He'd be very glad you clean up the place for him Bertha. He likes it I Get Fritz to put a trap in the pantry tomorrow and we go over the whole house from tip to toe Yeah, look here Bertha This is no criticism of your housekeeping on the contrary you understand It is difficult sometimes to keep the mice out of the houses in the winter you stop worrying We appreciate your hospitality and the mouse you chose as a dog. No, I'm no hostess to mice Congratulations, you serve one trip and it will be gone. Are you serious? Naturally, I'm serious David talk to her. I certainly will Bertha. I have been delegated to talk to you here here Yeah, Bertha. It just so happens that my wife and I are extremely fond of wildlife We are very fond of animals. I like pets too, Mr. Norton But mice is not a pet. Oh there I beg to differ with you Yeah, Mr. Norton, but a mouse a mouse is one of the lowest species of life in a mouse Bertha You have a whole symbol of the downtrodden human race Conditenced into one small round body David that was beautiful I've fallen in love with you all over again, and I set the trap first thing in the morning Oh, no now Bertha Do you mean to tell me that you would set a trap for that poor innocent little mouse? Yeah, all of this is in vain Bertha. Yeah, I said get out on your first thing in the morning Oh, no, come on get out on your hands and knees here with us now look him in the eye You look at that face coming around the door Can you look at that and not melt? Yes, I can I do not melt such a face will be sweet on a bird or a dog But the mouse no birthday your heart She certainly is mitabel Michael Bell or whatever your name is. I'll wish us the end is in sight I say your prayers Oh, come on. Let's look at him in his house. I guess he lives in this closet. No smart mouse He picked a good closet in here are all the crackers and the flower But I think it must be all go out tomorrow Even have his last night in peace Take it easy Bertha. I don't see anything Why don't you look under the bottom shelf? Unless there's a hole in the wall he would have gone through there now turn on the light darling. Oh You are like babies with a new toy It is good to find people who love even mice, but sorry tomorrow the trap. No now birth first David I see him. I mean her move over. Let me see. He's a her There on the corner next to the flower canister. Tell me if you see it to get down What do you see Do you mama mouse and her three baby mouse Her eyes aren't even open they're tiny like It's a family portrait, huh? Look what they're sitting on you're blue sock. That's the one I couldn't find remember I look for weeks and I couldn't find a hole in any way She found it brought it all away. She dragged it all away in here to make a bed for her children That's that's really a mother for you. I wonder if she can find my suspender I see Mrs. Norton the way she's looking at us. Say you haven't seen a pair of green sock They're all shivering so now what do you say now, Bertha? No No, I I say you cannot disturb a mother into her children Yes, that's what I say, too And when the children are a little older Fritz will find them a place in the barn And the house mouse will become a barn mouse David aren't they adorable mr. And mrs. David Norton announced their house guests mrs. Mitchibelle Aloysius mouse and her three little mice These broadcasts are adapted for radio by mania star and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney a Pleasant custom has taken root among workers whether they earn a living with head or with hand It's the custom of working refreshed with ice-cold Coca-Cola You probably have a schedule at home that would make an eight-hour day seem pretty light And so an occasional pause does wonders to perk you up Why not go to the refrigerator get yourself a bottle of coke and refresh right now? 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 a bar 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