 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 Sandwich will be 50 cents. Yeah, man Do you think they have a specially big number of sick people in Connecticut David so many drugstores You mean I counted 12 in Bridgeport before we found this one I'm sure we're in the one Delilah Tuckerman. It's right across the street from the courthouse Besides of which it has the right name. Oh, you can't go by names in Connecticut. I'm beginning to find that out already Everything has the same name. You mean there's an eastbrook and a northeast Then there's the southeast brook and Middle East brook and east brook center. Are we lucky there isn't a west east brook That would be awfully confusing for the poor brook. I wouldn't know which end was up This is darlin's pharmacy But I saw another darlin's pharmacy on the street. We crossed before we crossed the one that turned into that one I saw that one too. That was C. E. Dolan's and this is E. K. Darlin's related. I wonder probably if you went back to 1765 Bobby hadn't been speaking to each other since 1865 I'd be afraid to ask Never expected to hear from Delilah Tucker today. Did you I suppose? She's just as tired as I am of the way you men have made this whole thing so complicated and mixed up So that nobody's doing what they want to The Tuckers want to sell the house and we want to buy it But instead we're all mixed up with deeds and mortgages and claims and this that and the other They aren't selling and we aren't buying and nobody's happy except mr. Hankins the lawyer look Claudia Nobody wants to buy this house any more than I do Why did you fight for it then like with a walnut tree? You were so quick to give back to mr. Jared Tucker But we cannot take a chance on buying a house that we can't get a clear title to What Hankins said Jared Tucker doesn't have a clear title He had a brother and no one knows if the brother the live or dead Everybody knows he's dead Hankins knows he's dead and Jared knows he's dead and so does Delilah and so do you and I So does everybody in Eastbrook I bet you 20 cents Knowing it and proving it are two different things. If you don't sound like miss mc mcackle happen Who is miss mc mcackle happen? She tells geometry. She was always talking about proving things That anybody could see by just looking at them. Well, I'm honored to sound like miss mcackle happen She must have been a worthy and fine young woman. She was 78. Well, she was young in spirit Claudia we aren't going to put a cent of money into a house that we can't prove as ours no matter what Delilah Tucker says I know they really own the farm because Delilah Tucker called up this morning and told you so We must believe Hankins. He's our lawyer Well darling keep your chin up Here comes Delilah under a full head of steam and I've got a feeling she thinks I'm Samson Good day to you, Mr. Norton Hello, Miss Tucker. Hello, Miss Tucker. Sorry. I kept you waiting here that carved jazz is getting more and more like he is every day Getting so you can't hardly move at all. I had no idea you drove a car miss Tucker. How's that? I said I had no idea you drove a car. You sound just like my brother Jed He's got no idea that I drive either. I taught myself to drive 20 years ago Got tired telling Jed how to do it. So I went out and learned from myself. Well, that's fine Do you want to stay here miss Tucker? Do you want to go somewhere else? How's that young woman? Can't you quit that mumbling? Do you want to stay here? I said stay here with all the noise in here Not me I'm going out to my car, but we can talk without being disturbed any that'll be fine I'm awfully glad you called us miss Tucker My wife means that we are very much interested still and buying the house provided we can get a clear title to it Don't know what the trouble with you city fellas is you can't seem to talk so as a buddy can hear you Yes, Danny, New York ain't got nobody to say that anybody else is interested in the fine neighborly place That must be where are you coming? Are you sure you don't want to sit in our car sure? I'm sure my car's right in front here, and I'm not aiming to miss Rupert Hankins when he gets here Did you say Rupert Hankins was meeting us here? What's the matter mr. Lawton? You don't hear so good. Did she tell you that on the phone? Do you have any idea what it means? All she told me was to meet her here at the drugstore And all Hankins told us was that she was too anxious to sell the house in the first place Where are you coming? Are you sure? We're coming miss Tucker, how's that? Uh, we're coming That's speaking of young fella, that's the way I like to hear you talk Isn't it awfully cold for you today miss Tucker? Cold? Ain't had a cold in 20 years, but that brother of mine got to nurse him like he was a hot house plant Man That's the car isn't it? This is my car Isn't the motor running? I hope the motor's running. If it stops running the three of us will never get it started again It's running. What's the matter with you young fella? Don't you think I can see that for myself? Well The door's open. Get in. You better get in first miss Tucker. Good idea David you better close the door. Maybe that way we can all keep warm. I'm afraid it's going to be a little crowded in here Close the door young fella. Well, I'll try There's some cramped in here. I can't get a good swing Now If you two will stop interrupting me, we'll get something done around here. We haven't interrupt Go ahead miss Tucker that their country lawyer that Rupert Hankins Told you we didn't have a clear title to our land because nobody knows if a brother Samuels alive or dead. That's right What's that there goes my motor Well, we'll help you start. Oh, don't interrupt me Samuel's dead the house is ours. We're selling it to you But if I told you that you change your mind and go ahead with it. Is that all of course. That's all Where did Samuel die? No, no, but he did die. Did he leave any children? You're asking an awful lot of questions young fella. Now look here miss Tucker young fella I asked you to stop mumbling if you haven't got any proof miss Tucker I'm afraid we can't do anything else but forget the whole thing and go back to New York Well young man, that's the way you feel about it. I guess that's it. Well, that isn't the way we feel about it Miss Tucker, that's the way mr. Hankins makes us feel a Claudia. We can't buy a house unless we I know that David Miss Tucker, isn't there any way you can prove that Samuel is dead? Nope. We can prove it doesn't matter any you can miss Stop mumbling. What did you say? I said yeah, and I have a paper that proves It don't matter none for the Samuels dead or alive and how many children he had Samuel gave up all rights to that face and we can prove it you can help any David does it help Why if it's true? It means we can buy the house miss Tucker. What kind miss Tucker? What kind of a paper is that now see here? Yeah, don't want me to show you this paper I've been fighting with that up to an old man for a week We believe that miss Tucker, but we've got to show it to mr. Hankins That's what I've been arguing with that stubborn old mule about for ten days You don't even know I won But you let me worry about that here it is, mr. Norton Let's see This is a quick claim dated July 5th, 1906 It is signed by Samuel Tucker and it renounces on his behalf and for all his heirs and assigns any claim He may have on both your farms. It's what it says. All right husband sure can read miss Norton Lucky things here. Don't know who's caught it. Is it all right, David? Is it it looks fine It looks as though this is just what Hankins needs it guarantees the title Why he can he can get it insured without a bit of trouble miss Tucker. You've certainly been wonderful I don't know what we would have done without you now. You listen to me you too Need to talk to anyone about this We short to Hankins, but we don't tell that blabbermouth a thing tell him, but but we don't know anything Why didn't Jared want us to see it? You've got to promise you won't let no one ever know how dad got it We promise jays a shame to that quick claim because he won it in a poker game on Independence Day When they should have been parading with the fire volunteers Poker game that that could happen to anyone Sam was a black sheep of our family Jared well nobody in Eastbrook knows Jared even played poker, but they don't want him to know now But still now if you ever be the word of this to anyone I'll well, I'll tell you I'd like to have you young people from the neighbors gonna be a nice change from that stubborn old man You see my brother Sam was a no-good He thought Jared drunk and he thought he'd take the farm away from him though Jared was the older So he cut Jared to play poker with the deck of cards that belong to our father Jared won the house with four aces to Sam's four kings It wasn't your next day after Sam left for good that Jared found there was an extra ace in daddy's deck of cards What'd you say I Didn't I didn't either miss Tucker. Well, there's that old blabbermouth Hankins coming over here Just in time Hello, mr. Lila. Hello, mr. And mrs. Norton. Hello, mr. Hankins Well a lot has happened since the last time we met maybe I'd like to read you this quit claim Executed by Samuel Tucker. See if you don't feel as I do that this clears the title to the land made a read it eh I Samuel Tucker the sum of one dollar in hand paid and other good and valuable consideration Where where where mr. Norton that's exactly what it does. That's fine Well, we've wasted a lot of time already and I certainly don't see any point of wasting any more You're perfectly right mr. Norton. Thank you. I I have here in my pocket a certified check Which I hand to miss Tucker. You have the deal I suggest that we all go across to the courthouse where miss Tucker will sign the deed and then you mr. Hankins can have it duly registered. I'm going with you But then you've got to come back here and help me start my car. We'll love it miss Tucker That's a right neighborly thing to say neighborly. Well since we own the house. I guess that's what we are now Miss Tucker, I expect you're going to be right good neighbors, too. We'll try very hard to be good ones miss Tucker Well David aren't you going to take me to the county courthouse? You certainly had ought to mr. Norton as a landowner taxpayer this county and a prospective boater Republic nature the lady's got every right to see it come with me, Mrs. Norton This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney When the butcher is fresh out of the meat you'd counted on for dinner When the solid greens are droopy and you're inclined to feel likewise Pause for a nice cold coke and refresh yourself There's probably one of those familiar red coolers for Coca-Cola right in your food store You'll find them around the corner from almost anywhere today And you'll find it's grand to be able to shop refreshed 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 ice cold Coca-Cola makes any pause The pause that refreshes