 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 What time is it Claudia just a little before 10 so late I should be getting home Stay a little longer mama. What do you want to go home for that parrot of mine has an insatiable appetite for conversation Haven't I I should think yours would have been satiated by now Claudia are you sure you don't want to come and spend the night at my house? I'm sure mama well As you like if you don't mind being alone may sound silly mama, but it's inserted closer to David here His pipes over there on the shelf cold hanging in the closet. That's not really at all I understand very well, but I should think you'd feel very close today But even without the pipes and coat very close mommy's in Chicago How many times did he call today only once? He said everything was going beautifully the board committee was very enthusiastic about the freight terminal the money would be raised and oh Mama I'm glad it was so successful. It sort of makes it all worth it There you go again all worth what worth David's being away for two nights of course If the Chicago business hadn't worked out it'd be such a such a waste being a part doesn't harm people who love each other May hurt them, but never harms them. I heard I heard awfully No some this hurts. How's your finger? Fine. I didn't hurt me a bit. Have you told David about bluff? No, I thought I'd wait till he got back Mama, what do you suppose David is doing right now right now? ten o'clock Sitting around with some of the men discussing things David's the handsome Well, he may be the handsome of men, but right now you're not the handsome of wives not our long shot I bet I look awful. I don't even dare peek in the mirror But I'll look very glamorous tomorrow when David comes home wait and see you think you'll look glamorous tomorrow Just because you're going to bed with your front hair and bobby pin and cold cream on my face and oil on my nail I shall push I don't want to hear any more of your beauty secrets. I might end up looking like you In a way very little way It's a good thing David went away What very little way is that well a woman needs a little time to herself to Well keep herself up as well as she should who told you what do you mean? Who told me I'm a woman aren't I? Oh, that's right the way you act most of the time I keep forgetting you're going to be a mother David doesn't forget His future son received an airmail letter from him this morning. He said him all his love You'd think he'd been gone a year Well, if you're going to be glamorous by tomorrow morning, I'd better be getting home and let you get started I'm not the least little bit sleepy It's funny. I'm never sleepy when David isn't around very funny Mama does my hair seem dry to you over here Bampish it is wonderful just right to put it up You know mama, I didn't see whether men have any right to mind about a woman going to bed with bobby pins in her hair When they go to bed without shaving first It's the same thing. Isn't it don't ask me ask a man. I did he mined so bad. Good night Good night, mama You don't want to stay you sure I'm sure Claudia just the way you feel about your home That's the way I feel about mine, but you're alone mama So are you tonight? Well, that's only one night. Well Only one lifetime to Maybe that's him. That's he Claudia and I think of the money I spent on your schooling given my love Hello, David. Oh darling, where are you? Oh Why I miss you terribly No, but I'm fine. I mean I'm as fine as I could be all alone. What's new how'd everything go? Oh I'm glad darling mama's been here. She's been here all evening Mr. Caring and says me as regards when you send them right back. I mean you send him mine back Darling, this is awfully expensive. When will you be home? I said I was fine except I miss you. No, I'm not sad Goodbye, I love you lots of them Goodbye Yes, goodbye Sweet dreams. Bye Mama easy Mama Sneaked out on me Shakespeare. She thought I wanted to be alone with David Well, now I'm alone with you. Come on kitty kitty kitty kitty. Oh Shakespeare are you as lonesome for another cat as I am for David because if you are Well, I'd feel awful for you Come on now, baby We sit right here and the nice soft sofa will die Just a few more times before we go to bed just one or two Maybe just one more tickling my ear go away now go away My back Shakespeare, please don't I Thought you like having your ear tickled. No, I don't I hate it go away Do you always sleep on the sofa when I'm not here? Darling It's me. Hmm. What? David David would you come from? From Chicago, but what time is it? Is it tomorrow already three o'clock time? You were in bed, or were you waiting up for me? Oh, David, I didn't know it, but I'd wait up for you forever Don't you ever dare go away again. I missed you so don't worry. I won't that's why I came back Did you hate it as much as I did don't talk just kiss me. I I hated it more but just a minute ago. I I talked to you in Chicago Yeah, I took the next plane back because you sound as if you were getting along so well without me fool yourself Say you look lovely. I do you never fix yourself up like that for me. Were you expecting somebody else? It'd be silly. I was dizzy Good heavens. I just remember you were expecting somebody else my hair my nose my nails my Fast roll very stunning David I was supposed to look glamorous for you, but not tonight tomorrow. They want me to go away and then come back again Don't even joke about it. I love you Kiss me. Are you tired terribly? Would you like something to eat kiss me? I'm not hungry You look cute. I look awful. I'm embarrassed. Oh, so this is how wives walk around when the husbands aren't around they This is the way you look all day when I'm out. It is not David tell me tell me everything that happened while you were gone. I told you when I telephoned what happened here Yeah, nothing. What could happen anything? Oh, well, no Shakespeare Shakespeare He insisted on getting into bed with me last night. He knew I was lonesome that cat is this husband's best friend How's mother's just fine, too? And you were feeling all well again. I always felt well now I feel perfect. I'm even getting sleepy. So am I Where's bluff? Let's go to bed. You need a shave darling. What's that bandage on your finger bandage? Oh Bandage what for oh, I must cut myself or something. Yes, you must have but how Does one cut oneself and you could probably manage to do it with a blunted tomato. Nope. That's not how I did it Darling no games tonight. Just you tell me how you did it straight off boom. Just like that. I cut it No, yes, I did you asked me how I'd a piece of glass. Did you get any glass on it? Of course not. How'd you know I washed it anyways too small a kind of sister scratched There couldn't be anything in it, but itself now can we go to bed? What piece of glass did you cut it on darling David? Can people sue you for breaking their windows? Well, sure they can Claudia whose window did you break? Oh, I didn't do it. I'm not responsible at all But we could sue them right back for my cutting my finger on the window. Couldn't I you don't sue for a scratch Well, can you sue for a dog? What dog? Well, of course, how many dogs have we got? Well, if he was Claudia, where is bluff? Oh, David I wasn't gonna tell you till you had a good night's sleep because Nothing's really wrong now. Come on. Come on. Oh, where is in the hospital? Why in the dog and cat hospital David? Why did you have to ask me about that scratch on my finger? It's all your fault my fault? Yes, he is I Should have had you locked up before I went to Chicago. What happened? You don't have to look so worried bluff is all right now He only has three stitches on his right palm one on his tail the very tip of his tail Oh, yes, and a few under his stomach. He must look like a patchwork quill I left him at the hospital in case he needed help or something. We can bring him home tomorrow though bluff and your finger On a window pane that isn't ours Can we sue or be sued? Not at mama that reminds me David. I did about half the jigsaw puzzle you gave me. It's not so hard Well, this one is murder Claudia I can't put the pieces together now. Tell me where did bluff? I took him for a walk and he was walking backwards or something when a little French poodle started to bark at him Well poodles are scrappy little dogs startle bluff and he jumped No, not exactly jumped up would be more like it more jumped up. What's the difference? What happened David? Aren't you glad to be home? What happened and then I'll tell you Well bluff scared a grocer's boy There really wasn't lots fault. It was the poodles. We ought to sue that poodle Claudia What happened the grocer's boy? He ducked and No jumped would be more like it. Yes. He jumped and he let go of his car It was full of things like potatoes and oranges and it spilled and what's so terrible about that? Oh if that had been all it wouldn't be terrible, but that is what happened. It didn't spill it It ran away Not far because it was stopped by the window of a drugstore That's when it happened What happened? I cut my finger But there was no glasses and I washed it aren't you glad what was your finger doing in that window? Bluff ran after the cart. That's how he got cut you sure you haven't forgotten anything else positive Except it cost us ten dollars to sew up bluff and my band-aid cost ten cents and the drugstore man is going to sue the grocer And the grocer's going to sue us and I think we ought to sue somebody don't you and this little finger of yours with this Little bandage on it is all the proof I have that this story isn't pure Fabrication would I and better story like that? I don't know. I just hoped you would Let's go to bed. Oh David not with you looking like that Why did you have to go and notice my finger now? You're coming home is all spoiled you little dope Come here. Let me tell you something what? Why I love you I'll never know I know Because I love you. Oh David I missed you so I can understand why darling I'll take the Barbie pins out of my hair if you'll shave hmm. I don't mind the Barbie pins. I don't mind them at all These programs star Catherine Bard is Claudia and Paul Crabtree is David and the entire production Is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney on days when shopping seems to hold one irritation after another There's one good way to forget your irritation and that's to pause for ice-cold coca-cola Nowadays you see that familiar red cooler in your favorite food store as well as in lunch rooms and service stations and Always it seems to carry the message Take it easy pause and refresh yourself 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 Monday at the same time And now this is joking saying olive wire and remember Whoever you are Whatever you do wherever you may be when you think of refreshment think of coca-cola For ice-cold coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes