 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the famous plays 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 Darling look at bluffing Shakespeare aren't they sweet do you suppose they've been sleeping in each other's arms all night? It's nice to have breakfast too. Oh It's nice to kiss your husband. Good morning, too. Good morning, David And there's something else that's nice what? Put on your slippers and put on your bathrobe so you don't catch cold. Oh That that's dull compared to other nice things in the world be dull then and put them on David since when are you taking care of me? I thought it was up to me to take care of you. Oh, that's where you're wrong It's vice versa now go on put on your slippers and insult this lovely white carpet. It's much warmer than any old Slippers listen you future mother very future worse luck do as I say or I'll spank the daylights out of very future Papa, too Oh, all right, I'll put them on. I know you're not worrying about me. I'm not a Worrying about your heir apparent only he isn't even a parent yet. No, you're the parent Oh, now put on those slippers and that bathrobe. Oh I'll get the paper at the front door. I'll get the milk at the back and I'll get the mail at the front door I'll get the cream at the back. What about the eggs? What about them? Where do you get those? Star in the corner Inconvenient well the milkman would deliver them, but they're cheaper at the store You're such a little housekeeper eggs are 80 something cents a dozen Softly high isn't it Gee if I were a hen I'd make a million dollars all ahead if you don't put on your slippers I'll ring your neck. All right. All right. Do you want yours? No, I'm getting dressed David isn't this the most wonderful way to live married. It has its advantages. I don't mean that I Mean everything else. Oh, there's something else I mean living in this apartment the milk at the back door the paper at the front door the extra room for the baby Look now the sun shining in here Shakespeare's purring in his sleep Blossoms pumping his tail again. Oh, David. This is perfect. We're very lucky darling We have a good long lease and I guess the milkman will keep coming and the sun will keep rising in our Bedroom and setting in the living room and berth and Fritz are downstairs and mama just around the corner and bluff likes it here Darling, you don't have to itemize our luxuries like a bookkeeper. I'm fully aware of I guess I'm really talking to myself It's nice every now and then to look at myself in the mirror and say Claudia brown Norton. You've got everything in the world to be happy about you. Just hang on to them for dear life David let's not ever move from here the milk and the male will follow us, but I know what you mean Only there's one more thing. I'd like you to say to yourself what darling Claudia brown Norton would you please put on your bathrobe and get breakfast for your very happy, but hungry husband Yes, Mr. Carrington. Yes, it's Mr. Norton. Oh, Well, I'll have to have another set of blueprints made for that great terminal. Oh, now on a few days. Hello, David. Yes. Oh, Carrington on the phone. Oh, Yes Well, of course, one of the most important factors involved is the area of the site Do you have an air plan of that acreage? No, no, that that wouldn't help Yes, I suppose the best thing for me would be to come to Chicago Well, I'll manage but not for several weeks yet all right Those blueprints will be in the mail this afternoon Yes, Mr. Carrington Yeah, goodbye Well He's the kind of man who wants everything done yesterday. I think you handle him beautifully He's still very excited about that fake terminal isn't it? Looks like it. His lawyers are drawing up the contracts with us They'll be ready by the end of the week wonderful wonderful, oh It's a beautiful day and I've got something to tell you oh Something far more exciting than all the freight terminals in the world speaker partner. What is it? Well, it's just this I drove to Eastbrook Connecticut yesterday had lunch with the frost they have a beautiful place But that's not the story after lunch. We went for a drive. Oh, that sounds fairly harmless I thought it would be too so I sat back in the car and didn't pay very much attention to what was going on We'd had devil crab for lunch and well, you know it plays the devil with me So we were rolling along perfectly lovely farm country there in back of Eastbrook trees. Yes Roger I I know all about Eastbrook. I know all about trees too just to Tell me what happened. Well, I'm coming to that I want to give you a picture of the whole thing just as it happened as my impatient wife would say I'm busting to know You know, you're getting more and more like Claudia every day questions questions questions Well, it's our mistake. We were driving along a back road When all of a sudden there around the bend in a hollow half shaded by some ancient maples I saw one of the most charming houses that I have ever come across pure saltbox built in 1760 the real thing down to the last door knob David that house has such a personality such serenity such perfection of line. Oh I felt completely in love with it. Hey, I haven't heard you rave about Anything like that in a long time, Roger. I haven't seen anything like this house in a long time It's so beautifully set right in the bend of the road and It's for sale. There was a large sign posted in front for sale In choir Jared Tucker maiden lane Eastbrook. I gather you You went in It's an old farmhouse all the original beams flooring and the brass the condition of the house is repairable or beautiful job Could be done of renovating it keeping all the original features and details, of course And I think you could buy it for song Roger you you aren't planning on hard what you aren't going to buy it. Are you me buy it? Of course not. Oh, I've already got a place in Connecticut that I'm trying to sell The way things are I mean my wife. I really don't have any use for a home anymore Good hotel is so much more convenient. Then what's all this excitement? Besides, of course your appreciation as an architect, but don't you see David? Haven't you caught on to what? It's the perfect house for you For me why of course for you and Claudia There's a brook on the place Claudia would love a brook. She's so delightfully refreshing. She's so refreshing. She doesn't need a brook when I saw the house standing there Every inch authentic the long history of fireplaces and families around them with the walnut tree in the crest of the hill I knew it was a house for you No, but we're getting along beautifully without a walnut tree in and we've got a fireplace You're getting a family too. Don't forget that I'm not forgetting. We've got an extra room for the family But David this is the solution to all your problems problems We haven't any problem. Everyone has problems. You're no different if you haven't them now You will get them and this is the answer to them Roger I I've never heard you talking like this before. Oh Well, I guess I got myself excited about this night Yes, yes, I'd say you have but David Promise me one thing what? Promise me that you won't make up your mind against it until you've seen it. It's really something believe me It is. Oh David. It's it's the perfect place for you and Claudia You can make that house into a vertebral little paradise. It has a barn too Our barn to part of paradise barns mean your own capital your own capital means your own cows And your own cows mean your own milk imagine growing your own milk right in your own barn But we've got a perfectly healthy milkman and our own milk grows right at our back door Oh, well, which is a good deal more convenient than a bar David can't you be a little more imaginative? Don't you appreciate the difference between a cow and a milkman? Yes. Yes. I I see it very well I've always sort of thought of myself as a farmer But I'm not ready to move yet out to the country anyway someday perhaps not now Claudia would be alone all day and And Eastbrook is commuting distance to New York to know Oh Not now though I'm glad to hear you don't need to quit work Just to live out in the wilds of Connecticut someplace. That's a relief. You don't think I'm serious. Do you? Well, I I've lost my breath. That's all you'll catch it and when you do you realize that I'm perfectly right David you can bring up your children in the country with trees and grass good air and plenty of space to play in You will own some land You will have something that you can see and walk on and watch and develop You'll have a home. That's yours yours and Claudia's for as long as you want it And no one can take it away from you except the banks are the mortgage owner or the tax collector Not your land. You won't let it go, but Roger. We've got a beautiful apartment We're all set just this morning. We were talking just this morning. You didn't know about this house That's the truth and yesterday morning. You didn't know about I wish I had known about it and knew what I know now 30 years ago. Oh David you're young and strong and you're in love. You're just starting out. Get yourself some roots Don't spend your life borrowing your home from begrudging landlords build it yourself Take out a piece of this country that can become not an land and live on it And perhaps your life won't scatter to the forewinds like like so many others The deepest rooted trees grow the tallest and the strongest if I were you and I could stand here and talk to myself the way I'm talking to you. I Buy myself a farm. I Happen to have seen the one I like But there are others by one have it live well and grow with it You'll have something when you're through Well There's a lot in what you Thanks, Roger. Thanks Thanks for what? For letting a friend do a little wishful thinking For letting him stand in your shoes and live your life The just one thing I do on David Think it over Before you say no, I'm going up to Redbury tomorrow Roger now. Not only think it over. I'll I'll have a look at the house Before I say no Macnorton has a farm and on that farm He has a subway milk at the door morning papers taxi cab skyscrapers adding machines These broadcasts of Claudia are adapted by mania and Roger star and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney When you invite people over they like to have you take it easy That's one of the many reasons they like to have you serve coca-cola They know all you have to do is to go to the refrigerator and bring out those frosty inviting bottles And whether you serve it in glasses or right from the bottle You couldn't offer more refreshment nor a friendlier welcome though. You paid many times the five cents that coke costs 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 Or ice-cold coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes you