 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 Well mama, we certainly got a table without waiting very long didn't wait at all Always so accurate mama. Oh, well, I guess I'll sit down and Roger David can sit between us Certainly taking their time about checking their hat great conversation going on between them and that check I'm not grudging knowing the half check girl is just a sort of thing that gets a person a table in a crowded restaurant without waiting I thought that's coming in at the height of the lunch hour. We'd never get seated. So don't mr. Killian Well seems to be quite the man of our town. Oh, mr. Killian is the kind of a man about town that has a restaurant All his own a barber all his own a tailor all his own He's very correct, but I'm very fond of him Say mama, where do you put your pocketbook when you're sitting at a restaurant table on my lap? Of course, it's a sort of cluttered and precarious Nafkin steps off my knees aren't happy. Your life is very complicated I know and it's you who makes it complicated. Here we go again being blamed for everything Well, you insist on moving back to New York. So what happens? I have to make trips into town. I wouldn't have to make otherwise and how you hate it high heels pocketbooks crowds and Luncheon's in swanky restaurants wait to eat. I'm starving here are the men now Oh good all settled is the table all right couldn't be better Roger You're certainly a man of influence. Oh mama's impressed. Oh dear. I call the waiter We haven't got so much time David now You are not going to start this rushing business with your meal take your time eating rush after Is that an order? Yes your lunch order waiter Waiter menus, please David. What are we going to eat? We? What do I have to do with we? Well, I have to know what you're going to eat for I decide what I'm not going to eat I mean what I'm going to eat And why well you certainly don't think I'm gonna go ahead and order the same thing. Do you darling? You order what you want and I'll order what I mama. Do you hear the way he's talking to me independent young man Isn't he Roger? What are you going to eat? Well? I haven't seen the menu yet I never make up my mind until I see the menu and I can never make up my mind once I see the menu my daughter suffers from an Acute desire to eat everything on the menu mister. Mama really everything except brains. That is she doesn't like brains That is obvious eating and having them at two quite different matters. Oh, here's the waiter now With the menus. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do you wish to order now or shall I well? We'll think about it for a moment. If you don't mind and I'll call you. Thank you very much, miss you. Oh An enormous menu. I'm mine. Well, this is gonna be very complicated David, what are we going to eat? I'm just deciding what I'm going to eat Muscles I've ever eaten muscles Claudia my dear just for once order something you know you like Whenever you go into a restaurant you always order something you've never eaten before and you always end up not liking it And I have to eat it for you nonsense. I always like it Remember the snails well Well, that was different. Oh who would like snails? Oh, and if I'm not going to order things How am I gonna find out if I don't like them? Claudia I admire your spirit of adventure. Thank you Roger royal chicken on Virginia ham with mushroom sauce That sounds tempting. Oh mama. I'd like that. So why don't you order it? It's very good here quite the speciality Oh, well, my mind's not completely made up, but I'm leaning towards it David You decided what you're going to eat yet. What's it to you everything? I Am going to order one thing you are going to order another thing then we'll exchange That way we'll both have both and who says I want both darling It's much better than having to eat a whole plate full of the same. I have told you a million times I don't like eating from someone else's plate in a restaurant. So stuffy stuffy or not I don't like all right. We don't have to eat from each other all right We'll exchange plates halfway through you will but I won't I order one dish and I eat One day mama. What do you do with a man like that? Ignore him exactly pay no further attention to David You mama and I will work out a little scheme of fair exchange among ourselves now Do you hear that David even Roger will exchange? No, aren't you ashamed? I am not I haven't done this in years But I love it. Let's see Mom is gonna have the chicken on ham. Yes, my mind's made up chicken on ham. Roger. What are you having? Well, um, I thought I'd have the new England dinner. Oh, I hate corned beef. Oh, then I certainly can't order the new England dinner Why don't I have the veal parmesan? Parmesan is that the veal with the cheese business on top? Oh, it's excellent here. Mm. I like that And let me see that tastes cavio and chicken Now what about me? Well, they're they're mixed grill is delicious. Mama like mixed grill I'm not mad about mixed grill the calves lever is exquisite sauteed in onion onions That's settled at onions Is this pretty good selection wouldn't you say I'll call the waiter over David old man, what are you going to have? I am having the Roast beef. You're sure that's what you want. Yes, that's what I want fine Waiter Waiter We're ready to give our order now. We miss here Ready one real parmesan parmesan one calves liver one calves liver smothered in onions One chicken on him And One roast beef medium rare he likes it pink in the middle and crusty on the outside and a baked potato. Well done We madam. Thank you very much for the details, darling. Well, isn't that the way you like it? I usually can take care of myself Well, I just wanted to be sure it was the way you like it Oh and wait her afterwards a mixed green salad with a little garlic rubbed on the bowl Just a little every miss here a little garlic a petite bird a soup son immediately Then now it will all be here in a moment service is very good here David you're going to be sorry my good man eating your lonesome roast beef and not a taste of my veal or mama's chicken That's what you get for being so independent. Am I to be persecuted because I have principle course you are Not sharing in a restaurant. I never heard of such a thing Well, that's half the point of going to a restaurant to taste as many things as possible Well, don't you care at all what the people around you are saying people around if they have any sense of probably doing exactly the same thing When are you so self-conscious anyway? Oh, there are certain things that I cannot stoop to thank you What a performance you're putting on we didn't know you better. We take you seriously, then it's too bad You know me better. I can't wait to start eating. I'm starving now Then let's organize ourselves ladies and not a bite to the enemy not a bite now How do you like to do it divide each portion into three parts or or change around or what? I think that's the best way and that way we'll get a taste of each other's while it's still warm Yes, and I'm the kind of eater who likes to eat all of one thing first. I like a bite of this bite of that bite Well, I hope you're all enjoying yourself. We are and you'll be sorry Well, I guess it's like everything else in the world Roger. You can't expect everybody to cooperate Can you there's always going to be one rugged individual and it's the rugged individuals who have saved civilization That's what rugged individuals always say to themselves to console themselves. I just hate to see you lose out darling. Well, thank you for worrying No, here we are Ville parmesan here, please Chicken on hand for me. Oh, it looks delicious and Gav's liver right here. Oh How it smells I love onions and monsieur no more roast beef What did you say? I am sorry monsieur, but we are all out of roast beef I see he takes the blow no blade, but we have excellent blue fish. No, thank you. No blue fish What what else do you have that's ready? You are my Cards ever for you. I will get the menu for you sir. Fine. Thank you very much Yeah, you're outdoor. There's some chicken and some ham and you are too. Oh, that does look delicious Could I have one little mushroom? Oh, me too. Look at this feel look at it sizzling heart adjusts mother-in-cheese And done to a turn Here Claudia Now then here's for you. Thank you and Mrs. Brown For you and here is your cat liver and onions. No, if you could just see yourself We're not interested. I think we did that all very efficiently. Well, here we go. I'm drooling I can't decide which to eat first. I feel as if I'm eating three meals. I don't know which I'm going to enjoy most Oh, Roger. I'm so glad you took the veal. I never have the sense to take veal. It's so pale and I love it here Give me a little taste of that. Go away. Aren't you selfish me selfish? David go away. You're a scavenger. The veal is good Is the calf liver good? You're not going to find out for me Roger you you wouldn't refuse your partner a little piece of calf liver, would you? I certainly would I'll just put it on my bread. David, I know I'll take an onion for mama I don't want you to stay out of my place. Well, would you all have me go hungry just because I ran out of roast beef? Certainly would you a bolt-facer. Get away. Excellent calf liver cook. Just right. Not too well done He gave you now. That's all you're gonna have. You are not a member of our club Mm-hmm. It just does a man's heart good for one's wife and friends to turn against him when ill fortune begets him Just for that I ought to have a little piece of that chicken. Don't shoot You're not playing to eat that drumstick. I certainly am. I'm gonna use it in self-defense if nothing else I'll take a little piece of the dark meat a little piece of hot mama. You're letting yourself be wrong. What can I do? I wouldn't stand for it. Hmm. I don't mind sharing, but I won't be robbed. David You know he reminds me of some people some what some people They want everything to be given to them and give nothing in return Well, perhaps that's because they have nothing to give in return. That's true But David my boy, you might have had something to give in return if you hadn't been so smug You refused to enter into our pack and now that we are rich and you are poor all of a sudden you believe in sharing the Well, I marvel at how greedy some people are not greedy just not forgiving and speak for yourself No, I don't right have it your way locked me out because your ladders are full and my closet is bad Oh, you're breaking my heart. Now. I just have one more little piece of Claudia's calf liver and onion David Too proud to share but not too proud to steal not the same thing at all. No, aren't you conscious of other people watching? No, no, I'm not sharing is whimsy stealing is necessity. I am not ashamed Oh, oh, oh, how the man rationalizes hardly had anything to eat your husband has stuffed himself for you Here you have just had a lesson in living Claudia from now on you'll know how to protect yourself Here is the menu monsieur the menu you wish to order an entremis here the steak is excellent steak I couldn't eat another thing just bring me dessert and coffee along with the rest up Did you hear that Roger? He is tough and I feel as if I'd had but a crumb that is life the honest star and the dishonest eat What an excellent lunch you ordered my friends. What an excellent lunch When you're planning a home or club parties, there's one way to reduce difficulties to a minimum But Coca-Cola at the top of your refreshment list doesn't matter whether guests are young or old It doesn't matter whether there are a dozen or a hundred ice-cold coke quickly helps create an atmosphere of hospitality Oh, Mr. King have you an old crust you don't mind giving a hungry man So the three of you got robbed of your lunch didn't you the joke was on us a very hungry joke if you can think of a way I can get even with my partner. Let me know before tomorrow Well, you're not gonna have much of a chance to get even with David tomorrow. He's not coming into town. Oh That's right. He's staying up in Eastbrook about the schoolhouse plans and to be sidetracked Of course by Jared Tucker, of course Jared Tucker. How is the old man? Jared Tucker is fine But unfortunately, he doesn't know what time it is What that's right. He's out to buy himself a watch. Well, I hope he has a good time at it See you Joe. I'm going to get myself a bag of peanuts. I'm starving. I can understand that 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 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 an ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola