 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the play and novels by Rose Frankon Brought to you transcribe 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 Breakfast darling. Yes there all through. I don't know what you find to be so gay about today any objections Loads of them such as well gray out and it should be sunny. It's cold and it should be warm Because if it's going to snow and it should be going to be beautiful in other words It's winter and it should be spring exactly. Don't you mind? Well another couple of days winter can't be helped. It's all wrong David. It's almost Easter Come to think of it Easter's on Sunday Say Easter off the early this year. That's why it's still wintery out Easter means sunshine and warmth Spring doesn't feel like Easter at all. David doesn't even feel as if we should drive up to Eastwood on a day like this Oh, we've got to go up darling. We've got to try to find a farmer for the place or we're not going to be able to move in Couldn't we drive up tomorrow? I suppose so but the weather might not be any better tomorrow. That's true Well, I suppose I as well clear up the breakfast dishes darling. You're not really upset by the weather Are you know not really? I guess things don't always happen on cue You can't always wake up one morning and find grass on the ground birds in the trees in the blue sky Can't you know except in fairy tales nursery rhymes and bad novels bad novels Why do people always say novels are bad when they describe things the way people wish they were You have something there when I was a little girl I remember waking up in the morning and one morning it felt different than any other morning Mama didn't make me wear a heavy overcoat mittens and leggings. That's what you think you remember But today is a hint of things to come I'll let you go out without your legs and somehow as if I'm a planned at all the park would feel all different that day Everything looked different. I guess it was like that with me too. Who was first day We took baseball bats the park instead of footballs. Hey, you ever been to a baseball game? I never had a brother or when spring's really here and the Yankees and the Giants come to New York I'll take you to a baseball game. Oh, I wish it were today. Oh, you think you're gonna like baseball, huh? Well, I think I'm gonna like spring, huh? I think if we're going to the country, we better get started I've got to get back in time to be in the office this afternoon. I guess so I'll clear the dishes. Oh David look at snowing out. Hmm. So it is always not awful. I'm so sick of winter It's only a little flurry darling see the snow is not even sticking to the ground Honestly, it feels like spring is never going to come this year. You're just in a hurry because of the farm. I'm just in a hurry I'm also thinking of all the little Easter rabbits in the chicks. They'll freeze Say David it is amazing. Isn't it how many chicks managed to get born in time for Easter? Especially considering how early Easter is this year It's my my answer. You always find a way out of your responsibilities. Don't leave the dishes darling. I'll do the master But I do Hello mama. Yes, we've left. We're halfway up the Eastbrook and it's a dreadful day in Eastbrook, too The roads are icy and everything's all gray Yes, of course, I'll dress warmly Mama, when do you think spring's going to come ever? Who do you think your mother is an oracle mama? Are you an oracle? She says no David. She isn't here. She wants to talk to you Hello mother Yes, of course, it's perfectly all right to drive up the day No, it's not that bad out Just because it's Easter weekend you two girls think there's a log and snow No worse than it was yesterday. No worse than it'll be tomorrow worse luck Yeah, you sure you don't want to come along mother All right. All right, bye. Bye. Is she coming? No, she said something about leaving the North Pole to Admiral Bird Well, I suppose I better hurry and get dressed. We'll never get back. Oh, David if only I could see one little fly Oh, you'll see plenty on Sunday I suppose even if it hails the ladies will turn out with their latest cabbages and window boxes on their heads I'm gonna wear the new hat I bought with Julia. Well, you see it David look out the window and see if the snow's going to stop. Yes, ma'am Well Well my arthritis ain't paining me and my rheumatism ain't a throbbing so it's hard to tell Well, just let your finger and hang it out the window. That's for when not snow No, it doesn't look like it's going to let up. You think it was December out It was Christmas instead of Easter coming up. Hmm still angling for presents, aren't you? I think I hear a horse a gift horse what a horse be doing out in a day like this We'll lean out and see You're right darling, it is a horse. He got his galoshes on No galoshes. He's wearing a gray felt hat his Easter Bunny Hey, you know what he's pulling my leg He's pulling a wagon full of flowers. Oh, don't be silly who takes flowers out in the snow flurry. Oh, look for yourself David you're right. It is the flower man. I guess he didn't look at the sky before he left the house this morning How would how would you like some flowers darling flowers for me? Mm-hmm. Come on. I'll tell you what we'll do We'll go down and get you a geranium. Maybe that'll cheer you up. Oh, I'm cheered up. All right I'm just a little depressed. Well, then we'll undepress you Poor flower man. He's living in a fool's paradise at least it's a paradise Look, he's not the most pathetic horse you've ever seen careful darling. Don't slip on the sidewalk Buy some of flowers and nice of flowers. Hey, whoa. Hey, wait a minute there. Oh We'd like some flowers. Whoa there Margarita. Whoa Now what do you have there? Nice of flowers every kind. Oh, they're beautiful nice, you know Oh, they're beautiful, but are they going to freeze on a day like this? What's the matter with today? Ah, nothing much except snowing and it's bleak. Ah the snow that's a little thing Oh, maybe little to you, but Margarita looks as if she's freezing. We did that the nice and warm-up blanket Margarita, she's a fine She looked like a that in the middle of August to do maybe she's dreaming of a white Easter This little bit of snow She's a winter saying goodbye. Oh, I'd much rather the Sun were saying hello the Sun The Sun she's here, too. She's she's up there in the middle of the sky Right behind it at cloud Which one? Oh, she's a juicer to wait at the takeout ahead She's acting a little shy see a little shy But she come out all right When she see Giuseppe and Margarita out with the little flowers, she'd be no more shy She's a come out and she's gonna beam all over the place It's quite a wagon. You got there. What what kind of flowers have you got all the time? Oh, Careful and so much like spring. They are the spring My wagon is a fool of the spring. She's a flowing over with the spring Decepticons maybe you are the first swallow the first to swallow I mean maybe now that you're here the others will come back, too Come back at the swallows. Oh, my wife means maybe nature will take a hint. Oh Nature She's a juicer waking up She's a been in a deeper sleep in a deep sweet white sleep Some of time she'd take a little bit the longer to wake them up But when she wake up The whole world feels good and she feel young again If you wake up too soon, you know feel so good, but this spring when he Easter. She's a come Everything will be just like a noob. Maybe you've got something there, Giuseppe Little bit of patience a lot of patience if you ask me but it's a worth it Life begins and not in the middle of winter because it's the first of the year But in the heart and when in the heart, it's a feeling like a spring Yeah, and then that the snow she will go away and the sun would have come out and Everything and everybody gets another chance. Your heart feel like spring Giuseppe. Look this morning I look out of the window and in my heart that she's saved to me Giuseppe Take out of the flowers and walk them up and down of the street and sell the flowers The spring it will see you and it will know that it's a timer for it to come and it give everybody a chance at a new life Well, suppose you sell us some new life Giuseppe I think just look at all the flowers. Are they wonderful? Now, which of the flowers would you like? Which? Oh, I like them all Geraniums Beautiful bright red for courage a whiter lily for the goodness and the Easter lilac For the sweetness and the hope Take them take them as much as you like. Yeah, all right. We will let's look at these over here Oh those white ones They're not cloudy. How are you darling? Hold out your arm. Oh, David. I feel just like a bride. You look like a bride Here you are a geranium Here's some lilacs to darling They're tickling my nose and not a daffodil you must have a daffodils Of course, we must have daffodils. Oh, mademoiselle any room in your arms for a little bunch of violets Hmm always room for a little bunch of violets darling. There you are the violets just like a crown Yeah, let's put them all together Are they too heavy? No, it's like cowering air warm sweet spring air and look Look at the snow. She's a stopper snow in it and Behind it at the cloud of the Sun, which is waking up in a moment The whole world will be all anew the whole world Like in my wagon of flowers. Well, here you are Giuseppe and keep the change. Oh, thank you I'm always a feeler that the for the first of flowers that there should be no money But no buts about it first flowers are worth the most The only shame is that the only way we can let you know is with money You let them know before and The now Margarita we push along and a cell of the flowers all the way down to the street Goodbye Giuseppe and come again. Bye. I come again And when I walk her back after the summer with my wagon empty the first swallow she will have fly away David The sky's clearing Spring I think Giuseppe was right. I think we bring spot spring when our hearts know it's time David let's drive to Eastbrook and let's take all the flowers with us We'll let the country know that it's Easter and it's spring and it's time to wake up The Coca-Cola company and your local Coca-Cola bottler have asked me to extend to you and your family They're very good wishes for a happy Easter You know, mr. King you feel it that the spring is juiced around the Sunday. Well, it's certainly welcome Giuseppe I guess everybody's had just about enough a winner You know when I was a young and in love I dream only of April and the blue skies. Oh, yes I pack my bag and off I go to the country to leave that but it's not that simple anymore Before Claudia and David can pack their bags and move to the farm. They've got a rent their apartment Oh, that should not be any trouble today. No, no trouble, but perhaps a little confusion Shall we say whatever it is if you happen to be in the neighborhood on Monday, Giuseppe you find out I come by with my wagon and now I must go Happy Easter, mr. King. Yeah, and to buy some of flowers and now he's a freshest ring of flowers All the kind of flowers happy Easter to you Giuseppe and as I was about to say 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 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 Or ice-cold Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes These programs star Catherine Bard as Claudia and Paul Crabtree as David and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney and now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola