 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 Good heavens. What am I doing here? What are you doing where Roger? At this breakfast table I should be on my way to New York. What's the matter with this breakfast table? Nothing except that it's your breakfast table. Oh, that's a nice thing for a woman's husband's partner to say to a woman And your breakfast table happens to be an Eastbrook Connecticut. That is what is so charming about it We just happened to like ours in Eastbrook, which is far and wide the best place to have it. Yes I know David, you know, I don't think that Roger is being very polite to you. No, no, definitely not To usually he's the politest man. Maybe he woke up on the wrong side of the bed We gave him the best bed in the house for some people. Nothing is good enough First the breakfast table is in the wrong place for him and the bed was uncomfortable I am amazed truly amazed and just proved you don't know a person until you have him under your own roof Yes, so are you two having a good time? Excellent. I'm glad now pass me the cream for my coffee David pass him the cream for his coffee One cream coming up the cream. Thank you Do you think any explanation he could ever give would ever be good enough David when my hospitality is thrown back into my face? No explanation is enough my sentiments precisely Are you two like this every morning? Or is it only for my benefit or because you're company then spare me and treat me like family He doesn't like us David. Hmm another insult Roger Don't look so confused. We know what you meant. Do we darling he meant What am I doing here in Eastbrook in this charming charming house at this charming delightful table with these Delightful people but under normal circumstances. I'd be having coffee at my hotel in New York, right on the nose Brilliant my spouse is she not yes But here I am nevertheless, and I still hardly know how it happened It was the most natural thing in the world like falling in love every now and then Claudia sound like a popular lyric Well, that's at my best at my worst. I sound like an unpopular one Anyway, there we were burning leaves until it was dark. The night was clear the scent of autumn in the air You sound like a bad lyric of a popular song. Oh you disrupt all my flight support Well, you haven't gotten off of the floor on this one. I do not sorry you stayed overnight. Are you sorry? Can a man be sorry for the first taste of strawberries in the spring for the caress of a breeze and a hot day For the glint and a beautiful lady's eyes How was that? Wasn't it Claudia's catching past me the marmalade He's jealous the earthbound are always jealous of eagles and nightingale crows and sparrows you mean never mind You and I Claudia we understand each other. How about another piece of toast Roger? Oh, you're as bad as your husband here I am making beautiful Compliments to you and you plague me to have another piece of toast you sounded hungry That is the end. Oh, no, we have some more right over here besides It was compliment compliment enough that you spent the night with us. I'll have the toast Well, don't try to talk with your mouth No, I love this old house it was a house he stayed for David not for us certainly not you But for these original beams and hand-hewn floors that handsome brassware on the doors They're worth spending a night with well anytime Roger any time you like we wouldn't have them except for you I don't like to be banal. I should be on my way back town or Lottie will scold. Oh, no need to rush off It's only let's see you quarter to nine only Fine for you to say only You're staying home to fritter your time away with nature But I have to drive all the way into town Now now now don't you wish that you Roger? For like me in that you had a concussion and a mending collar bone. Hmm. Yes, I can see its advantages But back to the city for me No excuses for poor old Gillian have another cup of coffee first come on anything to delay my departure a moment I accept the coffee good Roger remember the day that you told me about this place. I remember well the last thing I wanted to do was buy a farm. We just got settled in our apartment Milk at the door the laundry right in the house the mail delivered no hot water heating to worry about It was awful only I didn't know enough to know it. I didn't know enough to know it at your age either But I knew it when I spoke to David that morning the minute I saw this farm the brook the tall elms the hill beyond the barn in this house small Waiting in the bend of the road as soon as I saw it I recognized all the things my life had never had we have those things David and I I know And I'm glad for you Hang on to them with your lives. Oh Good heavens. I'm still here you certainly are and still talking you certainly are what a dreadful old man. I'm getting to be Well, I guess there's no way to delay it any longer. I must be on my horse and back to New York We hate to see you go Roger. I hate to go But I must Frankly, I'm terrified Lotta he will scold if I get to the office too late you talk about that secretary of yours if you were a Watchdog at a time clock all in one with a serpent's tongue thrown in for good measure Still I wouldn't trade her in for a different model. Would you Roger not on days when my liver is good enough talk Goodbye call me if anything comes up. I will Hmm that air take some of it. Nice day. It'll be warmer at noon real autumn sky so blue Yeah, that's ours. He's always a little off schedule like the rest of it too late or too early Well, I came without luggage so I leave without luggage Your birds haven't flown south have they not yet. I'm going to try and talk them into staying Let me know how it turns out Well, you've really done wonders, right? No, you don't have to go. Why don't you stay where here, of course here? Yeah, but I have to go to New York. Do you haven't I just been telling you no, what do you mean? No, all you've been telling me is how much you'd like to stay out here and spend the day and maybe a few more But I must go to New York. Why to run my business our business share concede. Have you any appointments today? A lunch one social business social combine Nothing, you know that the best deals are made across a plate of guinea-hen under glass Tomorrow is another day Roger and there'll be another old lady chicken to make a deal across this is sheer madness I am going to New York. I have been going for ten minutes. Then goodbye. Yes. Have a nice trip down. I Will what is that all you have to say? That's all that's all oh Just who are you trying to fool What do you mean this rushing off to the city practice what you preach relax follow your impulses pamper yourself life is short Spend a day with us. It's gonna be a honey over one. I could never let myself in the mirror again I came up here to say hello yesterday. Here it is today. I'm still here I I'm I'm another man who came to dinner No, no, I couldn't I just couldn't you're afraid of indulging yourself, aren't you? Frankly, yes, you man all same So if that's what's bothering you the reason that I want you to stay is to discuss the schoolhouse plans with you Up here. We can do it uninterrupted. Are you just saying that to appease my conscience David. Well, maybe I am maybe I'm not What's the difference? It's something we have to do. So let's let it appease your conscience, too What will I say call her and see oh you call it coward? Well, I guess one has to pay for one's pleasures Give me the phone. Oh brave one. Thank you my dear Yes, you're right David I I want to discuss that schoolhouse deal with you and the sooner they hello operator Give me New York Plaza nine four three two one we'll get started right after you talk to Lottie. We'll work all morning fine No monkeying around great Zeus. We have no time to monkey round. You know that exactly I would have gone to New York, you know if it worked for that schoolhouse business, of course you would I had no intention of staying No, it's a little in none. That's right. Is this rehearsal for Lottie's sake by any chance after all it is a Wednesday And I don't have to go off as a kid in and not an architect Good morning, Lottie. This is Mr. Killian speaking. Oh good morning, Mr. Killian. How are you? Oh, I'm fine That's good bad enough for one half of the partnership to be absent, isn't it? You can't afford to be not feeling so good. Can you know I can't can I You sure you're not sick and you sound queer That's because I'm out of town really funny. I talked to California once and it sounded like the next room Go on Roger tell her you're snowed in speaker. I'm I'm in Eastbrook Connecticut Lottie. At the Norton's are you? Oh poor you What did you say? Oh the Norton's are okay, but the country. How can you stand it on a nice day like this? Gosh, this is perfect weather for New York the sun shining and everything you don't like the country I should say I don't all that air and so many trees. I Get close to phobia or is that some dogs? Anyway, I don't like it. What are you coming back? Well, you see I don't tell me you're stuck out there Well in a way. Yes, I Agree with everything you've said Lottie, but duty calls. Mr. Norton and I have some work We're going to buckle down to together and since he can't come into town the mountain has come to my hammered Roger you're doing it beautifully Something fishy you still sound queer. I can't help how I sound mr. Norton and I are going to have to work on a new commission We're through the whole day So you have to break my lunch date and hold the fort I can run the business all right for you, but it's breaking my heart What is you haven't to miss such a nice day in the city just to work Say, how's mr. Norton? Well, he's fine. He'll be coming back to town any day now Tell him I miss him if you please and don't worry about nothing mr. Killian everything is under Lottie's thumb So it's okay. Thank you Lottie. Thank you very much. Oh, and thank you some for me, too You're a card mr. Killian. Well, take it easy and don't work too hard. It don't pay. You're so right Goodbye Lottie. Goodbye mr. Killian. My regards to all Well, the watchdog has given me her blessing congratulations and her advice leave us share Lottie's wisdom The little woman of the enlarged ad no, it recommends that although I felt I had to suffer a day in the country I should not work too hard. It don't pay. She's right. It don't in that case, Roger. Take off your hat Forget all about the schoolhouse forget your conscience and let's go out and visit our new pig my dear David That's exactly what I meant to do in the first place a day in the country Oh What am I doing here? It's Wonderful one worker tells another the advantages of coca-cola on the job One housewife tells another that it's a good idea to work refreshed at home for a good idea catches hold fast Keep your refrigerator well supplied and let ice-cold coke help you work refreshed. Well, mr. King. Would you believe it? I'm still here. Indeed. I do believe it. I'm not the least surprised frankly neither am I Yes, this is the place to live for men women and children. I think especially for the children Little Bobby Notten will grow up to appreciate it. Yes, and David can't wait for that day In the meantime, he's sort of taken a course in fatherhood from little Jimmy Oh, that's the lad with whom he went fishing David told me. Well tomorrow. It's not fishing. It's hunting Perhaps I'll still be around to hear about it myself now off to the barn See you Mr. King. Yes, sir. See you mr. Killing and have a good time with that pig 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 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 coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes And 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