 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Frankin 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 Oh, no, that scene was better a lot better All right, we'll have a ten minute break and everybody back on stage in ten minutes Claudia Mine's stepping down here on the orchestra for a minute. I want to talk to you We're going to start with act two so Joe change the set right anything special mr. Bonnie. Yes yes Let me see now. What was it? I want to talk to you about something about my part. I guess it was it must have been How you doing kid? Well, I I feel fine. I hope I'm doing all right. You're doing all right, honey and Just between us Don't let that Victoria Manners dame get you. Oh, she doesn't Mr. Bonnie She can't help being a star She can't forget it either Let me see what was it. I wanted to talk to you about. Oh Yeah, yeah, it's about your long speech in the second act. Is there something to matter with it? Oh, look The girl you're playing is only a kid. Mm-hmm, but she hates her sister's insides Get it. Mm-hmm. Well that that part of it's easy But still don't you think that I I should play for sympathy try and get it Well, I don't think I can frankly, but if I don't get sympathy from the audience I'll get a laugh in my big scene more than well What is there to prevent it? Nothing. It's the way it's written. It's written all wrong Hey listen are you starting to think that you're a star too the placement changed six times? I'm going nuts Oh blasted cast is nuts the author is nuts But it's a victoria manor's vehicle. So we got to put up with it and you do too Just the way the rest of us are doing. You're so excited mr. Bonnie I'm putting up with it if you don't mind. I don't mind but well I just felt the play went out the window. Oh, it goes out the window who cares. Oh Why am I in the theater? Why do I do this? I don't know why you do it. I don't know why I do it. I have a husband You don't have one. Do you know if I haven't even got a husband Look You're a good kid, honey. Thank you, and you'll be all right Monday night. I hope so I'm glad to have you aboard You look awfully tired. I am dead We're not rehearsing tonight. Why don't you go home and sleep? I have got a million things on my mind Don't tell me to go home and go to sleep for a heaven's sake I don't know how a man gets along without a wife. My dear child better men than I have been trapped that way Later after rehearsal You know, I don't think I'd like being a director you have to worry about everything Including me. I only have to worry about me including nothing else. It's a disease incurable Have you got your costume ready? Oh, I don't wear anything important As a matter of fact, I'm wearing the same thing through the whole play if you don't mind blue slacks and white shirt Nice and simple. I like it Victoria man is worth easy to please you are she goes through shorts disables doesn't she the entire rigmarole Well, I'll I'll try to do that speech in the second act better mr. Barney Now look Claudia It's very simple Just forget the lines and act. It sounds very simple. It's not quite as simple as it sounds though Anyway, I have the author on my neck No, thank you Oh, it feels as if we've been in this theater three days and three nights without leaving You know honey, your husband's going to be very sorry that you're so talented. My husband is a very extraordinary man He doesn't mind anything Well, I guess we better get started again. Hey, mr. Barney. I gotta have a word with you Oh, look Joe, we're just about ready to start rehearsing again. Look just a word. It's imperative every time I hear Just one word with you mr. Barney my ulcer kicks up Don't just stand there. All right, Joe. What's on your mind? Well, honey, don't go away. I'm right here. It's a props We're having a devil of a time getting the props for the interior Well, haven't you been able to borrow the furniture? Sure We borrowed some chairs and a console and pictures for the walls, but that's all well Let's see you need a dining room table chairs And you need a secretary. Yeah, find it He's broke must be full of furniture like that all those little antique shops down the road They won't loan it to us. This is their big season. They won't loan us nothing They said they never sold a piece of furniture off our stage and Labor Day week is a good week for selling So no dining room table and no secretary Fine great delicious. We'll do the play without a second act. Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute not so fast My big scene is in the second act now. Don't complicate things Claudia So what do we do? Must you bother me with every single one of your problems? Yes, I thought so Yeah, as I said, what do we do? I don't care what you do Find the stuff build the stuff do anything you have to do to get it But don't buy it buying it is the only thing I haven't done Look, why don't you get the author to rewrite the second act so the whole thing takes place on the outside terrace? Or maybe you'd like we build a swimming pool set for a change of atmosphere very funny No props no play See I Weren't living in a boarding house. You'd have my furniture But what's in my room? I wouldn't lend to a flea What do you got in your room Joe what I got shouldn't happen to a dog Have a play about a dog. What is it exactly you need Joe a dog? But for the show I need a dining room table with six chairs It must be English style and a queen and secretary must be English style to queen Anne usually is that's all I'm asking not another thing. How is that so much a matter of everybody on stage second act Mr. Barney just a moment, please. There goes my Elsa Mr.. Barney, would you mind terribly if if I lent you the props for the second act, huh? Well honey, I wouldn't mind anything ever. Just don't sue me for scratches. I wouldn't dream of suing you But we have a queen and secretary. They would just go perfectly and beautiful shirt and dining room table and chairs This is not and you are my dream come true. You are hereby promoted to the prop department I don't see any reason why I can't borrow the chairs. I'm sure David won't mind. I borrowed his wife Why not even his queen and secretary? Why not? I honestly don't see why he's mind. I know you wouldn't hurt anything Well, you don't think he'd mind do you mine? Why should he mine? Yeah, why should he not one reason in the world? I can think up. Dave is the kind of person who believes in all good men coming to the aid of the party Party is it that all good men come to the aid of loaning their household goods. All right. Go on call up your husband, honey Then please let's get started on the second. Listen, there's no need to call I'll tell you what Joe you just get in your truck and drive over to the farm The house is the third house after crossing the river. It's right on River Road to the left You can't possibly miss it and I'm sure if you go over right now. You'll find David Wonder how things are going at the theater mother starting to sound like a chorus every few minutes One of us starts wondering how Claudia is doing at the theater. She's been so busy We've hardly had a chance to talk to her but won't be too much of a letdown for her when it's over Probably will be so I've been thinking of turning her loose on furnishing the house Claudia has just been itching to go bargain hunting Well when she's through with the theater and has a little more time She can busy herself on that and she won't feel as if she's coming to a dead stop You're a very thoughtful husband. Not at all I'm I'm going to draw a lot more money from the firm. I had a talk with Roger the other day We went over the books starting this fall. We ought to be able to manage We've been sort of getting along with the minimum of everything pieces. You have a beautiful Complaining but I know how anxious Claudia has been to get everything all settled It'll be a good time, you know I'm rather pleased. She's so interested in furnishings and things You know considering how little she knows her taste isn't so bad. It's almost as good for sofas as husbands and mothers They heard my pipe. Here it is Mama, do you think it would run the coffee grinder for me to grind up some of this old tobacco in it? Well One who that is I'll answer and notice you're in the middle of not lighting up pipe I would for the world to stay of you. Mrs. Brown allow me to say that you're the last word in mother-in-law Yes third house on a left on River Road is mr. Norton home. He's inside Is there anything I can do to help you bring him a message from Mrs. Norton. He's everything all right. Oh sure everything's all right She's rehearsing What is your mother somebody from the theater to see you David message from Claudia oh Private message. Oh, mr. Norton. I'm Joe. I'm the prop man pleased to meet you. How's the play going? It's thanks. I suppose I'll get by your wife's okay. That's encouraging when I have troubles of my own I come over to pick up your furniture. What that's right. Your wife sent me over in a truck to pick it up Take away the furniture. Oh, we're only just temporarily borrowing it for the second act. Oh, I see Just exactly. What is it you want a picture a couple of tables or chairs? No, we got that small stuff. I'm here to take your dining room and your queen and secretary Did you say the dining room and the secretary? Mrs. Norton said you wouldn't miss him. This is not and there's a very misunderstanding woman we folk in the theory, you know anything for the show I'm starting to believe that you've stolen my wife and now you're about to steal my home from under me I'm leaving you your mother-in-law. Perhaps you'd rather take me and leave him the dining room Sorry, we got plenty of character actresses. I missed another look. This is an emergency. It certainly is your wife said it would be all right What do you think mother? She's your wife David, and it's your dining room and your queen and secretary I'm starting to think nothing belongs to me. Okay, so I'll go back to the theater empty truck No second act, but who cares? I don't care. You don't care only mr. Vani's ulcers care the second act That's Claudia's big scene isn't as I remember it is. What do you say mr. Norton? Do you don't you? I'll even give you a hand carrying the stuff out. Well, that's darn swell. I think nothing of it David are you allowed to touch any of this furniture after all you're not a union member. That's true strictly between us I hereby appoint you an honorary member of the furniture movies union. Thank you. Well, mr. Norton She said you were a swell guy. Oh, she did and that you don't mind anything. I don't David be careful And I ask you what good is a dining room table when your wife's an actress it's better than nothing that queen and secretary would look Just terrific. It's not a bad piece. I've always liked it myself I'm gonna back the truck over the front door just in case. Yeah, do that little thing Well, David, it looks like we're not going to have any furniture at all. Mrs. Brown So it does mr. Norton no wife no furniture. No, nothing David are you sure you should you still have some rights? No, I think it's a fine idea After all claudia is hardly here these days. She almost lives at the theater, but you're home Home is where your wife and furniture are so come on mother. Give me a hand with this table. The show must go on You'll hear some parents complain that they just can't keep the youngsters at home Certainly, there's no sure method for accomplishing this feat But it is true that when there's plenty of coconut ice at home the high school set doesn't have to go out to get it These teenagers like to have their friends in for Coca-Cola to at a quarter of a carton or a dollar a case This is scarcely what you'd call an extravagant gesture It's worth trying don't you think if you have children that age very decent guy mr. Norton For lending you his furniture. Well, it's not every man who do that for his wife. Well, David's a pretty loyal person Yeah, I got over some other husbands. I know like a tent say if you think he acted loyal today Wait, will you see him tomorrow? Yeah, what gives the supreme test of a husband decide with or against a wife when she's wrong That's what I got to find out. So I'll be around so long now. All right. Goodbye 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 all of war 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 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