 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents, Claudia, based on the plays 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 Good day for a walk. I'm just walking around the estate. Wait for me. Don't walk too far It's an awfully big estate. This family's ancestral mansion's got to be big I find it very hard to think of me being an ancestor You know, I think I'm going to make a wonderful mother After all I was very bright when it came to picking out my descendants father. Thank you. You're welcome Anything special I've done you have designed such a wonderful addition to the house that it looks as though could have been built in 1762 Well, I'm not sure that's all together a compliment after all We're supposed to have made a little progress a new wing looks a little odd It's only just bones still of course where we'll get some flesh on it soon. When will that happen just as soon as the bones have settled Oh, I can't wait. I'm just bursting to see it. Then we'll have to paint its clothes on Why can't it all hurry you'll have to wait maybe a while? They can't paint green wood and that certainly is green wood. Everything is getting green. That's because it's almost spring I Don't you think it's a little big and a little black to be a Robin? It's just an old black crow crow Oh, isn't that terrible? Do we have to scare it away? Go on make a face at him. Go ahead I don't want to scare him away. In fact, I love him. He's our first animal. Mm-hmm. He's not an animal He's a bird. Well, he's our first bird then as far as I'm concerned. He's our last one Over Jared Tucker's place. Oh, we got to raise chickens. I should say not nothing smaller than cows with horns Well, that all depends. We've got lots of room for them, haven't we and you're trying to cover every inch of it this morning I know we won't have a chance to do any walking after Julia and a heart they get here I'm beginning to wish they were here already. Oh, you're tired darling a little I'm sorry. I didn't think Guess it is a pretty steep hill Look at the view of the house from here all ours yours and mine We might share it with a few other noughtens in the near future and don't forget the cows. Hmm. We're putting them in the barn It's a lovely red barn Will be when a when we're finished with it. We're gonna rebuild that too That's just what I came up here for to see what we'll have to do to it We've already spent lots more money on this house than we expected to all the more reason for not skimping on Why do we have to spend money on a house for the cows? I thought they lived out of doors anyway Now you don't want our neighbors saying that the noughtens are cruel to cows I don't want them saying we're cruel to our mortgage either. We still have a little money left over Well, that doesn't mean we have to spend it just because we have it Claudia This is a farm we have here If we don't use it as a farm we're Being unfaithful to it. We're mistreating it We're not letting it be the kind of place it has to be And in the end we'll let pay the penalty David. How much money is it going to cost? Well, let's see Come on inside So cold in here. No, that's the first thing we're going to do is eat it. Oh, no that costs Well, David, you know how much it costs. It was the most expensive part of our alterations in the house We're not going to have a thermostat, you know How much can that say? Cheer up darling, it's not going to have a very complicated heating system just the cows being here to warm it Oh, they make their own heat. Isn't that convenient and of course you're going to have a concrete floor here David Oh, no. Oh, yes, you can't have a decent cow barn without a concrete floor. Oh you and your cows I bet you 20 cents you don't know half as much about cows as you pretend I bet you don't even know how to milk one. Sure. I know how to milk one But we're going to get a milking machine. Oh, no, but we Won't get that for five more years five more years. We won't have any mortgage left at all You mean we won't have anything left except the mortgage whatever I mean. I mean we won't have any money Oh darling, we'll have a lot more than money though We'll have six sons knock wood to cows you me and one black crow Not to forget a brother and sister-in-law. We're going to get their first look at Norton land any minute Come on out. Let's go back to the house and meet them We're really not gonna do anything to the barn. Are we I don't think we should spend a penny for always a bargain hunter You can't have a farm without a barn you can't have a barn without a floor and darling wait And you see we'll have the best barn on River Road. Hey, there they are Come on. Let's hurry It's all right for the guests to be politely late, but we're not the guests It's us we it's we oh that sounds so silly It's Julia. Look. She's waving of course. She's waving you didn't expect Julia to shout am I terrible for shouting not terrible But I'm glad we don't live in a hotel We made it so I see hello Hartley Isn't it wonderful? Well, it's a real farm, isn't it? Hello, Claudio. Hello. It's amazing How much colder Connecticut is the New York reminds me almost a Boston The climate I mean did you have trouble finding it? Oh, no not too much. You're really quite near the riddles Well, we like to think that the riddles are near us And you gave us very good directions and Mulliston's really expert at following directions We've yet to have a chauffeur who isn't good at following directions as long as Hartley rides in the front seat and tells him which way to go Must be wonderful to know which way to go. I'm always getting lost lost there Only among the unimportant things I think Claudia you look wonderful farming agrees with you. Oh, that's too delightful farming. They aren't farming yet We aren't even living here yet No, I think when you've decided to farm that makes you emotionally a farmer Don't they both look wonderful, Julia. They always did. I think there's something a little extra about this time It might be you know because they're cold maybe go inside Certainly, but it won't be much warmer in there. The heat isn't turned on. Well, at least we'll be out of the wind Come on, David produce the key to your mansion. Oh my that's an attractive door You decided what kind of cows you're going to have kind with horns That describes an awful lot of cows. Come on, Claudia. We can go inside, too David this house has great dignity, hasn't it? I can understand now how you happen to be attracted to it Well, we did our best not to injure its integrity when we made our additions. You've done a wonderful piece of work Hartley, did you notice the ingenious way this annex is being attached? David's made it seem an integral part of the whole Yes, he certainly has. It's a fine-looking farm. Did you notice how they've kept the original stairs? Isn't that a magnificently balanced flight? You know Hartley, our New England ancestors had a very good eye for design and craftsmanship Which I'm afraid too many of us today have forgotten about. They also knew how to hack a farm out of this woodland If you've ever seen the rocks in a Connecticut field, you'd wonder how anybody ever cleared it for tilling Oh, they just built stone walls for fences when the stone walls were finished their fields were clear David even wants to remodel the barn so it'll be just like an apartment house for cows. Wonderful Do you really think so too, Hartley? Oh, you man and your barns. Hartley, I'd like you to notice the way David designed this large living room window I don't know why you sound so surprised, my dear. David was always an excellent architect. They've handled it with taste and imagination Don't you think so, Hartley? Fine, fine I'll be very happy when Nancy Riddle sees how you treated this room Nancy's been trying for years to attain the same result that David's achieved on his very first attempt. Of course he has David Do you have any idea how many people and I mean substantial people in this neighborhood of living in old houses of this type? Quite a few I suppose. Well, there aren't any other houses like this one This one is something special David says and besides Julia how few of your Substantial people are even substantial enough to farm their own grounds I wish Hartley you could manage to talk about farming without giving the impression that the nearest you ever got to the land Was the 18th green of your golf club. Well, David and Claudia are going to farm and I think they'll be very happy Well, I can think of other ways of passing their time up here, which would be more appropriate more lucrative and I Think more interesting play polo with the riddles my dear and I think that's hardly in David's line David Can you play polo? Oh? Why when I served with the King's own West Sussex rifles I played polo without a horse And you lie without a conscience you're very amusing, but I'm very serious David seems to me You have a real opportunity here to develop a reputation David is developing quite a fine reputation as an industrial architect There's no reason why in addition he shouldn't become a real specialist in the modernization of these Connecticut houses No, Claudia and I are building a home Julia not setting up a roadside stand to do business in but David Now you must admit that the people for whom you do some of this renovating might give you some of the other opportunities you're looking for Yes, you know David. They there's something in what Julia says After all the riddles the McPherson's the reeds and the frosts have considerable industrial interests And you certainly won't meet them if they think you're just a couple of farmers Isn't that so hard? Well, I guess there's something to that too, but we didn't come up here to meet people We came up here because Because what well Because here Julia by by ourselves on our own land was the way we wanted to live David It's really very important to remember that First of all, you are an architect. I do remember I don't think that you should get sidetracked by these notions of farming which After all someone in your position Really a trifle romantic. Do you really think farming will be romantic? I knew it was going to be fun But for a lot of other reasons you're very sweet my lamb I'm afraid very young you mean Julia that I should spend my time up here Designing and redesigning other people's old houses. Yes, some of your time. Why not? You've got a real taste for it this charming house now We've treated it with great imagination. It would be very easy for you to thank you Julia And yet when Hartley and I approached it from the road what we noticed first was a large red barn From the road it looks very much like any old farmer's house I think that when you finish the house you should tear down that barn Cost you very little money much much less probably than patching it up. I'm uh, I'm afraid that isn't the way I look at this place at all, but David after all isn't renovating that barn going to be a very expensive procedure It is not darling. We were just saying that it would be David It's not expensive since we have the money. That's all the money we have and this is all the farm we have We mustn't spoil it. You mean that you're ready to go ahead with rebuilding the barn That's what you want, isn't it? And that Julia is the formula for a happy marriage Darling the market the market was a jolly enough song once upon a time But many housewives fail to see the fun in it today If you're one of those here's an idea Look for that familiar red cooler during your marketing and take time to enjoy the pause that refreshes After inviting well iced coke somehow the day's errands seem to get accomplished with greater ease More and more food stores are installing co-coolers now to help you shop refresh You know mr. King Claudia and David's farm is really a lovely place. Well, it gradually seems to be working out Doesn't it Mrs. Norton? I hope they'll be happy their way. I was very impressed with what David's done with the house Now the next big job. He's starting on the ground so soon. Yes The tree surgeon is coming over tomorrow. I Know what that means unfortunately Unfortunately exactly tree surgeons aren't a very optimistic lot, but Well, anyway, that's for Claudia and David to learn about and worry about Goodbye, mr. King Hartley and I've got to hurry back to town. Goodbye, Mrs. Norton. Have a nice trip Well 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 wire 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 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