 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories 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 Washing your hair and it's interrupts and interrupts and all wait a minute wait a minute hold your horses Can't you see I'm coming as fast as I can Didn't just say it was you mama. What do you think I was doing? I'm washing my hair Look look look all right mama, but I'm standing here dribbling all over the place I never knew going to be opera could be so complicated What? Sure, I'm gonna use my gold evening bag. Of course. I know where it is. Oh I never brought it over from your place when we move. But what do you know? You sure? Now don't be fresh mama You're sure you're sure you're passing this way and you won't mind Thanks, mama. You're an angel. Bye Oh, I'm coming coming coming no rest for the wicked Mrs. Knarton I disturb you know Ah birthday you just turned me. Yes. Come in come in come in you're washing your hair. Yes I'm washing my hair. No, I mean I'm trying to wash my hair I fixed the hem of your dress and pressed it nice also the little piece around the shoulder. You didn't see Oh, birthday. Thank you. I don't know what I do without you when I do a hem. It just doesn't do you go on and finish watching Your hair and hang your dress. Thanks so much so beautiful tonight at the opera They're playing Tristan such a beautiful opera. I look like a wet bird dog if I don't get my hair done You would fit like the opera Prince and I We love the opera in the old country we used to go Here we've been only twice I Can do nothing more for you, Mrs. Knarton Now the dumb waiter Blue ring bells give a person time to answer them me. It's a conspiracy to get my feet Hey, listen now. You're not killed. I had he touched it. It's me. Who do you think it is? Oh, it could be anybody. You would have to play jokes at a time like this Time like what? You've got suds in your head. I've got suds in my hair. You look like a wet spaniel. I am a mad spaniel What are you doing washing your hair? You see me with my head full of suds and you ask me what I'm doing I just retrieved a duck or whatever it is a spaniel retrieved Yes, I was washing my hair trying to that's what it looked like But you watched your hand right before last remember I remember but we're going to be opera tonight So I washed my hair this afternoon or rather tried to Hello darling. Hey, hey, you're getting me south You ought to dry yourself before you go around kissing people. I'm not going around kissing people I'm very particular about the people I kiss apparently you save your nautical displays for me Yeah, come on in. I'll let you pour water over my head rinse the back of my neck Yeah, that's a privilege to get out to the doorbell to say why'd you ring to get in for the same reason anybody rings a bell to get in But you have a key. I have a key on there. I didn't have it with me. Oh Careless careless Now pour and put poor carefully so it doesn't go down my neck. No, what do I pour it with with a glass? My mistake, sorry Maybe I'm not doing this to your satisfaction You have a complex or something about washing your hair Every time anything important happens to you you wash your hair But you washed your hair night before last Don't most women go to beauty power me it takes hours and I don't like sitting under a dryer either Now you answer it. I don't know. I haven't got there yet. Just an old friend of mine. Oh You mama you look like a ground rat. My husband was more complimentary. He called me a wet spaniel To bring my evening bag. Yes, ma'am. Oh, what would I do without you? You do without your evening bag What's that box on the table to bring that to I did not David you bring me something. Why would you assume it was for you? Hey, leave my ankle alone. You've deluded time. He's got nothing to do with me I just stepped on his tail. This box is for me, isn't it? I didn't see you bring it home Your eyes were full of such take a towel and dry the back of my head Be a pleasure. Don't shake. I'll take my shower later. But is it candy? It doesn't look like candy to me Isn't perfume either. Perfume's heavy. How can I dry your hair if you don't stand still? The string is jammed. Oh, no, it isn't It's orchids singular not floral one orchid what a smell mama orchids are not for smell Exactly there for show was darling of you darling the orchids you don't like it It's beautiful really it's like an overgrown iris. You don't sound very pleased David Orchids are my least favorite flowers Shouldn't you say that you most said and this shouldn't I can't believe my ears Can I help it if I don't like orchids? Anyway, it isn't a gift. It's a spirit behind it and I love the spirit behind the orchid You don't like orchids Darling you're marvelous. I am I'm the luckiest man in the world And the way you're very lucky that I married you why I can think of a number of reasons because as a gold digger You would starve to death. You don't like orchids a big diamond. Oh, I do. All right. I got you me remember That was enough to satisfy the gold digger in me for a lifetime. Thank you assorted And now that your hair is dry You have a date with Tristan to go to the opera. I'm nice Pin on your orchid and we'll go out to dinner. I reserved a table. Will you join us mother? I reserved a table too. We go out to dinner right here. Mommy. You're gonna stay and eat with us too I'm going didn't uh, roger give you the message when I got back to the office. He said he had I am going to quiet mama. Yes, roger told me. Well, then Then I got to figuring figuring what will you two idiots? Let me get a word in edge why Oh, David, I don't know if you think I can be railroaded interstate Don't talk so much. Malata and the light in the oven mama Say Where were you going before it before we asked you to dinner to a movie? A movie All alone you mean since what without your supper. I'm going to eat a bite later Look, I am quite competent to run my own life a lonely movie all by yourself. What's playing? I really didn't notice doesn't matter. There's a new donald duck a new donald duck Hmm What's wrong with donald duck me I asked oh nothing nothing nothing at all. Nothing nothing nothing at all. He's a very remarkable duck very remarkable duck yet Mama at louisa is a very cultured woman, isn't she quite but I don't see the connection You mean she would like donald duck. No, I don't think so. No, I guess not But she likes the opera and things like that and she has season tickets for the philharmonic You like the opera too, don't you mama? I'm beginning to smell a rat in the woodpile You know we could be sporting and tossed for it. I'll toss you you call claudia heads we go tails We don't in view of my full dress suit hanging in the other room tails. We go would be more appropriate All right tails we go just hold on a minute before you do so much toss there you go Oh, it's tails david virtue survives best two out of three All right do it again. Well that settles keep your bargain. You said two out of three You don't have to be stuffy about it. Oh fell on the floor doesn't count It doesn't count isn't that wonderful mama now louisa has such a wonderful time I'm sorry to disappoint you aunt louisa is attending a meeting about something or other And mama is going to the movies and you are going to the opera. Well Looks like we're stuck. All right. Yeah How long is donald duck playing around the corner program changes tomorrow? Oh, this is positively unfair. It's a coercion. It's forced. It's a kind of economic slavery julian heartley don't want to go to the opera so we have to they didn't beg you to take the tickets But that was before donald duck david what Listen, have you got a big soul and how would you want to do something wonderful for two wonderful people? Yes, darling. I would love to do something wonderful for two wonderful people This is noughton. Mr. Noughton. Good evening. Oh, when mrs. Frans You know mama good evening bertha bertha. Are you and fritz busy this evening? Is there something you wanted us for? Ah what we were planning to do we could do some other time No, if you were planning something you go ahead. Oh, no, it's more important We help you if you need us for something We were planning no more than to sit and listen to the opera over the radio That's wonderful. How would you and bertha like to see the opera instead of hearing it? Opera's you hear not see no no i mean go to the opera mr. Noughton and i have tickets and we just can't use them Oh, that's too bad Fritz just think they won't be able to go to the opera Is it some sickness? I hope no bertha just a very old friend who's in town and He's going away tomorrow. He may never come back. It may not be so bad They saw that me maybe his plans change and he comes back. He might not and we can't risk the chance But you could exchange the tickets for some other night. Oh, we thought of that, but uh, it's too late And really they they shouldn't go to waste. We'd like to think of you and fritz enjoying them. Well If it must be You sound like a funeral Oh, it's wonderful. Then hurry and dress. Here's the ticket Fritz has dressed you from lisa's wedding and I have a purple dress We will tell you all about it tomorrow David you have married a very devious and willful woman It would seem that I have I like that Here I am thinking i'm a very unselfish person Your mama comes in looking pathetic and lonely I give up going to a wonderful opera that I was just dying to go to David what you know, I wasted a perfectly good hair wash. Oh never mind Donald duck will appreciate it just as much as tristan All story material used on this broadcast of claudia was under the supervision of rose franken and william brown maloney It doesn't take endless fussing to entertain well Often the most casual hostess is the most successful She keeps plenty of refreshing coca-cola on ice and those went to suggest have a coke With coca-cola you offer the ease and friendliness that have made the pause that refreshes america's favorite moment To be sure you have plenty of coke on ice always. 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