 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 Are we almost at the restaurant I wanted to take a taxi, but oh, no you insisted on saving the 50 cents Tell me another so happens. I like walking with you. I thought you said your feet hurt New York sidewalks. They're as hard as Sidewalks strange. I thought they were as hard as marshmallow size Which walking gives me an appetite when I go to a restaurant with you I like to take an appetite along very handy. Do you like my taste in the restaurant? Your restaurants taste delicious darling Thank you. Are we almost there three more winces and six more pinches and we'll be there good One little two little three little winces four little five little six little pinches one little. Oh, here. We are restaurant Luigi Italian Very swanky looking what's swanky looking about the revolving door and those drapes in the window So you can't see inside when they use certainly don't think that I take you to eat in a goldfish bowl Sometimes you do treat me as if I were a guppy. Well, then come along guppy and watch your step. I am watching it You never took me to eat here before did you David? No, I guess I haven't is it really good? No, it's terrible That's why I brought you here David this Luigi Luigi's darling the needle is stuck. I mean, is this the famous Luigi's where the important actors and people eat? This is it I'll tell you what let's do. Let's try if you insist, but I warned you Well in we go David The very popular restaurant Hard to get in from the door and never saw so many people this way. Do you taste the food? I'll probably have to wait for hours David when you look we had a 40 it's in a line of 40 at least No, we'll get a table tomorrow for breakfast Can't even get near the hat. Stop worrying worrying. I'm hungry in my feet We just get past this mob. Excuse me, please. We're seeing won't be things along Excuse me. I just want to get through I didn't you coming Claudia We better take our chair just do what I say for once you haven't made a reservation What would I make a reservation for there's no harm dreaming? I Don't see why I'm making a reservation is against a man's principles. I don't honestly I just don't nobody makes a reservation in this restaurant Why not it's not that kind of a restaurant it isn't you either get a table here or you don't well that makes sense I guess we don't I told you that we would get a tape David, who do you think you are anyway, mr. Big? Exactly. Well, I know you better than that. I'm your wife remember Hey, what's got into you? You're not the kind that goes pushing his way through a line You're always telling me not to know this is different. Of course it is. It's you do you or do you not want to eat? Then you want to eat will feed your feet come along. I'm going to check my hat. Oh Some people that was my fault. I'm sorry. Is it all right? It is not Calling me. I'm here. We are Is it we played three innings of football innings is baseball baseball too. This better be a good restaurant. It is You look see Charles boy a and there's Madden and Carol over there. No, I see I see Well, that settles it no table for folks like us. Oh look who's here. Good evening, mr. Jeanette long time no say pretty busy. Well, we missed you. This is mrs. Norton. That's right So pleased to meet you mrs. Norton. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh my did you get that hospital contract mr. Norton the Long Island job? Yeah, it's your thing. Oh, that's good news. Do you mean to tell me that I haven't been here in such a long time? At least three weeks. It was starting to wonder where you were. I'll take your hat. Oh, thank you. See you later Have a nice dinner mrs. Norton. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. This way darling What's the matter? You look funny. I do and a blank Well, I feel kind of blank David, hey, she didn't give you a hat check. Well, I don't need what you have to have a hat check to get your hat back Anybody who owns a hat knows that not with Jeanette. You don't not with dinner I am beginning to think there is more to this than we see are though. You're right a great deal more Well, maybe you better tell me very simple Jeanette is the girl with the electric eye What you don't belong or if you're a passe or a stranger here at Luigi you get a hat check But if you belong and you're one of the bunch and you've been accepted by the Electric eye winks and you enter with no hat check and you mean you're one of the bunch You don't believe it of me even Luigi's is a restaurant of big shots and you don't consider your husband A big shot. That's nice to know. I mean, I mean Important people eat here actors and presidents wives and then writers and architects at least one I know of Why'd you ever tell me? Tell you what? But you're important that the electric eye winks at you that you don't need a hat check that oh you wouldn't have believed me Why you don't believe me right now? Of course. I believe you Thank you think So this is what goes on in New York while I I sit up in Eastbrook You're running around New York being important and and rubbing shoulders. Yes. That's all I do rub so shoulders David you you really aren't just my husband are you and Just exactly what does that mean? Well, I sort of seeing you differently all at once impersonally like it like a stranger To a stranger you're a very handsome young man who slated to be one of our foremost architects That's what you are. You are I mean, I knew it all along, but I didn't really know it if you know what I mean I'm not sure, but I think so Sort of this I'd lost the forest for the trees or the haystack for the needle now that That clarified everything very nice. It's so used to thinking of you as being the husband to my wife But I really didn't see you in relation to the world. You see what I mean. I think you're very hungry How'd you know you're a little delirious, but come on. I'll get you some food Somehow it still just doesn't make sense the Ouija's restaurant So famous and you're walking in like a tycoon in full blow. That is a tornado. Oh, Mr. Norton. Good evening. Good evening Luigi. Do you have a spare table for us? I'll have one for you, Mr. Norton in a moment. Good. Just as soon as that corner party finishes their coffee This is my wife Luigi. Mrs. Norton. Well, nice meeting you, Mrs. Norton. First time you've been here? Yes, it's the first time. I hope you'll come again awful. Well We'll be ready for you in a moment, Mr. Norton. Well, thank you, Luigi. I still just can't believe it. Well, you're practically a celebrity. Oh, it's not that bad Dad, it's wonderful. I'm gonna fall in love with a whole new part of you Well, just because I happen to eat here occasionally and so I'm recognized. No Just because you're my husband, and I love you already Yeah, we're surrounded by people. Not ashamed of loving you, not a bit. Shh. Oh David, I like this place. I even like the hatchet girl who says you belong. Jeanette is a very famous hatchet girl She practically runs this restaurant. As a matter of fact, now you mentioned that I have heard of her I don't blame her for making a fuss over you know Not many men worth it. Oh, there's Luigi waving to us now. A table must be ready. Can't possibly be for us. All these people came first Your table is ready Here we are This table all right, Mr. Norton. Oh, this table's fine Luigi. How's your wife? Any day now, we'll have a son. Congratulations in advance. Thank you I send the waiter over with a menu in just a moment. No, no rush Well darling, oh David, I must admit there are times when it's very pleasant to be married to somebody who's a somebody Not just oh David, I never had such a delicious dinner. We certainly were waited on hand and foot, weren't we? I loved it David every hand and foot of it. Mr. Norton this Mr. Norton that no hat check for your Come on. Come on. We'll miss our train I just had to pick up my hat from Jeanette. Good night, Mr. Norton. Come again soon. Oh, we certainly will Luigi and everything was fine and Good night to you. Good night, Mrs. Norton. Good night. Oh, wait a minute. I got my hat Here we are My hat, please Jeanette Please Hello, you're not you're not Jeanette. No Jeanette had a rush out sudden your hat check, please. I see Well, I I don't have a hat check you see But listen, you must have a hot check if you checked your hat Jeanette just just took my hat you see she she knows me. Oh, no She didn't go and do that again. I beg your pardon Do what it's okay if she stays here to give the hats back But here I am holding the bag and no hat checks. Well, just look for the one without any check and that'll be Mr. Norton. Yes, sir. I tell you it's um, it's a gray hat with a with a black band I've got 20 of them at least 20 20. Well mine mine has no check that that's your net How many times have I told her friends are no friends. You've got to give hat check Let me see. Oh It might be that hat right there Yes, yes, no the next one that that looks like No hat check on it. It could be you better try it on. Thank you David. It's a peanut take it off Mr. You might as well start trying them all on. Oh, I hope we won't miss our train Lordy me there are at least 20 hats here all without check. Oh, just wait till I get that Jeanette We'll have a riot here everyone trying on everyone else's hat. Oh look miss. I I have a train to catch Could you please David? She's doing her best Darling wouldn't wouldn't you love to be just mr. Nobody who's given a hat check and gets his hat back very funny very funny The red cooler that greets you around the corner from anywhere today Extends an invitation to pause and refresh with ice-cold coca-cola and you accept that invitation with pleasure day after day You can respond to a similar invitation right in your own home if you keep your refrigerator filled with coke The family ice box can be your private cooler a white cooler that holds both household refreshment and the key to friendly hospitality Ice-cold coca-cola. Hello, Joe. Well, David, I hope you get your hat back now if I don't I'll keep it under my hat That'll be one thing. I'll never live down with Claudia And she's certainly got a kick out of that dinner from start to finish Didn't she though one of the nicest things about the girl it seems to me is that she's so completely unspoiled and natural Well, that's uh, that's what makes it such fun doing things with her even if it turns out the way you don't expect I bet you twenty cents. Joe. She'll even manage to have a good time at the concert. What concert? I haven't reminded her yet, but we have tickets for the local musical in Eastbrook. What's more, we have to use the tickets Tickets to a local musical Sounds pretty grim. Oh, it is pretty grim I'm fond of music, but I don't like concerts any more than Claudia does even when they're good I think I know what you mean. Well with Claudia It's bound not to be as bad as it sounds something tells me there'll be some kind of excitement to it Something tells me the same thing. So I'll drop by and see what happens And as I was saying 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 joking 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 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