 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 Mama we're almost whole good. I have a feeling this car is going to collapse any moment I'm never going to travel again with so much stuff. You two women remember that This isn't stuff. This is boxes and releases and luggage. All the more reason for you Fuck yourself. You'll see I mean it. How's the baby? Oh having a wonderful time. He found the sleep He has the right idea. Oh look. Hey look. We're going by the old schoolhouse It's so quiet. Where are all the Claudia? This is the 30th of July schools out well for heaven's sakes When we left Eastbrook school was in My goodness school house looks very full-on without anybody around Claudia sit still you want to end up in the ditch Oh David darling you drive so beautifully. You wouldn't drive into a ditch would you wouldn't I though? I'm half tempted everything's so much greener than when we left look at that feel of corn It's shoulder high and it's silk is coming out of its ears must be almost right. Oh I'm glad we're getting back to Eastbrook Corn on the cob my favorite dish What's your favorite dish David you when you're asleep? You really like me better than an ear of corn an ear of Claudia anything Oh, that's we just quite a trip to Eastbrook just seems so today mother because we're all crowded up in this car Don't forget. I I do this back and forth every day and think nothing of it. The happy commuter That's me. I love trains, but I'd hate to go back and forth and back and forth It doesn't get to anywhere gets me to New York gets me home gets me to New York again. I get the idea Oh, look mama quick. Look Jared Tucker's house Just as rickety's when we left it Ricky dear. That's a fine way to talk about your benefactor He didn't benefit us. He just sold us his farm exactly what I meant pretty price, too We'll be in hawk for it for the rest of our lives. I am flattered by your opinion of me as a breadwinner No insults man, darling, and I even forgive Jared Tucker. He gave us back the wall not treated me Country so quiet I've forgotten how wide peaceful and serene it is Look at that field of corn stretching as far as I can see Little brook following the road the birds singing like crazy It's hot like in New York, but it isn't the same. It's sort of a cooler hot. Oh David hard, you know, it's going to be so perfect up here. It's only perfect because you think it is I hope my son grows up to think it too. He'd better knock his teeth out That's a nice pretty way to talk. He's good Truth going to be at the house when we get there. I doubt it I called it just before we left New York. She said she wouldn't be here this afternoon She'd come back this evening get dinner for it. Good And you want Gertrude to greet us at the door. I sort of like the idea of coming home quietly Walking into a still house I never would be still with Gertrude around. She's a tornado that woman Don't bite the hand that feeds you and feeds you so well. I know what mama means. I I feel that way, too Look is the beginning of our land Mama the stone wall from here. It's ours. You needn't get so excited about it. It's been yours for months He has even more ours now because we've been away Because we're going to raise our son here talk about him as if he were a vegetable. He is look at him Could you call him anything else? He's a very attractive little vegetable a very wet little vegetable David always looks on the wet side of things Mama look see that wall wall not tree standing on top of the hill It's as if it was turned this way all its branches reaching out to a such sentiment. Haha. Isn't it awful? Oh David go slow. Please go slow I've been waiting for this for weeks, and I don't want it to be over in a minute That flies the old crow Everything looks just the same only more so told you stop believing across me. You're going to crush Bobby let him take care of himself David not so fast any slower, and we'll stop And I'll never get this car started again. It must be exhausted carrying all this load I can't see the house David behind those trees there There it is. There's a corner sticking up any approaching it in the summer so different than in the winter Please to see it from miles down the road now all those fir trees are in the way I see it. It's a sweet little house. It's home Well, here we are. I thought we'd never get here. Yep. Here we are Well holds out that's getting out. That's me. That's me Ouch My legs will never be able to walk again. Here. Give me Bobby mama while you get out. I'm all right Better than ever Yeah, it feels pretty good to be back doesn't it feels perfect Funny how I seem to have forgotten every other place. I've ever lived in And I've lived here less time than any other place and still when I think of home This is it Me too Now it's good oodle. I want to get you in the house. Don't rush me. Whoops. I'm sticking to the seat It's so warm. Well the place seems to be in pretty good shape. Get along well with Alice, doesn't it? I think it gets along better without us than we do without it Grass needs an awful lot of cutting. It's sort of like it a little while not this while Hi, you bluff. Come on old boy Come on Come on you darn tootie. Come on. He won't scare Bobby Bobby Down you want to knock me over my goodness, you're strong Nothing to get so excited about He's got an enormous No, he's still a pup Do you want me to drop Bobby on his head? I've hurt lots feelings Are you going to introduce him properly if he gave me a chance? Yeah, give me the baby. I'll be careful Yeah, don't you tell me how to treat my son he and I got along swell Now come here boy now bluff I Want you to meet young master Norton? I want you to treat him gently for a while and not take advantage of the fact that he's a lot smaller than you are I don't want you to roughhouse with him I want you to keep an eye out for him. I'm gonna make you responsible for him. He looks as if he understands Betty understands. He's much brighter than your son. What I love you You take care now and never let anybody who isn't supposed to come near him Well Shakespeare's put it in her period Up in here on the branch of that tree show off Shakespeare come on down here and be sociable Leave him alone. He's only a cat and behaving exactly as a cat would independent and snooty Well, if he is a cat he should behave like a cat. I wouldn't have him any other way You stay right where you are Shakespeare. Don't let mama bully you Well, let's go into the house. Give me Bobby David. I'll keep it. That's right. You're his father You can carry him over the threshold. He seems to be waking up. It's looking around First intelligent expression. I've seen on his face strange as it may seem considering his parents I think he's a very intelligent little boy. What makes you think that grab? Oh, I think that he's saying to himself that he's a pretty lucky baby to be born into all of this. Oh I think mama's right babies are very wise little animals. I think he I think he has a sense that this is his house This is where he's going to grow up to be a man But listen to your old man Bobby Though there are walls that surround our acres. You're not going to grow up alone The world you've been born into is a world of people so many different people When you're a little bigger and you can walk with me up to the top of this hill and look around You'll see the lands of all our neighbors one touching the other Held together by a good wall. I remember the day we mended the wall of Matthew Warren Matthew Warren is a good neighbor if you stand for your right son and allow your neighbors to stand for theirs You never have any trouble with them If you live your own life Bobby according to your best standards and realize that the people next to you are Trying to do the same You've never tread on their toes That's not only for survival is it David? It's for a lot more It's for freedom Freedom to live the life you want to live Only way you'll have that freedom is if you let the next man and the next man to him Live the life he wants to live the world isn't made up of people who let you live the life you want David There's so many who try and force their ideas on others Unfortunately, but perhaps the day will come when Tolerance is in the heart of every man then Then there'll be peace It's Individual men who make up the world and the responsibility is with each of us alone just like that in a little community like this Eastbrook wouldn't get along any better than the world does if each person didn't let the next one go his own way exactly Lots of different kind of people make up Eastbrook. They are Jared Tucker Matthew Warren's over there the George Reynolds Dr. Barry and all the others each one is different The old and the young the modern and the traditional the ambitious and the lazy and Yet they they all live together and live together. Well They are the world that you've been born into Bobby This is your own private world Son these people will be your friends if you if they'll let them be and A man has to grow up in a world of friends or he'll Die in a world of enemies This is the tradition you've been born into a country where each person is allowed to carve out his own destiny You will have to learn to live your own life and never borrow the goodwill of your neighbors Have your own ambition, but with due respect for the ambition of your neighbors It's a pretty tall order for a very small baby David. It's the only order. I'll ever give him too bad Isn't it that Eastbrook isn't the whole world? So many people and countries stand alone instead of touching each other as neighbors Yet if a state a land country Can be made up of Eastbrooks Why not a world? Yes? Why not a world indeed? so Come on now son. Come on. You're home Instead of going from one energy consuming job to another Why don't you stop occasionally as people do in factories shops and offices and have an ice-cold bottle of coca-cola? The pause that refreshes is every bit is welcome to homemakers as it is to workers outside the home Your refrigerator can be your private well-stocked coke cooler With a supply of refreshment always on hand for the family and all who come Well, it's a good feeling mr. King back on the farm welcome home. Thank you Well, I guess I better get going. There's a great deal of work to be done Gertrude will be along in a moment to help you out. She's a wonder woman that Gertrude. Oh dear What's the trouble mrs. Brown? I just remembered Gertrude is not to be with us much longer. That's right When her frits and birth are coming up the end of the week poor Claudia She's going to have to tell the good Gertrude about it on Monday I don't envy Claudia the job and neither do I and I'll be around Monday to see how she does it. So will I so see you then my mrs. Brown 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 Monday 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 for Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and Ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere These programs star Catherine Bard is Claudia and Paul Crabtree is David and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola