 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 Claudia Who told you you could sing mama you've got to be as fresh as David I don't see how he can concentrate on his blueprints with such a racket going on he likes me to be happy Couldn't you find it in your heart to be happy a little more silently? What are you doing? Setting the table. What's it look like in the kitchen? You're too high hat to eat in the kitchen That's no way to feed your husband listen with good to it off. I'm not going to wear myself to a frazzle Slaving and cooking and scrubbing there. You're worn to a frazzle with work. I want to see it Shakespeare there was a brand new stockings. Come here cat. You leave grandma's brand new stockings alone No, really. I do love to eat in the kitchen. I don't mind it myself It's such a nice kitchen all those windows beginning to look like it walked right out of a magazine advertisement The linoleum down and the curtains up Hey, don't be so stingy with the onions mama David loves them I have peeled onions until the tears are rolling down my cheeks Always complaining. What do you think we're paying you for? telephone you don't say David telephone We'll answer it Wonder who it is at this hour. I wouldn't know. What do you mean this hour? What's wrong with half past six people should not phone at supper time I hate jumping up and down from the table. They're not sitting at the table yet. Well, I could be Runs with a family Onions get that base no running Don't be an asshole onion that's lilac's you smell who was at the phone What are we having for supper onions none of your business onion who is at the phone? What are we having something for supper mother? I did test men who are so food-loving. We're having veal cutlets any comments Oh, yes, well Roger loves veal cutlets Roger who how many Rodgers do we know? David, what do you mean Roger? He's coming for dinner What who said so he did why didn't you tell us I am before I didn't know before Is that him on the phone he on the phone? This is no time for grammar Claudia stop asking questions and un-set the table and set it over again in the dining room Where'd he phone from the telephone and the station Eastbrook station or New York station Eastbrook Well go down and call for him you too. I can manage better alone. Wait. Wait. Wait a minute. Mum I have to get this straight. Is he going up to Boston to see his son again? No, he went up this morning apparently he's on his way back dear early sleep. He's not going to stay He's going on to New York Just ask if he could stop over for an hour or so to break the trip. That's funny. It's not such a long trip to break David you know what what I think he likes this peculiar man peculiar tastes Well, you're going to let him stand in the station all night or will you get a move on and call for him? I don't know. You think we'll let him stand the station all night. Well, he said he was taking a taxi It was quicker, so we won't I didn't you say so here. We better use the good plates mama You carry them in the dining room for me. Will you David look don't un-set the table just add an extra plate and eat in the Kitchen David Roger Killian is not only a very distinguished architect But your partner to boot you'll not let him sit in the kitchen while I have anything to say Well as I live and breathe Look who's here if it isn't my old friend and colleague bluff not Delighted to have you join this hand me a paw and Shakespeare Shakespeare come right in what brings you here Glad to see you have off your collar and make yourself at home. I Give no I'm leaving your hat I refuse to fix supper with one great day in dog one Persian cat and two full Idiots crowding up a small kitchen David. She not only says we're idiots, but she says this kitchen is small small Do you ever hear such a thing small why this kitchen? Look here from wall to wall It's 18 feet this way and 13 6 this way. It's honestly some people are never satisfied Next thing she'll be complaining about the size of her bedroom What are you beating up eggs? Egg I'm throwing together a few popovers if you've no objections to it throwing together a few popovers You mean showing off because a strange man is coming. What do you want to bet? They won't pop. I'll take you up on it There there's a taxi mr. Killian's here already and you haven't even begun to un-set the table Come on block. We'll go out and meet him Down block down sir. Hey mind your man run along and power to your nose Claudia Get through faster alone. Well, maybe I better get dressed up a little. I mean you're right He is David's boss a little on the formal side, isn't he? Oh a few times. I've met him I've always had a sense that he was rather well Difficult to know Yes, but not when you know him. I think he's chiefly sensitive and lonely. Oh, I thought he had a wife Or is she dead? No, she's not dead. She seems to be very much alive. I found him important I mean she's terribly active in Washington or some place. I've never met her Look, isn't that husband of mine the limit? He's bringing Roger in the back way the heading straight to all the kitchen Shakespeare. Will you oh Then I've stepped on your pa Well, I didn't mean it here. Let me see. Is it really hurt you poor little fellow? He's just putting on an act Don't let him fool you. Oh Here's a little piece of nice chicken. She's lying to you Shakespeare. It's only veal Don't tell him here. They come My doesn't ride you look pale next to David's sunburn Yes, he does those few days up here have done David a lot of good Good law David, don't teach that dog of yours any manners. Hey bluff mind your manner. Get out Hello Claudia This kitchen's a madhouse David, don't you know we've got a front door We sure have a front door, but Roger wanted to drink a water to take a pill. What kind of a pill what possible business? That are yours. Claudia just curious if I liked it I thought I might borrow one and take it to you don't need pills for your nerves My child such palliatives belong to the aging and the disillusioned mind if I sit on the windowsill here Hello pussycat. Come on jump up. No, no, not you bluff. You're not a lap dog I'm sorry. Don't move. I just wanted to open the window from the top to get this smell of onions out Oh, let the smell stay in it's wonderful. Right, right. What is that? You're putting in the oven, Mrs. Brown cupcakes No popovers popovers. Hmm. I haven't had popovers in here. Well, you're going to get popovers tonight. Hey, Claudia Where are you going? Oh, no now can't we eat in here? Very distinguished man. She will not permit you. Yeah, will you behave yourself? Please Mrs. Brown, please? Let's eat in the kitchen sure we can sure we can meeting come to order, please mama You have been officially overruled. Well at least go in the living room and wait until we're ready. Why? We're perfectly happy here. Aren't we Roger? Completely happy and Completely relaxed. Well, I'm glad someone is Claudia Will you climb over a few cats and dogs and stray men and hand me that strainer over there? I don't think they'd hand me this trainer. All right, Roger. Let's face it. We're not welcome Hmm. Come along come along my boy. We're going to the living room. Oh dear me and I was so comfortable Don't be so rough with me. Remember I'm going to be a father Look at the sons of the Bay window David you're a lucky fellow. Yeah, Roger That is my own private son Over my own private little universe. I envy you cigarette. No, no, I'm off smoking for a while Haven't been sleeping too well. Look Roger is anything wrong. You look a little frazzled I don't mean to pry but after all I'd like to think we were friends as well as partners If there's anything I can do I thank you But I guess this is a problem that Well, I'll have to work it out for myself. It's the boy, isn't it? Yes, you see I didn't like the idea of leaving for Chicago tomorrow without having another talk with him first Didn't do any good though. I found him rebellious sullen and happy Almost to a point of complete maladjustment sounds like the schools at fault not entirely You can't expect a school to do the job that parents should have done Come now, Roger. You've been a fine father to that youngster Except that I've given him everything but the one thing that matters most a decent home. I Realized it just now David when I walked into that kitchen. I Realized what a rich inheritance your child is coming into my son never knew that kind of riches There were nurses and tutors to the best schools and never once in all the years that I can remember a scene of utter happiness and security like the one that met me this evening and yet We started off nice people Ruth and I And then something happened We lost the art of living I suppose and when you lose the art of living You lose the art of love Now we're too busy successful people With a great failure on our hands Unhappy child. I wish I knew what to say Roger It makes me a little frightened to think that a man and a woman can hold all of life in their hands and Let it slip away without being aware of what was happening. That's the pity of it We have no lovely memories We've built a future for our son without the memory of a home David Our boy never even had a dog or a cat He had allergies instead and I'm taking pills for my nerves and Ruth Ruth takes committee meetings in large doses We're poor people David and you're rich and getting richer every moment storing up memories To last you your full lifetime Mama says the popovers are popping in the soups on so you can come in and sit down and Roger never got a glass of water for his pill So I brought it to him. There it is. Thanks Only I don't think I need it. I'll take I'll take the water though and pretend it's champagne and drink a toast I never had a toast drunk to me. It isn't to you Claudia It's to your son and don't ask me how I know it will be a boy. I I just know it You're not so smart. You know it because we told you course David and I at the sort to have daughters. I Remember saying the same thing I Wanted a son so desperately and God gave you your wish. I Hope our son will be as nice as yours. He'll be luckier Claudia children. Hurry up. The soup's getting cold because long after he's grown up He'll remember the warm sweet smell of a kitchen With his grandmother making popovers Every mother wants her youngsters to enjoy wholesome pastimes One way to encourage such pastimes and such refreshment is to have a good supply of coke in the refrigerator at all times For then the young people can offer hospitality to their friends They can promote that sociability which is so often sought outside rather than inside the home You can get Coca-Cola by the case at your grocers or your service station Why not jot it down on your market list right now? What a charming way to spend an evening a mr. King Supper in the kitchen with a happy young couple glad to see you're enjoying it mr. Killian. I am enjoying it indeed It's not the usual way my friends entertain But it's so much wiser. Well, that's how our Claudia and David feel about it I certainly do hate to have to go back to New York But I must and from New York to Chicago say that's quite a trip. You've got there all business. I Suppose tomorrow will be a beautiful sunny day in Eastbrook David will enjoy it to the hilt not only to the hilt to the trout He's going fishing you'll find out tomorrow. Oh, how I envy him Well, I I'm glad for him anyway. I hope he has a fine day It's the city for me. So Goodbye, mr. King. Goodbye, mr. Killian 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 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