 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 Hey over there. Mrs. Norton calling me. Mr. Cardi. I am indeed Thought you might like to see the concrete being poured Lots of things going on at once out there. Oh, it certainly are Takes an awful lot of doing just to add on a new piece of barn doesn't it? We're coming along fine Be through right on schedule if not ahead of it. We are true ahead of schedule We'll be setting a precedent in the Eastbrook. Won't we a precedent all over the United States, ma'am? Now see those fans and sweeps and pipes over there just being delivered That's the latest kind of ventilating system David must be intending to buy a cow with an awfully sensitive nose Well a man's jersey can be a man's best friend. I suppose a car can do a lot of things a person can't Say we haven't got any ventilating system in our house. Have we well? It's not imperative But you could have one except it's expensive Mama said the only person I'd have to be jealous of would be David's Jersey cow Mama was right. Mama is always right. What about heat? Do we have to install heat not in a barn? Well, if the cow has to be ventilated doesn't she have to be heated to She heats herself. Well, that's sweet of her It's too bad though. She can't heat herself enough so that the milk can come out all pasteurized You think it could be arranged? Well, I'll tell your cow about it when we get her say so, you know with you Supervising this job here instead of your husband You're gonna learn an awful lot about building you cut me out of business. Oh, no, thank you When David gets out of the hospital this job will be all yours and his no architecting for me No, thank you. Don't you like? Well, it's David's work. It's not mine. So even if I did like no, thank you quite a tactful little boy I'm learning you've learned in the last six months. I've seen you Mrs. Norton I've learned most in the last six days a husband in a hospital with a concussion of the brain is a very delicate plant So you're building a hot house for him, huh? He must only think we're building this barn You know Mrs. Norton You're starting to make me think I should have married you're missing something. I never believed it before Of course, I don't know if any women would ever consider me a delicate plant Mr. Paddy's or they got one whole coil of pipe late already I'll all the boys know that mr. Norton is in the hospital I told him we'd like to get the job done before he gets home would be wonderful They'll do it. No decent men like to see a swell mister like David Norton cracked up in a car accident Wasn't his fault Eastbrook's on his side. We'll have that barn ready, you know, this has to happen today that at all I'm certainly glad it happened in Eastbrook in New York and access into such a private affair Well, we like to pitch in maybe we figure it could have happened to any one of us But mr. Norton took the ramp. Well, anyway, thanks Isn't it a beautiful fall day? It's so clear Yeah, first fall up here isn't it and I don't want to miss one day of it wait wait You haven't seen anything yet wait till the end of October and November a turning leaves of Connecticut It's quite a sight you've lived your all your life, haven't you? I still get a kick out of it. Hey, hey now watch how they pour that concrete easy as Cream out of a picture All right, Claudia Roger Killian, what are you doing up here in the wilds of Connecticut? I came up to see my partner and his wife what a wonderful surprise we can go over to the hospital together What on earth is happening to this barn? We're building a new part. Mr. Power. These are mr. Killian David's partner pleased to meet you Sir, I've met you young man. You did the Norton's house, too. That's right. Good job Well, Claudia, are you supervising this piece of construction? I'm just doing the worrying. It's the same thing We're just pouring the concrete for the flooring. So I noticed and you're getting to be quite the expert No, I wish I were I almost wish I were the cow, too Well, how about going down to the house, huh? Well, just as you say Nice to see you mr. Belly. So keep up the good work. I will try especially if it'll help mr. Norton to his feet faster I give him my regards. Yeah, see you tomorrow a check. Hey, hey get moving with that lumber I don't want to have to pay that truck over time. I'll just move it very efficient fellow I don't know what I do without him Everybody's been so nice up here makes you want to cry. That's not the reason they're being nice. I know oh The farm looks beautiful. It's just beginning to get dressed in autumn, isn't it? Yeah Mr. Paddy's and I were just talking about why don't we go right over and see David? You're not tired from your trip up. Heavens no We'll see David now and then we can go out to dinner I'll take you and your mother to an excellent lobster place. I'll do that's awfully sweet of you But no, but it's about it I'm David's partner and that goes way beyond sharing an office in the business at least it does with me It does with David to then that settles it David and then the lobster Now tell me how we're here. Well so far so good. No complications The main trouble now is that he's so impatient. He resents terribly that he has to be laid off and dependent on other people he Doesn't seem to realize how serious a concussion can be But he looks fine In your cheeks eyes nice and clear David. You really are starting to look like yourself. Yeah, it's about time I wish you were out of here. I don't see why dr. Barry's making such a fuss about a mere cracked collar bone He knows what he's doing and what's your dreadful hurry David? Don't you trust me to run the business. It's not that and you know it. No I don't know it and the way you act it would seem that you'd expect our firm to founder if You don't get back their first thing in the morning. Well, it just so happens mr. Roger Killian that You full well know that I consider you one of the least capable architects in the business An architect with absolutely no talent no imagination and no skill That is the reason why I decided I'd rather work for and with you than with any other Architectural firm in New York City. Well, perhaps you're just prejudiced perhaps I am they uh How are things out in Chicago? Excellent excellent good. I was having a fine time with my boy. Uh, Jeffery is thinking of going to the University of Chicago That's right. He goes to Harvard in a week. Oh Chicago for medicine after graduates. We'd like Chicago both of us You'd still be there, wouldn't you if you hadn't had to come back because of me? Yes I probably would still be there, but Jeffrey had to come east College opens on Monday in Chicago will still be there when I'm ready to go back. You're uh, Well, I know it sounds stupid to say it, but You're a swell sport about it Swell sport nothing. I think you're making such a fuss about me because you don't ever expect me to behave Well or be capable of rising to any situation or emergency now, you know perfectly good now don't interrupt I'm going to have my say Claudia you'd better sit down. My partner is liable to carry on for quite a while. I've no place to go David Listen to me and don't build a barrier to prevent what I'm going to say from reaching you promise I'm listening good Well when I arrived at your house a little while ago for coming here Claudia was up at the barn with your mr. Paradiso But that chap by the way seems to know his business boy did a good job on the house. He has a soul. He's a nice fellow To any rate as I was saying Claudia was up at the barn with your mr. Paradiso. I Shouldn't have drive to your house for a moment and watch them They were discussing something about the building that was going on It was the ventilating system sounds so wonderful I'm half tempted to put the cow in our house and have me move into the barn It can be a rain Well, I could tell without hearing a word of what they were saying That both of them were getting a tremendous kick out of what they were doing really Claudia because watching the barn grow while you're laid up here in the hospital Gives her a feeling that you're together She's helping make a dream of yours come true This barn is one more link in the chain of your lives You're not with her but she's doing a second best Making it do nicely with all her heart Am I interpreting correctly Claudia I wish I could have said it that way you don't have to my dear and Then I watched Paradiso no relative yours. Nobody nothing to you But a man who once did a job for you did it with pride and with respect for you I like Paradiso and he likes you but that's all at least that was all but now he's doing something for you Supervising the building of your barn in your absence is making you a gift and it's a greater pleasure than receiving Now giving is easier. There is no obligation involved precisely Tough on you that you happen to be in a spot where for a while you must be the receiver But David don't take the joy out of Claudius and Paradiso's giving by resenting it You'll rob them of their only pleasure in your absence. I don't think I haven't thought of what you're saying Roger I know everybody's been most unselfish. No, no, no not unselfish Selfish their pleasure in giving to you. They know you don't enjoy receiving and yet they give I want to be selfish too permitted How well if you remember some months ago, I was going to close up shop instead I offered you a partnership while your youth and your talents have served well So well that I was going to take a back seat draw in my money Enjoy the dividends of the years and put the reins in your hands. That's exactly why I feel like such a rotter about Handing the reins back to you temporarily. I'm a tired man, David But it's good to know that my days of giving aren't over So don't begrudge me these few days and don't be impatient. You'll rob me if you are All right, I feel as if I owed everybody an apology. Don't be ridiculous. We're the ones doing the imposing David not you Good heavens. I've been talking a long time Claudia we've got to pick up your mother and get going on that lobster dinner. Hey, wait a minute wait just a minute stop right there Lobster dinner did you say lobster dinner? He said Lobster dinner at the most wonderful little lobster place. I shouldn't dare eat it, but it's so deliciously prepared Well, I must I must well don't don't force yourself my man This this is the end. What is the end David? Well, I I don't mind being dispensable. I don't mind that at all Paradiso for an example building my barn. He's getting along fine without me and take Roger here Rogers running the business single-handed Claudia my own little Claudius being as executive as a adding machine or something But for you to go out you too and mama with me here flat on my back jailed up in This hospital Well, I resent and I restate I resent that deeply. Oh dear. Oh dear, but go on skadoodle and enjoy it It's my gift to you. So we're even When you stop for lunch downtown, you probably ordered coke just as the men and women around you do How about having coca-cola with your lunch at home? It adds a refreshing touch to the most humdrum sandwich or to icebox leftovers of the kind that so many housewives Content themselves with when the other members of the family aren't home Try coke with your noontime meal and lunch refresh. Oh, Mr. King. May I interrupt Joe? You certainly may mr. Killian. Do you think it worked with David? Perhaps temporarily, but you know, I can't blame him for being impatient. Of course not still I suppose that for the present there's no point in telling him that he's still a very sick man not so sick as could be sick No, there's no point in telling him because if all does go well, you'll be fine and out of here The days go slowly, but they do go Tomorrow we'll bring David another visit to help while away the time his brother coming up No, his neighbor old Jared Tucker a very amusing gentleman who don't believe in hospitals That will be a help. Well, we'll see anyway. Oh my can't keep that lobster waiting So I want to keep or a boy Mr. Killian 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 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