 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the 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 Oh I get probably for me would be calling you at 8 in the morning would be calling you lots of people oh You sure you don't want me to go I know where my slippers are where by the bed here. Oh You mind if I wear them? You'll break your pretty little neck. I'm coming coming coming coming. I'd really laugh if it were for me Not a chance. Hey, I just found your slippers, but they don't fit me. Say where you are. You'll catch cold This is not in speaking. Oh, you have the wrong number number David You know, I think we ought to have a phone in here. You do I Think it's silly to always have to go racing into another room to answer the phone Well, no race. Let me answer it. That is not the point. Oh The point is that I'm home alone all day and I have no company except a little black telephone You are breaking my heart Seriously, why should I have to run back and forth to it all the time? Why I ask you oh Question of questions who will answer David? I ask all of you standing there Your faces turned up to me like buttercups buttercups. Why should she have to run? Back and forth person just can't have a serious discussion. Would you can a person not any old person? No David look Why was a telephone invented so that little girls like you would be able to bother their husbands at the office all day long? Exactly and so that when the husband decides he wants to talk to her she can talk to him You never spoke a true or word But if I'm in the oven or the bathtub or in bed like now, I should have the phone with me I don't think I'd like a baked phone or a wet phone or I mean a phone is a convenient So the least it can do is to be convenient. Is that your last word on the subject? No David if I could make a wish One wish and be promised by my fairy godmother that it would come true. I Would wish for clean sheets every day in a phone in every room. That's two wishes They're the same thing same thing or not your fairy godmother doesn't know what she's talking about I know lawn breeze is so expensive. There's still a shortage of instruments instrument. Mm-hmm. I don't want an instrument I just want a phone. Well technically a phone is called an instrument. Oh Why didn't you say so? There's still no extra ones to spare any old fairy godmother knows that I don't want an extra when I want a regular one like the one in the living room how many times Second place we're moving from here in a month So there's no point in bothering to have them install one now, but we'll take them with us when we move what? Certainly You don't think I'm gonna let them lie around here for some other strangers to use any more than I'd leave my furniture Claudia if you'll just take a second to listen And you cannot take a phone with you. Why not? I'm willing to pay for it. So why shouldn't I it's mine But it's not yours since when since always you don't buy a phone from the telephone company you merely rent it Like an apartment like oh Why? because What? because That's the way it's done seems awfully silly to me Pay all that money and then the end you have nothing. I always thought you bought a phone Well, you always thought wrong now may I get dressed? I guess I'll get up While your coffee is perking. I think I'll call mama You just hate to see that phone lying around not being used. Don't you know it's such a waste You know, I don't think you have any idea how much I use a phone every day I call mama 20 times you 21 times butcher the baker the grocer the cleaner when it's raining I never have to go out at all Except I like to go out in the rain and that's one thing you'll have to stop no more walking in the rain Dr. Rowland wouldn't approve raining today Pouring then you stay at home all day and use the phone as much as you'd like David. I might I Just might Call the phone company and have them bring me an extension Just one little extension Would you mind call them if you like it won't do any good. We'll see who's right and Darling will you make my phone ring lots today because I'm going to stay in out of the rain all day And I love it to ring and ring and ring When I'm in the oven I hope it's who I think it is Hello, I'm currently from the telephone company and I'm Mrs. Norton. I've been expecting you please come right in Well, thank you. I won't take much your time. Oh, that's all right. I'm not going out today I have nothing else to do. Well, now you call the telephone company and ordered an extension. Is that right? I have the order here. Well, you certainly are fast Why didn't you be here for days? My husband will be simply amazed. I was do up here anyway, Mrs. Norton You were your husband applied some weeks ago for an instrument to be listed in his name Oh, that was before we knew we were going to move we're catching up with orders pretty heavy going There's a phone in this apartment listed under the name of Lee Lee Oh, they were the previous tenants exactly well You have no right to their instrument Mrs. Norton and I've come to remove it remove it. Oh Well, I suppose it's all right things you brought ours instead haven't you mr. Norton's order has been registered I have brought the new instrument with me, but the number is not yet connected What does that mean and why couldn't you just leave the old one and we could use it? We don't mind. It's being secondhand Regulations, Mrs. Norton we shall inform you when your new number will be connected. I don't understand I will install a new instrument when you but you may not use it until you're notified you mean it won't even ring The phone will not be working Mrs. Norton consider yourself temporarily without a phone and you're taking away the old one that works the telephone company Apologizes for all inconveniences and services will be restored to you as soon as possible. Oh, that's a big help And I thought you were gonna put in an extension I'll be why right with you Roger. I want to give Claudia a ring first We done younger in the Yankee tank the bullfrog jumping back back We done younger in the Yankee tank Hello, but What's that operator? I was dialing five plus a five five five nine seven Yeah But of course there's such a number it's my number. I've been calling it all day Well, I'm sure that's a mistake operator. Please check it That'll operate it Yes, but I know there is such a number. I tell you that but I Disconnected why that's ridiculous I am a dope We done younger in the Yankee tank. She nearly had me fooled at time 97 Hello Claudia now don't pretend you're an operator. I know better than you can't fool me all the numbers disconnected. Oh sure Yeah, you nearly did fool me though What? What's that? Be a Don't understand. I simply don't understand I've been trying to call you darling you can't we haven't got a telephone nonsense I see it's sitting right there just where it was this morning, but David this Well, you wait till I get the other operator Trying to tell me that there's no telephone at this number. There isn't that one's a ghost Hello Hello There's no dial tone David. He took the one with the dial tone away. He what who who what he what who what Sounds Chinese that Claudia. What's been going on here today? I've been trying to tell you a man came from the phone company and took our the one with the dial tone Phone away because you asked for the one to be listed in our name because I yes because you that's what he said I Get blamed because you want an extension and the phone company was paying you back for being so greedy talk is of the phone company We're God. Well, they took our phone away. Didn't they? What's this one doing here? It's a fake It's just there to make us feel worse. It's gonna sit there staring us in the face reminding us that David it never Don't let this get the best of you people got along without phones for a century I don't see how When he walked out of the house with our phone under his arm Well, I felt as if our best friend had gone away. Well, personally, I'm not the least bit. Sorry You're not not the least little bit. Yes, it's fine for you You're at the office all day and there you have dozens of phones one Well right now it seems like dozens to me. I'm alone all day. I know I know we'll get it fixed up in no time Now you'll see I don't even want any extensions anymore. Just one little phone And I still don't understand why if we can have an instrument we can't have one that works little work But in the meantime you and I are going to have a most wonderful weekend Just the two of us with no interruptions why we'll be so private even bluff and Shakespeare will feel they're intruding It'd be like going away the two of us on a desert island No bells no phone no nothing you make it sound nice. It'll be nicer than nice You'll see You know in a way, I'm glad they took the phone away At least if they took it away on a Friday and not on a Monday. Oh David be an exciting weekend David something rang So it did the phone. It couldn't be no one knows our new number I told you that phone was a ghost It's the phone company telling us it's connected. That's what it is. Oh darling Would you rather believe in ghosts? I would not Let it ring Let it ring. It's full head off These programs star Catherine Bard is Claudia and Paul Crabtree as David and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney Parties are fun to give and fun to attend if the hostess feels completely at ease One way you can be at ease when you're entertaining is to know that the bills won't be out of line Simply order plenty of coke keep lots of it on ice and relax in the thought that here at five cents a bottle You have refreshment for party goers of all ages Coca-Cola was five cents in 1886. It is five cents today And it's the same delicious drink people have long depended upon for the pause that refreshes 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 or ice-cold Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes