 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 I Seem to be missing an ass trace. I'm David. Have you seen it? Hmm goes right on the table, but oh Here it is under your tobacco boat. I don't see why you're making such a fuss I'm not making a fuss. I'm just trying to get the living room to look as nice as it can for mama's sake What's mama's sake got to do with it? Oh for heaven's sakes, David. It's her living room Especially because she isn't home. I don't want it to not look up to snuff mama doesn't use snuff. Oh, I thought you'd go to such Ends I I wouldn't have asked Roger to drop up tonight, but I love going to ends especially when I can make the meat You think Roger I want to see the baby. No, you don't why should he want to see the baby? Oh I just thought he might Some people do Roger's not that kind of people. I guess not I Guess you wouldn't be there about some other person's baby. I'm not even about my own. Oh sure Don't believe it. Maybe I ought to fix the baby's bed just in case Roger's in a polite mood Why don't you ask the baby if he feels like having company? That's an idea I'll go right now after all Bobby's to be considered as much as anybody else. He might not feel sociable tonight Put yourself in his place If you were a baby, would you like a procession of people coming in leaning over the side of your carriage and disturbing you? Just to say goon goon Make funny faces at you. I wouldn't like it at all. Bobby probably doesn't know that David you're going to make a wonderful father. What's that got to do with it? Because you know just how a three and a half weeks old child feels. Oh Well, do you think Mrs. Killian's coming up tonight? Roger mentions. He's taking Jeffrey to the theater or something. Let's us not ever be the kind of couple who go out separately That's not a chance. Oh Sit still darling. I'll answer. I'm there already Come in Roger. Well, well, how's the little mother me? I'm fine hardly a mother anymore What what I mean? It's been weeks since I had the baby. So treat me like anybody else, please That would be a little difficult my dear, but I'll try Aren't you going to even invite him in Claudia? She was giving me a few warnings as to how I should behave Well, don't pay any attention to I always pay attention to Claudia and I'm very glad of it Thank you. She won't be fit to live with for a week. Wait. I got a hold of you tomorrow, man I should play sick tomorrow Thank you Well, don't I get to go in and see it? I mean him the baby. I've come to call on him Well, hold on earth. You want to see him for he isn't much to look at. Oh Calm now. Well, he isn't he he looks like many other babies age No teeth hardly any hair and lots of fat Sounds delightful Charming not very he makes weird little noises. He's not the bridey every word you say tantalizes me I demand to see him. Oh, look Roger. Look. We're partners. No friend. You you don't have to be polite to us But I'm not being polite must be being polite I'm never interested in seeing other people's children and I'm hardly interested in seeing my own you too proud parents put up a beautiful front We do You don't have to come in with me if you prefer I'll go in by myself to pay my respects or is he asleep now And I won't be allowed. Well, if you insist he's asleep most of the time, so it won't make any difference Hmm normally with new parents who can't escape seeing a little baby Well, am I or am I not going to see this wonder child? I'll take a look at him too, but purely for business reasons. Oh Yes, I think I get what you mean Well, well, there he is. Oh He's very sweet And Quite large too, I imagine go on. Don't leave it there. Thank you something else Well, I think he looks yes, I don't be embarrassed to anything right ahead Roger Like both of you you did very nicely, right? Well now if you had enough well, I've seen him haven't I for your hypocrisy We should make you spend all evening in here, but you've been very polite and very gallant So come on let's relax and go into living room fine. Good. Bye little fellow Sleep well tonight. Goodbye You're really very funny right now. Why am I funny? Feeling that you had to insist on seeing him. Well, I wanted to you have done your duty I've loved seeing your son But it is difficult to know to comment on the three weeks old baby David can hardly understand why he didn't sprout full-grown with a trout pole in his hand Oh, it would be simpler that way. Well What else have you decided for him decided for it? Mm-hmm. You've made a trout fisherman out of him about his future I mean, oh, oh that well, we're taking him off his two o'clock feeding starting tonight He didn't even wake up last night. I don't think that those are the details that Roger was interested in I didn't think so either I'm not especially so I was surprised when he asked Roger means Bobby's future exactly Oh his future future. Yes That sounds awfully far off. When does it come much sooner and much faster than you think that soon So soon that you won't have much time to plan a life for your son and you can't wait for chance or incident to plan it for you I Remember when my boy was born there were certain things I'd arrange for right then and there But of course there were some things I didn't count on But I have the satisfaction of saying that I can look back and say that at least the physical things I did for him were right. Roger's not the physical things that are the most important. No, I know But those are the few you can plan on and they are important to such as the schools you'll send him to we have to decide that now Well, most certainly It's not too easy to get your boy in the right school in university the sooner you enroll in the better Well, I think he'd want to decide that for himself like you decided for yourself that you didn't want to go to school Let's not get personal about this. We are talking about our son and that's not personal Now you have a boy three weeks old and you know Approximately the kind of person that you hope he will turn out Okay, David has certain ideas of education for him and he could arrange for his son right now to have that kind of education David what part preparatory school did you go to? I went to the Craig school. Do you like it? Oh, I like it very much. You mean you like going to school. I certainly did braggard Well, if I were you I think it would be good to have him follow in your footsteps Send him to a fine school, which will give him a good liberal education Give him the opportunities for knowledge that you want him to have I'd enroll him at Craig tomorrow and not for snobbishness or false ambition either Maybe he won't want to go to Craig. You must educate him to want to if he loves his father You better have he'll want to do as he did Of course David you're a Harvard man I would enroll him in Harvard tomorrow if it were me I'm not sure I'd like to be told at the age of three weeks that I was gonna go away to prep school and then to Harvard and So forth and so on you don't tell a boy that you bring him up with those ideas It's a sort of insurance as to the kind of person. He'll become I am I know what Roger means I know but I want Bobby to have his his own hopes and his own ambitions and his own desires For all I know he might not be interested in going to college Why where lots of wonderful people have never been to college? Claudia is talking about herself again. I repeat. Let's not be personal Certainly a lot of wonderful people have never been to college some of the finest men of our country never had a formal education Lincoln as an example But if you can give it to your son you owe it to him By the very day that my Jeffrey was born his mother and I enrolled him in Harvard Well, I think that's very optimistic of you Roger. I wish we had served him as well at home However, your son will never suffer from lack of a mother father Who lived together or their devotion to him. So don't let him suffer from the other Nice compliment you gave us Roger. I know where have I speak? The few days my son and I spent in your home were life's education to me So actually I think I have a great Great cheek to advise you to all go on the contrary Roger my interest in you is very selfish. I Think it would make me feel I had made fewer mistakes If you made none, oh We'll make mistakes. I can hardly wait to see what they are as a matter of fact. Well, what do you think? Do we take that three-week piece of protoplasm in the next room and start molding him into a solid citizen? I suppose it's it's never too early to start. That's right, David You want him to go to the school you went to you turned out all right Things a little different now than they were then I suppose so Education is different too. I I've thought of it and I lean toward seeing my boy go to the public school in Eastbrook I hope you'd say that David. It's not because I'm putting up the stones and brick that I wanted to go to Eastbrook school but Because I think it gives the boy a sense of belonging to go to the community school with his neighbors and friends. I agree I Don't think that I don't think I'd like to bypass. I go beyond what we We have to offer Bobby right here at home. I know but it's a little different for Bobby than it was for you Oh, I'm so glad you feel that way David You know if I were Eastbrook, I don't think I I don't know I think I'd feel it was an awful sort of a slap in the face to have a son of one of its most Prominent citizens go someplace else to school. I am not One of its most prominent citizens. Oh now you know you are and you are not Eastbrook my love No, you're right there. I uh, I think you have the right idea. Claudia always had well She always makes sense one way or another that is because I have David You see Roger, I know what it is. I really want to educate my son for you do and But that he's already enrolled David you've enrolled him into something already. You didn't tell me well What is it David? Bobby's enrolled as a citizen of this country. I want him to graduate at 21 into a person of responsibilities ideals I Want him to be educated to appreciate the principles of this country into which he's been born. I Have enrolled him into a life of service and usefulness and hope and idealism. I Looked at the day when he'll have a diploma of manhood integrity and loyalty That he'll know how to live side-by-side with his neighbors and peace and cooperation He'll have that David. He comes by. That's his heritage and a very fine one I think that the schools and the colleges and the universities that go to anyone any one of a great number They're all good. I think they can give him what he wants if If he knows what it is he wants now, that's the greatest education of all I think if he's the kind of man who knows what he's what he's getting an education for he won't have any trouble getting it Anywhere a number of women get on a bus loaded with bundles some look all tuck it out Some look fresh as daisies a lot is in the way. You go about things if you pause for ice-cold coca-cola during shopping trips I'll wager you'll look fresher as you carry your packages home The pause that refreshes is well named coke does help you shop refreshed He's quite a boy young Bobby Norton. Isn't he mr. King? Oh, Roger Killian. Well, we all like him I had to believe they ever grow up to go to school and college and then wait a minute, mr. Killian Not so fast life's a little slower than that. Oh not much By the way, has David mentioned to you when you and Claudia are going back to farm I've been meaning to ask him, but we're so busy at the office Claudia is trying to convince David that they're ready to go back immediately But he's a little hard to convince that David's a careful man when it comes to his own But Claudia can be mighty insistent when she wants something. Yes, she can when she wants something for David I guess we'll find out more about it tomorrow. Let me know what happens. So long mr. King. See you soon 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 Now this is Joe King saying or a bar and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola or 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