 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories 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 That's very pretty what is making faces at yourself in the mirror That's my plain old face you're talking about. I'm not making one extra face with it Oh, I wish I'd known sooner about this party tonight. My hair isn't even washed Don't you want to go and lie down darling take a little nap? New Year's Eve parties don't break up until very late Nothing will be really underway until 11 or half past really so late Why doesn't it all start earlier? Then we could get home earlier. We'd have been there just as long Well, that's not the way that it's done Oh Mom and I always stay home on New Year's Eve Somehow there was no Reason to go out. Are you sure you want to tonight sure? I'm sure don't you me What are New Year's Eve's parties like very gay everybody's very gay sounds like fun. It does Strange. I never thought that you'd not so fun. I feel gay already good good Oh very I am kicking my heels. I didn't notice mentally my mental We're gonna be the handsomest couple there, but of course and we won't go to bed till after breakfast. We'll dance and dance You're yawning already If you are you've got plenty of time to nap, you know getting undressed to get dressed at this hour Go to bed. Don't you sort of only three hours to next year David Will it be as nice as last year do you think of course it will and then some When you've got white hair and I'm using a cane We'll sit back on our rockers and dream about tonight our first New Year's Eve together I can't believe we'll ever be that old. I hope we will be both of us The only excuse for getting old what is it'll be both of us together Darling Are you scared terribly? Is that awful no? Are you a little I? Am more than a little That's all right, too Maybe I wouldn't be such a sissy about it if everything us. I mean Weren't so perfect now That won't change darling other things will but That will always be the same feel better now Then you kiss me I forget to be scared But darling You were right what about I feel a little sleepy you do a little And since I'm not dressed yet and since it's only nine o'clock And since the party doesn't start till later It's I love you so very much. Mrs. Norton. I can hardly keep her beyond it by itself really That's the nicest compliment you ever paid me It to be so late you're almost ready. It's 11 blasted bow ties. They just don't tie right Parties you have to get dressed up for David we won't get to the party till after midnight. Oh, that's terrible there. How's that look? I'd say I look pretty handsome not pretty but handsome I'm all ready to all right. Here's your coat Cinderella on it goes David Come on out with it. Nothing. I'm sure we'll have fun. Well, that's why we're going So I suppose I feel this way because we're we're used to going out during the day and going to bed during the night Well Let's be getting along guess we might as well This is an awfully cozy apartment, isn't it? Bluff and Shakespeare have the whole place to themselves. I hope they have a nice New Year's Eve Let's leave the light on for them. That's a good idea No, no, now you can't come along you weren't invited get out get out. I said you wake everybody up you big Are you addressing me? I don't know am I? Darling, I think he wants just too bad about him. It's too late. It's a good thing. I've got the car downstairs We'd never get a cab We had a solder your boy not tonight. Mrs. Norton and I are stepping out alone He's right now. I'll be quiet both of you Did you hear what I said quiet? Well No, no order when they get one Come on now. Let's get out of here while everything's quiet Good night, love. Good night Shakespeare. Goodbye, my darling. You sound as if you were saying goodbye Forever Adorable He's gonna bark till we get home probably probably Look, do you or do you not want to go to this party? Do you I ask you first? Dressed up now. We might as well What's the matter you little clock, why didn't you tell me you didn't want to go either? Well, I thought Just because I invited you who you invited me to marry you too Me not either. It's too late to discuss that. Come on. We're on our way. I thought we weren't going. We're not. We're not David still walks out. It's too bad about him And he loves driving in the car and the cars downstairs But what is mama going to say about being visited by a dog at this hour? Me I'm psychic So there is here here. I've got a key Make yourself decent mother. It's the family This is a fine time to drop in any complaints But I thought you'd be there. We changed our minds any objections Yes, did you have to bring the whole menagerie get down you? gorilla He likes your mama I wish he'd like me a little less. I'll be less demonstrative about it. Go on. I'll get down get the way I should go to ask this in have I any choice? Come on in But why aren't you at that party? Oh, I got sleepy at the last minute But you're all dressed. I was afraid I'd get lonesome My dreamy genie with the light I think you've been to that party Suspicious woman who wasn't brought up right but now a son-in-law till too late in life any hope for This is a pretty sight the two of you in your evening clothes the dog the cat And the parrot I hadn't forgotten you Solomon. It's quite a gathering This we got married the family is increased isn't it David? Well, I hope there are no more additions for another few months. You know, it's too bad You can't buy a baby in a pet shop so much faster and you know what you're getting to Maybe you too will invent a new system. Oh the ancient one's not so bad Nice to be here. Isn't it very your mother looks kind of cute in there come on up I was about to wash my hair you and your daughter. That's your idea of bringing in a new year What time is your mother? Just a few minutes before midnight the old years almost out. Sorry to see it go Still it's been pretty good to me Mama Year ago tonight. Could you possibly have imagined this? No, I didn't imagine it It's nicer than anything. I could have imagined. I wonder what it'll be like next year this time Oh, even nicer. I'll be a grandmother. We're pretty lucky the three of us We're about to set out on a new year We've got everything in the world of person could possibly ask for that too many people who don't have anything to Look forward to just another year of hunger Misery and fear and want well, maybe this year will be the last of that It'll be a brand new clean year in a few minutes. Not so clean darling Too many carryovers on the red side of the ledger Too many things the world didn't finish up last year. I remember the time. Oh You two wouldn't even know it was before the first world war That long ago when you could face a new year with no backward looks No need to carry the past with all its terror and sins Into the present and future when you could start fresh and strong and sure of yourself When goodwill was on earth That's the difference, isn't it mother? Big difference to David. Why didn't you tell me tell you what? We've gone to the party. I think I feel a little shame You never stop to think what tonight meant to other people deep inside darling You didn't want to go or we would have gone Mind if I turn on the radio? I'll do it. I can reach it. Let's see now Just another minute just one more minute and God will give the world another chance Only one minute left in the old year as we switch you now to Times Square in New York City Nothing wrong with shouting it's healthy shows that man is an eternal optimist and that he's got all the courage and hope he's going to need All right takes courage a much greater courage than that mama don't talk like that David maker stop It's all right, Gloria. The years keep coming. You'll see a great many of them Land to use them well David hold me tight. I'm here darling. Just just hang on 10 seconds left He has never felt like this before what's happened to growing up That's all every 10 seconds the most important the most beautiful or the most terrible Five seconds left and the new book opens. I hope the words will read well We shall write the words mother Claudia and I and our sons and our daughters and their generations to come in the end The words will read well We're ready for darling Let her come this broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney Whatever revelry you plan for this evening whether you're going out to a restaurant a nightclub a party or you're planning to see the new year in at Your own fireside. 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