 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories by Rose Frank and 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 But you rang at the same time so I couldn't Course I would have opened the door first if I could have but there's a big heavy crate you bought us in front of it And I can't move it came while I was out But why didn't you say so I wouldn't have wasted so much time talking to you. I Love to but I've got a rescue mama Coming mama that was David. Let me in Claudia I feel like a cigar store Indian standing out here on your door now mama before I open the door I want to explain to you. There's a big crate right in here in front of the door about four feet tall and four feet wide And it's very heavy, and I can't move it and the door won't open wide So you'll just have to squeak through it sideways really Claudia you make coming to visit you so simple and pleasant What's in the crate? I don't know something David went shopping for yesterday Now I'll open the door as far as it'll go, but don't walk into it. All right Claudia That's only six inches. Well, how wide are you more than six inches you just have to hold your breath mama What is that great doing in front of the door anyway? I don't know that either I was out shopping when I came back I could hardly get in the house myself the elevator man must have let the crate in Anyway, try it mama take off your hat and coat if I take off my nose and hips, too It still won't be enough. Here comes my foot now an arm So you're doing fine now take a deep breath and stand as tall as you can stand That's how I did it and try to imagine your noodle here. I come it's now or never Good you made it. I'm a very squashed noodle You look very rakey schmiss brown with your hair over one eye and the buttons open down the front of your dress I'm exhausted That crate better be worth the trouble David went shopping for it yesterday And he said it was his contribution to the running of the household and I promised I wouldn't open it till he came home He won't be able to come home. It's he's thicker than I am. I will just sit here and relax mama dinner's all right You ought to see my kitchen. It's as neat as a pin. I've gotten so I don't dirty one extra dish I only dirty the unextra ones, you know the ones I use but you have to wash dishes yourself You get a little careful before you use one. It's all a matter of being organized Good evening, Claudia mother David. What's the matter? Aren't you glad to see me? David? It's me You look as if I just Materialized out of thin air. I think you have just materialized. I think you're a ghost as a matter of fact I don't think he would exist at all. Well, that's an original greeting I must say we were all ready to get you through the front door with a shoehorn I'm sorry to disappoint you darling, but I came in the back door Backdoor It's only for milk Oh, I give up anyway My brilliant woman I can see who the brain around here is. Don't get too conceited about it David. Tell us what's in the crate Well, what do you think? Do we have to guess yep? I give up. I give up too. Thank heavens now David tell us I won't tell you I'll open the crate and let you see it yourself. Oh you miserable good for nothing. I hate you I never keep you in suspense life. This is not fair. I'm going to rip it apart with my bare hand Oh dear he's gotten so important why I knew David when he was a sweet little boy Now look at what happens to the mama when they get their own wives and their own homes They think they're the only fish in the pub. I'm the only brainy fish in this puddle Conceded fish. David I can start to see whether it's all white and he's gonna crawl me about it Whatever it is And for what it was it's a very cheap This little object is going to completely revolutionize this whole household. It's a full-time maid. You're not so dumb Mrs. Brown That's almost what it is a mechanical full-time maid David stop talking and open it That does it now all we have to do is tear off the paper. I'll help you undress it David Are you sure it's not a washing machine positive? But it's a relative here we go Stop the washing machine David. No look again. What do you think of that? I almost get a dishwasher. I never dream David what are we gonna do with a dishwasher wash the dishes, but that's my job What's the matter with the way I wash them nothing, but this is modern now look darling This is an age of mechanical wonders. We live in we may as well make the most of it How come you didn't get a washing machine all the ads say that the happy bride is the one who owns one close You wash once a week dishes three times a day. He really isn't so unbrained I'm not so sure I could trust our dishes to this machine. How does it know what to do? It knows that's what it's for I see what she means David after all is only a machine only a machine Well, I like that While have you know this machine not only washes dishes, but soaps rinses and drives them as well I don't believe it. You don't eh? All right. We'll connect it up and show you how it works I've always managed to do them pretty well by myself What happens David is in the middle of everything it changes its mind it hasn't got a mind Then how can it do the dishes in the first place doing the dishes doesn't take a mind Well, I knew a woman once who had an automatic phonograph that never broke any records It just chewed them up little pieces and spat them out. What did this cost none of your business? Listen to how he talks mama David you can do dishes by hand for practically nothing women Honestly just because their grandmothers did something a certain way they go right on never questioning Never thinking it could be improved on it takes a man to realize the advantages that science has developed listen to it Mama, I'm perfectly willing to be convinced. I just don't think you can convince me. All right. We'll see come on girls Now let's push this thing into the kitchen and attach it up. There we go. I had the new plumbing put in while you were out Oh, that's it those little pipes. I thought they just grew there like toadstool But is it gonna work? Well soon see but I want you to keep one thing in mind. I think we can manage that I have installed this machine very Rapidly of course according to the directions exactly according to nevertheless. It was a quick job So I hope you notice Claudia. He's already making excuses. I noticed but I always say that if something is good It'll work no matter what you do now, Claudia Read the directions again and tell me what the next step is read the directions You sound like a schoolteacher David mama Why is it that when a man gets mechanically gets stuffy too? Claudia read the directions the direction say that the next thing Is to wash the dishes? Now let me see All right now look carefully Claudia this metal basket see yeah, yeah This is where you put the dishes and hear the grasses right and hear the silver right now before you start You put in the soap right through here Then you close the top turn on the water and that's all there is to it You mean now we can take a walk and when we come home the dishes will be all washed and hung up to dry Exactly You know, I'm starting you think David wasn't just talked into this dishwasher by some super salesman at the store I'm not the kind of man who gets talked into things Except getting married now. Let's uh, let's put in the dirty dishes dirty dishes. Yes, I hand them over to me We haven't any we haven't had dinner yet. Claudia prepared dinner for three and not a dirty dish leftover This is a fine. How do you do I go to all of this trouble and what do I find? No dirty dishes. I'm sorry David. Well, we'll adapt ourselves to the situation We'll wash the dishes before we eat Get off a waste of energy do it Claudia. Don't argue. That's true mom and the machine won't mind What's a hundred dishes more or less? I'm certainly glad David didn't bring home a washing machine We probably have to undress on the spot David. Can we put the clothes in this too? No the directions only specified dishes The plates go here we go. Yes, but in a dozen plates All right, and the glasses the glasses go right here in the middle. Put them carefully David glasses break easy Not in this machine. They don't it's the last words. You'll make it self-conscious. Now that put the silver in this little basket darling That's right. Yeah, and I'll pour in some soap. It all looks too simple to me Don't you have any faith in the 20th century now that we put down the lid and lock it like So It's all ready to go. Do I turn the water on David? Let me take one last look at what the book says. Let's see when lid is firmly closed Turn on water hot or cold hot Well, hold on to your hats. Here we go. I don't dare look What's happening David here you can peek through the glass top Marvellous thingamajig is going around like a merry-go-round and all the water just like Niagara Falls Always said there's nothing like a modern machinery Now watch the soap is going to be added to the water see almost human it's more than human It's fantastic. No match. No work. No water on the floor mama will buy you one. Thank you David is it supposed to make that noise When you grab it Did it make that noise in the store David that mother that that noise money Just part of the way it works. I I guess this is must be getting dizzy. They look as though they're having a wonderful time Yes It does sound a little noisy to me. Oh, maybe we better switch it off in the middle of everything. Oh, no We can it'll have a nervous breakdown. You know it is possible that something has gone wrong Look, it's not doing a rumba anymore. It's jitterbug. It looks as if it's going to run away I think something might be stuck inside. Maybe maybe I'd better open it to see the direction say it's all right to open it I don't see how it could possibly hurt. Maybe you better just switch it off I don't think you can switch it off until it's going through all three stages I'll just open the top a little and be careful David. Don't put your head in now stand back you do Don't look so nervous mother. Nothing's going to happen All right, all right now get ready here we go This is David. They're going to jump out. Oh, I can't look we're getting shocked Party a holy glass is down. Yeah, here comes the silver the top stuff I'm turning off the foster don't touch a thing mother don't touch things that direction says to leave them all Man the machines give me the old-fashioned way The darling look it's working beautifully the dishes are not David they were before we started Well, I am more immaculate now and you're getting your floor washed in the bargain darling don't apologize I love this sewing machine. Just close the top. I'm trying to hey mother mother come on in the water spine This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney Even when they're noisy and unruly you love to have your children's friends in the house Because you know that the homes children enjoy are warm friendly happy places Well, there's one sure way to attract the young generation and that's to keep plenty of coca-cola in the refrigerator How they aim for the icebox the minute they enter and how they go for those frosty bottles As a matter of fact, you'll attract folks of all ages if you remember to keep your refrigerator well stocked with coke 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 if war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do Wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola More ice cold coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes