 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the plays and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribe 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 Um No, we've got plenty of time the train leaves at 515 It's just two and a half minutes after five and for once we don't have to break our neck Isn't it marvelous not having to be late, so we don't have to hurry. Oh, I love Come on darling try to keep up with me. We don't have to rush David. We're way early Where are we going now? Don't you remember Reggie told us to meet him at the information booth He hasn't come yet better hurry or he'll be late It's wonderful to be on time once doesn't it smug David Do you think there's another information booth in the station? If there is I don't care. Don't you know? I mean, maybe we should be waiting at the information booth that goes to Long Island Well, that would be on the lower level with the Long Island train. Do you think maybe that's where I don't This is the main information booth Reggie said at the information booth and this is where we shall wait All right, if you say so, but I still think Say David, I just had a thought When you say upper level and lower level does that mean that there are some trains that come into the station upwards and some Downstairs, that's the general idea. I see. What do you know very little because the train is a Long Island train It knows to come in the Long Island level. I think that's miraculous It's like the talking horse. Are you serious? A little bit. I wish Reggie would come. He'll be along. That is if we're waiting for him in the right place I don't keep saying it. Of course, it's the right place Suppose it is after all there are lots of other people waiting for other people here, too David, why can't we go places more often? Where would you like to go? Oh? Any place stations is so exciting. So yeah, I forgot I've got to go buy the tickets Why did you go now and leave you alone in the middle of a railroad station? I know better I'm not quite ready to lose you forever darling. Oh, that's sweet David That's one of the sweetest things you ever said to me Well, I didn't mean it that way you did but I hope Reggie comes in time for me to buy the tickets in the station I don't like buying tickets on a train. You can buy tickets on the train. That is wonderful. It's not wonderful It's sloppy. What's sloppy about it? Well, I have ticket offices in the station just so people will buy their tickets before they get on the train Then why do they sell them on the train only for people who haven't organized themselves? So they have time to buy their tickets before But I don't think the train minds or they just wouldn't allow it at all. They do mind why because it Complicates their bookkeeping. I don't see how anything could complicate their book Katie. So Complicated already ready to know honest They ever keep track of all the little tickets they sell and all the pennies they get Every ticket cost 97 cents depends on where you're going or 43 cents or 66 cents Give me one. I can't ticket cost David. Are you listening to me? I'm listening Why can't tickets cost nice round numbers mean like a dollar simple and the tickets they punch them in they punch them there They tear them in half Somebody else gives you something else you stick on the back of your chair But we haven't gotten a chair yet. We have to go and then somebody else comes along and picks it up See you think there was a simpler way of doing it when you think of it write the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad I'm sure he'd be very glad to hear from I'm sure he will too. I'll do it tonight It's my fault. I should have known better than to try to meet someone in a station We are waiting at the right one Reggie is at the other one. He's at the wrong. Do you want me to go and I do not you'll get lost It's only just downstairs. You said I'll go and see if that's where Reggie is don't get lost Don't you dare move from your darling? I will never get together again. Oh David be careful Don't get on a train by mistake. I'll do my best now. Now stay right there. You forgot something What is it? Forgot to say goodbye. Goodbye Bye darling. Have a nice trip Here in front of all these people This is a railroad station David. I thought that's what railroad stations were for railroad stations are for trains not for kissing people Goodbye However, goodbye darling. Goodbye. Be good while I'm gone. I'll miss you Bye, and remember don't move. I'll be right back I am sorry, but you're pardoned We've been waiting for you I've been waiting for you been waiting 10 Whole minutes you have where downstairs information booth Long Island trains Downstairs is that the lower level it is. Oh, I told David David. Well, where is David? He's gone downstairs looking for you. Yes What made him do that? Well, I think it was very intelligent of him after all you were downstairs waiting for him Weren't you but I'm not anymore. I'm up here with you. Well, that is not David's fault Anyway, he said he'll be right back up Come Claudia we'll go and meet David downstairs. Oh, I promise David I'd stay here you go down by those stairs over there And I'll go down by these stairs over here that way with David on his way up You'll meet one of us Reggie. That's brilliant. If only it works that way Information booth Long Island trains This must be it well Claudia here I am and here I am Reggie is no one the fool here We both are miraculous neither of us got lost. Well, these things aren't as complicated as they seem after all Except David isn't here. He isn't but he should be I didn't see him. Did you did you pass him on the stairs? Oh, I looked at every man But none of them was David. I looked too, but no David. I thought surely you'd got him Search me poor David He's probably standing upstairs wondering what on earth happened to me. He's probably worried sick Reggie, I better go up and look for it. Don't you dare move Claudia? Why not? Didn't David tell you to stay where you were? Yes, but this isn't where I were just the same. Don't move. I shall go and look for David Oh, why does everybody tell me not to move? Reggie, what are you supposed to meet Madame Dubois here? Well, she knows exactly where to meet me now Claudia you stay here. I'll be right back with David in tow I hope so. It's getting late and you said we've got to make the 515 What are you doing here? I told you to stay upstairs David. I'm so glad you got back Did you have a nice trip? What are you doing here darling? I found Reggie where up there? He came upstairs right after you left, so we decided to come down here. Good heavens That's what I get for traveling with a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm your wife David it's your fault anyway. How'd you get upstairs without us seeing you? I took the escalator Escalator I didn't know there was one and I love escalators. Can I know? Where's Reggie now? Well, he went upstairs to look for you of course. What? Why can't you people stand one place for two minutes at a time so a person can find you? Why didn't you stay somewhere for two minutes so we could find you? Because I thought I was the one who was doing the looking Well anyway darling, we'll stay here now because Reggie's coming back to find me after he's found you Only of course I found you first Hello. Hello Didn't tell me if you had a nice trip Do you miss me? I certainly did Well, it looks like we're going to miss the 515 too. It does. That's terrible. What do we do? Probably have to hang around the station for an hour and a half another train Well, it's a good thing. I love stations, isn't it? But anyway if we do miss the train it still might not be our fault because Reggie's mother's friend She's a French woman David. She hasn't arrived yet. Women why do women always have to be late? It's just a coincidence that she's a woman after all there are only two possibilities and I wasn't late And she isn't late yet. She won't be anywhere. Reggie says she never is What time is it? Five five fourteen. Oh isn't going away fun We should really do it more often and go further away to make it worthwhile You're having a good time aren't you David? Not bad This sort of thing is to be expected when you go traveling with a wife I'll I'll get used to hope so because from now on we're going to go away a lot Aren't we David every time we go up to the farm will be going away and every time we go to New York from the farm We'll be going away. I love traveling Marco Polo I wonder where Reggie is now. Maybe you're right. Maybe we better go and find him Anyway, there's nobody around here who looks like a French woman Not even the poodle darling. Don't you want to stay down here while I go look for Reggie? I do not wherever we go. We're going to get it from now on. That's why I married you. Well, I'm dead Hello, David. So you're here not up there. Hello Reggie Really David you are the most difficult person to locate No, we shall never make that 515 never It's gonna cause a terrible mix up at home mother always expects me and oh well I'm throwing in the towel. I don't care if we never get there such mob such difficulties. Yes I've just been through it. I I know exactly how you feel. Where's the net? I don't know isn't she here? She ought to be here. She always is. What's the use? Let's see what time it is again It's now 515 Well, I guess that's that I guess we have missed the train. Oh, that's terrible But it's not our fault is it Reggie? We were running around waiting with nothing to do plenty of time I'm so terribly sorry. I'm late. That awful taxi man from me all around New York. Hello, Janet. That's all right Madame Dubois, Mr. Mrs. Norton. Hello, Madame Dubois. Very happy to meet you Oh, that's all right, that gives me time to go and ride the escalator. I'll be right back David Well, I suppose we'll just have to wait around for the next one and then there'll be the chauffeur waiting and dinner late And oh really I do hate these confusions. So do I I was running up and down these steps here for at least 10 minutes Say uh, tell me Ready. Mm-hmm. What time is the next train? It's not a point of when the next train is I've always taken the 515 and I have yet to wait say enough talking. We better go quick. The next train is the 519 the 519 the five night. Let's see that only gives it Wait just a minute Claudia. Wait a minute. I have to look for Claudia. Where'd she go now? Claudia? Claudia Have you seen it? Which way did she go? Claudia come back here. Claudia. Hey Yeah, she's gone. Where's your well? I think she said something about escalators. Claudia She's gone gone. Yeah, Reggie. Tell me when is the next train after the next train? Put in a carton of coke you say to the grocer while another customer is saying I want a case of Coca-Cola Both of you are asking for the same thing both are trademarks of the Coca-Cola company Ask for either and you get delicious wholesome refreshment You get the drink that gives you your family and your guests the pause that refreshes Well, mr. King, we didn't make it of not even the 519 mr. Finch not even Claudia is so very fond of escalators As a matter of fact, you know, I have brought a good time on them myself But don't we all because we like something for nothing on an escalator you go upstairs on Stairs at no effort whatsoever. They're still something of a toy Aren't it and all grown-up love toys electric trains especially I hope Claudia and David will buy an electric train for their expected child soon So I can have a whack at it. Well, they're gonna buy him something But I don't know exactly what it is on Monday come around then mr. Finch you find out I'll be there Well, no, I'd better rush along or I'll also miss the six oh three. Goodbye. Mr. King. Have a nice weekend Same to you mr. Finch goodbye and as I was saying 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 of 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 These programs star Catherine fired as Claudia and Paul Crabtree as David and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney and now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola