 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 The same coming up it seems different to you because this time the house is ours really ours I'd like to point out that yesterday we owned the house today We only own part of one doesn't it make you nervous what we're doing today Makes me feel just like I did when block had an infected foot a little surgery never hurt a good foot or a good house Not that you've started to have it torn down. It doesn't seem so much like a little Sounds a lot more like a lot Nothing to it nothing that cost two thousand three hundred and sixty five dollars and eighteen cents is nothing Actually, that's a very low estimate We can keep it down to that price. We won't have to mortgage the house. Is that good very That makes me feel a lot better. That's just how I want you to feel better. There's only one thing I don't understand David. What's that? Mr. Paradiso is so sure that he knows how much everything's gonna cost Why do you call it an estimate? Because he isn't held to it. He isn't but that isn't fair It wouldn't be fair really to do it any other way but David do you mean we don't know how much these repairs are gonna cost us That's right If all mr. Paradiso has to do is what we decided to do under the estimate the estimate is about all we'll have to pay Well, that settles that we're not gonna do another thing. What a girl Still looking for bargain I buy something I asked for the price before I ask them to send it Well, you can't quite do that with an old house It's like cutting open a sick man You're never sure what you're going to find when you look inside. What do you think you're gonna find inside an old safety? We really can't be sure what we're going to find that's what makes it so interesting Interesting. I never knew you were so cold-blooded. It's more than likely that some of the timbers are erotic And we're never exactly sure just how the construction was originally designed Well, how could it be built wrong? It's lasted almost 200 years. I didn't say it would be wrong I meant that if the construction is of a certain type the job is going to cost a lot more than if it's of another type Well, that's awful. Isn't there anything we can do? Do about what? To have it be like the estimate no matter what My book you were stingy She said you didn't want a mortgage darling. We're trying to adapt this house so we can use it I think it was wonderful the way it was. We don't want the new part to seem just like an afterthought It's got to be done in the same spirit as Professor Higginbotham used to say in the modernizing of an ancient edifice The new portions must be joined in the spirit and structure Professor Higginbotham was an old butcher I bet. I think we were meant to cut the house open in the first place But you wanted to. I know, but I didn't think Oh poor old house. David, we've gotten to know it so well. I think it can feel doesn't it look wonderful You can't see the work from here. It's all on the other side Oh David, it is a beautiful house. It has real dignity It looks like the first new building was really proud of what he was doing Now you're really beginning to catch up Catch under what? What a good house we've gotten. How careful we've got to be when we try to match it with a new wing This is Mr. Paradiso. Mr. Paradiso, we're here Hello, Noddons. You're going to be looking over my shoulder while I make the incision Why does everybody have to talk like this is an operation? Have you started yet? I've started all right and I feel as though I'm already finished Hello, Mr. Noddy Hello, Mr. Paradiso. It's a very hard work. I bet it is That's tough job, Mrs. Noddy. Lots of angles Oh, I know. You mean the way the roof is with one side longer than the other I don't think he means that angle, Clark I wish I did. Well, don't work this thing around until it makes sense Have you really started working, Mr. Paradiso? Started working. Mrs. Noddy, this is the middle of the afternoon to us At eleven o'clock? We've been on the job since seven this morning. Got five men here. Can't you hear them? I hear them. Sounds like an army It's only five men, but they know what they're doing I thought you were going to have eight and nine Same thing. I'm giving them a hand myself Can't see a thing from this side of the house. Everything looks so nice and healthy and peaceful You should see the other side Have you seen any pictures of Berlin or that place in England? How was it? Coventry. Yeah, yeah Don't tell me anymore Or Stalingrad. That's the way the other side of your house looks I don't know why we couldn't have been happy just to have things the way they were It was a beautiful house And it was good for almost two hundred years Now, now, don't worry. We'll get it all back together again I could do it blindfolded And not have anything left over? That part's up to the architect What's the matter with you this morning? Nothing to matter with me Last time we talked, an architect was just about the important enough to carry his builders hat for him Yeah, but this house you bought acts like a dame She's trying to get me into trouble Trouble? David, if you two have hurt that house, Jared Tucker and I will never forgive you It's none of his business. What sort of trouble? Well, you were right about the wall we're putting in the bays I was afraid we wouldn't find it as simple as you hope It still isn't as bad as you think But I think I can look at it You got a better idea? In the right spirit? Ah, I got lots of them. Come on around and let's take a look Come on, Claudia, you can see for yourself your poor old house isn't crying Tears or no tears, I couldn't stand looking at it Maybe later when it's put together a little Later when it's put together a little As if she didn't know it won't be together for months Mr. Norton, I sure get a kick out of your wife Don't let her fool you, Mr. Paradisa She's not fooling Well, let's go and see how bad this is going to be Well, I tell you, Mr. Norton, with a good bill of these things aren't serious Now you take those old fogies around you Goodbye Hey there, you! Don't run away Why, hello, Mr. Tucker You can't run away from Jared Tucker like that Hey, you! Ah, they won't listen Good morning, Mr. Tucker Howdy, Mr. Norton Got no time for plightness or manners this morning Excuse me, please Got to catch them two vandals before they rip down that old house Where'd they go? Well, they went around the other side where they're doing repairs Repairs? What repairs does that house need? I want to know You whippersnappers, you vandals But you would ask Mr. Norton Don't you think I know that? He completely did that husband to yours Completely bamboozled me Made the biggest mistake of my life But it ain't all my fault, neither Blame my sister for her too Busy body, mental and old woman I don't think you mean any of that Do you, Mr. Tucker? If it wasn't for Delilah, I'd let Mrs. Reed by this house In the first place Wouldn't have to sit here, sit here, sit here And watch somebody tear it all to pieces We're not tearing it all to pieces Oh, yay, danger I said, Delilah, we'd better watch out There are some fellas trying to monkey business That's old box And as good neighbors, we ought to watch out for the young folks And see nothing's done, it should not be a thing That was very sweet of you, Mr. Tucker And sure enough, when I come over here There are a hammering and a sawd And a sawd and a sawd and ripping and cutting And when I tell them to stop Some young whippersnapper told me Don't mind if I watch Provide to keep my opinions to myself But if I was like all the other ol' fogies I'd ought to know this ain't my land I ought to clear off, he says Mr. Kraken never should have said anything like that, Mr. Tucker Don't mind what he said, it's what he's doing He's ripping down that nice house It was good enough for the Tucker since 1760 1760 Probably putting up one of them new Jim Kraks Didn't good enough to last more than a single generation Mr. Tucker, now that isn't what we're doing at all Oh, it isn't, eh? No, I mean We're trying to preserve the original just the way it was Only we're trying to add just a little more room Room? There's plenty of room for the two we're getting there There's going to be more than two of us You see, we're going to have a baby What? What do you know? And besides really being so careful In what you do to that house We're not going to do anything that might touch The spirit of the house, Mr. Tucker We're going to take the same pride In doing our work That the man who built it took when he did it Are you doing a lot? Or just building a little extension An extension, well Ain't that a lot? Well, there are other extensions on it, aren't there? Well, that over there be the kitchen That was an extension my great-aunt's father-in-law Built that for my great-great-grandfather In 1846 You see, and you never even noticed it A little surgery never hurt a good house What's that? That's what my husband said He said a little surgery never hurt a good house He means you've got to be just as careful As a surgeon is when you do something Do a house like this Well, I guess there's something to that You've got to be very patient And find just the way to do it That's like the house was before Well, how do you do that? Can't do it until you cut the house open and see That's all they're doing this morning Just like a surgeon Funny, the newfangled things Folks are thinking of today Don't you think that your great-aunt's grandfather Father-in-law What about the kitchen extension? Well, maybe he was I don't know if he had enough sense A little surgery never hurt a good house I'll have to tell that to Delilah Well, what else do you folks do? Well, let's see There's the extension We're going to put in a heating system And then we're going to put in a big bay window And one wall of the dining room So people can look in So we can look out Where we can sit and look out at the farm But then I've never been much of a surgeon Well, it's nice to look out at the piece of land As pretty as that, and know it's all yours But this isn't all ours Nope, we can see the walnut tree from the window And we give it back to you Remember? Walnut trees say that's the right pretty tree It certainly is Listen, Miss Norton, I've been thinking But don't say nothing to Delilah It's the right neighborly of you To give us back that tree Yeah Don't tell Delilah I said so But you better take that tree back, you know Mr. Tucker, that's the nicest thing Anybody ever did No, it's a nice dog, it's practical You know, walnuts are fine Against the bronchitis and warts And you can't tell when to come in handy For a couple of good house surgeons Well, I better be gone Tell Mr. Norton, hello I will, Mr. Tucker, I certainly will You will what? I will tell you, David Hey, what's the matter? You look awfully blue Blue, nothing so colorful I'm just a little depressed What's the matter? I'm afraid you're right We should have looked for the price tag It's going to cost just about twice What we'd hope to do the job That means a mortgage skimping We might not even have all the money we need David, get your mortgage and please be happy We didn't have to look for the price tag You were right Is that really the way you feel? Of course, David But there's nothing to fight about We've just got the most wonderful bargain Bargain? Where? Darling, it may have cost us a mortgage An extension and skimping But Mr. Tucker just came by And he gave us back the walnut tree Darling, it's ours and for nothing As a gift These programs star Catherine Bard Is Claudia and Paul Crabtree Is David And the entire production is supervised Every mother likes her youngsters to have a good time So she wants to encourage party giving But she wants at the same time to discourage extravagance There's a happy way to combine hospitality and economy And that's to serve ice cold Coca-Cola Nothing pleases young people more Yet Coke is still only five cents Just what it was back in 1886 And today, as always, it's the delicious drink you think of When you want 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, Orifuar, 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