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00:01:37 I will show you for yourself why your papa is happy.
00:01:42 What is that, Papa?
00:01:44 That is, Hans, what every foreigner should have if he wants to stay in this country.
00:01:50 But what is it, Papa?
00:01:52 Oh, Louis, you be so dumb.
00:01:54 That, that's a privilege.
00:01:56 It's a privilege to stay here.
00:01:59 It shows that you belong.
00:02:02 It shows that you have a right.
00:02:04 It means that I am, I am, uh, uh...
00:02:07 You're a flat, Papa.
00:02:09 Can't you see? Papa's got a privilege.
00:02:11 My goodness, you must have catched it when it was raining.
00:02:16 I told you to put your goulashes on.
00:02:19 Maybe I don't take such good care of you.
00:02:22 Anyway, not like Mama used to.
00:02:25 Oh, yes, my little Lena.
00:02:27 You take good care of Papa, just like your Mama, just this good, even gooder.
00:02:34 You know, Lena, you and your Mama was, like they say in America,
00:02:40 like two beans in one pot.
00:02:43 Who's that, huh?
00:02:47 Come in.
00:02:49 Hello.
00:02:52 Hello, Uncle Adolf.
00:02:54 Hello, children.
00:02:55 Hello.
00:02:56 Hello, Mr. Kleinert.
00:02:57 What's the matter? For me, he ain't got a hello.
00:03:01 I almost forgot you was here.
00:03:03 Well, what could I expect from a foreigner?
00:03:07 What is this foreigner business, huh?
00:03:09 You ain't a foreigner?
00:03:11 That's where I laugh on you.
00:03:14 I used to was, but I ain't.
00:03:17 Hans, Lena, Louis, tell them what your Papa has got.
00:03:21 Papa's got a privilege.
00:03:22 What kind of a privilege?
00:03:25 Here, look on it yourself.
00:03:28 Ach, du lieber!
00:03:32 You got citizen papers, huh?
00:03:35 Yes.
00:03:36 Congratulations, Ludwig.
00:03:38 Thank you, thank you.
00:03:40 Ain't that nice, huh?
00:03:43 Yeah, someday soon I'll have one too.
00:03:48 Oh, children, one into the other room, please.
00:03:51 I want to talk with Papa.
00:03:53 Go ahead, children.
00:03:54 And, Lena, bring Uncle Adolf a cup of tea.
00:03:57 All right.
00:03:58 That's nice.
00:04:00 She's just like her mother was.
00:04:06 Isn't she, huh?
00:04:08 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:10 Well, Ludwig.
00:04:11 Yeah?
00:04:13 Maybe I don't see you so soon again.
00:04:16 And maybe I never see you no more.
00:04:21 What's the matter with you?
00:04:23 Maybe I don't see you never no more.
00:04:25 Ain't you going to be Saturday night by the pinnacle game?
00:04:28 No.
00:04:30 Tomorrow I'm leaving.
00:04:32 I'm going to California.
00:04:34 You're going to California.
00:04:36 And why should you go to California?
00:04:38 The United States ain't good enough for you?
00:04:42 Ah, a fine citizen you are, yes?
00:04:46 You don't even know that California is in the United States.
00:04:50 [laughing]
00:04:53 Oh, you people.
00:04:55 [laughing]
00:04:57 Now, now, and what are you laughing about?
00:05:00 I gotta laugh.
00:05:01 Because you are so dumb, you didn't even know that I was making a joke with you.
00:05:06 [laughing]
00:05:09 All joking aside.
00:05:12 Thank you, Lena.
00:05:13 You're welcome.
00:05:14 What is that idea, you going by California, huh?
00:05:18 I'm not joking, Ludwig.
00:05:20 The doctor says I should go to California.
00:05:24 There with the high climate and the sunshine.
00:05:29 For my heart.
00:05:31 Maybe I will get healthier yet.
00:05:33 Oh, what's the matter with you?
00:05:35 You look pretty healthy.
00:05:37 Listen, Adolf.
00:05:38 I don't say the doctors are crazy.
00:05:41 But you know, many a times the sick fellow that give up for dead goes to the doctor's funeral yet.
00:05:48 So?
00:05:49 Don't it happen every day?
00:05:51 Adolf, maybe you need a little money?
00:05:56 Nein, danke, Ludwig.
00:05:59 I don't need money.
00:06:15 With all my love to my little Lena, Louis and his wife, Hans and Hans' wife, I remain as always your true friend, Adolf.
00:06:31 I do wish he wouldn't call Hanneford Hans.
00:06:34 I don't like that name.
00:06:36 It seems that Mr. Kleinhardt and your father are the only ones that call Lee Louis.
00:06:40 Well, at least my name is the same.
00:06:42 I'm still Lena.
00:06:44 That's the name your mama wanted you to have.
00:06:47 You can be Hanneford and you can be Lee, but to me you always will be Hans and Louis.
00:06:55 Pardon me. Mr. Myers is here.
00:07:02 Lena, you go and see him.
00:07:05 Papa will come by and by.
00:07:07 Go on.
00:07:08 Anyhow, he don't want to see me.
00:07:11 Pardon me.
00:07:13 Father, why do you let Lena spend so much time with that fellow Myers?
00:07:17 What's the matter, Louis?
00:07:19 Joseph is a nice boy and he's smart.
00:07:23 And besides, he's a fine chemist.
00:07:26 Joseph is working on a dye now that will revolutionize the whole dye business.
00:07:32 Father, I hope you're not financing his silly experiments.
00:07:35 It's not silly.
00:07:37 When Joseph has perfected his new dye, now your papa is telling you all of us other dye works are kaput.
00:07:46 You're doing all right with the pleasant dyes.
00:07:48 Why experiment?
00:07:50 Ah, children, if we stop experimenting, we stop progress.
00:07:56 And if progress stops, we all stop.
00:07:59 Well, I believe in letting good enough alone.
00:08:02 I won't argue.
00:08:03 You know, your papa never argues.
00:08:06 But you'll see, Joseph has got something good.
00:08:10 Anyhow, I'll go and see him.
00:08:13 And I'll have a talk with him.
00:08:15 If this fellow Myers formula is any good, it looks as though papa is going to marry it into the family.
00:08:26 Damn clever, these Strausses.
00:08:28 Hello, Joseph.
00:08:30 Oh, good evening, Mrs. Strauss.
00:08:32 Maybe I shouldn't interrupt you, huh?
00:08:34 Oh, papa.
00:08:35 Hey, I was young once too.
00:08:38 You are making progress.
00:08:40 Well, I'm trying.
00:08:41 Oh, I see.
00:08:43 But I mean about your formula.
00:08:45 Oh, hey, I brought you over some new samples.
00:08:47 Yeah?
00:08:48 They turned out pretty good, too.
00:08:50 Oh, I see.
00:08:51 Well, I'll have a look.
00:08:53 I brought you over some new samples.
00:08:54 Yeah?
00:08:55 They turned out pretty good, too.
00:08:58 Is that the only reason you came over?
00:09:03 Not bad.
00:09:06 Not good.
00:09:09 But not bad neither.
00:09:11 Anyhow, I'll show them to the boys.
00:09:14 Go on ahead.
00:09:15 Sit down.
00:09:17 Look, boys.
00:09:19 I brought you a couple of samples.
00:09:23 Come on, May.
00:09:24 Looks like the evening's going to be spent in talking about dyes and chemicals.
00:09:28 Dyes and chemicals is a very nice thing to talk about.
00:09:32 They did a lot for us.
00:09:34 They made us rich.
00:09:35 I'm afraid, father, we won't be of much help.
00:09:37 Well, that's right.
00:09:45 Maybe you should go along with them and take them out and have a little fun, you know.
00:09:51 All work and no pressure.
00:09:53 That ain't no good neither.
00:09:54 Oh, they'll entertain themselves all right.
00:09:58 What is the matter with you?
00:10:00 You don't seem to take care of yourself.
00:10:02 Your mind always on something else?
00:10:05 I guess I'll not be much of a success at anything.
00:10:07 Oh, yes, you will.
00:10:09 Say, it would be kind of nice at that, to have somebody look after you.
00:10:13 Joe, are you proposing?
00:10:16 Oh, no, no, I didn't mean to.
00:10:20 But now that I have, I mean it.
00:10:23 I was only fooling.
00:10:25 You haven't anything to worry about.
00:10:27 You have a big home, servants.
00:10:29 And a father-in-law to watch everything I do.
00:10:32 I have to sneak into the bathroom to get a little smoke.
00:10:35 Oh, you and me have an ideal life, an apartment of your own.
00:10:39 And only visit your dear father-in-law whenever you want to.
00:10:45 Lee and I were talking about your father.
00:10:47 You know, dear, I think he's getting too old to work as he does.
00:10:52 You don't know him.
00:10:53 He loves work.
00:10:55 I think it would be wonderful if he turned the business over to you and Lee.
00:10:58 Then he could take things easy.
00:11:00 Father will never give up going to business.
00:11:03 He would if he thought his sons could carry on.
00:11:05 I think you and Lee are capable of handling the business.
00:11:08 Certainly we are.
00:11:09 But we're doing all right as it is.
00:11:10 We're getting a nice salary.
00:11:12 Oh, haven't you any ambition?
00:11:14 Do you want to work for a salary all your life?
00:11:16 You should be thinking of yourself.
00:11:18 What is there to think about?
00:11:20 Eventually the business will be ours.
00:11:22 Very well, dear.
00:11:24 If you're satisfied to go on the way you are, it's all right with me.
00:11:28 Oh, all right.
00:11:29 I'll talk to Hannaford in the morning.
00:11:31 But I don't think it will do any good.
00:11:33 [Silence]
00:11:49 So you think your papa is getting too old.
00:11:55 I know that's not it.
00:11:58 But we feel that you've reached an age where you should take things easy.
00:12:02 You've worked long enough.
00:12:07 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:11 [Silence]
00:12:23 Well, we'll see what Lena says.
00:12:31 So good.
00:12:34 Now, Lena, what do you say?
00:12:38 Should papa retire and become a loafer?
00:12:43 Oh, you want papa to retire, huh?
00:12:52 No.
00:12:54 So it shall be.
00:13:00 Well, Joseph, what do you think?
00:13:03 I'm going to retire and become a gentleman of nothing to do.
00:13:13 Well, I go and get my pipe.
00:13:20 Yeah, yeah.
00:13:25 Well, we're going to play bridge.
00:13:26 Come on, let's go.
00:13:31 Good night, Joe.
00:13:32 Good night, Lee.
00:13:36 Lena, why is your father retiring?
00:13:39 We thought it would be nice if he took it easy for a while.
00:13:41 He's worked so hard all his life, and after all, papa's getting along in years.
00:13:45 Yes, but the boys need him.
00:13:46 They need his advice.
00:13:48 He'll continue to give advice.
00:13:49 The only thing he's giving up is the daily routine.
00:13:52 But that daily routine has kept your father feeling so well.
00:13:56 Don't you know that a man has to keep his mind active?
00:13:58 What is he going to do?
00:14:00 What is he going to think about?
00:14:02 Usually when a man like your father retires, his mind retires with him.
00:14:07 I hope we haven't made a mistake.
00:14:14 Hello.
00:14:17 I can never see.
00:14:20 The fan didn't get a hello.
00:14:21 Hello.
00:14:23 Hans, listen.
00:14:25 It's me, your papa.
00:14:27 I got here a letter from Adolf in California.
00:14:31 He's sick, and he wants Lena to come right away.
00:14:35 So please make reservations for the afternoon train.
00:14:39 Sure she's got to go.
00:14:41 Would I send her otherwise?
00:14:43 Yeah, yeah.
00:14:45 Hurry up.
00:14:46 Quick, please.
00:14:47 Yeah.
00:14:48 Goodbye.
00:14:49 Lena?
00:14:51 Where can she be?
00:14:52 Lena!
00:14:53 Lena!
00:14:54 Lena!
00:14:57 Lena!
00:14:59 Can you see that?
00:15:00 I'm excited, and Lena isn't here.
00:15:03 Karl!
00:15:05 Karl!
00:15:07 Karl!
00:15:08 Karl!
00:15:10 Karl!
00:15:11 Did you call me, sir?
00:15:12 Ach, du heilige Strohsack.
00:15:17 I'm hollering all over the place for you, and then you ask me, did I call you?
00:15:22 What do you suppose I was doing?
00:15:24 Talking to myself?
00:15:26 Where's Lena?
00:15:28 I don't know, sir.
00:15:29 You was right.
00:15:31 There was no use calling you.
00:15:37 That may be someone.
00:15:38 I don't want someone.
00:15:39 I want Lena.
00:15:40 Yes.
00:15:42 Oh, Lena.
00:15:43 Am I glad to see you.
00:15:45 What's the matter, Papa?
00:15:46 Look, Lena.
00:15:47 I got here a letter from your uncle Adolf.
00:15:50 He's sick and all alone.
00:15:52 You got to go to him right away.
00:15:54 But Papa--
00:15:55 Please, don't talk.
00:15:56 He needs you.
00:15:57 He's got nobody but us, and he asked for you.
00:16:01 But aren't you going?
00:16:02 How can I go?
00:16:04 The boy's got to have me here in the business.
00:16:06 But listen, Papa--
00:16:07 No more buts.
00:16:08 Everything is arranged.
00:16:10 Hans has made the reservations for the afternoon train.
00:16:12 So go on.
00:16:13 Well, what about Joseph?
00:16:14 I have arranged that too.
00:16:15 I telephoned Joseph, and he'll meet you by the station.
00:16:18 Now, please, hurry up.
00:16:19 All right, Papa.
00:16:20 Oh, Lena, Lena.
00:16:21 Yes, Papa?
00:16:22 Here's Uncle Adolf's letter.
00:16:23 His address is on it.
00:16:24 All right, now, when I get there--
00:16:26 Please, don't ask any more questions.
00:16:28 Hurry up, quick, will you?
00:16:30 Karl!
00:16:31 Karl!
00:16:33 Karl, I'm calling you!
00:16:35 I'm here, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:37 Oh, excuse me.
00:16:40 So you are here, huh?
00:16:42 But you are never here when you should be.
00:16:44 And when you shouldn't be, then you are.
00:16:46 Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:47 Now, Karl, tell the chauffeur to go right away.
00:16:49 Hurry up and take Miss Lena down to the station.
00:16:52 And-- and-- and Karl!
00:16:54 Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:55 Hurry up, quick!
00:16:56 Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:57 Poor Adolf, all alone.
00:16:59 [chuckles]
00:17:01 Lena, dear, what's the matter?
00:17:05 What's it all about?
00:17:06 What happened to your uncle?
00:17:07 Papa was so excited he didn't stay.
00:17:08 Only that Uncle Adolf was sick and wanted me to come to him.
00:17:11 Have you the ticket?
00:17:12 Yeah.
00:17:13 Gee, your father's certainly going to miss you.
00:17:15 Just my father.
00:17:17 You're not going to stay away long, are you?
00:17:18 I won't stay a minute longer than Uncle Adolf needs me.
00:17:21 Joseph, dear, take good care of Papa.
00:17:24 And don't let him miss me too much.
00:17:26 Don't you miss me too much.
00:17:27 Oh, I won't.
00:17:28 Oh, I mean, I'll see your father every day.
00:17:31 [train whistle]
00:17:32 Goodbye, Lena.
00:17:33 Goodbye, Joe.
00:17:34 Take good care of yourself.
00:17:35 Goodbye.
00:17:36 Listen, don't forget the writing now when you get down.
00:17:38 [train whistle]
00:17:41 I've got to laugh.
00:17:51 Lena's like everybody else.
00:17:53 She's been in California only three weeks,
00:17:56 and look what she writes.
00:17:58 "This is God's country.
00:18:00 Nothing but sunshine and flowers."
00:18:03 About sunshine and flowers she tells me.
00:18:06 But about Adolf, she says nothing.
00:18:08 Perhaps he's all right and has nothing to tell.
00:18:12 Hm.
00:18:13 Maybe I'm a little too anxious.
00:18:16 That's the trouble with old people.
00:18:19 They always think right away of the worst.
00:18:22 [footsteps]
00:18:24 [footsteps]
00:18:27 [footsteps]
00:18:29 [footsteps]
00:18:57 [footsteps]
00:18:59 Here, Father.
00:19:03 Smoke a cigar.
00:19:05 Oh.
00:19:09 Thank you.
00:19:11 Yeah, yeah.
00:19:18 [footsteps]
00:19:20 [door closes]
00:19:39 [door opens]
00:19:40 Hm.
00:19:45 Don't you wish you'd ask him not to smoke that pipe in here?
00:19:48 Carlton.
00:20:02 Yes, Mr. Sproul.
00:20:04 Have a cigar.
00:20:05 Thank you, sir.
00:20:06 Yes.
00:20:07 But I smoke a pipe, sir.
00:20:10 Yeah.
00:20:11 But the smoke from a pipe annoys people.
00:20:14 Yes, sir.
00:20:16 Is that all we get?
00:20:22 Oh, give me another thing.
00:20:24 No, dear. Now run along and play.
00:20:26 I'll be glad when they grow up.
00:20:31 Children are so much trouble when they're small.
00:20:33 Yeah.
00:20:34 And when they grow up, they are bigger troubles.
00:20:37 Yeah.
00:20:39 Sproul.
00:20:40 Hm.
00:20:41 Mr. Sproul.
00:20:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:45 What?
00:20:46 What, what?
00:20:47 Dinner, sir.
00:20:48 Who?
00:20:49 Oh, yeah, yeah. Dinner, dinner.
00:20:51 Oh, yeah.
00:20:52 [footsteps]
00:20:53 [footsteps]
00:20:55 [footsteps]
00:20:56 Where are the children?
00:21:16 Mr. Hannaford phoned.
00:21:18 They were dining out.
00:21:19 Oh.
00:21:21 They couldn't come.
00:21:24 Look, Carl.
00:21:25 You know what we do?
00:21:27 I keep you company, and we eat in the kitchen.
00:21:31 It's too quiet here in this big room.
00:21:34 And besides, if I eat with you, you wouldn't be lonesome, huh?
00:21:39 Thanks, Mr. Sproul.
00:21:41 You know, Carl, with you, it's a pleasure to dine.
00:21:49 It's so comedic.
00:21:52 Yeah.
00:21:53 And then, you don't mind if I dunk, huh?
00:21:56 Dunk?
00:21:57 I like it myself.
00:21:59 Yeah?
00:22:00 Yeah.
00:22:01 Not fair.
00:22:02 I passed the second.
00:22:03 No, no, I like that.
00:22:05 [laughs]
00:22:06 Good, huh?
00:22:09 This is good, yeah.
00:22:10 [speaking German]
00:22:15 We remain sincerely yours.
00:22:18 Well, well, father.
00:22:22 Hello, boys.
00:22:23 Hello, father.
00:22:24 That'll be all, Miss Snyder.
00:22:25 Hello, Miss Snyder.
00:22:26 Good morning, Mr. Sproul.
00:22:27 How's the mama?
00:22:28 Fine, thank you.
00:22:29 That's good, that's good.
00:22:30 And why are we honored with this call?
00:22:32 Oh, boys, I felt lonesome for the smell from the chemical.
00:22:37 [laughs]
00:22:38 But I'm only joking.
00:22:40 I had a telephone call from Mr. Huffner from the Amalgamated Cherubis this morning.
00:22:46 He told me he called you up about this year's donation, and you didn't give it.
00:22:51 So I explained to him, maybe you want to talk to me first about it, huh?
00:22:56 And now that we've talked about it, you send him a check.
00:23:00 Well, father, we've decided to cut down on charity this year.
00:23:05 Cut down on charity?
00:23:07 Oh, no, Louis.
00:23:08 If we cut down on anything, we cut down on things that we can do without.
00:23:14 Charity is for people what they're already doing without.
00:23:18 I know, but if we can't give--
00:23:20 We are not giving.
00:23:22 We don't own anything.
00:23:24 We come in this world with nothing, and we go out the same way.
00:23:28 All we've got here is just loaned to us to use while we are here.
00:23:33 So we in return loan back a little bit here and a little bit there, and in the end, we're all even.
00:23:41 [laughs]
00:23:42 Yes, your philosophy may be all right, father, but we feel that it commensurates with better business management to give less this year than we have in former years.
00:23:53 What difference is this year from other years?
00:23:55 Well, you see, we've curtailed many of the unnecessary charities and have installed a new system.
00:24:01 This thing of making donations without due consideration is a thing of the past.
00:24:05 It belongs with the old-fashioned method.
00:24:06 Old-fashioned method, huh?
00:24:08 Well, old-fashioned method is just the thing that made the Strauss works what they is today.
00:24:14 All right.
00:24:15 If father thinks we should send it, let's do it.
00:24:17 Sure.
00:24:18 Papa thinks so.
00:24:19 Here you are, father.
00:24:29 What is this?
00:24:33 That's an inter-office communication.
00:24:35 Give that to the cashier and he'll give you a check.
00:24:38 Hmm.
00:24:39 Inter-office communications.
00:24:43 New methods.
00:24:45 New methods.
00:24:47 Having a good time, father?
00:24:55 Oh, I'm having a beautiful time.
00:24:59 Good.
00:25:00 Have a cigar.
00:25:04 Thank you.
00:25:05 Thank you.
00:25:19 Have a drink, father.
00:25:20 Oh, yes, do have a drink, Mrs. Strauss.
00:25:22 No, thanks.
00:25:23 I... I... But not tonight.
00:25:25 Well, what a nice place.
00:25:53 Oh, excuse me.
00:25:55 Good evening, Mr. Myers.
00:26:18 Good evening, Karl.
00:26:21 What can I say? I didn't know there was a party going on.
00:26:24 I just came to see Mr. Strauss.
00:26:26 I just saw Mr. Strauss going into the library.
00:26:29 He'd be glad to see you.
00:26:30 He is so lonesome.
00:26:32 Wait.
00:26:36 Hello, children.
00:26:48 Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:26:49 I'm glad to see you.
00:26:51 What's the matter?
00:26:54 You come to the house to do a party and you ain't dressed up?
00:26:57 Oh, I didn't come to the party.
00:26:59 That is, I wasn't invited.
00:27:02 Who's got to invite you to my house?
00:27:04 To my house, you don't have to be invited.
00:27:07 Besides, I wasn't invited neither.
00:27:10 Sit down.
00:27:12 I saw the boys today.
00:27:13 Yeah?
00:27:14 Yeah.
00:27:15 Well, what'd they say?
00:27:16 Well, they didn't seem very much interested.
00:27:18 Well, don't you worry, none.
00:27:21 Everything will come out all right.
00:27:23 I'll speak to them myself.
00:27:26 Did you have a letter from Lena today?
00:27:29 Yeah?
00:27:30 Funny.
00:27:31 I get a letter from her every day,
00:27:34 but only the day I got a postal task
00:27:36 with pictures from California oranges on it,
00:27:39 as if we don't got oranges here.
00:27:42 What'd she say?
00:27:43 Well, she said that she wouldn't be away much longer.
00:27:46 You know, Joseph,
00:27:47 since Lena has left,
00:27:49 I don't feel at home in my own house.
00:27:53 Now, don't you worry.
00:27:54 She'll be back before we know it.
00:27:58 You miss her too, huh?
00:28:00 You bet I do.
00:28:02 You know, Joseph,
00:28:04 when you ask Lena to marry you,
00:28:06 and she says no,
00:28:07 then you ask me, and I'd say yes.
00:28:11 Well, I have to go now, so, so, good night.
00:28:13 Oh, Joseph, what's your hurry?
00:28:15 You just come.
00:28:16 I know, but I have a lot of work to do tonight in the lab.
00:28:19 So?
00:28:20 But, Joseph, don't work so hard,
00:28:22 'cause if you work too hard, you'll have to retire,
00:28:25 then you're gonna be an old man like me.
00:28:27 Don't you worry about that.
00:28:28 I'll never make enough to retire.
00:28:30 Yeah?
00:28:31 Good night, Mrs. Strauss.
00:28:32 Good night, Joseph.
00:28:33 Be careful.
00:28:35 Don't fall in the letter box.
00:28:40 That's a boy, huh?
00:28:42 That's a boy.
00:28:46 Good night.
00:28:49 [sighs]
00:28:55 I'll give you girls a nip what is a nip.
00:28:58 This is where I keep my private stock.
00:29:00 Mm, young society, Nathan, runs her own speakeasy.
00:29:03 But why do a fade-out when you want a little drink?
00:29:06 Oh, you've heard of people suffering from too much mother-in-law.
00:29:09 Well, I'm suffering from too much father-in-law.
00:29:12 Well, why not move?
00:29:14 Me move?
00:29:15 Why should I?
00:29:16 Cut myself off an apartment like May?
00:29:18 Oh, no, not little Myrtle.
00:29:20 If there's any moving to be done, let my dear father-in-law do that.
00:29:23 Well, here's Mud and you are.
00:29:28 Oh.
00:29:32 [door opens]
00:29:45 Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:29:47 Good evening, Mary.
00:29:49 A Mr. and Mrs. Strauss are in the living room.
00:29:51 Oh, thank you.
00:30:00 Oh, hello, Papa.
00:30:02 Good evening, my children.
00:30:07 This is a pleasant surprise.
00:30:11 Anything the matter?
00:30:13 What should be the matter?
00:30:14 If Papa calls on his children, should that be something the matter?
00:30:18 No, no, of course not.
00:30:19 Come on in.
00:30:21 And how are you this evening, my dear?
00:30:23 Fine, how are you?
00:30:25 Oh, fine, thank you.
00:30:26 That's nice, that's nice.
00:30:28 Come here, Father.
00:30:30 Sit over there in the easy chair.
00:30:31 Oh, thank you.
00:30:37 Ah.
00:30:45 Well, Louis, how is everything?
00:30:50 Oh, everything's fine.
00:30:52 I had a wire from Hannaford.
00:30:53 He'll be back Wednesday.
00:30:55 He's trying to close the Keystone deal.
00:30:57 I hope he'll get it.
00:31:11 You know, children, there is a reason that I came over.
00:31:17 I wanted to ask you if maybe you are too lonesome here,
00:31:22 and I would come and live with you.
00:31:27 Is there anything wrong?
00:31:28 No, no.
00:31:31 Only you know the old house is so big.
00:31:36 I get a little lonesome.
00:31:39 And it ain't the same like it used to be.
00:31:43 Hans and Wendell, they give parties,
00:31:47 and Papa is too old for parties.
00:31:51 So I thought maybe if you don't mind,
00:31:58 I come over and stay with you.
00:32:01 Why, of course, Father.
00:32:03 We'd be glad to have you.
00:32:05 Won't we, May?
00:32:07 Why, why, yes, of course.
00:32:18 My children.
00:32:23 Thank you.
00:32:29 I tell you, he wanted to go.
00:32:30 I didn't say a word to him.
00:32:32 As a matter of fact, I didn't know he had gone
00:32:34 till May called me up a few days after he left.
00:32:36 Hello, Hannaford.
00:32:37 Hi, Mark.
00:32:38 Hello, Lee.
00:32:39 When did you get back?
00:32:40 I just got your call.
00:32:41 I want to talk to you, Lee.
00:32:44 I just got back this afternoon.
00:32:59 What's it all about, Lee?
00:33:00 What's happened to Father?
00:33:03 Well, Hans, I'll tell you.
00:33:08 Papa and Myrtle don't seem to hit it off so well.
00:33:13 I don't know what's the matter with him.
00:33:17 Of late, he's been acting kind of strange.
00:33:22 Everything that Myrtle and May do seems to get on his nerves.
00:33:32 You know, Hans, the girls have got a good idea.
00:33:35 Over on Madison Avenue, there's a home,
00:33:37 well, I mean it's a kind of a hotel where old men live
00:33:41 who've retired.
00:33:43 The guests there are men of Father's age.
00:33:46 Now, there he can have his pinnacle games
00:33:49 and talk to the old fellows and--
00:33:52 Now, don't misunderstand, Hans.
00:33:54 It's not charity.
00:33:55 The girls have looked into it thoroughly.
00:33:58 You pay them a lump sum, a kind of a donation.
00:34:01 And afterward, you give them so much a week.
00:34:10 I think it would be great for him.
00:34:30 Wake up.
00:34:31 You're sleeping at the top of your voice.
00:34:38 It says here that Wall Street traded in over 5 million shares
00:34:42 yesterday.
00:34:43 What?
00:34:44 Wall Street traded in over 5 million shares yesterday.
00:34:49 Oh, what did the Giants do?
00:34:56 I'll call you.
00:34:58 What's a match?
00:34:59 Kruger made millions on him.
00:35:01 Yeah, but look where he is now.
00:35:03 [LAUGHTER]
00:35:07 I remember when you came here two weeks ago.
00:35:10 I knew you right away.
00:35:13 And was I surprised.
00:35:15 Why should you be surprised?
00:35:18 My children wanted I should go to Europe.
00:35:21 Here, it's quiet and peaceful.
00:35:24 And for the few years that I got, I like it quiet.
00:35:28 So I told my children I'd like to come here.
00:35:32 And did I have to argue with them?
00:35:35 Yeah.
00:35:37 Thank you.
00:35:38 Oh, yes, thank you.
00:35:40 By them coming, you can always tell it's Saturday.
00:35:43 Here they come, my two sons, always on time.
00:35:49 They should be late yet.
00:35:53 That's the Strauss boy.
00:35:55 Maybe when they get old, their children will come here to see
00:35:58 them too, I hope.
00:36:00 Yes, Father?
00:36:01 Hello, Louis.
00:36:02 Hello, Father.
00:36:03 Hello, Hans.
00:36:04 Sit down.
00:36:05 No, no, sit still.
00:36:06 I can get another chair.
00:36:07 Oh, what?
00:36:08 I have to get my medicine.
00:36:12 Well, how are you, Father?
00:36:14 Oh, I'm fine, fine.
00:36:17 And I'm having a good time here too.
00:36:20 I knew you'd like it.
00:36:22 Did you hear something from Lena?
00:36:24 Yes.
00:36:25 She says she'll be home most any time now.
00:36:28 Did she say how Otto is?
00:36:30 No, she didn't.
00:36:32 No, she don't tell me neither.
00:36:40 By the way, boys, you know, Joseph, he comes here every day
00:36:44 to see me.
00:36:45 And what do you think?
00:36:47 He has perfected his formula.
00:36:49 And it's something fine.
00:36:51 You know, I think it would be a good idea to take him into
00:36:55 the business.
00:36:56 He's got something good.
00:36:58 And it should make a lot of money.
00:37:01 No, we're not interested, Father.
00:37:03 We'll stick to our present dyes and not experiment.
00:37:06 But it isn't an experiment.
00:37:08 Joseph has perfected it.
00:37:10 And it isn't like Joseph would be a stranger.
00:37:13 You know, someday I hope that he and Lena--
00:37:17 Well, Father, we'll have to be running along now.
00:37:20 Oh, so soon?
00:37:21 Yes, Myrtle's giving a dinner tonight.
00:37:23 Oh, that's nice.
00:37:24 I hope you'll have a good time.
00:37:26 Thank you.
00:37:27 Well, goodbye.
00:37:28 Goodbye.
00:37:29 Goodbye, Father.
00:37:30 Goodbye, Louie.
00:37:31 They go so soon.
00:37:58 Oh, yes.
00:37:59 You see, they are so busy.
00:38:01 And besides, I don't like them to stay too long.
00:38:04 Of course, all they talk about is that I should leave here
00:38:08 and come and live with them.
00:38:11 Yeah?
00:38:12 Yeah?
00:38:13 Yeah?
00:38:14 Look.
00:38:37 Here comes my friend Joseph.
00:38:40 He's a fine boy.
00:38:43 You're telling me?
00:38:46 Hi, Mr. Jones.
00:38:47 Very well, thank you.
00:38:49 How are you, young fellow?
00:38:50 How do?
00:38:51 How are you?
00:38:52 How are you, Mr. Strauss?
00:38:54 Hello, Chosen.
00:38:55 I'm fine, fine.
00:38:57 And it's like sunshine to see you.
00:39:00 How are you feeling, Mr. Johnson?
00:39:02 Oh, I'd be feeling fine if it wasn't for this old fellow
00:39:06 always trying to make me believe things that ain't.
00:39:09 Honest, Joseph.
00:39:10 He doubts every word I tell him now.
00:39:13 He's the biggest doubter in the whole world.
00:39:15 Oh, Gabe.
00:39:16 Oh, don't be leaving.
00:39:17 Oh, I must.
00:39:18 I have to get my medicine.
00:39:20 He's a big faker.
00:39:25 He don't have to get medicine.
00:39:26 No?
00:39:27 He just says that so we can be alone.
00:39:29 Sit down.
00:39:31 I just saw the boys leaving.
00:39:33 Yeah.
00:39:34 Did you say anything to them about the formula?
00:39:37 They-- they are too busy.
00:39:40 Always too busy.
00:39:42 Yeah, Joseph.
00:39:50 They used to listen to me.
00:39:53 Ask my advice about everything.
00:39:57 We were close together.
00:39:59 But they have changed.
00:40:05 They are different.
00:40:08 Well, perhaps they are busy.
00:40:12 No, Joseph.
00:40:15 I have lost my sons.
00:40:18 Well, Miss Lena.
00:40:26 Hello, Carl.
00:40:27 It's good to see you.
00:40:28 Thanks, Benny.
00:40:29 Good to be home.
00:40:31 It's Lena.
00:40:33 Mm-hmm.
00:40:35 And we're going to have some fireworks with our breakfast.
00:40:38 Mr. and Mrs. Strauss are having breakfast.
00:40:40 Oh, Carl, will you pay the taxi?
00:40:42 Yes, Miss Lena.
00:40:44 How are you, you old dumpling?
00:40:46 Fine.
00:40:47 And you never look better yourself.
00:40:49 Hi, Myrtle.
00:40:50 Hello, Lena.
00:40:51 It's good to have you back home.
00:40:52 Thanks.
00:40:53 I see you fell off your diet.
00:40:54 Mm-hmm.
00:40:55 Eating is my strongest weakness, you know.
00:40:57 Well, Papa certainly must be the retired gentleman.
00:40:59 Doesn't he get up for breakfast?
00:41:01 He'll go up and wake him.
00:41:02 Oh, Lena.
00:41:03 Why did you let us know you were coming?
00:41:05 I wanted to surprise you.
00:41:06 I love surprises.
00:41:07 And won't she be surprised?
00:41:12 What can we tell her?
00:41:21 You'll have to figure that out too early in the morning for me to do any thinking.
00:41:25 Mm-hmm.
00:41:26 Where's Papa?
00:41:49 Why, uh...
00:41:51 Papa isn't home.
00:41:52 Isn't home?
00:41:54 Oh, you see, Lena, Papa moved.
00:41:58 Moved?
00:41:59 Yes.
00:42:01 He wanted to live alone, so he moved to a hotel.
00:42:04 Papa living alone in a hotel?
00:42:07 Where?
00:42:08 The Franklin on Madison Avenue.
00:42:10 But what happened?
00:42:11 Why?
00:42:12 Why, nothing happened.
00:42:13 He just wanted to live alone.
00:42:16 Papa living alone in a hotel.
00:42:19 [footsteps]
00:42:21 3.80.
00:42:40 Honest, miss, I didn't take it for a joyride.
00:42:42 I didn't know how to find it.
00:42:44 Keep the change.
00:42:46 Five bucks.
00:42:48 Is Mr. Strauss in?
00:42:57 Mr. Ludwig Strauss.
00:42:59 Yes.
00:43:00 I believe you'll find him sitting right over there.
00:43:03 Thank you.
00:43:04 [indistinct chatter]
00:43:06 Papa.
00:43:28 [whimpering]
00:43:30 Oh.
00:43:31 Oh.
00:43:32 Oh.
00:43:34 My little Lena.
00:43:35 My baby.
00:43:38 My little baby.
00:43:39 [kissing]
00:43:41 [giggling]
00:43:43 That's-- that's my little Lena.
00:43:49 My daughter.
00:43:51 Yeah.
00:43:53 I-- I'm so happy to meet you, I'm sure.
00:43:57 Thank you.
00:43:59 Excuse me.
00:44:00 I have to get my medicine.
00:44:02 Excuse me.
00:44:05 Sit down, darling.
00:44:07 [giggling]
00:44:09 It's good to have you back.
00:44:15 And I need you.
00:44:17 I'll never leave you again, dear?
00:44:19 Never?
00:44:20 No.
00:44:22 Why are you here?
00:44:25 What a foolish question you're asking.
00:44:29 Why am I here?
00:44:31 You know your papa is getting old,
00:44:34 and old people are funny.
00:44:37 They like it quiet, and want to be alone.
00:44:41 And they get on the young people's nerves.
00:44:47 You see, all these other fellows, they're just like me.
00:44:54 They like it quiet, and they want to be alone.
00:45:00 Well, you're not alone.
00:45:02 Why, I'll never leave you for a minute.
00:45:04 No.
00:45:05 By tomorrow, we'll be in our own little place.
00:45:08 Just you and I.
00:45:09 I'll keep house for you, and it'll be nice and quiet,
00:45:13 and you can do just what you want to.
00:45:16 Say, and I still know how to cook.
00:45:18 For your first meal, I'll make you
00:45:21 some of that nice sour broth.
00:45:23 Oh, sour broth.
00:45:26 With tomfood.
00:45:29 I made it for Uncle Adam.
00:45:31 He just loves it.
00:45:34 Oh, I forgot.
00:45:37 Uncle Adam.
00:45:40 He's better?
00:45:44 He's gone.
00:45:49 Adam, gone.
00:45:55 Well, maybe it's better to be dead than suffer.
00:46:07 You were with him till the end?
00:46:09 Yes, Father.
00:46:12 And now, you'll stay with me till the end?
00:46:18 Yes.
00:46:20 Don't you talk like that.
00:46:22 [sobbing]
00:46:45 Hello, Lena.
00:46:51 Did you see Father?
00:46:52 Of course I saw Father.
00:46:54 And I'd like to know the reason for it.
00:46:56 Reason for what?
00:46:57 The reason why he isn't here.
00:46:59 Well, didn't Father tell you?
00:47:01 Yes, he told me.
00:47:02 He told me that he wanted to be where it was quiet,
00:47:05 that he made young people nervous,
00:47:07 and that he didn't want to be in the way.
00:47:08 Well, I hope he doesn't blame me.
00:47:10 I didn't have anything to do with it.
00:47:12 He didn't blame anyone.
00:47:13 On the contrary, he said he was happy there
00:47:16 among old men like himself.
00:47:18 Don't you see, Lena?
00:47:19 It's what he wants.
00:47:20 He told you so himself.
00:47:23 You're right, Hans.
00:47:25 That's what he told me with his lips.
00:47:27 But his heart told me that he's a broken, disappointed,
00:47:30 disillusioned old man.
00:47:32 Oh, you're exaggerating things.
00:47:33 Well, he and I see him every Saturday.
00:47:35 He's never complained to us.
00:47:36 Of course he hasn't.
00:47:37 He isn't the kind to complain.
00:47:39 He wouldn't tell you what you really did.
00:47:41 But I will.
00:47:43 First, you convinced him he ought to retire.
00:47:45 We're no more responsible for that than you are.
00:47:47 Father left it up to you.
00:47:48 I know.
00:47:49 I must have been blind not to see through your schemes.
00:47:51 First, you got him out of business.
00:47:52 And as soon as I left, you got him out of his home.
00:47:54 And now out of your life.
00:47:56 Everything he had, he gave you willingly.
00:47:58 His money, his home, his business, all of it.
00:48:02 But you robbed him of the one thing in life he cherished.
00:48:06 His face.
00:48:09 Look at me.
00:48:10 I didn't have anything to do with sending him to the poor house.
00:48:13 Oh.
00:48:15 So you know it isn't a hotel.
00:48:17 Now, see here, Lena.
00:48:18 I've listened to you before.
00:48:19 Now you listen to me.
00:48:20 You can call it a hotel if you want to, but that doesn't change it.
00:48:23 It's a poor house, an institution where he must go to bed and get up at the ring of a bell.
00:48:27 Where he must eat what they place before him.
00:48:28 Where he must follow rules and rules and rules.
00:48:31 Where he's humiliated in a cold, heartless prison.
00:48:34 And his son sent him there.
00:48:36 His son.
00:48:38 My brothers.
00:48:40 Oh, I'm ashamed of you.
00:48:41 All of you.
00:48:42 You're not my brothers.
00:48:44 You're a lot of cold, selfish, heartless swine.
00:48:59 Well, that's not going to affect my appetite.
00:49:02 Come on.
00:49:03 Let's have dinner.
00:49:10 Now don't be an old wash woman and talk so much.
00:49:13 I'll see you Saturday.
00:49:15 When the other fellas ask you where I am, you tell them I'm out.
00:49:19 Lie to them.
00:49:20 You know how.
00:49:21 Yeah, yeah.
00:49:23 You teach me.
00:49:24 Go away, you old faker.
00:49:26 Come on, Dad.
00:49:27 Goodbye.
00:49:28 Goodbye.
00:49:29 Goodbye.
00:49:30 Oh, are you leaving us?
00:49:32 Oh, no.
00:49:33 I'm just taking a walk with my children.
00:49:36 I see.
00:49:37 Oh, wait, wait.
00:49:38 I forgot.
00:49:43 So you're really going to leave us, Mr. Strauss?
00:49:45 Yeah.
00:49:46 Well, I'm very sorry to see you go.
00:49:47 Well, you know that.
00:49:48 You know what I mean.
00:49:49 Oh, sure I know.
00:49:51 Say, you've got a nice place here.
00:49:53 Now, you know all the arrangements.
00:49:55 You don't tell anybody that I leave here.
00:49:58 And I come back every Saturday.
00:50:00 You know, that's the day when my boys come to see me.
00:50:03 And oh, yeah, the checks that my boys send to pay for me, you keep.
00:50:07 Maybe some poor fellow wants to come in whose children can't afford to pay for him.
00:50:12 So you use those checks.
00:50:14 Well, goodbye.
00:50:16 Goodbye, Mr. Strauss.
00:50:17 I'll see you Saturday.
00:50:18 Until Saturday.
00:50:19 Saturday, yeah.
00:50:22 Come on, Dad.
00:50:23 We'll get a taxi cab.
00:50:24 Oh, no.
00:50:25 Taxi cabs cost money.
00:50:27 We're celebrating today.
00:50:28 What?
00:50:29 You didn't get married without telling Papa.
00:50:32 Come on, quit your kidding.
00:50:34 Goodbye.
00:50:35 Goodbye.
00:50:36 I'll be back this afternoon.
00:50:37 Goodbye.
00:50:38 Goodbye.
00:50:39 Goodbye.
00:50:41 Oh, this is a beautiful place.
00:50:46 And there's one thing more we want to show you.
00:50:48 I saw it.
00:50:49 It's the prettiest bedroom I ever saw.
00:50:52 No, no.
00:50:53 Something else.
00:50:54 Something more beside?
00:50:55 Mm-hmm.
00:50:56 And all for you.
00:50:57 Yeah?
00:50:58 Sure.
00:50:59 Come on.
00:51:00 Oh.
00:51:04 There you are.
00:51:06 Oh.
00:51:07 What kind of room is this?
00:51:09 This is your office.
00:51:11 What would I do with an office?
00:51:13 Giving me an office is like giving a dead dog a bone.
00:51:18 What good is an office without a business?
00:51:20 I am a retired loafer.
00:51:22 You're not retired anymore.
00:51:23 You're getting back into the harness.
00:51:25 Dina, what are you talking about?
00:51:28 Show us what she means.
00:51:29 Just this, Mr. Strauss.
00:51:31 My formula is registered, and we're going to die business.
00:51:34 Come on now.
00:51:35 Sit down.
00:51:36 You're the head of the new company.
00:51:37 Yeah.
00:51:40 All right.
00:51:42 I am the head of the new company.
00:51:45 But will you please tell me what the head of the new company is going to do for money?
00:51:49 Oh, don't you worry about that.
00:51:51 We have a silent partner with plenty of money.
00:51:54 What?
00:51:55 We got a partner with money that don't say nothing?
00:52:00 Who could be such a fool?
00:52:02 Lina.
00:52:04 Lina, you got money?
00:52:09 Where you get it?
00:52:11 Uncle Adolf left it to me.
00:52:17 Adolf left it to you.
00:52:24 That's more than your papa did.
00:52:29 No, Lina.
00:52:31 I don't take that money.
00:52:35 That's yours.
00:52:36 But listen, papa.
00:52:37 No, now don't listen.
00:52:39 And you can't give me your money, neither.
00:52:42 But I'm not giving it to you.
00:52:43 I'm loaning it to you.
00:52:44 And I expect a big interest.
00:52:46 In fact, we've decided that you get 50% of the business for your knowledge.
00:52:50 Joseph gets 25 for the formula, and I get 25% for my money.
00:52:55 Isn't that fair?
00:52:56 Yeah.
00:52:58 That's fair.
00:53:00 But I don't take it.
00:53:02 Let Joseph go into business.
00:53:04 I don't know anything about business, but you do.
00:53:08 My knowledge is old-fashioned.
00:53:10 Nowadays, they do business modern, with in-the-office accommodations.
00:53:16 No, Joseph.
00:53:18 I'm too old for business.
00:53:20 You're not old.
00:53:21 Yes, I am.
00:53:22 Oh, well, of course, if you want to make yourself old, nothing will do it any quicker than being idle.
00:53:25 I tell you, Mr. Strauss, what you need is business.
00:53:28 Something to occupy your mind.
00:53:29 An office, a desk.
00:53:31 Show the people in the business world that you're not through.
00:53:34 Who says that I'm through?
00:53:36 Hans and Louis?
00:53:37 Well, I sure am.
00:53:39 You're right, Joseph.
00:53:40 That's what I need.
00:53:41 Business.
00:53:42 All right.
00:53:43 Start right now.
00:53:47 Now, the first thing we do, we've got to give the company a name.
00:53:52 Joseph, are you an American citizen?
00:53:54 Oh, yes, I was born here.
00:53:55 Good.
00:53:56 We call it the American Die Works.
00:53:58 Hey, that's a good idea.
00:53:59 Well.
00:54:00 Now, listen, children.
00:54:01 Don't let anybody know that Papa Strauss is back in business.
00:54:05 This is my office, and here I am the head.
00:54:08 You'll have an office downtown, and you'll be the head.
00:54:12 So we've got a head at both ends.
00:54:14 Now, Nina, you're the silent partner, so don't say nothing.
00:54:20 Papa will do the talking.
00:54:22 Joseph, the first people you go and see is the Rivers Company.
00:54:27 He's a hard name to get to, but you get to him.
00:54:31 Then there's the Keystone, the Metropolitan, the Fast Silk Incorporated,
00:54:40 the United Imports, Doomstatham.
00:54:44 I'll finish them.
00:54:45 Yes, sir.
00:54:46 The last two months, the American Die Works have taken six of our best accounts.
00:54:51 Here.
00:54:52 Take a look at their circular letter.
00:54:56 Why use foreign-made dyes?
00:54:58 Keep the wheels of our own industries turning.
00:55:00 Keep our own working people working on home products.
00:55:03 If that isn't waving the flag, I don't know what is.
00:55:06 Well, it may be waving the flag, but it's getting results.
00:55:09 Seems to me it might not be a bad plan for us to try and merge with those flag-wavers.
00:55:14 Merge with them?
00:55:15 I thought of that long ago.
00:55:16 For weeks, I've been trying to find out who's behind this firm.
00:55:19 I talked to Myers, and you remember Joe.
00:55:21 He's their chemist. They're using his formula.
00:55:23 Yes, I remember him.
00:55:24 He wanted us to take it.
00:55:26 All the poor sap would tell me that some old fellow was behind the firm
00:55:29 whose aim was to keep the home fires burning.
00:55:48 Cancellation from the Brewer's Company.
00:55:51 Last week, it was the Metropolitan.
00:55:53 This week, it's the Brewer's.
00:55:55 With the elimination of the processing that is necessary with other dyes,
00:56:07 our prices become correspondingly lower.
00:56:14 In the middle comes the bell.
00:56:16 I'll only be a minute.
00:56:28 Hello, Joe.
00:56:29 Hello, Darlene.
00:56:32 How about in the office?
00:56:33 Yeah. I've got some good news for him.
00:56:35 So early in the morning?
00:56:36 Sure. Heavy business, too.
00:56:38 Good.
00:56:39 Well, how's the head of the American Dye Works today?
00:56:41 Oh, I'm fine.
00:56:44 Look at your pants. They're shrunk.
00:56:47 Oh, they're golf pants.
00:56:49 Say, I closed that Brevards deal today.
00:56:51 You did?
00:56:52 Yes, sir.
00:56:53 That's fine.
00:56:54 But tell me, how did you get near enough to that Brevards?
00:56:58 He's such an independent.
00:57:00 Why, Brevards and I play golf together every Saturday.
00:57:02 And old boy, he hates to lose.
00:57:04 So today, I'll let him beat me.
00:57:06 Good gracious.
00:57:08 New methods.
00:57:10 Saturday.
00:57:12 There he is.
00:57:13 What?
00:57:14 I can't find it.
00:57:15 What?
00:57:16 There he is.
00:57:17 What?
00:57:18 My hat.
00:57:19 Oh, your hat.
00:57:20 Where did you put it?
00:57:21 I've got to have my hat.
00:57:22 Oh, your hat.
00:57:23 There he is.
00:57:24 Did anybody see my hat?
00:57:26 Well, where did you put it?
00:57:27 Would I ask you if I would know?
00:57:29 There's my hat.
00:57:32 I've got to find that hat, or I can't go.
00:57:34 Papa, what is the matter?
00:57:35 Now, why are you so excited?
00:57:36 Why am I so excited?
00:57:38 I just now remember today is Saturday.
00:57:41 And Saturday is the day when the head of the Strauss Divorce pays a visit to one of the
00:57:47 heads of the American Divorce.
00:57:49 Joseph, you've got to find my hat.
00:57:50 Here's your hat.
00:57:52 You know, you had it hidden in your pocket, sir.
00:57:55 Well, I've got to run.
00:57:56 Goodbye.
00:57:57 So long.
00:57:58 Goodbye.
00:58:00 Well, Hans, how's business?
00:58:22 Not so good.
00:58:23 We just lost the bribe business.
00:58:26 Oh, that's too bad.
00:58:28 Maybe you want I should go and see him?
00:58:33 Maybe I could get his business back for you.
00:58:37 No, I'm afraid you couldn't do anything with old Breva.
00:58:41 It don't cost nothing to try.
00:58:43 No.
00:58:44 No, it would be useless.
00:58:46 Well, Father, we must be leaving.
00:58:48 Oh, of course.
00:58:50 Oh, when you see Lena, ask her to call us, will you?
00:58:53 We never see or hear from her anymore.
00:58:56 Sure, sure.
00:58:57 I will tell her the next time I see her.
00:59:00 Goodbye, Father.
00:59:01 Goodbye, Louis.
00:59:02 See you Saturday.
00:59:03 Goodbye.
00:59:04 So long.
00:59:05 Now, be careful.
00:59:07 Keep well.
00:59:08 Well, I suppose we won't be seeing you again until Saturday.
00:59:24 No, not until Saturday.
00:59:25 And will I have a good argument ready for you?
00:59:28 Yeah, yeah.
00:59:30 Yeah, yeah.
00:59:31 How are we going to meet it?
00:59:41 It's got me.
00:59:43 I've tried every one I could think of.
00:59:45 How about Lehman of the Merchant's Trust?
00:59:52 That old shylock?
00:59:55 I'll try him.
01:00:00 Can't you do that for us, Mr. Lehman?
01:00:08 Sorry, Mr. Strauss, but your statement doesn't warrant it.
01:00:12 Our bank would be very, very glad of your business, Mr. Strauss.
01:00:19 But we can't start off by making a loan of that size.
01:00:24 Well, why come to me?
01:00:32 I haven't spoken to your father for years.
01:00:35 He's very much in need, and he thought you would do it.
01:00:39 So, your father, the proud dude, the Strauss, sends you to me for a loan.
01:00:46 I told him years ago he'd have to come to me.
01:00:50 But it's only for six months.
01:00:53 You, the Strauss, had to come to me at last.
01:00:59 All right.
01:01:01 You tell your father to come to my office tomorrow morning and apologize to me.
01:01:06 And I'll arrange for the loan.
01:01:09 But you've got to figure some way out of this.
01:01:15 Now, my dear fellow, I'm only your lawyer.
01:01:18 I can't do the impossible.
01:01:21 There's already a mortgage on your house.
01:01:24 The only thing I can suggest is that you talk to your sister.
01:01:29 She's inherited some money.
01:01:31 I don't know how much, but you might ask her.
01:01:34 I couldn't do that.
01:01:36 Why did you stay out all night?
01:01:44 I'm sorry, dear, but I couldn't help it.
01:01:46 How'd you make out? Did you get it?
01:01:48 No. I tried every one I could think of, but it was useless.
01:01:53 We're liquidly through.
01:01:56 What on earth are you talking about?
01:01:58 Just this. In 48 hours, the Strauss Dye Company will be thrown into bankruptcy.
01:02:04 - Bankruptcy? - Yes.
01:02:07 We've made a mess of the whole affair.
01:02:10 You mean we've lost everything?
01:02:13 Everything.
01:02:15 Joseph, tell me. Where did you hear it?
01:02:23 Maybe it isn't so. Maybe it's only a rumor.
01:02:27 I heard it at the bank today. They're calling a creditors' meeting tomorrow.
01:02:31 - Quick, Joseph, open the door. - Never mind. I'll go myself.
01:02:41 - Hello, Mr. Strauss. - Come in, Mr. Butler.
01:02:43 I've been waiting for you. Have a sit down.
01:02:46 Thanks. Well, it's good to see you in harness again.
01:02:50 This should be a happy day for you.
01:02:52 You've accomplished what you set out to do.
01:02:54 I understand the Strauss Dye Company is going into bankruptcy.
01:02:57 No, my dear friend. That isn't what I want to accomplish, and it mustn't happen.
01:03:02 That's why I sent for you.
01:03:04 You are my lawyer, and I want you to offer a proposition...
01:03:08 to the members of the Strauss Dye Works to merge with the American Dye Works.
01:03:13 Merge? The Strauss Dye Company is worthless.
01:03:17 It hasn't any assets.
01:03:19 No, that's where you're wrong, my friend.
01:03:22 They have two very valuable assets.
01:03:26 My sons.
01:03:28 Mr. Butler, it's very hard for a father to lose his sons.
01:03:33 And I've been a long way to regain them.
01:03:37 You remember what a good book says about a prodigal son?
01:03:41 He demanded his inheritance.
01:03:44 His father gave him all.
01:03:47 And after he squandered it and was in need...
01:03:51 his father went out to meet him.
01:03:55 My boys might have been unwise.
01:04:00 Maybe a little unkind.
01:04:03 But after all, they are my sons.
01:04:07 Very well.
01:04:09 Come in, children.
01:04:13 Now, your proposition is...
01:04:22 Well, here is the condition that I want.
01:04:29 "Hanniford and Lee Strauss are to be active members of the combined firms...
01:04:34 "to be known hereafter as the American Dye Works...
01:04:37 "at a salary of $10,000 each per annum...
01:04:41 "and 10% jointly of the net profits...
01:04:44 "to be paid in preferred stocks of the American Dye Works."
01:04:49 If this is satisfactory to the counselor...
01:04:52 my clients have already signed the agreement.
01:04:55 I think you boys are very fortunate.
01:04:58 Have a cigar, Father.
01:05:17 Oh, no, thanks. I'll go and get my pipe.
01:05:20 Oh, I'll get it for you. I've got it all fixed.
01:05:23 I'm sorry.
01:05:25 Myrtle wants to talk to you, Father.
01:05:28 She wants to tell you she's sorry.
01:05:30 What has she got to be sorry about?
01:05:33 Now is the time that we're all glad in this family.
01:05:37 No more sorry business.
01:05:40 Here you are, Father. Fixed just as you like it.
01:05:47 Tied on the bottom and loose on top.
01:05:50 Now, ain't that nice?
01:05:53 Hmm, am I getting swell?
01:05:56 Mrs. Stout, it is ready.
01:06:02 Yeah?
01:06:04 Children, you will have to excuse me.
01:06:17 Your father said if I asked you to marry me, you'd...
01:06:20 You said no.
01:06:22 Ask him. Say yes.
01:06:25 Don't ask Papa. Ask me.
01:06:28 Hmm. How?
01:06:35 You're improving.
01:06:37 You're going two times deep to my one-time shallow.
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