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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 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'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.
00:02:31 Just as 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 [laughs]
00:02:45 Who's that, huh?
00:02:47 Come in.
00:02:49 Hello.
00:02:53 Hello, Uncle Adolf.
00:02:54 Hello, children.
00:02:55 Hello.
00:02:56 Hello, Mr. Kleinert.
00:02:58 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 Yeah.
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, huh?
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 Ain'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 pinata 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?
00:04:39 The United States ain't good enough for you?
00:04:42 Ah, a fine citizen you are, yes?
00:04:47 You don't even know that California is in the United States.
00:04:50 [laughing]
00:04:53 Oh, good people.
00:04:55 [laughing]
00:04:58 Now, now, and what are you laughing about?
00:05:01 I got a laugh because you are so dumb,
00:05:04 you didn't even know that I was making a joke with you.
00:05:07 [laughing]
00:05:10 All joking aside.
00:05:13 Thank you, Lina.
00:05:14 You're welcome.
00:05:15 What is that idea, you going by California, huh?
00:05:19 I'm not joking, Ludwig.
00:05:21 The doctor says I should go to California,
00:05:26 the dry climate and the sunshine for my heart.
00:05:32 Maybe I will get healthier yet.
00:05:34 What's the matter with you?
00:05:36 You look pretty healthy.
00:05:38 Listen, Adolf, I don't say the doctors are crazy,
00:05:43 but you know, many a times the sick fellow
00:05:46 that give up for debt goes to the doctor's funeral yet.
00:05:50 So?
00:05:51 Don't it happen every day?
00:05:53 Adolf, maybe you need a little money.
00:05:58 Nein, danke, Ludwig.
00:06:00 I don't need money.
00:06:02 With all my love to my little Lina,
00:06:22 Louis and his wife, Hans and Hans' wife,
00:06:27 I remain as always your true friend, Adolf.
00:06:32 I do wish he wouldn't call Hannaford Hans.
00:06:35 I don't like that name.
00:06:37 It seems that Mr. Kleinhardt and your father
00:06:39 are the only ones that call Lee Louis.
00:06:41 Well, at least my name is the same.
00:06:43 I'm still Lina.
00:06:44 That's the name your mama wanted you to have.
00:06:48 You can be Hannaford and you can be Lee,
00:06:51 but to me you always will be Hans and Louis.
00:06:54 Pardon me, Mr. Myers is here.
00:07:02 Lina, 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.
00:07:18 Father, why do you let Lina spend so much time
00:07:21 with that fellow Myers?
00:07:22 What's the matter, Louis?
00:07:24 Joseph is a nice boy and he's smart.
00:07:28 And besides, he's a fine chemist.
00:07:32 Joseph is working on a dye now
00:07:35 that will revolutionize the whole dye business.
00:07:37 Father, I hope you're not financing
00:07:39 your silly experiments.
00:07:40 It's not silly.
00:07:42 When Joseph has perfected his new dye,
00:07:45 now your papa's telling you
00:07:48 all of us other dye works are kaput.
00:07:52 You're doing all right with the pleasant dyes.
00:07:54 Why experiment?
00:07:56 Ah, children, if we stop experimenting,
00:08:00 we stop progress.
00:08:02 And if progress stops, we all stop.
00:08:05 Well, I believe in letting good enough alone.
00:08:08 I won't argue.
00:08:09 You know, your papa never argues.
00:08:12 You'll see.
00:08:13 Joseph has got something good.
00:08:16 Anyhow, I'll go and see him.
00:08:19 And I'll have a talk with him.
00:08:21 If this fellow Myers' formula is any good,
00:08:30 it looks as though papa's going to marry it into the family.
00:08:33 Damn clever, these Strausses.
00:08:35 Hello, Joseph.
00:08:37 Oh, good evening, Mrs. Strauss.
00:08:38 Excuse me.
00:08:39 Maybe I shouldn't interrupt you, huh?
00:08:41 Oh, papa.
00:08:42 Say, I was young once, too.
00:08:45 You are making progress.
00:08:47 Well, I'm trying.
00:08:48 Oh, I see.
00:08:50 But I mean about your formula.
00:08:52 Oh.
00:08:53 Say, 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?
00:09:01 Mm-hmm.
00:09:03 Not bad.
00:09:04 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 Here's a couple of samples.
00:09:20 Come on, May.
00:09:24 Looks like the evening's going to be spent in talking about dyes and chemicals.
00:09:28 Well, 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.
00:09:39 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.
00:09:57 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?
00:10:04 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.
00:10:17 I didn't mean to.
00:10:19 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 Lee have an ideal life, an apartment of your own.
00:10:39 And only visit your dear father-in-law whenever you want to.
00:10:43 Lee and I were talking about your father.
00:10:48 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'd be wonderful if he turned the business over to you and Lee.
00:10:58 Then he could take things easy.
00:11:00 A father will never give up going to business.
00:11:03 He would if he thought his sons could carry on.
00:11:06 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 ambitions?
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. I'll talk to Hannaford in the morning.
00:11:31 But I don't think it'll do any good.
00:11:33 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.
00:12:04 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:23 Well, we'll see what Lena says.
00:12:27 So good.
00:12:32 Now, Lena, what do you say?
00:12:37 Should papa retire and become a loafer?
00:12:41 Oh, you want papa to retire, huh?
00:12:52 No.
00:12:53 So it shall be.
00:12:56 Well, Joseph, what do you think?
00:13:03 I'm going to retire and become a gentleman of...
00:13:08 of nothing to do.
00:13:11 Well, I go and get my pipe.
00:13:20 Yeah, yeah.
00:13:22 Well, we're going to play bridge. Come on, let's go.
00:13:28 Good night, Joel.
00:13:32 Good night, Lee.
00:13:33 Lena, why is your father retiring?
00:13:39 We thought it'd 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. They need his advice.
00:13:48 He'll continue to give advice. 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?
00:13:59 What is he going to do? What is he going to think about?
00:14:02 Usually, when a man like your father retires, his mind retires with him.
00:14:06 I hope we haven't made a mistake.
00:14:10 Hello.
00:14:17 If you never see, send him to get a hello.
00:14:21 Hello. Hello.
00:14:23 Hans, listen. It's me, your papa.
00:14:26 I got here a letter from Adolf in California.
00:14:30 He's sick, and he wants Lena to come.
00:14:33 Yeah, right away. So, please, make reservations for her for the afternoon train.
00:14:38 Sure she's got to go. Would I send her otherwise?
00:14:42 Yeah, yeah. Make hurry up. Quick, please.
00:14:46 Yes.
00:14:47 Goodbye.
00:14:49 Lena? Where can she be?
00:14:52 Lena! Lena!
00:14:54 Lena!
00:14:55 Lena!
00:14:58 I'm excited, and Lena isn't here.
00:15:03 Karl! Karl! Karl! Karl! Karl!
00:15:11 Did you call me, sir?
00:15:12 Ach, du heilige Strohsack!
00:15:16 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? Talking to myself?
00:15:26 Where's Lena?
00:15:28 I don't know, sir.
00:15:29 You was right. There was no use calling you.
00:15:33 That may be someone.
00:15:39 I don't want someone. I want Lena.
00:15:41 Yes.
00:15:42 Oh, Lena. Am I glad to see you.
00:15:45 What's the matter, Papa?
00:15:46 Look, Lena. I got here a letter from your uncle Adolf.
00:15:50 He's sick and all alone. You got to go to him right away.
00:15:54 But, Papa.
00:15:55 Please, don't talk. He needs you. He's got nobody but us, and he asked for you.
00:16:01 But aren't you going?
00:16:03 How can I go? The boy's got to have me here in the business.
00:16:06 But listen, Papa.
00:16:07 No more buts. Everything is arranged. Hans has made the reservations for the afternoon train. So go on.
00:16:13 But what about Joseph?
00:16:14 I have arranged that too. I telephoned Joseph, and he'll meet you by the station. Now please, hurry up.
00:16:20 All right, Papa.
00:16:21 Oh, Lena, Lena. Here's the address.
00:16:25 All right, now listen, when I get there.
00:16:26 Please don't ask any more questions. Hurry up, quick, will you?
00:16:30 Karl! Karl! Karl, I'm calling you!
00:16:35 I'm here, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:37 Oh, excuse me. So you are here, huh?
00:16:42 But you are never here when you should be, and when you shouldn't be, then you are.
00:16:46 Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:47 Karl, tell the chauffeur to go right away, 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.
00:17:03 Lena, dear, what's the matter? What's it all about? What happened to your uncle?
00:17:07 Papa was so excited he didn't say. Only that Uncle Adolf was sick and wanted me to come to him.
00:17:11 Have you the ticket?
00:17:12 Yes. Gee, your father said he's gonna miss you.
00:17:15 Just my father.
00:17:17 You're not gonna stay away long, are you?
00:17:19 I won't stay a minute longer than Uncle Adolf needs me.
00:17:21 Joseph, dear, take good care of Papa. Don't let him miss me too much. Don't you miss me too much.
00:17:27 Oh, I won't. Oh, I mean that I'll see your father every day.
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.
00:17:39 I got to laugh. Lena's like everybody else.
00:17:53 She's been in California only three weeks, and look what she writes.
00:17:57 "This is God's country. Nothing but sunshine and flowers."
00:18:03 About sunshine and flowers she tells me, but about Adolf she says nothing.
00:18:08 Perhaps he's all right and has nothing to tell.
00:18:11 Hm. 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 I'll be just a moment.
00:18:24 [footsteps]
00:18:27 [footsteps]
00:18:30 [footsteps]
00:18:33 [footsteps]
00:19:02 Here, Father. Smoke a cigar.
00:19:05 [cigar clicks]
00:19:06 Oh. Thank you.
00:19:11 Yeah, yeah.
00:19:18 Hm.
00:19:19 [door closes]
00:19:39 [door opens]
00:19:45 I do wish you'd ask him not to smoke that pipe in here.
00:19:48 Carlton.
00:20:02 Yes, Mr. Strauss?
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. But the smoke from a pipe annoys people.
00:20:15 Yes, sir.
00:20:16 Aw, is that all we get? Aw, 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.
00:20:34 Yeah. And when they grow up, they are bigger troubles.
00:20:38 Yeah.
00:20:39 Strauss.
00:20:40 Hm.
00:20:41 Mr. Strauss.
00:20:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? What, what?
00:20:47 Dinner, sir.
00:20:48 Who? Who? Oh, yeah, yeah. Dinner, dinner. Oh, yeah.
00:20:52 [footsteps]
00:21:06 [door opens]
00:21:08 Where are the children?
00:21:16 Mr. Hannaford phoned. They were dining out.
00:21:19 Aw. They couldn't come.
00:21:22 Say, Carl, you know what we do?
00:21:26 I keep you company and we eat in the kitchen.
00:21:30 It's too quiet here in this big room.
00:21:33 And besides, if I eat with you, you wouldn't be lonesome, huh?
00:21:38 Thanks, Mr. Strauss.
00:21:40 You know, Carl, with you, it's a pleasure to dine.
00:21:48 It's so gemiedlich.
00:21:51 Yeah.
00:21:52 And then, you don't mind if I dunk, huh?
00:21:55 Dunk? I like it myself.
00:21:58 Yeah?
00:21:59 Yeah.
00:22:00 Hey, hey, hey. Not fair. I passed the second.
00:22:03 No, no, ich weiß das.
00:22:05 [laughs]
00:22:06 Gut, hm?
00:22:09 Is es gut? Ja.
00:22:10 Und sie sollen die Bienen haben, ja?
00:22:15 We remain sincerely yours.
00:22:18 Well, well, Father.
00:22:22 Hello, boy.
00:22:23 Hello, Father. That'll be all, Miss Schneider.
00:22:25 Hello, Miss Schneider.
00:22:26 Good morning, Mr. Strauss.
00:22:27 How is the mama?
00:22:28 Fine, Father.
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 Charities 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?
00:22:55 And now that we've talked about it, you send him a check.
00:22:59 Well, Father, we've decided to cut down on charities this year.
00:23:05 Cut down on charities? Oh, no, Louis.
00:23:08 If we cut down on anything, we cut down on things that we can do without.
00:23:13 Charities is for people what they're already doing without.
00:23:18 I know, but if we can't give--
00:23:20 But we are not giving. We don't own anything.
00:23:23 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,
00:23:38 and in the end, we're all even.
00:23:41 [laughs]
00:23:42 Yes, your philosophy may be all right, Father,
00:23:45 but we feel that it commensurates with better business management
00:23:50 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
00:23:59 and have installed a new system.
00:24:01 This thing of making donations without due consideration is a thing of the past.
00:24:04 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.
00:24:13 All right. If Father thinks we should send it, let's do it.
00:24:16 Sure. Papa thinks so.
00:24:18 Here you are, Father.
00:24:29 What is this?
00:24:32 That's an inter-office communication.
00:24:34 Just give that to the cashier, and he'll give you a check.
00:24:37 Oh.
00:24:40 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... I'm having a beautiful time.
00:24:59 Good.
00:25:00 Have a cigar.
00:25:03 Thanks.
00:25:06 And five.
00:25:08 And thirty-five.
00:25:11 Just give him that ring.
00:25:15 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. I... I... But not tonight.
00:25:25 Thanks.
00:25:31 [Music]
00:25:53 Oh, excuse me.
00:25:55 [Music]
00:26:17 Good evening, Mr. Myers.
00:26:18 Good evening, Carl.
00:26:20 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. He is so lonesome.
00:26:32 Wait.
00:26:36 Hello, children.
00:26:47 Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:26:49 I'm glad to see you.
00:26:53 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 do you 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 today 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, since Lena has left,
00:27:50 I don't feel at home in my own house.
00:27:53 Now, don't you worry.
00:27:55 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, then you ask me,
00:28:08 and I'd say yes.
00:28:11 Well, I have to go now, sister.
00:28:13 Good night.
00:28:14 Oh, Joseph, what's your hurry?
00:28:15 You just come.
00:28:17 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 when 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.
00:28:37 [laughs]
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 Mm.
00:29:04 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?
00:29:13 Me move?
00:29:14 Why should I?
00:29:15 Cut myself off an apartment like me?
00:29:17 Oh, no.
00:29:18 Not little Myrtle.
00:29:19 If there's any moving to be done, let my dear father-in-law do that.
00:29:22 Well, here's Mud and you are.
00:29:27 Oh.
00:29:31 Are we off?
00:29:34 [dog barks]
00:29:44 Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:29:46 Good evening, Mary.
00:29:48 A Mr. and Mrs. Strauss are in the living room.
00:29:50 Oh, thank you.
00:29:59 Oh, hello, Papa.
00:30:01 Good evening, my children.
00:30:05 This is a pleasant surprise.
00:30:10 Anything the matter?
00:30:11 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.
00:30:20 And how are you this evening, my dear?
00:30:22 Fine.
00:30:23 How are you?
00:30:24 Oh, fine, thank you.
00:30:25 That's nice.
00:30:26 That's nice.
00:30:27 Here, Father.
00:30:28 Sit over there in the easy chair.
00:30:29 Oh, thank you.
00:30:35 Ah.
00:30:44 Well, Louis, how is everything?
00:30:49 Oh, everything's fine.
00:30:50 I had a wire from Hannaford.
00:30:52 He'll be back Wednesday.
00:30:53 He's trying to close the Keystone deal.
00:30:56 That's good.
00:30:57 I hope he'll get it.
00:31:10 You know, children, there is a reason that I came over.
00:31:16 I wanted to ask you if maybe you are too lonesome here, I would come and live with you.
00:31:25 Is there anything wrong?
00:31:28 No, no.
00:31:30 Only you know the old house is so big.
00:31:35 I get a little lonesome.
00:31:38 And it ain't the same like it used to be.
00:31:42 Hunts and murder, they give parties, and Papa is too old for parties.
00:31:50 So I thought maybe if you don't mind, I come over and stay with you.
00:32:00 Why, of course, Father.
00:32:02 We'd be glad to have you.
00:32:04 Won't we, Mae?
00:32:06 Why, why, yes.
00:32:09 Of course.
00:32:17 Thank you, my children.
00:32:22 Thank you.
00:32:28 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 till Mae 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?
00:33:01 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 Oh.
00:33:16 I don't know what's the matter with him.
00:33:19 Of late, he's been acting kind of strange.
00:33:23 Everything that Myrtle and Mae do seems to get on his nerves.
00:33:33 You know, Hans, the girls have got a good idea.
00:33:37 Over on Madison Avenue, there's a home--
00:33:39 well, I mean it's a kind of a hotel where old men live who've retired.
00:33:45 The guests there are men of Father's age.
00:33:48 Out there, he can have his pinnacle games and talk to the old fellows and--
00:33:54 Now, don't misunderstand, Hans.
00:33:55 It's not charity.
00:33:57 The girls have looked into it thoroughly.
00:33:59 You pay them a lump sum, a kind of a donation.
00:34:03 And afterward, you give them so much a week.
00:34:18 I think it would be great for him.
00:34:30 Wake up. You're sleeping at the top of your voice.
00:34:38 It says here that Wall Street traded in over 5 million shares 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 Well, I'll call you.
00:34:58 What's the match?
00:34:59 Kruger made millions on him.
00:35:01 Yeah, but look where he is now.
00:35:08 I remember when you came here two weeks ago.
00:35:11 I knew you right away.
00:35:14 And was I surprised.
00:35:16 Why should you be surprised?
00:35:19 My children warned that I should go to Europe.
00:35:22 Here, it's quiet and peaceful.
00:35:25 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.
00:35:33 And did I have to argue with them?
00:35:36 Yeah.
00:35:41 By them coming, you can always tell it's Saturday.
00:35:44 Here they come, my two sons.
00:35:47 Always on time.
00:35:50 They should be late yet.
00:35:54 That's the Strauss boy.
00:35:56 Maybe when they get old, their children will come here to see them too.
00:35:59 I hope.
00:36:01 Yes, father?
00:36:02 Hello, Louis.
00:36:03 Hello, father.
00:36:04 Hello, Hans.
00:36:05 Sit down.
00:36:06 No, no, sit still.
00:36:07 I can get another chair.
00:36:08 What?
00:36:09 I have to get my medicine.
00:36:14 How are you, father?
00:36:15 I'm fine.
00:36:16 Fine.
00:36:19 And I'm having a good time here too.
00:36:22 I knew you'd like it.
00:36:24 Did you hear something from Lena?
00:36:26 Yes.
00:36:27 She says she'll be home almost any time now.
00:36:29 Did she say how Adolf is?
00:36:32 No, she didn't.
00:36:33 No?
00:36:34 She don't tell me either.
00:36:41 By the way, boys, you know, Joseph, he comes here every day to see me.
00:36:46 And what do you think?
00:36:48 He has perfected his formula.
00:36:50 And it's something fine.
00:36:52 You know, I think it would be a good idea to take him into the business.
00:36:57 He's got something good.
00:36:59 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.
00:37:14 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, sir.
00:37:22 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, Louis.
00:37:38 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:41 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:56 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 Because all they talk about is that I should leave here and come and live with them.
00:38:11 Yeah, yeah.
00:38:14 Yeah.
00:38:36 Look.
00:38:38 Here comes my friend Joseph.
00:38:41 He's a fine boy.
00:38:43 You're telling me?
00:38:47 Hi, Mr. Johnson.
00:38:48 Very well, thank you.
00:38:50 How are you, young fellow?
00:38:51 How are you?
00:38:53 How are you, Mr. Strauss?
00:38:54 Hello, Joseph.
00:38:56 I'm fine, fine.
00:38:58 And it's like sunshine to see you.
00:39:01 How are you feeling, Mr. Johnson?
00:39:03 I'd be feeling fine if it wasn't for this old fellow always trying to make me believe things that ain't.
00:39:10 Honestly, Joseph, he doubts every word I tell him now.
00:39:14 He's the biggest doubter in the whole world.
00:39:16 Oh, Gabe.
00:39:17 Oh, don't be leaving.
00:39:18 Oh, I must.
00:39:19 I have to get my medicine.
00:39:24 He's a big faker.
00:39:26 He don't have to get medicine.
00:39:27 No?
00:39:28 He just says that so we can be alone.
00:39:30 Sit down.
00:39:32 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 are too busy.
00:39:40 Always too busy.
00:39:48 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.
00:40:02 But they have changed.
00:40:06 They are different.
00:40:09 Well, perhaps they are busy.
00:40:12 No, Joseph.
00:40:15 I have lost my sons.
00:40:25 Well, Miss Lena.
00:40:26 Hello, Carl.
00:40:27 It's good to see you.
00:40:28 Thanks, and it's good to be home.
00:40:31 It's Lena.
00:40:33 Uh-huh.
00:40:35 And we're going to have some fireworks with our breakfast.
00:40:38 Mr. and Mrs. Sprouse 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, 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 Uh-huh.
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 I'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 want to surprise you.
00:41:06 I love surprises.
00:41:10 And won't she be surprised?
00:41:19 What can we tell her?
00:41:21 You'll have to figure that out.
00:41:23 Too early in the morning for me to do any thinking.
00:41:48 Where's Papa?
00:41:49 Why, uh...
00:41:51 Papa isn't home.
00:41:52 Isn't home?
00:41:53 No.
00:41:54 You see, Lena, Papa moved.
00:41:57 Moved?
00:41:59 Yes.
00:42:00 He wanted to live alone, so he moved to a hotel.
00:42:03 Papa living alone in a hotel?
00:42:06 Where?
00:42:07 The Franklin on Madison Avenue.
00:42:09 But what happened?
00:42:10 Why?
00:42:11 Why, nothing happened.
00:42:12 He just wanted to live alone.
00:42:15 Papa living alone in a hotel?
00:42:39 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.
00:42:47 Five bucks.
00:42:55 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.
00:43:28 Oh, my little Lena, my baby.
00:43:37 My little baby.
00:43:43 That's my little Lena, my daughter.
00:43:51 I'm so happy to meet you, I'm sure.
00:43:57 Thank you.
00:43:58 Excuse me, I have to get my medicine.
00:44:02 Excuse me.
00:44:05 Sit down, darling.
00:44:11 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, and old people are funny.
00:44:37 They like it quiet and want to be alone.
00:44:41 And they get under 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.
00:44:57 They want to be alone.
00:45:00 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.
00:45:11 And it'll be nice and quiet, and you can do just what you want to.
00:45:15 Say, and I still know how to cook.
00:45:18 For your first meal, I'll make you some of that nice sauerbraten.
00:45:23 Oh, sauerbraten.
00:45:26 With tomfood.
00:45:29 I made it for Uncle Adolf.
00:45:31 He just loves it.
00:45:34 Oh, I forgot.
00:45:37 Uncle Adolf.
00:45:40 He's better?
00:45:44 He's gone.
00:45:49 Adolf, 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?
00:46:19 Yes.
00:46:21 Don't you talk like that.
00:46:24 Hello, Lena.
00:46:30 Did you see Father?
00:46:36 Of course I did.
00:46:42 And I'd like to know the reason for it.
00:46:56 The 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.
00:47:04 That he made young people nervous.
00:47:06 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 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.
00:47:28 But his heart told me that he's a broken, disappointed, disillusioned old man.
00:47:32 Oh, you're exaggerating things.
00:47:34 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.
00:47:49 I know. I must have been blind not to see through your schemes.
00:47:51 First you got him out of business.
00:47:53 And as soon as I left, you got him out of his home.
00:47:55 And now out of your life.
00:47:57 Everything he had, he gave you willingly.
00:47:59 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 faith.
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. 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 brother.
00:48:40 Why I'm ashamed of you. All of you.
00:48:42 You're not my brothers.
00:48:44 You're a lot of cold, selfish, heartless swine.
00:48:48 Well, that's not going to affect my appetite.
00:49:02 Come on.
00:49:03 Let's have dinner.
00:49:05 Now don't be an old wash woman and talk so much.
00:49:08 I'll see you Saturday.
00:49:10 When the other fellas ask you where I am, you tell them I'm out.
00:49:14 Lie to them.
00:49:16 You know how.
00:49:17 Yeah, yeah.
00:49:19 You teach me.
00:49:20 Go away, you old faker.
00:49:22 Go on, Dad.
00:49:23 Goodbye.
00:49:24 Goodbye.
00:49:25 Goodbye.
00:49:26 Oh, are you leaving us?
00:49:28 Oh, no.
00:49:29 I'm just taking your money.
00:49:31 Oh, I see.
00:49:32 Oh, wait, wait.
00:49:33 I forgot.
00:49:34 So you're really going to leave us, Mr. Strauss?
00:49:39 Yeah.
00:49:40 Well, I'm very sorry to see you go.
00:49:42 Well, you know that.
00:49:43 You know what I mean.
00:49:44 Oh, sure I know.
00:49:46 Say, you've got a nice place here.
00:49:48 Now, you know all the arrangements.
00:49:50 You don't tell anybody that I leave here.
00:49:52 And I come back every Saturday.
00:49:54 You know, that's the day I get my pay.
00:49:56 And I'm not going to tell anybody.
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.
00:50:08 Maybe some poor fellow wants to come in whose children can't afford to pay for him.
00:50:13 So you use those checks.
00:50:15 Well, goodbye.
00:50:16 Goodbye, Mr. Strauss.
00:50:17 I'll see you Saturday.
00:50:18 Until Saturday.
00:50:19 Until Saturday, yeah.
00:50:20 Come on, Dad.
00:50:23 We're going to taxicab.
00:50:24 Oh, no.
00:50:25 Taxicabs cost money.
00:50:27 We're celebrating today.
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 Goodbye, boys.
00:50:37 I'll be back this afternoon.
00:50:38 Goodbye.
00:50:39 Goodbye.
00:50:40 Oh, this is a beautiful place.
00:50:45 And there's one thing more we want to show you.
00:50:49 I saw it.
00:50:50 It's the prettiest bedroom I ever saw.
00:50:53 No, no.
00:50:54 Something else.
00:50:55 Something more beside?
00:50:56 Mm-hmm.
00:50:57 And all for you.
00:50:58 Yeah?
00:50:59 Sure.
00:51:00 Come on.
00:51:01 There you are.
00:51:06 Oh.
00:51:07 What kind of room is this?
00:51:10 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?
00:51:21 I am a retired loafer.
00:51:22 You're not retired anymore.
00:51:24 You're getting back into the harness.
00:51:26 Dina, what are you talking about?
00:51:28 Just what she means.
00:51:30 Just this, Mrs. Strauss.
00:51:31 My formula is registered, and we're going to die business.
00:51:35 Come on now, sit down.
00:51:36 You're the head of the new company.
00:51:38 Yeah.
00:51:39 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?
00:51:50 Oh, don't you worry about that.
00:51:52 We have a silent partner with plenty of money.
00:51:55 What?
00:51:56 We got a partner with money that don't say nothing?
00:52:00 Who could be such a fool?
00:52:02 Lina.
00:52:03 Lina?
00:52:05 You got money?
00:52:08 Where you get it?
00:52:11 Uncle Adolf left it to me.
00:52:13 Adolf.
00:52:20 He left it to you.
00:52:22 That's more than your papa did.
00:52:27 No, Lina.
00:52:30 I don't take that money.
00:52:33 That's yours.
00:52:36 But listen, Papa.
00:52:37 No, and I don't listen.
00:52:39 And you can't give me your money either.
00:52:42 But I'm not giving it to you.
00:52:43 I'm loaning it to you.
00:52:45 And I expect a big interest.
00:52:47 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 Yes.
00:52:57 That's fair.
00:52:59 But I don't take it.
00:53:01 Let Joseph go into business.
00:53:04 I don't know anything about business.
00:53:06 But you do.
00:53:07 My knowledge is old-fashioned.
00:53:10 Nowadays they do business modern.
00:53:13 With in the office accommodations.
00:53:16 No, Joseph.
00:53:17 I'm too old for business.
00:53:19 You're not old.
00:53:20 Yes, I am.
00:53:21 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.
00:53:27 Something to occupy your mind.
00:53:29 An office, a desk.
00:53:30 Show the people in the business world that you're not through.
00:53:33 Who says that I'm through?
00:53:35 Hans and Louis?
00:53:37 Well, I sure am.
00:53:38 You're right, Joseph.
00:53:39 That's what I need.
00:53:41 Business.
00:53:42 All right.
00:53:43 Start right now.
00:53:44 Now, the first thing we do, we got to give the company a name.
00:53:50 Joseph, are you an American citizen?
00:53:53 Oh, yes, I was born here.
00:53:54 Good.
00:53:55 We call it the American Die Works.
00:53:57 Say, that's a good idea.
00:53:58 Well.
00:53:59 Now, listen, children.
00:54:00 Don't let anybody know that Puffer Strauss is back in business.
00:54:03 This is my office.
00:54:05 And here I am the head.
00:54:07 You'll have an office downtown, where you'll be the head.
00:54:10 So we got a head at both ends.
00:54:12 Now, Nina, you're the silent partner.
00:54:16 So don't say nothing.
00:54:17 Puffer will do the talking.
00:54:20 Joseph, the first people you go and see is the Rivers Company.
00:54:24 He's a hard name to get to.
00:54:27 But you get to him.
00:54:29 And there's the Keystone, the Metropolitan, the Fast Silk Incorporated,
00:54:38 the United Imports, you'll start them and finish them.
00:54:43 Yes, sir.
00:54:44 The last two months, the American Die Works have taken six of our best accounts.
00:54:49 And here, take a look at their circular letter.
00:54:54 Why use foreign-made dies?
00:54:56 Keep the wheels of our own industries turning.
00:54:58 Keep our own working people working on home products.
00:55:01 If that isn't waving the flag, I don't know what is.
00:55:04 Well, it may be waving the flag, but it's getting to us.
00:55:07 It may be waving the flag, but it's getting results.
00:55:10 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.
00:55:17 For weeks, I've been trying to find out who's behind this firm.
00:55:20 I talked to Myers.
00:55:21 You remember Joe.
00:55:22 He's their chemist.
00:55:23 They're using his formula.
00:55:24 Yes, I remember him.
00:55:25 He wanted us to take it.
00:55:26 All the poor sap would tell me that some old fellow was behind the firm
00:55:30 trying to keep the home fires burning.
00:55:49 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.
00:56:15 I'll only be a minute.
00:56:28 Hello, Joe.
00:56:29 Hello, darling.
00:56:31 How about in the office?
00:56:32 Yeah?
00:56:33 I've got some good news for him.
00:56:34 So early in the morning?
00:56:35 Sure, heavy business too.
00:56:37 Good.
00:56:38 Well, how's the head of the American Dye Works today?
00:56:41 Oh, I'm fine.
00:56:43 Look at your pants.
00:56:45 They're shrunk.
00:56:46 Oh, they're golf pants.
00:56:48 Say, I closed that Brevards deal today.
00:56:50 You did?
00:56:51 Yes, sir.
00:56:52 That's fine.
00:56:53 But tell me, how did you get near enough to that Brevards?
00:56:57 He's such an independent.
00:56:59 Why, Brevards and I play golf together every Saturday.
00:57:01 And old boy, he hates to lose.
00:57:03 So today, I'll let him beat me.
00:57:05 Good gracious.
00:57:07 New methods.
00:57:09 Saturday.
00:57:11 Saturday.
00:57:13 There he is.
00:57:14 What?
00:57:15 I can't find it.
00:57:16 What?
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 Where is it?
00:57:24 There it is.
00:57:25 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?
00:57:30 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?
00:57:37 Why am I so excited?
00:57:39 I just now remembered 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 heads of the American Divorce.
00:57:49 Joseph, you've got to find my hat.
00:57:50 Where is your hat?
00:57:52 You know, sir.
00:57:53 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.
00:57:59 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 all bribers.
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.
00:58:49 Oh, of course.
00:58:50 Oh, when you see Lena, ask her to call us, will you?
00:58:54 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.
00:59:29 Yeah, yeah.
00:59:30 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?
01:00:09 Sorry, Mr. Strauss, but your statement doesn't warrant it.
01:00:13 Our bank would be very, very glad of your business, Mr. Strauss.
01:00:20 But we can't start off by making a loan of that size.
01:00:24 Well, why come to me?
01:00:33 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.
01:00:40 So your father, the proud Louis Strauss, sends you to me for a loan.
01:00:47 I told him years ago he'd have to come to me.
01:00:51 It's only for six months.
01:00:53 Louis 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.
01:01:10 But you've got to figure some way out of this.
01:01:16 My dear fellow, I'm only your lawyer.
01:01:19 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 don't you stay out all night?
01:01:45 Sorry, dear, but I couldn't help it.
01:01:47 How'd you make out? Did you get it?
01:01:49 No. I tried every one I could think of, but it was useless.
01:01:53 We're liquidly through.
01:01:57 What on earth are you talking about?
01:01:59 Just this. In 48 hours, the Strauss Dye Company will be thrown into bankruptcy.
01:02:04 Bankruptcy?
01:02:06 Yes.
01:02:08 We've made a mess of the whole affair.
01:02:11 You mean we've lost everything?
01:02:14 Everything.
01:02:16 Joseph, tell me.
01:02:22 Where did you hear it?
01:02:24 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. Hodler. I've been waiting for you.
01:02:45 - Have a sit down. - Thanks.
01:02:48 Well, it's good to see you in harness again.
01:02:51 This should be a happy day for you.
01:02:53 You've accomplished what you set out to do.
01:02:55 I understand the Strauss Dye Company is going into bankruptcy.
01:02:58 No, my dear friend. That isn't what I want to accomplish, and it mustn't happen.
01:03:03 That's why I sent for you.
01:03:05 You are my lawyer, and I want you to offer a proposition...
01:03:09 to the members of the Strauss Dye Works to merge with the American Dye Works.
01:03:14 Merge? The Strauss Dye Company is worthless.
01:03:18 - It hasn't any assets. - No, that's where you're wrong, my friend.
01:03:23 They have two very valuable assets.
01:03:27 My sons.
01:03:29 Mr. Hodler, it's very hard for a father to lose his sons.
01:03:34 And I've been a long way to regain them.
01:03:38 You remember what a good book says about a prophet's son?
01:03:42 He demanded his inheritance.
01:03:45 His father gave him all.
01:03:48 And after he squandered it and was in need...
01:03:52 his father went out to meet him.
01:03:56 My boys might have been unwise.
01:04:01 Maybe a little unkind.
01:04:04 But after all, they are my sons.
01:04:08 Very well.
01:04:11 Come in, children.
01:04:14 Now, your proposition is...
01:04:23 Well, here is the condition that I want.
01:04:30 "Hanford 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.
01:04:56 I think you boys are very fortunate.
01:05:00 Have a cigar, Father.
01:05:18 Oh, no, thanks. I'll go and get my pipe.
01:05:21 Oh, I'll get it for you. I've got it all fixed.
01:05:24 I'm sorry.
01:05:26 Myrtle wants to talk to you, Father.
01:05:28 She wants to tell you she's sorry.
01:05:31 What has she got to be sorry about?
01:05:34 Now is the time that we're all glad in this family.
01:05:38 No more sorry business.
01:05:41 Here you are, Father. It's just as you like it.
01:05:48 Tight 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 Mr. Stouts, it is ready.
01:06:02 Yeah?
01:06:04 Kelvin, you will have to excuse me.
01:06:07 Your father said if I asked you to marry me...
01:06:20 you said no.
01:06:23 To ask him, say yes.
01:06:26 Don't ask Papa. Ask me.
01:06:29 Hmm. How?
01:06:36 You're improving.
01:06:38 You're going two times deep to my one-time shallow.
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