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