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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.
00:03:38Ain'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?
00:04:38The 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.
00:04:50Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
00:04:53Oh, people.
00:04:57Now, now, and what are you laughing about?
00:05:00I got to laugh because you are so dumb.
00:05:03You didn't even know that I was making a joke with you.
00:05:06Ho, ho, 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?
00:05:18I'm not joking, Ludwig.
00:05:20What?
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 fellow 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.
00:07:02Papa will come by and by.
00:07:04Go on.
00:07:05Anyhow, he don't want to see me.
00:07:08Pardon me.
00:07:15Father, why do you let Lena spend so much time with that fellow Myers?
00:07:19What's the matter, Louis?
00:07:21Joseph is a nice boy.
00:07:23Joseph is a nice boy.
00:07:26And he's smart.
00:07:28And 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 his 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.
00:08:14Joseph has got something good.
00:08:16Anyhow, I'll go and see him.
00:08:19And I'll have a talk with him.
00:08:27If this fellow Myers' formula's any good,
00:08:30it looks as though papa's going to marry it into the family.
00:08:33Damn clever, these Strausses.
00:08:35Hello, Joseph.
00:08:37Oh, good evening, Mrs. Strauss.
00:08:39Maybe I shouldn't interrupt you, huh?
00:08:41Oh, papa.
00:08:42Say, I was young once, too.
00:08:45You are making progress.
00:08:47Well, I'm trying.
00:08:48Oh, I see.
00:08:49But I mean about your formula.
00:08:51Oh.
00:08:52Say, I brought you over some new samples.
00:08:54Yeah?
00:08:55They turned out pretty good, too.
00:08:57Is that the only reason you came over?
00:09:02Not bad.
00:09:06Not good.
00:09:08But not bad neither.
00:09:10Anyhow, I'll show them to the boys.
00:09:13Go on ahead.
00:09:15Sit down.
00:09:17Look, boys.
00:09:18Here's a couple of samples.
00:09:22Come on, Mae.
00:09:23Looks like the evening's going to be spent
00:09:25in talking about dyes and chemicals.
00:09:27Well, dyes and chemicals is a very nice thing to talk about.
00:09:31They did a lot for us.
00:09:33They made us rich.
00:09:34I'm afraid, father, we won't be of much help.
00:09:37Well, that's right.
00:09:39Maybe you should go along with them
00:09:41and take them out and have a little fun, you know.
00:09:45All work and no pressure.
00:09:47That ain't no good neither.
00:09:49Oh, they'll entertain themselves all right.
00:09:52What is the matter with you?
00:09:54You don't seem to take care of yourself.
00:09:56Your mind always on something else?
00:09:58I guess I'll not be much of a success at anything.
00:10:01Oh, yes, you will.
00:10:03Say, is there anything I can do for you?
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.
00:10:12Do?
00:10:13Are you proposing?
00:10:15Oh, no, no.
00:10:16I 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.
00:10:31I have to sneak into the bathroom to get a little smoke.
00:10:35Oh, you and Lee have an ideal life.
00:10:37An apartment of your own.
00:10:39And only visit your dear father-in-law
00:10:41whenever you want to.
00:10:45Lee and I were talking about your father.
00:10:47You know, dear,
00:10:49I think he's getting too old to work as he does.
00:10:52You don't know him.
00:10:53He loves work.
00:10:55I think it would be wonderful
00:10:56if he turned the business over to you and Lee.
00:10:58Then he could take things easy.
00:11:00Father will never give up going to business.
00:11:02He would if he thought his sons could carry on.
00:11:05I think you and Lee are capable of 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 will do any good.
00:11:48So you think your papa is getting too old.
00:11:55I know that's not it.
00:11:57But we feel that you've reached an age
00:11:59where you should take things easy.
00:12:01You've worked long enough.
00:12:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:22Yes?
00:12:24We'll see what Lena says.
00:12:29So good.
00:12:32Now, Lena, what do you say?
00:12:37Should papa retire and become a loafer?
00:12:42Oh, you want papa to retire, huh?
00:12:51No.
00:12:53So it shall be.
00:12:59Well, Joseph, what do you think?
00:13:02I'm going to retire
00:13:04and become a gentleman
00:13:06of...
00:13:08of nothing to do.
00:13:12Well, I go and get my pipe.
00:13:19Yeah, yeah.
00:13:24Well, we're going to play bridge.
00:13:26Come on, let's go.
00:13:29Good night, Joel.
00:13:31Good night, Lee.
00:13:36Lena, why is your father retiring?
00:13:38We thought it'd be nice if he took it easy for a while.
00:13:40He'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 is the daily routine.
00:13:51But that daily routine
00:13:53has kept your father feeling so well.
00:13:55Don't you know that a man has 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 like your father retires,
00:14:03his mind retires with him.
00:14:07I hope we haven't made a mistake.
00:14:13Hello.
00:14:16I hope you never see.
00:14:18Your friend didn't get a hello.
00:14:20Hello, hello.
00:14:22Yeah, Hans, yeah, listen.
00:14:24It's me, your papa.
00:14:26I got here a letter from Adolf in California.
00:14:29He'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, yeah.
00:14:48Goodbye.
00:14:49Lena?
00:14:50Where can she be?
00:14:51Lena!
00:14:52Lena!
00:14:54Lena!
00:14:56Lena!
00:14:58Can you see that?
00:14:59I'm excited and Lena isn't here.
00:15:02Hans!
00:15:04Hans!
00:15:06Hans!
00:15:08Hans!
00:15:09Hans!
00:15:10Did you call me, sir?
00:15:12Ach, du heilige Strohsack.
00:15:16I'm hollering all over the place for you
00:15:19and then you ask me did I call you.
00:15:22What do you suppose I was doing?
00:15:24Talking to myself?
00:15:26Where's Lena?
00:15:27I don't know, sir.
00:15:29You was right.
00:15:30There was no use calling you.
00:15:37That may be someone.
00:15:38I don't want someone.
00:15:39I want Lena.
00:15:40Yes.
00:15:41Oh, Lena.
00:15:42Am I glad to see you.
00:15:44What's the matter, Papa?
00:15:45Look, Lena.
00:15:46I got here a letter from your uncle Adolf.
00:15:49He's sick and all alone.
00:15:51You got to go to him right away.
00:15:53But, Papa.
00:15:54Please, don't talk.
00:15:56He needs you.
00:15:57He's got nobody but us.
00:15:59And he asked for you.
00:16:01But aren't you going?
00:16:02How can I go?
00:16:03The boy's got to have me here in the business.
00:16:06But listen, Papa.
00:16:07No more buts.
00:16:08Everything is arranged.
00:16:09Hans has made a reservation for the afternoon train.
00:16:12So go on.
00:16:13But what about Joseph?
00:16:14I have arranged that too.
00:16:15I telephoned Joseph and he'll meet you by the station.
00:16:18Now, please, hurry up.
00:16:19All right, Papa.
00:16:20Oh, Lena.
00:16:21Lena.
00:16:22Yes, Papa.
00:16:23Here's uncle Adolf's letter.
00:16:24His address is on it.
00:16:25All right.
00:16:26Now, when I get there...
00:16:27Please don't ask any more questions.
00:16:28Hurry up.
00:16:29Quick, will you?
00:16:30Karl.
00:16:31Karl.
00:16:34Karl, I'm calling you.
00:16:35I'm here, Mr. Sprouse.
00:16:37Oh, excuse me.
00:16:40So you are here, huh?
00:16:42But you are never here when you should be.
00:16:44And when you shouldn't be, then you are.
00:16:46Yes, Mr. Sprouse.
00:16:47Now, Karl.
00:16:48Tell the chauffeur to go right away.
00:16:49Hurry up.
00:16:50And take Miss Lena down to the station.
00:16:52And, Karl.
00:16:53Yes, Mr. Sprouse.
00:16:54Hurry up, quick.
00:16:56Poor Adolf.
00:16:58All alone.
00:17:03Lena, dear.
00:17:04What's the matter?
00:17:05What's it all about?
00:17:06What happened to your uncle?
00:17:07Papa was so excited he didn't stay.
00:17:08Only that uncle Adolf was sick and wanted me to come to him.
00:17:11Have you the ticket?
00:17:12Yeah.
00:17:13Gee, your father said he's gonna miss you.
00:17:15Just my father.
00:17:16You're not gonna stay away long, are you?
00:17:18I won't stay a minute longer than uncle Adolf needs me.
00:17:21Joseph, dear.
00:17:22Take good care of Papa.
00:17:23Don't let him miss me too much.
00:17:25Don't you miss me too much.
00:17:27Oh, I won't.
00:17:28Oh, I mean that I'll see your father every day.
00:17:32Goodbye, Lena.
00:17:33Goodbye, Joe.
00:17:34Take good care of yourself.
00:17:35Goodbye.
00:17:36Listen, don't forget the writing.
00:17:50I've got to laugh.
00:17:51Lena's like everybody else.
00:17:53She's been in California only three weeks and look what she writes.
00:17:57This is God's country.
00:18:00Nothing but sunshine and flowers.
00:18:03About sunshine and flowers she tells me.
00:18:06But about Adolf she says nothing.
00:18:09Perhaps he'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.
00:18:18They always think right away of the worst.
00:18:48Here, Father.
00:18:50Smoke a cigar.
00:18:55Oh.
00:19:04Yeah, yeah.
00:19:44I do wish you'd ask him not to smoke that pipe in here.
00:19:48Carlson.
00:19:50Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:19:51Have a cigar.
00:19:53Thank you, sir.
00:19:55But I smoke a pipe, sir.
00:19:58Yeah.
00:20:00But a smoke from a pipe annoys people.
00:20:03Yes, sir.
00:20:07I'm sorry.
00:20:09I'm sorry.
00:20:11I'm sorry.
00:20:13I'm sorry.
00:20:15I'm sorry.
00:20:17Is that all we get?
00:20:19Oh, give me another thing.
00:20:21No, dear.
00:20:22Now run along and play.
00:20:26I'll be glad when they grow up.
00:20:28Children are so much trouble when they're small.
00:20:31Yeah.
00:20:32And when they grow up, they are bigger troubles.
00:20:35Yeah.
00:20:37Strauss.
00:20:40Mr. Strauss.
00:20:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:43What?
00:20:44What?
00:20:45Dinner, sir.
00:20:46Who?
00:20:48Oh, yeah.
00:20:49Dinner, dinner.
00:20:50Oh, yeah.
00:21:12Where are they?
00:21:13Where are the children?
00:21:15Mr. Hannaford phoned.
00:21:17They were dining out.
00:21:19Oh.
00:21:20They couldn't come.
00:21:22Say, Carl.
00:21:24You know what we do?
00:21:26I keep you company.
00:21:28And we eat in the kitchen.
00:21:30It's too quiet here in this big room.
00:21:33And besides, if I eat with you, you wouldn't be lonesome, huh?
00:21:38Thanks, Mr. Strauss.
00:21:39Thanks, Mr. Strauss.
00:21:44You know, Carl.
00:21:46With you, it's a pleasure to dine.
00:21:50It's so gemΓΌtlich.
00:21:52Yeah.
00:21:54You don't mind if I dunk, huh?
00:21:56Dunk?
00:21:58I like it myself.
00:21:59Yeah?
00:22:01Not fair.
00:22:02Pass a second.
00:22:03No, no.
00:22:04Ich weiΓ das.
00:22:05Hm.
00:22:07Gut, hm?
00:22:08Is it good?
00:22:09Ja.
00:22:16We remain sincerely yours.
00:22:19Well, well, Father.
00:22:21Hello, boys.
00:22:22Hello, Father.
00:22:24That'll be all, Miss Schneider.
00:22:25Hello, Miss Schneider.
00:22:26Good morning, Mr. Strauss.
00:22:27How's the mama?
00:22:28Fine, thank you.
00:22:29That's good, that's good.
00:22:30And why are we honored with this call?
00:22:32Oh, boys.
00:22:33I fell lonesome for the smell from the chemical.
00:22:38But I'm only joking.
00:22:41I had a telephone call from Mr. Huffner
00:22:43from the Amalgamated Charities this morning.
00:22:46He told me he called you up about this year's donation
00:22:49and you didn't give it.
00:22:51So I explained to him,
00:22:52maybe you want to talk to me first about it, huh?
00:22:55And now that we've talked about it,
00:22:58you send him a check.
00:22:59Well, uh, Father,
00:23:01we've decided to cut down on charities this year.
00:23:05Cut down on charities?
00:23:06Oh, no, Louis.
00:23:07If we cut down on anything,
00:23:09we cut down on things that we can do without.
00:23:13Charities is for people
00:23:15what they're already doing without.
00:23:17I 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
00:23:25and we go out the same way.
00:23:28All we've got here is just loaned to us
00:23:31to use while we are here.
00:23:33So we will return,
00:23:35loan back a little bit here
00:23:37and a little bit there,
00:23:38and in the end,
00:23:40we are all even.
00:23:42Yes, your philosophy may be all right, Father,
00:23:45but we feel that it commensurates
00:23:48with 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,
00:23:56we'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
00:24:03is a thing of the past.
00:24:04It belongs with the old-fashioned method.
00:24:06Old-fashioned method, huh?
00:24:08Well, old-fashioned method
00:24:10is just the thing that made the Strauss works
00:24:12what they is today.
00:24:13All right.
00:24:14If Father thinks we should send it, let's do it.
00:24:17Sure, Papa thinks so.
00:24:26Here you are, Father.
00:24:30What is this?
00:24:31That's an inter-office communication.
00:24:33Just give that to the cashier,
00:24:35and he'll give you a check.
00:24:37Oh.
00:24:40Inter-office commutations.
00:24:42New methods.
00:24:44New methods.
00:24:52Having a good time, Father?
00:24:54I'm having a beautiful time.
00:24:57Good.
00:24:59Have a cigar.
00:25:01Thanks.
00:25:17Have a drink, Father.
00:25:18Oh, yes, do have a drink, Mrs. Strauss.
00:25:20No, thanks.
00:25:21I... I...
00:25:22Well, not tonight.
00:25:52Oh, excuse me.
00:26:16Good evening, Mr. Myers.
00:26:18Good evening, Karl.
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.
00:26:29He is so lonesome.
00:26:34Sweet air.
00:26:45Hello, children.
00:26:47Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:26:48I'm glad to see you.
00:26:52What's the matter?
00:26:53You come to the house to do a party,
00:26:55and you ain't dressed up?
00:26:57Oh, I didn't come to the party.
00:26:58That is, I wasn't invited.
00:27:01Who's got to invite you to my house?
00:27:03To my house, you don't have to be invited.
00:27:06Besides, I wasn't invited neither.
00:27:09Sit down.
00:27:11I saw the boys today.
00:27:12Yeah?
00:27:13Yeah.
00:27:14What'd they say?
00:27:15Well, they didn't seem very much interested.
00:27:18Well, don't you worry, none.
00:27:21Everything will come out all right.
00:27:23I'll speak to them myself.
00:27:26Did you have a letter from Lena today?
00:27:29Yeah?
00:27:30Funny.
00:27:31I get a letter from her every day,
00:27:34but 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.
00:27:42What'd she say?
00:27:43Well, she said that she wouldn't be away much longer.
00:27:46You know, Joseph,
00:27:47since 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.
00:27:58You miss her too, huh?
00:28:00You bet I do.
00:28:02You know, Joseph,
00:28:04when you ask Lena to marry you
00:28:06and she says no,
00:28:07then you ask me and I'd say yes.
00:28:11Well, I have to go now.
00:28:12Good 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,
00:28:24you'll have to retire
00:28:25when you get 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, Mrs. Strauss.
00:28:31Good night, Joseph.
00:28:33Be careful.
00:28:35Don't fall in the letterbox.
00:28:40That's a boy, huh?
00:28:42That's a boy.
00:28:46Right.
00:28:55I'll give you girls a nip.
00:28:56What is a nip?
00:28:58This is where I keep my private stock.
00:29:00Young society, Nathan,
00:29:01runs her own speakeasy.
00:29:03But why do a fade-out
00:29:04when you want a little drink?
00:29:06Oh, you've heard of people
00:29:07suffering 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?
00:29:15Cut myself up in an apartment like me?
00:29:17Oh, no.
00:29:18Not little Myrtle.
00:29:19If there's any moving to be done,
00:29:20let my dear father-in-law do that.
00:29:22Well, here's mud in your eye.
00:29:27Oh.
00:29:31Are we off?
00:29:45Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:29:46Good evening, Mary.
00:29:48A Mr. and Mrs. Strauss are in the living room.
00:29:50Oh.
00:30:00Oh, hello, Papa.
00:30:01Good evening, my children.
00:30:06This is a pleasant surprise.
00:30:11Anything the matter?
00:30:12What should be the matter?
00:30:14If Papa calls on his children,
00:30:16should that be something the matter?
00:30:18No, no.
00:30:19Of course not.
00:30:20Come on in.
00:30:21And how are you this evening, my dear?
00:30:23Fine.
00:30:24How are you?
00:30:25Oh, fine, thank you.
00:30:26That's nice.
00:30:27That's nice.
00:30:28Here, Father.
00:30:29Sit over there in the easy chair.
00:30:30Oh, thank you.
00:30:36Ah.
00:30:44Well, Louis,
00:30:47how is everything?
00:30:49Oh, everything's fine.
00:30:50I had a wire from Hannaford.
00:30:52He'll be back Wednesday.
00:30:53He's trying to close the Keystone deal.
00:30:56That's good.
00:30:58I hope he'll get it.
00:31:10You know, children,
00:31:11there is a reason
00:31:13that I came over.
00:31:15I wanted to ask you
00:31:17if maybe you are too lonesome here,
00:31:20I would come and live with you.
00:31:24Is there anything wrong?
00:31:26No, no.
00:31:28Only you know
00:31:30the old house is so big
00:31:33and I get a little lonesome.
00:31:36And it ain't the same like it used to be.
00:31:39Hunts and murder,
00:31:41they give parties
00:31:43and Papa is too old for parties.
00:31:46So,
00:31:48I thought
00:31:50maybe
00:31:52if you don't mind,
00:31:54I come over
00:31:56and stay with you.
00:31:57Why, of course, Father.
00:31:59We'd be glad to have you.
00:32:01Won't we, Mae?
00:32:03Why?
00:32:04Why, yes.
00:32:06Why?
00:32:07Why, yes.
00:32:09Of course.
00:32:17Thank you,
00:32:18my children.
00:32:29I tell you, he wanted to go.
00:32:30I didn't say a word to him.
00:32:32As a matter of fact,
00:32:33I didn't know he had gone
00:32:34until Mae called me up
00:32:35a few days after he left.
00:32:36Hello, Hannaford.
00:32:37Hi, Mark.
00:32:38Hello, Lee.
00:32:39When did you get back?
00:32:40I just got your call.
00:32:41I want to talk to you, Lee.
00:32:44I just got back this afternoon.
00:32:59What's it all about, Lee?
00:33:00What's happened to Father?
00:33:03Well, Hunts,
00:33:04I'll tell you.
00:33:06Papa and, uh,
00:33:08Myrtle don't seem to hit it off so well.
00:33:11Oh.
00:33:14I don't know what's the matter with him.
00:33:17Of late, he's been
00:33:19acting kind of strange.
00:33:21Everything that
00:33:23Myrtle and Mae do
00:33:24seems to get on his nerves.
00:33:31You know, Hunts,
00:33:32the girls have got a good idea.
00:33:34Over on Madison Avenue,
00:33:35there's a home,
00:33:36well, I mean,
00:33:37it's a kind of a hotel
00:33:39where old men live
00:33:40who've retired.
00:33:42The guests there
00:33:43are men of Father's age.
00:33:45Out there,
00:33:46he could have
00:33:47these pinochle games
00:33:48and talk to the old fellows
00:33:49and...
00:33:51Now, don't misunderstand, Hunts.
00:33:52It's not charity.
00:33:54The girls have looked
00:33:55into it thoroughly.
00:33:57You pay them a lump sum,
00:33:59a kind of a donation.
00:34:00And afterward,
00:34:01you give them so much a week.
00:34:15I think it would be great for him.
00:34:27Play company.
00:34:29Play company.
00:34:30Sleeping at the top of your voice.
00:34:37It says here
00:34:38that Wall Street
00:34:39traded in over
00:34:405 million shares yesterday.
00:34:42What?
00:34:43Wall Street
00:34:44traded in over
00:34:455 million shares yesterday.
00:34:47Oh,
00:34:48what did the giants do?
00:34:54Well, I'll call you.
00:34:56What's a match?
00:34:57Kruger made millions on him.
00:34:59Yeah,
00:35:00but look where he is now.
00:35:06I remember
00:35:07when you came here
00:35:08two weeks ago.
00:35:10I knew you right away.
00:35:12And was I surprised.
00:35:14Why should you be surprised?
00:35:17My children warned
00:35:18that I should go to Europe.
00:35:20Here,
00:35:21it's quiet
00:35:22and peaceful.
00:35:23And for the few years
00:35:24that I got here,
00:35:25I like it quiet.
00:35:27So I told my children
00:35:29I'd like to come here.
00:35:31And did I have to
00:35:32argue with them?
00:35:34Yeah.
00:35:39By them coming,
00:35:40you can always tell
00:35:41it's Saturday.
00:35:42Here they come.
00:35:44My two sons.
00:35:46Always on time.
00:35:48They should be late yet.
00:35:52That's the Strauss Company.
00:35:53That's the Strauss boy.
00:35:55Maybe when they get old,
00:35:56their children will come here
00:35:57to see them too.
00:35:58I hope.
00:36:00Yes, father.
00:36:01Hello, Louis.
00:36:02Hello, father.
00:36:03Hello, Hans.
00:36:04Sit down.
00:36:05No, no.
00:36:06Sit 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
00:36:19a good time here, too.
00:36:21I knew you'd like it.
00:36:23Did you hear something
00:36:24from Lena?
00:36:25Yes.
00:36:26She says she'll be home
00:36:27almost 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 neither.
00:36:40By the way, boys.
00:36:42You know,
00:36:43Joseph, he comes here
00:36:44every day to see me.
00:36:46And what do you think?
00:36:47He has perfected
00:36:48his formula.
00:36:50And it's something fine.
00:36:51You know,
00:36:52I think it would be
00:36:53a good idea
00:36:54to take him
00:36:55into the business.
00:36:57He's got something good.
00:36:59And it should make
00:37:00a lot of money.
00:37:01No, we're not
00:37:02interested, father.
00:37:03We'll stick to our
00:37:04present eyes
00:37:05and not experiment.
00:37:06But it isn't an experiment.
00:37:08Joseph has perfected it.
00:37:10And it isn't like
00:37:11Joseph would be
00:37:12a stranger.
00:37:14You know,
00:37:15someday I hope
00:37:16that he and Lena...
00:37:17Well, father.
00:37:18We'll have to be
00:37:19running along now.
00:37:20So soon?
00:37:21Yes, sir.
00:37:22Myrtle's giving
00:37:23a dinner tonight.
00:37:24Oh, that's nice.
00:37:25I hope you'll have
00:37:26a good time.
00:37:28Well, goodbye.
00:37:29Goodbye.
00:37:30Goodbye, father.
00:37:31Goodbye, Louis.
00:37:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:50They go so soon.
00:37:52Oh, yes.
00:37:53You see,
00:37:54they are so busy.
00:37:56And besides,
00:37:57I don't like
00:37:58them to stay too long.
00:37:59Of course,
00:38:00all they talk about
00:38:01is that I should
00:38:02leave here
00:38:03and come and live
00:38:04with them.
00:38:06Yeah?
00:38:07Yeah?
00:38:09Yeah?
00:38:10Yeah?
00:38:36Look!
00:38:37Here comes
00:38:38My friend, Chosen.
00:38:41He's a fine boy.
00:38:43You're telling me?
00:38:47Hi, Mr. Jones.
00:38:48Very well, thank you.
00:38:50How are you, young fellow?
00:38:51I do.
00:38:52How are you?
00:38:53How are you, Mr. Strauss?
00:38:54Hello, Chosen.
00:38:56I'm fine, fine.
00:38:58And it's like sunshine to see you.
00:39:01How are you feeling, Mr. Johnson?
00:39:02Oh, I'd be feeling fine if it wasn't for this old fellow
00:39:06always trying to make me believe things that ain't.
00:39:10Honest, Chosen.
00:39:11He doubts every word I tell him now.
00:39:14He's the biggest doubter in the whole world.
00:39:16Oh, 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 he can be alone.
00:39:30Sit down.
00:39:32I just saw the boys leaving.
00:39:33Yeah.
00:39:35Anything to them about the formula?
00:39:37They, they are too busy.
00:39:40Always too busy.
00:39:48Yeah, Chosen.
00:39:50They used to listen to me.
00:39:53Ask my advice about everything.
00:39:57We were close together.
00:40:03But they have changed.
00:40:05They're different.
00:40:08Well, perhaps they are busy.
00:40:12No, Chosen.
00:40:15I have lost my sons.
00:40:24Well, Miss Lena.
00:40:26Hello, Carl.
00:40:27It's good to see you.
00:40:28Thanks, Ben.
00:40:29It's good to be home.
00:40:30It's Lena.
00:40:32Mm-hmm.
00:40:33And we're going to have some fireworks with our breakfast.
00:40:36Mr. and Mrs. Sprouse 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, and 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.
00:40:53Mm-hmm.
00:40:54Eating's my strongest weakness, you know.
00:40:56Well, Papa certainly must be the retired gentleman.
00:40:58Doesn't he get up for breakfast?
00:40:59I'll go up and wake him.
00:41:01Oh, Lena.
00:41:03Why did you let us know you were coming?
00:41:04I wanted to surprise you.
00:41:06I love surprises.
00:41:10And won't she be surprised?
00:41:18What can we tell her?
00:41:21You'll have to figure that out.
00:41:23Too early in the morning for me to do any thinking.
00:41:32I'll be back in a minute.
00:41:49Where's Papa?
00:41:50Why, uh, Papa isn't home.
00:41:54Isn't home?
00:41:55No.
00:41:56You see, Lena, Papa moved.
00:42:00Moved?
00:42:01He couldn't live alone, so he moved to a hotel.
00:42:04Papa living alone in a hotel?
00:42:07Where?
00:42:08The Franklin, on Madison Avenue.
00:42:10But what happened?
00:42:11Why?
00:42:12Why, nothing happened.
00:42:13He just wanted to live alone.
00:42:16Papa living alone in a hotel.
00:42:32$3.80.
00:42:33Honest, miss, I didn't take it for a joyride.
00:42:35I didn't know how to find it.
00:42:37Keep the change.
00:42:39Five bucks.
00:42:48Is Mr. Strauss in?
00:42:50Mr. Ludwig Strauss?
00:42:52Yes.
00:42:53I believe you'll find him sitting in the back of the hotel.
00:42:56I'm afraid so.
00:42:58Yes.
00:42:59I believe you'll find him sitting right over there.
00:43:03Papa.
00:43:27Papa.
00:43:31Oh.
00:43:33My little Lena.
00:43:34My baby.
00:43:37My little baby.
00:43:46That's my little Lena.
00:43:48My daughter.
00:43:53I'm so happy to meet you, I'm sure.
00:43:58Excuse me, I have to get my medicine.
00:44:01Excuse me.
00:44:04Sit down, darling.
00:44:10It's good to have you back.
00:44:14And I need you.
00:44:17I'll never leave you again, dear.
00:44:19Never.
00:44:20No.
00:44:21Why are you here?
00:44:24What a foolish question you're asking.
00:44:28Why 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 they get on the young people's nerves.
00:44:47You see, all these other fellows,
00:44:51they're just like me.
00:44:54They like it quiet.
00:44:57They want to be alone.
00:45:00Well, you're not alone.
00:45:02Why, I'll never leave you for a minute.
00:45:04No.
00:45:05By tomorrow, we'll be in our own little place.
00:45:08Just you and I.
00:45:09I'll keep house for you.
00:45:11And it'll be nice and quiet.
00:45:13And you can do just what you want to.
00:45:16Say, and I still know how to cook.
00:45:18For your first meal,
00:45:20I'll make you some of that nice sauerbraten.
00:45:23Oh, sauerbraten.
00:45:26With tomfood.
00:45:29I made it for Uncle Adam.
00:45:31He just loves it.
00:45:34Oh, I forgot.
00:45:36Uncle Adam.
00:45:39He's better?
00:45:43He's gone.
00:45:49Adam.
00:45:51Gone.
00:45:54Well,
00:45:56maybe it's better to be dead
00:46:00than suffer.
00:46:06You were with him till the end.
00:46:08Yes, Father.
00:46:11And now,
00:46:13you'll stay with me
00:46:16till the end.
00:46:18Yes.
00:46:20Don't you talk like that.
00:46:24Yes.
00:46:44Hello, Lena.
00:46:50Did you see Father?
00:46:52Of course I saw Father.
00:46:54And I'd like to know the 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.
00:47:02He 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.
00:47:27But his heart told me that he's a broken,
00:47:29disappointed, disillusioned old man.
00:47:32Oh, you're exaggerating things.
00:47:33Well, 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 schemes.
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, all 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.
00:48:17I've listened to you before.
00:48:18Now you listen to me.
00:48:19You can call it a hotel if you want to, but that doesn't change it.
00:48:22It's a poor house.
00:48:23An institution where he must go to bed and get up at the ring of a bell.
00:48:26Where 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.
00:48:33And his son sent him there.
00:48:36His son.
00:48:37My brothers.
00:48:39Oh, I'm ashamed of you.
00:48:41All of you.
00:48:42You're not my brothers.
00:48:43You're a lot of cold, selfish, heartless swine.
00:48:58Well, that's not going to affect my appetite.
00:49:01Come on.
00:49:02Let's have dinner.
00:49:05Now don't be an old wash woman and talk so much.
00:49:09I'll see you Saturday.
00:49:11When the other fellas ask you where I am, you tell them I'm out.
00:49:15Lie to them.
00:49:16You know how.
00:49:17Yeah, yeah.
00:49:19You teach me.
00:49:20Go away, you old faker.
00:49:22Come on, Dad.
00:49:24Goodbye.
00:49:25Goodbye.
00:49:26Goodbye.
00:49:27Oh, are you leaving us?
00:49:29Oh, no.
00:49:30I'm just going to have dinner.
00:49:32Oh, no.
00:49:33I'm just taking a walk with my children.
00:49:35I see.
00:49:36Oh, wait, wait.
00:49:37I forgot.
00:49:42Oh, 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 fellow wants to come in whose children can't afford to pay for him.
00:50:12So you use those checks.
00:50:14Well, goodbye.
00:50:16Goodbye, Mr. Strauss.
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.
00:50:26We're celebrating today.
00:50:28You didn't get married without telling Papa.
00:50:31Come on.
00:50:32Quit your kidding.
00:50:33Goodbye.
00:50:34Goodbye.
00:50:35Goodbye, boys.
00:50:36Goodbye.
00:50:37I'll be back this afternoon.
00:50:38Goodbye.
00:50:39Goodbye.
00:50:40Goodbye.
00:50:41Oh, this is a beautiful place.
00:50:45And 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?
00:50:55Mm-hmm.
00:50:56And all for you.
00:50:57Yeah.
00:50:58Sure.
00:50:59Come on.
00:51:01There you are.
00:51:03Ooh.
00:51:04What kind of room is this?
00:51:06This is your office.
00:51:08What would I do with an office?
00:51:10Giving me an office is like giving a dead dog a bone.
00:51:15What good is an office without a business?
00:51:17I am a retired loafer.
00:51:19You're not retired anymore.
00:51:21You're getting back into the harness.
00:51:23Dina, what are you talking about?
00:51:25Show us what she means.
00:51:27Justice, Mrs. Strauss, my formula is registered,
00:51:30and we're going to die business.
00:51:32Come on now.
00:51:33Sit down.
00:51:34You're the head of the new company.
00:51:36Yeah.
00:51:37All right.
00:51:39I am the head of the new company.
00:51:42But will you please tell me what the head of the new company
00:51:45is going to do for money?
00:51:47Oh, don't you worry about that.
00:51:49We have a silent partner with plenty of money.
00:51:52What?
00:51:53We've got a partner with plenty of money?
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.
00:52:24Much more than your papa did.
00:52:29No, Dina.
00:52:31I don't take that money.
00:52:34That'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
00:52:49for your knowledge.
00:52:50Joseph gets 25 for the formula,
00:52:52and I get 25% for my money.
00:52:54Isn't that fair?
00:52:55Yeah.
00:52:57That's fair.
00:52:59But I don't take it.
00:53:01Let Joseph go into business.
00:53:03I don't know anything about business.
00:53:05But you do.
00:53:07My knowledge is old fashioned.
00:53:09Nowadays they do business modern,
00:53:12with in the office accommodations.
00:53:15No, Joseph.
00:53:17I'm too old for business.
00:53:19You're not old.
00:53:20Yes, I am.
00:53:21Well, of course, if you want to make yourself old,
00:53:23nothing will do it any quicker than being idle.
00:53:25I tell you, Mr. Strauss, what you need is business.
00:53:27Something to occupy your mind.
00:53:29An office, a desk.
00:53:30Show the people in the business world that you're not through.
00:53:33Who says I'm through?
00:53:35Hans and Louis?
00:53:37Well, I sure am.
00:53:38You're right, Joseph.
00:53:39That's what I need.
00:53:41Business.
00:53:42All right.
00:53:43Start right now.
00:53:47Now, the first thing we do,
00:53:49we've got to give the company a name.
00:53:51Joseph, are you an American citizen?
00:53:53Oh, yes.
00:53:54I 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've got a head at both ends.
00:54:14Now, Nina, you're the silent partner.
00:54:18Don'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.
00:54:31Then there's the Keystone, the Metropolitan,
00:54:37the Fast Silks Incorporated,
00:54:40the United Imports.
00:54:42You'll start them.
00:54:44I'll finish them.
00:54:45Yes, sir.
00:54:46In the last two months,
00:54:47the American Die Works have taken six of our best accounts.
00:54:51And here.
00:54:52Take a look at their circular letter.
00:54:56Why use foreign-made dies?
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
00:55:11for us to try and merge with those flag-wavers.
00:55:14Merge with them?
00:55:15I didn't know 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.
00:55:26All the poor sap would tell me
00:55:27that some old fellow was behind the firm
00:55:29whose aim was to keep the home fires burning.
00:55:46Cancellation from the Brewer's Company.
00:55:48Last week, it was the Metropolitan.
00:55:50This week, it's the Brewer's.
00:55:52With the elimination of the processing
00:56:01that is necessary with other dies,
00:56:04our prices become correspondingly lower.
00:56:11In the middle comes the bell.
00:56:13I'll only be a minute.
00:56:26Hello, Joe.
00:56:27Hello, darling.
00:56:29Papa's in the office.
00:56:30Yeah?
00:56:31Mm-hmm.
00:56:32I've got some good news for him.
00:56:33So early in the morning?
00:56:34Sure.
00:56:35Heavy business, too.
00:56:36Good.
00:56:38Well, how's the head of the American Die Works today?
00:56:40Oh, I'm fine.
00:56:43Look at your pants.
00:56:45They're shrunk.
00:56:46Oh, they're golf pants.
00:56:48Say, I closed that Brevard's deal today.
00:56:50You did?
00:56:51Yes, sir.
00:56:52That's fine.
00:56:53But tell me,
00:56:54how did you get near enough to that Brevard's?
00:56:57He's such an independent.
00:56:59Why, Brevard's and I play golf together every Saturday.
00:57:01And old boy, he hates to lose.
00:57:03So today, I'll let him beat me.
00:57:06Good gracious.
00:57:07New methods.
00:57:10Saturday.
00:57:12There it is.
00:57:13What?
00:57:14I can't find it.
00:57:15You can't find what?
00:57:16There it is.
00:57:17What do you lose?
00:57:18My hat.
00:57:19Oh, your hat.
00:57:20Let me find my hat.
00:57:21I've got to have my hat.
00:57:22Oh, your hat.
00:57:23There it is.
00:57:24Did anybody see my hat?
00:57:25Well, where'd you put it?
00:57:27Would I ask if I would know?
00:57:29There's my hat.
00:57:31I've got to find that hat, or I can't go.
00:57:33Papa, what is the matter?
00:57:34Now, why are you so excited?
00:57:36Why am I so excited?
00:57:38I just now remember today is Saturday.
00:57:40And Saturday is the day
00:57:42when the head of the Strauss Divorce
00:57:45pays a visit to one of the heads of the American Divorce.
00:57:48Joseph, you've got to find my hat.
00:57:49Where is your hat?
00:57:51New York.
00:57:52You had it hidden in your pocket, sir.
00:57:54Well, I've got to run.
00:57:55Goodbye.
00:57:56So long.
00:57:57Bye.
00:58:04I've read it, too.
00:58:18Well, Hans, how's business?
00:58:21Not so good.
00:58:23We just lost the briber's business.
00:58:25Oh, that's too bad.
00:58:28Maybe you want I should go and see him?
00:58:32Maybe I could get his business back for you.
00:58:36No, I'm afraid you couldn't do anything with old briber.
00:58:40It 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, of course.
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.
00:59:19Well, I suppose we won't be seeing you again until Saturday.
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?
00:59:55I'll try him.
01:00:02Can't you do that for us, Mr. Lehman?
01:00:05Sorry, Mr. Strauss, but your statement doesn't warrant it.
01:00:12Our bank would be very, very glad of your business, Mr. Strauss,
01:00:16but we can't start off by making a loan of that size.
01:00:22Well, why come to me?
01:00:25I haven't spoken to your father for years.
01:00:27He's very much in need, and he thought you would do it.
01:00:32So, your father, the proud Louis Strauss,
01:00:36sends you to me for a loan.
01:00:39I told him years ago he'd have to come to me.
01:00:43It's all right.
01:00:44It's all right.
01:00:45It's all right.
01:00:46It's all right.
01:00:47It's all right.
01:00:48It's all right.
01:00:50It's only for six months.
01:00:54Louis Strauss had to come to me at last.
01:00:58All right.
01:01:00You tell your father to come to my office tomorrow morning
01:01:03and 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?
01:01:47Did you get it?
01:01:48No.
01:01:49I tried every one I could think of, but it was useless.
01:01:53We're literally through.
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.
01:02:18Joseph, 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.
01:02:28They're calling a creditors' meeting tomorrow.
01:02:30Quick, Joseph, open the door.
01:02:32Never mind.
01:02:33I'll go myself.
01:02:40Oh, come in, Mr. Hodler.
01:02:42I've been waiting for you.
01:02:44Have 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.
01:02:54I understand the Strauss Dye Company is going into bankruptcy.
01:02:57No, my dear friend.
01:02:59That isn't what I want to accomplish, and it mustn't happen.
01:03:02That's why I sent for you.
01:03:04You are my lawyer, and I want you to offer a proposition to the members of the Strauss Dye Works
01:03:10to merge with the American Dye Works.
01:03:13Merge?
01:03:15The Strauss Dye Company is worthless.
01:03:17It hasn't any assets.
01:03:19Oh, that's where you're wrong, my friend.
01:03:22They have two very valuable assets.
01:03:26My sons.
01:03:28Mr. Butler, 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 prophet's 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,
01:04:00maybe a little unkind,
01:04:03but after all, they are my sons.
01:04:07Very well.
01:04:11Come in, children.
01:04:15Now, your proposition is...
01:04:18Well, here is the condition that I want.
01:04:25Hannaford and Lee Strauss are to be active members of the combined firms
01:04:30to be known hereafter as the American Dye Works
01:04:33at a salary of $10,000 each per annum
01:04:37and 10% jointly of the net profits to be made
01:04:42in preferred stocks of the American Dye Works.
01:04:46If this is satisfactory to the counselor,
01:04:49my clients have already signed the agreement.
01:04:52I 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.
01:06:04Your father said if I asked you to marry me,
01:06:07you said no.
01:06:09Ask him.
01:06:11Say yes.
01:06:13Don't ask Papa. Ask me.
01:06:20Mmm.
01:06:22Mmm.
01:06:24Mmm.
01:06:26Mmm.
01:06:28Mmm.
01:06:30Mmm.
01:06:32Mmm.
01:06:34How? You're improving.
01:06:37You dunk two times deep to my one-time shallow.