- 2 days ago
Forgotten
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00The End
00:00:30The End
00:01:00The End
00:01:30I will show you for yourself why your Papa is happy.
00:01:42What is that, Papa?
00:01:43That is, Hans, what every foreigner should have if he wants to stay in this country.
00:01:50But what is it, Papa?
00:01:51Oh, Louis, you're 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 fwot, 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.
00:02:33You know, Lena, you and your Mama was, like they say in America, like two beans in one pot.
00:02:45Who's that, huh?
00:02:47Come in.
00:02:51Hello.
00:02:52Hello, Uncle Addo.
00:02:54Hello, children.
00:02:55Hello.
00:02:56Hello, Mr. Kleinart.
00:02:57What's the matter?
00:02:59For me, he ain't got a hello.
00:03:01I almost forgot you was here.
00:03:02Well, what could I expect from a foreigner?
00:03:07What is this foreigner business, huh?
00:03:09You ain't the foreigners?
00:03:11That's where I laugh on you.
00:03:14I used to was, but I ain't.
00:03:17Hans, Lena, Louis, tell them what your Papa has got.
00:03:21Papa's got a privilege.
00:03:22What kind of a privilege?
00:03:25Here, look on it yourself.
00:03:29Ach, du lieber.
00:03:32You, you, you, you got citizen papers, huh?
00:03:35Yeah.
00:03:36Congratulations, Ludwig.
00:03:40Ain't that nice, huh?
00:03:43Yeah.
00:03:44Someday soon, I'll, I'll have one, too.
00:03:48Oh, children.
00:03:49One into the other room, please, huh?
00:03:51I want to talk with Papa.
00:03:52Go ahead, children.
00:03:54And Lena, bring Uncle Adolf a cup of tea.
00:03:57All right.
00:03:58That's nice.
00:03:58Nice.
00:03:59She's just like her mother was.
00:04:05Ain't she, huh?
00:04:07Yeah, yeah.
00:04:10Well, Ludwig.
00:04:11Yeah?
00:04:13Maybe I don't see you so soon again.
00:04:16And maybe I never see you no more.
00:04:21What's the matter with you?
00:04:22Maybe I don't see you never no more.
00:04:24Ain't she going to be Saturday night by the Pinnardal game?
00:04:28No.
00:04:29Tomorrow I'm leaving.
00:04:32I'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 saying good enough for you?
00:04:42Ach, a fine citizen you are, yes?
00:04:46You don't even know that California is in the United States.
00:04:57Nana, and what are you laughing about?
00:05:00I got a laugh because you are so dumb.
00:05:03You didn't even know that I was making a joke with you.
00:05:09All choking aside.
00:05:12Thank you, Lena.
00:05:13Thank you, Lena.
00:05:14What is that idea, you're 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 dry climate and the sunshine,
00:05:29for my heart.
00:05:32Maybe I will get healthier yet.
00:05:34Ach, 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,
00:05:42but you know,
00:05:44many a times,
00:05:45the sick fellow that I give up for debt
00:05:47goes to the doctor's funeral yet.
00:05:49So?
00:05:50Don't it happen every day?
00:05:52Ach, Adolf,
00:05:54maybe you need a little money?
00:05:58Nein, danke, Ludwig.
00:05:59I don't need money.
00:06:01I don't need money.
00:06:01I don't need money.
00:06:15With all my love to my little Lena,
00:06:20Louie and his wife,
00:06:23Hans 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 Louie.
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
00:06:49and you can be Lee,
00:06:51but to me you always will be Hans und Louis.
00:07:00Pardon me, Mr. Myers is here.
00:07:02Lena, you go and see him.
00:07:05Papa will come by and by.
00:07:06Go on.
00:07:08Anyhow, he don't want to see me.
00:07:11Pardon me.
00:07:18Father, why do you let Lena
00:07:19spend so much time with that fellow Myers?
00:07:22What's the matter, Louie?
00:07:24Joseph is a nice boy
00:07:25and he's smart.
00:07:28And besides, he's a fine chemist.
00:07:32Joseph is working on a die now
00:07:34that will revolutionize the whole die business.
00:07:37Father, I hope you're not financing
00:07:38your silly experiments.
00:07:40It's not silly.
00:07:42Then Joseph has perfected his new die.
00:07:45How?
00:07:45Your papa's telling you
00:07:47all of us other die works are kaput.
00:07:51You're doing all right with the pleasant dies.
00:07:53Why experiment?
00:07:55Ah, children.
00:07:57If we stop experimenting,
00:07:59we stop progress.
00:08:01And if progress stops,
00:08:03we all stop.
00:08:04Well, I believe in letting good enough alone.
00:08:07I won't argue.
00:08:08You know,
00:08:09your papa never argues.
00:08:11But,
00:08:12you'll see,
00:08:13Joseph has got something good.
00:08:16Anyhow,
00:08:17I'll go and see him.
00:08:19And I'll have a talk with him.
00:08:20If this fellow Mars formula is any good,
00:08:30it looks as though papa's going to marry it
00:08:31into the family.
00:08:32Damn clever,
00:08:33these Strausses.
00:08:35Hello, Joseph.
00:08:36Oh, good evening,
00:08:37Mrs. Strauss.
00:08:38Excuse me.
00:08:39Maybe I shouldn't interrupt you, huh?
00:08:41Oh, papa.
00:08:42Say,
00:08:42I was young once, too.
00:08:45You are making progress, huh?
00:08:47Well, I'm trying.
00:08:48Oh, I see.
00:08:49But I mean about your formula.
00:08:52Oh,
00:08:52say,
00:08:52I brought you over some new samples.
00:08:54Yeah?
00:08:54They turned out pretty good, too.
00:08:56Hmm.
00:08:57Is that the only reason you came over?
00:09:01Hmm?
00:09:02Not bad.
00:09:06Not good.
00:09:08But not bad, neither.
00:09:10Anyhow,
00:09:11I'll show him 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.
00:09:24Looks like the evening's going to be spent in 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.
00:09:35I'm afraid, father, we won't be of much help.
00:09:37Well, that's right.
00:09:38Maybe you should go along with them and take them out and have a little fun, you know.
00:09:50All work and no pressure.
00:09:52That ain't no good, neither.
00:09:54Oh, they'll entertain themselves all right.
00:09:58What is the matter with you?
00:09:59You don't seem to take care of yourself.
00:10:01Your mind always on something else?
00:10:03Well, I guess I'll not be much of a success at anything.
00:10:07Oh, yes, you will.
00:10:09Say, it would be kind of nice at that, to have somebody look after you.
00:10:13Joe, are you proposing?
00:10:16Oh, no, no, I didn't mean to.
00:10:19But now that I have, I mean it.
00:10:23I was only fooling.
00:10:24You haven't anything to worry about.
00:10:26You have a big home, servants, and a father-in-law to watch everything I do.
00:10:32I have to sneak into the bathroom to get a little smoke.
00:10:35Oh, you and me have an ideal life, an apartment of your own.
00:10:39And only visit your dear father-in-law whenever you want to.
00:10:45Me and I were talking about your father.
00:10:47You know, dear, I think he's getting too old to work as he does.
00:10:51You don't know him.
00:10:53He loves work.
00:10:54I think it'd be wonderful if 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, but we're doing all right as it is.
00:11:10We're getting a nice salary.
00:11:12Oh, haven't you any ambition?
00:11:13Do you want to work for a salary all your life?
00:11:16You should be thinking of yourself.
00:11:18What is it to think about?
00:11:19Eventually the business will be ours.
00:11:22Very well, dear.
00:11:23If you're satisfied to go on the way you are, it'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.
00:11:32So you think
00:11:49your papa
00:11:52is 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.
00:12:07Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:08Well, we'll see what Lina says.
00:12:31Oh, good.
00:12:31Hmm.
00:12:32Now, Lina,
00:12:35what do you say?
00:12:38Should papa retire and become a loafer?
00:12:43Oh.
00:12:44You want papa to retire, huh?
00:12:51No.
00:12:54So it shall be.
00:12:55Well, Joseph,
00:13:01what do you think?
00:13:03I'm going to retire
00:13:04and become a gentleman
00:13:06of, uh,
00:13:08of
00:13:08nothing to do.
00:13:13Let's
00:13:13I go and get my pipe.
00:13:20Yes.
00:13:20Yes.
00:13:22Hmm.
00:13:25Well, we're going to play bridge.
00:13:26Come on, let's go.
00:13:30Good night, Jewel.
00:13:32Good night, Lee.
00:13:36Lina, 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,
00:13:43papa's getting along in years.
00:13:45Yes, but the boys need him.
00:13:46They need his advice.
00:13:48He'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
00:13:54feeling so well.
00:13:56Don't you know that a man
00:13:57has to keep his mind active?
00:13:58What is he going to do?
00:14:00What is he going to think about?
00:14:02Usually, when a man
00:14:02like your father retires,
00:14:04his mind retires with him.
00:14:07I hope we haven't made a mistake.
00:14:14Hello.
00:14:14Hello.
00:14:16I think you'll never see.
00:14:19Your friend didn't get a hello.
00:14:21Hello.
00:14:21Hello.
00:14:22Hans, yeah, listen.
00:14:24That's me, your papa.
00:14:26I got here a letter
00:14:27from Adolf
00:14:28in California.
00:14:30He's sick.
00:14:31And he wants Lina to come.
00:14:33Yeah, right away.
00:14:34So please,
00:14:35make reservations for her
00:14:36for the afternoon train.
00:14:38Sure she's got to go.
00:14:41Would I send her otherwise?
00:14:42Yeah, yeah.
00:14:44Make hurry up.
00:14:45Quick, please.
00:14:46Yeah.
00:14:48Goodbye.
00:14:49Lina?
00:14:50Where can she be?
00:14:52Lina!
00:14:53Lina!
00:14:54Lina!
00:14:57Lina!
00:14:59Can you see that?
00:15:00I'm excited,
00:15:01and Lina isn't here.
00:15:03Carl!
00:15:04Carl!
00:15:06Carl!
00:15:08Carl!
00:15:09Carl!
00:15:09Carl!
00:15:10Carl!
00:15:10What did you call me, sir?
00:15:12Ach,
00:15:13du heilige Strohsack.
00:15:17I'm hollering
00:15:18all over the place
00:15:19for you,
00:15:20and then you ask
00:15:21where did I call you.
00:15:23What do you suppose
00:15:23I was doing?
00:15:24Talking to myself?
00:15:27Where's Lina?
00:15:27I don't know, sir.
00:15:30You was right.
00:15:31There was no use
00:15:32calling you.
00:15:37That may be someone.
00:15:39I don't want someone,
00:15:40I want Lina!
00:15:41Yes.
00:15:42Oh, Lina!
00:15:43Am I glad to see you.
00:15:45What's the matter, Papa?
00:15:46Look, Lina,
00:15:47I got here a letter
00:15:48from your uncle Adolf.
00:15:50He's sick
00:15:51and all alone.
00:15:53You got to go to him
00:15:53right away.
00:15:54But, Papa...
00:15:54Papa, please don't talk.
00:15:56He needs you.
00:15:58He'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?
00:16:04The boy's got to have me
00:16:05here in the business.
00:16:06But listen, Papa...
00:16:07No more buts.
00:16:09Everything is arranged.
00:16:10Hans has made a reservation
00:16:11for the afternoon train,
00:16:12so go on.
00:16:13Well, what about you,
00:16:14this is...
00:16:14I have arranged that too.
00:16:16I telephoned Joseph
00:16:17and he'll meet you
00:16:18by the station.
00:16:19Now, please, hurry up.
00:16:20All right, Papa.
00:16:20Oh, Lina, Lina.
00:16:21Yes, Papa.
00:16:22Here's on the other sticker.
00:16:23Here's the address
00:16:24that's on it.
00:16:25All right, now that's
00:16:25when I get there.
00:16:26Please, don't ask
00:16:27any more questions.
00:16:28Hurry up, quick, will you?
00:16:30Carl.
00:16:31Carl.
00:16:34Carl, 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
00:16:43when you should be
00:16:44and when you shouldn't be
00:16:45then you are.
00:16:45Yes, Mr. Sprouse.
00:16:47Now, Carl,
00:16:47tell the chauffeur
00:16:48to go right away, hurry up
00:16:49and take Miss Lina
00:16:50down to the station.
00:16:52And, and, and Carl.
00:16:53Yes, Mr. Sprouse.
00:16:54Hurry up, girl.
00:16:56Poor Adolf.
00:16:58All alone.
00:17:03Lina, 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
00:17:08he didn't say.
00:17:08Only that Uncle Adolf
00:17:09was sick and wanted me
00:17:10to come to him.
00:17:11Have you the ticket?
00:17:11Yes.
00:17:12Gee, your father said
00:17:14he's going to miss you.
00:17:15Just my father?
00:17:16You're not going to stay
00:17:17away long, are you?
00:17:18I won't stay
00:17:19under a minute longer
00:17:19than Uncle Adolf needs me.
00:17:21Joseph, dear,
00:17:22take good care of Papa.
00:17:24Don't let him miss me
00:17:24too much.
00:17:25Don't you miss me
00:17:26too much.
00:17:27Oh, I won't.
00:17:28Oh, I mean that
00:17:29I'll see your father
00:17:30every day.
00:17:32Goodbye, Lina.
00:17:33Goodbye, Joe.
00:17:34Take good care
00:17:34of yourself.
00:17:35Goodbye.
00:17:36Listen,
00:17:36don't forget the writing.
00:17:37Now, when you get down.
00:17:38Oh, I won't.
00:17:38Oh, I won't.
00:17:39Oh, I won't.
00:17:40Oh, I won't.
00:17:40Oh, I won't.
00:17:40Oh, I won't.
00:17:41Oh, I won't.
00:17:41Oh, I won't.
00:17:41Oh, I won't.
00:17:41I got a laugh.
00:17:51Lina's like everybody else.
00:17:53She's been in California
00:17:55only three weeks
00:17:56and look what she writes.
00:17:58This is God's country.
00:18:00Nothing but sunshine
00:18:01and flowers.
00:18:03About sunshine and flowers
00:18:05she tells me.
00:18:06But about Adolf
00:18:07she says nothing.
00:18:09Perhaps he's all right
00:18:10and there's nothing to tell.
00:18:11Maybe I'm a little too anxious.
00:18:17That's the trouble
00:18:18with old people.
00:18:20They always think
00:18:21right away
00:18:21of the worstest.
00:18:41Even more.
00:18:51No.
00:18:52I'm a little too senior.
00:18:58Here, Father.
00:19:01Smoke a cigar.
00:19:03Father, smoke a cigar.
00:19:17Yeah, yeah.
00:19:33I do wish you'd ask him not to smoke that pipe in here.
00:19:48Carlton.
00:20:02Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:20:04Have a cigar.
00:20:06Thank you, sir.
00:20:08But I smoke a pipe, sir.
00:20:10Yeah.
00:20:12But a smoke from a pipe annoys people.
00:20:15Yes, sir.
00:20:18Oh, is that all we get?
00:20:23Oh, give me another piece.
00:20:25No, dear, not run along and play.
00:20:29I'll be glad when they grow up.
00:20:31Children are so much trouble when they're small.
00:20:34Yeah.
00:20:35And when they grow up, they are bigger troubles.
00:20:38Yeah.
00:20:40Strauss.
00:20:43Mr. Strauss.
00:20:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:46What?
00:20:47Huh?
00:20:48Divers, sir.
00:20:49Who?
00:20:50Who?
00:20:51Oh, yeah, dinner, dinner.
00:20:52Oh, yeah.
00:20:53Oh, yeah.
00:21:15Where are the children?
00:21:17Mr. Hannaford phoned.
00:21:18They were dining out.
00:21:20Oh, they couldn't come.
00:21:23Say, Carl.
00:21:25You know what we do?
00:21:27I keep you company and we eat in the kitchen.
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?
00:21:38Thanks, Mr. Strauss.
00:21:39Thanks, Mr. Strauss.
00:21:41You know, Carl, with you it's a pleasure to dine.
00:21:46It's so comedic.
00:21:47Yeah.
00:21:48And then, you don't mind if I dunk, huh?
00:21:52Dunk?
00:21:53I like it myself.
00:21:54Yeah.
00:21:55Yeah.
00:21:56Yeah.
00:21:57Yeah.
00:21:58Yeah.
00:21:59Not fair.
00:22:00I passed a second notice.
00:22:01No, no, I know that.
00:22:02Yeah.
00:22:03Good, huh?
00:22:04Is it good, huh?
00:22:05Is it good, yeah?
00:22:06Mm.
00:22:07Mm.
00:22:08Good, huh?
00:22:09Is it good, yeah?
00:22:10Mm.
00:22:11Mm.
00:22:13Wollen Sie es an die Bienen haben, ja?
00:22:16We remain sincerely yours.
00:22:19Well, well, Father.
00:22:21Hello, boys.
00:22:22Hello, Father.
00:22:23That'll be all, Miss Snyder.
00:22:25Hello, Miss Snyder.
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 chemicals.
00:22:38But I'm only choking.
00:22:41I had a telephone call from Mr. Hottner
00:22:43from the amalgamated cherubist 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 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.
00:22:59Well, uh, Father, we decided to cut down on charities this year.
00:23:05Cut down on charities?
00:23:06Oh, no, Louis.
00:23:08If he's cut down on anything, we cut down on things that we can do without.
00:23:13Charities is for people what's already doing without.
00:23:18I know, but if we can't give...
00:23:20But 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.
00:23:27All we've got here is just loan to us to use while we are here.
00:23:33So we, in return, loan back a little bit here and a little bit there.
00:23:38And in the end, we're all eating.
00:23:42Yes, your philosophy may be all right, Father, but...
00:23:46We 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
00:24:03is 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,
00:24:10it's just the thing that made the Strauss works what it is today.
00:24:13All right.
00:24:14If Father thinks we should send it, let's do it.
00:24:16Sure.
00:24:17Papa thinks so.
00:24:25Here 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.
00:24:37Oh.
00:24:41Inter-office commutations.
00:24:43New methods.
00:24:45New methods.
00:24:46New methods.
00:24:54Having a good time, Father?
00:24:55Oh.
00:24:56Fine.
00:24:57I'm having a beautiful time.
00:24:59Good.
00:25:02Have a cigar.
00:25:09Where's Father?
00:25:10Oh, thank you.
00:25:11Have a drink, Father.
00:25:12Oh, yes.
00:25:13Do have a drink, Mr. Strauss.
00:25:14No, thanks.
00:25:15I...
00:25:16Well, not tonight.
00:25:18Oh.
00:25:19Oh.
00:25:20Yeah.
00:25:35Um...
00:25:36Oh! Excuse me!
00:26:06Good evening, Mr. Myers.
00:26:18Good evening, Charles.
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 me.
00:26:30He is so loathsome.
00:26:31Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
00:26:49I'm glad to see you.
00:26:52What's the matter?
00:26:54You come to the house and do a party and you ain't dressed up?
00:26:57Oh, I didn't come to the party.
00:26:58That is, I wasn't invited.
00:27:02Who'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?
00:27:13Yeah.
00:27:14Well, what did I say?
00:27:15Well, they didn't seem very much interested.
00:27:18Well, don't you worry, Nunn.
00:27:20Everything will come out all right.
00:27:23I'll speak to them myself.
00:27:25Did you have a letter from Lena today?
00:27:28Yeah?
00:27:29Funny.
00:27:31I get a letter from her every day, but only the day I got a postal card and a picture
00:27:36from California oranges on it.
00:27:39As if we don't got oranges here.
00:27:41What do you say?
00:27:42Well, she said that she wouldn't be away much longer.
00:27:45You know, Joseph, since Lena has left, I 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, when you ask Lena to marry you and she says no, then you ask me and I'd
00:28:08say yes.
00:28:10Well, I have to go now, Professor Krause.
00:28:13Good 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?
00:28:20But, Joseph, don't work so hard.
00:28:22Of course, if you work too hard, you'll have to retire when you get to be an old man like
00:28:26me.
00:28:27Don't you worry about that.
00:28:28I'll never make enough to retire.
00:28:29Yeah.
00:28:30Good night, Mrs. Strauss.
00:28:31Good night, Joseph.
00:28:33Be careful.
00:28:35Don't fall in a leather box.
00:28:36I'll give you girls a nip what is a nip.
00:28:58This is where I keep my private stock.
00:29:00Young society matron runs her own speakeasy.
00:29:03But why do a fade out when you want a little drink?
00:29:05Oh, you've heard of people suffering from too much mother-in-law.
00:29:09Well, I'm suffering from too much father-in-law.
00:29:12Well, why not move?
00:29:13Me move?
00:29:14Why should I?
00:29:15Shut 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, let my dear father-in-law do that.
00:29:23Well, here's mud in your eye.
00:29:31We off?
00:29:35Good evening, Mrs. Strauss.
00:29:47Good evening, Mary.
00:29:49And Mr. and Mrs. Strauss are in the living room.
00:29:51Oh, thank you.
00:29:52Oh, hello, Papa.
00:30:02Good 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, should that be something the matter?
00:30:18No, no, of 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.
00:30:31Well, Louis, how is everything?
00:30:49Oh, everything's fine.
00:30:51I had a wire from Hannaford.
00:30:52He'll be back Wednesday.
00:30:54He's trying to close the Keystone deal.
00:30:56That's good.
00:30:57I hope he'll get it.
00:31:10You know, children, there is a reason that I came over.
00:31:17I want to ask you, if maybe you are too lonesome here, I would come and live with you.
00:31:25Is there anything wrong?
00:31:28No, no.
00:31:30Only you know the old house is so big, and I get a little lonesome.
00:31:38And it ain't the same like it used to be.
00:31:43Hans and Myrtle, they give parties, and Papa is too old for parties.
00:31:49So, 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, may?
00:32:06Why?
00:32:08Well, yes.
00:32:09Of course.
00:32:10Thank you, my children.
00:32:28I tell you, he wanted to go.
00:32:30I didn't say a word to him.
00:32:32As a matter of fact, I didn't know he had gone until May called me up a few days after he left.
00:32:36Hello, Hannaford.
00:32:37Hi, Mark.
00:32:38Oh, hello, Lee.
00:32:39Why don't you get back?
00:32:39I just got your call.
00:32:41I want to talk to you, Lee.
00:32:43I just got back this afternoon.
00:32:59What's it all about, Lee?
00:33:00What's happened to Father?
00:33:01Well, Hans, I'll tell you.
00:33:08Papa and Myrtle don't seem to hit it off so well.
00:33:12Oh.
00:33:15I don't know what's the matter with him.
00:33:19Of late, he's been acting kind of strange.
00:33:22Everything that Myrtle and May do seems to get on his nerves.
00:33:33You know, Hans, 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.
00:33:43The guests there are men of father's age.
00:33:48Now, there, he could have his pinochle games and talk to the old fellows and...
00:33:53Now, don't misunderstand, Hans.
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.
00:34:03And afterward, you give them so much a week.
00:34:04I think it would be great for him.
00:34:30Wake up.
00:34:30You're sleeping at the top of your voice.
00:34:34It 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.
00:35:04I 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 it I should go to Europe.
00:35:22Here it's quiet and peaceful.
00:35:24And for 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 him?
00:35:36Yeah.
00:35:41By 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.
00:35:51That's the Strauss boy.
00:35:56Maybe 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.
00:36:03Hello, Hans.
00:36:05Sit down.
00:36:06No, no, sit still.
00:36:06I 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 most any time now.
00:36:29Did she say how Adolf is?
00:36:31No, she didn't.
00:36:32No.
00:36:34She don't tell me neither.
00:36:40By the way, boys.
00:36:41But, you 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.
00:36:52You 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 present eyes 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, we'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.
00:37:27Well, goodbye.
00:37:28Goodbye.
00:37:29Goodbye, Father.
00:37:30Goodbye, Louis.
00:37:31Goodbye.
00:37:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:40Yeah, yeah, 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?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:14Yeah?
00:38:14Yeah?
00:38:14Yeah?
00:38:15Yeah?
00:38:15Yeah?
00:38:17Yeah?
00:38:18Yeah?
00:38:19Yeah?
00:38:20Yeah?
00:38:21Yeah.
00:38:23Yeah?
00:38:24Yeah?
00:38:25Yeah?
00:38:26Yeah?
00:38:26Yeah?
00:38:27Yeah?
00:38:28Yeah?
00:38:28Yeah?
00:38:29Yeah?
00:38:31Yeah?
00:38:31Yeah?
00:38:32Yeah?
00:38:35Look.
00:38:37Here comes my friend Chosen.
00:38:41He's a fine boy.
00:38:43You're telling me?
00:38:47Hi, Mr. Cohn.
00:38:47Very well, thank you.
00:38:50Hello there, young fella.
00:38:51How do?
00:38:51How are you?
00:38:52How are you, Mr. Strauss?
00:38:54Hello, Chosen.
00:38:55I'm fine, fine.
00:38:57And it's like sunshine to see you.
00:39:00How are you feeling, Mr. Johnson?
00:39:03I'd be feeling fine if it wasn't with this old fellow
00:39:06always trying to make me believe things that ain't.
00:39:09Honest, Joseph.
00:39:11He doubts every word I tell him.
00:39:13He's the biggest doubter in the whole world.
00:39:16Oh, don't be leaving.
00:39:18Oh, I must.
00:39:18I have to get my medicine.
00:39:23He's a big figure.
00:39:25He don't have to get medicine.
00:39:27No?
00:39:27He 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.
00:39:48Yeah, Joseph.
00:39:50They used to listen to me.
00:39:52Asked my advice about everything.
00:39:57We were close together.
00:40:02But they have changed.
00:40:05They are different.
00:40:08Well, perhaps they are busy.
00:40:12No, Joseph.
00:40:13I have lost my son.
00:40:24Well, Miss Lena.
00:40:26Hello, Carl.
00:40:27It's good to see you.
00:40:28Thanks, Benny.
00:40:29Good to be home.
00:40:31It's Lena.
00:40:32Mm-hmm.
00:40:34And we're going to have some fireworks with our breakfast.
00:40:37Mr. and Mrs. Sprouse are having breakfast.
00:40:40Oh, Carl, will you pay the taxi?
00:40:41Yes, Miss Lena.
00:40:43How are you, you old dumpling?
00:40:46Fine.
00:40:46And you never look better yourself.
00:40:48Hi, Myrtle.
00:40:49Hello, Lena.
00:40:50It's good to have you back home.
00:40:51Thanks.
00:40:52I see you fell off your diet.
00:40:54Mm-hmm.
00:40:54Eating is my strongest weakness, you know.
00:40:56Well, Papa certainly must be the retired gentleman.
00:40:59Doesn't he get up for breakfast?
00:41:00I'll go up and wake him.
00:41:01Oh, Lena.
00:41:02Why didn't you let us know you were coming?
00:41:04I want 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 too early in the morning for me to do any thinking.
00:41:25Where's Papa?
00:41:49Why, uh, Father isn't home.
00:41:52Isn't home?
00:41:53No.
00:41:54You see, Lena, Father moved.
00:41:58Moved?
00:41:59Yes.
00:42:00He wanted to live alone, so he moved to a hotel.
00:42:04Papa living alone in a hotel?
00:42:06Where?
00:42:07The Franklin on Madison Avenue.
00:42:10But what happened?
00:42:11Why?
00:42:11Why?
00:42:12Nothing happened.
00:42:13He just wanted to live alone.
00:42:16Papa living alone in a hotel.
00:42:22I'm sorry.
00:42:393.80.
00:42:40Honest, miss.
00:42:41I didn't take it for a joyride.
00:42:42I didn't know how to find it.
00:42:44Keep the change.
00:42:47Five bucks.
00:42:48Is Mr. Strauss in?
00:42:57Mr. Ludwig Strauss?
00:42:59Yes.
00:43:00I believe you'll find him sitting right over there.
00:43:18Oh, my little Lena, my baby, my little baby.
00:43:39Oh, that's my little Lena, my daughter.
00:43:53I'm so happy to meet you, I'm sure.
00:43:58Excuse me, I have to get my medicine.
00:44:02You'll excuse me.
00:44:05Sit down, darling.
00:44:09It'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 they get under young people's nerves.
00:44:47You see, all these other fellas, they're just like me.
00:44:54They like it quiet.
00:44:57And they want to be alone.
00:45:00Oh, 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.
00:45:16Say, and I still know how to cook.
00:45:19For your first meal, I'll make you some of that nice sauerbraten.
00:45:23Oh, sauerbraten.
00:45:26Mit tumpfludel.
00:45:29I made it for Uncle Adolf.
00:45:31He just loved it.
00:45:33Oh.
00:45:34Oh, I forgot.
00:45:37Uncle Adolf.
00:45:39He's better?
00:45:43He's gone.
00:45:45Oh.
00:45:46Well, maybe it's better to be dead than suffer.
00:46:06You were with him till the end.
00:46:09Yes, Father.
00:46:12And now you stay with me.
00:46:16Till the end.
00:46:18Oh, yes.
00:46:20Don't you talk like that.
00:46:44Hello, Lena.
00:46:46Did 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 on the way.
00:47:08Well, I hope he doesn't blame me.
00:47:10I didn't have anything to do with it.
00:47:11He didn't blame anyone.
00:47:13On the contrary.
00:47:14He said he was happy there among 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.
00:47:21You'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.
00:47:33Well, 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.
00:47:44We'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.
00:48:17Now, see here, Lena.
00:48:18I've 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, an institution where he must go to bed and get up with the ring of a bell.
00:48:26Where he must eat what they placed 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 son sent him there.
00:48:36His son.
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.
00:48:58Well, that's not going to affect my appetite.
00:49:02Come on.
00:49:02Let's have dinner.
00:49:10Now, don't be an old wash woman and talk so much.
00:49:14I'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 fader.
00:49:26Go on, Dad.
00:49:28Goodbye.
00:49:28Goodbye.
00:49:30Goodbye.
00:49:31Oh, are you leaving us?
00:49:32Oh, no.
00:49:34I'm just taking a walk with my children there.
00:49:36I see.
00:49:37Oh, wait, wait.
00:49:38I forgot.
00:49:38So, are you really going to leave us, Mr. Strauss?
00:49:45Yeah.
00:49:45Well, I'm very sorry to see you go.
00:49:47Well, you know that.
00:49:48You know what I mean.
00:49:49Oh, sure I know.
00:49:51Say, you got a nice place here.
00:49:53Now, you know all the arrangements.
00:49:55You don't tell anybody that I leave here.
00:49:58And I come back every Saturday.
00:50:00You know, that's the day when my boys come to see me.
00:50:02And, oh, yeah.
00:50:03The checks that my boys sent 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.
00:50:13So, you use those checks.
00:50:15Well, goodbye.
00:50:16Goodbye, Mr. Strauss.
00:50:17I'll see you Saturday.
00:50:18Until Saturday.
00:50:18Saturday, yeah.
00:50:22Come on, Dad.
00:50:23We're going to taxi cab.
00:50:24Oh, no.
00:50:25Taxi cab cost money.
00:50:27We're celebrating today.
00:50:28You didn't get married without telling Papa.
00:50:32Come on, quit your kidding.
00:50:34Goodbye.
00:50:35Goodbye.
00:50:35Goodbye, boys.
00:50:36Goodbye.
00:50:36I'll be back this afternoon.
00:50:37Goodbye.
00:50:38Goodbye.
00:50:39Goodbye.
00:50:41Oh, 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 you.
00:50:56Uh-huh.
00:50:56And all for you.
00:50:57Yeah.
00:50:58Sure.
00:50:58Come on.
00:50:59Oh.
00:51:04There you are.
00:51:06Oh.
00:51:06What 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.
00:51:18What good is an office without a business?
00:51:20I am a retired loafer.
00:51:21You're not retired anymore.
00:51:23You're getting back into the harness.
00:51:26Dino, what are you talking about?
00:51:28Tell us what she means.
00:51:29Just this, Mrs. Strauss.
00:51:31My formula is registered.
00:51:33And 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.
00:51:41I 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.
00:51:51We have a silent partner with plenty of money.
00:51:55What?
00:51:55We've got a partner with money that don't say nothing.
00:52:00Who could be such a fool?
00:52:02Lena.
00:52:04Lena.
00:52:06You got money?
00:52:09Where you get it?
00:52:11Uncle Adolf left it to me.
00:52:17Adolf.
00:52:19He left it to you.
00:52:21That's more than your papa did.
00:52:28No, Lena.
00:52:31I don't take that money.
00:52:34That's yours.
00:52:35But listen, Papa.
00:52:37No, I don't listen.
00:52:39And you can't give me your money, Nita.
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.
00:52:49Joseph gets 25% for the formula, and I get 25% for my money.
00:52:55Isn't that fair?
00:52:56Yes.
00:52:58That's fair.
00:52:59But I don't take it.
00:53:02Let 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.
00:53:10Nowadays, they do business modern,
00:53:13mid-in-the-office accommodations.
00:53:16No, Joseph.
00:53:18I'm too old for business.
00:53:19You're not old.
00:53:20Yes, I am.
00:53:21Oh, well, 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.
00:53:28Something 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 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,
00:53:49we've got to give the company a name.
00:53:51Joseph, are you an American citizen?
00:53:54Oh, yes.
00:53:54I was born here.
00:53:55Good.
00:53:56We call it the American Dye 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.
00:54:18So don't say nothing.
00:54:19Papa will do the talking.
00:54:22Joseph, the first people you go and see is the reverse company.
00:54:27He's a hard man to get to.
00:54:29But you get to him.
00:54:30And there's the Keystone, the Metropolitan, the Fast Selfs Incorporated, United Imports.
00:54:42You'll start them.
00:54:44I'll finish them.
00:54:45Yes.
00:54:46The last two months, the American Dye Works have taken six of our best accounts.
00:54:51And here.
00:54:51Take 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.
00:55:31Cancellation from the Brewer's company.
00:55:51Last week, it was the Metropolitan.
00:55:53This week, it's the Brewer's.
00:55:54With 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.
00:56:17Hello, Joe.
00:56:30Hello, darling.
00:56:32How about in the office?
00:56:33Yeah?
00:56:33Mm-hmm.
00:56:33I've got some good news for him.
00:56:35So early in the morning?
00:56:36Sure.
00:56:36Heavy business, too.
00:56:37Good.
00:56:38Well, how's the head of the American Dye Works today?
00:56:41Oh, I'm fine.
00:56:42Look at your pants.
00:56:45They're shrunk.
00:56:47Oh, they're golf pants.
00:56:49Say, I closed that Brewer's deal today.
00:56:51You did?
00:56:52Yes, sir.
00:56:52That's fine.
00:56:54But tell me, how did you get near enough to that Brewer's?
00:56:58He's such an independent.
00:57:00Why, Brewer's might play golf together every Saturday.
00:57:02And old boy, he hates to lose.
00:57:04So today, I'll let him beat me.
00:57:06Good gracious.
00:57:07New methods.
00:57:10Saturday.
00:57:12There is it.
00:57:13What?
00:57:14I can't find it.
00:57:15You can't find what?
00:57:16There is it.
00:57:17What did you lose?
00:57:18My hat.
00:57:18Oh, your hat.
00:57:19Oh, where's it?
00:57:19Let me find my hat.
00:57:20I gotta have my watch.
00:57:21Oh, your hat.
00:57:22Oh, your hat.
00:57:22There is it.
00:57:23There is it.
00:57:24Did anybody see my hat?
00:57:26Well, where'd you put it?
00:57:27Would I ask you if I would know?
00:57:29There is my hat.
00:57:31I have to find that hat that I can't go.
00:57:34Parfo, what is the matter?
00:57:35Now, 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 when the head of the Strauss Dye Works pays a visit to one of the heads of the American Dye Works.
00:57:49Joseph, you got to find my hat.
00:57:50What is your hat?
00:57:52You yelled it.
00:57:53You had it hidden in your pocket, sir.
00:57:55Well, I got it on.
00:57:56Goodbye.
00:57:56So long.
00:57:57Bye.
00:57:57Bye.
00:57:58Bye.
00:57:59Bye.
00:57:59Well, Hans, how's business?
00:58:21Not so good.
00:58:23We just lost the pre-bird business.
00:58:25Oh, that's too bad.
00:58:28Maybe you warned I should go and see him.
00:58:32Maybe I could get his business back for you.
00:58:37No, I'm afraid you couldn't do anything with old Brever.
00:58:40It don't cost nothing to try.
00:58:43No.
00:58:44No, it would be useless.
00:58:45Well, Father, we must be leaving.
00:58:48Oh.
00:58:49Oh.
00:58:50Oh.
00:58:51When 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.
00:59:00Oh, goodbye, Father.
00:59:01Goodbye, Louis.
00:59:02See you Saturday.
00:59:03Yeah.
00:59:03Goodbye.
00:59:04So long.
00:59:05Now, be careful.
00:59:07Keep well.
00:59:08Well, I suppose we won't be seeing you again until Saturday, eh?
00:59:24No, until Saturday.
00:59:25And will I have a good argument ready for you?
00:59:28Yeah.
00:59:29Yeah.
00:59:30Yeah, yeah.
00:59:31Yeah.
00:59:38How 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 Merchants' Trust?
00:59:53That old Shylock?
00:59:58I'll try it.
01:00:06Can't you do that for us, Mr. Lehman?
01:00:08Sorry, Mr. Strauss, but your statement doesn't warrant it.
01:00:15Our bank would be very, very glad of your business, Mr. Strauss.
01:00:19But, eh, we can't start off by making a loan of that size.
01:00:30Well, why come to me?
01:00:32I haven't spoken to your father for years.
01:00:35He's very much in need, then.
01:00:36He thought you would do it.
01:00:40So.
01:00:41Your father, the proud Ludwig Strauss, sends you to me for a loan.
01:00:46I told him years ago, he'll have to come to me.
01:00:51It's only for six months.
01:00:55Ludwig 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 and apologize to me.
01:01:07And I'll arrange for the loan.
01:01:08But 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.
01:01:33But you might ask her.
01:01:34Oh, I 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.
01:01:51But it was useless.
01:01:53We're literally through.
01:01:56What on earth are you talking about?
01:01:57Just 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.
01:02:19Chosen, tell me.
01:02:22Where did you hear it?
01:02:24Maybe 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.
01:02:31Quick, Joseph, open the door.
01:02:32Never mind.
01:02:33I'll go myself.
01:02:41Oh, come in, Mr. Butler.
01:02:43I've been waiting for you.
01:02:45Have a sit down.
01:02:46Thanks.
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.
01:03:01And it mustn't happen.
01:03:02That's why I sent for you.
01:03:04You are my lawyer.
01:03:05And I want you to offer a proposition to the members of the Strauss Dye Works to merge with the American Dye Works.
01:03:14Merge?
01:03:14Look, the Strauss Dye Company is worthless.
01:03:18It hasn't any assets.
01:03:19No.
01:03:20That's when 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.
01:03:34And I've been a long way to regain them.
01:03:36You remember what a good book says about a prodigal son?
01:03:42He demanded his inheritance.
01:03:45His father gave him all.
01:03:47And after he squandered it and was in need, his father went out to meet him.
01:03:54My boys might have been unwise, maybe a little unkind, but after all, they are my sons.
01:04:07Very well.
01:04:10Come in, children.
01:04:19Now, your proposition is, uh...
01:04:22Well, here is the condition that I want.
01:04:29Hannaford and Lee Strauss are to be active members of the combined firms to be known hereafter as the American Dye Works,
01:04:37at a salary of $10,000 each per annum,
01:04:40and 10% jointly of the net profits to be paid in preferred stocks of the American Dye Works.
01:04:47If this is satisfactory to the counsellor,
01:04:51my clients have already signed the agreement.
01:04:55I think you boys are very fortunate.
01:04:57Have a cigar, Father.
01:05:17Oh, no, thanks.
01:05:19I'll go and get my pipe.
01:05:20Oh, I'll get it for you.
01:05:22I've got it all fixed.
01:05:24I'm sorry.
01:05:26Myrtle wants to talk to you, Father.
01:05:28She wants to tell you she's sorry.
01:05:31What has she got to be sorry about?
01:05:34Now is the time that we're all glad in this family.
01:05:37No more sorry business.
01:05:39Here you are, Father.
01:05:46Fixed just as you like it.
01:05:48Tight on the bottom and loose on top.
01:05:50Now, ain't that nice.
01:05:53Hmm, am I getting swell?
01:05:59Mr. Strauss, it is sweating.
01:06:01Yeah.
01:06:02Well, I...
01:06:04Captain, you will have to excuse me.
01:06:06Hmm.
01:06:09Your father said if I asked you to marry me and you said no,
01:06:21to ask him and say yes.
01:06:25Don't ask, Papa.
01:06:26Ask me.
01:06:32Hmm.
01:06:33How?
01:06:34You're improving.
01:06:36You're doing two times deep to my one time shallow.
01:06:40To be continued.
01:06:44Hm.
01:06:46Wh
01:06:57You're speaking in.
01:06:58What?
01:06:59What?
01:06:59What?
01:07:00What?
01:07:00What?
01:07:01What about you like?
01:07:02What?
01:07:02Huh?
01:07:03What?
01:07:03What?
01:07:04What?
01:07:05What?
Recommended
1:11:42
|
Up next
0:47
1:08:00
1:28:57
1:08:37
1:02
45:33
1:21:47
1:54:17
45:27
1:26:05
43:30
Be the first to comment