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00:00:00The End
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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 plot, 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.
00:02:34You 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 must hear.
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 wasp.
00:03:15But I ain't.
00:03:17Hans, Lena, Louis.
00:03:19Tell them what your papa has got.
00:03:21Papa's got a privilege.
00:03:22What kind of a privilege?
00:03:25Here.
00:03:25Look 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.
00:03:53Go ahead, children.
00:03:54And Lena, bring Uncle Adolf a copper tea.
00:03:57All right.
00:03:58That's nice.
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.
00:04:50No, no, no, 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 joking aside.
00:05:12Thank you, Lena.
00:05:13Thank you, Lena.
00:05:14You're welcome.
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.
00:05:30For 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.
00:05:43But you know, many a times the 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?
00:05:53Ach, Ach, maybe you need a little money?
00:05:58Nein, danke, Ludwig.
00:06:00I don't need money.
00:06:01I don't need money.
00:06:09I do wish he wouldn't call Hannaford Hans.
00:06:34I don't like that name.
00:06:35It seems that Mr. Kleinhardt and your father are 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 and you can be Lee,
00:06:51but to me you always will be Hans and Louie.
00:07:00Pardon me, Mr. Myers is here.
00:07:02Lena, you go and see him.
00:07:04Papa 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 spend so much time with that fellow Myers?
00:07:22What's the matter, Louie?
00:07:24Joseph is a nice boy.
00:07:26And he's smart.
00:07:27And besides, he's a fine chemist.
00:07:32Joseph is working on a dye now that will revolutionize the whole dye business.
00:07:37Father, I hope you're not financing your silly experiments.
00:07:40It's not silly.
00:07:42Then Joseph has perfected his new dye.
00:07:45How?
00:07:45Your papa's telling you all of us other dye works are kaput.
00:07:50You're doing all right with the present dyes.
00:07:53Why experiment?
00:07:55Ah, children.
00:07:57If we stop experimenting, we stop progress.
00:08:01And if progress stops, we all stop.
00:08:04Well, I believe in letting good enough alone.
00:08:07I won't argue.
00:08:08You know, your papa never argues.
00:08:11But you'll see, Joseph has got something good.
00:08:16Anyhow, I'll go and see him.
00:08:19And I'll have a talk with you.
00:08:27If this fellow Myers formula is any good,
00:08:30it looks as though papa's going to marry it into the family.
00:08:32You damn clever, these Strausses.
00:08:35Hello, Joseph.
00:08:36Oh, good evening, Mrs. Strauss.
00:08:38Excuse me.
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, huh?
00:08:47Well, I'm trying.
00:08:48Oh, I see.
00:08:49But I mean about your formula.
00:08:52Oh, say, I 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.
00:09:04Not 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.
00:09:24Looks 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.
00:09:38I think.
00:09:45Maybe 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.
00:10:01Is your mind always on something else?
00:10:03I 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.
00:10:13So, are you proposing?
00:10:16Oh, no, no.
00:10:17I didn't mean to.
00:10:18But 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 Lee have an ideal life, an apartment of your own.
00:10:39And only visit your dear father-in-law whenever you want to.
00:10:42Me and I were talking about your father.
00:10:47You know, dear, I think he's getting too old to work as he does.
00:10:52You 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 ambitions?
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 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.
00:11:42So you think your papa is getting too old.
00:11:55I know that's not it.
00:11:58But we feel that you've reached an age where you should take things easy.
00:12:01You've worked long enough.
00:12:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:23Well, we'll see what Lena says.
00:12:27What do you say?
00:12:38Should papa retire and become a loafer?
00:12:43Oh.
00:12:44You want papa to retire, huh?
00:12:52No.
00:12:52Well, Joseph, what do you think?
00:13:03I'm going to retire and become a gentleman of nothing to do.
00:13:13But I go and get my pipe.
00:13:20Yes.
00:13:21Well, we're going to play bridge.
00:13:26Come on, let's go.
00:13:31Good night, Jewel.
00:13:32Good night, Lena.
00:13:36Lena, why is your father retiring?
00:13:39We thought it'd be nice if he took it easy for a while.
00:13:41He's worked so hard all his life, and after all, papa'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 is the daily routine.
00:13:52But that daily routine has kept your father feeling so well.
00:13:56Don't you know that a man has to keep his mind active?
00:13:58What is he going to do?
00:14:00What is he going to think about?
00:14:01Well, usually when a man like your father retires, his mind retires with him.
00:14:05I hope we haven't made a mistake.
00:14:08Hello.
00:14:09Hello.
00:14:10Hello.
00:14:11Hello.
00:14:12If you never see, the friend didn't get a hello.
00:14:16Hello.
00:14:17Hello.
00:14:18Yeah, Hans.
00:14:19Yeah, listen.
00:14:20That's me, your papa.
00:14:21I got here a letter from Adolf in California.
00:14:22He's sick.
00:14:23And he warns Lena to come.
00:14:24Yeah, right away.
00:14:25So please make reservations for her for the afternoon train.
00:14:28Sure she's got to go.
00:14:29Would I send her otherwise?
00:14:30Yeah, yeah.
00:14:31Make hurry up.
00:14:32Quick, please.
00:14:33Yeah.
00:14:34Goodbye.
00:14:35Lena.
00:14:36Where can she be?
00:14:37Lena.
00:14:38Lena.
00:14:39Lena.
00:14:40Lena.
00:14:41Lena.
00:14:42Lena.
00:14:43Lena.
00:14:44Can you see that?
00:14:45I'm excited and Lena isn't here.
00:14:46Car.
00:14:47Car.
00:14:48Car.
00:14:49Car.
00:14:50Car.
00:14:51Car.
00:14:52Car.
00:14:53Car.
00:14:54Did you call me, sir?
00:14:57Ach, du heilige Strohsack.
00:15:00I'm happy.
00:15:01Car.
00:15:02Car.
00:15:03Car.
00:15:04Car.
00:15:05Car.
00:15:06Car.
00:15:07Car.
00:15:08Car.
00:15:09Car.
00:15:10Did you call me, sir?
00:15:11Ach, du heilige Strohsack.
00:15:15I'm hollering all over the place for you.
00:15:20And then you ask, where did I call you?
00:15:22What do you suppose I was doing?
00:15:24Talking to myself?
00:15:26Where's Lena?
00:15:28I don't know, sir.
00:15:29You was right.
00:15:31There was no use calling you.
00:15:37That may be someone.
00:15:39I don't want someone.
00:15:40I want Lena.
00:15:41Yes.
00:15:42Oh, Lena.
00:15:43Lena.
00:15:44Am I glad to see you.
00:15:45What's the matter, Papa?
00:15:46Look, Lena.
00:15:47I got here a letter from your uncle Adolf.
00:15:50He's sick and all alone.
00:15:53You got to go to him right away.
00:15:54But Papa.
00:15:55Please, 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?
00:16:04The boys got to have me here in the business.
00:16:06But listen, Papa.
00:16:07No more buts.
00:16:08Everything is arranged.
00:16:10Hans has made a reservation for the afternoon train.
00:16:12So go on.
00:16:13Well, what about you, Vincent?
00:16:14I have arranged that to you.
00:16:16I telephoned Joseph and he'll meet you by the station.
00:16:19Now, please, hurry up.
00:16:20All right, Papa.
00:16:21Oh, Lena.
00:16:22Here.
00:16:23Yes, Papa.
00:16:24Here's Uncle Adolf's letter.
00:16:25Here's the address that's on it.
00:16:26All right.
00:16:27Now, then when I get there...
00:16:28Please, don't ask any more questions.
00:16:29Hurry up quick, will you?
00:16:30Oh, my God.
00:16:31Carl.
00:16:32Carl.
00:16:34Carl, I'm calling you.
00:16:35I'm here, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:37Oh, excuse me.
00:16:39So you are here, huh?
00:16:41But you are never here when you should be.
00:16:43And when you shouldn't be, then you are.
00:16:45Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:46Now, Carl.
00:16:47Tell the chauffeur to go right away.
00:16:48Hurry up and take Miss Lena down to the station.
00:16:51And, and, and, Carl.
00:16:53Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:54Hurry up, please.
00:16:55Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:16:56Poor Adolf.
00:16:57All alone.
00:16:59Hmm.
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?
00:17:12Yes.
00:17:13Gee, your father said he 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.
00:17:24Don'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.
00:17:29I'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 now when you get down.
00:17:50I 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.
00:18:08Perhaps he's all right and there's nothing to tell.
00:18:12Hm.
00:18:13Maybe I'm a little too anxious.
00:18:16That's the trouble with old people.
00:18:19They always think right away of the worstest.
00:18:21I think right away of the worstest.
00:18:22I think right away of the worstest.
00:18:24I think right away of the worstest.
00:18:28Somewhere you're in California.
00:18:30I don't know.
00:18:31They always think right away of the worstest.
00:18:34I'm just going to turn this off, but I'm just going to turn this off.
00:18:36I want to show you all to the worstest.
00:18:38I don't care, De Lauday.
00:18:39So you're looking at all the worstest, the worstest.
00:19:11Yeah, yeah.
00:19:41I do wish you'd ask him not to smoke that pipe in here.
00:19:47Yes, Mr. Strauss.
00:20:03Have a cigar.
00:20:05Thank you, sir.
00:20:06Yes.
00:20:07But I smoke a pipe, sir.
00:20:10Yes.
00:20:10But the smoke from a pipe annoys people.
00:20:15Yes, sir.
00:20:20Oh, is that all we get?
00:20:22Oh, give me another thing.
00:20:24No, dear, and I'll 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.
00:20:33Yeah.
00:20:34And when they grow up, they are bigger troubles.
00:20:38Yeah.
00:20:39Strauss.
00:20:43Mr. Strauss.
00:20:45What?
00:20:47Dinner is served.
00:20:48Who?
00:20:50Oh, yeah.
00:20:51Dinner, dinner.
00:20:52Oh, yeah.
00:20:52Where are the children?
00:21:15Mr. Hannaford phoned.
00:21:18They were dining out.
00:21:19Oh, they couldn't come.
00:21:24Say, Carl, you 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?
00:21:39Thanks, Mr. Strauss.
00:21:44You know, Carl, with you, it's a pleasure to dine.
00:21:50It's so gemütlich.
00:21:52Yeah.
00:21:53And then, you don't mind if I dunk, huh?
00:21:56Dunk?
00:21:57I like it myself.
00:21:59Ja?
00:22:00Yeah.
00:22:01Not fair.
00:22:02I passed a second.
00:22:03No, no, I don't know.
00:22:03No, no, I don't know.
00:22:04I know that, yeah.
00:22:08Good, huh?
00:22:09Is it good?
00:22:09Yeah.
00:22:13We remain sincerely yours.
00:22:19Well, well, Father.
00:22:22Hello, boy.
00:22:23Hello, Father.
00:22:24That'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, sir.
00:22:29That's good.
00:22:29That's good.
00:22:30And why are we honored with this call?
00:22:32Oh, boys, I fell lonesome for the smell from the chemicals.
00:22:38But I'm only choking.
00:22:41I had a telephone call from Mr. Huffner from the amalgamated cherubist this morning.
00:22:46He told me he called you up about this year's donation, and you didn't give it.
00:22:51So I explained to him, maybe you want to talk to me first about it, huh?
00:22:55And now that we've talked about it, you send him a check.
00:23:00Well, uh, Father, we've decided to cut down on charities this year.
00:23:05Cut down on charities?
00:23:07Oh, no, Louie.
00:23:08If you cut down on anything, we cut down on things that we can do without.
00:23:14Charities 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.
00:23:28All 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 even.
00:23:42Yes, your philosophy may be all right, Father,
00:23:45but we feel that it commensurates with better business management
00:23:50to give less this year than we have in former years.
00:23:53What difference is this year from other years?
00:23:55Well, you see, we've curtailed many of the unnecessary charities
00:23:59and have installed a new system.
00:24:00This 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
00:24:09is 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, Lord.
00:24:17Papa thinks so.
00:24:27Here you are, Father.
00:24:31What is this?
00:24:33That's an inter-office communication.
00:24:34Just give that to the cashier, and he'll give you a check.
00:24:38Oh.
00:24:41Inter-office communications.
00:24:42Let's do it.
00:24:43New maggots.
00:24:45New maggots.
00:24:53Having a good time, Father?
00:24:55Oh, fine.
00:24:57I'm having a beautiful time.
00:24:59Good.
00:25:01Have a cigar.
00:25:03Thanks.
00:25:04Oh, thank you.
00:25:18Have a drink, Father.
00:25:19Oh, yes.
00:25:20Do have a drink, Mr. Strauss.
00:25:21No, thanks.
00:25:22I, I...
00:25:23Well, not tonight.
00:25:24Oh, excuse me.
00:25:53Excuse me, please.
00:26:16Good evening, Mr. Myles.
00:26:17Good 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.
00:26:28I'd be glad to see you.
00:26:29He is so lonesome.
00:26:34Sweet.
00:26:45Hello, Chosen.
00:26:46Good evening, Mr. Strauss.
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 and do a party and you ain't dressed up?
00:26:56Oh, 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.
00:27:10I saw the boys today.
00:27:12Yeah?
00:27:13Yeah.
00:27:14Well, what did I say?
00:27:15Well, they didn't seem very much interested.
00:27:17Well, don't you worry none.
00:27:19Everything will come out all right.
00:27:21I'll speak to them myself.
00:27:23Did you have a letter from Lena today?
00:27:27Yeah?
00:27:28Funny.
00:27:29Funny.
00:27:30I get a letter from her every day,
00:27:32but only the day I got a postal task
00:27:35and the pictures from California oranges on it.
00:27:38As if we don't got oranges here.
00:27:40What 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,
00:27:48I don't feel at home in my own house.
00:27:52Now, don't you worry.
00:27:53She'll be back before we know it.
00:27:57You miss her too, huh?
00:27:58You bet I do.
00:28:00You know, Joseph,
00:28:02when you ask Lena to marry you
00:28:05and she says no,
00:28:06then you ask me
00:28:07and I say yes.
00:28:09Well, I have to go now.
00:28:11Good night.
00:28:12Oh, Joseph, what's your hurry?
00:28:14You just come.
00:28:15I know, but I have a lot of work to do tonight in the lab.
00:28:17So?
00:28:18But, Joseph, don't work so hard.
00:28:21Cause if you work too hard,
00:28:23you'll have to retire.
00:28:24Then you get to be an old man like me.
00:28:26Don't you worry about that.
00:28:27I'll never make enough to retire.
00:28:29Yeah.
00:28:30Good night, Mr. Charles.
00:28:31Good night, Joseph.
00:28:32Be careful.
00:28:34Don't fall in a leather box.
00:28:40That's a boy, huh?
00:28:41That's a boy.
00:28:43I'll give you girls a nip what is a nip.
00:28:57This is where I keep my private stock.
00:29:00Young society makes 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.
00:29:08Well, I'm suffering from too much father-in-law.
00:29:11Well, why not move?
00:29:13Me move?
00:29:14Why should I?
00:29:15Shut myself up in an apartment like 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 eyes.
00:29:24Oh.
00:29:31We off?
00:29:45Good evening, Mrs. Strauss.
00:29:46Good evening, Mary.
00:29:48And Mr. and Mrs. Strauss are in the living room.
00:29:50Oh, thank you.
00:29:54Oh, 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, of course not.
00:30:19Come on in.
00:30:20And how are you this evening, my dear?
00:30:22Fine.
00:30:23How are you?
00:30:24Oh, fine, thank you.
00:30:25That's nice.
00:30:26That's nice.
00:30:27Here, Father.
00:30:28Sit over there in the easy chair.
00:30:29Oh, thank you.
00:30:30Well, Louis.
00:30:31How's everything?
00:30:33Oh, everything's fine.
00:30:34I had a wire from Hannaford.
00:30:35He'll be back Wednesday.
00:30:36He's trying to close the Keystone deal.
00:30:37That's good.
00:30:38I hope he'll get it.
00:30:39I hope he'll get it.
00:30:46You know, children.
00:30:47There is a reason that I came over.
00:30:49it.
00:30:50I won't ask you if...
00:30:51it...
00:30:52I won't ask you if...
00:30:53no, no...
00:30:54You know?
00:30:55I don't know.
00:30:56What the way is going over?
00:30:57Oh.
00:30:58I think it's fine.
00:30:59I had a wire from Hannaford.
00:31:00He'll be back Wednesday.
00:31:01He's trying to close the Keystone deal.
00:31:02you know children there is a reason that i came over i want to ask you if maybe you are too
00:31:21lonesome here i would come and live with you is there anything wrong no no only you know
00:31:31the old house is so big and i get a little lonesome and it ain't the same like it used to be
00:31:42hunts and myrtle they give parties and papa is too old for parties so i thought maybe
00:31:54if you don't mind i come over and stay with you why of course father we'd be glad to have you
00:32:04won't we may why why yes of course
00:32:10thank you my children
00:32:19thank you
00:32:23i tell you he wanted to go i didn't say a word to him as a matter of fact i didn't know he had gone
00:32:34until they called me up a few days after he left hello henniford hi martin oh hello lee once you get
00:32:39back i just got your call i want to talk to you lee i just got back this afternoon
00:32:45what's it all about lee what's happened to father well hans
00:33:04i'll tell you papa and uh myrtle don't seem to hit it off so well
00:33:11oh i don't know what's the matter with him
00:33:17of late he's been acting kind of strange everything that myrtle and may do seems to get on his nerves
00:33:27you know hans the girls have got a good idea over on madison avenue there's a home
00:33:38well 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
00:33:47now there he can have these pinochle games and talk to the old fellows and
00:33:52now don't misunderstand hans it's not charity the girls have looked into it thoroughly
00:33:58you uh pay them a lump sum a kind of a donation and afterward you give them so much a week
00:34:05i think it would be great for him
00:34:20wake up you're sleeping at the top of your voice
00:34:32it says here that wall street traded in over five million shares yesterday
00:34:42what wall street traded in over five million shares yesterday
00:34:48oh what did the giants do
00:34:51well i'll call you what's a match kruger made millions on him yeah but look where he is now
00:35:03i remember when you came here two weeks ago i knew you right away then was i surprised
00:35:15why should you be surprised my children wanted i should go to europe here it's quiet and peaceful
00:35:24and for the few years that i got i like it quiet so i told my children i'd like to come here
00:35:32and did i have to argue with him
00:35:40yeah
00:35:41for them coming you can always tell it's saturday
00:35:44here they come
00:35:45my two sons
00:35:47always on time
00:35:50they should be late yet
00:35:54that's the strauss boy maybe when they get old their children will come here to see them too
00:35:59i hope
00:36:00yes father hello louis hello father hello hans
00:36:05sit down
00:36:06no no sit still i can get another chair
00:36:08what i have to get my medicine
00:36:13well how are you father oh i'm fine fine
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 almost any time now
00:36:28did she say how adult is
00:36:31no she didn't
00:36:32no
00:36:33she don't tell me neither
00:36:36by the way boys
00:36:41you know
00:36:42joseph he comes here every day to see me
00:36:45what do you think
00:36:46he has perfected his formula
00:36:49and it's something fine
00:36:51you know
00:36:52i think it would be a good idea to take him into the business
00:36:56he's got something good
00:36:58and 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
00:37:05but it isn't an experiment
00:37:07joseph has perfected it
00:37:09and it isn't like joseph would be a stranger
00:37:13you know someday i hope that he
00:37:16and lena
00:37:17well father
00:37:18we'll have to be running along now
00:37:19oh so soon
00:37:20yes
00:37:21myrtle's giving a dinner tonight
00:37:23oh that's nice
00:37:24i hope you'll have a good time
00:37:25thank you
00:37:26well
00:37:27goodbye
00:37:28goodbye
00:37:29goodbye father
00:37:30goodbye louis
00:37:32yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:38:02I don't like him to stay too long.
00:38:05Cause all they talk about is that I should leave here and come and live with them.
00:38:11Yeah?
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:32Look, here comes my friend Chosen.
00:38:41He's a fine boy.
00:38:43You're telling me?
00:38:47Hi, Mr. Cohn.
00:38:48Very well, thank you.
00:38:50How are you, young fellow?
00:38:51How do you?
00:38:51How are you?
00:38:52How are you, Mr. Strauss?
00:38:54Hello, Chosen.
00:38:56I'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 always trying to make me believe things that ain't.
00:39:10Honest, Joseph.
00:39:11He doubts every word I tell you.
00:39:13He's the biggest doubter in the whole world.
00:39:16Oh, yes.
00:39:17Oh, don't be leaving.
00:39:18Oh, I must.
00:39:18I have to get my medicine.
00:39:23He's a big faker.
00:39:25You don't have to get medicine.
00:39:27No?
00:39:27He just says that so we can be alone.
00:39:30Sit down.
00:39:31I 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.
00:39:42Yeah, Joseph.
00:39:50They used to listen to me.
00:39:53Ask my advice about everything.
00:39:57We were close together.
00:40:02But they have changed.
00:40:05They are different.
00:40:07Well, perhaps they are busy.
00:40:12No, Joseph.
00:40:15I have lost my son.
00:40:17Well, Miss Lena.
00:40:26Hello, Carl.
00:40:27It's good to see you.
00:40:28Thanks, Danny.
00:40:29Good to be home.
00:40:31It's Lena.
00:40:33Mm-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?
00:40:42Yes, 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.
00:41:02Oh, Lena.
00:41:02Why did you let us know you were coming?
00:41:04I want to surprise you.
00:41:06I love surprises.
00:41:07And 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.
00:41:37Where's Papa?
00:41:49Why, uh, Father isn't home.
00:41:52Isn't home?
00:41:53No.
00:41:55You 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?
00:42:05Where?
00:42:08The 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.
00:42:35Three-eighty.
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.
00:42:55Is Mr. Strauss in?
00:42:57Mr. Ludwig Strauss?
00:42:58Yes.
00:43:00I believe you'll find him sitting right over there.
00:43:33Oh, my little Lina, my baby, my little baby.
00:43:46That's, that's my little Lina, my daughter.
00:43:51Yeah, I, I'm so happy to meet you, I'm sure.
00:43:59Excuse me, I, I have to get my medicine.
00:44:02I know, you'll excuse me.
00:44:05Sit down, darling.
00:44:11It's good to have you back.
00:44:15And I need you.
00:44:17I'll never leave you again, dear.
00:44:19Never.
00:44:20No.
00:44:22Why are you here?
00:44:25What a foolish question you're asking.
00:44:29Why am I here?
00:44:30You know your papa is getting old, and old people are funny.
00:44:37They like it quiet and want to be alone, and they get under young people's nerves.
00:44:44You see, all these other fellows, they're just like me.
00:44:54They like it quiet.
00:44:57And they want to be alone.
00:44:59Alone.
00:45:01Oh, 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, and you can do just what you want to.
00:45:16Say, and I still know how to cook.
00:45:18For your first meal, I'll make you some of that nice sauerbraten.
00:45:23Oh, sauerbraten.
00:45:26Mit pampflodeln.
00:45:29I made it for Uncle Adolf.
00:45:31He just loved it.
00:45:32Oh, Uncle Adolf.
00:45:39He's better.
00:45:43He's gone.
00:45:44Well, maybe it's better to be dead than suffer.
00:46:06You were with him till the end.
00:46:09Yes, Father.
00:46:09And now, you stay with me till the end.
00:46:20Don't you talk like that.
00:46:39Hello, Lena.
00:46:51Did 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.
00:47:12He didn't blame anyone.
00:47:13On the contrary.
00:47:14He said he was happy there.
00:47:16Among old men like himself.
00:47:18Don't you see, Lena?
00:47:19It's what he wants.
00:47:20He told you so himself.
00:47:23You're right, Hans.
00:47:25That's what he told me with his lips.
00:47:28But his heart told me that he's a broken, disappointed, disillusioned old man.
00:47:32Oh, you're exaggerating things.
00:47:34Well, he and I see him every Saturday.
00:47:35He's never complained to us.
00:47:36Of course he hasn't.
00:47:37He isn't the kind to complain.
00:47:39He wouldn't tell you what you really did.
00:47:41But I will.
00:47:43First, you convinced him he ought to retire.
00:47:45We're no more responsible for that than you are.
00:47:47Father left it up to you.
00:47:48I know.
00:47:49I must have been blind not to see through your 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.
00:48:00But 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.
00:48:24An institution where he must go to bed and get up with the ring of a bell.
00:48:27Where he must eat what they placed before him.
00:48:28Where he must follow rules and rules and rules.
00:48:30Where he must humiliate him in a cold, heartless prison.
00:48:34And his son sent him there.
00:48:36His son.
00:48:38My brothers.
00:48:40Why, 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.
00:48:47Well, that's not going to affect my appetite.
00:49:02Come on.
00:49:03Let'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.
00:49:22Yeah, yeah.
00:49:23You teach me.
00:49:25Go away, you old savior.
00:49:27Go on, Dad.
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.
00:49:43So, 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.
00:49:48Do you 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.
00:50:03And, oh, yeah.
00:50:03The checks that my boys sent to pay for me, you keep.
00:50:08Maybe 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'll get a taxi cab.
00:50:24Oh, no.
00:50:25Taxi cabs cost money.
00:50:27We're celebrating today.
00:50:29You didn't get married without telling Papa.
00:50:32Come on, quit your kidding.
00:50:34Goodbye.
00:50:35Goodbye.
00:50:35Goodbye, boy.
00:50:36Goodbye.
00:50:36I'll be back this afternoon.
00:50:38Goodbye.
00:50:38Goodbye.
00:50:39Goodbye.
00:50:39Goodbye.
00:50:39Goodbye.
00:50:41Oh, this is a beautiful place.
00:50:44And 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.
00:50:55Something more besides.
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.
00:51:07What kind of room is this?
00:51:09This is your office.
00:51:11What would I do with an office?
00:51:13Giving me an office is like giving a dead dog a bone.
00:51:18What good is an office without a business?
00:51:20I am a retired loafer.
00:51:22You're not retired anymore.
00:51:23You're getting back into the harness.
00:51:26Dino, 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.
00:51:38Yeah.
00:51:38Huh.
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?
00:51:56We got a partner with money that don't say nothing?
00:52:00Who could be such a fool?
00:52:02Lena.
00:52:02Lena.
00:52:04Lena.
00:52:04You 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.
00:52:24That's more than your papa did.
00:52:26No, Lena.
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, neither.
00:52:42But I'm not giving it to you.
00:52:43I'm loaning it to you.
00:52:44And I expect a big interest.
00:52:46In fact, we've decided that you get 50% of the business for your knowledge.
00:52:50Joseph gets 25 for the formula, and I get 25% for my money.
00:52:54Isn't that fair?
00:52:56Yeah.
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, but you do.
00:53:07My knowledge is old-fashioned.
00:53:10Nowadays, they do business modern in the office accommodations.
00:53:16No, Joseph.
00:53:18I'm too old for business.
00:53:19You're not old.
00:53:21Yes, 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.
00:53:28Something to occupy your mind.
00:53:29An office, a desk.
00:53:31Show the people in the business world that you're not through.
00:53:34Who says that I'm through?
00:53:36Hans and Louis?
00:53:37Well, I'll show them.
00:53:38You're right, Joseph.
00:53:40That's what I need.
00:53:41Business.
00:53:42All right.
00:53:43Start right now.
00:53:44Now, the first thing we do, we've got to give the company a name.
00:53:52Joseph, 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.
00:54:07And here I am the head.
00:54:08You'll have an office downtown where you'll be the head.
00:54:12So we've got a head at both ends.
00:54:14Now, Nina, you're the silent partner.
00:54:18So don't say nothing.
00:54:20Papa will do the talking.
00:54:22Joseph?
00:54:23The 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 Silks Incorporated, United Imports.
00:54:43You start them, I'll finish them.
00:54:45Yes, sir.
00:54:46The last two months, the American Dye 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 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.
00:55:25All 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 is 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.
00:56:33Got 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.
00:56:46They'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 and I play golf together every Saturday.
00:57:02And, oh, 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.
00:57:11Saturday.
00:57:12Where is it?
00:57:13What?
00:57:14I can't find it.
00:57:15You can't find what?
00:57:16What?
00:57:16What?
00:57:16What?
00:57:17What did you lose?
00:57:18My hat.
00:57:18Your hat.
00:57:19Oh, your hat.
00:57:19Let me find my hat.
00:57:20I gotta have my hat.
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 if I would know?
00:57:29There is my hat.
00:57:31I have to find that hat that I can't go.
00:57:34Papa, 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.
00:57:41And 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 gotta find my hat.
00:57:50Here is your hat.
00:57:52You yielded it.
00:57:53You had it hidden your pocket, sir.
00:57:55Well, I got it on.
00:57:56Goodbye.
00:57:56So long.
00:57:57Well, Hans, how's business?
00:58:20Not so good.
00:58:23We just lost the Breavert 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 Breavert.
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, oh.
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.
00:59:00Well, 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?
00:59:29Yeah.
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?
00:59:59I'll try it.
01:00:06Can't you do that for us, Mr. Lehman?
01:00:09Sorry, Mr. Strauss, but your statement doesn't warrant it.
01:00:16Our bank would be very, very glad of your business, Mr. Strauss.
01:00:20But, eh, we can't start off by making a loan of that size.
01:00:30Well, but 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 reach 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.
01:01:23The 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.
01:01:35Why 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?
01:01:58Just 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.
01:02:19Chosen, 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's a bank today.
01:02:28They're calling a creditor's 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 will be a happy day for you.
01:02:52You've accomplished what you set out to do.
01:02:55I understand the Strauss Dye Company is going into bankruptcy.
01:02:57No, 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.
01:03:06And I want you to offer a proposition to the members of the Strauss Dye Works to merge with
01:03:12the American Dye Works.
01:03:14Merge?
01:03:14The Strauss Dye Company is worthless.
01:03:17It hasn't any assets.
01:03:19No, that'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.
01:03:33And I went a long way to regain them.
01:03:37You remember what a good book says about a prodigal son?
01:03:41He demanded his inheritance.
01:03:45His father gave him all.
01:03:46And after he squandered it and was in need, his father went out to meet him.
01:03:56My boys might have been unwise, maybe a little unkind, but after all, they are my sons.
01:04:07Very well.
01:04:08Come 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.
01:04:36At 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.
01:04:48If this is satisfactory to the counselor, my clients have already signed the agreement.
01:04:55I think you boys are very fortunate.
01:05:06Have 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.
01:05:24Good, darling.
01:05:26Myrtle wants to talk to you, Father.
01:05:28She wants to tell you she's sorry.
01:05:29Oh, what 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.
01:05:44Here you are, Father.
01:05:46It's 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?
01:05:55Mr. Strauss, it is ready.
01:06:01Yeah.
01:06:03Well, I tell him, you will have to excuse me.
01:06:17Your father said if I asked you to marry me and you said no, to ask him, say yes.
01:06:24Don't ask, Father.
01:06:26Ask me.
01:06:32Hmm.
01:06:33How?
01:06:34You're improving.
01:06:37You've gone two times deep to my one time shallow.
01:06:40Now, let's go.
01:06:41Let's go.
01:06:41Let's go.
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