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