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00:01:25It is now five minutes before nine o'clock on the day before Christmas.
00:01:29As has been my custom for the past 22 years, I address you today.
00:01:34I wish to offer you my thanks for your loyalty and cooperation during the past year.
00:01:39I needn't add that my son joins me in my sentence.
00:01:42So, from the bottom of our hearts, we wish you the very merriest, merriest of Christmases
00:01:48and the happiest of New Years.
00:01:50All right, everybody. Dismissed.
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00:02:37Christmas card.
00:02:40You'll get one?
00:02:42Uh-uh.
00:02:44Don't be jealous.
00:02:45Gee, it's not gonna be easy getting a job after Christmas.
00:02:49It wasn't easy before Christmas.
00:02:51I wonder if they'd give me a pension.
00:02:53I worked here for three weeks.
00:02:55Look, honey, maybe you ought to go back home, huh?
00:02:59There's nobody there anymore.
00:03:02Haven't you anyone in New York?
00:03:04No, I haven't.
00:03:08Mary, is it hard for a girl to get in the Navy?
00:03:11Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
00:03:13Good morning, girls.
00:03:14Hey, no kidding, what do you get me for Christmas?
00:03:16You wouldn't drink it.
00:03:18She's crazy for me.
00:03:20Hey, Polly, I saw you hooping at the employee's ball.
00:03:23Babe, you're really solid.
00:03:25You think so?
00:03:26Yeah.
00:03:27And just to prove it to you, I'm gonna take you dancing tonight.
00:03:30No, I don't feel like it.
00:03:32Not even for 50 bucks?
00:03:34You mean you're going to give me 50 bucks?
00:03:36Yeah, in a way.
00:03:38Come here.
00:03:40Now, listen, there's a dancing contest tonight at the Pink Slipper.
00:03:43The orchestra leader's one of the judges, and he's my best pal.
00:03:46So we win second prize, 50 bucks, and we split it up the middle.
00:03:50Uh-oh, here they come.
00:03:53Well, what do you say?
00:03:55You just made a deal.
00:03:56Okay, I'll pick you up at 7 o'clock.
00:03:587 o'clock.
00:03:59After supper.
00:04:13Where are you going for lunch, Mamie?
00:04:43Just a minute.
00:05:03Don't you dare.
00:05:04Don't you dare leave your baby here.
00:05:06Oh, I'm not the mother.
00:05:09There isn't any mother.
00:05:11They'll take good care of it here.
00:05:14It's such a wonderful baby.
00:05:35Won't you come in?
00:05:42Take your finger out of your mouth.
00:05:44Take your finger out of your mouth.
00:05:46You must be hungry, Wilbur.
00:05:48There'll be something to eat here.
00:05:49How do you do?
00:05:50Hello.
00:05:51Come on, darling.
00:05:52You mustn't eat your fingers.
00:05:55Your name, please?
00:05:57Polly Parrish.
00:06:00Are you employed anywhere?
00:06:02I'm at Merlin's.
00:06:05You're so cute.
00:06:08Oh, just a minute.
00:06:10Oh, this isn't my baby.
00:06:12I found it on the doorstep outside.
00:06:17Oh, really?
00:06:19An old lady left it on the doorstep,
00:06:21and I was afraid it might roll off,
00:06:22so the best thing for me to do was to...
00:06:24My dear young lady,
00:06:26we're only here to help you.
00:06:28We're your friends.
00:06:32I wasn't leaving it.
00:06:34I was just picking it up.
00:06:37A great many mothers say that babies aren't theirs,
00:06:40but we've discovered from experience
00:06:42that the wisest course
00:06:44is to make a clean breast of the whole thing.
00:06:46Well, now, look.
00:06:48This is ridiculous.
00:06:50This is not my baby,
00:06:51whether you believe it or not.
00:06:54Oh, for heaven's sake.
00:07:04Just a minute, Miss Parrish.
00:07:06Listen, when I want a family,
00:07:08I'll get married,
00:07:09and I'll have a baby.
00:07:11I'll have a baby.
00:07:13I'll have a baby.
00:07:15I'll have a baby.
00:07:17I'll have a baby.
00:07:19I'll have a baby.
00:07:20I'll have a baby.
00:07:22When I want a family,
00:07:23I'll get married and do it right.
00:07:33Pathetic.
00:07:34Yes, yes.
00:07:35Well, anyway,
00:07:36we know that she works at Merlin's,
00:07:38and they're a very charitable family.
00:07:40I'll go over right after lunch.
00:07:42That's right.
00:07:45Good morning, Mr. Merlin.
00:07:46Good morning.
00:07:47Good morning, Mr. Merlin.
00:07:53Good morning, Mr. Merlin.
00:08:03Good morning, Dad.
00:08:05Good afternoon.
00:08:06You're so interested in politics,
00:08:08I think you ought to investigate
00:08:09the police force at Scarsdale.
00:08:11Why?
00:08:12Well, any motorcycle cop
00:08:13who can afford to turn down
00:08:14a hundred-dollar bribe
00:08:15must be in some crooked racket.
00:08:16Don't you think so?
00:08:17Did you sleep in my car last night?
00:08:21Did you sleep in jail?
00:08:22No.
00:08:23No, I didn't sleep at all.
00:08:24I had to wait for the court to open.
00:08:26David, you can't keep up
00:08:27at the pace you're going.
00:08:28You'll crack up.
00:08:29Out every night with women and things.
00:08:32And things?
00:08:33Well, you know what I mean.
00:08:34All I need is a shower.
00:08:35Everybody sleeps too much.
00:08:36You take Edison.
00:08:37You take me.
00:08:38I was young once like you.
00:08:40Lived like you.
00:08:41Looked like you.
00:08:42Then suddenly, overnight,
00:08:43I look like this.
00:08:44Dad, you look great to me.
00:08:46I can't wait.
00:08:47David, will you go to bed
00:08:48early tonight?
00:08:49Nine o'clock.
00:08:50What?
00:08:51Ten o'clock.
00:08:52All right.
00:08:53I'll wait up for you.
00:09:02Miss Dyer, would you...
00:09:03This gentleman is from
00:09:04the Atkins foundling home.
00:09:06Oh, the charity discount
00:09:07is taken care of
00:09:08by Mr. Hennessy and I.
00:09:09It's the first office down the hall.
00:09:10Oh, well, I...
00:09:11I hadn't come about the discount,
00:09:12thank you,
00:09:13but on a rather personal matter...
00:09:17Well, won't you come inside?
00:09:21What can I do for you?
00:09:23Well, an employee of yours,
00:09:26a young woman,
00:09:27left a baby with us today.
00:09:29Oh, I see.
00:09:30Yes.
00:09:31And I discovered
00:09:32on calling your personnel department
00:09:34that she was discharged
00:09:35as of the close of business today.
00:09:38And I believe
00:09:39that is why she has abandoned
00:09:41her baby son.
00:09:43Mr. Merlin,
00:09:45give her back her job.
00:09:47Well, it's not my department...
00:09:50Mr. Merlin,
00:09:51if you had seen this mother
00:09:53denying the parenthood
00:09:55of her own child,
00:09:57it would have touched your heart.
00:09:59Yes, would you mind
00:10:00stepping in here?
00:10:01Not at all.
00:10:02It was pitiful, Mr. Merlin,
00:10:04to see the child...
00:10:18And during the past year,
00:10:19we have had 537 such cases.
00:10:22537?
00:10:23Yes.
00:10:26Good afternoon.
00:10:30Why don't you sit down, Mrs...
00:10:32Miss Parrish.
00:10:33Oh, Miss Parrish.
00:10:39Miss Parrish,
00:10:40did you receive a card
00:10:41saying you were discharged
00:10:42as of the close of business today?
00:10:44Yes, sir.
00:10:45That was a mistake.
00:10:46Will you please forgive us?
00:10:47It'll never happen again.
00:10:48That job is yours
00:10:49for just as long
00:10:50as you want to keep it.
00:10:55What do you say, Miss Parrish?
00:11:00Thank you very much.
00:11:02And you are to be raised
00:11:03five dollars a week
00:11:04as of last week.
00:11:09Is that satisfactory?
00:11:10What do you say?
00:11:13But merely getting your job back
00:11:15and an increase,
00:11:16that is not your real Christmas present.
00:11:18No.
00:11:19No, no, no.
00:11:20Your Christmas present
00:11:21is probably the greatest gift
00:11:22that any woman could possibly have.
00:11:24So true.
00:11:29I almost envy you.
00:11:32I do envy you.
00:11:36Really?
00:11:37You fortune-teller.
00:11:40Really?
00:11:41You fortunate girl
00:11:43to have an employer like Mr. Merlin.
00:11:45And when you go home tonight,
00:11:48you'll get your Christmas present.
00:11:50Tonight?
00:11:52Tonight.
00:11:53Tonight.
00:11:54Now, Miss Parrish,
00:11:55you may return to your department.
00:12:02And now I want to wish you
00:12:05and yours
00:12:06a very, very Merry Christmas.
00:12:10Good day.
00:12:13Good day.
00:12:16And the same to you.
00:12:26Nice-looking girl like that.
00:12:29It's a funny world.
00:12:33I can just see the look
00:12:34on that girl's face tonight.
00:12:40Who is it?
00:12:41Something for Mr. Merlin.
00:12:57Your Christmas present
00:12:58from John B. Merlin and Sons.
00:13:05And what do you say, Miss Parrish?
00:13:08I'll tell you what I say.
00:13:11You can just take that baby out of here
00:13:13and this minute.
00:13:14You realize what you are saying?
00:13:16I certainly do.
00:13:19That's not my baby.
00:13:20And you can just take it
00:13:21back to the foundling home
00:13:22where it belongs.
00:13:24Do you understand
00:13:25that Mr. Merlin gave you
00:13:26a Christmas present?
00:13:28Yes, I do.
00:13:29And what do you say?
00:13:31I'll tell you what I say.
00:13:33That Mr. Merlin gave you
00:13:34back your job
00:13:35so you could raise your child
00:13:37in security and comfort
00:13:38and you are choosing instead
00:13:40to let it be raised as an orphan?
00:13:42That's not my baby.
00:13:44I am not its mother.
00:13:48Come, Mrs. Wilkins.
00:13:50That baby will be back
00:13:51at the foundling home
00:13:52before you get there even.
00:13:54I wouldn't try that if I were you.
00:13:55And it's no use your trying
00:13:56to leave it elsewhere
00:13:57because it will only come back to us
00:13:59and we have its footprints.
00:14:03I am not going to inform
00:14:04Mr. Merlin of your attitude.
00:14:12Well, I am.
00:14:16How do you like that?
00:14:23Listen, kid,
00:14:24this is nothing personal.
00:14:25I mean, it's just...
00:14:26I just don't know anything
00:14:27about babies and...
00:14:30You're so little.
00:14:36Hey.
00:14:37Hey.
00:14:38Take your finger out of your mouth.
00:14:42You want your teeth to grow crooked?
00:14:44Come on, come on.
00:14:45Take them out.
00:14:46Take it out of your mouth.
00:14:49Who is it?
00:14:50It's Freddy, the well-dressed man.
00:14:54Oh.
00:14:55Oh, just a minute.
00:14:59Oh.
00:15:11Oh.
00:15:12Allow me to be a minute.
00:15:26Hiya, sugar.
00:15:27Oh, hello, Fred.
00:15:29I'm afraid I won't be able
00:15:30to go out with you tonight
00:15:31because I sort of feel like
00:15:34I'm going to have a headache.
00:15:36Oh, now, wait a second.
00:15:38Babe, you can't do that to the chief.
00:15:40Stand up the old maestro.
00:15:41Well, everything's all set.
00:15:43My brother let me have his car.
00:15:44It's champing at the curb
00:15:45right this minute.
00:15:46Oh, I'm sorry, Fred.
00:15:47I won't be able to go with you.
00:15:52A little something's come up.
00:15:54Oh, and are you just listening
00:15:56to the old doctor?
00:15:57I've got everything fixed.
00:15:59I told you that one of the judges,
00:16:00my best pal,
00:16:01well, I talked to him on the phone
00:16:02only a few minutes ago,
00:16:03and he said...
00:16:09I talked to him on the phone
00:16:10only a minute ago,
00:16:11and he said it was all set.
00:16:13You talked to him on the phone?
00:16:14Well, what did he say?
00:16:15Well, he said that everything
00:16:16was all fixed.
00:16:22Don't you hear a baby crying?
00:16:24Oh, me?
00:16:25Oh, a baby.
00:16:26Oh, yeah.
00:16:27A baby that lives next door.
00:16:29It keeps me awake
00:16:31almost every night.
00:16:32Oh, that's tough.
00:16:34Well, now, look.
00:16:35It ain't gonna do us any harm
00:16:36to go out of our way a little bit
00:16:37to make 25 bucks a piece, is it?
00:16:39And it'll only take us...
00:16:40Is it...
00:16:55Well, what did it do?
00:16:56Crawl through the wall?
00:17:01Oh, don't be silly.
00:17:06Is it...
00:17:07Is it yours?
00:17:08No, it's not mine.
00:17:11Well, where'd it come from?
00:17:16I got it for Christmas.
00:17:21Well, this Christmas
00:17:22or last Christmas?
00:17:25Look, I don't know
00:17:26what you're thinking,
00:17:27but you're all wrong.
00:17:33Hey, if you've got a headache
00:17:34or if you think
00:17:35you're gonna have one,
00:17:36you know, we can call
00:17:37this whole thing off.
00:17:38You said you brought a card,
00:17:39didn't you?
00:17:40Yeah.
00:17:41That's fine.
00:17:43M-E...
00:17:44M-E-R, M-E-R.
00:17:48Come on, let's go.
00:17:52Come on, baby.
00:17:55Hey.
00:17:56You aren't taking that along.
00:17:58I have an errand to do
00:17:59and it's right on the way.
00:18:00Come on.
00:18:01Wait a minute.
00:18:02Come on.
00:18:03Oh.
00:18:05I'll just be a minute.
00:18:08Goodbye, baby.
00:18:09You certainly are cute.
00:18:13Is Mr. Merlin in?
00:18:14The son.
00:18:15I'd like to see him.
00:18:16Merlin?
00:18:17Would you tell me, uh,
00:18:18in reference to what?
00:18:20I can't take care of this baby.
00:18:22After all, it's his responsibility
00:18:23and...
00:18:24and he has influence.
00:18:27He goes around
00:18:28telling people
00:18:29what to do
00:18:30and what not to do
00:18:31and what not to do
00:18:32and what not to do
00:18:33and what not to do
00:18:34and what not to do
00:18:35and what not to do
00:18:37if he got me into this,
00:18:38he can get me out.
00:18:39Uh, I... I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:18:40Oh, no, you don't.
00:18:41Let me in.
00:18:43You surely don't propose
00:18:44to leave that baby here?
00:18:45Mr. David wouldn't know
00:18:46what to do with it.
00:18:47You can just tell him
00:18:48Miss Parrish left it here
00:18:49and that he'll have to use his influence
00:18:51in getting the baby
00:18:52into that home.
00:18:53Goodbye, baby.
00:18:54Please, miss.
00:18:55Stay back.
00:18:56Please.
00:18:57Just tell him what I said.
00:19:01Mr. David!
00:19:02What is it?
00:19:03A young lady left this for you, suddenly.
00:19:05She left it. What did she say?
00:19:07She said her name was Miss Parrish, sir.
00:19:09Oh.
00:19:10And would you use your influence to get it into her home, sir?
00:19:13That girl must be out of her mind. Where did she go?
00:19:15She's in that car, sir.
00:19:17Well, come on. Come on.
00:19:18No, be careful, sir.
00:19:20It's a baby, you know, sir.
00:19:23Hey!
00:19:26Hey!
00:19:27Hey!
00:19:32I have my eye on them, sir.
00:19:34Don't lose them.
00:19:35No time.
00:19:37Funny thing.
00:19:38What?
00:19:40Well, you thought you were going to have a headache,
00:19:42and now I got one.
00:19:44So I'll just drop you by your place,
00:19:46and then we can make it some other night.
00:19:48No, no, you don't.
00:19:49You're just scared.
00:19:50Sure I'm scared.
00:19:52You think I want to run around with some gal that's friendly with the boss?
00:19:54Don't be silly.
00:19:55That baby was left with me by mistake.
00:19:57Oh, now look.
00:19:58And he's the only one who can straighten it out.
00:20:00I don't want to be seen with anybody that even knows him.
00:20:02Well, for $25 you can take a chance he won't be dancing at the Pink Slipper.
00:20:09Stop, sir!
00:20:11They went in there.
00:20:12Where?
00:20:13There, sir.
00:20:33Well, how do you find anybody in here?
00:20:41Uh, what's the color of your wife's dress, Mike?
00:20:43Maybe we can help you to find her.
00:20:44I don't need any help.
00:20:49Troublemaker, keep an eye on them.
00:21:02There she is, sir.
00:21:03Where?
00:21:04There, sir.
00:21:05Number 28.
00:21:06Come on, give up with the old personality.
00:21:08You know.
00:21:12So that's the modern generation for you.
00:21:1420th century motherhood.
00:21:16Throws her baby in somebody else's house and runs out to do that.
00:21:33Come on, bud. Come on.
00:21:39I'm going to get another piece of my mind here.
00:21:41Take this thing.
00:21:43Take it and wait for me.
00:21:46Hold it, bud.
00:21:47Where's your partner?
00:21:48I just want to talk to somebody.
00:21:49I just got to...
00:21:50You got to wait till the contest is over.
00:21:52How long is that going to be?
00:21:53About an hour.
00:21:54An hour?
00:21:58Listen, bud.
00:21:59If you want to get out of here,
00:22:01Listen, bud.
00:22:02If you want to get on,
00:22:03why don't you grab yourself one of our hostesses?
00:22:13Would you mind entering this thing with me?
00:22:16I could be convinced.
00:22:21My partner.
00:22:26Give it everything you got, kid.
00:22:28But now warm up slow.
00:22:29Ditch it out, handsome.
00:22:30I can take it.
00:22:32Hey, wait.
00:22:33Hey, wait a minute, will you?
00:22:35Where are we going?
00:22:36Look, this is a dancing contest, will you?
00:22:38Wait a minute.
00:22:39Hey, wait, will you?
00:22:41Hey.
00:22:42Hey, wait a minute.
00:22:43Hey, this is a dancing contest, not a free-for-all.
00:22:46Sorry.
00:22:47Better luck next time.
00:22:48Hey, look, kid, where are we?
00:22:49Stop dancing.
00:22:50Mac, you're through.
00:22:51You're very kind.
00:22:52The judge's decision is final.
00:22:53Get off the floor now.
00:22:55Come on.
00:22:58Wow, is he corny.
00:23:09Holy mackerel.
00:23:10What's the matter?
00:23:11I can't get Merlin out of my mind.
00:23:13I thought I just saw him.
00:23:15You're crazy.
00:23:17Get him out.
00:23:26I'll make you ride on a good night.
00:23:34Thank you, sir.
00:23:41Call up Hennessy and find out where that girl lives.
00:23:43Very good, sir.
00:23:44Help!
00:23:53Well, Polly, I'm sorry it didn't work out like I figured.
00:23:59It wasn't your fault.
00:24:01No, it's just one of those tough breaks.
00:24:06Guess maybe we tried too hard.
00:24:09Yeah, I guess so.
00:24:15I certainly could have used that money.
00:24:17So could I.
00:24:21Imagine winning first prize of all the tough breaks.
00:24:45Good night.
00:24:47Well, how about asking a fella in for a little drink?
00:24:51I haven't any liquor here.
00:24:53Oh, come on, have a heart.
00:24:55No, really, I haven't.
00:24:57Well, how about asking a fella in for a little smoke?
00:25:01I haven't any cigarettes either.
00:25:03Well, who's asking you for cigarettes?
00:25:05I got a whole pocket full of them.
00:25:06I just ain't got a match, that's all.
00:25:09Well, I'm sorry, but I'm awfully tired now.
00:25:12Oh, you don't have to get up in the morning.
00:25:14Come on, just a minute.
00:25:15I'm just a little tired.
00:25:16Polly, a few minutes.
00:25:17Just one little match or two.
00:25:19Oh, come on.
00:25:28Hello, Mr. Merlin.
00:25:31I just came in for a little smoke or something.
00:25:37We've been out dancing.
00:25:40I guess I'd better go.
00:25:42Good night.
00:25:58How did you get in here, Mr. Merlin?
00:26:00Your landlady was kind enough to let me...
00:26:04Let us in out of the cold.
00:26:07Let us in out of the cold.
00:26:09I've been here three hours.
00:26:11I'm sorry, I...
00:26:12I've been here three hours, Miss Parrish,
00:26:14waiting to ask you just one question.
00:26:19What could possibly go on in that peculiar brain of yours
00:26:22that lets you jump around a dance floor like an idiot
00:26:24ten minutes after you've left your child in a strange house
00:26:27with strange people who, for all you know, might strangle it?
00:26:30Are you through?
00:26:31No.
00:26:32I've seen some low things in my time,
00:26:34but a mother who has just abandoned her child,
00:26:36going...
00:26:38That will stand alone in my memory as something revolting.
00:26:42Just one minute, Mr. Merlin.
00:26:44Are you interested in knowing what I'm going to do?
00:26:46Would it interest you to know that I am not the mother of that child?
00:26:50And that, to me, is the lowest thing of all,
00:26:52that you can deny that baby when it cries as it leaves your arms.
00:26:55Those are experienced people.
00:26:56They know a real mother when they see one.
00:26:57I'm going to fire you.
00:26:58In fact, you are fired, but that's nothing.
00:27:00I'm not the mother of that child.
00:27:01Fine, you're not the mother,
00:27:02but as you go from place to place looking for employment,
00:27:04you will discover that no department store
00:27:05in the Merchants of America Association will hire you.
00:27:07I'll see to that, but that's nothing.
00:27:09Any employer will ask you for a character reference,
00:27:11and in my wildest imagination,
00:27:12I cannot conceive of anybody whose character
00:27:14is less deserving of a reference than yours.
00:27:16I'll explain your character.
00:27:20Well, that's persecution.
00:27:21I will say it is,
00:27:22and eventually you'll come and you'll beg for your job back,
00:27:24and then you'll realize what it is to have security
00:27:27and a chance to bring up your child yourself.
00:27:29You danced.
00:27:30Now, pay the fiddler man.
00:27:32You have an obligation to that child.
00:27:34Fulfill it.
00:27:35Good night.
00:27:45Well, have you decided to ask for your job back,
00:27:48or are you going to starve for a while first?
00:27:56I'd like my job back.
00:27:58Well, that's better.
00:28:04I'm really not as bad as you think.
00:28:07But why did you do it?
00:28:11I had to.
00:28:13There was nobody I could turn to.
00:28:16Well, isn't there some legal way to...
00:28:19to make the father support the baby?
00:28:22I don't want to have anything to do with him.
00:28:25Oh, I see.
00:28:28He used to beat me.
00:28:30No.
00:28:34See that?
00:28:35Hmm?
00:28:36Coffee pot.
00:28:37Oh, you poor kid.
00:28:39It all started...
00:28:40Yes, well, I must go now, and, uh,
00:28:42you ought to get some sleep, I think.
00:28:44Don't worry anymore.
00:28:46The store is behind you.
00:28:47Thank you, Mr. Merlin.
00:28:49Oh, that's all right.
00:28:50Good night.
00:28:52Good night.
00:28:58Good night.
00:29:14Well, thanks for the job anyway.
00:29:18This can't go on very long, you know.
00:29:21Yeah.
00:29:22Well, what am I going to do with you?
00:29:25Hmm?
00:29:28Do you have any suggestions?
00:29:33Well, well, well.
00:29:36Well, I'll think it over.
00:29:40I suppose in the meantime,
00:29:42you ought to get undressed, huh?
00:29:45Who is it?
00:29:46Could I come in a minute?
00:29:48Oh, I'm a little tired,
00:29:50and I'm getting ready to go to bed.
00:29:52You don't have to hide that baby from me.
00:29:55I know all about it.
00:29:59Oh.
00:30:01Goosey, goosey, goosey.
00:30:04Just like you, it looks.
00:30:10You really think so?
00:30:13The man I let up here with the baby,
00:30:15he told me all about you.
00:30:17Why did you want to leave these babies someplace, huh?
00:30:20You thought I wouldn't let you keep a baby here, maybe.
00:30:24What kind of landlady do you think I am?
00:30:27Oh, thank you, Mrs. Wise.
00:30:29I help you to take care of this baby.
00:30:32Ooh.
00:30:34I have downstairs a baby carriage and a crib
00:30:37and anything you need.
00:30:39Ooh, fancy.
00:30:42What a wonderful baby.
00:30:44What's the name?
00:30:51John.
00:30:52John.
00:30:54John!
00:30:55Goosey, goosey, that's a nice name, John.
00:30:58Yeah.
00:31:00John.
00:31:13Morning, Polly.
00:31:15Morning.
00:31:17Don't talk too loud. You wake me up.
00:31:21Why, what's the matter?
00:31:22Ain't you been getting any sleep lately?
00:31:24Not for two nights.
00:31:26How long can a person go without sleep?
00:31:28Well, now, look, Polly.
00:31:30You can trust me, you know.
00:31:32I'm the kind of a guy that strictly...
00:31:35couldn't get nothing out of me with wild horses.
00:31:38Huh?
00:31:39How about you putting in a good word for me with, uh...
00:31:43you know.
00:31:45What's the matter with you?
00:31:47Nothing.
00:31:48Look, the assistant floor walker job
00:31:51is open right here in this department.
00:31:54You know, with a little carnation here.
00:31:57Now, one word from you to, uh...
00:32:00and I could stop pushing this silly wagon around.
00:32:03Take that truck out of the aisle, Miller.
00:32:05Yes, sir.
00:32:06Keep those ducks in motion, Miss Parrish.
00:32:08Yes, sir.
00:32:19You been coming upstairs, sir?
00:32:21No, I'm just going to walk around.
00:32:23I'll see you in a few minutes.
00:32:35Good morning.
00:32:37Good morning.
00:32:39How are you?
00:32:42I can hear you, but I can't see you.
00:32:46I can hear you, but I can't see you so good.
00:32:49I haven't been asleep for two nights.
00:32:51Why not?
00:32:52The baby's been crying.
00:32:54Well, why don't you have it sleep on its stomach?
00:32:56I read that someplace.
00:32:57That's how they like to sleep.
00:32:59Do you know how to get a baby to sleep on its stomach?
00:33:02You turn it on its stomach and then you go to bed.
00:33:04Then the baby turns over and starts to cry
00:33:06and then you get up and turn the baby on its stomach
00:33:08and go back to bed.
00:33:09Then the baby starts to cry and then you get up
00:33:11and turn the baby on its stomach
00:33:12and pretty soon it's 9 o'clock and you're winding ducks.
00:33:14Don't any mothers sleep?
00:33:16I'm beginning to think they don't.
00:33:18Well, there can't be very much to it.
00:33:19After all, everybody here was a baby once
00:33:21and they all got through it all right.
00:33:25Thanks. I'll think of that.
00:33:27Oh, it's just a pose that all mothers put on
00:33:29and it's so difficult to raise a child.
00:33:31I saw it with that when I was six years old.
00:33:33Good luck.
00:33:38Good morning, Mr. Merlin.
00:33:39Oh, good morning. Good morning, Hargraves.
00:33:41It's quite an honor having you visit our department.
00:33:43You must be running like clockwork.
00:33:44Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.
00:33:45Good day. Good day, Mr. Merlin.
00:33:47Here we are again. Yes.
00:33:52Great fellow. Chip off the old block.
00:33:54Yes, he is.
00:33:57This is a matter of your new assistant.
00:33:58Oh, yes.
00:33:59Frederick Mirrer is entitled to promotion by seniority
00:34:02unless you have some personal objection.
00:34:04No, he'll do as well as anyone. Thank you.
00:34:13Oh, Miller.
00:34:15Yes, sir?
00:34:16For you.
00:34:19Gee.
00:34:20Tomorrow morning when you arrive,
00:34:21you'll find some carnations in this vase.
00:34:23Take one.
00:34:24Yes, sir.
00:34:25A small.
00:34:26Oh, of course.
00:34:27Good luck.
00:34:29Thank you, sir.
00:34:30Okay.
00:34:31Okay.
00:34:34We have this little guy.
00:34:35He quacks, too.
00:34:37Babe.
00:34:39That's what I call service.
00:34:43Come on.
00:34:48Oh, this one quacks.
00:35:05See the little duck?
00:35:06See the cute little duck?
00:35:08Now watch it. Now watch.
00:35:11There it goes.
00:35:13I feel like throwing up.
00:35:18He's a bad boy.
00:35:22Come in.
00:35:29Hello.
00:35:31Hello.
00:35:32Oh, I was going through the book department today
00:35:34and I found this book.
00:35:36Scientific Care of Infants by Dr. Joseph Eggelman.
00:35:40It's the greatest thing I ever read.
00:35:41I couldn't put it down.
00:35:42Everything you need is right in there.
00:35:46Come on.
00:35:47Now, wait a minute.
00:35:49How do you know you're doing that right?
00:35:51Doing what right?
00:35:52Feeding it.
00:35:54Well, there's nothing very scientific about this.
00:35:56You just put the food in the baby's mouth
00:35:58and it swallows it.
00:36:00And there on, he's on his own.
00:36:02Oh, that's what you think.
00:36:03We'll just look into that.
00:36:07Here we are.
00:36:12Feeding, feeding.
00:36:15Here we are.
00:36:18After the food is prepared,
00:36:19the mother will, A, get a spoon.
00:36:22Wonderful.
00:36:23How did he ever think of that?
00:36:25Now, please, don't be so smart.
00:36:26Just do as he says.
00:36:27Get a spoon.
00:36:29Spoon.
00:36:31B.
00:36:33Take a spoonful of the food
00:36:34and place upon a piece of gauze.
00:36:36Piece of gauze.
00:36:37What for?
00:36:38What for?
00:36:40Please, just do as he says.
00:36:42It's quite possible that a man with 20 years' experience
00:36:44might know what he's talking about.
00:36:47Piece of gauze.
00:36:53Next.
00:36:55Gently rub into the navel.
00:36:59What?
00:37:03Gently rub into the navel.
00:37:06Well, that's ridiculous.
00:37:08Oh, it isn't.
00:37:09It's probably to get the child's stomach
00:37:10accustomed to the temperature of the food.
00:37:11I think it's very logical.
00:37:13Well, I've never heard of such a thing.
00:37:17And in future, all children are going to be brought up like this.
00:37:20Scientifically.
00:37:23Well?
00:37:26Here, let me look at this.
00:37:27I read very well.
00:37:28I've been doing it for years.
00:37:29I read a little, too.
00:37:35Take a spoonful of food
00:37:37and place on a piece of gauze
00:37:39and gently rub into the...
00:37:43You read very well.
00:37:46Well, I don't care what it says.
00:37:48I don't believe it.
00:37:49Oh, please, don't tell me no more about it
00:37:50than a man with 20 years' experience
00:37:52and a printed book on the subject.
00:37:53Well, I'm certainly not going to rub any oatmeal
00:37:55into this baby's navel.
00:37:57Yes.
00:37:59Who is this doctor?
00:38:00Eagleman, Eaglefoot, whatever his name is.
00:38:02I think he is.
00:38:05Oh.
00:38:15Oh, well, what do you know about that?
00:38:21To relieve gas on child's stomach,
00:38:24take a spoonful of warm oil and
00:38:28place on a piece of gauze
00:38:30and gently rub into the navel.
00:38:33I think it's very funny.
00:38:34It certainly is.
00:38:35I suppose if it had said,
00:38:36hang baby by neck,
00:38:37you'd have thought it very scientific.
00:38:39I'll feed the baby my own way.
00:38:41Come on, darling.
00:38:51Just because you get a couple of pages stuck together,
00:38:53there's no reason to condemn the whole book.
00:39:00Defective duck.
00:39:04It couldn't be that you wound it too tight.
00:39:06No, I wound it quite normally.
00:39:07That was made for a child to wind.
00:39:10Well, that's pretty silly.
00:39:11Do you think a child that size
00:39:12is going to wind up a thing like this?
00:39:13Just inferior merchandise, that's all.
00:39:15Where'd you get it?
00:39:17John B. Merlin.
00:39:19And son.
00:39:20Well, it doesn't matter.
00:39:21It's still inferior.
00:39:22Just get it exchanged tomorrow.
00:39:25Ha-ha.
00:39:26What is the ha-ha for?
00:39:28Oh, nothing.
00:39:29Just ha-ha.
00:39:30What is wrong with our exchange department?
00:39:32They don't exchange anything.
00:39:34Oh, they only exchanged
00:39:35$50,000 worth of goods last year.
00:39:37That's all.
00:39:38Just get the thing exchanged.
00:39:39Never mind.
00:39:40I'll just buy a new one.
00:39:41Then I'll get it exchanged for you.
00:39:43Certainly.
00:39:44You probably could get it exchanged
00:39:45for a grand piano or something.
00:39:48Well, I've got a...
00:39:50chamber of commerce thing tonight,
00:39:52so I'll...
00:39:54go now.
00:39:56I'll leave this with you for the...
00:39:58I'll take this duck.
00:40:02Good night.
00:40:06Thanks for everything.
00:40:09Good night.
00:40:10Good night.
00:40:21Oh, Mr. Merlin.
00:40:26It's been laundered.
00:40:33Pick that up.
00:40:36Don't lean on the counter.
00:40:38All right, break it up, break it up.
00:40:39No gossiping.
00:40:43Here, straighten up this counter.
00:40:44Put those things away.
00:40:45I didn't expect to get any place.
00:40:46Hello, Mr. Merlin.
00:40:48I never would have recognized you.
00:40:50Why the, uh, disguise.
00:40:52I'm going to show you
00:40:53that I can get this duck exchanged
00:40:54without any complaint.
00:40:55I'm going to show you
00:40:56what an honest man I am.
00:40:57That's a good sign.
00:40:58That's a good sign.
00:41:00Hello, Mr. Merlin.
00:41:01Hello, Mr. Merlin. I never would have recognized you.
00:41:06Why the disguise?
00:41:08I'm going to show you that I can get this duck exchanged without anybody knowing me.
00:41:12Fine.
00:41:13Would you mind stepping over to the exchange department with me?
00:41:16Not at all. Mary, would you look after these?
00:41:19This gentleman wants to exchange something.
00:41:25I'll show you. I'll have this duck exchanged.
00:41:29I'll show you. I'll have this duck exchanged in exactly one minute and courteously.
00:41:34We don't see.
00:41:39I have a duck here I want to...
00:41:40You'll have to get in line.
00:41:4558, 59, 60. One more.
00:41:47I had to get in line, didn't I?
00:41:49Have it signed by the section manager and bring it back here.
00:41:52Oh, all right.
00:41:54I have a duck here I want to exchange.
00:41:56Certainly, sir.
00:41:59What seems to be the trouble with it?
00:42:01It's broken.
00:42:03I can see that, but how did it happen to break?
00:42:06Well, I had it...
00:42:11What difference does it make?
00:42:12I must know where to place the responsibility.
00:42:14Well, just place the responsibility on the duck and give me a new one.
00:42:18Very well, sir.
00:42:20May I see the sales slip?
00:42:23Have you got the sales slip?
00:42:25I threw it away.
00:42:26You should have kept it.
00:42:27I threw it away.
00:42:28You should have kept it.
00:42:29How did I know the duck was going to break?
00:42:30How did I know the duck was going to break?
00:42:32It's printed clearly on the back of the slip that it must be kept for 30 days.
00:42:35You can't expect me to keep a sales slip for everything I buy.
00:42:37That's why if you keep a sales slip for everything I buy...
00:42:39I'll have to be full of it.
00:42:40I'll have to be full of it.
00:42:41That's so silly.
00:42:42Silly?
00:42:43I'm sorry, sir. I don't make the rules for the store.
00:42:44They're made by the executive office.
00:42:46Well, I don't care anything about the executive offices.
00:42:48I want a new duck.
00:42:51Well, you're not going to get it by shouting.
00:42:54I'd say not.
00:42:55Or any other way.
00:42:56That's what you think.
00:42:57I'm exchanging this for a new duck and you can straighten it out any way you like.
00:43:06Oh, can I help you, kid?
00:43:08Listen, wait a minute.
00:43:10Hey!
00:43:11Hey, look!
00:43:12Wait a minute.
00:43:13Now, wait a minute.
00:43:14Hey!
00:43:15You can't take that!
00:43:18Hey, Mac!
00:43:19Shoplifter!
00:43:20Shoplifter!
00:43:25Oh, no, you don't.
00:43:26I saw you steal a duck.
00:43:27You can't get away with that.
00:43:30Mr. Merlin!
00:43:31Use me, Mr. Merlin.
00:43:36All right, now leave me alone.
00:43:39Well, gee, Mr. Merlin, I didn't know it was you.
00:43:42I thought it was a customer.
00:43:43A customer?
00:43:44Yes, sir.
00:43:45It's lucky for you it was me.
00:43:46A customer would sue the store.
00:43:48How long have you had this job?
00:43:50Well, you know.
00:43:51I know what?
00:43:53Well, you know, since yesterday.
00:43:55And what did you do before that?
00:43:58I was a stock clerk.
00:44:00Then I have a little secret to tell you.
00:44:02You're still a stock clerk!
00:44:04I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Merlin.
00:44:09You've disgraced the toy department.
00:44:24Hey, you.
00:44:25Come on.
00:44:26Come on, break it up.
00:44:27What are you sitting there for?
00:44:29How do you ever expect to get any place?
00:44:33Oh, shut up.
00:44:37They can't do this to me.
00:44:39I know where the body's buried.
00:44:40Well, if you do, why don't you crawl in with it?
00:44:45You'll see.
00:44:54Hello, Louise.
00:44:55What time do you want me to pick you up?
00:44:56Why, David, are you under the impression
00:44:58that we have a date tonight?
00:45:00Impression?
00:45:01Are you kidding, Louise?
00:45:02Why, no, David.
00:45:03The last thing you said to me ten days ago
00:45:06was that you'd call.
00:45:07Well, I got in rather a mess.
00:45:09I'm terribly sorry, David,
00:45:10but I'm afraid you'll just have to go stag tonight.
00:45:12Oh, don't worry about me.
00:45:14I'll get someone.
00:45:15It's New Year's Eve, David,
00:45:17and if that's all right with you,
00:45:19I'd like to see you tonight.
00:45:21It's New Year's Eve, David,
00:45:23and it's after 8 o'clock.
00:45:25You'll never get anyone at this hour,
00:45:27anyone presentable.
00:45:28I'll be all right.
00:45:29I'll see you later, then.
00:45:31Yes, both of you.
00:45:34Goodbye.
00:45:35Goodbye.
00:45:39Well, who can I call?
00:45:41It's New Year's Eve, sir.
00:45:42It's after 8 o'clock.
00:45:43Yes, I know, I know.
00:45:45Hard to be a young lady available, sir,
00:45:47at such short notice.
00:45:52Take it away, Times Square.
00:45:57Who is it?
00:45:58Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:45:59This is John B. Martin, sir.
00:46:01...surrounded by thousands of persons
00:46:03waiting to usher in the New Year...
00:46:04Just a minute.
00:46:05...just a few short hours away.
00:46:06Listen to that crowd.
00:46:09Your duck, madam.
00:46:11I had it exchanged for you,
00:46:12with no trouble at all.
00:46:16Oh, I certainly didn't expect to see you tonight.
00:46:19Well, I didn't expect to be here,
00:46:20but I was taking my shower,
00:46:22and it occurred to me
00:46:23you might be having kind of a dull evening.
00:46:25I'm sorry.
00:46:26I'm sorry.
00:46:27I'm sorry.
00:46:28I'm sorry.
00:46:29I'm sorry.
00:46:30I'm sorry.
00:46:31I'm sorry.
00:46:32I'm sorry.
00:46:33I'm sorry.
00:46:34I'm sorry.
00:46:35I'm sorry.
00:46:36I'm sorry.
00:46:37You might be having kind of a dull evening.
00:46:39Come on, get dressed,
00:46:40we're going to a swell party.
00:46:43Stood up, huh?
00:46:45Huh?
00:46:46You were stood up.
00:46:48No, I....
00:46:53Yes, I, uh...
00:46:55I promised to call her back,
00:46:56and I forgot.
00:47:00I'd love to go with you,
00:47:01but I can't leave the baby alone.
00:47:03Oh, the baby?
00:47:04You don't have to devote your whole life to the baby.
00:47:06You told me to.
00:47:08Yes, but this is New Year's Eve. Get somebody...
00:47:10Get the landlady to take care of it.
00:47:13Oh, there's one more thing.
00:47:16Oh, what?
00:47:17Well, you and your...
00:47:20Hmm, and me and my...
00:47:23What I've got.
00:47:25We'd make half of a lovely couple.
00:47:29I'll take care of the clothes. You go and fix it for the landlady.
00:47:31Go on, go on, run, run, hurry, hurry.
00:47:33Go on, get her everything. Go on, hurry up.
00:47:47Let's see now, you got stockings?
00:47:49You got stockings, all right.
00:47:50Handkerchief?
00:47:51Yeah.
00:47:52Purse?
00:47:53Yeah, right here.
00:47:54Well, come on, hurry up.
00:47:55Got gloves?
00:47:56Yeah, I got the gloves.
00:47:57Shoes?
00:47:58Well, you got the shoes.
00:47:59That's right. Say, what coat did he say to get?
00:48:00He said a mink one.
00:48:01Well, there's a mink coat on that model there.
00:48:03Well, maybe that's it. Let's see.
00:48:08Think that's all right?
00:48:23Good evening, Miss O'Merlin. Your path is right over there.
00:48:26Oh, yes.
00:48:27Oh, don't leave me.
00:48:29Oh, I won't know how to talk to these people.
00:48:31You just say no to the men. The girls probably won't talk to you anyway.
00:48:35This way, please.
00:48:36No, I mean it.
00:48:37Come on.
00:48:38But I have nothing in common with him. I won't know what to say.
00:48:41I'll take care of that.
00:48:43It suits me fine. These boys are half man and half wolf.
00:48:46Do you know what I mean?
00:48:48Yes, I know what you mean.
00:48:50That tall one's cute.
00:48:51He's the worst of the lot. He's all wolf.
00:48:54Hello, David.
00:48:55How are you?
00:48:56Why, glad to see you.
00:48:58Hey.
00:48:59Huh?
00:49:00Her name's not David.
00:49:02Oh.
00:49:03Who is that?
00:49:04I don't know.
00:49:06Oh, come on, come on. Introduce her.
00:49:08You're all in good time. Just relax.
00:49:13Oh, I'm sorry we're late.
00:49:15Look, there's no point in my introducing this young lady to you.
00:49:17She's the daughter of a Swedish manufacturer.
00:49:19Just come over.
00:49:20And she doesn't speak one word of English.
00:49:29Fjord, Jalna and Balanderskrong?
00:49:36Hollandsborg.
00:49:40Say, where did you ever learn to speak Swedish?
00:49:42Oh, I had a two-week holiday in Sweden last year.
00:49:44It's a very simple language.
00:49:46Uh...
00:49:47Gunu...
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00:49:52Kumil?
00:49:54Uh...
00:49:55Sven.
00:49:59She just said the funniest thing.
00:50:01She's had it with you.
00:50:02What did she say, David?
00:50:05It's not very good in English.
00:50:06It's just the way she said it.
00:50:12How do you say dance in Swedish, Dave?
00:50:18Oh, rovel.
00:50:20Rovel.
00:50:21Rovel, madame.
00:50:23Smörgås.
00:50:28She's from the North.
00:51:28Thank you very much.
00:51:44Thank you very much.
00:51:48Say thank you in Swedish, will you, Dave?
00:51:51Tromsjö...
00:51:52Lockja...
00:51:53Helvet.
00:51:55Svenska nycklar från Gustav.
00:51:58What did she say, Dave?
00:51:59She says you're welcome and you could use some dancing lessons.
00:52:17Hey, I'm hungry.
00:52:20Well, let's get out of here. I'll get you something to eat.
00:52:22I like it here.
00:52:23Then we'll stay.
00:52:24But I'm hungry.
00:52:25Then we'll go.
00:52:27All right.
00:52:30Leaving?
00:52:31Yes, we have some other stops to make, sir.
00:52:33Oh, good.
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00:52:42Happy...
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00:52:46Year.
00:52:48Year.
00:52:49Good for you.
00:52:50Good girl.
00:52:52Goodbye. Happy New Year.
00:52:53Goodbye.
00:53:03Are you leaving?
00:53:04Yes, Louise, we have another stop to make.
00:53:07Well, how do you like her?
00:53:08She's not bad for a filling.
00:53:10Personally, I'd just as soon go stag.
00:53:14You could, too, with those shoulders.
00:53:24Happy New Year.
00:53:26Oh, shut up.
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00:54:07They're a little ahead of time, aren't they?
00:54:09I'm afraid so.
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00:58:16Good night.
00:58:17Good night.
00:58:22I'm smorgas again for a very nice evening.
00:58:45Oh, he's awake.
00:58:58You want to see if I got home all right?
00:59:12Oh, he's the best baby I ever saw.
00:59:15He never even cried once.
00:59:17My Jerome, he used to cry all the time.
00:59:23Thank you very much, Mrs. Wise.
00:59:25I'm sorry I didn't know I was going to be out so late.
00:59:27Oh, that's nothing.
00:59:29What else have I got to do?
00:59:31Good night.
00:59:32Good night.
00:59:36Good night.
00:59:41Do you want to know a secret?
00:59:51You promised you won't tell.
00:59:52I think he likes me.
00:59:53Yeah.
00:59:54But I'm afraid he doesn't like you very well.
00:59:55Well, don't get upset about it.
00:59:56Don't get upset about it, because nobody could come between you and me, because you're my
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01:00:03Yes, you are my fella.
01:00:04Yes, you are my fella.
01:00:05Yes.
01:00:06Why, my fella, no, yes, yes, oh, you can't eat my hand.
01:00:17You can't eat my hand.
01:00:19Yes, I know.
01:00:21Good night, baby dear.
01:00:26Happy New Year.
01:00:36Good night.
01:00:52Hey mister, you John D. Moylan?
01:00:55To you, yes.
01:00:56Here.
01:01:02Bahmission.
01:01:06I'll teach you to monkey with me, you muzzlers.
01:01:32What is it, Dad? A match note?
01:01:34Nothing.
01:01:58I'll see you later, Dad. I'm going to take a little walk.
01:02:01You are, huh? Well, I don't mind a little walk myself.
01:02:05I think I'll go along with you.
01:02:06No. Oh, I wouldn't bother, Dad. I'm going to walk pretty fast.
01:02:09I don't think you'll be able to keep up with me.
01:02:12It is a little difficult to keep up with you.
01:02:14I'll see you at lunch.
01:02:18Follow him.
01:02:19Beg your pardon, sir?
01:02:20Follow my son and keep out of sight.
01:02:23Yes, sir.
01:02:32Allow me, madam.
01:02:34Oh, hello.
01:02:40Oh, excuse me.
01:02:42You're welcome.
01:02:47Go right ahead, sir.
01:02:48No, no, go ahead, please.
01:02:49Oh, well, thank you. I'll go.
01:02:51Oh, isn't he cute?
01:02:55There we are.
01:02:58Pardon me.
01:03:00Allow me.
01:03:01Oh, si, thank you.
01:03:08Hello, sir.
01:03:09Hello.
01:03:10Hello, sir.
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01:03:19Hello, sir.
01:03:21How old is he?
01:03:23Seven months.
01:03:25Really?
01:03:27Junior's only six months old and they seem about the same size, don't they?
01:03:32Oh, I don't know.
01:03:34Our doctor says that Junior is a perfect physical specimen.
01:03:38I find, if the baby gets gas on his stomach,
01:03:41that the best thing is to take some warm oil on a piece of gauze and rub it into his navel.
01:03:48Oh, if the pages get stuck together.
01:03:51Does he stand up yet by himself?
01:03:54No, he doesn't.
01:03:55He doesn't?
01:03:58Junior does.
01:03:59And their baby is a month older.
01:04:01But I wouldn't be too discouraged if I were you, dear.
01:04:03After all, some babies are more backward than others.
01:04:05But they can outgrow it.
01:04:11Does Junior talk?
01:04:14At six months.
01:04:16Of course not.
01:04:17Well, they're not supposed to talk at that age.
01:04:21This one talks.
01:04:24And this one doesn't.
01:04:25They're not supposed to talk at that age.
01:04:29This one talks.
01:04:35I can't imagine it.
01:04:36At seven months.
01:04:38He's been talking for a month.
01:04:41Well, it's a little difficult to believe, but of course, if you say so.
01:04:49Doesn't he talk, dear?
01:04:51Didn't he talk last night?
01:04:55Certainly he talks.
01:04:56And very well, too.
01:04:58Why, he can recite the first line from Gunga Din.
01:05:03Come, Oliver.
01:05:12Of course, you didn't have to make it ridiculous.
01:05:14I just asked you to say he could talk.
01:05:17Well, you've come a long way from the girl who wouldn't even admit it was her child.
01:05:22Now you think it's quite a baby.
01:05:25You get used to it.
01:05:27You get used to anything if it's around long enough.
01:05:32It's a very unusual baby.
01:05:35Oh, really it is.
01:05:40Oh, very unusual.
01:05:45But I guess it's just heredity.
01:05:49Oh, yes, of course.
01:05:52Well, it is nice to know that he could grow up to be the world's finest piano player.
01:05:56Could grow up to be the world's finest coffee pot thrower.
01:05:59Now, that was unnecessary.
01:06:01After all, you don't know the circumstances.
01:06:03Maybe I was at fault.
01:06:04Well, let's not discuss it.
01:06:05It has nothing to do with me.
01:06:06It's not my business.
01:06:07Dad.
01:06:08What are you doing here?
01:06:09Oh, just strolling about.
01:06:12This is Miss...
01:06:13My father, Miss Parrish.
01:06:15How do you do?
01:06:16How do you do?
01:06:17And who is this?
01:06:19Oh, that's Miss Parrish's little boy.
01:06:23Boy.
01:06:26Would you mind if I was very careful?
01:06:30Would you let me just hold him for a minute?
01:06:32Oh, of course.
01:06:35Come on, darling.
01:06:36Come on.
01:06:37Come on.
01:06:39That's it.
01:06:40That's it.
01:06:41Please.
01:06:50I'd know that chin anywhere.
01:06:55What's his name?
01:06:57John.
01:07:00John.
01:07:02Thanks for that anyway.
01:07:12Is there something I could do?
01:07:15You've done it.
01:07:21I wouldn't keep the baby out much longer.
01:07:23I think it's getting chilly.
01:07:26Come on, darling.
01:07:27Dad, you're acting rather strange.
01:07:28Do you feel all right?
01:07:32I'll discuss this matter with you at home.
01:07:36Goodbye, Miss Parrish.
01:07:38Goodbye.
01:07:41Goodbye.
01:07:58Holy mackerel!
01:07:59Dad!
01:08:00Wait, Dad!
01:08:12Hello, Dad.
01:08:21Now, you listen to me, young man.
01:08:22Dad, let me explain something.
01:08:23Let me explain it, if I may.
01:08:24I'll do the talking.
01:08:26For years, I've been waiting.
01:08:28Waiting.
01:08:29And for what?
01:08:30The dream of my life.
01:08:32A grandson.
01:08:34A grandson.
01:08:36A grandson.
01:08:38A grandson.
01:08:39My life.
01:08:40A grandson.
01:08:41And now you want to deny me this happiness.
01:08:43Why didn't you?
01:08:59Excuse me.
01:09:01So, this is the modern generation.
01:09:04So, this is the 20th century.
01:09:08Marriage was good enough for your father and mother, Blasser.
01:09:11And it's good enough for you, sir.
01:09:12Dad, I never said...
01:09:30Come on.
01:09:47You're going to marry that girl.
01:09:48You're going to bring my grandson into this house.
01:09:50Now, I'm going to tell you something.
01:09:51Now, don't start that with me.
01:09:52You know my temper.
01:09:54Remember what I did to Governor Meade.
01:09:56You haven't any grandson.
01:09:57The least you can do is not to deny it.
01:09:58I saw him with my own eyes.
01:09:59I saw you with that girl.
01:10:01That's not my baby.
01:10:02Don't be a cad, sir.
01:10:04Besides, I have other information.
01:10:06A letter from...
01:10:07From a friend.
01:10:09But if I hadn't it,
01:10:10if I hadn't seen you with that girl,
01:10:12if I saw that baby on a desert island by itself,
01:10:15I'd know it was my grandson.
01:10:17Why, he looks exactly like me.
01:10:19Oh, dad, for heaven's sake,
01:10:21you're jumping to conclusions.
01:10:22Now, I'm going to tell you something.
01:10:23My mind's made up.
01:10:25Nobody's playing around with my grandchild.
01:10:26I'm going to take him.
01:10:28I'll get him if I have to go to the Supreme Court.
01:10:29Will you listen before your blood pressure goes through?
01:10:31Never mind my blood pressure.
01:10:33You don't know me in a fight.
01:10:34Oh, you're the stubbornest man I've ever met in my whole life.
01:10:36I'm going to prove to you that he's not my child.
01:10:38I know what's the matter with you.
01:10:40You're crazy.
01:10:41That's what's the matter with you.
01:10:42You're unbalanced.
01:10:43You've been working too hard
01:10:44and your mind's cracked under it.
01:10:45Don't say I didn't warn you.
01:10:47You've been burning the candle at both ends.
01:10:49Yes, and in the middle, too.
01:10:50What you need is...
01:10:52More sleep.
01:10:53More sleep.
01:10:59Come in.
01:11:03That must have been funny.
01:11:05I know what your father thought.
01:11:06He thought Johnny was your...
01:11:07This is no laughing matter.
01:11:08Do you know what he's going to do?
01:11:09No.
01:11:10He's going to take that baby away from you.
01:11:12Oh.
01:11:15I'd like to see him.
01:11:16Oh, you don't know my father.
01:11:17He'll send for lawyers and investigators and things.
01:11:19He'll get the baby away.
01:11:20Can't do that.
01:11:21It belongs to me.
01:11:24You've got to stop him.
01:11:25All right, we'll get a hold of this piano player.
01:11:27That'll be a big help.
01:11:29Oh, I can't do that.
01:11:30But you'll just have to.
01:11:31And half a dozen lawyers come around here
01:11:32questioning your fitness to raise the baby.
01:11:34Look, take me to your father.
01:11:35Let me talk to him.
01:11:36I can convince him.
01:11:37He won't believe you, either.
01:11:38He's out of his mind.
01:11:39He even wants me to marry you.
01:11:44Wants to set me up with a ready-made family
01:11:46just so he can have a grandson.
01:11:48I tell you, this is serious.
01:11:52Yes.
01:11:54That would be serious, wouldn't it?
01:11:57Oh, no, I didn't mean that.
01:11:59That's all right.
01:12:00I didn't mean to sound like...
01:12:01It doesn't make any difference.
01:12:03But you'd better tell your father
01:12:04to leave Johnny and me alone.
01:12:05Oh, I'll do what I can.
01:12:06I wish I could explain it.
01:12:07Why don't you go?
01:12:12Now.
01:12:22Well, goodbye.
01:12:24Goodbye.
01:12:52Come in.
01:12:54Mrs. Weiss, would you come and help me pack?
01:12:56I'm going away.
01:12:57Away, where?
01:12:58Oh, I don't know.
01:12:59Anyplace.
01:13:00They're trying to take the baby away.
01:13:02Who is?
01:13:03Who?
01:13:04That fellow just went out?
01:13:05His father.
01:13:06Is that to pop off the baby?
01:13:08No, no, but his father thinks he is.
01:13:10Well, that's ridiculous.
01:13:11I don't pretend to be an attorney,
01:13:12but I know your rights.
01:13:13And I say his father can't get the baby.
01:13:15He can't get the baby.
01:13:16He can't get the baby.
01:13:17He can't get the baby.
01:13:18He can't get the baby.
01:13:19He can't get the baby.
01:13:20His father can't get the baby.
01:13:21I know, but I don't want a lot of people
01:13:23around asking questions.
01:13:25Polly, why don't you get the real pop-off
01:13:29to go and see his father?
01:13:31Well, I can't.
01:13:33I wish I could.
01:13:34Yeah, that would be the solution.
01:13:39Jerome, this is your chance to do a good deed.
01:13:44Mama.
01:13:47Come in.
01:13:50I've had a hard time finding you.
01:13:52Oh, Mr. Merlin, now, I didn't mean
01:13:54to cause nobody any trouble, now.
01:13:55Do you know who's the father of that baby?
01:13:57Huh?
01:13:58Polly's baby.
01:13:59Who's the father?
01:14:00Well, I don't know anything, Mr. Merlin.
01:14:02Nothing at all.
01:14:03Well, you don't know, huh?
01:14:15Would you like to be an assistant floor walker again?
01:14:19Why?
01:14:23I'll show him.
01:14:27We have Mr. Fortin on the telephone now, sir.
01:14:29Oh, good.
01:14:30Good.
01:14:33And there are two people to see you, sir.
01:14:35A Mr. and Mrs. Weiss.
01:14:38Weiss?
01:14:39Weiss?
01:14:40I don't know any Weiss.
01:14:41Time to write a letter.
01:14:42Hello, Watkin.
01:14:44Where are you?
01:14:45Lake Placid?
01:14:47What are you doing there?
01:14:49Skiing.
01:14:51I'm not paying you $50,000 a year to go skiing.
01:14:54You ski back to New York right away,
01:14:56or I'll get another lawyer so quickly
01:14:57it'll make your head swim.
01:14:59Skiing at a time like this.
01:15:01They say it's about a baby, sir.
01:15:03A baby?
01:15:04Well, show him in.
01:15:05Show him in.
01:15:06Very good, sir.
01:15:11This way, please.
01:15:18Won't you sit down?
01:15:24Mr. and Mrs. Weiss?
01:15:29I thought you were Miss Parrish.
01:15:31That's the name I use at the store.
01:15:33We've been married for two years.
01:15:35Yeah.
01:15:37Two years.
01:15:39Your son just called, and there seems to be
01:15:42some misunderstanding about the marriage.
01:15:45There seems to be some misunderstanding
01:15:47about our baby.
01:15:51Your baby?
01:15:54So there's no need to send anybody to investigate.
01:15:56It would just be a waste of time.
01:16:11Maybe this will convince you.
01:16:12Here is the father of that baby.
01:16:16Come on, go ahead.
01:16:18Oh, Mr. Merlin,
01:16:20your son came over to our flat and said that
01:16:23you have some wrong impression about my son.
01:16:28Well, my son is my son and nobody else's.
01:16:32Never heard of such a thing.
01:16:35I see.
01:16:37Do you know who that is?
01:16:39Who?
01:16:40That.
01:16:41That's the father she brought here.
01:16:47You two seem to have slipped up someplace.
01:16:49You've got one too many.
01:16:53So you finally showed up, huh?
01:16:56I couldn't come any sooner.
01:16:58Pretty cute, wasn't it?
01:16:59Running out on her like that.
01:17:00Like what?
01:17:01You're not going to try to keep this up.
01:17:03Do you know what this is?
01:17:05A coffee pot.
01:17:06You ought to recognize it.
01:17:08How do you like that, you piano player?
01:17:10How dare you hit a poor defenseless man?
01:17:12Oh, go on, stick up for him.
01:17:14You might as well cut all this out.
01:17:16It doesn't convince me.
01:17:18And I'm not through with you, young man.
01:17:21I'm going to prosecute you.
01:17:23I don't know what for,
01:17:24but I'm going to prosecute you for something.
01:17:26Mr. Merlin, I'll tell the truth
01:17:28and I know what I'm talking about.
01:17:30Your son put me up to this and he's the father.
01:17:34Dad, this is the truth.
01:17:36Dad, this is the truth.
01:17:38He's the father.
01:17:39Wait a minute.
01:17:40I'm not the father.
01:17:41I don't care who the father is.
01:17:43I'm the grandfather.
01:17:45You're not the father?
01:17:47No, I'm only the landlady's son.
01:17:49I didn't want to do this.
01:17:50And I'm going to prosecute you too, young man.
01:17:52Polly.
01:17:55Polly!
01:17:56She's gone.
01:17:57Gone?
01:17:59She'll take the baby.
01:18:01Wait a minute, I'll get the car.
01:18:03You're really smart, Uncle.
01:18:05Oh, my dear.
01:18:06Are you ready?
01:18:07Yes.
01:18:08I've left the rest of my things up there.
01:18:09I'll let you know where I am.
01:18:11Where will you sleep tonight?
01:18:13I'll be all right, just so they don't find me.
01:18:15You're a big girl.
01:18:17Go in my room, quick.
01:18:19No, no, go ahead.
01:18:21Go ahead and be quiet.
01:18:24Go in my bedroom.
01:18:30Where's Miss Parrish?
01:18:32Miss Parrish, she doesn't live here anymore.
01:18:34She moved.
01:18:35She moved?
01:18:36Yes, she moved.
01:18:37Don't you believe me?
01:18:38Go on upstairs and see it for yourself.
01:18:40Go on upstairs.
01:18:50Everything is all right.
01:18:51Just keep quiet.
01:18:52All right.
01:18:54Those tactics may be all right for Governor Meade,
01:18:56but this is no way to treat a girl with a child in her arms.
01:18:59Madam, I want the truth out of you.
01:19:01You're concealing that girl's whereabouts.
01:19:03Whereabouts?
01:19:04What is a whereabouts?
01:19:05Why are you hiding her?
01:19:08You went upstairs to look in her room, didn't you?
01:19:11I'll handle her.
01:19:12Let's see what you can do.
01:19:13Mrs. Weiss, we'd very much appreciate it
01:19:15if you could give us any hint as to where she went.
01:19:17I hardly know her myself.
01:19:18She just lived here a few weeks,
01:19:20and I never ask anybody any questions.
01:19:22She must have left some forwarding address.
01:19:24Now, please, Mrs. Weiss.
01:19:25I don't know anything about it.
01:19:27You don't seem to realize we want to help her.
01:19:29We're friends of hers.
01:19:30Can't you understand that?
01:19:31Oh, believe me, I-I should drop dead.
01:19:34I-I could swear on anything.
01:19:36I can swear...
01:19:38What do you want from me?
01:19:39You got that girl here.
01:19:42Oh, Dad, you're just making a fool of yourself.
01:19:44Look, she did mention an aunt out west somewhere.
01:19:46I don't know anybody but Nancy, your father,
01:19:49and you miss that aunt.
01:19:50I'm not hiding her any... any place.
01:20:02You're not going to take this baby.
01:20:04Polly, listen, Polly.
01:20:05I've stood enough. I don't care what you say.
01:20:07I'm not trying to take your baby away.
01:20:09You see, I started out thinking that I only wanted to help you.
01:20:14And then a while ago, when I thought you'd gone away,
01:20:18I realized I was in love with you.
01:20:21So, will you please marry me?
01:20:23Hmm?
01:20:24Will you please marry me?
01:20:26Will you please marry me?
01:20:28Will you please marry me?
01:20:30Will you please marry me? Hmm?
01:20:36What about the ready-made family?
01:20:39Oh, the family's you and Johnny.
01:20:40Ha! I knew it!
01:20:44Dad, I have something to confess.
01:20:47I am the father of that baby.
01:20:50Those are the first true words you've spoken today.
01:20:54Come on, Johnny. We're going home.
01:21:01I've got a surprise for you.
01:21:03We're going to be married tonight.
01:21:06And you still think I'm the mother of that baby?
01:21:08Of course.
01:21:11Uh-huh.
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