Come and Get It (1936) Movie Script
Hey, son!
Let me show you
how to do that.
Come and get it!
Come and get it
or we'll throw it to the dogs!
Set up and get it!
What's the matter?
Ain't we cutting enough timber?
Not half enough.
- Hello, Romie, how are you?
- I'm fine.
What's the matter,
aren't you getting enough?
- Once more on the beef!
- Coming up!
Wait a minute.
You ought to know better than that.
You know the rules about drinking.
No wonder you're behind cutting timber.
Sit down!
I'll talk to you later.
Cookie!
Get rid of this.
- Eric.
- Hello, Barney.
- Where's Swan?
- Gone up to Camp Three.
- Back today, maybe.
- What is he doing there?
Camp Three is on schedule.
It's you fellows that are behind.
I know that.
As soon as he comes back,
I wanna see him.
- Tea! More tea, son!
- Coming up! Coming up!
Hot! Hot!
Gee, mister, I'm sorry.
- Honest, mister.
- You awkward little flunky!
I'll teach you to burn me!
- I didn't mean it!
- Wait a minute!
- Let go or I'll give you a dose of it.
Don't get excited.
It was an accident.
Now, sit down.
Say, who do you think you are?
Come on, Max.
Now, listen, boys.
You may be sorry.
- Barney!
- Swan!
Why ain't you tell me
you was coming?
You old polecat, long time no see.
How you been, anyway?
Just fine like frog's hair.
What you doing around here?
That teach you not to have
monkey business with Barney Glasgow.
He's tough fella. Pretty soon
you'll have camp of your own.
Ja? You want to be my boss?
Watch out.
Maybe I am already.
What's this?
By George!
Yumpin' yiminy!
Hey, fellas!
Fellas! What you think?
Old Hewitt make Barney
big boss of whole line.
Get off of me,
you crazy Swede!
By George, we celebrate.
Everybody get drunk.
You bet we will.
Wait a minute.
We'll get drunk all right, but not
until we get all the logs down to the mills.
I know, I know!
All right, fellas, settle down.
I'm gonna make a little speech.
You're falling way behind
in your cutting.
sections nine and ten.
Those are orders!
We're gonna send every log
down to the mills on time!
Now, do you fellas want
all the free liquor you can drink?
All right.
Then every one of you men have
gotta do a two-man job of chopping.
Timber!
Timber!
What you fellas doing?
Playing?
Everybody got to do four men's work.
Come on, now.
There she goes!
Timber!
Well, I get some news.
- How does it look?
- Good.
The river come up six inches.
Thermometer go up, too.
That's the south wind.
Looks like the breakup.
- Ja, we start drive tomorrow.
- Sure!
If my figures are right,
we got 28 million
and some odd thousand feet
cut, decked, and ready to go.
We won't leave ten cents' worth
of timber behind when we move out.
By George, Barney, I ain't see
how you make the boys do it.
Old Hewitt should raise
your pay some more.
- He'll do better than that.
- Ja?
A partnership.
I'm on my way up, Swan.
I got a good start,
and nothing is going to stop me.
In ten years, I'm gonna be
one of the richest men in this state.
You wait and see.
Hewitt likes me,
and there's no limit to where I'm going.
They say his daughter
like you, too.
Do they?
Well, she's a fine girl.
You marry her? Maybe?
No maybe about it.
- Yumpin' yiminy!
- Wait, you crazy Swede.
Don't jump on me
or I'll kick you in the teeth!
By George,
that the only way you stop me.
Barney, why ain't you tell me?
She pretty?
She's got a good head
on her shoulders, I'll say that for her.
She's...
- Listen. Do you hear that?
- Ja.
- It's the ice breaking up.
- We have plenty of water tomorrow.
You bet we will.
You start on the lower pond,
and if the decks are frozen,
use dynamite to break them out.
How's the ice under these decks?
We're using a lot of dynamite,
but it's not breaking up very fast.
Keep on blowing it.
Tell Swan to get that flume gate open,
and we'll have running water in no time.
All right.
- Keep those logs rolling in the flume.
- The boys are working hard.
They got to work twice as hard.
I want a million feet
in the river every day.
- Now hop on it.
- All right.
You pond monkeys!
Keep those sticks moving.
- Hello, Barney.
- Hello, Nils.
How you doing?
- Hello, Mr. Hewitt.
- Hello, Barney.
- How are you?
- Hello, Swan.
Hear that saw?
Sounds good, doesn't it? All your logs.
Every stick and 11 days
ahead of schedule.
You ought to have made it quicker
with all the high water.
Mr. Hewitt, nobody
ever make such big drive.
- And in such time? Not even you.
- Well, who said I did?
It's all right.
Good work, Barney.
- You got a bonus coming.
- Yeah? I've earned it.
- Say, Mr. Hewitt, I got an idea.
- You have?
Yeah.
Did you read where the Congress
may pass a law giving the railroads
every other section of land
along any right-of-way they build?
What's that got to do with me?
I'm not in the railroad business.
I know. But what's
to prevent us from shoo-flying
a hundred miles of rail through
that government timber up north
and grabbing all the pine
we'll ever need at $1,000 a mile?
What good will it do
if I only get every other section?
How about putting Timber jacks
on the sections you don't own,
pay them $25 a month and board,
and homestead it?
After they've proven up,
have them deed it back to me.
- No?
- Back to us.
You got a nerve.
It'll be the biggest deal ever pulled.
What do you say?
- That ain't honest, that's stealing.
- It's legal, all within the law.
Barney, that's stealing.
a million dollars
laying at their feet yelling,
"Come and get it"?
- I know, but...
- What do you say, Mr. Hewitt?
Shall we tackle it?
- We? Us?
- Yeah.
- So you wanna be a partner?
- Could you find a better one?
Don't know if I could, Barney.
But I have to think of Emma Louise.
- That your daughter?
- Yeah.
The business will
go to her someday...
that is, to her
and her husband, of course.
You haven't been to see us lately.
Well, I've been jumping
all over the state,
but I had intended getting back
to Bewdamore this week.
Good, we'll expect you.
Have a cigar.
Thanks.
I got to run along.
I promised the boys a jamboree,
and they're getting cleaned up for it.
- I'll see you next week.
- Fine. Bye, Barney.
Thanks, Mr. Hewitt.
- Hello, boys!
- Hello, Sid!
Welcome to Iron Ridge.
I'm glad to see you back, and you, too.
Come in,
can you take a little drink?
Try me and see.
- How are you, Swan?
Three square meals a day will do it.
- What do you want?
- Wait a minute, Barney.
- The first drink is on the house.
- Fine. The next one is on me.
- And the next on me.
- Not on your life.
Here you are, Sid.
Don't let my boys pay for a thing.
And when this is gone,
let me know.
This is going to buy a lot of drinks.
Here you are, Charlie.
Whiskey with a beer chaser.
Quiet, everybody, quiet.
Quiet down over there.
Free drinks for all the jacks.
Barney Glasgow's buying.
Thanks, Barney!
Watch me closely,
it's the old army game.
Where is the little pea?
- It's right here.
- Sorry.
The house wins,
and the gambler loses.
- Hello, Earl.
- Hello, Barney.
- You feel lucky this trip?
- Sure. I'll bet $5.
The object of this game is to find
the shell under which the pea is hidden.
If you'll follow closely,
you may solve
one of the scientific problems
of the age...
whether the eye
is quicker than the hand
or whether the hand
is quicker than the eye.
- It's under that one.
- The gentleman wins.
Now remember, a dozen
can bet on this game as well as one.
And remember this also,
that the sky is the limit.
- I can bet as much as I like?
- As much as you like.
that's the way you lose last trip.
I'll bet... $500.
$500!
But, Barney, $500 is too much.
What if you lose?
Don't worry,
I know what I'm doing.
There you are.
Give me a little elbow room.
- Hello.
- Hello.
You gonna bring me luck?
If I do, it'll be the first time.
Swan, make room for the lady.
Are you ready?
No, no,
where's your five hundred?
That's all right.
The house is good for it.
Why don't you put it up?
- Now listen...
- All right. I'll put it up for him.
- Think I'd be here if I was?
There you are, Mr. Glasgow.
- Satisfied?
- Yeah. Go ahead and roll them.
Watch closely,
it's the old army game.
I have nothing up my sleeves
to deceive you.
I've had my turn, now it's yours.
Where is it, Sid?
It's your bet.
Where do you think it is?
I didn't notice, did you?
- It's under there.
- Is it?
Pick it up and let's see.
You pick up the other two.
You got him.
Barney, that ain't the way
to play this game, and you know it.
It's the way I'm going to play it.
- Turn over the other two.
- Keep your hands off.
You win.
Here's a little souvenir
for you, Sid. Thank you.
- Are you coming with me?
- Sure.
You don't need anybody
to bring you luck.
No, but it looks like
I got more than my share.
Meaning me?
Yeah.
What's your name?
- Morgan. Lotta Morgan.
- Hello, Lotta.
- My name is Barn...
There's yours, Lotta.
Thanks.
Come on, Lotta,
let's go to work.
Stay here,
I'll be with you in a minute.
Hello, Sid.
Want me to get your money back?
I'll give you a hundred if you do.
Hello, Lotta.
- Feel like working, boys?
- Sure. Come on, Shorty.
Make it 200.
Give me something
to put in his drink.
As the blackbird in the spring
'Neath the willow tree
Sat and piped,
I heard him sing
Singing Arra Lee
Arra Lee
Arra Lee
Take my golden ring
Love and light
Return with thee
And swallows with the spring
Wait till his boys
drift out for supper.
Barney! Barney!
Is it all right if I come along?
Sure, come on!
This is my friend Swan Bostrom.
Miss Lotta Morgan.
How are you? Quiet!
Sing it again!
- Might as well get this over with.
- Quiet.
- Keep quiet!
- Come on over here. Too far to walk.
This one's for you.
When the mistletoe was green
- Hurry up, Shorty.
- I'm coming.
'Midst the winter snows
Sunshine on my face was seen
Kissing lips of rose
Arra Lee
Arra Lee...
Wonder what she's doing
in a place like this?
What's the matter with this place?
Take my golden ring
Love and light
Return with thee
And swallows with the spring
By golly, I have good time.
You know, Lotta,
I like that song you sing, "Arra Lee."
- How long have you been in this place?
- First time I hear...
- Two, three weeks.
- Where do you come from?
- Milwaukee.
- First time I...
- Are your folks still alive?
- Yeah.
- I feel so bad.
- Do you ever hear from them?
- Once in a while.
- I forget... where I am.
- How long since you left home?
- What?
How long ago
did you leave home?
Say, you guys are all alike.
You buy a girl a drink,
you want to know the story of her life.
Anyways, girl pick my pocket
for $20, by George!
- Barney! Barney!
- What?
We're going to eat.
- Well, go ahead.
- Aren't you coming?
Come on, Barney!
We come over later.
Lief, take the boys,
get them something to eat.
Order plenty of chicken.
We'll be right over.
We'll wait for you.
Now let's see, where were we?
Yeah. Can you give me
- Are you going to start?
- Good idea.
What are you, missionaries?
- I'm getting sick...
- Wait, keep quiet and listen.
I'm not nosy, I'm on the level about this.
Because...
If you must know, there are
All of them are dollars.
- Railroad fare?
- Ain't that enough?
- You think money grows on trees?
- Mine did.
Here's enough
for your railroad fare
and some to tide you over
until you get yourself a decent job.
I got few dollars, too.
What's the catch?
- No catch. I like you.
- I like you too, Lotta.
You don't belong here, that's all.
Go on, take it.
It's all velvet.
You may look all right to the naked eye,
You better take care
of his money for him.
- Too proud to take it?
- Will you get out of here?
- Why?
- Because...
Sid LeMaire's sitting over there.
If you think he's gonna
Don't worry about Sid LeMaire.
Go on, Barney.
Please, do what I tell you.
Will you go with us?
- What?
- I mean it.
No, I'll stay
right here where I belong.
- Then I stay, too.
- Me, too.
- Skol.
- Skoll
Why you do that?
Will you get out of here?
Sure.
Come on!
- Listen, I...
- Look out, Barney!
the other end.
Duck under the table.
- What do you think I am?
- Thank you.
- Don't be so polite.
I won't.
Stay down, stay down!
- Here, try these.
- Swan, you found a gold mine.
Let him have it!
Come on,
what are you afraid of?
How you like that one, Sid?
Wait, I got another one for you.
Let's both do it.
Barney, there's one you missed.
Timber!
- Who is it?
- A lumberjack friend of yours.
Come on in, Barney.
Did you miss me?
Miss you? You been away?
I've been away for two hours,
and it seems like two months.
I love you, Barney.
Any objections?
I'd object like the devil
if you didn't.
To prove that I do know
something about women's clothes,
look what I got you.
Is that what all those
measurements were for?
Say, did you ever try wearing your hair
without those thingamajigs?
In public?
Let's see,
which is the front?
Let me see.
Barney, it's elegant.
It's the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen.
It's the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen.
When the mistletoe was green
'Midst the winter snow
Come on in, Swan.
Come on, get down.
Why ain't you come for supper?
I wait half-hour.
We're coming right away.
Wait, I've got a new dress.
I've got to put it on.
Ja, I wait two half-hours now?
You didn't waste your time
while waiting, did you?
Barney, I forget.
A telegram just come for you.
Aura Lee
Aura Lee
Take my golden ring
Love and light returns with thee
And swallows in the spring
- This steam feels good.
- There's nothing like it.
- We have good fun for four days.
- Just like old times.
Ja! Better!
We ain't got Lotta in old times.
Yeah, it's funny how that kid
gets under your skin.
Ja, just like sun when she come up
over big pines on snow.
Oscar, cool him off.
You know, Barney...
The sun comes up
over the pines!
That's all right, Barney.
Lotta's fine girl.
- They don't make them any better.
- She plumb crazy for you, too.
- No!
- Yeah, you crazy for her.
I know that when I see you
look at each other.
- Oscar, give him another one.
- No, Osc... No, no!
Why you do that?
The heat's gone to your head.
No, Barney.
I see what my eyes see.
What you do
about that other girl?
What? What other girl?
That girl you was going to marry,
the old man's daughter.
I'm still going to marry her, Swan.
Well, what about Lotta?
Well, I...
- Oscar, help me get out of here.
- Ja, Barney, I come right away.
You don't understand, Swan.
I've got to do it.
It means being Hewitt's partner.
That's what I've been working
all my life for.
Well, why don't you say something?
I ain't say nothing.
You know already what I got to say.
Lotta is...
I didn't think it was going this far.
- You break her heart, Barney.
- She'll get over it.
Tell her...
Tell her if she ever
needs anything, to let me know.
She can have anything she wants.
You think she'd take it?
What you say... me tell her?
Ain't you going
to see her before you go?
I haven't got time.
No, that isn't it.
I couldn't see her, Swan.
If I did, I might not go.
You gotta tell her for me.
What I going to say?
- Tell her the truth.
- I'm sorry, Swan. So long.
- Good-bye, Barney.
Barney?
- No, it's me.
- Just a minute.
- Hello, Swan.
- Hey, Lotta.
- Well?
- Lotta...
- Well, do you like it?
- What? I like what?
Holy smokes, and it took me
two hours to do it.
- To do what?
- My hair, stupid.
- I fixed it without the thingamajigs.
- Ja, I like that. Look nice.
- You think Barney will like it?
- Ja, I think...
- Lotta, I got to tell you something.
- What?
Lotta... Lotta,
I ain't feel good.
- What's the matter, Swan?
- I got to tell you...
- That's too bad. You want a drink?
- Ja, you bet you I want drink.
- You probably need it.
- You drink, too?
I'll have one with you.
- Feel any better?
- Ja, a little bit.
Swell.
Where'd you leave Barney?
I leave... I leave Barney
down the street. I think I have another.
- What were you gonna tell me?
- I was gonna tell you...
I was gonna
tell you about... about Barney.
You know, Barney's...
Barney's funny fella. He ain't say much.
I know that.
He ain't like other fellas.
Someday he's going to be big man.
- That all he think about.
- He's different.
I knew that the minute I met him.
Like getting a bang on the nose.
For a while,
I didn't know what happened.
- What happened?
- Plenty.
You... You love him, Lotta?
- Well, what do you think?
- I think... I think...
I think I have another drink.
You better leave
some for Barney.
I ain't have to,
he ain't comin' back.
What did you say?
That what I tried so hard to tell you.
And it just slip out.
I didn't hear you, Swan.
What did you say?
Lotta... Barney...
He ain't coming back.
- No, I ain't lie.
He gone on train already.
He say to tell you he going to marry
old Hewitt's daughter.
I might have known.
That's what you get
for getting soft.
I might have seen it coming.
Oh, no, I gotta get kicked
in the face before I get the idea.
Barney Glasgow.
Sure, he's different.
Men are swell, ain't they?
They don't care if they...
We go again.
Swan, Swan,
here's Pastor Carlson.
- God dag. Pastor.
- God dag. Bostrom.
- You know all this people.
- Ja.
- God dag.
- God dag.
I go get Lotta.
Come, Lotta. Everything ready.
Minister just come.
- Why do you want to do it?
- Because I love you.
I'll never make as good a wife
as you deserve.
Lotta. I hope I deserve you.
I ever knew.
- Are you ready?
- Ja, you bet I ready.
Come on.
- Good morning, Mother.
- Good morning, Richard.
Gussie, go upstairs and tell
Mr. Glasgow his breakfast is cold.
- I'll keep it hot for him.
- Do as I tell you.
Yes, ma'am.
You've been sending him
that message for ninety-odd years.
- Never hurried him yet, has it?
- It may have.
Be careful how you muss up that paper.
It upsets your father to find it not fresh.
I've told you, you might
just as well use his toothbrush.
I don't see the connection.
The richest man in Wisconsin
could afford two morning papers.
That would be extravagance.
The reason Mr. Glasgow
is the richest man in Wisconsin
is because he and my father before him
knew how to take care of their money.
Mother, why do you always
call father "Mr. Glasgow"?
I don't see why not.
My mother never called my father
anything but "Mr. Hewitt"
to his dying day.
- Never?
- Never.
- Good morning, Miss Evvie.
- Good morning, Thomas.
- Is Father in there?
- He's just finishing dressing.
Pack a couple of bags for him.
Something for fishing.
- You know what to put in.
- Yes, miss.
Thomas,
what did you do with...
- Good morning.
- Good morning, Evvie.
- And how are you this morning?
- So-so.
Aren't you getting old enough
to have breakfast in bed?
None of your gruff, Barney.
I like my breakfast hot, just like you do.
Is that so? You better not let
your mother hear you call me Barney.
- What have you got there?
- A letter from Swan.
- Go ahead and read it.
- I think I know what he's going to say.
"Dear Barney,
hunting season just open.
"Why ain't you come up
and we shoot deer just like old times?
"I hope you
and family are feel good.
"I feel so good myself, I think I beat you
choppin' down tree if you was here.
Just like I always do, by George!
Ha ha!" Is that true?
I never liked to hurt his feelings.
Nice of you.
"Anyways, l...
"Anyway, I wish you come see me.
"You and Lotta was two people
I like most in whole world...
and I lonesome to see you.
Your friend, Swan Bostrom."
You haven't seen Swan since he was
down here on business that time.
You and Mother were away
when his wife died.
It's been over 20 years since you've
been up in Iron Ridge. Why, Barney?
- You see, Evvie...
- Why don't you go?
You could shoot a bear there
instead of acting like one here.
Am I doing that?
You need a change, darling.
When you got back,
your mind would be in better shape,
and so would your figure.
- All right, I'll go.
- Good.
You better behave
or I'll get in dutch.
I will. Thomas! Thomas!
I feel better already.
- Yes, Mr. Glasgow.
- Thomas, pack a few things for me.
- Something I can use to...
- Go fishing?
Yes. Come on, scat,
get out of here, go on.
You didn't say anything
about my new suit.
I like it. Hides the fact
that you like to eat.
Stop picking on me.
Mother will say it looks
like one of your old ones.
- Bet you $2 she doesn't.
- I'll take it.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- Good morning, Bernard.
- Nice day, isn't it?
- Your breakfast is...
- I know, ruined.
- How are you, son?
- Fine, thank you.
- Any chicken livers, Gussie?
- Missus didn't tell me.
I don't think there's any,
Never mind, don't worry about it.
You seem
in a very cheerful mood, Bernard.
- World you like to see the paper?
- No, not now. Anything interesting?
- Teddy's swinging the big stick again.
- What? Let me look at that.
This Roosevelt!
attend to running the government
instead of sticking his nose
in other people's affairs.
Something has to be done
with the country.
What do you expect
with radicals in Washington?
Won't be long before they'll be passing
a law taxing us on the money we earn.
Hear, hear!
If you know more than Roosevelt,
why don't you run it?
That's not the point.
Now they've got some newfangled idea
about forestry conservation.
Save the forest from the vandals.
Vandals, vandals!
- Do they mean you, Father?
- Of course!
What in blazes
do they know about it?
Taxes eating us
out of house and home
grow a tree in a hundred years.
replant it after you cut it.
Keep your mouth shut,
young man.
I heard all about that
replanting speech you made
- What?
- That one of your new suits?
- Yeah. Like it?
- Looks like one of the old ones.
Chapman's having a sale
of down comforters.
I've a good mind to go to Milwaukee
this week, if it weren't for all the parties.
I think you'll have to count me out.
I've got to go to Iron Ridge.
- Iron Ridge? What for?
- On business. I had a letter from Swan.
party for Orville and family.
The first since they've been engaged.
What will his family think?
Well, frankly,
I don't give a hoot what they think.
I've seen all I could stand
of Mr. Orville Bremmer and family.
That goes for me, too.
Personally, I think he's a stuffed shirt.
Sorry, Evvie. I'm going to the office.
- Did you hear what he said?
- Maybe he's right.
Well, that's a nice way to talk.
get engaged, much less married.
That's an idea.
Now look here, Evvie.
You don't have to marry
that fat can of lard
or anybody else if you don't want to.
Fact is, I'd rather you didn't.
I don't care how old his family is
or how much money they've got.
Orville's all right. He's a good kid.
Well, are you going to marry
Orville Bremmer or are you not?
Yes.
Well, thank you very much.
I suppose it's very amusing to...
That clock is three minutes slow.
I hope you change your mind
about going north.
I suppose I ought to know by now I can
never expect any help from my family.
The Reverend Taylor
said to me yesterday...
he took one look
at my face and he said,
"Mrs. Glasgow, if I ever I saw a woman
who's a martyr to her family,
that woman is you."
I've got to get to the office
before I go north.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- I'll go to the door with you.
- Come on.
- Morning, Mr. Glasgow.
- Morning.
I've been tripping
over that for years.
It's a wonder somebody
- Morning, Mr. Glasgow.
- Morning, Josie.
Has the report on that
new bleaching process come in?
The what?
The bleaching proce...
The report on the new
bleaching process. Did it come in?
- We're expecting it tomorrow.
- It should have been here today.
- Find out why it isn't here.
- Yes, sir.
And, Josie...
Make a reservation on the 5:00 train.
Be sure it's a drawing room.
- I'm going to Iron Ridge.
- Thank heaven.
- What did you say?
- Nothing.
What do you want?
If I can hang on to it,
I think I've got something here.
Tony Schwerke and I
have been experimenting.
- Well, what is it?
- A paper drinking cup.
- A what?
- A paper cup. To use in public places.
You drink out of it
and throw it away. It's sanitary.
Sanitary, my eye!
People have been drinking
out of glasses for a thousand years.
- A thousand years is a long time, but...
- Don't waste my time.
- Father...
- You heard what I said.
Yes, sir.
Hope you enjoyed your trip,
Mr. Glasgow.
- There's a cigar.
- Thank you.
- Have a nice vacation.
- I will.
Come in.
Come in!
What's the matter,
don't you know me?
Barney! Yumpin' yiminy!
Go ahead, jump!
I guess I getting too old to jump.
- I'm glad to see you.
- I'm glad to see you!
How you been?
- You look just like always.
- I feel all right.
- You get my letter?
- Sure, that's why I'm here.
We'll do some shooting,
like the old days.
- I got bad news.
- What's the matter?
- The camp burn down two nights ago.
- How did that happen?
That fool Cookie, he start fire,
then sashay out to get deer.
When he get back,
camp is big blaze, but he put it out.
- Where am I going to stay?
- Stay right here with me.
Doggone it,
I wanted to do some shooting.
All right,
I'll go back on number 11 tonight.
You stay here,
you get deer just the same.
It's too far to go, morning and night.
Maybe you ain't get back here
in another ten years.
Sure I will.
I'm coming back soon.
Swan, this is a nice place
you got here.
Comfortable, cozy, and...
Say, what is this?
Ain't you remember
that night at Alcazar?
When we do such good job
on them hoodlums?
- This is one of the trays?
- Ja.
By golly, we have fun that night.
You and me and Lotta.
Lotta... she put that there.
She talk many times
about that night... before she die.
She talk many times
about you, too, Barney.
She always say, "Someday,
Barney come back and see us."
But you... you never come.
Well, you know how it is, Swan.
Ja, I guess you pretty busy fellow.
- And have you been happy?
- Ja, you bet I happy.
Lotta make fine wife.
She learn to cook just like Swede.
- And you, Barney?
- Well, I got what I started for.
- You happy?
- Happy? I suppose so.
- How's family?
- They're fine.
I wish you could see my daughter.
I don't know what I'd do without her.
She's a great girl.
I bet, with father like you.
- I got fine daughter, too.
- Why not, with a father like you?
- Where is she?
- She work over at hotel.
I forget to ask you,
you have breakfast yet?
No, not yet.
We go see her
and have breakfast, too.
- All right.
- I get my shoes.
Smell good.
Karie get us good breakfast.
- Karie? Who's Karie?
- That my sister's girl.
She live with me.
She head waitress here.
That her.
Karie! Karie!
All right, Swan.
What you think?
Barney Glasgow come up to see us.
Ain't that nice, Mr. Glasgow?
I'm sure glad to meet you.
Glad to see you, too.
Uncle Swan's told us
so many things about you.
Every time I make Artsoppa,
he says how you used to like it.
Artsoppa?
I haven't had any in years!
- I fix you some for tonight for dinner.
- No, I'm going back on number 11.
I wish you ain't go.
For your breakfast,
what would you like?
- Fruit and coffee...
- And some oatmeal.
Some oatmeal. And we have
some very fine pork sausages.
- Got chicken livers?
- We've got chicken livers.
I put the order in myself
and I see that you get enough.
- She's a nice girl.
- You bet you she is.
Where's your daughter?
That her.
Take care of that table.
- Hello, Pa.
- This my daughter Lotta.
- Lotta?
- Ja, her name Lotta, too.
This Barney Glasgow.
How do you do, Mr. Glasgow?
How do you do?
Why you stand up, Barney?
Sit down, sit down.
- Ain't he just like what I say?
- Yes.
Father's told me so much about you.
Here we are, Mr. Glasgow.
Here's your fruit.
Lotta, get the coffee and the toast.
We're glad to have you here.
And your chicken liver
will be ready in just a moment.
- She pretty, Barney, just like her ma.
- For a moment, I thought it was.
She's smart, too. She go to school
three night a week, study hard.
She say, "I ain't going to
work here always.
Someday I get better job."
That's fine, Swan, that's fine.
- So you don't like it here?
- Heavens, no.
I want to go to Milwaukee
and learn something.
I don't want to be stuck here
like Pa and Karie.
We hear that all the time.
Did you enjoy your breakfast?
Yes, thanks, very much.
That smells nice.
Do you like perfume?
Well, I'll see that you get some.
I almost sounded like some of
the drummers that hang out here.
Only you don't mean it
the way they do.
Say, Barney,
what you say we go fishing?
I know where trouts
is biting good up near Camp Two.
Say, that's a great idea.
Ja, and when we come back,
we have Swedish dinner.
But Mr. Glasgow won't stay.
I'm going to stay.
Lotta and I are
going to fix Swedish food.
- Artsoppa, smorgasbord...
- Kaldolmar...
- Plumencreme!
- And potato pancake.
Don't tell them that you saw me,
she said they'll know the rest
Tell them I was looking well
And whisper if you get a chance
- Karie, you were coming!
- What do you mean, I were coming?
- Did you get everything ready?
- All we have to do is put it on the stove.
I'll leave early, and you
come along as soon as you can.
- No, I'll come later.
- Later? Why?
I don't want to be there
when Mr. Glasgow comes.
But why, for Pete's sakes?
If I'm not there, and he waits a while
and gets afraid I'm not coming and...
- And?
- And then I come.
Why, what are you...
what are you driving at, anyway?
He likes me.
What are you up to, young lady?
Now stop grinning and answer me,
or I'll slap you.
You and Pa have been
dumb all your lives.
Thank you, Miss Smarty.
You have. You don't plan,
you just let things happen.
I'm not like that.
I've got ideas how I want things to be,
and I'm going to get them.
Where does Mr. Glasgow
come into that?
He likes me, and he can do a lot for me
if I make him think I'm worth helping.
I'm Swan Bostrom's daughter,
and I got looks.
I'm going to amount to something,
wait and see.
Mr. Glasgow thinks I'm too good for
this place, so does Pa, and so do you.
And so do I.
Doesn't that look good?
By gollys, I so hungry,
I think I eat a whole horse.
You go ahead and eat.
Mr. Glasgow must be hungry.
- Ja, sit down there.
- No, no, wait a minute.
- Isn't Lotta coming?
- She'll be here.
- Uncle Swan, pour the schnapps.
- Ja, Lotta be here pretty quick.
She have to work late
on account of them fishermen at hotel.
The smorgasbord is the best
I could do. I hope you'll like it.
That look nice, Karie.
- Skol.
- Skol.
You don't suppose
she isn't coming?
Karie, Karie!
Down your Sunday throat?
I better get the rest
of the supper.
You know, Swan, I've been thinking
of that girl of yours...
- and what she said this morning.
- She always talk that way.
Maybe she's right.
She's a beautiful girl.
- She prettiest girl in Iron Ridge.
- No.
- She ain't?
- Well, I didn't mean it that way.
I don't mean just pretty.
Did you see the way those men
looked at her this morning?
- Barney, Lotta's good girl.
- Of course she is.
That's why I want
to see her get the right start,
to get somewhere, so she...
What's the matter, your back hurt?
- Little bit.
- What's happened?
Just what I have two year ago.
He's all right,
he's as strong as a woods ox.
- You bet I strong.
- I wonder what's keeping Lotta.
She'll be here any minute.
I'd better get her.
No, Mr. Glasgow, she's just
a little late on account of all those...
- No, she...
- I better get her.
I know Brotschneider.
- Hello.
- I thought I'd never get here.
They wouldn't stop eating.
Let me help you.
We didn't think you were coming.
I ran all the way.
Like to fell down a couple of times.
That's too bad.
The very idea! She should be waiting
on you instead of you on her. Give me...
Here, wait a minute,
I'll put it on. Karie, go away.
The supper's on the table.
It's getting cold.
It's a party. I hope you come
to Iron Ridge often, Mr. Glasgow.
I'll come if you and Karie
invite me to a supper like this.
- Sit down.
- Help yourself, Mr. Glasgow.
- Thank you.
- I'm so hungry, I think I eat two horses.
Uncle Swan.
I'll take that, you get the flowers.
- Can you sing?
- Yes, a little.
Sit down
and sing something for us.
All right. Play something, Pa.
In the spring
'neath the willow tree
Sat and piped, I heard him sing
Singing Arra Lee
Arra Lee
- Arra...
- Stop it! Stop it!
I know, Barney.
I know.
Barney, you know
"Bird on Nellie's Hat"?
You sing that just like you used to
when you were shanty boy.
Uncle Swan always used to tell us
how grand you sung.
Please, Mr. Glasgow.
What'll you give me if I do?
Will you give me a kiss?
You sing "Bird on Nellie's Hat"
and Lotta give you a kiss, and Karie,
and you ain't look out,
old Swan give you kiss, too.
All right, we'll all sing it.
Go ahead, Swan.
I'll be your little honey,
I will promise that
Said Nellie as she rolled
her dreamy eyes
It's a shame to take the money,
said the bird on Nellie's hat
Last night she said
the same to Johnny Wise
Then to Nellie, Willie whispered
as they fondly kissed
I'll bet that you
were never kissed like that
Well, you don't
know Nellie like I do
Said the saucy little bird
on Nellie's hat
And I'll keep your presents, honey
That's it.
By golly, Barney,
you ain't forget how to kiss girl.
- Karie, you next.
- Oh, no, no!
- What's happened, Uncle Swan?
- Nothing. I just get crick in back.
I don't like this.
You ought to see a doctor.
I'll take you to Chicago
to the best doctor in the country.
- I ain't want to see no doctor.
- Shut up, will ya?
I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll all go to Chicago.
Swan can see a doctor,
and we'll have a holiday...
see some good shows and have
a good time. What do you say?
- We have fun?
- Yeah.
Lotta and I have got jobs.
And think of the expense.
- That's my business.
- What will folks say, you taking us?
his niece and daughter on a holiday,
- things have come to a pretty pass.
- He's right. We're going.
Fine! Then it's settled.
Come on, "Nellie's Hat."
We'll all sing it again.
I'll keep your presents, honey,
just for old times' sake
Said Nellie as she rolled
her dreamy eyes
She has fixed him good and plenty,
said the bird on Nellie's hat
Oh, Willie, Willie,
when will you be wise?
Well, but how about
the diamond engagement ring?
Of course, said Willie,
you'll return me that
Well, you don't
know Nellie like I do
Said the saucy little bird
on Nellie's hat
By George, I got to
get that fixed.
Go right in.
Mr. Glasgow's been waiting for you.
Come in, come in.
Hello.
- Well, we are dressed up, aren't we?
- How do we look?
- How do you like my hat?
- It's fine.
That owl, he hoot and hoot
and keep me awake two or three nights.
By George, he ain't hooting now.
You shouldn't have told that.
Never mind. I like it.
And I like it, too, Karie.
There we go!
Won't you sit down,
make yourself comfortable?
What's this place?
It's a private car. I had it
sent up to take us to Chicago.
- Nobody come in but us?
- It's just like heaven.
Of course not.
World you like to have
something to eat now?
- Yes.
- Snowflake.
Tell the steward I want to order
some dinner, have it served in here.
- But...
- Yes!
- I beg your pardon?
- Nothing.
You were going to say something.
I thought we were going
to eat in the dining car.
I've never been in one. I've watched
them go by with people eating,
and I thought how grand I'd feel
if I were there, too.
Bless your heart.
Never mind about the steward.
We'll eat in the dining car.
It's perfectly all right.
We're here to have a lot of fun,
and you can have
anything that you want.
- Do you want to eat now?
- Ja!
All right, come and get it!
Come and get it!
Hello, Mr. Glasgow.
It's nice to have you with us again.
- Thank you, Clem.
- I've saved you a nice table.
- That's fine.
- This way, please.
- Hi, Barney.
- Well, hello, Charlie.
Sit down.
I'll be with you in a minute.
What are you doing
up in this neck of the woods?
- Been up fishing at Twin Forks.
- Any luck?
Only fair.
What are you doing up here?
I'm on my way to Chicago.
This is Swan Bostrom and his folks.
He and I used to be loggers together.
He hurt his back.
I'm taking him to a specialist.
Nothing the matter
with the girl, though, is there?
Don't be silly.
I'm old enough to be her father.
- You old polecat.
Come into my car,
we'll have a little brandy after dinner.
I've eaten too much!
I've got to take off my coat.
I'm glad to sit down again.
- Will you smoke a cigar, Swan?
- Thanks, Barney.
Well, you've had dinner in a diner.
Did you enjoy it?
No. No, I didn't.
- Lotta!
- You didn't? What was wrong?
Look at us.
- Why didn't you tell us we look so funny?
- You didn't look funny.
Yes, we did.
I saw those other women
laughing at us.
They were laughing
at this and Karie's owl.
Nobody laughed at my owl.
They did. They were
polite enough to try to hide it.
You knew before you took us in there.
Why didn't you tell us?
Perhaps your clothes aren't
what they ought to be...
- They're all right in Iron Ridge.
- That's why I wanted to...
I guess I belong there.
I'll never be able
to fit in with people like that.
Yes, you will, for the simple reason
that you realize something is wrong.
Don't worry
what other women will think
because wherever you go, Lotta,
they'll all wish they were like you.
And as far as
the clothes are concerned,
we can take care
of that in Chicago.
- Good evening, Mr. Glasgow.
- Good evening, Gene.
- Good evening.
- How are you, George?
Good evening, madame.
Your table is all ready.
Thank you.
Very glad to see you again,
Mr. Glasgow.
Thank you, George.
Take this lamp away.
Let us have a bottle of Cliquot'92
and we'll order dinner later.
- Yes, Mr. Glasgow.
- Well?
You go ahead, Uncle Swan.
I was just going to say it's a fine place
for two old shanty boys.
Certainly different
from the dining room in Iron Ridge.
My corset's killing me,
but I feel like a queen.
And look like one.
- And you, Lotta?
- Oh, it's beautiful.
they laughed at you this time.
- No, they didn't, did they?
- And are you happy?
You have no idea.
I'll never be able to thank you enough.
It's more than I even dreamed about it.
It's so lovely, it's like...
I'm afraid to even think
about going back.
Don't think about Iron Ridge
Wait a minute.
I don't want any arguments
until you hear what I've figured out.
I'm going to take you all back
to Bewdamore with me.
- Yes, you can.
Now, you want to go to school
and learn something, don't you?
Oh, yes.
and a lot more, too.
- And Swan can have a job in the mill.
- I don't want no job at mill.
Of course you do. I need a man
like you in the wood room.
Half of them don't know the difference
between a hemlock and a red oak.
I've got a nice cottage on the peninsula
and you can live there.
- Now, it's up to you, Swan.
- Well, Barney...
Try it for a while. You don't
have to stay there if you don't like it.
We could have a drink together
once in a long, long while.
By George,
I think we try it.
All right, that's settled.
We were talking about a good time?
Good! Let's begin now.
There you are, old hoot-hoot.
You look better on stick
than you do on Karie's hat.
Ja, I got good place
for you, too.
You better stop practicing.
The automobile will be here,
and you won't be dressed.
Doesn't it look nice
with the curtains up?
Oh, Karie, it's like heaven.
This is the Valhalla that us Swedes
have been yelling about all our lives.
Isn't it wonderful,
everything Mr. Glasgow's doing for Pa?
Where'd those roses come from?
Mr. Glasgow sent them.
To you and me.
Lotta, you don't suppose he...
You don't think that...
What?
It's just got to be your Pa
Mr. Glasgow's doing all this for.
Of course.
I've sometimes wondered if...
It sometimes worries me
that it might be you.
Karie, are you trying...
I know it's awful,
but he is interested in you.
Maybe more than he ought to be.
How can you say such a thing?
You know Mr. Glasgow's
interested in me on account of Pa.
- I wonder if he is.
- Of course he is.
How can you say such a thing?
How can you even think it?
- You'll spoil everything.
- Now, listen, Lotta...
- I won't listen to anything.
as I am that it's true.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
You come from Mr. Glasgow?
Ja, he send me to fetch you
and your family to the mill.
I go get Karie and Lotta.
- You come in the house?
- No.
I'll keep an eye
on this newfangled contraption here.
- It's liable to blow up.
- Ja.
And I don't care if it does!
- You ain't like horseless carriage?
- I hate the pesky stink wagons.
I've seen ornery horses in my time,
but none as infuriating
as this infernal machine.
What we do if she
blow up with us today?
We worry about that after.
If we need to.
Hi, Josie.
if I didn't trip over that thing.
What's on your mind, Josie?
Here's the report
on your bleaching process.
All right, all right.
I never felt so much like working.
You certainly look better
since you got back...
younger or something.
That north country
does you a lot of good.
Fishing makes a new man of you.
Fishing? You look as though
you just shot a lion.
- Josie!
- Yes, sir?
Have a telephone installed
in the cottage for the Bostroms.
Have it done right away.
And send a box of...
That's all, Josie.
- This letter you wrote to McLennan...
- What about it?
- Why not?
The government won't let you.
I cut my timber, fix my rates,
and ship my logs as I see fit.
I always have and always will.
And, Josie, let me know
as soon as those people get here.
Yes, sir.
- Don't you realize times have changed?
- I don't want to argue about it. I'm busy.
Expecting the Bostroms?
Yes.
They say that daughter of Swan's
is a pippin. Is she?
I don't know. Just a big Swede.
Nice kid, though.
- They're here, Mr. Glasgow.
- Well, bring them in.
Or do I have to
go after them myself?
Will you please come in?
Hello, Swan.
How are you?
- Richard!
- Hello, Karie.
- Haven't seen you in a long time.
- Glad to see you.
- Glad to see you, too, Swan.
- You've grown to be a big fellow, ain't you?
And do you like Bewdamore
and business college?
- Everything's perfect, Mr. Glasgow.
- That's fine.
all this for Uncle Swan,
but we'll never
be able to thank you enough.
Nonsense! I'm doing it for Lotta
and for you and Swan... all of you.
You've certainly made us all
very happy, Mr. Glasgow.
Aren't you happy, Karie?
So happy I haven't dared pinch
myself since we left Iron Ridge.
That was the general idea.
This is my son Richard.
Miss Karie Linbeck.
- How do you do, Miss Linbeck?
- How do you do, Mr. Richard?
Please, do call me Karie.
Everybody does.
Of course I will... Karie.
This is Lotta Bostrom.
Hello.
Come along, girls.
I'll show you through the mill.
Father, before you go, Van and I
have been having a little disagreement.
The girls have been ripping
the safety catches off the cutters again.
- Well, what of it?
- Van won't do anything about it...
How many times have I told you
that whatever Van says goes?
I don't want to hear
any more about it.
And, Swan, I'll show you what we do
to a tree after you chop it down.
- Bye.
- Bye.
I want you to see that wood room, too.
That's where you start
Monday morning.
- Pretty, isn't she?
- Is she!
If you felt the building shaking just then,
that was me falling for her.
Somebody else must have fallen, too.
You ought to see the bills
for clothes from Chicago.
- Good evening, Mr. Glasgow.
- Good evening.
Won't you come in?
Pa and Karie just went out
for a walk and I'm making...
for my father.
Well, he's not coming.
He's at home where he ought to be.
Now look here, Miss Bostrom,
I've come to tell you
you've got to stop making a fool
out of my father.
Everybody in town's
talking about it.
What is it you want off him?
Money? If it's money...
What do you mean
by saying those things?
It's true.
- Keep still.
- Now, you wait a minute.
Now look here, Miss Bostrom,
don't you hit me again.
If I'm wrong about you, all you
have to do is say so. I'll believe you.
I'm sorry, but you
are wrong, Mr. Glasgow.
- That's nothing. It's burning.
- What's burning?
It's just my candy.
- Don't you think that you...
- All right, I'll fix it.
Don't you go away.
You stay here.
Gee, it smells good.
Here, I'll fix it.
Oh, it's hot!
You've fixed it.
You've fixed everything.
Gee, I'm sorry, Miss Bostrom.
It was darn clumsy of me.
What's the matter,
did you burn your hand?
No!
You've got tears in your eyes.
Because everything's spoiled.
It's only sugar and water.
That's nothing to cry about.
That's not what
I'm crying about.
I never should have
come to Bewdamore.
Well, all right, but we've got to do
something about cleaning up this mess.
Don't walk around.
You'll get it all over the kitchen.
I've made a mess of everything.
It's sticky.
Of course it is.
It's that kind of candy.
Well, I don't...
Well, why don't you stop crying
and do something?!
The art of paper-making goes
as far back as the ancient Chinese.
They were the first ones to discover
paper could be made
from a fibrous matter
reduced to pulp.
Really? I never knew
that the Chinese had...
Yes, the ancient Chinese were one
of the most inventive and cultured races
the world has ever known.
I'd love to go to China.
Yes, I would.
and eat with chopsticks?
See the temples
and the Great Wall.
Just imagine
the Taj Mahal in the moonlight.
It'd be wonderful.
Of course, the Taj Mahal isn't in China,
Don't stop pulling.
It gets just like fly paper.
Go on and tell me more
about paper-making.
Well, the Arabs learned it
from the Chinese.
And the Crusaders who visited
Byzantium and Syria and Palestine
learned it from the Arabs.
And then, well,
it came on down to us.
Oh, Mr. Glasgow,
isn't history wonderful?
Gee, it never seemed
so darned wonderful before.
We shouldn't have stopped pulling this.
- Look out!
- You take that.
This is awful!
Swan Bostrom's outside.
Wants to see you. Says it's important.
Well, he ought to know.
- Shall I have him come in?
- Of course have him come in.
- Come in, Svensk.
- Hey, Barney.
You look great.
What's on your mind?
- I've come to talk about the job.
- What's the matter with it?
It's a fine job, Barney,
only ain't no work to it.
I sit all day like loafer
and just look at wood.
Fella say, "What that?"
I say, "That hemlook."
He say, "What that?"
I say, "That pine. Ain't you know?"
He say, "Sure, I know,
but you have to tell me."
That ain't good job
for old timberwolf.
All right, Swan, I'll see that your
loafing stops if that's what you want.
- Hello, Swan.
- Hello, Richard.
- You get candy out of hair?
- Yeah, most of it.
We made an awful mess
of your kitchen.
That all right.
Lotta clean up kitchen fine.
Richard and Lotta
make candy last night.
Too bad you ain't come over.
We have nice time.
I'll have a meeting, Swan.
I'll see that your loafing stops.
- You know I active cuss, Barney.
- Sure.
- Thank you. Bye.
- Good-bye, Swan.
Van says that Eastern crowd
is going to open offices in Chicago
if the panic dies down.
- How do you happen to go there?
- Go where?
To Lotta's. Bostrom's house.
Well, I just went down there to
invite them to the employees' party.
You personally invite
all the employees to their annual party?
Now look here, young man,
you've got other things to do
beside going around
with a millhand's daughter.
- You go down there.
- Well, that's different.
I go down there to see
my old friend Swan.
A pig's eye, you do.
Take a letter.
Wait a minute.
This'll interest you.
Somebody took a might pretty
young lady out to lunch this noon.
Mr. Russell A. Eubank,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
My dear Russ,
as you will recall,
I've been considering opening
a New York office,
as the time seems right
for many reasons.
I propose to put you in charge
and place under you as your assistant
my son Richard,
- who is familiar with...
- I won't go.
"Who is familiar with..."
Never mind the letter.
Mrs. Glasgow telephoned that
she'd pick you up at 5:00.
All right.
- I want to talk to you about something.
- Go ahead.
- Serious. Do you mind?
- No.
Oh, I see how you do it.
What is it you want
to talk to me about?
I've broken my engagement
with Orville Bremmer.
You what?
Yep. This afternoon.
It's all over
and I feel so much better.
So you finally did it.
I was hoping that...
- Were you, Barney?
- Well, I didn't like him anyway.
You might have helped me out a little
when Mother was talking me into it.
Oh, I know.
- What made you change your mind?
- Several reasons.
- Tony in particular.
- Tony who?
- Tony Schwerke.
- Tony Schwerke?
Don't keep repeating like that.
You look so dumb.
The only Schwerkes I know are
the bohunks that live down in the flats.
- Tony's one of those bohunks.
- What?
He's in charge of the room where
the big tubs are over at the mill.
He's been working for you
since he was 14.
- What does he look like?
- He's tall and...
Where'd you meet him?
At the mill?
No, in the mud
out on the state road.
I was stuck and Tony came along
and got under the car.
All I could see
was his legs sticking out.
I had to laugh. He looked
so funny and dumb and sweet,
like a bug that had
got turned upside down.
with a boy like that.
Break your mother's heart.
No, I won't.
There won't be anything left to break
when you get through.
What are you talking about?
I think you know, Barney.
- Have you been listening to...
- No.
I didn't have to listen to anyone.
I don't blame you, not really.
I don't know enough about it.
I don't wanna know.
But I do know
you've been unhappy.
Barney, if I don't marry Tony,
I'll be unhappy like that, too.
If I let Mother talk me
into marrying Orville,
I'd be unfaithful to him.
- Evvie!
- I would.
I know I would
if Tony wanted me to.
- Why not, if I think it?
When you love someone like that,
Not anything.
Please, Barney,
don't ask me to give him up,
not even for Mother.
All my life I've done what she's
Please, Barney, help me.
I haven't been
much help to you, have I?
When you love anybody like that...
You can have a million
- I only want one.
Hey, Joe,
a little more steam on this one!
Turn it up!
Up! Up!
- Say, what's your name?
- Hold it!
You know what my name is.
Put it down a little.
Say, Schwerke,
Hold it!
I thought this would be
What'd you say?
I thought this would be
You might just as well
fire me now as later.
- Hold it there.
- Come back here! Come back here!
- Are you in love with my daughter?
- Sure I am.
You needn't get so mad about it.
How are you? I'm glad to see you.
- Let's go up in the office and talk it over.
- I'd like to.
Come along.
Look out for that...
- Smoke a cigar?
- No, thanks.
- Cigarettes, I suppose.
- Sometimes.
This paper cup of yours looks
as if it had possibilities.
I'm sure it has, Mr. Glasgow.
Richard thinks so, too.
He and I are partners in it.
Sit down.
- Send Richard in.
- Yes, sir.
- Do you want to marry my daughter?
- No.
- Why not?
- I couldn't keep her.
- Is that your only reason?
- Of course it is!
- You needn't snap my head off.
- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
Come in, Richard.
- Hello, Mr. Schwerke.
- Hello.
You better get your patents out
on this paper cup as fast as you can.
Yes, sir.
How many do you think
you can turn out in a day?
With this machine we've planned,
several hundred gross.
All right. I'll tell the superintendent
to give you a free hand.
Schwerke, you and your family
are coming over to the party
tomorrow night, aren't you?
- Yes, sir.
- Well, that's fine.
- I want Mrs. Glasgow to meet you.
- Thanks.
Be careful there.
According to the censors reports
of two years ago,
the capital invested in
Lumber operations in the United States
was $90,564,862.
The number of employees
was 146,596.
Their wages made
a total of 66 million...
86,000,944,000... lumber.
Now...
Well, that just goes to show you
the condition this country's in.
- Ja, that right, Richard.
- Yes, of course that's right.
Why, if my Grandfather Hewitt
had replanted 50 years ago,
the old money-grabber,
and my father had
replanted 25 years ago,
there'd be something up there
for my children to cut.
That is, if I ever
have any children.
Well...
Your Pa always say,
"Let the government
replant if they want to.
United States got plenty money."
Yes, that sounds just like him.
of its timber.
We haven't any right to leave
a wasteland of scarred pine stumps...
- Barney!
- Hello, Mr. Glasgow.
Why don't you hire a hall
or get a soap box in the park?
Did Richard have you strapped
in your chair, giving you a lecture?
He talks wonderful, Mr. Glasgow.
He's awfully interesting.
I don't know how I got on the platform.
I'm sorry if I bored you.
You don't have to listen to him
because he's the boss' son.
He goes on that way all the time
like a Negro preacher.
He'll talk an arm off
if you let him.
Yeah, that's right.
Just a regular windbag.
Should have stopped me.
Well, good night.
- Good night.
- Good night, Richard.
- I go to gate with you, Richard.
- Come again, won't you?
Thank you.
Have you got any coffee krantzes?
Sure. I made some this morning.
If there are any left.
Well, somebody looks
mighty happy tonight.
Yes, I passed my examinations
at school today.
Did you?
You are a smart girl.
They told me I'll be ready
to take a job in about three months.
Lotta, how would you like
to go to Chicago to work?
Pa would hate it in Chicago.
I don't think.
I wasn't thinking of them.
I mean you.
Alone?
I'd be lonesome.
I'd be scared to be
in Chicago alone.
I'd be there.
I mean, I'd come down often
on business trips.
We could go
to the theater together, have dinner.
Yes, but you being
a married man and all,
people would think
it was funny.
- I guess you don't think much of me if...
- Lotta, darling, I love you.
No, you don't, Mr. Glasgow.
Don't talk like that.
You think just because
I'm a young girl...
Do you think that I'm old, Lotta?
Because I'm not.
- I love you. I'll do anything for you.
You must have known how I felt
about you the moment I first saw you.
No.
I thought it was
on account of my father.
Well, anyway, I did at first.
It was you, Lotta.
I need you. I've got to have you.
I made a mistake once,
but now it's going to be different.
- Lotta, you and l...
- Don't, Mr. Glasgow.
It's wrong.
You mean because I'm married?
I'll get a divorce if you'll only wait.
I'll take you away from here.
I'll make you happy.
I'll do anything that l...
I'll see you tomorrow night
at the annual party.
We'll talk about it then.
Well, I'm glad we didn't
eat them all up.
- Thank you.
- They're the best I've ever made.
- Glad to see you.
- Glad to see you. How are you doing?
Captain of the baseball team.
- Hello, Barney.
- Hello, George. How are you?
How do you do?
Good to see you.
- How are you?
- Good evening.
How are you?
- How are you doing?
- How do you do?
Hello, Charlie.
How are you, Mrs. Schultz?
Who are you looking for, Richard?
Oh, just looking.
Hello. How are you?
How do you do, Mrs. Bolger?
Hello, Bert. Glad to see you.
Well, hello, Schwerke.
Good evening, Mr. Glasgow.
This is my mother and father.
- How do you do?
- Fine, thank you, Mr. Glasgow.
How are you, sir?
This is Mrs. Glasgow.
Mr. and Mrs. Schwerke.
- How do you do?
- Well, thank you, Mrs. Glasgow.
- I'm glad to see you.
- Glad to see you, Mrs. Glasgow.
You know Richard, of course.
And this is Tony Schwerke.
Yes, I guessed as much.
You've got a paper cup
and my daughter wants to marry you.
I don't want to marry him just because
he has a paper cup, Mother.
Have you had anything to drink yet?
Well, you have something.
George, come here a minute.
Come, Schwerke,
have some for yourself.
The more I think about that paper cup
of yours, the better I like it.
Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello, Richard.
Oh, hello.
The family's waiting up there.
Oh, ja.
Now, about free silver...
- Hey, Barney.
- Hello, Swan! How are you?
Hello, Mr. Glasgow.
This is wonderful.
Where's Lotta?
Did you bring her?
She just went over there
with Richard.
By George, Barney,
this nice party.
Yes. Will you excuse me a minute?
Get yourself a drink, won't you?
Hello, Josie.
Are you having a good time?
Lovely.
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
Well, here we are.
You were so late coming,
I was about to go after you.
- I almost didn't come.
- Why?
- Well, I'm not an employee of the mill.
- I know, but Karie and Swan are.
Thank you.
Richard, Pa and Karie and I
are going back to Iron Ridge.
- You don't like it here?
- We love it, but...
But what?
It wasn't because of anything I said
the other night, was it?
- No.
- I was an awful sap.
Yes.
Yes.
You know, I'm kind of glad
it happened, though.
Why?
Because it made you so mad
that you had to take notice of me.
- I noticed you before that.
- Did you?
And what's all this guff
about going back to Iron Ridge?
- I've got to go.
- But why?
- Well, because...
- Because why?
Because Pa misses the woods.
He's used to an outdoor life...
hunting and fishing.
- You don't belong up there.
- I don't know where I belong.
Well, I'll tell you.
You belong with me.
I'm going to New York to live,
and you're coming with me.
We'll crash New York together,
just a couple of rubes
from the Middle West.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Glasgow
have taken an apartment at the Waldorf.
- Can I help you, Mr. Glasgow?
- No, thank you.
- Come out of there.
- Now wait a minute, Father.
Come on and fight,
because I'm going to lick
the everlasting daylights out of you!
Father, you crazy?
You out of your mind?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute!
I'm in love with Lotta
and she's in love with me.
We're going to be married,
and there's nothing you can do about it.
Don't, Richard. Don't!
He's your father.
He's an old man.
Get out of here.
Both of you.
Come on, Lotta.
Bernard!
Bernard!
There you are.
I've been looking...
What's the matter?
What is it?
What's the matter?
- That precious son of yours.
- What...
- I threw him out of the house.
- Why?
He's going to marry that girl.
Is that all?
Is that all?
You don't care?
No, as long as it isn't you.
I thought it was you, maybe.
But then, perhaps even you
There. You look better now.
The tables are all ready,
but they won't sit down.
See if you can get them
to come in and eat.
Barney!
Barney, what's the matter with you?
Nothing.
Nothing's the matter, Swan.
I'm an old man, Swan.
An old fool.
Come and get it!
Come and get it!
Come and get it,
or we'll throw it to the dogs!
Come and get it!
Come and get it,
or we'll throw it to the dogs!
Come and get it!
Let me show you
how to do that.
Come and get it!
Come and get it
or we'll throw it to the dogs!
Set up and get it!
What's the matter?
Ain't we cutting enough timber?
Not half enough.
- Hello, Romie, how are you?
- I'm fine.
What's the matter,
aren't you getting enough?
- Once more on the beef!
- Coming up!
Wait a minute.
You ought to know better than that.
You know the rules about drinking.
No wonder you're behind cutting timber.
Sit down!
I'll talk to you later.
Cookie!
Get rid of this.
- Eric.
- Hello, Barney.
- Where's Swan?
- Gone up to Camp Three.
- Back today, maybe.
- What is he doing there?
Camp Three is on schedule.
It's you fellows that are behind.
I know that.
As soon as he comes back,
I wanna see him.
- Tea! More tea, son!
- Coming up! Coming up!
Hot! Hot!
Gee, mister, I'm sorry.
- Honest, mister.
- You awkward little flunky!
I'll teach you to burn me!
- I didn't mean it!
- Wait a minute!
- Let go or I'll give you a dose of it.
Don't get excited.
It was an accident.
Now, sit down.
Say, who do you think you are?
Come on, Max.
Now, listen, boys.
You may be sorry.
- Barney!
- Swan!
Why ain't you tell me
you was coming?
You old polecat, long time no see.
How you been, anyway?
Just fine like frog's hair.
What you doing around here?
That teach you not to have
monkey business with Barney Glasgow.
He's tough fella. Pretty soon
you'll have camp of your own.
Ja? You want to be my boss?
Watch out.
Maybe I am already.
What's this?
By George!
Yumpin' yiminy!
Hey, fellas!
Fellas! What you think?
Old Hewitt make Barney
big boss of whole line.
Get off of me,
you crazy Swede!
By George, we celebrate.
Everybody get drunk.
You bet we will.
Wait a minute.
We'll get drunk all right, but not
until we get all the logs down to the mills.
I know, I know!
All right, fellas, settle down.
I'm gonna make a little speech.
You're falling way behind
in your cutting.
sections nine and ten.
Those are orders!
We're gonna send every log
down to the mills on time!
Now, do you fellas want
all the free liquor you can drink?
All right.
Then every one of you men have
gotta do a two-man job of chopping.
Timber!
Timber!
What you fellas doing?
Playing?
Everybody got to do four men's work.
Come on, now.
There she goes!
Timber!
Well, I get some news.
- How does it look?
- Good.
The river come up six inches.
Thermometer go up, too.
That's the south wind.
Looks like the breakup.
- Ja, we start drive tomorrow.
- Sure!
If my figures are right,
we got 28 million
and some odd thousand feet
cut, decked, and ready to go.
We won't leave ten cents' worth
of timber behind when we move out.
By George, Barney, I ain't see
how you make the boys do it.
Old Hewitt should raise
your pay some more.
- He'll do better than that.
- Ja?
A partnership.
I'm on my way up, Swan.
I got a good start,
and nothing is going to stop me.
In ten years, I'm gonna be
one of the richest men in this state.
You wait and see.
Hewitt likes me,
and there's no limit to where I'm going.
They say his daughter
like you, too.
Do they?
Well, she's a fine girl.
You marry her? Maybe?
No maybe about it.
- Yumpin' yiminy!
- Wait, you crazy Swede.
Don't jump on me
or I'll kick you in the teeth!
By George,
that the only way you stop me.
Barney, why ain't you tell me?
She pretty?
She's got a good head
on her shoulders, I'll say that for her.
She's...
- Listen. Do you hear that?
- Ja.
- It's the ice breaking up.
- We have plenty of water tomorrow.
You bet we will.
You start on the lower pond,
and if the decks are frozen,
use dynamite to break them out.
How's the ice under these decks?
We're using a lot of dynamite,
but it's not breaking up very fast.
Keep on blowing it.
Tell Swan to get that flume gate open,
and we'll have running water in no time.
All right.
- Keep those logs rolling in the flume.
- The boys are working hard.
They got to work twice as hard.
I want a million feet
in the river every day.
- Now hop on it.
- All right.
You pond monkeys!
Keep those sticks moving.
- Hello, Barney.
- Hello, Nils.
How you doing?
- Hello, Mr. Hewitt.
- Hello, Barney.
- How are you?
- Hello, Swan.
Hear that saw?
Sounds good, doesn't it? All your logs.
Every stick and 11 days
ahead of schedule.
You ought to have made it quicker
with all the high water.
Mr. Hewitt, nobody
ever make such big drive.
- And in such time? Not even you.
- Well, who said I did?
It's all right.
Good work, Barney.
- You got a bonus coming.
- Yeah? I've earned it.
- Say, Mr. Hewitt, I got an idea.
- You have?
Yeah.
Did you read where the Congress
may pass a law giving the railroads
every other section of land
along any right-of-way they build?
What's that got to do with me?
I'm not in the railroad business.
I know. But what's
to prevent us from shoo-flying
a hundred miles of rail through
that government timber up north
and grabbing all the pine
we'll ever need at $1,000 a mile?
What good will it do
if I only get every other section?
How about putting Timber jacks
on the sections you don't own,
pay them $25 a month and board,
and homestead it?
After they've proven up,
have them deed it back to me.
- No?
- Back to us.
You got a nerve.
It'll be the biggest deal ever pulled.
What do you say?
- That ain't honest, that's stealing.
- It's legal, all within the law.
Barney, that's stealing.
a million dollars
laying at their feet yelling,
"Come and get it"?
- I know, but...
- What do you say, Mr. Hewitt?
Shall we tackle it?
- We? Us?
- Yeah.
- So you wanna be a partner?
- Could you find a better one?
Don't know if I could, Barney.
But I have to think of Emma Louise.
- That your daughter?
- Yeah.
The business will
go to her someday...
that is, to her
and her husband, of course.
You haven't been to see us lately.
Well, I've been jumping
all over the state,
but I had intended getting back
to Bewdamore this week.
Good, we'll expect you.
Have a cigar.
Thanks.
I got to run along.
I promised the boys a jamboree,
and they're getting cleaned up for it.
- I'll see you next week.
- Fine. Bye, Barney.
Thanks, Mr. Hewitt.
- Hello, boys!
- Hello, Sid!
Welcome to Iron Ridge.
I'm glad to see you back, and you, too.
Come in,
can you take a little drink?
Try me and see.
- How are you, Swan?
Three square meals a day will do it.
- What do you want?
- Wait a minute, Barney.
- The first drink is on the house.
- Fine. The next one is on me.
- And the next on me.
- Not on your life.
Here you are, Sid.
Don't let my boys pay for a thing.
And when this is gone,
let me know.
This is going to buy a lot of drinks.
Here you are, Charlie.
Whiskey with a beer chaser.
Quiet, everybody, quiet.
Quiet down over there.
Free drinks for all the jacks.
Barney Glasgow's buying.
Thanks, Barney!
Watch me closely,
it's the old army game.
Where is the little pea?
- It's right here.
- Sorry.
The house wins,
and the gambler loses.
- Hello, Earl.
- Hello, Barney.
- You feel lucky this trip?
- Sure. I'll bet $5.
The object of this game is to find
the shell under which the pea is hidden.
If you'll follow closely,
you may solve
one of the scientific problems
of the age...
whether the eye
is quicker than the hand
or whether the hand
is quicker than the eye.
- It's under that one.
- The gentleman wins.
Now remember, a dozen
can bet on this game as well as one.
And remember this also,
that the sky is the limit.
- I can bet as much as I like?
- As much as you like.
that's the way you lose last trip.
I'll bet... $500.
$500!
But, Barney, $500 is too much.
What if you lose?
Don't worry,
I know what I'm doing.
There you are.
Give me a little elbow room.
- Hello.
- Hello.
You gonna bring me luck?
If I do, it'll be the first time.
Swan, make room for the lady.
Are you ready?
No, no,
where's your five hundred?
That's all right.
The house is good for it.
Why don't you put it up?
- Now listen...
- All right. I'll put it up for him.
- Think I'd be here if I was?
There you are, Mr. Glasgow.
- Satisfied?
- Yeah. Go ahead and roll them.
Watch closely,
it's the old army game.
I have nothing up my sleeves
to deceive you.
I've had my turn, now it's yours.
Where is it, Sid?
It's your bet.
Where do you think it is?
I didn't notice, did you?
- It's under there.
- Is it?
Pick it up and let's see.
You pick up the other two.
You got him.
Barney, that ain't the way
to play this game, and you know it.
It's the way I'm going to play it.
- Turn over the other two.
- Keep your hands off.
You win.
Here's a little souvenir
for you, Sid. Thank you.
- Are you coming with me?
- Sure.
You don't need anybody
to bring you luck.
No, but it looks like
I got more than my share.
Meaning me?
Yeah.
What's your name?
- Morgan. Lotta Morgan.
- Hello, Lotta.
- My name is Barn...
There's yours, Lotta.
Thanks.
Come on, Lotta,
let's go to work.
Stay here,
I'll be with you in a minute.
Hello, Sid.
Want me to get your money back?
I'll give you a hundred if you do.
Hello, Lotta.
- Feel like working, boys?
- Sure. Come on, Shorty.
Make it 200.
Give me something
to put in his drink.
As the blackbird in the spring
'Neath the willow tree
Sat and piped,
I heard him sing
Singing Arra Lee
Arra Lee
Arra Lee
Take my golden ring
Love and light
Return with thee
And swallows with the spring
Wait till his boys
drift out for supper.
Barney! Barney!
Is it all right if I come along?
Sure, come on!
This is my friend Swan Bostrom.
Miss Lotta Morgan.
How are you? Quiet!
Sing it again!
- Might as well get this over with.
- Quiet.
- Keep quiet!
- Come on over here. Too far to walk.
This one's for you.
When the mistletoe was green
- Hurry up, Shorty.
- I'm coming.
'Midst the winter snows
Sunshine on my face was seen
Kissing lips of rose
Arra Lee
Arra Lee...
Wonder what she's doing
in a place like this?
What's the matter with this place?
Take my golden ring
Love and light
Return with thee
And swallows with the spring
By golly, I have good time.
You know, Lotta,
I like that song you sing, "Arra Lee."
- How long have you been in this place?
- First time I hear...
- Two, three weeks.
- Where do you come from?
- Milwaukee.
- First time I...
- Are your folks still alive?
- Yeah.
- I feel so bad.
- Do you ever hear from them?
- Once in a while.
- I forget... where I am.
- How long since you left home?
- What?
How long ago
did you leave home?
Say, you guys are all alike.
You buy a girl a drink,
you want to know the story of her life.
Anyways, girl pick my pocket
for $20, by George!
- Barney! Barney!
- What?
We're going to eat.
- Well, go ahead.
- Aren't you coming?
Come on, Barney!
We come over later.
Lief, take the boys,
get them something to eat.
Order plenty of chicken.
We'll be right over.
We'll wait for you.
Now let's see, where were we?
Yeah. Can you give me
- Are you going to start?
- Good idea.
What are you, missionaries?
- I'm getting sick...
- Wait, keep quiet and listen.
I'm not nosy, I'm on the level about this.
Because...
If you must know, there are
All of them are dollars.
- Railroad fare?
- Ain't that enough?
- You think money grows on trees?
- Mine did.
Here's enough
for your railroad fare
and some to tide you over
until you get yourself a decent job.
I got few dollars, too.
What's the catch?
- No catch. I like you.
- I like you too, Lotta.
You don't belong here, that's all.
Go on, take it.
It's all velvet.
You may look all right to the naked eye,
You better take care
of his money for him.
- Too proud to take it?
- Will you get out of here?
- Why?
- Because...
Sid LeMaire's sitting over there.
If you think he's gonna
Don't worry about Sid LeMaire.
Go on, Barney.
Please, do what I tell you.
Will you go with us?
- What?
- I mean it.
No, I'll stay
right here where I belong.
- Then I stay, too.
- Me, too.
- Skol.
- Skoll
Why you do that?
Will you get out of here?
Sure.
Come on!
- Listen, I...
- Look out, Barney!
the other end.
Duck under the table.
- What do you think I am?
- Thank you.
- Don't be so polite.
I won't.
Stay down, stay down!
- Here, try these.
- Swan, you found a gold mine.
Let him have it!
Come on,
what are you afraid of?
How you like that one, Sid?
Wait, I got another one for you.
Let's both do it.
Barney, there's one you missed.
Timber!
- Who is it?
- A lumberjack friend of yours.
Come on in, Barney.
Did you miss me?
Miss you? You been away?
I've been away for two hours,
and it seems like two months.
I love you, Barney.
Any objections?
I'd object like the devil
if you didn't.
To prove that I do know
something about women's clothes,
look what I got you.
Is that what all those
measurements were for?
Say, did you ever try wearing your hair
without those thingamajigs?
In public?
Let's see,
which is the front?
Let me see.
Barney, it's elegant.
It's the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen.
It's the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen.
When the mistletoe was green
'Midst the winter snow
Come on in, Swan.
Come on, get down.
Why ain't you come for supper?
I wait half-hour.
We're coming right away.
Wait, I've got a new dress.
I've got to put it on.
Ja, I wait two half-hours now?
You didn't waste your time
while waiting, did you?
Barney, I forget.
A telegram just come for you.
Aura Lee
Aura Lee
Take my golden ring
Love and light returns with thee
And swallows in the spring
- This steam feels good.
- There's nothing like it.
- We have good fun for four days.
- Just like old times.
Ja! Better!
We ain't got Lotta in old times.
Yeah, it's funny how that kid
gets under your skin.
Ja, just like sun when she come up
over big pines on snow.
Oscar, cool him off.
You know, Barney...
The sun comes up
over the pines!
That's all right, Barney.
Lotta's fine girl.
- They don't make them any better.
- She plumb crazy for you, too.
- No!
- Yeah, you crazy for her.
I know that when I see you
look at each other.
- Oscar, give him another one.
- No, Osc... No, no!
Why you do that?
The heat's gone to your head.
No, Barney.
I see what my eyes see.
What you do
about that other girl?
What? What other girl?
That girl you was going to marry,
the old man's daughter.
I'm still going to marry her, Swan.
Well, what about Lotta?
Well, I...
- Oscar, help me get out of here.
- Ja, Barney, I come right away.
You don't understand, Swan.
I've got to do it.
It means being Hewitt's partner.
That's what I've been working
all my life for.
Well, why don't you say something?
I ain't say nothing.
You know already what I got to say.
Lotta is...
I didn't think it was going this far.
- You break her heart, Barney.
- She'll get over it.
Tell her...
Tell her if she ever
needs anything, to let me know.
She can have anything she wants.
You think she'd take it?
What you say... me tell her?
Ain't you going
to see her before you go?
I haven't got time.
No, that isn't it.
I couldn't see her, Swan.
If I did, I might not go.
You gotta tell her for me.
What I going to say?
- Tell her the truth.
- I'm sorry, Swan. So long.
- Good-bye, Barney.
Barney?
- No, it's me.
- Just a minute.
- Hello, Swan.
- Hey, Lotta.
- Well?
- Lotta...
- Well, do you like it?
- What? I like what?
Holy smokes, and it took me
two hours to do it.
- To do what?
- My hair, stupid.
- I fixed it without the thingamajigs.
- Ja, I like that. Look nice.
- You think Barney will like it?
- Ja, I think...
- Lotta, I got to tell you something.
- What?
Lotta... Lotta,
I ain't feel good.
- What's the matter, Swan?
- I got to tell you...
- That's too bad. You want a drink?
- Ja, you bet you I want drink.
- You probably need it.
- You drink, too?
I'll have one with you.
- Feel any better?
- Ja, a little bit.
Swell.
Where'd you leave Barney?
I leave... I leave Barney
down the street. I think I have another.
- What were you gonna tell me?
- I was gonna tell you...
I was gonna
tell you about... about Barney.
You know, Barney's...
Barney's funny fella. He ain't say much.
I know that.
He ain't like other fellas.
Someday he's going to be big man.
- That all he think about.
- He's different.
I knew that the minute I met him.
Like getting a bang on the nose.
For a while,
I didn't know what happened.
- What happened?
- Plenty.
You... You love him, Lotta?
- Well, what do you think?
- I think... I think...
I think I have another drink.
You better leave
some for Barney.
I ain't have to,
he ain't comin' back.
What did you say?
That what I tried so hard to tell you.
And it just slip out.
I didn't hear you, Swan.
What did you say?
Lotta... Barney...
He ain't coming back.
- No, I ain't lie.
He gone on train already.
He say to tell you he going to marry
old Hewitt's daughter.
I might have known.
That's what you get
for getting soft.
I might have seen it coming.
Oh, no, I gotta get kicked
in the face before I get the idea.
Barney Glasgow.
Sure, he's different.
Men are swell, ain't they?
They don't care if they...
We go again.
Swan, Swan,
here's Pastor Carlson.
- God dag. Pastor.
- God dag. Bostrom.
- You know all this people.
- Ja.
- God dag.
- God dag.
I go get Lotta.
Come, Lotta. Everything ready.
Minister just come.
- Why do you want to do it?
- Because I love you.
I'll never make as good a wife
as you deserve.
Lotta. I hope I deserve you.
I ever knew.
- Are you ready?
- Ja, you bet I ready.
Come on.
- Good morning, Mother.
- Good morning, Richard.
Gussie, go upstairs and tell
Mr. Glasgow his breakfast is cold.
- I'll keep it hot for him.
- Do as I tell you.
Yes, ma'am.
You've been sending him
that message for ninety-odd years.
- Never hurried him yet, has it?
- It may have.
Be careful how you muss up that paper.
It upsets your father to find it not fresh.
I've told you, you might
just as well use his toothbrush.
I don't see the connection.
The richest man in Wisconsin
could afford two morning papers.
That would be extravagance.
The reason Mr. Glasgow
is the richest man in Wisconsin
is because he and my father before him
knew how to take care of their money.
Mother, why do you always
call father "Mr. Glasgow"?
I don't see why not.
My mother never called my father
anything but "Mr. Hewitt"
to his dying day.
- Never?
- Never.
- Good morning, Miss Evvie.
- Good morning, Thomas.
- Is Father in there?
- He's just finishing dressing.
Pack a couple of bags for him.
Something for fishing.
- You know what to put in.
- Yes, miss.
Thomas,
what did you do with...
- Good morning.
- Good morning, Evvie.
- And how are you this morning?
- So-so.
Aren't you getting old enough
to have breakfast in bed?
None of your gruff, Barney.
I like my breakfast hot, just like you do.
Is that so? You better not let
your mother hear you call me Barney.
- What have you got there?
- A letter from Swan.
- Go ahead and read it.
- I think I know what he's going to say.
"Dear Barney,
hunting season just open.
"Why ain't you come up
and we shoot deer just like old times?
"I hope you
and family are feel good.
"I feel so good myself, I think I beat you
choppin' down tree if you was here.
Just like I always do, by George!
Ha ha!" Is that true?
I never liked to hurt his feelings.
Nice of you.
"Anyways, l...
"Anyway, I wish you come see me.
"You and Lotta was two people
I like most in whole world...
and I lonesome to see you.
Your friend, Swan Bostrom."
You haven't seen Swan since he was
down here on business that time.
You and Mother were away
when his wife died.
It's been over 20 years since you've
been up in Iron Ridge. Why, Barney?
- You see, Evvie...
- Why don't you go?
You could shoot a bear there
instead of acting like one here.
Am I doing that?
You need a change, darling.
When you got back,
your mind would be in better shape,
and so would your figure.
- All right, I'll go.
- Good.
You better behave
or I'll get in dutch.
I will. Thomas! Thomas!
I feel better already.
- Yes, Mr. Glasgow.
- Thomas, pack a few things for me.
- Something I can use to...
- Go fishing?
Yes. Come on, scat,
get out of here, go on.
You didn't say anything
about my new suit.
I like it. Hides the fact
that you like to eat.
Stop picking on me.
Mother will say it looks
like one of your old ones.
- Bet you $2 she doesn't.
- I'll take it.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- Good morning, Bernard.
- Nice day, isn't it?
- Your breakfast is...
- I know, ruined.
- How are you, son?
- Fine, thank you.
- Any chicken livers, Gussie?
- Missus didn't tell me.
I don't think there's any,
Never mind, don't worry about it.
You seem
in a very cheerful mood, Bernard.
- World you like to see the paper?
- No, not now. Anything interesting?
- Teddy's swinging the big stick again.
- What? Let me look at that.
This Roosevelt!
attend to running the government
instead of sticking his nose
in other people's affairs.
Something has to be done
with the country.
What do you expect
with radicals in Washington?
Won't be long before they'll be passing
a law taxing us on the money we earn.
Hear, hear!
If you know more than Roosevelt,
why don't you run it?
That's not the point.
Now they've got some newfangled idea
about forestry conservation.
Save the forest from the vandals.
Vandals, vandals!
- Do they mean you, Father?
- Of course!
What in blazes
do they know about it?
Taxes eating us
out of house and home
grow a tree in a hundred years.
replant it after you cut it.
Keep your mouth shut,
young man.
I heard all about that
replanting speech you made
- What?
- That one of your new suits?
- Yeah. Like it?
- Looks like one of the old ones.
Chapman's having a sale
of down comforters.
I've a good mind to go to Milwaukee
this week, if it weren't for all the parties.
I think you'll have to count me out.
I've got to go to Iron Ridge.
- Iron Ridge? What for?
- On business. I had a letter from Swan.
party for Orville and family.
The first since they've been engaged.
What will his family think?
Well, frankly,
I don't give a hoot what they think.
I've seen all I could stand
of Mr. Orville Bremmer and family.
That goes for me, too.
Personally, I think he's a stuffed shirt.
Sorry, Evvie. I'm going to the office.
- Did you hear what he said?
- Maybe he's right.
Well, that's a nice way to talk.
get engaged, much less married.
That's an idea.
Now look here, Evvie.
You don't have to marry
that fat can of lard
or anybody else if you don't want to.
Fact is, I'd rather you didn't.
I don't care how old his family is
or how much money they've got.
Orville's all right. He's a good kid.
Well, are you going to marry
Orville Bremmer or are you not?
Yes.
Well, thank you very much.
I suppose it's very amusing to...
That clock is three minutes slow.
I hope you change your mind
about going north.
I suppose I ought to know by now I can
never expect any help from my family.
The Reverend Taylor
said to me yesterday...
he took one look
at my face and he said,
"Mrs. Glasgow, if I ever I saw a woman
who's a martyr to her family,
that woman is you."
I've got to get to the office
before I go north.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- I'll go to the door with you.
- Come on.
- Morning, Mr. Glasgow.
- Morning.
I've been tripping
over that for years.
It's a wonder somebody
- Morning, Mr. Glasgow.
- Morning, Josie.
Has the report on that
new bleaching process come in?
The what?
The bleaching proce...
The report on the new
bleaching process. Did it come in?
- We're expecting it tomorrow.
- It should have been here today.
- Find out why it isn't here.
- Yes, sir.
And, Josie...
Make a reservation on the 5:00 train.
Be sure it's a drawing room.
- I'm going to Iron Ridge.
- Thank heaven.
- What did you say?
- Nothing.
What do you want?
If I can hang on to it,
I think I've got something here.
Tony Schwerke and I
have been experimenting.
- Well, what is it?
- A paper drinking cup.
- A what?
- A paper cup. To use in public places.
You drink out of it
and throw it away. It's sanitary.
Sanitary, my eye!
People have been drinking
out of glasses for a thousand years.
- A thousand years is a long time, but...
- Don't waste my time.
- Father...
- You heard what I said.
Yes, sir.
Hope you enjoyed your trip,
Mr. Glasgow.
- There's a cigar.
- Thank you.
- Have a nice vacation.
- I will.
Come in.
Come in!
What's the matter,
don't you know me?
Barney! Yumpin' yiminy!
Go ahead, jump!
I guess I getting too old to jump.
- I'm glad to see you.
- I'm glad to see you!
How you been?
- You look just like always.
- I feel all right.
- You get my letter?
- Sure, that's why I'm here.
We'll do some shooting,
like the old days.
- I got bad news.
- What's the matter?
- The camp burn down two nights ago.
- How did that happen?
That fool Cookie, he start fire,
then sashay out to get deer.
When he get back,
camp is big blaze, but he put it out.
- Where am I going to stay?
- Stay right here with me.
Doggone it,
I wanted to do some shooting.
All right,
I'll go back on number 11 tonight.
You stay here,
you get deer just the same.
It's too far to go, morning and night.
Maybe you ain't get back here
in another ten years.
Sure I will.
I'm coming back soon.
Swan, this is a nice place
you got here.
Comfortable, cozy, and...
Say, what is this?
Ain't you remember
that night at Alcazar?
When we do such good job
on them hoodlums?
- This is one of the trays?
- Ja.
By golly, we have fun that night.
You and me and Lotta.
Lotta... she put that there.
She talk many times
about that night... before she die.
She talk many times
about you, too, Barney.
She always say, "Someday,
Barney come back and see us."
But you... you never come.
Well, you know how it is, Swan.
Ja, I guess you pretty busy fellow.
- And have you been happy?
- Ja, you bet I happy.
Lotta make fine wife.
She learn to cook just like Swede.
- And you, Barney?
- Well, I got what I started for.
- You happy?
- Happy? I suppose so.
- How's family?
- They're fine.
I wish you could see my daughter.
I don't know what I'd do without her.
She's a great girl.
I bet, with father like you.
- I got fine daughter, too.
- Why not, with a father like you?
- Where is she?
- She work over at hotel.
I forget to ask you,
you have breakfast yet?
No, not yet.
We go see her
and have breakfast, too.
- All right.
- I get my shoes.
Smell good.
Karie get us good breakfast.
- Karie? Who's Karie?
- That my sister's girl.
She live with me.
She head waitress here.
That her.
Karie! Karie!
All right, Swan.
What you think?
Barney Glasgow come up to see us.
Ain't that nice, Mr. Glasgow?
I'm sure glad to meet you.
Glad to see you, too.
Uncle Swan's told us
so many things about you.
Every time I make Artsoppa,
he says how you used to like it.
Artsoppa?
I haven't had any in years!
- I fix you some for tonight for dinner.
- No, I'm going back on number 11.
I wish you ain't go.
For your breakfast,
what would you like?
- Fruit and coffee...
- And some oatmeal.
Some oatmeal. And we have
some very fine pork sausages.
- Got chicken livers?
- We've got chicken livers.
I put the order in myself
and I see that you get enough.
- She's a nice girl.
- You bet you she is.
Where's your daughter?
That her.
Take care of that table.
- Hello, Pa.
- This my daughter Lotta.
- Lotta?
- Ja, her name Lotta, too.
This Barney Glasgow.
How do you do, Mr. Glasgow?
How do you do?
Why you stand up, Barney?
Sit down, sit down.
- Ain't he just like what I say?
- Yes.
Father's told me so much about you.
Here we are, Mr. Glasgow.
Here's your fruit.
Lotta, get the coffee and the toast.
We're glad to have you here.
And your chicken liver
will be ready in just a moment.
- She pretty, Barney, just like her ma.
- For a moment, I thought it was.
She's smart, too. She go to school
three night a week, study hard.
She say, "I ain't going to
work here always.
Someday I get better job."
That's fine, Swan, that's fine.
- So you don't like it here?
- Heavens, no.
I want to go to Milwaukee
and learn something.
I don't want to be stuck here
like Pa and Karie.
We hear that all the time.
Did you enjoy your breakfast?
Yes, thanks, very much.
That smells nice.
Do you like perfume?
Well, I'll see that you get some.
I almost sounded like some of
the drummers that hang out here.
Only you don't mean it
the way they do.
Say, Barney,
what you say we go fishing?
I know where trouts
is biting good up near Camp Two.
Say, that's a great idea.
Ja, and when we come back,
we have Swedish dinner.
But Mr. Glasgow won't stay.
I'm going to stay.
Lotta and I are
going to fix Swedish food.
- Artsoppa, smorgasbord...
- Kaldolmar...
- Plumencreme!
- And potato pancake.
Don't tell them that you saw me,
she said they'll know the rest
Tell them I was looking well
And whisper if you get a chance
- Karie, you were coming!
- What do you mean, I were coming?
- Did you get everything ready?
- All we have to do is put it on the stove.
I'll leave early, and you
come along as soon as you can.
- No, I'll come later.
- Later? Why?
I don't want to be there
when Mr. Glasgow comes.
But why, for Pete's sakes?
If I'm not there, and he waits a while
and gets afraid I'm not coming and...
- And?
- And then I come.
Why, what are you...
what are you driving at, anyway?
He likes me.
What are you up to, young lady?
Now stop grinning and answer me,
or I'll slap you.
You and Pa have been
dumb all your lives.
Thank you, Miss Smarty.
You have. You don't plan,
you just let things happen.
I'm not like that.
I've got ideas how I want things to be,
and I'm going to get them.
Where does Mr. Glasgow
come into that?
He likes me, and he can do a lot for me
if I make him think I'm worth helping.
I'm Swan Bostrom's daughter,
and I got looks.
I'm going to amount to something,
wait and see.
Mr. Glasgow thinks I'm too good for
this place, so does Pa, and so do you.
And so do I.
Doesn't that look good?
By gollys, I so hungry,
I think I eat a whole horse.
You go ahead and eat.
Mr. Glasgow must be hungry.
- Ja, sit down there.
- No, no, wait a minute.
- Isn't Lotta coming?
- She'll be here.
- Uncle Swan, pour the schnapps.
- Ja, Lotta be here pretty quick.
She have to work late
on account of them fishermen at hotel.
The smorgasbord is the best
I could do. I hope you'll like it.
That look nice, Karie.
- Skol.
- Skol.
You don't suppose
she isn't coming?
Karie, Karie!
Down your Sunday throat?
I better get the rest
of the supper.
You know, Swan, I've been thinking
of that girl of yours...
- and what she said this morning.
- She always talk that way.
Maybe she's right.
She's a beautiful girl.
- She prettiest girl in Iron Ridge.
- No.
- She ain't?
- Well, I didn't mean it that way.
I don't mean just pretty.
Did you see the way those men
looked at her this morning?
- Barney, Lotta's good girl.
- Of course she is.
That's why I want
to see her get the right start,
to get somewhere, so she...
What's the matter, your back hurt?
- Little bit.
- What's happened?
Just what I have two year ago.
He's all right,
he's as strong as a woods ox.
- You bet I strong.
- I wonder what's keeping Lotta.
She'll be here any minute.
I'd better get her.
No, Mr. Glasgow, she's just
a little late on account of all those...
- No, she...
- I better get her.
I know Brotschneider.
- Hello.
- I thought I'd never get here.
They wouldn't stop eating.
Let me help you.
We didn't think you were coming.
I ran all the way.
Like to fell down a couple of times.
That's too bad.
The very idea! She should be waiting
on you instead of you on her. Give me...
Here, wait a minute,
I'll put it on. Karie, go away.
The supper's on the table.
It's getting cold.
It's a party. I hope you come
to Iron Ridge often, Mr. Glasgow.
I'll come if you and Karie
invite me to a supper like this.
- Sit down.
- Help yourself, Mr. Glasgow.
- Thank you.
- I'm so hungry, I think I eat two horses.
Uncle Swan.
I'll take that, you get the flowers.
- Can you sing?
- Yes, a little.
Sit down
and sing something for us.
All right. Play something, Pa.
In the spring
'neath the willow tree
Sat and piped, I heard him sing
Singing Arra Lee
Arra Lee
- Arra...
- Stop it! Stop it!
I know, Barney.
I know.
Barney, you know
"Bird on Nellie's Hat"?
You sing that just like you used to
when you were shanty boy.
Uncle Swan always used to tell us
how grand you sung.
Please, Mr. Glasgow.
What'll you give me if I do?
Will you give me a kiss?
You sing "Bird on Nellie's Hat"
and Lotta give you a kiss, and Karie,
and you ain't look out,
old Swan give you kiss, too.
All right, we'll all sing it.
Go ahead, Swan.
I'll be your little honey,
I will promise that
Said Nellie as she rolled
her dreamy eyes
It's a shame to take the money,
said the bird on Nellie's hat
Last night she said
the same to Johnny Wise
Then to Nellie, Willie whispered
as they fondly kissed
I'll bet that you
were never kissed like that
Well, you don't
know Nellie like I do
Said the saucy little bird
on Nellie's hat
And I'll keep your presents, honey
That's it.
By golly, Barney,
you ain't forget how to kiss girl.
- Karie, you next.
- Oh, no, no!
- What's happened, Uncle Swan?
- Nothing. I just get crick in back.
I don't like this.
You ought to see a doctor.
I'll take you to Chicago
to the best doctor in the country.
- I ain't want to see no doctor.
- Shut up, will ya?
I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll all go to Chicago.
Swan can see a doctor,
and we'll have a holiday...
see some good shows and have
a good time. What do you say?
- We have fun?
- Yeah.
Lotta and I have got jobs.
And think of the expense.
- That's my business.
- What will folks say, you taking us?
his niece and daughter on a holiday,
- things have come to a pretty pass.
- He's right. We're going.
Fine! Then it's settled.
Come on, "Nellie's Hat."
We'll all sing it again.
I'll keep your presents, honey,
just for old times' sake
Said Nellie as she rolled
her dreamy eyes
She has fixed him good and plenty,
said the bird on Nellie's hat
Oh, Willie, Willie,
when will you be wise?
Well, but how about
the diamond engagement ring?
Of course, said Willie,
you'll return me that
Well, you don't
know Nellie like I do
Said the saucy little bird
on Nellie's hat
By George, I got to
get that fixed.
Go right in.
Mr. Glasgow's been waiting for you.
Come in, come in.
Hello.
- Well, we are dressed up, aren't we?
- How do we look?
- How do you like my hat?
- It's fine.
That owl, he hoot and hoot
and keep me awake two or three nights.
By George, he ain't hooting now.
You shouldn't have told that.
Never mind. I like it.
And I like it, too, Karie.
There we go!
Won't you sit down,
make yourself comfortable?
What's this place?
It's a private car. I had it
sent up to take us to Chicago.
- Nobody come in but us?
- It's just like heaven.
Of course not.
World you like to have
something to eat now?
- Yes.
- Snowflake.
Tell the steward I want to order
some dinner, have it served in here.
- But...
- Yes!
- I beg your pardon?
- Nothing.
You were going to say something.
I thought we were going
to eat in the dining car.
I've never been in one. I've watched
them go by with people eating,
and I thought how grand I'd feel
if I were there, too.
Bless your heart.
Never mind about the steward.
We'll eat in the dining car.
It's perfectly all right.
We're here to have a lot of fun,
and you can have
anything that you want.
- Do you want to eat now?
- Ja!
All right, come and get it!
Come and get it!
Hello, Mr. Glasgow.
It's nice to have you with us again.
- Thank you, Clem.
- I've saved you a nice table.
- That's fine.
- This way, please.
- Hi, Barney.
- Well, hello, Charlie.
Sit down.
I'll be with you in a minute.
What are you doing
up in this neck of the woods?
- Been up fishing at Twin Forks.
- Any luck?
Only fair.
What are you doing up here?
I'm on my way to Chicago.
This is Swan Bostrom and his folks.
He and I used to be loggers together.
He hurt his back.
I'm taking him to a specialist.
Nothing the matter
with the girl, though, is there?
Don't be silly.
I'm old enough to be her father.
- You old polecat.
Come into my car,
we'll have a little brandy after dinner.
I've eaten too much!
I've got to take off my coat.
I'm glad to sit down again.
- Will you smoke a cigar, Swan?
- Thanks, Barney.
Well, you've had dinner in a diner.
Did you enjoy it?
No. No, I didn't.
- Lotta!
- You didn't? What was wrong?
Look at us.
- Why didn't you tell us we look so funny?
- You didn't look funny.
Yes, we did.
I saw those other women
laughing at us.
They were laughing
at this and Karie's owl.
Nobody laughed at my owl.
They did. They were
polite enough to try to hide it.
You knew before you took us in there.
Why didn't you tell us?
Perhaps your clothes aren't
what they ought to be...
- They're all right in Iron Ridge.
- That's why I wanted to...
I guess I belong there.
I'll never be able
to fit in with people like that.
Yes, you will, for the simple reason
that you realize something is wrong.
Don't worry
what other women will think
because wherever you go, Lotta,
they'll all wish they were like you.
And as far as
the clothes are concerned,
we can take care
of that in Chicago.
- Good evening, Mr. Glasgow.
- Good evening, Gene.
- Good evening.
- How are you, George?
Good evening, madame.
Your table is all ready.
Thank you.
Very glad to see you again,
Mr. Glasgow.
Thank you, George.
Take this lamp away.
Let us have a bottle of Cliquot'92
and we'll order dinner later.
- Yes, Mr. Glasgow.
- Well?
You go ahead, Uncle Swan.
I was just going to say it's a fine place
for two old shanty boys.
Certainly different
from the dining room in Iron Ridge.
My corset's killing me,
but I feel like a queen.
And look like one.
- And you, Lotta?
- Oh, it's beautiful.
they laughed at you this time.
- No, they didn't, did they?
- And are you happy?
You have no idea.
I'll never be able to thank you enough.
It's more than I even dreamed about it.
It's so lovely, it's like...
I'm afraid to even think
about going back.
Don't think about Iron Ridge
Wait a minute.
I don't want any arguments
until you hear what I've figured out.
I'm going to take you all back
to Bewdamore with me.
- Yes, you can.
Now, you want to go to school
and learn something, don't you?
Oh, yes.
and a lot more, too.
- And Swan can have a job in the mill.
- I don't want no job at mill.
Of course you do. I need a man
like you in the wood room.
Half of them don't know the difference
between a hemlock and a red oak.
I've got a nice cottage on the peninsula
and you can live there.
- Now, it's up to you, Swan.
- Well, Barney...
Try it for a while. You don't
have to stay there if you don't like it.
We could have a drink together
once in a long, long while.
By George,
I think we try it.
All right, that's settled.
We were talking about a good time?
Good! Let's begin now.
There you are, old hoot-hoot.
You look better on stick
than you do on Karie's hat.
Ja, I got good place
for you, too.
You better stop practicing.
The automobile will be here,
and you won't be dressed.
Doesn't it look nice
with the curtains up?
Oh, Karie, it's like heaven.
This is the Valhalla that us Swedes
have been yelling about all our lives.
Isn't it wonderful,
everything Mr. Glasgow's doing for Pa?
Where'd those roses come from?
Mr. Glasgow sent them.
To you and me.
Lotta, you don't suppose he...
You don't think that...
What?
It's just got to be your Pa
Mr. Glasgow's doing all this for.
Of course.
I've sometimes wondered if...
It sometimes worries me
that it might be you.
Karie, are you trying...
I know it's awful,
but he is interested in you.
Maybe more than he ought to be.
How can you say such a thing?
You know Mr. Glasgow's
interested in me on account of Pa.
- I wonder if he is.
- Of course he is.
How can you say such a thing?
How can you even think it?
- You'll spoil everything.
- Now, listen, Lotta...
- I won't listen to anything.
as I am that it's true.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
You come from Mr. Glasgow?
Ja, he send me to fetch you
and your family to the mill.
I go get Karie and Lotta.
- You come in the house?
- No.
I'll keep an eye
on this newfangled contraption here.
- It's liable to blow up.
- Ja.
And I don't care if it does!
- You ain't like horseless carriage?
- I hate the pesky stink wagons.
I've seen ornery horses in my time,
but none as infuriating
as this infernal machine.
What we do if she
blow up with us today?
We worry about that after.
If we need to.
Hi, Josie.
if I didn't trip over that thing.
What's on your mind, Josie?
Here's the report
on your bleaching process.
All right, all right.
I never felt so much like working.
You certainly look better
since you got back...
younger or something.
That north country
does you a lot of good.
Fishing makes a new man of you.
Fishing? You look as though
you just shot a lion.
- Josie!
- Yes, sir?
Have a telephone installed
in the cottage for the Bostroms.
Have it done right away.
And send a box of...
That's all, Josie.
- This letter you wrote to McLennan...
- What about it?
- Why not?
The government won't let you.
I cut my timber, fix my rates,
and ship my logs as I see fit.
I always have and always will.
And, Josie, let me know
as soon as those people get here.
Yes, sir.
- Don't you realize times have changed?
- I don't want to argue about it. I'm busy.
Expecting the Bostroms?
Yes.
They say that daughter of Swan's
is a pippin. Is she?
I don't know. Just a big Swede.
Nice kid, though.
- They're here, Mr. Glasgow.
- Well, bring them in.
Or do I have to
go after them myself?
Will you please come in?
Hello, Swan.
How are you?
- Richard!
- Hello, Karie.
- Haven't seen you in a long time.
- Glad to see you.
- Glad to see you, too, Swan.
- You've grown to be a big fellow, ain't you?
And do you like Bewdamore
and business college?
- Everything's perfect, Mr. Glasgow.
- That's fine.
all this for Uncle Swan,
but we'll never
be able to thank you enough.
Nonsense! I'm doing it for Lotta
and for you and Swan... all of you.
You've certainly made us all
very happy, Mr. Glasgow.
Aren't you happy, Karie?
So happy I haven't dared pinch
myself since we left Iron Ridge.
That was the general idea.
This is my son Richard.
Miss Karie Linbeck.
- How do you do, Miss Linbeck?
- How do you do, Mr. Richard?
Please, do call me Karie.
Everybody does.
Of course I will... Karie.
This is Lotta Bostrom.
Hello.
Come along, girls.
I'll show you through the mill.
Father, before you go, Van and I
have been having a little disagreement.
The girls have been ripping
the safety catches off the cutters again.
- Well, what of it?
- Van won't do anything about it...
How many times have I told you
that whatever Van says goes?
I don't want to hear
any more about it.
And, Swan, I'll show you what we do
to a tree after you chop it down.
- Bye.
- Bye.
I want you to see that wood room, too.
That's where you start
Monday morning.
- Pretty, isn't she?
- Is she!
If you felt the building shaking just then,
that was me falling for her.
Somebody else must have fallen, too.
You ought to see the bills
for clothes from Chicago.
- Good evening, Mr. Glasgow.
- Good evening.
Won't you come in?
Pa and Karie just went out
for a walk and I'm making...
for my father.
Well, he's not coming.
He's at home where he ought to be.
Now look here, Miss Bostrom,
I've come to tell you
you've got to stop making a fool
out of my father.
Everybody in town's
talking about it.
What is it you want off him?
Money? If it's money...
What do you mean
by saying those things?
It's true.
- Keep still.
- Now, you wait a minute.
Now look here, Miss Bostrom,
don't you hit me again.
If I'm wrong about you, all you
have to do is say so. I'll believe you.
I'm sorry, but you
are wrong, Mr. Glasgow.
- That's nothing. It's burning.
- What's burning?
It's just my candy.
- Don't you think that you...
- All right, I'll fix it.
Don't you go away.
You stay here.
Gee, it smells good.
Here, I'll fix it.
Oh, it's hot!
You've fixed it.
You've fixed everything.
Gee, I'm sorry, Miss Bostrom.
It was darn clumsy of me.
What's the matter,
did you burn your hand?
No!
You've got tears in your eyes.
Because everything's spoiled.
It's only sugar and water.
That's nothing to cry about.
That's not what
I'm crying about.
I never should have
come to Bewdamore.
Well, all right, but we've got to do
something about cleaning up this mess.
Don't walk around.
You'll get it all over the kitchen.
I've made a mess of everything.
It's sticky.
Of course it is.
It's that kind of candy.
Well, I don't...
Well, why don't you stop crying
and do something?!
The art of paper-making goes
as far back as the ancient Chinese.
They were the first ones to discover
paper could be made
from a fibrous matter
reduced to pulp.
Really? I never knew
that the Chinese had...
Yes, the ancient Chinese were one
of the most inventive and cultured races
the world has ever known.
I'd love to go to China.
Yes, I would.
and eat with chopsticks?
See the temples
and the Great Wall.
Just imagine
the Taj Mahal in the moonlight.
It'd be wonderful.
Of course, the Taj Mahal isn't in China,
Don't stop pulling.
It gets just like fly paper.
Go on and tell me more
about paper-making.
Well, the Arabs learned it
from the Chinese.
And the Crusaders who visited
Byzantium and Syria and Palestine
learned it from the Arabs.
And then, well,
it came on down to us.
Oh, Mr. Glasgow,
isn't history wonderful?
Gee, it never seemed
so darned wonderful before.
We shouldn't have stopped pulling this.
- Look out!
- You take that.
This is awful!
Swan Bostrom's outside.
Wants to see you. Says it's important.
Well, he ought to know.
- Shall I have him come in?
- Of course have him come in.
- Come in, Svensk.
- Hey, Barney.
You look great.
What's on your mind?
- I've come to talk about the job.
- What's the matter with it?
It's a fine job, Barney,
only ain't no work to it.
I sit all day like loafer
and just look at wood.
Fella say, "What that?"
I say, "That hemlook."
He say, "What that?"
I say, "That pine. Ain't you know?"
He say, "Sure, I know,
but you have to tell me."
That ain't good job
for old timberwolf.
All right, Swan, I'll see that your
loafing stops if that's what you want.
- Hello, Swan.
- Hello, Richard.
- You get candy out of hair?
- Yeah, most of it.
We made an awful mess
of your kitchen.
That all right.
Lotta clean up kitchen fine.
Richard and Lotta
make candy last night.
Too bad you ain't come over.
We have nice time.
I'll have a meeting, Swan.
I'll see that your loafing stops.
- You know I active cuss, Barney.
- Sure.
- Thank you. Bye.
- Good-bye, Swan.
Van says that Eastern crowd
is going to open offices in Chicago
if the panic dies down.
- How do you happen to go there?
- Go where?
To Lotta's. Bostrom's house.
Well, I just went down there to
invite them to the employees' party.
You personally invite
all the employees to their annual party?
Now look here, young man,
you've got other things to do
beside going around
with a millhand's daughter.
- You go down there.
- Well, that's different.
I go down there to see
my old friend Swan.
A pig's eye, you do.
Take a letter.
Wait a minute.
This'll interest you.
Somebody took a might pretty
young lady out to lunch this noon.
Mr. Russell A. Eubank,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
My dear Russ,
as you will recall,
I've been considering opening
a New York office,
as the time seems right
for many reasons.
I propose to put you in charge
and place under you as your assistant
my son Richard,
- who is familiar with...
- I won't go.
"Who is familiar with..."
Never mind the letter.
Mrs. Glasgow telephoned that
she'd pick you up at 5:00.
All right.
- I want to talk to you about something.
- Go ahead.
- Serious. Do you mind?
- No.
Oh, I see how you do it.
What is it you want
to talk to me about?
I've broken my engagement
with Orville Bremmer.
You what?
Yep. This afternoon.
It's all over
and I feel so much better.
So you finally did it.
I was hoping that...
- Were you, Barney?
- Well, I didn't like him anyway.
You might have helped me out a little
when Mother was talking me into it.
Oh, I know.
- What made you change your mind?
- Several reasons.
- Tony in particular.
- Tony who?
- Tony Schwerke.
- Tony Schwerke?
Don't keep repeating like that.
You look so dumb.
The only Schwerkes I know are
the bohunks that live down in the flats.
- Tony's one of those bohunks.
- What?
He's in charge of the room where
the big tubs are over at the mill.
He's been working for you
since he was 14.
- What does he look like?
- He's tall and...
Where'd you meet him?
At the mill?
No, in the mud
out on the state road.
I was stuck and Tony came along
and got under the car.
All I could see
was his legs sticking out.
I had to laugh. He looked
so funny and dumb and sweet,
like a bug that had
got turned upside down.
with a boy like that.
Break your mother's heart.
No, I won't.
There won't be anything left to break
when you get through.
What are you talking about?
I think you know, Barney.
- Have you been listening to...
- No.
I didn't have to listen to anyone.
I don't blame you, not really.
I don't know enough about it.
I don't wanna know.
But I do know
you've been unhappy.
Barney, if I don't marry Tony,
I'll be unhappy like that, too.
If I let Mother talk me
into marrying Orville,
I'd be unfaithful to him.
- Evvie!
- I would.
I know I would
if Tony wanted me to.
- Why not, if I think it?
When you love someone like that,
Not anything.
Please, Barney,
don't ask me to give him up,
not even for Mother.
All my life I've done what she's
Please, Barney, help me.
I haven't been
much help to you, have I?
When you love anybody like that...
You can have a million
- I only want one.
Hey, Joe,
a little more steam on this one!
Turn it up!
Up! Up!
- Say, what's your name?
- Hold it!
You know what my name is.
Put it down a little.
Say, Schwerke,
Hold it!
I thought this would be
What'd you say?
I thought this would be
You might just as well
fire me now as later.
- Hold it there.
- Come back here! Come back here!
- Are you in love with my daughter?
- Sure I am.
You needn't get so mad about it.
How are you? I'm glad to see you.
- Let's go up in the office and talk it over.
- I'd like to.
Come along.
Look out for that...
- Smoke a cigar?
- No, thanks.
- Cigarettes, I suppose.
- Sometimes.
This paper cup of yours looks
as if it had possibilities.
I'm sure it has, Mr. Glasgow.
Richard thinks so, too.
He and I are partners in it.
Sit down.
- Send Richard in.
- Yes, sir.
- Do you want to marry my daughter?
- No.
- Why not?
- I couldn't keep her.
- Is that your only reason?
- Of course it is!
- You needn't snap my head off.
- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
Come in, Richard.
- Hello, Mr. Schwerke.
- Hello.
You better get your patents out
on this paper cup as fast as you can.
Yes, sir.
How many do you think
you can turn out in a day?
With this machine we've planned,
several hundred gross.
All right. I'll tell the superintendent
to give you a free hand.
Schwerke, you and your family
are coming over to the party
tomorrow night, aren't you?
- Yes, sir.
- Well, that's fine.
- I want Mrs. Glasgow to meet you.
- Thanks.
Be careful there.
According to the censors reports
of two years ago,
the capital invested in
Lumber operations in the United States
was $90,564,862.
The number of employees
was 146,596.
Their wages made
a total of 66 million...
86,000,944,000... lumber.
Now...
Well, that just goes to show you
the condition this country's in.
- Ja, that right, Richard.
- Yes, of course that's right.
Why, if my Grandfather Hewitt
had replanted 50 years ago,
the old money-grabber,
and my father had
replanted 25 years ago,
there'd be something up there
for my children to cut.
That is, if I ever
have any children.
Well...
Your Pa always say,
"Let the government
replant if they want to.
United States got plenty money."
Yes, that sounds just like him.
of its timber.
We haven't any right to leave
a wasteland of scarred pine stumps...
- Barney!
- Hello, Mr. Glasgow.
Why don't you hire a hall
or get a soap box in the park?
Did Richard have you strapped
in your chair, giving you a lecture?
He talks wonderful, Mr. Glasgow.
He's awfully interesting.
I don't know how I got on the platform.
I'm sorry if I bored you.
You don't have to listen to him
because he's the boss' son.
He goes on that way all the time
like a Negro preacher.
He'll talk an arm off
if you let him.
Yeah, that's right.
Just a regular windbag.
Should have stopped me.
Well, good night.
- Good night.
- Good night, Richard.
- I go to gate with you, Richard.
- Come again, won't you?
Thank you.
Have you got any coffee krantzes?
Sure. I made some this morning.
If there are any left.
Well, somebody looks
mighty happy tonight.
Yes, I passed my examinations
at school today.
Did you?
You are a smart girl.
They told me I'll be ready
to take a job in about three months.
Lotta, how would you like
to go to Chicago to work?
Pa would hate it in Chicago.
I don't think.
I wasn't thinking of them.
I mean you.
Alone?
I'd be lonesome.
I'd be scared to be
in Chicago alone.
I'd be there.
I mean, I'd come down often
on business trips.
We could go
to the theater together, have dinner.
Yes, but you being
a married man and all,
people would think
it was funny.
- I guess you don't think much of me if...
- Lotta, darling, I love you.
No, you don't, Mr. Glasgow.
Don't talk like that.
You think just because
I'm a young girl...
Do you think that I'm old, Lotta?
Because I'm not.
- I love you. I'll do anything for you.
You must have known how I felt
about you the moment I first saw you.
No.
I thought it was
on account of my father.
Well, anyway, I did at first.
It was you, Lotta.
I need you. I've got to have you.
I made a mistake once,
but now it's going to be different.
- Lotta, you and l...
- Don't, Mr. Glasgow.
It's wrong.
You mean because I'm married?
I'll get a divorce if you'll only wait.
I'll take you away from here.
I'll make you happy.
I'll do anything that l...
I'll see you tomorrow night
at the annual party.
We'll talk about it then.
Well, I'm glad we didn't
eat them all up.
- Thank you.
- They're the best I've ever made.
- Glad to see you.
- Glad to see you. How are you doing?
Captain of the baseball team.
- Hello, Barney.
- Hello, George. How are you?
How do you do?
Good to see you.
- How are you?
- Good evening.
How are you?
- How are you doing?
- How do you do?
Hello, Charlie.
How are you, Mrs. Schultz?
Who are you looking for, Richard?
Oh, just looking.
Hello. How are you?
How do you do, Mrs. Bolger?
Hello, Bert. Glad to see you.
Well, hello, Schwerke.
Good evening, Mr. Glasgow.
This is my mother and father.
- How do you do?
- Fine, thank you, Mr. Glasgow.
How are you, sir?
This is Mrs. Glasgow.
Mr. and Mrs. Schwerke.
- How do you do?
- Well, thank you, Mrs. Glasgow.
- I'm glad to see you.
- Glad to see you, Mrs. Glasgow.
You know Richard, of course.
And this is Tony Schwerke.
Yes, I guessed as much.
You've got a paper cup
and my daughter wants to marry you.
I don't want to marry him just because
he has a paper cup, Mother.
Have you had anything to drink yet?
Well, you have something.
George, come here a minute.
Come, Schwerke,
have some for yourself.
The more I think about that paper cup
of yours, the better I like it.
Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello, Richard.
Oh, hello.
The family's waiting up there.
Oh, ja.
Now, about free silver...
- Hey, Barney.
- Hello, Swan! How are you?
Hello, Mr. Glasgow.
This is wonderful.
Where's Lotta?
Did you bring her?
She just went over there
with Richard.
By George, Barney,
this nice party.
Yes. Will you excuse me a minute?
Get yourself a drink, won't you?
Hello, Josie.
Are you having a good time?
Lovely.
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
Well, here we are.
You were so late coming,
I was about to go after you.
- I almost didn't come.
- Why?
- Well, I'm not an employee of the mill.
- I know, but Karie and Swan are.
Thank you.
Richard, Pa and Karie and I
are going back to Iron Ridge.
- You don't like it here?
- We love it, but...
But what?
It wasn't because of anything I said
the other night, was it?
- No.
- I was an awful sap.
Yes.
Yes.
You know, I'm kind of glad
it happened, though.
Why?
Because it made you so mad
that you had to take notice of me.
- I noticed you before that.
- Did you?
And what's all this guff
about going back to Iron Ridge?
- I've got to go.
- But why?
- Well, because...
- Because why?
Because Pa misses the woods.
He's used to an outdoor life...
hunting and fishing.
- You don't belong up there.
- I don't know where I belong.
Well, I'll tell you.
You belong with me.
I'm going to New York to live,
and you're coming with me.
We'll crash New York together,
just a couple of rubes
from the Middle West.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Glasgow
have taken an apartment at the Waldorf.
- Can I help you, Mr. Glasgow?
- No, thank you.
- Come out of there.
- Now wait a minute, Father.
Come on and fight,
because I'm going to lick
the everlasting daylights out of you!
Father, you crazy?
You out of your mind?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute!
I'm in love with Lotta
and she's in love with me.
We're going to be married,
and there's nothing you can do about it.
Don't, Richard. Don't!
He's your father.
He's an old man.
Get out of here.
Both of you.
Come on, Lotta.
Bernard!
Bernard!
There you are.
I've been looking...
What's the matter?
What is it?
What's the matter?
- That precious son of yours.
- What...
- I threw him out of the house.
- Why?
He's going to marry that girl.
Is that all?
Is that all?
You don't care?
No, as long as it isn't you.
I thought it was you, maybe.
But then, perhaps even you
There. You look better now.
The tables are all ready,
but they won't sit down.
See if you can get them
to come in and eat.
Barney!
Barney, what's the matter with you?
Nothing.
Nothing's the matter, Swan.
I'm an old man, Swan.
An old fool.
Come and get it!
Come and get it!
Come and get it,
or we'll throw it to the dogs!
Come and get it!
Come and get it,
or we'll throw it to the dogs!
Come and get it!