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"[singing] I don't know what they have to say. It makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it."
"[to Baravelli] You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
"[about Connie] I'm the plumber. I'm just hanging around in case something goes wrong with her pipes. [To the audience] That's the first time I've used that joke in 20 years."
"[to Baravelli and Pinky, who have abandoned the football match in favor of playing cards] Do you realize what happens if we lose? It means shame! Disgrace! Humiliation! And besides, you're crazy if you don't play the ace!"
"Last week at this same hour I told you Mrs. Moskowitz was expecting a blessed event. Well, last night Mrs.Moskowitz had twins. O-KAY! MISTER MOSKOWITZ!! [blows a "crazy whistle"]"
"[impromptu radio announcement during the football match] Last week at this same hour I told you that Mrs. Moskowitz was expecting a blessed event. Well, last night Mrs. Moskowitz had twins. O-kay Mr Moskowitz! [blows siren whistle]"
"Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff"
"Harpo Marx - Pinky"
"Chico Marx - Baravelli"
"Zeppo Marx - Frank Wagstaff"
"Thelma Todd - Connie Bailey"
"David Landau - Jennings"
"Robert Greig - Biology professor Hornsvogel"
"Reginald Barlow - Retiring President"
"E. H. Calvert - Professor in Wagstaff's office"
"Nat Pendleton - Darwin football player MacHardie"
"James Pierce - Darwin football player Mullen"
"Theresa Harris - Laura, Connie's maid"
"Walter Brennan - Football commentator (uncredited)"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.