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"[singing] There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, There's a bright golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as a elephant's eye, And it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky. Oh, what a beautiful mornin', Oh, what a beautiful day! I got a beautiful feelin' Everything's goin' my way."
"[singing] Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry When I take you out in the surrey, When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top! Watch that fringe and see how it flutters When I drive them high steppin' strutters. Nosey pokes'll peek thru' their shutters and their eyes will pop! The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown, The dashboard's genuine leather, With isinglass curtains y' can roll right down, In case there's a change in the weather."
"[about Laurey] If she liked me any more, she'd sic the dogs on me."
"[to Jud] How did you get to be the way you are anyhow? A-sittin' up here in this filthy hole? [referring to the smokehouse] Why don't you do something healthy once in a while, instead of staying shut up here, a-crawlin' and a-festerin'?"
"Carnes: [to Ali, cocking his gun] That's enough. In this country that better be a proposal of marriage."
"Ali Hakim: [about Ado Annie] I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun."
"Aunt Eller Murphy: [with gun in hand] SING! SING! C'mon now! Sing!"
"Jud Fry: [to Laurey] Look at me. I'm a hired hand. I got dirt on my hands. Pig slop. I ain't fit to touch you, am I - you're better. Oh, you're so much better, Miss Laurey Williams! Well we'll see how much better you are, and then you won't be so free and easy and hifalutin' with your airs! You such a FINE lady!"
"Now a motion picture as big as all outdoors! (first run Todd-AO version)"
"Complete...Intact...with Every Scene...Every Song!"
"Now everyone can see it-at popular prices!"
"Complete - intact - with every scene - every song - of the motion picture that ran a year on Broadway at $3.50!"
"It's Here!"
"The best loved musical of our time!"
"Gordon MacRae - Curly McLain"
"Gloria Grahame - Ado Annie Carnes"
"Gene Nelson - Will Parker"
"Charlotte Greenwood - Aunt Eller Murphy"
"Shirley Jones - Laurey Williams"
"Eddie Albert - Ali Hakim"
"James Whitmore - Andrew Carnes"
"Rod Steiger - Jud Fry"
"Barbara Lawrence - Gertie Cummings"
"Jay C. Flippen - Ike Skidmore"
"Roy Barcroft - Marshal Cord Elam"
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.