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"[Hanging off the high wire] Help! Help! [Aside to camera] You know, this picture could end right here."
"[appearing in gaudy circus tights] Do you think Superman will sue?"
"[Staring at Lucia's very tight gown] How'd you put that on - with a spraygun?"
"Look at this contract we signed for five months - two weeks guarantee!"
"[Knocking the bad guys unconscious with the pattycake routine] That's what they get for not seeing our pictures!"
"[looking at Tor Johnson] How did Mount Baldy get into this?"
"Something Great For You...Their New and Nuttiest Road Show"
"Take a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio!"
"Bing Crosby — Scat Sweeney"
"Bob Hope — Hot Lips Barton"
"Dorothy Lamour — Lucia Maria de Andrade"
"Gale Sondergaard — Catherine Vail"
"Frank Faylen — Trigger"
"Joseph Vitale — Tony"
"George Meeker — Sherman Mallory"
"Frank Puglia — Rodrigues"
"Nestor Paiva — Cardoso"
"Robert Barrat — Johnson"
"Stanley Andrews — Capt. Harmon"
"Harry Woods — Ship's Purser"
"The Wiere Brothers — Three Musicians"
"The Andrews Sisters — Themselves"
"Jerry Colonna — Himself"
"Marquita Rivera — Nightclub Performer"
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.