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"[dying words] I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys."
"Milton Rosmer - Mr. Chatteris"
"Lyn Harding - Dr. John Hamilton Wetherby"
"It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young."
"Louise Hampton - Mrs. Wickett"
"Judith Furse - Flora"
"Frederick Leister - Marsham"
"John Mills - Peter Colley (as a young man)"
"Austin Trevor - Ralston"
"Robert Donat - Charles "Mr. Chips" Chipping"
"Paul Henreid - Max Staeffel"
"Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you. "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit." I need not translate it for you."
"David Tree - Mr. Jackson"
"Greer Garson - Katherine Ellis"
"Scott Sunderland - Sir John Colley"
"Edmond Breon - Colonel Morgan"
"Ralston: [to Mr. Chips] And when you write that books of yours, remember that in addition to all those boys you taught, you managed to teach something to at least one headmaster."
"Terry Kilburn - John Colley, Peter Colley I, II and III"
"Jill Furse as Helen Colley"
"Margaret Yarde — Scrooge's laundress"
"Philip Frost — Tiny Tim"
"Hugh E. Wright — Old Joe"
"Donald Calthrop — Bob Cratchit"
"Eve Gray — Fred's wife"
"Charles Carson — Middlemark"
"Barbara Everest — Mrs. Cratchit"
"Mary Glynne — Belle"
"Oscar Asche — Spirit of Christmas Present"
"Garry Marsh — Belle's husband"
"D.J. Williams — Undertaker"
"Morris Harvey — Poulterer with Prize Turkey"
"Robert Cochran — Fred"
"Marie Ney — Spirit of Christmas Past (physical outline only)"
"Sir Seymour Hicks — Ebenezer Scrooge"
"My spirit never walked beyond the limits of our money changing hole. I cannot rest; I cannot stay; I cannot linger - anywhere."
"Athene Seyler — Scrooge's charwoman"
"Look well, Ebenezer Scrooge, for only you can see me."
"[after his visits by the Spirits] Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the world!"
"Maurice Evans as Poor man"
"I am the Spirit of Christmas Past. I am here to show you the shadows of things that have happened. Look back beyond the gulf of vanished years..."
"Claude Rains — Jacob Marley (voice, uncredited)"
"Hubert Harben — Worthington"
"Robert Morley — Rich man"
"C.V. France — Spirit of Christmas Future"
"What happened when Scrooge saw Marley's face on the door knocker...and the clock struck twelve!"
"Mary Lawson as Poor man's wife"
"George Relph — Doctor"
"Jack Raine — Davis"
"Ralph Richardson — Nigel Hartley"
"D. A. Clarke-Smith — Mahmoud"
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.