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"Flashing...smashing Screen Entertainment! Dazzling in Its Beauty...Packed With Glorious Melodies!"
"Greatest Production Since The Birth Of Motion Pictures!"
"Fred Astaire — Fred Astaire"
"Lucille Ball — Lucille Ball"
"Lucille Bremer — Princess"
"Fanny Brice — Norma Edelman"
"Judy Garland — The Star"
"Kathryn Grayson — Kathryn Grayson"
"Lena Horne — Lena Horne"
"Gene Kelly — Gentleman"
"James Melton — Alfredo"
"Victor Moore — Lawyer's Client"
"Red Skelton — J. Newton Numbskull"
"Esther Williams — Esther Williams"
"William Powell — Florenz Ziegfeld Jr."
"Louis Sorin - Roscoe W. Chandler"
"Hal Thompson - John Parker"
"Margaret Irving - Mrs. Whitehead"
"[to Mrs. Rittenhouse] Why, you're one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you."
"Robert Greig - Hives, the butler"
"Edward Metcalf - Inspector Hennessey"
"Kathryn Reece - Grace Carpenter"
"[singing] Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going."
"[to audience] Pardon me while I have a strange interlude. Why, you couple of baboons! What makes you think I'd marry either one of you! Strange how the wind blows tonight. It has a thin eerie voice, that reminds me of poor old Marsden. How happy I could be with either of these two if both of them just went away!"
"Friends, I'm gonna tell you of the great, mysterious, wonderful continent known as Africa. Africa is God's country, and He can have it."
"Well, this bear was anemic and he couldn't stand the cold climate. He was a rich bear and he could afford to go away for the winter. You take care of your animals and I'll take care of mine! Frozen North, my eye! From the day of our arrival, we led an active life. The first morning saw us up at six, breakfasted, and back in bed at seven - this was our routine for the first three months. We finally got so we were back in bed at six thirty. One morning, I was sitting in front of the cabin, smoking some meat...Yes. There wasn't a cigar store in the neighborhood. As I say, I was sitting in front of the cabin when I bagged six tigers...Six of the biggest tigers...I bagged them. I...I bagged them to go away, but they hung around all afternoon. They were the most persistent tigers I've ever seen."
"The principal animals inhabiting the African jungle are moose, elks and Knights of Pythias. Of course, you all know what a moose is. That's big game. The first day, I shot two bucks. That was the biggest game we had. As I say, you all know what a moose is? A moose runs around on the floor, and eats cheese, and is chased by the cats. The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'."
"One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. The tusks. That's not so easy to say, tusks. You try that some time...As I say, we tried to remove the tusks, but they were embedded in so firmly that we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama, the Tusk-a-loosa. But, uh, that's entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about. We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. But we're going back again in a couple of weeks."
"I don't like Junior crossing the tracks on his way to the reform school. I don't like Junior at all, as a matter of fact."
"Signor Emanuel Ravelli: [about playing bridge] How do you want to play...honest?"
"Groucho Marx - Captain Jeffrey Spaulding"
"Harpo Marx - The Professor"
"Chico Marx - Signor Emanuel Ravelli"
"Zeppo Marx - Horatio Jamison"
"Lillian Roth - Arabella Rittenhouse"
"Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Rittenhouse"
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.