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"Mel Blanc as Joe Glow. (uncredited)"
"Boy bug on skyscraper rooftop: Look at the Human Ones down there! They look just like a lot of little bugs!"
"Mrs. Ladybug: Those Human Ones! Why, the way they're taking to tramping through the lowlands, it's getting so your life ain't worth a sunflower seed anymore. One never know who's gonna get it next."
"The screen's first full-length musical comedy cartoon"
"The first full-length animated musical comedy!"
"THE SCREEN'S FIRST FULL-LENGTH MUSICAL COMEDY CARTOON! (original posters-all caps)"
"It's my daughter's right to listen to what her little heart says, and it just don't seem to say "Beetle"."
"SONGS that lead the Hit Parade...LAUGHS that'll tickle even the staid...LOVE that'll thrill...and FUN that'll fill Your heart with a memory that never will fade. (original poster)"
"The people you meet you'll remember forever - HONEY and HOPPITY, whose love none can ever sever. (original poster)"
"C. BAGLEY BEETLE and his two evil spies and hundreds others to startle your eyes. (original poster)"
"Boy, Oh Boy! Here's Music, Laughter, Love and Joy!"
"BOY, OH BOY! HERE'S MUSIC, LAUGHTER LOVE AND JOY! (original poster-all caps)"
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.