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"[giving a pill to a horse] Take one of those every half mile and call me if there's any change."
"[after examining Stuffy] Either he's dead or my watch has stopped!"
"[to Stuffy] Don't drink that poison! That's four dollars an ounce."
"Will you have the bellhop hop up with some hop scotch?"
"It's the old, old story. Boy meets girl - Romeo and Juliet - Minneapolis and St. Paul!"
"Emily, I have a little confession to make. I really am a horse doctor. But marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse."
"[the racetrack trumpet sounds] So it's WAR! I'm off to the battlefield!"
"I dunno, but she wants a Hackenapuss, she gonna get a Hackenapuss."
"I'm going to someone who understands me, I'm going to Dr. Hackenbush!…Why, I didn't know there was a thing the matter with me until I met him."
"Three Great Laff Stars ! . . . more gags and gals . . . more songs and dances !"
"as the barrier goes up on the Whopper of all Musical Fun Shows!"
"America's Joy-Friends are back again in the grandest entertainment gallop of 1937! More howls, more girls, more song hits than "A Night At The Opera"! Oh boy!"
"The Year's BIG Laugh, Music and Girl Show!"
"Groucho Marx — Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush"
"Chico Marx — Tony"
"Harpo Marx — Stuffy"
"Allan Jones — Gil Stewart"
"Maureen O'Sullivan — Judy Standish"
"Margaret Dumont — Emily Upjohn"
"Leonard Ceeley — Whitmore"
"Douglass Dumbrille — J.D. Morgan"
"Esther Muir — Flo"
"Sig Ruman — Dr Leopold X. Steinberg"
"Robert Middlemass — Sheriff"
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.