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“Gunga Din”

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  1. (1890) A poem by Rudyard Kipling about the native water carrier for a British regiment in India.


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Around this time, an ad had appeared in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for a double feature of “Gunga Din” with Cary Grant and “The Great Man Votes” with John Barrymore.

From New York Times Mar. 21, 2017

The juxtaposition of these frenzied homages beside the actual veterans’ more modest reminiscences, overlaid with a variety of stage tableaus, does neither half of “Gunga Din” any favors.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2012

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