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"Beulah Bondi β Lady Arabella Stevens"
"Frank Reicher β Professor Meiklejohn"
"Paul Weigel β Monsieur Noyer"
"Georges Renavent β Chief of the SΓ»retΓ©"
"Diana, my dear, there are no such things as curses!"
"He shan't reach out of his grave and spoil our lives!"
"The universe is very large, and there are some secrets we are not meant to probe."
"He is wrong to demonstrate to these people! Who are they? Pygmies that scoff at a giant, who have said that he is only a visionary, unscientific, a charlatan - ha! He's greater than all of them. He sent for them. If he had waited, one day they would have begged, begged to come to him."
"My son. You have broken the first law of science."
"In his brain - the world's most powerful secret!"
"Destruction to all he touched or looked upon!"
"Sir Francis Stevens, and the great Dr. Benet from the University of Paris. What do they know? What will they ever know? I'll take them somewhere they've never been. Back into time. It will work well tonight. I'm sure and I'm ready. They'll never laugh at me again."
"Boris Karloff β Dr. Janos Rukh"
"Bela Lugosi β Dr. Felix Benet"
"Frances Drake β Diana Rukh"
"Frank Lawton β Ronald Drake"
"Violet Kemble Cooper β Mother Rukh"
"Walter Kingsford β Sir Francis Stevens"
"Delving into new, strange fields of mystery!"
"You ask me to join forces with you? But you forget I have no standing with your scientific congress. I believe I have even been called unorthodox."
"You observe: those finger marks cannot be seen in the light!"
"I believe that this city is at the mercy of a madman whose body is an engine of destruction."
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.