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"Rigo, a patient - I keep him in a trance. Sometimes he gets out - does terrible things."
"A strange case - but I deal in strange cases!"
"I have only one guest chamber - but no doubt we can make the gentlemen comfortable."
"Caliban - see that the guests have the USUAL attention!"
"My servant - don't allow him to frighten you - the poor creature is dumb!"
"I am Dr. Edwards - the owner of this sanitarium. We were overpowered and imprisoned here by my patients. Our lives are in constant peril."
"Ziska, who was once a famous surgeon, controls the others...Caliban imagines he's Ziska's slave - Rigo is dangerous, while Dan is quite harmless ..."
"They must have built those devilish traps and devices after they imprisoned us."
"I've found a hidden passage - - it goes straight down into the dark!"
"A mystery thriller and a love adventure. The romance of a boy and a girl in a mansion of hidden motives. A film you'll want to see all over again."
"You'll Guess! You'll Gasp! You'll love it!"
"Lon Chaney — Gustave Ziska"
"Johnny Arthur — Johnny Goodlittle"
"Gertrude Olmstead — Betty Watson"
"Hallam Cooley — Amos Rugg"
"Charles Sellon — Russ Mason"
"Walter James — Caliban"
"Knute Erickson — Daffy Dan"
"George Austin — Rigo"
"Edward McWade — Luke Watson"
"Ethel Wales — Mrs Watson"
"Herbert Prior — Doctor Edwards"
"Matthew Betz — Detective Jennings"
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.