are perversions of the truth, and confuse and bewilder rather than clarify and inspire. Real spirituality is best portrayed in stories of pure love, of selfless service, of truth realized and applied to the most humble circumstances of our daily lives, raying-out into manifold expression, through home and business, school and college, studio and laboratory — evoking everywhere the highest joy, the purest love, the greatest power — producing everywhere a constant symphony of bliss.

"This is the highest practicality. To portray such circumstances on the screen will make people realize that the spiritual life is something to be lived, not talked about, and that it — and it alone — will produce the peace and love and harmony which we seek to establish as the constant of our lives."

The following day, Wednesday, we all again visited Paramount Studios and met Maurice Chevalier who was making 'Love Me Tonight' with Jeanette MacDonald. We also met von Sternberg who was directing 'The Blonde Venus' for Marlene Dietrich. Baba did not care very much for Marlene Dietrich's offhand manner, but he liked von Sternberg. We stayed in the set for about half an hour.

That afternoon we motored down to Santa Monica and had tea with Ernst Lubitsch. He was kind and hospitable, but not particularly interesting. During that drive Baba said he might put off his projected visit, which had been arranged, to San Francisco; the reason being that Tallulah was trying to arrange for Baba to meet Greta Garbo at her house. Baba did not give this reason to Meredith who was in the car with us. It was a private arrangement between him and myself and Tallulah Bankhead, and Baba again showed the consummate actor he is when he wishes to change certain plans. Meredith assumed an offended and jealously injured air, and I certainly had no intention of deliberately hurting him in any way; only his persistent attitude of trying to exclude people like the Schloss's, and his ineptitude for 'mixing' well with people and with the 'Indians' prevented him often from carrying out Baba's plans as he wished. It was for this reason that Baba prohibited him from touching money and from kissing people. At the time and from veiled hints let drop by Meredith, we were under the impression that he was passing through some stage of development to higher consciousness. That evening Baba and all of us attended a reception which was given at the Knickerbocker Hotel to over 1,000 people. Baba sat in a chair, flanked by the Starrs, and shook hands with them all as they passed before him. Katherine Gardener, who was also interested in Krishnamurti, came from Ojai to see him. After it was over, the manager came to us and offered Baba and his party free accommodation when he returned to Hollywood.