Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Related to the article “Indian Mystic Arrives for Visit in Hollywood.” Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1932: 14. The article states: Conversing only through indicated letters on a small alphabet board, as the result of a self-imposed seven-year “silence,” Shri Meher Baba … arrived yesterday … will break his silence … July 13 in Hollywood … he chose Hollywood as the scene of his revelation … because a proper balance of material and spiritual forces exists … Meher Baba, in light suit, seated, holding Los Angeles Times with headlines reading "Colorado River Menace Increasing" and "Suicide Leap Hurls Pair Into Volcano," with lamp and curtains in background Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Baba, Shri Meher, Indianmystic [Indian mystic] Handwritten at edge of negative: Shri Meher Baba
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