In the evening Baba went for a walk on Broadway in midtown Manhattan. The next day, Baba was driven by Elizabeth through Central Park. This was the first time she had driven Baba. Others had gone in another car, driven by Julian Lamar (the artist). Julian was upset because someone had broken into his car and stolen his luggage the previous night.
He mentioned this incident repeatedly to Baba, who asked, "It wasn't all you had in the world, was it?" Julian admitted it was not, and Baba remarked, "I am in you as well as in the thief!"
While they were driving through Central Park, Baba motioned to Elizabeth to stop near the lake at 110th Street. They all got out and walked toward the lake with Baba in the lead. There was no one around except a nurse pushing a baby carriage. After only a glance at the woman, Baba returned to the car. None knew the significance of Baba's stroll that day until a year later when Josephine Grabau was in the hospital and a young woman asked her whose photograph it was by her bed. Jo told her it was Meher Baba, and the woman remarked, "I know it is the same man who looked like Christ, whom I saw walking by the park lake a year ago. I have never forgotten his face."
Baba wished to go to a movie that night on Broadway, which Norina arranged, and a group of eighteen persons went with him. Baba became restless during the film and left in the middle. The group followed. Walking through the crowded New York streets, Baba went to another movie theater some blocks away. Along the way, one man stopped, stared straight into Baba's eyes and then kept turning around to look at him after they had passed on the sidewalk. Perhaps it was for him that Baba had left the theater.
Adi Jr. had been reading the alphabet board the entire day and was tired from standing for so long. The minute they reached the theater and settled down in the comfortable seats, he fell asleep and did not see any of the film.
When they returned to the Stokeses' home, Baba began asking each of the mandali, in front of Norina, "Wasn't the movie wonderful?"
Ghani said, "Marvelous," and Chanji agreed saying, "Beautiful!" Kaka said, "Quite fine." When Adi Jr.'s turn came, he said, "Well, I am sorry, Baba. I fell asleep and did not see it."