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Max Schneider Diary Entry Sunday, 20 June 1943
A delightful morning. Later, after a most enjoyable swim, settled down for a good sunbath.
Jean [Jean Phillips] took down several letters in shorthand thus combining business with pleasure.
In the PM we returned to Hollywood and Georgia [Georgia Schneider] asked us to have dinner with her. She was in a very depressed mood; things seem to have gone wrong at 1003 [1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue] where she had been at the solsticial party. She felt that she had not been very welcome. Mellinger [Frederic Mellinger], after going into a huddle with Jane [Jane Wolfe] informed her, very emphatically, that Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] "was not out". Mellinger avoided her and was rather curt. Apparently, Karl [Karl Germer] telling us one thing and Jane another is causing confusion and is not going to make things any easier.—Georgia met Joe Miller, and said that he wanted to see me and an appointment has been arranged. Georgia, in order to avoid further misunderstanding, told Jane that Miller's visit with me is in no way intended to estrange Miller from 1003. Jane's brusque "hell is paved with good intentions" seemed a little uncalled for. A.C.'s words of praise as to my integrity seem to have made little impression on Jane, who still reflects Smith's influence.
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