Monday, Dec. 23, 1929

COMING

National Affairs

Dec. 21--Second national convention of the National Textile Workers' Union in Paterson, N. J.

Foreign News

Dec. 22--Polling day for Germany's referendum against the Young Plan.

Jan. 3--Pan-American Congress of Workingmen at Havana.

Jan.5--Mass meeting to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the League of Nations at Metropolitan Opera House. Manhattan. Speaker: General Jan Smuts.

Jan. 8--Wedding of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium in Rome.

Jan. 11--Lifting of Japan's embargo on the export of gold.

Aeronautics

Jan.1--Termination of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics.

Business

Jan. 4-11--National Automobile Show at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan.

Religion

Dec. 21--Close of Pope Pius XI's Jubilee year.

Education

Dec. 30-Jan. 1 -- Meeting of Modern Language Association of America at Cleveland.

Dec. 30-Jan. 1 -- Meeting of American Historical Association at Durham and Chapel Hill, N. C.

Jan. 6-11--Second Annual Institute of Statesmanship at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.

Science

Dec. 25-Jan. 1--Meeting of American Bacteriologists' Society at Ames, Iowa.

Dec. 27-Jan. 2--Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Des Moines, Iowa.

Dec. 29-Jan.13--Pan-American Medical Association meeting in Havana.

Dec. 30-31--Meeting of American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, at Columbia University, Manhattan.

Art

Jan. 1--Opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition at London with a collection of Italian art sent from Italy by order of Dictator Mussolini.

Music

Jan. 12--Dinner of the Bohemians of Chicago, a musicians' club, to Frederick Stock on his 25th anniversary as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Sport

FOOTBALL (Dec. 28)

Stanford v. Army at Palo Alto.

FOOTBALL (Jan. 1)

Southern California v. Pittsburgh in Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Cal.

WINTER SPORT

Dec. 20--Opening of the 25th winter sports season at Lake Placid Club, Lake Placid, N. Y.

Jan. 6--Ice carnival, " A Night at Saint Moritz," for the benefit of the New York Music Week Association; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

BILLIARDS

Jan. 3-10--World's three cushion billiard championship tournament in Manhattan.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

STREET SCENE--Love does not conquer tragedy in the slums.

JOURNEY'S END--The fighting English.

IT'S A WISE CHILD--A funny ice man, among others.

CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE--Eva Le Gallienne's rendezvous for those who still care for drama as a fine art.

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE--Clean fun on a concupiscent theme.

ROPE'S END--Fastidious strangulation, elegant detection.

SUBWAY EXPRESS--Murder in the rush hour.

MANY WATERS--Episodic history of a brave married couple.

THE CRIMINAL CODE--Penal horrors exposed.

SHERLOCK HOLMES--William Gillette's urbane farewell.

JUNE MOON--Songwriters and their ridiculous ilk.

BERKELEY SQUARE--Leslie Howard thinks himself into the past.

Musical: THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus score), BITTER SWEET, SONS O'GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN.

Best Pictures

DISRAELI (George Arliss)--Suez Canal sold to the chap with the long upper lip.

THE Kiss (Greta Garbo)--A widow on the witness stand.

THE LOVE PARADE (Maurice Chevalier) --Brightly amorous musical show.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in a scenario by Shakespeare.

THE TRESPASSER--A+ for Gloria Swanson. C-- for story--a stenographer's love life.

WELCOME DANGER (Harold Lloyd)-- Audibly combining the humorous aspects of flowers and policemen.

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