Monday, May. 26, 1930

National Affairs

May 30--Memorial Day address President Hoover; at Gettysburg. Pa.

June-October--Statewide tercentenary celebration; in Massachusetts.

June 2--Annual congress of Sons of the American Revolution; at Asbury Park, N.J.

June 3--Fortieth Confederate Reunion; at Biloxi. Miss.

Foreign News

May 26--Sixty-third birthday of Queen Mary of Great Britain.

May 27-June 9--Quinquennial meeting of the International Council of Women; in Vienna.

May 31--Opening of International Fur & Hunting Exposition; in Leipzig. Germany.

June 3--Birthday of King George of Great Britain. Age: 65.

Music

June 6--Beginning of ten-week free concert series by Goldman Band; in Manhattan.

Education

May 29-June 7--Semi-centennial anniversary celebration of the University of Southern California; at Los Angeles.

June 5-7--Thirty-second annual meeting of Associated Harvard Clubs; at Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minn.

Religion

May 31--Birthday of Achille Ratti. Pope Pius XI. Age: 73.

June 13-21--Young Men's Student Conference at East Northfield, Mass.

Aeronautics

May 27-30--All-New England air tour. Sponsors: New England Council. National Aeronautic Association.

Business

June 2-9--Convention of the Radio Manufacturers Association; in Atlantic-City, N.J.

Sport

AUTOMOBILES

May 30--Annual international 500-mile race; on the Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind.

BOATS

May 28-June 9--Trial races of Sir Thomas Lipton's America's Cup challenger; Shamrock V v. King George's new Britannia; at Ryde. Cowes and Southampton, England.

May 31--Childs Cup regatta (Columbia v. Pennsylvania v. Princeton); on Schuylkill River, Philadelphia.

June 7--Ohio River Steamboat race. Leading contestants: 5. S. Tom Greene, S. S. John W. Hubbard.

BOXING

May 28--Flyweight title bout between Midget Wolgast of Philadelphia and Frankie Genaro of New York; at Madison Square Garden. Manhattan.

June 12--Jack Sharkey of Boston v. Max Schmeling of Germany in Milk Fund benefit bout; at Yankee Stadium, Manhattan.

COURT TENNIS

May 26--Beginning of world's championship match between Titleholder Pierre Etchebaster of France and Walter Kinsella of New York; at Prince's Club, Knightsbridge, England.

FENCING

June 1--Epees: national individual outdoor championship; at Travers Island, N.Y.

GOLF

May 26-31--British amateur championship; at Royal & Ancient Golf Club, St. Andrews, England.

May 27--International team competition of U. S. women v. French women; at St. Germain, France.

June 3-5--Irish open championship; at Portrush, Ireland.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY--Love life in rural Czarist Russia (TIME, March 31).

HOTEL UNIVERSE--Philip Barry's metaphysics, without intermission (TIME, April 21).

JOURNEY'S END--Fighting it out on the Western Front for the second year (TIME, April 21, 1929).

JUNE MOON--Most of the words and all the music by Ring Lardner (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929).

LOST SHEEP--What happens when a minister unwittingly rents an abandoned bordello (TIME, May 19).

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE--Comical irresponsibility bred in a saloon (TIME, Sept. 30).

SUBWAY EXPRESS--Two murders for a 5-c- ride (TIME, Oct. 7).

THE GREEN PASTURES--If the Lord were a kindly old Negro preacher; if Gabriel were a Pullman porter (TIME, March 10).

THE TRAITOR--Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's Pavilion on the Links (TIME, May 12).

UNCLE VAXYA--Lillian Gish dressed as a Gibson Girl in a Chekhov revival (TIME, April 28).

Musical --EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK (TIME, July 15), FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), INTERNATIONAL REVUE (now with Frances Williams), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), SONS o' Guxs (TIME, Dec. 9), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME. Jan. 27).

In Philadelphia

LYSISTRATA--Aristophanes' satirical suggestion that the way to stop war is to sex-starve the soldiery. Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex the opposite sides of the argument (TIME, May 19).

Best Pictures

DEVIL'S HOLIDAY--The old story of the country boy and city girl made palatable by the writing and direction of Edmund Goulding (TIME, May 19).

OLD AND NEW--Soviet newsreel of Russian peasants in their struggle to understand and use the Machine (TIME, May 19).

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