Monday, Mar. 23, 1931

COMING

National Affairs

March 23--Radio address by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, auspices of women's division of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment; over National Broadcasting network.

March 25--Dinner of the Academy of Political Science; at Hotel Astor, Manhattan. Guest of honor: Walter Lippmann of the late great New York World; in appreciation of his contributions (politico-educational) to U.S. life.

April 7--Chicago's mayoral election. Chief candidates: William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Republican; Anton Joseph Cermak, Democrat.

Foreign News

March 24--International agricultural parley; at Paris. Purpose: to establish first international bank (capital, $9,650,000) for agricultural credit clearing.

March 25--Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (soon suspended by Primo de Rivera's coup d'etat of Sept. 15).

March 26--World Grain Congress; at Rome. Purpose: to regulate grainselling on world markets. March 26-- Session of Mahatma Gandhi's Indian Congress party; at Karachi, India.

March 31--International coffee growers' conference; at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Purpose: to restrict Output to Demand. Last such conference: 1902, at New York.

April 5--Dedication of monument to the late Poet Rupert Brooke; at his grave on Skyros Island, Greece. Inscription: "To Rupert Brooke and to immortal poetry;" by fellow British and European poets.

April 13-May 16--Shakespearean festival; at Stratford-on-Avon.

Aeronautics

March 25-27--Third national airport conference, under auspices of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce; at Tulsa, Okla.

April 11-19--National aircraft show; at Detroit.

Science

March 30-April 3--Eighty-first session of the American Chemical Society; at Indianapolis. Symposium subject: combustion.

Religion

April 3, 5--Good Friday, Easter Sunday.

Music

March 24-29--Bach festival in conjunction with Boston Symphony Orchestra's soth anniversary celebration; at Symphony Hall, Boston.

April 5--Radio debut of Metropolitan Opera's Lily Pons; over National Broadcasting network.

April 5--Last of a series of radio concerts by Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra; over National Broadcasting network.

Sport

GOLF

March 26-27--North & South open championship; at Pinehurst, N.C.

April 6-11--North & South amateur championship; at Pinehurst, N.C.

April 10--Bobby Jones Trophy amateur golf tournament; at Catalina Country Club, Los Angeles, Calif. Trophy: silver statue of Bobby Jones. Sponsor: William Wrigley Jr.

HORSE RACING

March 27--Ninety-second Grand National steeplechase; at Aintree, England, Important departures: limiting entry to 10 horses which placed in previous races, raising of minimum age & weight.

MOTOR BOATING

March 28--End of Pacific Coast Boat Show; at San Francisco.

POLO

March 28-April 18--National indoor championship tournament; in two rings, at Squadron A Armory, Manhattan and Squadron C Armory. Brooklyn.

TENNIS

March 24-29--U.S. amateur singles championship; at Boston.

YACHTING

March 24-April 1--International yacht races, at Bermuda.

Animals

April 6-23--Circus; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

GOING

Best Pictures

CITY LIGHTS--Chaplin still as good as ever in a hilarious silent picture.

TRADER HORN--The old tribal dance and other African features excitingly presented.

RANGO--Men & monkeys fighting as allies in the Sumatran jungles.

DISHONORED--Routine spy story redeemed by Marlene Dietrich and Director Josef von Sternberg.

Best Plays in Manhattan

AS HUSBANDS Go--The tale of a young matron of Dubuque who almost went wrong.

FIVE STAR FINAL--Tribulations of a tabloid.

GIVE ME YESTERDAY--A Whimsy-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.

GRAND HOTEL--Large scale handling of the slice-of-life technique.

GREEN GROW THE LILACS--The Theater Guild goes way out West.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME--Hollywood taking it on the chin.

PRIVATE LIVES--Surpassingly good comedy with Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence.

THE BARRETTS OF WTIMPOLE STREET-- Katharine Cornell.

THE GREEN PASTURES--The year-old Pulitzer Prizewinner.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW--A sensitive play by Philip Barry about a small-town lady and a visiting psychiatrist.

Musical--AMERICA'S SWEETHEART, FINE & DANDY, GIRL CRAZY, THE NEW YORKERS, THREE'S A CROWD., YOU SAID IT.

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