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National Affairs

April 13--Radio broadcast of President Hoover's address at the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington; at 10.30 a. m., E. S. T. April 14--Pan-American Day. Radio addresses beginning at 12.30 p. m. from Washington by President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and Ambassador Tellez of Mexico. April 26--Shift to Daylight Saving Time in many a U. S. town & city. April 29--President & Mrs. Hoover's dinner to the King & Queen of Siam (see below); at the White House. Foreign News

April 10--Arrival in New York City of Japan's Prince & Princess Takamatsu. April 13--May 16--Shakespearean festival; at Stratford-on-Avon, England. April 19--Beginning of "Summer Time'' (Daylight Saving) in England, in France. April 20--Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C.; U. S. residence during their stay: "Ophir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. April 26--Census Sunday in England. First census (1801) figures: 8,893,000. Last census (1921): 37,887,000. May 1--May Day, International Labor Day. May 1-Oct. 1--International Colonial & Overseas Exposition; at Vincennes. Business

April 20-24--International conference of public utilities experts; at Algiers. May 4-9--Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce; at Washington. Chief speaker: President Herbert Hoover. Chief topic: World Depression. Aeronautics

April 11-19--International aircraft show; at Detroit. Medicine

April 13-17--World conference on work for the blind; at New York. Main object: to organize international research. May i--National Child Health Day. Music

April 10-13--Production of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association; at Philadelphia. Direction: Leopold Stokowski. Scenic designs: Robert Edmond Jones. Chorus: Princeton University. April 21--Oedipus Rex in Manhattan. Direction by Stokowski; chorus from Harvard. April 23-25--Festival of chamber music; at Washington, D. C. Sponsor: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. April 27--Opening of London opera season; at Covent Garden. Art

April 18-25--Architectural and allied arts exposition in conjunction with 50th anniversary of the Architectural League of New York. Feature: exhibition of Swedish architecture, sponsored by Sweden's Prince Gustav Adolf. Press

April 20--Annual meeting of the Associated Press; at New York. April 21-23--American Newspaper Publishers Association convention; at New York. April 23-25--Journalism conference under auspices of Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs; at Princeton University. Object: to "view the press critically as an institution." Sport

BASEBALL April 14--Opening of the Major League season. BOATS April 24-May 3--National motor boat show; at Chicago. ROWING May 2--M. I. T.-Harvard-Princeton on the Charles River, Cambridge; Yale-Pennsylvania-Columbia on the Harlem, New York. TENNIS April 27--British hard court championship at Bournemouth, England.

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Best Pictures

CITY LIGHTS--Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his lability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc. etc. TABU--Fred Murnau's ideas about photographic story telling make this the best of the South Sea Island pictures--about a pearl diver and his girl. THE FRONT PAGE--Continuous crisis in a criminal courts press room, brilliantly written and acted.

Best Plays in Manhattan

As HUSBANDS Go--About a small-town lady who goes to Europe, but not too far. FIVE STAR FINAL--Internal workings of a scandal sheet. GIVE ME YESTERDAY--A. A. Milne demonstrates that Success is not much fun. GRAND HOTEL--A striking and ambitious production, depicting a number of lives swept together for a short time in a German hotel. MIRACLE AT VERDUN--What might happen if the eight million War dead rose. ONCE IN A LIFETIME--Hilarious nose-thumbing at moviedom. THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET-- Katherine Cornell. THE GREEN PASTURES--If the Lord were a colored preacher; if Gabriel were a Pullman porter. THE SILENT WITNESS--A mystery play which manages to mystify. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW--Problems of a rich young family in a small town. Musical--AMERICA'S SWEETHEART FINE & DANDY, GIRL CRAZY, THE NEW YORKERS, THREE'S A CROWD.

*Pronounced Praw-hawt-e-pok.

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