National Affairs

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; at the White House.

May 6--Reno's mayoralty election. Campaign refrain of the chief candidate: "A broad and tolerant viewpoint."

Foreign News

April 18--Departure from India of retiring Viceroy Lord Irwin. Successor: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon.

April 18--Spring maneuvers of the German fleet; in Bay of Swinemuende, the Baltic.

April 19--Beginning of "Summer Time'' (Daylight Saving) in England, 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: Uphir 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.

April 28--Prince of Wales's homecoming from his South American good-will trip; at Southampton.

May 1--International Labor Day.

May 1-Oct. 1--International Colonial & Overseas Exposition, at Vincennes, France. No passport, no visa (merely certificate of identification from resident French consul) required of entering visitors.

May 3--French presidential election. Likely successor to President Gaston Doumergue: famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Other possibilities: Senate President Paul Doumer, Deputies President Ferdinand Buisson, Senators Albert Lebrun, Albert Sarraut and Henri Cheron.

May 7-9--Fete commemorating the victory of Joan of Arc at Orleans, France.

May 10--Rumania's Independence Day. Chief celebration: Coronation of King Carol.

Business

April 28-May 1--Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.; at Atlantic City, N. J.

May 4-9--Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce; at Washington. Radio broadcast address by President Hoover. Chief discussion topic: World Depression.

Music

April 21--Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex; at Manhattan. Production jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Scenic designs by Robert Edmond Jones. Radio by National Broadcasting system.

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.

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."

Science

April 23-25--Meeting of the American Philosophical Society; at Philadelphia.

Sports

FENCING

May 5-7--New York Preliminaries (foils, epees, sabres) for national championship semifinals; at New York.

HORSES

May 9--The Preakness; at Pimlico track, Baltimore, Md.

ROWING

May 2--M.I.T. Harvard-Princeton on the Charles River, Cambridge; Yale- Pennsyvania-Columbia on the Harlem, New York.

May 9--Navy-Syracuse, at Annapolis.

TENNIS

April 27--British hard court championship; at Bournemouth, England.

GOING

Best Pictures

THE FRONT PAGE--Rapid-fire pressroom melodrama, with Adolphe Menjou as a managing editor.

TABU--South Sea Romance about a pearl diver and his girl, made exciting by brilliant photography, and the late Fred Murnau's sensitive directing.

SKIPPY--Robert Coogan and other urchins in a picture which does not patronize the hero of Cartoonist Percy Crosby comic strips.

CITY LIGHTS--Charlie Chaplin.

Best Plays in Manhattan

AS HUSBANDS Go--Domestic comedy.

FIVE STAR FINAL--How a newspaper killed two people.

GRAND HOTEL--The slice-of-life technique on a large scale, a noteworthy play.

MIRACLE AT VERDUN--A War cemetery gives up its dead.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME--There couldn't be a funnier play, but most of your friends know the gags by heart.

PRIVATE LIVES--Gertrude Lawrence, having recovered from an illness, continues to break gramophone discs over Noel Coward's head.

THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET-- Katharine Cornell.

THE GREEN PASTURES--The Negro Divine Comedy.

THE SILENT WITNESS--Lionel Atwill almost gets hanged for murder.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW--Showing that hearts beat quite as neurotically on Main Street as in Sutton Place.

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

* Pronounced Praw-chat-e-pok.

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