Monday, Nov. 11, 1929
COMING
National Affairs
Nov. 11--Armistice Day
Nov. 12-14--National Conference on Improving Government meets in Chicago.
Foreign News
Nov. 9--Close of Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto.
Nov. 9--Prince of Wales presides at dinner in London's Parliament Building for all wearers of the Victoria Cross (highest British military decoration).
Nov. 9--Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London.
Nov. 12--Chinese national celebration of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's birthday.
Nov. 17--Presidential election in Mexico. Candidates: Pascual Ortiz Rubio (National Revolutionary); Jose Vasconcelos (Anti-Reelectionist); General Pedro V. Triana (Communist).
Aeronautics
Nov. 8-10--Intercollegiate aeronautic conference at Columbus, Ohio.
Nov. 9-17--Western aircraft show at Los Angeles.
Nov. 10--Opening of Hawaiian Airways, Ltd., new inter-island air service.
Nov. 11--Dedication of Municipal Airport at Duluth, Minn.
Nov. 15--Dedication of Curtiss-Steinberg Airport at St. Louis; of Kinsolving Airport at Abilene, Tex.
Science
Nov. 18-20--National Academy of Sciences meets at Princeton, N. J.
Medicine
Nov. 18, 19--Conference of American Birth Control League in Manhattan.
Religion
Nov. 12, 13--Seminar concerning relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants at Harvard University. Speaker: President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
Nov. 13--Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops meets at Washington. Purpose: election of presiding bishop to succeed the late Right Rev. John Gardner Murray of Maryland.
Press
Nov. 12, 13--American Newspaper Publishers' Association meets at Asheville, N. C.
Business
Nov. 13-16--American Institute of Steel Construction meets at Biloxi, Miss. Speaker: Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to U. S.
Sport
BASKETBALL
Nov. 16--Season opening of American Basketball League (professional).
FOOTBALL (Nov. 16)
East: Columbia v, Pennsylvania at New York; Dartmouth v. Cornell at Hanover; Georgetown v. West Virginia at Washington; Harvard v. Holy Cross at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Missouri at New York; Syracuse v. Colgate at Syracuse; Army v. Dickinson at West Point; Navy v. Wake Forest at Annapolis; Williams v. Amherst at Williamstown; Yale v. Princeton at New Haven.
South: Duke v. North Carolina State at Durham; Florida v. Clemson at Gainesville ; Georgia v. Alabama Poly at Athens; Georgia Tech v. Alabama at Atlanta; Kentucky v. V. M. I. at Lexington; Tennessee v. Vanderbilt at Knoxville; Tulane v. Sewanee at New Orleans; V. P. I. v. Maryland at Norfolk; Washington & Lee v. Virginia at Lexington.
Midwest: Illinois v. Chicago at Urbana; Minnesota v. Michigan at Minneapolis; Nebraska v. Oklahoma at Lincoln; Northwestern v. Indiana at Evanston; Notre Dame v. Southern California at Chicago; Purdue v. Iowa at Lafayette.
West: California Tech. v. Occidental at Pasadena; Montana v. Washington State at Missoula; Oregon v. Oregon State at Eugene; Redlands v. Santa Barbara at Redlands; California (Southern Branch) v. St. Mary at Los Angeles.
GOLF
Nov. 12-13--Mid-South open at Pinehurst, N. C.
Nov. 15-17--Hawaiian open at Honolulu.
HORSES
Nov. 7-13--National Horse Show in Manhattan.
ICE HOCKEY
Nov. 10--Season opening of Canadian-American Hockey League (professional).
GOING
Best Plays in Manhattan
STREET SCENE--Microcosmic disturbances in a tenement house.
JOURNEY'S END--Anecdotes of the British troops.
IT'S A WISE CHILD--Pretended pregnancy is a laughing matter.
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE--There are no better plays (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros) or better actors (Eva LeGallienne, Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson) in town.
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE--Funny fate of a Mississippi maiden in a speakeasy.
ROPE'S END--This contains the season's best shriek.
SUBWAY EXPRESS--For those who like technical murders.
THE CRIMINAL CODE--Smashing treatise on Law.
JUNE MOON--The weird and ludicrous creatures who write the nation's songs.
Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS.
Best Pictures
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Clive Brook)--Best rubber-heeler appropriately played.
WELCOME DANGER (Harold Lloyd)-- Great talking comedy showing why fingerprints are like leaves.
HALLELUJAH (directed by King Vidor) --Negro feelings never explored by vaudeville or intellectuals.
MADAME X (Ruth Chatterton)--Old-fashioned but convincing story of fidelities.