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.