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National Affairs

Dec. 11, 18 (respectively)--President & Mrs. Hoover's reception for the Judiciary, and dinner in honor of Vice President Charles Curtis; at the White House.

Dec. 13--President Hoover's annual attendance at the dinner of the Gridiron Club of Washington newspaper correspondents (preventing his appearance at the Army-Navy Game--see p. 69).

Foreign News

Dec. 10--Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics.

Dec. 10--Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to the Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on the 6,000-ton Stella Polaris, with sight-seeing inland by airplane. Famed tourist: Lady Shackleton, widow of the late polar explorer (see SCIENCE).

Dec. 17, 24--Centenary of the death of Simon Bolivar; chiefly at Caracas, Bolivar's birthplace, Venezuela's capital.

Business

Dec. 9--Launching of Dollar Co.'s $8,000,000 liner President Hoover; at Newport News, Va. Christener: Mrs. Herbert Hoover, with a bottle of water taken from the high seas routes of Dollar ships.

Aeronautics

Dec. 10-23--International Congress on Aerial Safety; at Paris.

Religion

Dec. 7 -- Universal Bible Sunday; throughout the U. S. Sponsor: American Bible Society in conjunction with Protestant churches. Theme: "One Book for All People." Dec. 25--Christmas Day.

Music

Dec. 1-13--Freiburg Passion Play, with the authentic German company and 200 trained singers; at the Opera House, Boston.

Science

Dec. ii--Arrival of Professor & Mrs. Albert Einstein; at New York. Destination : Pasadena, Calif, where Professor Einstein will lecture at Technical High School, research at California Institute of Technology & Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Art

Dec. 10-22--Exhibition of modern industrial art from the Reimann School of Berlin; at the Art Center, Manhattan.

Sport

FOOTBALL--FOR CHARITY Dec. 6--N. Y. U. v. Colgate, at Yankee Stadium, New York City. Dec. 13--Army v. Navy,-- at Yankee Stadium, New York City. Dec. 14--Notre Dame All-Stars v. New York "Giants'" (professionals), at Polo Grounds. New York City. BILLIARDS Dec. 8-18--World's pocket billiard championship; at New York. BASKETBALL Dec. 10--Dartmouth v. Providence, at Hanover. Dec. 12--Yale v. Wesleyan, at New Haven. Dec. 13--Dartmouth v. Syracuse at Hanover; Navy v. William & Mary at Annapolis; Ohio State v. Pittsburgh, at Columbus; Wisconsin v. Carroll College, at Madison. Dec. 17--Navy v. Lafayette, at Annapolis. Dec. 18--Fordham v. Yale, at New York. Dec. 19--Nebraska v. Pittsburgh, at Lincoln. Dec. 20--C. C. N. Y. v. Dartmouth, at New York; Navy v. Western Maryland College, at Annapolis. GOLF Dec. 26-31--Annual midwinter tournament, at Pinehurst, N. C.

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Best Plays in Manhattan

ART & MRS. BOTTLE--Jane Cowl alternates this amusing play with Twelfth Night.

ELIZABETH THE QUEEN--Strictly for Lunt-lovers.

GRAND HOTEL--The most impressive play so far this season. Thirty-six hours in a Berlin hostelry.

MARSEILLES--Chiefly for those who like Guy Kibbee and Dudley Digges. A French character play by the author of Topaze.

ON THE SPOT--A melodrama with a new kind of gangshooting.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME--Brilliant satire on the film industry in general.

ROAR CHINA!--A Soviet frown toward Oriental exploitation.

THAT'S GRATITUDE--Clean and funny.

THE GREEN PASTURES--There is still no better play in town.

THE VINEGAR TREE--Mary Boland in a very sophisticated drawing-room comedy.

Musical--FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook's inventions), GIRL CRAZY (George Gershwin's music), PRINCESS CHARMING (royal romance), THREE'S A CROWD (with Admiral Fred Allen).

Best Pictures

LAUGHTER--Nancy Carroll and Fredric March in a story of the younger generation that is one of the year's best pictures.

MOROCCO--Introducing Marlene Dietrich, Paramount's new German star who looks like Greta Garbo and acts like Jeanne Eagels.

MIN AND BILL--Waterfront comedy melodrama that is amusing and believable in spots, but not in the same spots.

FEET FIRST--Harold Lloyd had a double for much of his skyscraper comedy; he was not running any risk but that does not keep it from being funny.

WHOOPEE--Still the best current photograph of a musical comedy.

*First football game between the Academies in three years.

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