Monday, Nov. 03, 1930

COMING

National Affairs

Nov. 4--National elections: the 72nd House of Representatives and 32 U. S. Senators.

Nov. 11--Armistice Day. Speech by President Hoover at a conference of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches; in Washington.

Nov. 14--Seventh annual National Corn Husking Contest; at Norton, Kans. Corn-husking record (1925): 35.8 bu. in 80 min.

Foreign News

Nov. 4--Reopening of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, after ten years' restoration work costing -L-200,000; at Windsor.

Nov. 6--Last scheduled sitting of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission; at Geneva.

Nov. 7--Ninth birthday of Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania.

Nov. 7, 8--Thirteenth anniversary of U. S. S. R.

Nov. 8--Thirty-seventh birthday of King Prajadhipok of Siam.

Nov. 9--Austrian general elections.

Nov. 10--Inauguration of London's new Lord Mayor, Sir Phene Neal, to his suzerainty of one square mile.

Nov. 12--Round-table conference on Indian affairs; at London. Not invited: Mahatma Gandhi and many another Nationalist.

Business

Nov. 8-15--First of four automobile salons showing high-priced and custom-built cars; at the Drake Hotel. Chicago.

Nov. 10-13--Convention of the American Petroleum Institute; at Chicago.

Music

Nov. 7--Season opening at Rochester Philharmonic.

Nov. 13--Conductor Arturo Toscanini returns from Europe to his New York Philharmonic Symphony.

Nov. 16--Second of Leopold Stokowski-Philadelphia Orchestra radio broadcasts over National Broadcasting network.

Art

Nov. 15--Opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art; at Manhattan. Founder: Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.

Sport

FOOTBALL--Nov. 8

East: Boston College v. Georgetown, at Boston; C. C. N. Y. v. Manhattan, at New York; Columbia v. Colgate, at New York; Cornell v. Hobart, at Ithaca; Dartmouth v. Allegheny, at Hanover; Harvard v. Michigan, at Cambridge; New York University v. Georgia, at New York; Pennsylvania 13. Notre Dame, at Philadelphia; Pittsburgh v. Carnegie Tech, at Pittsburgh; Princeton v. Lehigh, at Princeton; Trinity v. Amherst, at Hartford; Army v. Illinois, at New York; Williams v. Wesleyan, at Williamstown; Yale v. Alfred, at New Haven.

South: Georgia Tech v. Vanderbilt, at Atlanta; Louisiana v. Mississippi, at Baton Rouge; Navy v. Ohio State, at Baltimore; V. P. I. v. Virginia, at Blacksburg.

Midwest: Chicago v. Purdue, at Chicago; Detroit v. Fordham, at Detroit; Indiana v. Northwestern, at Bloomington; Kansas v. Nebraska at Lawrence; Ohio University v. Denison, at Athens; Wisconsin v. South Dakota, at Madison.

West: Denver v. Utah Aggies, at Denver; Oregon v. University of California (L. A.) at Eugene; Southern California v. California, at Los Angeles; Stanford v. Washington, at Palo Alto; Utah v. Colorado College, at Salt Lake City.

HORSES

Nov. 6-12--National horse show; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Outstanding event: international military jumping competition.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan CIVIC REPERTORY--The bill changes during the week, but all of Miss Le Gallienne's shows are relished by the serious drama-lover.

LYSISTRATA--Sex, satire.

MR. GILHOOLEY--Two sterling performances by Helen Hayes and Arthur Sinclair in a solid play about life in Dublin.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME--Hollywood with a KICK ME sign on the seat of its trousers.

ONE TWO THREE--Arthur Byron, as a motormaker, changes a taxidriver into a gentleman in one hour.

SYMPHONY IN Two FLATS--One part farce, one part pathos; concocted and acted in by Ivor Novello.

THAT'S GRATITUDE--Frank Craven in the kind of a play Frank Craven usually writes.

THE GREEN PASTURES--Marc Connelly's splendid hit based on Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun.

THE 9TH GUEST--A lot of people get killed in this one.

TORCH SONG--Mayo Methot as a Salvation Army lass who sins but gets over it.

UP POPS THE DEVIL--Young marriage problems with an icing of smart wisecracks.

Musical--EARL CARROLL VANITIES (dirty), FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GARRICK GAIETIES (youthful), GIRL CRAZY (Gershwin Music), PRINCESS CHARMING (Jeanne Aubert), THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW (pleasant), THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Clifton Webb, Fred Allen).

Best Pictures

HER MAN--Familiar but skilfully rendered melodrama of the Havana waterfront.

WHOOPEE--Eddie Cantor's quips & rolling eyeballs enlivening a spectacularly Ziegfelded musical comedy.

OUTWARD BOUND--Last voyage of the soul sensitively acted by a good cast.

THE CALL OF THE FLESH--Just operetta with a concert tenor (Ramon Novarro) but hinting future grand opera for the cinema.

LET'S Go NATIVE--Jack Oakie, the backbone of a slapstick frame dressed up with one or two gay songs.

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