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National Affairs

Oct. 7--Trial of Albert Bacon Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, starts at Washington. Charge: accepting bribes for leasing Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry Ford Sinclair in 1922.

Oct. 9, 10, 11--National celebration in honor of 130th anniversary of death of Count Casimir Pulaski, at Savannah, Ga., where he was mortally wounded aiding George Washington. In Michigan, a drive to collect an endowment fund for a Chair of Polish history and literature at the University of Michigan.

Oct. 12-19--National Dairy Show at St. Louis.

Oct. 21--President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22--goes to Cincinnati for the celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23--inspects Louisville Dam.

Foreign News

Oct. 4--Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald begins 21-day visit to U. S. and Canada; Oct. 25 sails from Quebec for England.

Oct. 7--Organization of International Bank at Wiesbaden.

Oct. 10-18--Institute of International Law meets at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., as guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Speaker: Elihu Root.

Aeronautics

Oct. 5-21--National Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy starts from Ford Airport, Dearborn, Mich.

Oct. 12-27--Southwestern aircraft exposition at Dallas, Tex.

Science

Oct. 2-16--International seismologists meet at Pasadena, Calif. Problem: more accurate measurements of speed of earthquakes.

Oct. 9-11--American Society of Civil Engineers meets at Boston.

Sport

Baseball

Oct. 8--World Series (Chicago "Cubs" v. Philadelphia "Athletics") starts at Chicago. Schedule: Oct. 9--at Chicago; Oct. 10--traveling; Oct. 11--at Philadelphia; Oct. 12--at Philadelphia; Oct. 13--baseball banned in Philadelphia (Sunday); Oct. 14--at Philadelphia; Oct. 15--traveling; Oct. 16--at Chicago.

Football Oct. 12

East: Navy v. Notre Dame at Baltimore; Princeton v. Brown at Princeton; Pennsylvania v. V. P. I. at Philadelphia.

South: Georgia v. Yale at Athens; Georgia Tech v. North Carolina at Atlanta; Alabama Poly. v. Florida at Montgomery.

Midwest: Chicago v. Indiana at Chicago; Wisconsin v. Northwestern at Madison; Ohio State v. Iowa at Columbus; Minnesota v. Vanderbilt at Minneapolis.

West: Washington v. Southern California at Seattle; California (Southern Branch) v. Stanford at Los Angeles; California v. Washington State at Berkeley.

Football (Oct. 19)

East: Harvard v. Army at Cambridge; Pennsylvania v. California at Philadelphia; Cornell v. Princeton at Ithaca; Columbia v. Dartmouth at New York.

South: Georgia Tech v. Florida at Atlanta ; North Carolina v. Georgia at Chapel Hill.

Midwest: Notre Dame v. Wisconsin at Chicago; Northwestern v. Minnesota at Evanston; Iowa v. Illinois at Iowa City; Michigan v. Ohio State at Ann Arbor; Nebraska v. Pittsburgh at Lincoln.

West: Stanford v. Oregon State at Palo Alto; Southern California v. Occidental at Los Angeles; California (Southern Branch) v. California Tech at Pasadena.

Religion

Oct. 4 -- Rosh haShanah (New Year), Jewish holiday. In the synagog at-sunset the rabbi blows a ram's horn, reminder that by the Jewish calendar, God created the world 5,690 years ago.

Oct. 15--Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Jewish holiday, a vigil of fasting and repentance for pious Jewry.

Music

Oct. 6--Philadelphia Symphony (Leopold Stokowski, conductor) broadcasts first concert at 5:30 p. m. Eastern Standard Time.

Oct. 7-9--Festival of chamber music under provisions of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation at Library of Congress, Washington.

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Best Plays in Manhattan

Street Scene--Pulitzer Prizewinning peek at love and tragedy in Manhattan's brownstone belt.

Journey's End--what happens to elite Englishmen at war.

It's a Wise Child--hilarious ructions in family life.

The Commodore Marries--witty fantasia based on Tobias Smollett's novel Peregrine Pickle.

Strictly Dishonorable--great fun in a speakeasy and a bachelor's apartment above.

Rope's End--London shuddered; Manhattan shudders.

Musical: Whoopee--Eddie Cantor & Ziegfeld girls; Show Girl--Dorothy Stone, Clayton, Jackson & Durante and more Ziegfeld girls; Follow Thru--antics at a golf club; The Little Show--small, smart, comic; Sweet Adeline--bustled glamour of the '90s with Jerome Kern music.

Best Pictures

The Cock-Eyed World--by Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson. Love and wit among the Marines.

The Four Feathers--a romance of war in the Sudan notable for its hippopotami tumbling by dozens down a river bank.

Hollywood Revue--famed film people acting as specialty entertainers in a lively bigtime vaudeville show.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Norma Shearer)--Frederick Lonsdale's comedy of a lovely thief adroitly acted.

The Awful Truth (Ina Claire)--trifle about young marriage presented with a skill more than trifling.