Monday, Oct. 28, 1929
COMING
National Affairs
Oct. 27-Nov. 2--Trenton, N. J. celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement. Nov. 5-7--Nebraska celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. Nov. 11--Armistice Day. Foreign News
Oct. 25--Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sails from Quebec for England. Oct. 25-27--French Radical-Socialist party meets at Rheims. Party presidential candidate: Edouard Herriot. Oct. 28-Nov. 9--Institute of Pacific Relations meets at Kyoto. Oct. 29--British Parliament reconvenes at London. Oct. 30--General election in Ontario, Canada. Nov. 5--In England, Guy Fawkes' Day national celebration with fireworks and bonfires in commemoration of Fawkes' "gunpowder plot" (1604). Nov. 9--Prince of Wales presides at dinner for all wearers of England's Victoria Cross (highest military decoration). Nov. 9--Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London. Aeronautics
Oct. 27--Close of Southwestern aircraft exposition at Dallas, Tex. Oct. 31--Close of Guggenheim safe aircraft exposition. 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. Science
Oct. 29-Nov. 7--World engineering congress at Tokyo. Oct. 31--Mme. Marie Curie honor guest of American Society for the Control of Cancer, in Manhattan. Medicine
Oct. 25--Close of meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otalarynology at Atlantic City. Music
Oct. 28--Opening of 24-week Manhattan season of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Education
Oct. 25--Columbia University begins six-day celebration of its 175th anniversary. Sport
FOOTBALL (Nov. 2)
East: Cornell v. Columbia at Ithaca; Harvard v. Florida at Cambridge; Pennsylvania v. Navy at Philadelphia; Pittsburgh v. Ohio State at Pittsburgh; Princeton v. Chicago at Princeton; Army v. South Dakota at West Point; Yale v. Dartmouth at New Haven.
South: Georgia v. Tulane at Columbus; Georgia Tech v. Notre Dame at Atlanta;
Vanderbilt v. Alabama at Nashville; V. P. I. v. Washington & Lee at Blacksburg. Midwest: Minnesota v. Indiana at Indianapolis; Nebraska v. Kansas at Lincoln; Northwestern v. Illinois at Evanston; Wisconsin v. Purdue at Madison. West: Southern California v. California at Los Angeles; Redlands v. Pomona at Redlands; Stanford v. California Tech at Palo Alto. FOOTBALL (Nov. 9) East: Brown v. Dartmouth at Providence; Columbia v. Colgate at New York; N. Y. U. v. Georgia at New York; Pennsylvania v. Penn State at Philadelphia; Princeton v. Lehigh at Princeton; Navy v. Georgetown at Annapolis; Wesleyan v. Williams at Middletown; Yale v. Maryland at New Haven. South: Alabama v. Kentucky at Montgomery; South Carolina v. North Carolina at Columbia; Tulane v. Alabama Poly at New Orleans; Vanderbilt v. Georgia Tech at Nashville; Virginia v. V. P. I. at Charlottesville. Midwest: Chicago v. Wisconsin at Chicago; Illinois v. Army at Urbana; Iowa v. Minnesota at Iowa City; Notre Dame v. Drake at Chicago; Ohio State v. Northwestern at Columbus. West: California Tech v. Redlands at Pasadena; Southern California v. Nevada at Los Angeles; Washington v. Stanford at Seattle; Washington State v. Idaho at Pullman. HORSES. Oct. 30-Nov. 2 -- Boston Horse Show. Nov. 7-13--National Horse Show in Manhattan.
GOING
Best Plays in Manhattan
STREET SCENE--every door in a tenement opens on drama (Pulitzer Prizewinner). JOURNEY'S END--those well-bred Englishmen are still at war. IT'S A WISE CHILD -- funny complications caused by a fake pregnancy. CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE--splendid drama (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros), splendidly acted at top price of $1.50. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE -- ludicrous scherzo about a speakeasy and an innocent but willing beauty. THE CRIMINAL CODE--the laws of God are not on the statutes. JUNE MOON--magnificent satire on songwriting by Ring W. Lardner & George S. Kaufman. Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS. Best Pictures
DISRAELI--George Arliss makes this drama of the Prime Minister who loved peacocks, gardening and Queen Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH--blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND--phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) --the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE--elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea.