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National Affairs

April 28--Eighteenth annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; in Washington.

April 28-May 3--Biennial convention of the National League of Women Voters; in Louisville, Ky.

May 7--Departure of first group of Gold Star Mothers for France. Purpose: pilgrimage to graves of U. S. War dead. Sponsor: U. S. Government.

May 10-18--Visit of U. S. battle & scouting fleets to Manhattan.

Foreign News

May 1-13 -- Delphic Festivals; at Delphi, Greece. Sponsor: Greek Government.

May 6--British Empire commemorates 20th year of reign of George V.

May 14--First of series of five courts to be held at Buckingham Palace, London. Purpose: formal presentation of U. S. & other women to Queen Mary, King George.

May 16--Opening of Stockholm Exposition; at Stockholm, Sweden.

Music

May 1-June 30--Opera festival at Dresden, Germany.

May 3--First performance on 23 concert foreign schedule of New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Toscanini; at the Opera, Paris.

May 4-10--National Music Week.

May 8--Mozart Festival; at Harrisburg, Pa.

May 16, 17--Bach Festival; at Bethlehem, Pa.

Art

May 2--Close of loan exhibition of Marquis de La Fayette mementoes; in Manhattan.

May 15--Retrial of $500,000 damage (by slander) suit against Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929 et seq.) in Manhattan.

Religion

April 28-30--Twenty-first annual convocation of Yale's Divinity School; at New Haven, Conn.

May 11--First performance of the 1930 Passion Play, dramatizing the life of Christ; at Oberammergau, Bavaria.

May 15-23--National Congress of the Salvation Army; in Manhattan.

Medicine

May 1--Child Health Day; by proclamation of President Hoover.

May 1-Sept. 30--International Mental Hygiene Exhibition; at Dresden, Germany.

May 5-10--International Congress on Mental Hygiene; in Washington.

May 5--Beginning of annual Red Cross Convention; in Washington.

May 5--Beg-inning of 78th annual meeting of American Pharmaceutical Association; in Baltimore, Md.

Science

April 27--Meeting of the executive committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; in Washington.

April 28-30--Meeting of the National Academy of Science; in Washington.

April 28--Eclipse of the sun (total through parts of Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana). Aeronautics

April 30--Award of Daniel Guggenheim Medal for "notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics" to Orville Wright; at Washington.

May 3-10--Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce show; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

Business

May 1--Opening of Merchandise Mart, world's largest building; in Chicago.

May 5-10--Annual convention of the American Mining Congress; at Cincinnati.

May 9--Meeting of American Iron & Steel Institute; at Hotel Commodore, Manhattan.

May 14--New England Export Conference; at Boston.

Sport

GOLF

May 15, 16--British-U. S. Walker Cup matches; at Sandwich, England.

HORSES

May 7-10--Hartford cavalry show; at Hartford, Conn.

May 7-10--Philadelphia indoor show; at Philadelphia.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY--Pastoral of laughter and love, by Turgenev, with Alia Nazimova.

JOURNEY'S END--How the playing fields of Eton influence trench warfare.

JUNE MOON--Ring Lardner extracting laughs from the song business.

STREET SCENE--Chapters in the history of a brownstone house.

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE -- Gestures toward seduction, in civilized surroundings.

SUBWAY EXPRESS--Murder and its consequences among the devotees of rapid transit.

THE APPLE CART--Political problems in the Shavian future, lightly agitated by the Theatre Guild.

THE FIRST MRS. ERASER--Light marital comedy by St. John Ervine.

THE GREEN PASTURES--Marc Connelly's tremendously successful and moving adaptation of Roark Bradford's Negro biblicals.

THE LAST MILE--A jailbreak and an electrocution, which will keep you awake.

TOPAZE--The education of a Gallic professor wittily illustrated by Frank Morgan.

Musical: EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK. SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN.

Best Pictures

JOURNEY'S END--Faithful reproduction of a stirring War play.

ANNA CHRISTIE--Greta Garbo's first talkie.

THE MAN FROM BLANKLEY'S--John Barrymore in slapstick.

SARAH & SON--Ruth Chatterton's convincing version of mother love.

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