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National Affairs

March 15--Final date for filing 1930 Federal income tax reports.

April 7--Chicago mayoralty election. Chief candidates: William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Republican; Anton Joseph Cermak, Democrat.

Foreign News

March 14--Opening of the British Empire Trade Exhibition; at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chief function in the South American "good will" itinerary of Edward of Wales, whose inaugural speech will be relayed to England, rebroadcast to the U. S.

March 25--Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (suspended by Primo de Rivera's historic coup d'etat of Sept. 15).

Business

March 31--International coffee growers' conference; at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Purpose: to restrict Output to Demand. Last such conference: 1902, at New York.

Aeronautics

March 25-27--Third national airport conference, under auspices of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce; at Tulsa, Okla.

Religion

April 3--Good Friday.

April 5--Easter Sunday.

Music

March 14--Intercollegiate glee club contest; preliminaries at Wanamaker Auditorium, Manhattan, finals at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan.

March 19--American premiere of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck, presented by Philadelphia Grand Opera Company; at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.

March 24-29--Bach festival in conjunction with Boston Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary celebration; at Symphony Hall, Boston.

Art

March 16-21--Eighteenth annual international Flower Show, at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan.

March 29--Closing of Independent Artists' exhibition; at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Prizes: none.

Sport

FENCING

March 17, 21, 24 (respectively)--Individual, interscholastic & women's foils championships; at Fencers Club, Manhattan.

GOLF

March 19-21--Open tournament; at La Gorce Course, Miami Beach, Fla.

March 26-27--North and South open championship; at Pinehurst, N. C.

HORSE RACING

March 27--Ninety-second Grand National steeplechase; at Aintree, England. Important departures: limiting entry to horses which placed in previous races, raising of minimum age & weight.

MOTOR BOATING

March 21-22 -- Annual regatta at Havana, Cuba.

POLO

March 28-April 18-- National indoor championship tournament; in two rings, at Squadron A Armory, Manhattan and Squadron C Armory, Brooklyn.

ROWING

March 21-- Annual Oxford-Cambridge regatta; over a slightly revised course from Putney to Mortlake, on the Thames, England.

SKATING

March 20, 21--National figure skating championships; at Boston Arena.

YACHTING

March 24-April 1-- International yacht races at Bermuda.

Animals

March 27-29--Dog show of the Chicago Kennel Club.

GOING

Best Pictures

CITY LIGHTS--Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his ability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc., etc.

LAUGHTER--Donald Ogden Stewart's dialog makes this the most accurately contemporary and pleasantly entertaining of recent drawing-room efforts.

TRADER HORN--They could not have followed the book, because the picture is wonderful.

RANGO--Intelligent animal stuff from the Sumatran jungles.

Best Plays in Manhattan

FIVE STAR FINAL--Arthur Byron running a tabloid newspaper.

GRAND HOTEL--A dozen lives concentrated into 36 hours in a hotel, and then compressed into two hours in a theatre.

GREEN GROW THE LILACS--Franchot Tone of the Guild makes a surprisingly good cowboy.

OH PROMISE ME--Lee Tracy as a venal and jolly young shyster.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME--The cinema industry, having accepted the hilarious thwacking which this play gives it, wants to film the piece.

ON THE SPOT--Gunplay within sight of the Chicago Tribune's tower.

PETTICOAT INFLUENCE--Helen Hayes as the meek wife of a diplomat who takes a few leaves out of the diplomat's book.

PRIVATE LIVES--The high spot comes when Gertrude Lawrence smashes a record of "St. James Infirmary" over Mr. Noel Coward's head.

THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET--A new angle on Poet Robert Browning's father-in-law, with Katharine Cornell as the poet's bride.

THE GREEN PASTURES--A fine play about some Negroes on earth and in heaven.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW--A sensitive play by the author of Paris Bound and Hotel Universe.

VINEGAR TREE--Very funny.

Musical--Five eminently good ones are: AMERICA'S SWEETHEART, FINE & DANDY, GIRL CRAZY, THE NEW YORKERS, THREE'S A CROWD.

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