Coming: Jun. 23, 1930

National Affairs

June 20—Presentation of the National Geographic Society’s special medal of honor to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by President Hoover; at Washington.

June 2 2-27—Rotary International meeting; at Chicago.

June 30-July 2—Annual conference of State Governors; at Salt Lake City.

July 4—Unveiling of the head of George Washington and two paragraphs of Calvin Coolidge’s history of the U. S.; on the face of Mount Rushmore, S. Dakota.

Foreign News

June 23—Midsummer Eve’s Ball under special patronage of Edward, Prince of Wales, on his 36th birthday; at London.

June 26—Arrival of Prince Takamatsu of Japan, for official state visit to England; at London.

June 26-28—Millennial celebration of the Icelandic Parliament;* at Thingvellir, Iceland.

June 29—Parliamentary elections in Bolivia.

July 6-Aug. 10—International Transport Exposition; at Poznan, Poland.

July 9—Celebration of the 114th anniversary of Argentina’s independence.

Aeronautics

June 28-July 6—Pacific Coast Aeronautical Exposition; at Oakland Municipal Airport, Oakland, Calif.

July 4—National elimination balloon races; at Houston, Tex.

Religion

June 23-26—National Catholic Educational Convention; at New Orleans.

June 23-29—International convention of Religious Education; at Toronto.

June 28—Annual conference of the Women’s International Zionist Organization; at Prague.

Medicine

June 22-24—Convention of Medical Women’s National Association; at Detroit.

June 23-27—Eighty-first annual session of the American Medical Association; at Detroit.

July 4-11—Sixth Pan-American Child Congress; at Lima, Peru.

Music

July 1—Opening of summer concert season of the San Francisco Summer Symphony; at the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco. Conductor: Bernardino Molinari.

July 7—Opening of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony summer season; at Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan. Conductors: Willem van Hoogstraten, Albert Coates.

July 8—Opening of the Los Angeles Symphony summer season; at Hollywood Bowl. Conductors: Alfred Hertz, Karl Krueger, Bernardino Molinari, Pietro Cimini, Enrique Fernandez Arbos.

Education

June 23-28—Annual conference of the American Library Association; at Los Angeles.

Sport

BOATING

June 26—Scandinavian Gold Cup regatta; at Gothenburg, Sweden.

June 26—Annual intercollegiate regatta; at Poughkeepsie.

HORSES

June 24—Irish Derby; at Curragh, Ireland.

June 29—Grand Prix de Paris races; at Longchamp, France.

GOLF

June 24, 25—French open championship; at Dieppe Golf Club, Dieppe, France.

June 24-26—Royal Canadian Golf Association open championship; at Hamilton Golf & Country Club, Hamilton, Ont.

TENNIS

June 23 — National intercollegiate championships; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.

June 23-July 5—Wimbledon championships; at Wimbledon, England.

BOXING

June 23—Primo Camera v. George Godfrey; at Philadelphia National League ball park, Philadelphia.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

HOTEL UNIVERSE—Philip Barry making certain of his young people children again just for tonight (TIME, April 28).

LOST SHEEP—How was the vicar to know he was living in a onetime house of sin (TIME, May 19)?

LYSISTRATA—Extremely funny and robust satire with Miriam Hopkins, Violet Kemble Cooper, Ernest Truex. By Gilbert Seldes and Aristophanes (TIME, May 19).

SPOOK HOUSE—Satisfying and conventional melodrama (TIME, June 16).

THE GREEN PASTURES—The best play in Manhattan (TIME, March 10).

THE LAST MILE—Seven that were supposed to be electrocuted (TIME, Feb. 24).

Musical—FLYING HIGH (TIME, March 17), GARRICK GAIETIES (TIME, June 16). SONS o’ GUNS (TIME, Dec. 9), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME, Jan. 27).

Best Pictures

DEVIL’S HOLIDAY—A Chicago manicurist takes a farmboy for a buggy ride (TIME, May 19).

OLD AND NEW—Another provocative newsreel of Soviet endeavor (TIME, May

ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT—Somewhat mutilated but well played adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s The Swan (TIME, June 16).

So THIS Is LONDON—Commonplace story of Americans abroad redeemed by Will Rogers’ quips (TIME, June 16).

THE BIG POND—Maurice Chevalier amusing in an unimportant story (TIME, May 26).

THE FLORADORA GIRL (Marion Davies) —Jumbled but amusing reminiscence of the Mauve Decade (TIME, June 9).

THE SILENT ENEMY—Vivid portrayal of tribal life among the Ojibwa Indians (TIME, May 26).

*Oldest functioning Parliament in the world.