Coming: Apr. 7, 1930

National Affairs

April 8—Illinois primaries for U. S. Senate. Republican antagonists: Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick.

April 10—Beginning of “Covered Wagon Centennial” celebration. Occasion:100th anniversary of departure of first wagon train from St. Louis toward Oregon country.

April 10—Launching of the Corsair, new $2.000,000 yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan; at Bath, Maine.

April 11—Sixty-eighth birthday of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

April 13—Jefferson’s birthday.

April 14-19—First National Flood Control & Navigation Congress & Exposition; at Mid-South Fair Grounds; Memphis. Tenn.

April 19—Address to American Society of Newspaper Editors by President Hoover ; at Willard Hotel, Washington.

April 20—Easter Sunday.

Foreign News

April 14—Presentation of national budget to the British House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden; in London.

April 14—Launching of Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton’s new America’s Cup contender; at Gosport, England.

April 21—Beginning of annual Shakespeare birthday festival; at Stratford-on-Avon, England.

Aeronautics

April 5, 6—New York Glider Carnival; at Bayside, L. I., N. Y.

April 13—Close of Ail-American aircraft show of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce; at Detroit, Mich.

Science

April 7-11—Meeting of the American Chemical Society; at Atlanta. Ga.

April 8, 9, 10—Meeting of Society of Automotive Engineers; at Detroit.

Medicine

April 8—International ceremonies honoring 80th birthday of Johns Hopkins’ Dr. William Henry Welch. Chief U. S. celebration; at Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

April 17, 18—Meeting of American Association of Pathologists & Bacteriologists; in Manhattan.

Music

April 14—Joint recital by Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Violinist Mischa Elman; at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan.

April 22—Performance of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre de Printemps and Schonberg’s Die Gluckliche Hand, by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan.

April 23—Hampton Choir (Negro) sails for European concert series.

Education

April 25, 26—Model League of Nations Assembly; at Yale University.

Sport

BASEBALL

April 14—American League season opening at Washington.

April 15—American League season openings at Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston; National League at Brooklyn, Cincinnati, New York, St. Louis.

April 22—American League season openings at Cleveland, New York, St. Louis; National League at Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia.

April 23—National League season opening at Pittsburgh.

BOATS

April 12—Oxford-Cambridge boat races from Putney to Mortlake, England.

April 19—Navy v. Columbia v. M. I. T.; at Annapolis, Md.

DOGS

April n, 12—Atlanta Kennel Club show at Atlanta, Ga.

April 12, 13—Oakland Kennel Club show; at Oakland, Calif.

GOLF

April 7-12—North & South Amateur; at Pinehurst, N. C.

April 14-18—Mason & Dixon Amateur; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

HORSES

April 22-26—Annual indoor show at Brooklyn Riding & Driving Club; Brooklyn, N. Y.

LAWN TENNIS

April 14-19—North & South championships; at Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, N. C.

April 21—Mason & Dixon championships; at Greenbrier Tennis Club, White Sulphur Springs. W. Va.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY—Nazimova in Turgenev’s elucidation df heart troubles.

IT’S A WISE CHILD—A fake baby and other monkeyshines.

JOURNEY’S END—This British war play now in its second year.

JUNE MOON—Belly-laughs at Broadway.

STREET SCENE—Eventful hours on a lowly thoroughfare.

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE—How another maiden stayed pure.

SUBWAY EXPRESS—Essay in underground murder.

THE APPLE CART—Bernard Shaw’s latest divagations.

THE FIRST MRS. FRASER—Decorous comedy about divorce.

THE GREEN PASTURES-r-Reverent, lovely, hilarious Negro novelty.

THE LAST MILE—Bitter depiction of electrocution and its byproducts.

TOPAZE—Frothy French satire.

Musical—EARL CARROLL’S SKETCH BOOK, SONS O'” GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN.

Best Pictures

SARAH AND SON (Ruth Chatterton)— Mother-love with a German accent, finely acted.

SONG o’ MY HEART (John McCormack) —scenic adaptation of eleven tenor solos.

SEVEN DAYS LEAVE—Sir James Barrie’s charwoman shows her medals.

ANNA CHRISTIE—O’Neill might have written it to order for Greta Garbo.