Coming: Feb. 10, 1930

National Affairs

Feb. 7—Debate on Prohibition Enforcement between Representative Fiorello H. LaGuardia (Wet) of New York and Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Dry) of Iowa, under auspices of Cleveland Advertising Club, in Cleveland.

Feb. 10—Meeting of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterways Association at Detroit.

Feb. 12—Lincoln’s birthday.

Feb. 13—President Hoover’s dinner to the diplomatic corps at the White House.

Feb. 20—President Hoover’s dinner to the’ members of the House of Representatives at the White House.

Feb. 22—Washington’s birthday.

Foreign News

Feb. 12—Annual game, “Killing the Cat in the Barrel,” to be attended by Royal Family at Dragor, Denmark.

Feb. 12—Ceremony celebrating the Papal Coronation, in the Sistine Chapel at Rome.

Feb. 24—National celebration of Independence Day in Esthonia.

Business

Feb. 8-15—Annual Pacific Coast Automobile Salon at Los Angeles; Feb. 22-March i—at San Francisco.

Aeronautics

Feb. 7-15—International Aviation Show, auspices of Aviators’ Post, American Legion, at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan.

Feb. 8-15—Aircraft Show at Cincinnati.

Music

Feb. 7—Beginning of Wagner matinee cycle at Metropolitan Opera House. Manhattan. First production: Die Meistersinger.

Feb. 7—Intercollegiate Glee Club contest, at Philadelphia.

Art

Feb. ii—Opening of a one-month exhibit of modern architecture, auspices of the Architects’ Club of Chicago.

Feb. 13-March 13—Annual exhibit of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

Feb. 18—Opening of a memorial exhibit of the paintings of the late Arthur B. Davies, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan.

Education

Feb. 12—World-wide celebration of Columbia University’s Alumni Day.

Feb. 22-27—Department of Superintendence, National Education Association, meets at Atlantic City.

Animals

Feb. 10-12—Annual Dog Show conducted by Westminster Kennel Club at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

Sport BOXING

Feb. 7—Johnny Risko v. Victorio Campolo, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

Feb. 10—International amateur tournament at New York Athletic Club, Man-lattan. LAWN TENNIS

Feb. 18—Dixie Championship, at Davis Islands Tennis Club, Tampa, Fla.

Feb. 24—Bermuda Championship, at Bermuda Lawn Tennis Club, Hamilton.

RACQUETS

Feb. 9-12—Gold Racquet Tournament at Tuxedo, X. Y.

Feb. 16-21—National singles championship at Boston. SQUASH RACQUETS

Feb. 21-23—National championships at Chicago.

SQUASH TENNIS

Feb. 28—National championships at Yale Club, Manhattan.

WINTER SPORTS

Feb. 8-16—Northern Games, at Stockholm, Sweden.

Feb. 15, 16—Interscholastic ski-jump-ing championships at Eaglebrook Lodge School, Deerneld, Mass.

Feb. 17, 18—Dog-sled derby at Lake Placid, N.’Y.

Feb. 20-22—Dog-sled derby at Quebec, Canada.

Feb. 21-24—Lake Placid ski tournament at Lake Placid, N. Y.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

STREET SCENE—Crime, love and dialects in the slums.

JOURNEY’S END—Death comes to a dugout.

IT’S A WISE CHILD—Witticisms, many obstetrical.

Civic REPERTORY THEATRE—Eva Le Gallienne’s serious, successful troupe.

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE—A virgin fails to seduce an Italian.

SUBWAY EXPRESS—Unusual crime in the rush hour.

THE CRIMINAL CODE—Prison expose with Arthur Byron.

JUNE MOON—Lardner-Kaufman jollification with asinine theme songs.

BERKELEY SQUARE—Metaphysical hokum almost redeemed by Leslie Howard.

METEOR—Alfred Lunt exhibits abnormal psychology.

THE FIRST MRS. FRASER—Expert teacup comedy with Grace George, A. E. Matthews.

AT THE BOTTOM—Gorki’s The Lower Depths well revived.

Musical: A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus); BITTER SWEET; FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN; WAKE UP AND DREAM; SONS 0′ GUNS.

Best Pictures

NIGHT RIDE—Edward G. Robinson coldly sinister as a big-time hatchet man.

ACROSS THE WORLD WITH MR. & MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON—Step inside and see the dog-faced boy.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW—Best of modern art and Elizabethan slapstick.

THE LOVE PARADE—Handsome and amorous operetta with Maurice Chevalier.

SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE—Richard Dix afraid in the dark.

HALFWAY TO HEAVEN—A trapeze story that makes the grade.