National Affairs
June 22-27—Rotary International meeting; at Chicago.
June 30-July 2—Annual conference of State Governors; at Salt Lake City.
Foreign News
June 15—Sixteenth national congress of the Communist Party; at Moscow. U. S. S. R.
June 26-28—Millennial celebration of the Icelandic Parliament;* at Thingvellir, Iceland.
June 29—Parliamentary elections in Bolivia.
Education
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
June 16—At Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.; Brown University, Providence, R. I.; at Connecticut College, New London, Conn.; at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; at Smith College, Northampton,Mass.; at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.; at Wesleyan University,Middletown, Conn.
June 17—At Boston University, Boston, Mass.; at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.; at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; at Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.; at University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
June 18—At Hunter College, Manhattan ; at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
June 19—At Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; at Temple University, Philadelphia.
June 23—At University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Religion
June 13-21—Young Men’s Student Conference; at East Northneld, Mass.
June 23-July i—Young Women’s Conference; at East Northneld, Mass.
Medicine
June 16-21—Convention of the American Optometric Association; at Boston.
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.
Aeronautics
June 20—Dedication of Randolph Field, world’s largest flying School; near San Antonio, Texas.
June 28-July 6—Pacific Coast Aeronautical Exposition; at Oakland Municipal Airport, Oakland, Calif.
Sport
BOATING
June 13—Trial race of U. S. America’s Cup defenders; at Glen Cove, L. I. Probable starters: Enterprise, Resolute, Vanitie, Weetamoe, Whirlwind, Yankee.
June 20—Harvard v. Yale; on Thames River, New London, Conn.
June 26—Scandinavian Gold Cup regatta; at Gothenburg, Sweden.
GOLF
June 16-21—British open championship; at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England.
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.
HORSES
June 17-19—Ascot races; at Ascot, England.
June 24—Irish Derby; at Curragh, Ireland.
June 29—Grand Prix de Paris races; at Longchamp, France.
TENNIS
June 23—National intercollegiate championships; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.
June 23-July 5—Wimbledon championships; at Wimbledon, England.
GOING
Best Plays in Manhattan
HOTEL UNIVERSE—How a wise old man can clarify the lives of sundry summer visitors (TIME, April 21).
IT’S A WISE CHILD—Among others in the cast, a funny iceman (TIME, Aug. 19).
LOST SHEEP—What happens when a clergyman’s family rent an abandoned bordello (TIME, May 19).
THE FIRST MRS. FRASER—Deft English drawing-room comedy (TIME, Jan. 13).
THE GREEN PASTURES—The tribulations of a colored Jehovah. This year’s Pulitzer Prizewinner (TIME, March 10).
THE LAST MILE—Audiences find out what it feels like to await execution (TiME, Feb. 24).
THE TAVERN—George M. Cohan causing spectators to speculate upon his sanity (TIME, June 2).
TOPAZ—Amusing cozenages in the career of a French schoolmaster (TIME, Feb. 24).
UNCLE VANYA—Cinemactress Lillian Gish trips daintily through a Chekhov revival (TIME, April 28).
Musical—FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME, Jan. 27), SONS o’ GUNS (TIME, Dec. 9).
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, full of propaganda and brilliant photography (TIME, May 19).
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 MAN FROM BLANKLEYS—John Barrymore in a hilarious farce starring John Barleycorn (TIME, April 7).
THE SILENT ENEMY—Vivid portrayal of tribal life among the Ojibwa Indians (TIME, May 26).
TURKSIB—Good newsreel of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway (TIME, June 9).
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