Saturday, February 9
League for Political Education, Town Hall. 123 West Forty-third street; “Current Books and Plays,” William Lyon Phelps; 11 a. m.
The Social Art Center, Studio 620, 119 West Fifty-seventh street; Jane Manner Players in a dramatic recital and dancing; 8 p. m.
Young American Institute, 118 West Fifty-seventh street; “Wanted a Theatre for the Masses,” Samuel Friedman; 8:30 p. m.
Lectures
League for Political Education, Town Hall, 123 West Forty-third street; “Current Books and Plays,” William Lyon Phelps; 11 a. m.
The Talk of the Town Club. 119 West Fifty-seventh street; “Being A Friend,” Dr. Elias Margolis; 8 p. m.
Young American Institute, 118 West Fifty-seventh street; “Wanted a Theatre for the Masses,” Samuel Friedman; 8:30 p. m.
Entertainment
The Social Art Center, Studio 620, 119 West Fifty-seventh street; Jane Manner Players in a dramatic recital and dancing; 8:30 p. m.
Mid-season prom of Junior League of the Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East Eighty-seventh street; 8:30 p. m.
Sunday, February 10
Lectures
Free Synagogue, Carnegie Hall, Fifty-seventh street and Seventh avenue: “Hitlerism as a World Menace,” Prince Hubertus Lowenstein; 10:45 a. m.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third street; “Changing Russia,” Maurice Hindus; 10:30 a. m.
Modern Youth League, Hotel Cameron, 41 West Eighty-sixth street; “Whither Are We Drifting,” Louis Waldman; 8:30 p. m.
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Central Park west and Seventieth street; “Prayer Book Sixteen Centuries Ago,” Rabbi David de Sola Pool; 11 a. m.
Nathan Straus Lodge No. 107. I. O. B. A., Broadway Central Hotel, 673 Broadway; “The Covenant Between Age and Youth,” Rabbi Dr. Sigmund J. Rome; 8:15 p. m.
Entertainment
Young Israel of the Bronx, 1042 Stebbins avenue; Palestine night and entertainment, refreshments and movies; 7:45 p. m.
Temple Torath Chaim. Tenth avenue and Forty-fourth street, Brooklyn; Mizrachi Youth of Linden Heights, refreshments and dancing; 8 p. m.
Receptions
Paramount Mansion, St. Nicholas avenue and 183rd street; reception in honor of Miss Shulamith Soloveitchik by the Beruriah College League of the School of Jewish Women; speakers, Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin, Rabbi Henry A. Schorr and H. Quittman; 8:30 p. m.
Hotel McAlpin, Thirty-fourth street and Sixth avenue: Deborah Jewish Tubercular Society in honor of work of Mrs. Dora Shapiro; 1:30 p. m.
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