Drama recital. Miss Jane Manner. “The Silver Treasury,” home of Mrs. Henry Willis Phelps. Waldorf Astoria; 2:30 p. m.
Temple Beth Emeth. Brooklyn, spring dance, Church avenue, corner Mariborough road; evening.
Passover celebration. Rabbi Elias Margolis, speaker. Leon Kairoff, Louis Siegler, singers, Elsmere Hall, 284 East 170th street; 8:30 p. m.
The Talk of the Town Club, musical revue, “Sophisticated Lady,” Studio 61, Carnegie Hall. Fifty-seventh street at Seventh avenue; 8 p. m.
Long Island Federation of Jewish Leagues, charity ball, Temple Gates of Prayer, 143-51 Roosevelt avenue, Flushing; evening.
Congregation Mount Sinai Ansche Emeth, Spring dance, 178th street and Wadsworth avenue: 8:30 p. m.
Foreign Policy Association, luncheon, Hotel Astor; 12:45 p. m.
National Democratic Club, annual Jefferson dinner. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings; Hotel Commodore, evening.
Young Folks League of the Congregation Shaaray Zedek of Brooklyn, play, “The Embarrassing Baby,” Kingston avenue and Park Place; 8:30 p. m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8
Temple Emanu-El, congregational dinner to Dr. and-Mrs. Samuel H. Goldenson. Wise Memorial Hall, 1 East Sixty-fifth street; 7:30 p. m.
Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, testimonial dinner to Harry G. Anderson, speakers, Supreme Court Justice James C. Cropsey, M. Maldwin Fertig; Towers Hotel, 25 Clark street. Brooklyn; 7:30 p. m.
Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, dedication of perpetual light honoring Mr. and Mrs. John L. Bernstein, 550 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn; 2:30 p. m.
Zionist Organization of America. Commission on Education and Youth Organization, conference, Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Lexington avenue at Ninety-second street; 11 a. m.
Congregation Rodeph Sholem, Dr. Louis I. Newman, “The House of Rothschild. Is It True? Is It Dangerous?” 7 West Eighty-third street; 10:45 a. m.
Free Synagogue. James Waterman Wise, “The House of Rothschild: Jewish Asset or Liability.” Carnegie Hall, Fifty-seventh street and Seventh avenue; broadcast, Station WNEW; 11:30 a. m.
Society for the Advancement of Literature and Art, discussion. Rabbi Milton Steinberg, “The Making of the Modern Jew.” 88 South Seventh avenue, Sheridan square. 9 p. m.
Jewish Theatrical Guild of America, testimonial dinner to George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris. Hotel Astor, Broadway and Forty-fifth street; 8 p. m.
Council of Jewish Organizations, Committee of 200 meeting; speaker. Judge Jonah J. Goldstein. Hotel Pennsylvania, Seventh avenue and Thirty-second street; evening.
Congregation B’nai Israel, forum and debate; Harry Elmer Barnes, V. F. Calverton. “Can Roosevelt Save Capitalism and America.” 60 West End avenue, Manhattan Beach; 8:30 p. m.
The Jewish Fellowship, lecture, Dr. I. L. Bril, “Reform Judaism.” Hotel McAlpin, Broadway and Thirty-fourth street; 3:30 p. m.
World Fellowship of Faiths, All Faiths Vesper Services, George E. O’Dell, “Touchstones of the Moral Life.” Dr. Leon Rosser Land, “Religion at its Best.” 550 West 110th street; 5 p. m.
Jewish Youth Guild, lecture; Dr. Mitchell Salem Fisher. “One Hundred Million Guinea Pigs,” 41 West Eighty-sixth street; 8:15 p. m.
New Workers School. debate. “Which Way Out of the Crisis.” Jay Lovestone. Lawrence Dennis; 51 West Fourteenth street; 2:30 p. m.
Tenzer Family Circle. Passover celebration. Dr. Harry Halpern, “Pesach and the Jewish Family.” 1625 Ocean avenue, Brooklyn; evening.
Institutional Synagogue, operetta, “H. M. S. Pinafore.” 37-43 West 116th street, 8:40 p. m.
Junior League of the Free Synagogue, lecture. Mrs. Caroline Greenfield, “Palestine–Past and Present.” 40 West Sixty-eighth street, 8:30 p. m.
Hashomar Hatzair Organization, concert, Young Men’s Hebrew Association. Lexington avenue and Ninety-second street, 8:15 p. m.
Tremont Temple Congregation, concert, Isidor Gorn. Max Weinstein, 2064 Grand Concourse, evening.
Educational Committee of the Jewish Center of Corona, mass meeting; speaker, Dr. Joshua Goldberg, 40-34 102nd street, Corona; 3 p. m.
Scaroon Manor Country Club, annual reunion and dance. Hotel Roosevelt, Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street; afternoon.
Young People’s Synagogue of West Bronx. meeting, Bronx House, 173rd street and Washington avenue; 2 p. m.
Mothers’ Association of the West End Synaggoue and Tremont Temple Sisterhood, joint meeting, Mrs. Joseph Glanzer, “Parents, Children and the New Leisure,” 160 West Eighty-second street; 2:30 p. m.
Radio broadcast, play, “We Humans,” Station WNYC; 3 p. m.
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