Calendar of Important European Events for October and November

OCT.-NOV. 28 Gala one-hundredth season of Shakespeare plays at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England

OCTOBER Automobile Show. One of the oldest, largest, and most important in the world; Paris, France

OCT. 1-5 Umbrian Festival of Sacred Music, Perugia, Italy

OCT. 1-6 Berlin Festival Weeks of 1959. Symphony, opera, and ballet programs, Berlin, Germany

OCT. 1-11 International Antique Show, Florence, Italy

OCT. 2-12 International Book Fair, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

OCT. 4 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, at Longchamp racecourse, Paris, France

OCT. 5-11 Coventry Festival of Music, Coventry, Warwickshire, England

OCT. 6-12 Christopher Columbus Memorial Celebrations, Genoa, Italy

OCT. 9-11 World Championship Indoor Bicycle Races, Stuttgart, Germany

OCT. 9-19 Swiss Art and Antiques Fair, Berne, Switzerland

OCT. 12-13 Great Annual Pilgrimage, Fatima, Portugal

OCT. 12-16 National Gaelic Mod (Festival) of Music, Drama, Poetry, Dundee Angus, England

OCT. 16-26 Centennial Stamp Show, Palermo, Italy

OCT. 21-22 International Dog Show, Helsinki, Finland

OCT. 21-31 International Motor Show, Earls Court, London, England

OCT. 24-NOV. 1 Wexford Festival of Music and Opera, Wexford, Ireland

OCT. 31-NOV. 11 Forty-first International Automobile Show. One of the largest in the world; Turin, Italy

NOVEMBER Special showing by Swedish Art Society, Stockholm, Sweden

NOV. 14 (prov.) Lord Mayor’s Day, London, England

NOV. 14-22 International Concours Hippique. Horse show with entries from all over the world; Geneva, Switzerland

NOV. 26 Thanksgiving Day services at St. Peter’s Church, Leiden, Netherlands

NOVEMBER and Hamburger Dom. North German Folk Festivals and Christmas Market Fair, DECEMBER Hamburg, Germany