The Hays Office, created by the U.S. film industry's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to administer an industrywide production code that will curtail on-screen displays of sexuality.

7 Nov.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra is first performed in Baltimore in a concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra.

20 Nov.

The Children's Hour, by Lillian Hellman, premieres at Maxine Elliott's Theater in New York City, disturbing audiences with its references to a lesbian relationship.

21 Nov.

Anything Goes, by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and starring William Gaxton, Ethel Merman, and Victor Moore, opens at New York's Alvin Theater and runs for 420 performances. Songs include "The Gypsy in Me" and "I Get a Kick Out ofYou."

24 Nov.

S. N. Behrman protests Nazi treatment of...