Good morning. Today is the 324th day of the year. On this day in 1921, The Sheik, the silent film that made Rudolph Valentino a star, was released after premieres in New York and Los Angeles. The drama concerned a desert sheik’s obsession with an English woman. “Sheik� soon became a slang word for a man whom women couldn’t resist. Well-known people who were born today include actress Bo Derek, stage and screen actress Estelle Parsons, journalist Judy Woodruff and author Nadine Gordimer.

MANAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST at St. Joseph’s College. This morning, St. Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill will welcome Judith Lovell as the guest speaker for its Fall Management Roundtable Breakfast at Tuohy Hall, 245 Clinton Ave. The topic of this discussion will be “Stress and the Workplace and How To Cope,� and will discuss strategies to ease workplace attention among staff to create a better working environment.

Those people in the human resources field will be able to use this session to accrue more hours toward certification.

Lovell’s career began almost 30 years ago at MTA New York City Transit. She has expanded her areas of expertise by working in the fields of statistics, human resources, labor relations and corporate communications. In addition to working at the MTA, she teaches several business courses at St. Joseph’s.

BROOKLYN GALLERY HOP This Weekend.

This Saturday and Sunday, 70 participating Brooklyn art galleries will offer visitors outstanding exhibitions and refreshments as well as a unique opportunity to learn more about Brooklyn’s expanding art scene.

Among participating galleries are The Boiler, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Chasidic Art Institute, DUMBO Arts Center, Kentler International Drawing Space, MocaDa and more.

There will be bus tours of five gallery districts: Williamsburg/ Greenpoint; Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene; Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Red Hook; Boerum Hill, Gowanus and Park Slope; and Bay Ridge, Crown Heights and Sunset Park.

The event, known as the smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop, is a collaborative effort between the public and private sectors. For more information, visit www.visitbrooklyn.org.

OF MICE AND MEN at Brooklyn College

The classic 1930s John Steinbeck play Of Mice and Men will be presented this Sunday at 3 p.m. at Brooklyn College’s Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts.

The play, which was made into a movie in 1939, revolves around two migrant workers who seek to save up money and buy their own farm. George is intelligent and scheming, while Lennie is extremely physically strong but is learning disabled.

The play will take place at the Whitman Theater. For tickets, call (718) 951-4500.

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