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12.30 p.m.-European programme of }Columbia & Regal records.
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2 p.m.-Close Down.
5-8. p.m-Chinése programme.
THE LOVE STORY OF JOAN CRAWFORD
Her Separation Is Not Like Others.
“WE ARE STILL IN LOVE.” Suit Against Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
By Cedric Belfrage.
Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks jun, recently announced their separation.
"I had hoped to avoid a public announcement,” Miss Crawford
said. But the suit that has been 5-7.30 p.m.-Recorded programme. brought against young Fairbanks A relay from the Hop Yat Church by Jorgen Dietz, the Los Angeles of the Speech by Doctor- K. Y. Lai, M.B., B.SC., (H.K.U.) on "The Science chemist, alleging alienation of Mrs. Dietz' affections, "forced her to
of Children's Health."
8-10.30 p.m.-European programme. act.”
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- There is some dispute about the port.
8.3-9 p.m.A relay of the Melodian's amount of money at which Dietz, Trio from Lane Crawford's Restaur who says he is a Danish baron, ant by courtesy of the Management. estimates the value of his scenario-
9-9.50 p.m.-Variety.
(writing wife's "affection, comfort Orchestral
(and assistance." Reuters report British United Press
A Country Girl-Selection
London Theatre Orchestra DX45. £1,500, Vocal Gema
Helen
Columbia Light Opera Co. DX331. {
A Coople O'Dooks
Cavalcade-Selection
£15,000.
Ultimatum. Fairbanks immediately, publish- fed an utimatum to Dietz declaring The would fight the allegations to DB131.the last ditch.
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'Nowt About 'Owt
12 a.m.
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Isn't it Romantic?
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Let's Put Out the Lights
Sidney Torch DB995. Just Because I Lost my Heart to You Today I Feel so Happy
Song-
Renate Muller (Soprano) DB687. 9.50-10.27 p.m.-A Concert. Orchestral-
Offenbachiana
Herman Finck & His Orch. DX327.
Vocal Duct-
Marigold (Dowdon & Bosley)
The Sweelest Flower That Blows
(Hawley)
Dora Labbette & Hubert Eisdell: Piano Solo-
Valae impromptu (Lizzt) Rondeau Favori in E Flat Major
Dietz is also claiming £800 dam-
BRIDGE NOTES
UNBLOCKING A SUIT
A position which arises sometimes Contract Bridge. Score love, Zi at the card table is when Declarer deals and bids. Three No Trumpa. and Dummy hold all the winners of All pass.
46,818 RECRUITS REJECTED.
British Army Demands High Standard.
FOUR MEN TOO TALL.
London. Mr. Duff Cooper, Financial Secretary to the War Office, has
ļa suif, but the cards are so situated In spite of Za powerful hand the made the announcement that of that the sult if played naturalty bid is open to question. An initist the 82,680 men who tried to join the Army in the last official year, must be blocked with fatal results. - call of Three No Trumps, while like- 46,818 were rejected..
The following example from play ly to shut out adverse bidding, often Of the 46,818 rejected ones, It is an instance !----
prevents partner showing a suit. It is reported at the recruiting offices, 20,694 were dismissed be- Z had called Two No Trumps. Y cause they had such obvious de would have been right to show his fects as glass eyes, wooden legs, long Cluba. But after an initial and stiff joints. Of the rest Three No Trumps bid Y must leave who took the medical examina-
tion 20,725 failed to pass it. ift.
Some of the defects listed
Y
S.-10, 5.
H.-J.
D-9, 7, 4.
C.-K, 8, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2.
A.
S.-Q, 8, 3, 2 H-K, J, 9, 8, 7. DQ --,་,
2.
S.-A, K. J. H-A, 5, 4, 2.
D.-A, K, 5. C.-A, 10, 9.
B.
S.-9, 7, 6, 4. HI-Q, 10, 6.
DJ, 10, 6, 3, 2.
was seen
A opened with the 8 of Hearts, the conventional lead of the fourth were:- best of his longest suit. When Dummy's cards went down Z, at first) sight, was quite satisfied. With ten Clubs in the two handa seven tricks [could be made in the suit unless
three Clubs were in one opponent's | hand. Even if they were by “duck-
3,545 with ear trouble, 8,562 bad characters, 2,885 broken bones, 1,048 bad eyesight, 2,172 bad teeth, 2,274 too short.
Four men were turned down
ing" once six tricks were certain, by the Army because they were The Army standard of and the contract was assured. But too tall.
a moment's reflection caused Z to height is 5 feet 8 inches. revise his opinion. It was not so
Recruiting officers report that
easy as it appeared. If the Queen when employment is good, so is vice versa,-- and Knave of Clubs both fell Z could recruiting and
not avoid himself blocking the suit, Reuter.
because he held the Ace, 10, 9, and
so Dummy's winning cards would be
wasted as he had no possible card of KING SETTLES AN
entry.
ART PROBLEM.
yeara.
London.
Deboy Somers Band DX305, ages, says Reuter, on a charge that' Fairbanks and Miks. Levee, recent-
Z's first idea was to concede, a to Fair- Big Romance DB653.ly production manager
before. She was trick in Clubs on the first round. banks' stepmother, Mary Pickford, Hollywood's party girl, everybody's This would be all right if he could Denies Alleged Identity conspired to cause his false im-pal at the studio and outside it.
exhaust E's Hearts and if B held
Of Portrait. prisonment.
From the day she met her future Queen, Knave of Clubs. But, if As a professional cynic of long husband she changed. She became Hearts were cleared, he could not atanding about film-star romances, quiet and sedate, she stopped rou afford to allow A to win a Club, as
The King has settled an art the news of the separation come as ing, her lips, and her troop off he did so Z would lose his cou- problem which has been a no surprise to me.
former boy friends gave her up as tract if A held originally five Hearts, source of perplexity for many In any
case, allegations of impossible.
"If only," thought 2, "I could get She was not interested in any rid of that 10 of Clubs all would be trouble in this particular camp had long been an open secret. Rumours "dates" except with young Fairwell." He had to think it out and for portraits, said to be the Em- A picture described as "Study of a rift in the Junior Fairbanks' | banks, with whom she
think it out quickly, and he decided lute have been long current in flm everywhere.
that there was a chance, a very good Press Marie of Russia and Queen ig The first time I visited Joan's
Alexandra as young girls” gossiping circles.
The Juniors made a
rumour-house in Beverly Hills I and the chance, of discarding that obstruc
among those at the exhibition of scotching European tour a few other guest, a girl friend of Joan's, tive Club if he could induce A to Portraits of Beautiful Women months ago in which they seemed might have been dining tete-a-tete. I help him. But first he decided to of the Nineteenth Century,
The owner of this picture, La as devoted as they were on their hands and gazed silently in each the Ace of Hearts until the third been anxious to discover whe to all outward appearances to be Joan and Doug, just sat and held test the Club position.
This was his play. He held up Marquise de Ganay, has long wedding-day, March 3, 1929.
But there was ample evidence on
ther the portraits were as de- The soup got cold, the fish got round to exhaust B, and then he led
scribed, and when the King visit Golden Slumbers Kfar Your Eyes the other side, and a year ago in cold, the fried chicken gat cold, the Ace of Clubs, on which A played
ed the exhibition, his attention Boys of the St. Mary of the Angels Hollywood an ex-butler of the Joan and Doug, were oblivious of the Queen a false card. Z now.
Choir School DB087. Junior Fairbanks' household camejit.
might easily have gone wrong. If
was drawn to them. |Delet
"All Hollywood held its breath he had continued with the 10 of He looked at the picture care Moonbeams and Shadows (Squire) to me offering for sale some in-
Clubs, thinking B held the Knave, fully, and then said quietly timate revelations of the true state when Doug. first took Jean Melody (Dawes)
spend Sunday afternoon at Pick which he would have allowed him to That is not my mother." of affairs.
Miss Crawford calls the separa-fair, the home of his father and make, he would have received a rude
Reuter. the best shock. He could not permit A's tion "the only brave thing to do," Mary Pickford. Only by and Fairbanks has made public people, preferably with titles, are Knave of Clubs to win, as he knew his intention to send her flowers supposed to be received at Fick that A had too many Hearts to make, which, with the two already and telephone her daily.
"This is not like other separa- But Joan made a hit with her won and the Club, would give their tions," he says. "We are still in in-laws by her newly acquired reside five tricks.
(Hummel) Ania Dorfmann DX204.
Chorus
Ye Banks and Bracs (Old Scottish Air)
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet 5639, 10.27 p.m-Rugby Press News. 10.30 p.m-Close Down, (All records in the above European Programmes are kindly supplied Messrs Anderson Music Co.)
TREAT COUGHS AND COLDS WHERE THEY ARISE.
other's eyes.
fair.
ге-
He threw the lead to A with his last
So he played wisely and correctly,
Nor could he afford to take over love."
serve and poise, and from that day Certainly that is nothing like she was a frequent visitor at Pick-A's Knave with the King of Clubs a ahort time her old us that would mean surrendering For speedy relief from coughs, colds, separations anywhere else in the fair. In
friends hardly - the suit altogether and he could not sore throat, bronchitis, asthma and world, but in Hollywood it is an al-Hollywood similar affections of the respiratory most painfully familiar manifesta-cognised the "whoopee girl" they then, unlasa a Spade finesse proved organs you need the direct treatment tian.
had known 18 Joan Crawford. successful, make nine tricks. P of the affected parts which Hospirolde Statistics show that, out of the Love had changed her into a new can give. Respiroids are vastly
the remedies which are last 60 Hollywood divorces and woman. superior to
swallowed and which have no separations, only in two cases have Among other things, she took to direct contact with the organs that the parties expressed any but the writing free-verse poetry. She need treatment.
On winning with his Knave he led Respiroida, held in the month whilst most tender- sentiments towards wrote one for me on the back of su they slowly dissolve, release pleasant each other.
envelope, and I published it with out the King of Hearts, and on it ly aromatic but highly germicidal and
The bewildered public have, in a magazine article. It was called Z discarded his 10 of Clubs, thus corative vapours. These vapours cir-fact, come to the conclusion that "The Crack," and I remember, the making all the rest of the tricks- culate with the breath into the nasal the more Hollywood husbands love passage, the throat, the windpipe and
merely
into every tube and call in the lungs. Hollywood wives, and vice versa, The whole respiratory system le thus the more impossible they find it to brought into direct contact with the live together. curative elements of Respiraids. The
first lines of it:
Funny thing this world, How its lip does curl
At the things you do—
Heart
A fell into the trap.
game and rubber, Massac
At double dummy, of course, A could have defeated this manœuvre by not playing out the King of After itself has taught them to Hearts. But it is doubtful whether
- you 15
Many player in A's position could have Is Joan really still in love with foreseen Za dilemma. First he did Doug, er does she know in her and could not know that Ze Club
But the real fact of the matter inflamed "membranes are soothed and freed of their clogging mucous, the is that in Hollywood, where phlegm in the breathing tubes is much acting is done outside the broken up, the irritation is eased, the studios as Inside them, romance breathing made free, disease germs burns up like & fierce flame and heart that it is all over but dares suit was blocked and that he was
and rapid relief is experl dies quickly.
not say no to a world teeming with longing for a chance of a discard.
The use of Respiroids by people The Fairbanks-Crawford ro-romantically minded “fans” whose Even if he had suspected it, he had
New Bank Head
who are subject to troubles of throat mance was the fierce flame of its ninepences go to pay her £800 odd- no knowledge that the game could or lungs in cold weather or at any day. For two years before their a-week salary? [...
be saved by not making his winner. time is an effective safegused. Ob tainable from all chemists, price $1.00 marriage they were what Holly None of us can know. But Joan While A cannot be blamed for hisers Trust & Company who nu per bottle. Or by post
$1.20
from
calls "practically engaged" deny was certainly right
play, Z should be applauded for his The Dr. Williams Medicina Co., 451, ing with their lipe as convincingly It's funny thing, this world. And handling of a difficult situation and Kiangse Road, Shanghai (Product of they confirmed with their nothing funnier in it than the love-seeing in time at the card table the The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Lon- don, Toronto, Paris, New York, Sin actions.
James 1 Perkins of New York president of the City Bank Farm/ elected chairman of the Nationa City Bank following the resignation of Charles E, Mitchell, The change wdd the remit of disclosures, made before the Benate Committee or the conduct of the bank's business,
∙many
charming lights to lend enchant
ment to your pleasure."
acrobatice of Hollywood's film possibility of ridding himself of ra
embarrassing and fatal card, gapore, Shanghal, etc.). Joan Crawford had never had a stare
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