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FRADIO
STRATEGY IN PLAY
(By HORATIUS)
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
CINEMA
NOTES
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong|MAIL REVIEW -
An infinite, majority of bridge contract as low as possible and in Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. players conform to routine play doing so, sacrifice safe suit bids to on a wavelength of 355 metres (845
K.C.'s):- their folly. which brings in its normal harvest]
No Trumps should always be an
BRITISH EMPIRE FAIR.
Meeting Of Exhibitors To Be Convened.
WRITTEN OPINIONS INVITED
of points. Only occasionally does alternative to a Sult bid and should Victor Records.
12.30 pm-European Programme of the enthusiastic kibitzer see an be played only when the strength 1 pm Local Time and Weather press," nsw showing at the King's in Hong Kong is over, the question example of strategic play which of an individual suit is insufficient Report etc. gathers in points which are not or cannot be "flagged," to partner caught in the wider mesh of the for support. average player's net
drama.
"ROME EXPRESS”—KING'S The following circular letter to
TREATRE
exhibitors in the Hong Kong Bri- tish Empire Fair from the Empire Excellent technique and brilliant Fair Committee, has been circulated. ļacting are'featured in "Rome Ex- Now that the second Empire Fair
which according to advance criti-of future policy calls for careful 1.30 p.m.-A Relay from the Rotary cat opinion, is England's greatest consideration and it is proposed?: Club of the speech by Rotarian M. K. Alm, casting a deep shadow over soon to convene a meeting of Ex To stay in No Trumps just be Lo un "An Aspect of Chinese Com-every previous British mystery hibitors, and of all others interest- cause there is a declared guard inmunity Service! Chinese Hospitala."
2 p.m. (Approx)-Close Down, the enemy suit is to make a big
4.30-7 p.m.-Chinese Recorded Pro mistake unless pattern and quick
gramme. tricks render the contract safe.
7.10.30 pm-European Programme, Here is a hand which was set RELAY OF THE SOUTH WALES To plan an attack against a con- two tricks at No Trumps though it
BORDERERS' BAND. tract which will produce a bonus would have produced game call in for astuteness is to get
a real Clubs, thrill from the game. Anybody can win tricks with high cards but only 2 minority can ret {"maximuma" as a habit.
I will even go so far as to say that a large percentage of hands fail to produce their maximum yield and that it passes unnoticed by the players.
Here, for example, is a very in- teresting band which was played to net a 1,000 points by Sam and Sue.
The deal was:
JILL
S.A. K. 7. 4. 3. 2. H.-5. 4.
D.-9.
C.-A. J. 4. 3.
SAM.
S.-None.
H-A. K. 10. 8.
D.-K. Q. 8. 4. §.
C.-10. 6. 6. 2.
SUE.
S.-Q. 10. 9. 8. 6. H.-7.
D.-A. 10. 2. C.-K. Q. 9. 7.
DUMMY.
S-J. 5.
H.-Q. J. 9. 8. 6. 2. D.-J. 7. 6. 5. C.-8.
-HILL
DUMMY.
S.-A. 10. 3. H-A, 10, 9 D.-A. 8. 6. 3. C.-8. 4. 2.
C.-K. J. 9. 7. 5. 3. S.-K. J. 9. 8. H.-4.
7.35-8.30 p.m.---Variety. ¡Orchestral
Strange Interlude,
· D.-Q. 2.
Song-
SUE. 8-4.f$4.
H.-Q. 7. 6. 3.
D.-K. J. 7.
C.—A, Q. 10.
JACK.
5.-7.5, 2.
·H.-K. J. 8. 5. 2.
D-10, 9. 5. 4. C.-6.
Sue dealt and called a father saucy One No Trumps, non vulner able but with a part score of 85. and Sam said Two Jack passed Clubs which went round to Sue, who said Two No. Trumpa and there it was left.
ed, for a full discussion. This first great super from the Much time will be saved at that new Gaumont-British Studios was meeting if, instead of 100 Exhibi- the most sensational and unprece- tors being asked to speak, there can dented box-office hit in Europe and be presented a statement giving the Kas been accorded a tremendous general effect of Exhibitors 7.7.35 pm-Orchestral
reception wherever shown.
opinions. To make this possible, The Daphinis et Chole Suite (Eavel),
cast includes Esther Ral-will you kindly write in as soon as Boston Symphony Orchestra ston; Conrad Veldt, that great convenient? Full and free expres
7148/4.
German character actor; Gordon'sion of your views will be welcome." |Ma Mere L'Oyle (Bavel),
the. English I would add that criticisms arising Boston Symphony Orchestra Harker, famous on
7870/1. stage and screen; Cedric Hard-out of the last two Fairs will also 8 p.m.-(Local Time and Weatherwick, never to be forgotten for his be gratefully received: the organ... Report etc.)
wonderful portrayal of "Dreyfus;" isers were amateurs at the work Donald Calthrop and Frank Vosper, they undertook and will be able to just to mention a few.
turn to account in the future, or The entire action of "Rome Ex pass on to successors, any sug“. press" takes place on the famous gestion for improvement. crack flyer between Paris and Without desiring to restrict in Isn't It Romantic?
Rome, and has the theft of a pre- any way the expression of your Jeannette MacDonald 24067. [cious Van Dyck painting as Band-The National Game,
its views, the Organising Committee of |the Fair suggest the following an að
outline of questions the combined ̈ answers to which would be useful at the proposed meeting;-- -
(1) Whether the Fair has proved, diate future to prove, bene- or seems likely in the imme- ficial to your dem from a business point of view.
Ruby Newman & His Orchestra
24072.
Sousa's Band 10741, theme. Song-The Cantor, ....Al Jolson 6501, Orchestral-
If You Don't Want To Be
Sweethearts,
Song-
Pickaninnies' Heaven,
{Instrumental-
6949.
Kate Smith 6497.
The film is well worth seeing.
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"THE WISER SEX”—QUEEN'S
THEATRE
Any Time, Any-Day, Anywhere, The excellence of the acting in The Mills Brothers 8490.The Wiser Sex" now showing at
Song--
24072,
the Queen's Theatre, says what Walt You See "Ma Cherie,”
Maurice Chevalier 21918. might have been a distinctly taw-- Orchestral-
dry story. The film opens A Another Night Alone,
though it were about to develop in- Ruby Newman & His Orchesis to a gangster play pure and simple; but, after a few minutes, the dialo- Song-Love Me To-night, Bard-The Black Horse Troop, 19741 and develops quite a Lonsdale-like Jeannette MacDonald 24057. gue takes a turn toward lightness, Violin-Hebrew Chant
[deflness of repartee. The princi pal actors are Melvyn Douglas, William Boyd, Claudette Colbert, Lilyan Tashman. Miss Colbert,
morals, xtremely florld in dress: and Sue should have put the call Instrumental back Into four Clubs: which is a Fiddlin' Joe, ...The Mills Brothers and manner; and she does it splen- didly, gaining her effects by clever, lay-down against any defence; Song-Louise, .....Maurice Chevalier restrained means instead of by ob-1
21916.
Victor Young 6501 Orchestral- Why Can't This Night Go On
Forever?
Jack led his fourth highest Heart and making five in that suit and Jill's two Aces, the contract Sam having called a Diamond, I was set two tricks. With a single. Jill bid a rather venturesome Two ton Heart, Sam should have raised Spades as a semi-forcer. This was the Two No Trumps bid to Three doubled by Sue for penalties and Spaces so as to reach game points Sorg-Moen SoCasa Loma Orch. 6494. masquerades, as a lady of loose left in.
have another..
8490.
(2) Whether, apart from any specific benefit, you think the Fair. should be repeated. (3) If repeated,
(«). At what intervalą" (b) At what time of the
year?
(c) Aba British Empire
Fair or as a general Fair open to the goods of all nations?
(4) If you are of opinion that a Fair should be held in Hong Kong at regular intervals, your views as to methods of organising and financing it will be of interest, on the aseumption that the Fair could not be run permanently as a voluntary effort.
Unusual Lead. Sue led the Ace of Diamonds but) on the bidding placed Sam with five, in which event fill could not This particular Sue played a lead which would not have occur Ired to one player in a hundred came out with the
Problem No. 165. She boldly Queen of Spades. Notice the nice Here is a hand which occurred
Hana Barth 20376. sequence of trumps lying behind in the famous test match between Sorg-Comin' Thru The Rye, this and the fact that she is cer-the Culbertsons and the Lenz-
Marion Talley (Soprano) 1140.
Aloha Ce (Kreizler),
The fact that two No Trumps was a "cheap" contract with the 8.30-10 p.m.-A relay of the Band vious over-emphasis. Lilyan Task- score at thirty-five, may have in- of the 1st. Btin. South Wales Border-man who depicts the sleek, cat- ers conducted by Bandmaster J. Llike personality of a woman of fluenced Sam to prefer it to four Geeks, from Mount Aussita Barracks pleasure also does well in her part. MAIL REVIEW -.. in a minor suit in case the Spades by Courtesy of the Officer Com- were not. held by partner, but it is mandlag.
while the men are good. better to be safe than sorry.
18.10.30 pm-Concert Items. Piano Solo-
Scarf Dance (Chaminade),
Song
tain to make two of them and in Jacoby combination and which was Violin Solo making it difficult for. Jill to played so well that I set it as a establish the Hearts or to get in double dummy problem. The con- two Club ruffs.
tract of six Diamonds was actual-, Jill did her best. She led
Aly obtained by Mr. von Zedwitz small Heart and Dummy's Queen who was substituting for Mrs.
Sue (Mr. von Zedwitz) dealt, which was ruffed. Again Jill led vulnerable, as follows:
A great variety of San Helmets, Undersigned have received was overtaken by Sam who led Culbertson. How did he do it?
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a heart and Sue threw & Diamond, | making it impossible for Sue to ruff with a small trump,
It was now obvious that Sam
was sitting over the Hearts three-
times. Sam now took a hand in the destructive work and led the jten of Clubs, a fine lead, - which enabled his side to set the coa-
On View from Tuesday the 27th. tract three tricks for a penalty June 1933.
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against a -vulnerable. partnership of 1,000 points. With a less expert |but normal defence, Jack and Jill could have made seven tricks for lệ loss of 200 points—800 polits
gained for clever play.
It may be argued that Jack could have put in a rescue bid over the two Spades with a call of Three Hearts, but, as I have said on many occasions, a Take Out from weak- ness is dangerous at Contract. heavily set. (Such a bid would have been
JILL
S.-Y. 10. 9. 6. 2. .. H-Q
D.-4. S. C-Q. 10. 5. 4. 2.
DUMMY. S.—A. 7. H-A. J. 3. 2. D-Q. 10. 2. CA. J. 7. 8.
SUE.
S.-Q. 4.3. H-E 6.5, 4 D-AK. 7. 6, 5. C-K
JACK S-K 85
H-10, 9, 8, 7.
D.—J. 9. 8. C9.8 6. -
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"TELL ME TO-NIGHT”— CENTRAL THEATRE.
"HOT PEPPER"-MAJESTIC THEATRE.
Our old friends Quirt and Flagg, tough Rabelaisian rivals of. "What Price Glory?" have-handed; in their Marine: kit and broken into the "Tell Me Tonight," which is Great White Way, one as a boss Fritz Kreizler 1118.
[being shown at the Central bootlegger, and the other as a-gen- A Wanderer's Song (SekamizN).
Theatre to-night by special re-tleman of leisure, living on his wits Frederick Schorr (Baritone) 7473. quest, is a Gaumont-Ufa produc-with no other armament than a Violin Solo-
tion and is undoubtedly one of the fake-police badge in this fast ac Lotus Land (Scott),
Fritz Kreisler 8708. best musical comedies since "Sux-tion comedy at the Majestic.
ahine Susie." Piano Solo
Piquant little Miss Lupe Veles" The Flatterer (Chaminade)
The scenery is magnificent and breezes atormily into the picture Hans Barth 20846. the story full of parkle and fun. as a South American stowaway on Song-
A famous tener sets out to Zern in one of Flagg's run-running, feet, Home Sweet Home
Marion Talley (Soprano) 1146. search of rest from publicity. He to turn cabaret dancer and provide meets Koretsky,, an enterprising the inevitable subject of the old crook, and the two become friends. comrades amatory tangles.
Sus bld a Diamond and, with the¦ ̈ veryļenemy refraining all the time, Sam made a Forcing Take Opt of Two |Hearts which | Sue took to Four Time and again, players stay in Hearts and Sam to Six Diamonds. No Trumps in order to keep the Jack led the 10 of Hearts.
No Trumps Folly.
· POP
Beyond Control
1CANT BEAR TO HAVE MÝ
CHILDREN
KISSED BY STRANGERS
Violin Solo-
From The Land of the Sky Blue
Water (Cadman-Kreisler)
Song-
!
Fritz Kreisler 1115. On arrival at their destipation the Mr. Victor McLaglen is es, por- crook is mistaken for the singer tentously massive, and Mr. Ed- end the aubstitution leads to many mund Love as suavely vocla Frederick Schorr (Baritone) 7472. complications.
lever.
By The Sea (Schubert)
Violin Solo-
·Dance No. 17 Hungarian
(Brahms-Kreisler)
Frlis Kreisler 6706. 16.30 p.m.-Bagby. Press News 10.33 p.m.-Close Down (All records in the above European Programmes are kindly supplied Mesars. Trang Fook Plano Ca).
Jan Klepura, who plays the part de
of the singer, has a very powerful MAIL REVIEW
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by far hit in the film is "Things I Do,] The amazing adventures and
I Do For You.” '.
QUALITY PRINTING played by Magda Schneider, Oriental Theatre. The production
With Quick Service
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romance of Rebecca are vivided in Sonnie Hale, brother of the the Fox production "Rebecca of famous Binne Hale of the English Sunnybrook Farm featuring stage, plays. the part of Koretaky, Marlon Nixon and Ralph Bellamy, the crook, while the heroine is the current attraction at the
charming Gerinan actress, who is was filmed on a specially recon making her debut in British films: structed Sunnybrook Farm, near
Miss Schnelder has acted the Santa Cruz. same part in three versions with Klepura-German, French English.
HAVEN'T
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GOOD NURSE
TO LOOK AFTER
THEM 2
Alan Hale, Barah Fadden and and Ronald Harris do good work in the
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NO MY CHILDREN
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