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· BRIDGE NÖTEB
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"HAPPY EVER AFTER CENTRAL THEATRE
THE CULBERTSON MATCH
AMERICANS UNBEATABLE
I make
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Spader-A Q 10.87 4 Hearts-A 6 S
Diamonds 5.2 Clubs J 3
It is two years since I wrote my
columns.
WISE AND
OTHERWISE
TO-DAY'S HINT.
How to make a cigarette lighter
nip a piece off the end.
GERMAN
COLONIAL
LEAGUE"
Four Societies Merge
Into Union. .
.
A decision to merge the four Ger- man colonial societies into a single union called the "German Colonial
ABSENT-MINDED. holiday who, when asked if he reached at the annual meeting of the The bridge player returning from League" (Reichakolonialbund) was had anything to declare, said. "Twe societies, held in Frankfurt.
MODERN VERSION. --
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A miss is as good as a mals.
STARTING YOUNG.
in
Telegrams announcing the resolu tion were then sent to President von Hindenburg, Herr Hitler, Baron von Neurath, and Captain Goering.
By CAPT. LINDSAY MUNDY. 1Spades and was four down 'doub-
COLONIES "UNJUSTLY HELD” led. It is true that our opponents London. My match against Mr. Ely Cul
could have made a vulnerable bertson afforda
in Hearts, but they had Wild Imagination. game 5th Fl. King's Theatre Bldg.
one lesson far shown no signs of bidding it.
Frankfurt on Main. There is abundance of merri-weightier than any mere question
There is to be one "We will," he said, "go just colonial association instead of four German Telephonee 21255 8-100; 2-600.ment in "Happy Ever After", the of Bridge, namely, the criminal held:
Again as non-vulnerable dealer ) where I please for our holiday." in future. bright and airy comedy which la folly of being quixotic. Because I
And she replied, “Why, of course. the current attraction at the Cen- was behind on the first day's play
dear." tral Theatre.
I disobeyed doctor's orders and Three well-known laugher played the following day. The makers, Jack Hubert, Cicely Court next day I was totally incapable of and opened correctly with Two neidge and Sonnie Hale, are in the leaving my bed, leading roles, supported by the match was then in a hopeless posi-Three Hearts.
and because the Spades and received the reply of beautiful Lillian Harvey, Edward tion I waived my right to post ably I dried up, although any take-
Most unaccount- No Trumpa." Chapman and Clifford Heatherley, ponement.
Two bright window-cleaners be-
out over a Two-bid is forcing in my Through doing this it was claim system. My partner made twelve friend a stranded circus girl anded that my bets on whether I take her to their home, which con- should be beaten by 5,000 or by 10,-
tricks!
At the first meeting of the new W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
sisis of a couple of disused rail-000 also
went by default, though frat Bridge
Reichskolonialbund the Bavarian Kowloon Bay, way-carriages. Matters go along they were far from being in
article in these A burglar, sentenced at the Old Governor, General von Epp, who is New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" smoothly until the girl admits to hopeless condition.
Most of the interven-Bailey, was described as having been regarded as the Colonial adviser of Sole Agents for Kelvis Motors both men in turn that the loves comment, except to say that I am the Direct System, which was then mouth. Apparently it had some one ment's appreciation of the new step- ing time I have spent in preaoning born with a silver spoon in his the Nazis, expressed the Govern- them equally.
so dissatisfed with the
contre-in its infancy, but has now reached die's initials on it. situation andversy over the,side bets, which
He said that Germany was not in the girl soon realises that she has have decided to pay, though in my this match has not shakes my faith its full maturity. The result of
the position to follow a course of WELL MERITED. upset a happy home but the end opinion they were not due, that I
Jactive Colonial policy at present, be- An Indian may have as many as cause other more urgent problems. of the story goes with the title and am retiring from any further parti-
in the system one iota. I remain the girl marries one of them in the cipation in public contents and displaying the system against
twenty wives. Hence the phrase: within Germany proper and on her firmly convinced that any team
Lot the poor Indian! hope thaat they will live happy banding my team.
frontiers had to be settled. ever after.
"Combining Flair with System”
other British or European team America's Latest.
The German Governmen, he said, Why was it that we were beaten
playing Approach bidding would
“Brother, can you spare a élmér" had not power enough to demand a so badly?
win easily, provided the individual My great friend and players were equally matched in feller?" -
"Who d'ya take me for....Becke-speedy return of the Cobales "un- partner, Ewart Kempson, asks me card-sense and in skill in the play
justly captured" by their former ad to publish this statement from
versaries and unjustly held" by him:
them ander mandatory powers ***The Approach-Forcing System: did not beat the Direct
A surgeon is the one man who given by the League of Nations. "The Devils Driving,"
But unfortunately I am convine could not five without the appen- System. Four first-class Ameri-
But the German nation suffered showing at the Queen's Theatre, is can players won
ed that the Culbertson team are di on their merits practically unbeatable. They are
from lack of room within its own a story of the motor-car thieving because the home team, especially at the top of the tree in both the Thought While Thinking.
restricted frontiers and was simply racket which is employed in the myself on the first day, tried to
compelled to try and regain its combine flair with system."
points just alluded to, in addition One thing about hire purchasecolonies, in order to develop settle. Edmund Lowe, in the leading I do not for one moment deny insight as to how far they can bid. td paying for it the furniture is at lation, and in order to obtain from
an uncanny is that by the time you have finish-ments for an ever increasing popu role, is seen as a mechanic in a that the American team won
the soil those Colonial products which were necessary for her popu lation and her industry.
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It is an unusual
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"THE DEVIL IS DRIVING"- QUEEN'S THEATRE
US.A.
now
On
I
of the cards.
A Great Team.
to which they have
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DEFINITION.
garge which is nothing but a "cen- their merits, and I entirely agree slams. A concrete instance of this
more especially in the case of least genuine antique.
acts 23
tre" where stolen cars
are kept that it was not on the merits of the was when our Grand Slam bid Hint for. Young Wives. The garage also
the Approach System. We did not do "front of a luxurious speakeasy ourselves justice by a long way, were divided three and one,
failed because the opposing trumps in which the directing ainds of but we should have lost even if we Queen lying snugly guarded over the enterprise live in armed secur- had done so. ity.
the Ace-King. The Americans can-
It is not until his brother-in-law
Below Form.
One way to make your husband The nation as a whole, he assert- the eat less is to do all your own cooked, would now have to take the lead in the question. of regaining colonies and this force its will upon the government.
TOOK ARTIFICIAL SILE.
One the first day Kempson play.tented themselves with bidding the A man has been sent to prison
is murdered that Edmund Lowe ed far below his form, which is decides to clean up the gang, very high indeed. Huston and which he succeeds in doing after Wraith played really well that day, a series of thrilling adventures. but on the second day the dell away Wynne Gibson, Lois Wilson and considerably. As to myself, on
small slam.
for posing as a King's Counseller.
**
A FABLE, BY YSAP.
Their restoration would no doubt be reached in the long run, for the German youth of to-day were united
pecked Man died and Went Below colonial possessions in tropical coun- in the great national movement And it Came to Pass that a Hen-which had begun to comprehend that the But he had Bean There Five Yeira tries like Africa were a grim naces-
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Innes Gleason are in the support with the assistance of champagne (age: Fella, er, de quly remains before he knew he was not Up sity to Germany, as there remained
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CHINA YEAR BOOK
(Fifteenth Edition) 1933.
An old copy of the Year Book is almost as out of date as an old almanac, changes take place so quickly In China.
The current. edition contains:.
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* | Upest Pries,
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́"CYNARA”—KING'S THEATRE.
"Cynara," now showing at the King's Theatre is a story of the eternal triangle told in a new way.
My Bridge ambition was to show that the Direct System is superior edly I embarked on the highest test to Approach bidding. Light-heart-
and failed in it, whatever be
and aspirin, and plead guilty to for me to tender my heartfelt
my mission is over, it only Above. six atrocious bids which I should thanks to all my readers who have Count, Brother. never have made under ordinary
so patiently interested themselves conditions. Here are two of them:
As non-vulnerable dealer, I held: all better luck than I myself have In my theories, and to wish them
Spades QJ 9 3 Hearts-K. 10 8 Diamonds Q 2 Cluba-QJ0 8
the
Ronald Colman heads the bril liant cast, which Includes Kay and bid one No-Trump on Francis, Phyllie Barry and Henry ultraminimum. On being raised Stephenson.
to Two, I should, of course, have The story, which is based on the passed, but foolishly bid Three novel, "An Imperfect Lover," by Mr..Gore-Brown. is a humanly re- mantic drama of a happily married man, who, in his wife's absence,
finishing school.
Unsubdued with a veneer of ci-
becomes involved in a love affair vilisation, she "makes" the front with a shopgirl. The intrigue re-pages of the papers on several oc- sults in the wreck of his home and) casions.
happiness.
Ronald Colman surpasses kim-MAIL REVIEW
self as the husband and Kay Fran cis, as his forgiving wife, gives one of the finest performances of her career.
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"CALL HER SAVAGE"”— ORIENTAL THEATRE
"CRUISER EMDEN"-STAR
THEATRE.
"Cruiser Emden," now showing at the Star Theatre, is a film de- pleting the daring exploits of the most famous of all the German sen-raiders during the Great War. Action commences following the In "Call Her Bavage," the curTsingtao in late 1914. Her exploits [departure of the Emden from rept attraction at the Oriental in the Indian Ocean, ending with Theatre, Miss Clara Bow is starred her memorable fight with the Aus for the first time since her retire-tralian cruiser, "Sydney," are told ment from the screen nearly two lim graphic, realistic manner, re- years ago.
As the harum-scarum tomboy on (sequences.
plete with thrills and exciting.
the ranch, she becomes even too Louis Ralph plays the part of much for her Texas father, who Captain Von Muller, the Captain of finally decides to send her to a the Emden.”
experienced
ua likelihood of German extension MORAL: It's Comparisons that within the boundaries of Europe.
General von Epp in the days of his Colonial experience fought. în the. Boxer campaign and in the The quickness of the hand de Herero war of South West Africa.- Iedves the fly.
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POP!
WHAT IS THE
DON'T
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