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THINKS BRAINS "OVER-RATED
Young Miner Takes Honour Degree.
WINS £1,000 SCHOLARSHIP
THE CHINA MA
BRIDGE NOTES
FOUR NO TRUMP CONVENTION
and of even
Àces.
A VALUABLE NOVELTY
By Capt. LINDSAY MUNDY,
RADIO 1
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME-
The following programme will be
broadcast to-day from the Hong
Kong Broadcasting Station ZBW.
that
CINEMA
NOTES
on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 MAIL REVIEW E.C.):-
port
1 pm.-Local Time & Weather Re- 2 p.m.-Close Down Chinare Studio Concert To-night.
6-8 pm-European Columbia records.
programme of
"WOMEN WHO PLAY”'~
QUEEN'S THEATRE
"Women Who Play," now show- jing at the Queen's Theatre, is the jacreen version of the famous play by Frederick Lonsdale entitled 4871-2"Spring Cleaning." The picture offers unusual entertainment as a
Guards 4979ners with a daring and original
plot.
The Four-Five No-Trump con- make Seven with the help of vention, invented by Mr. Ely Cul- Ace. London.
bertson, has proved itself of the
One Great Advantage "Brains are really & most over greatest value for biding slams, One of the great advantages of estimated commodity, We don't
greater value for this convention over Feature want human beings capable of avoiding the bidding of slams showing is that it enables the res mental gymnastics, we want
which cannot be made, owing to the ponder to find out whether the human beings who can live."
6-6.20 p.m.--Band Music, This is the opinion of Mr. G. V.abrance of one, or perhaps two, opener holds the Ace of his open-
ing suit, which Feature-showing Nell Gwyn Dances (German)
Reg. Band of H.M. Grenadier Keeling, the 32-year-old miner, I admire this convention so much often fails to do.
Guards who has just taken. an Honour that I begged the inventor's per-
This latter procedure is not en-Humoresque (Dvorak) Degree in Economics at London mission to include it in the Direct tirely superseded, but should be Reg. Band of H.M. Grenadier sparkling comedy of modern man- University.
make every used when the responder is very The Caliph of Bagdad-Overture M. Keeling gained a wonder-acknowledgment to Mr. Culbertson strong but has only one Ace. For tul series of scholarships to en
as its originator. Its laws were instance, suppose the opener has able him to take his degree and drafted to fit Approach bidding, so started with Three Spades, and the ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS, he told Reuter that his first that to graft it on to the Direct
responder holds either: chance came from winning the
system they need a little alterna- (1) S-K 10 x x Scholarship tion. National Miners'
H-AKQxx valued at £1,000 when he was
D-A x x unemployed.
Cmx
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received
Auction
to sell by Public
ON
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room,
4 Duddell Street.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
comprising:
armchairs,
system. I wish to
Varying Meaning
or (2) K 10 xx
AKQ XX KQ x X
(Bickdien)
B.B.C. Wireless Military Band DB744.
6.20-6.53 p.m.-A Concert, Pianoforte Solo-
Tabatiere as Musique
(Music Box) (Friedman) Gavotte (Gluck-Brahma)
Ignaz Friedman Song-
My Dearest Heart (Sullivanɔ A Summer Night (Martials & Goring Thomas) Doris Vane. (Soprano) Instrumental
Beautiful Spring (Lincks). The Grashoppers' Dance
(Bucalors!)
Benita Hume, George. Barraud and Mary Newcomb are amongst the favourite players featured in the picture, which provides a splendid vehicle for their brilliant D1651-acting.
The story deals with desperato means taken by a famous novelist to prove to his wife that a circle of DX71.friends who have gathered around her are just a set of worthless trifiers who seek to drag her to their own
bitter level. Many Regal Virtuosi DB1047. quarrels, however, take place be
fore the final happy reconciliation Time to Go (Weatherly &
is reached.. Sanderson)
The bid of Four No-Trumps has "Down there in the mine," hel
With hand (2) he would invite said, "the scale of values is dif-naturally always been a slam invi ferent from that of the world tation. In its conventional use, in a slam by Feature-showing with a above. It is on a purely physical the Direct system, it additionally bid of Four Hearts, while with plane. I was in that mine draw-shows the possession of two Aces, hand (1) he would invite the slam Ing 98. 10d. a day stripped to the as well as slam possibilities or pro- by a bid of Four No-Trumps; but
For the Approach sys- once this bid has been made; waist, streaming with sweat, babilities.
no longer func risking injury and knowing that em It also requires the King of Feature-showing at any moment death may come. some suit previously bid by the tions, so that if the bidding were: Yet as miners work they sing partnership. This is omitted in South, 2. D; North, 4 N.T.; South, it is rather absurd when they the Direct system owing to the fact 6 C, this last bid is showing a have so little to sing about, but that Approach bidders usually eecond suit nearly, if not quite, as they do!"
have bid mode suits before reach-strong as the Diamonds, and in- Mr. Keeling has now left the ing this stage of the bidding thanviting the partners to select be-Violin
is the case with the Direct system.tween them. mine for good-Reuter.
BEAUTY QUEEN'S
ADVENTURE.
15-Hour Ordeal On Cliff Face.
LIFE SAVED BY TREE.
:
Vienna.
"alam possibilities."
Its place is taken by the expression A very general use of this con-
vention would run thus: South 2 S;! North 4 N.T.; South either 5 N.T. to show two Aces, or six Spades to! deny that holding, but disclosing more than a minimum two-bid, or five Spades to deny any Ace, or else to indicate that his hand bad been already fully called.
It is essential that the originator -that is to say, the player who bids Four No-Trumpashall be prepar- ed to have the hand played in at least Five of a suit already bid by himself or his partner.
An Exception
It
Song
Only an Old Rough Diamond
(Trevar & Stroad)
Malcolm McBachern (Bass)
1893, Solo Allegro (Flocco, arr. Bent & O'Mei!!) Pole Moon-Indian Love Song
(Logan, arr, Kreisler)
Albert Bandler DB1038 6.53-7.20 p.m.--Orchestral. Offenbachiana (arr. Finck)
Herman Finck His Orch. DB327
Bohome-Fantasia (Pacelni, arr. Tavan) Albert Sandler
andler &
His Orch. DB876. The Demark Rose--Selection
(Chopin,
La
adapted by Clutsam) Court Symphony Orch. DX24: 7.20-8 pm-New Dance Tunes Fox Trot-He Wanted Adventure-----
My Heart's to Let Waltz-He Wanted Adventure- When You've Fallen In Love
Debroy Somers Band CB579. Here is my Heart Old Man Harlem
Rudy Valee & His Connecticut
Yankees CB608.
Fox Trot
One Step-
It's the Band
When the King Goes By
3
'Debroy Somers Band CB621.
Dreaming Love is the Sweetest Thing
MAIL REVIEW
"THE MAN FROM TORONTO”—
KING'S THEATRE.
"The Man from Toronto," now showing at the King's Theatre, is a highly amusing and entertaining comedy, featuring Jessie Matthews, Fred Kerr, Ian Hunter and Mar- Karet Yarde.
In order to comply with the con- ditions of an unusual will, in which she is required to marry ■ man from Toronto whom she has never seen before, Jessie Matthews poses as her own palour-mald. It is in this gulse that she is able to test the sincerity of her suitor; they are happily married and win a for- tune..
.:
Jessie Matthews" does some ex- the ceedingly clever work and veteran actor 'Fred Kerr, as the lawyer-executor, is splendid.
MAIL REVIEW
THE GREAT JASPER"
CENTRAL THEATHE SEA
wis ent
B. B. C. Dance Orch. CB534, The One Girl-'in Glad I Waited The One Girl-Time on my Hands 7 Percival Mackey & la Hand "The Great Jasper," now show, CB587.ing at the Central Theatre a Mother of Pearl
If the Four-No-Trump bidder An exception to this rule is that the originator may reply with Four holds all four Aces, it is obvious No.-Trumps to his partner's open-that he must receive the negative ing bid of
Two No-Trumps-but reply of five of a suit, since there Only a awaying branch, to not of One No-Trump--provided he la no Ace for his partner to hold. of He can then bid Five No-Trumps which she clung for 15 hours, has no long sult. The reason has saved a Rumanian Beauty this is that the original Two No himself to show that he has all the
Five No-Trump Convention. auit, so that No-Trumps will pro- English, F. IDAY, the 15th September, 1993, Queen from being dashed to Trump opening also denies a long Aces.
death at the foot of n cliff.
The Culbertson convention has This girl is Helene Verzca, a bably be the best final declaration.
It can be used in conjunction another originating bid of five No-Quick Step-- Beauty Queen from Braila,
with the three minor convention. Trumps, for which the qualifica *Rumania.
She was with a party of tour- After a Three Diamond opening, tion is thras Aces and a King of Fox Trot
As this last ists in the Carpathians when the responder can bid Four No-a suit already bid.
Trumps when suitable, since both item does not fit the Direct system, they saw a bear,
The bear made no attempt to the major suits have been mention- this bid is not adopted at all. Teak hatstand, Chesterfield approach until one of the four- ed inferentially, After a Three- is considered that the Four No- Couches and
Teak iste fired a shot. Then it Club opening some suit must be bid Trump call is sufficient to meet Wardrobes with bevelled glans charged.
before the Four No-Trump bid enn all cases.
Consequently, a bid of Five No- doors, Teak dressing tables, Teak in her flight Helene fell over be made. Chest of drawers, Teak bedsteads, the edge of a deep ravine, but The bid of Four No-Trumps de-Trumps, when no bid of Four No- Tenk show cases. Teak filing managed to grasp the branch of finitely forces a further bid from Trumps has been made, le not con- be ventional, and is a simple invits- the partner, so it must never cabinets, Teak dining tables and ja tree.
There she had to hang for 15 used except as a slam invfiation. A tion to a stem in No-Trumpa. HE Undersigned have received į chairs, etc., etc.
It cannot be too strongly im-
Pictures, Bell by crnament,
Curtains, rescue her. She is still suffer- Four No-Trump bid until his part-pressed on players that they must Linen, Carpets, Singer sewinging from nervous shock-Reu- ner has made some kind of positive not allow themselves to be led into
bid.
calling Four No-Trumps merely machine,
clock, ter. Grandfather
Responses to Four No-Trumps because they hold two Aces, and Gramaphones, Records, Crackery, Glass ware, Electric table
(a) The response of Five No-perhaps a King, their partner Ceiling and table lamps, Baldwin FOUGHT A SNAKE
Trumps shows the possession of having put up a bid. It is essential two Acci, and must alwayS be to be in a position to guarantee ice chests, White frost, Teak ice
FOR SIX HOURS. cheris, etc.
Strange Story From Turkish Village.
- Public Auctions
Tinstructions from The Regis Silver Ware, Cutlery, Brass hours until it was possible to player must not make use of the
trar, Supreme Court, to Public Auction
ON
SATURDAY, the 16th Sept., 1983,
commencing at 10.30 p.m. at their Bales Room,
4. Duddell Street,
A Quantity of Silk Piece Goods, Linen, Shirting. Volle, Poplin, Pyjamas, Socks, Stockings, Cigar- cile cases, Slippers, Necktles etc. (removed from the Royal Silk Store of No. 38, Queen's Road. Central, Ground Floor)--to be sold to small lots.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneera Hong Kong, 18th Sept., 1833.
Also
A Qauntity of BLACKWOOD WARE and
fane,
One Copeland Electric Ice Chest One Astronomical Telescope (3 inch lens)
On View from Thursday the 14th September, 1989.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers Hong Kong, 12th Sept., 1988.
CHINA YEAR BOOK
(Fifteenth Edition).1933.
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The The New Customs Tariff,
Who's Who of the 1,000 principal Chinese
Consular Regulations for Importers,
The Latest Treaties with Foreign Countries, articles on the Chinese Government, the Kuomintang, labour conditions, railways and rivers, wireless and - telegraph developments, and a mass of other necessary information'
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Istanbul.
This is the true story of a young Turk, a snake 3% yards long and a chemist.
The Turk was taking a walk alone on
an Anatolian plain, Suddenly powerful yellow snake more than 10 feet long! [attacked him,
A
made with that holding.
five by cards in some suit, taking into account the strength already disclosed by the partner.
(b) Six of a suit denica two Aces, but shows one Ace, but is not obligatory if the full strength of the band has already been shown. The suit must have been previously bid. (c) Five of a FOR RUSSIA, sult indicates one of two things, namely, that no Ace in held, or
AMERICAN COTTON
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previously
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New Orleans, Louisiana. Loaded with 18,000 bales, of
This is a slight but necessary cotton destined for Leningrad, For Bix hours the Turk fought divergence from Culbertson's form the steamship "Quistconck" re- cently sailed from here as the the anake and kept it from of the convention, biting him. But he could not If, after a player has made use of first American ship to carry a kill it,"
this "sign-off" bid, his partner per- cargo from a gulf port direct to At last he lured the snake to a aists and bids Six, then If the Soviet Russia since the estab near-by village. The local chem-"sign-off" bidder has an Ace ho can lishment of the Soviet Republic. ist, seeing his plight, dashed out then hid Seven provided there is The shipment is part of al with a phial of sleeping draught ne Indication of his partner having 70,000-bale purchase by the Rus- and doped, the snake.
a vold suit. If the latter claims to alan government," made possible The snake turned over drop be able to make Six while under through the Reconstruction, Fin- ped fast asleep and was painless-the impression that there is an Ace ance Corporation financing- ly killed-Reuter:
against him, he should be able to Reuter.
POP The Boys Get Lost On Their Night Out.
GOOD JOB OUR
WIVES DON'T.
KNOW WHERE WE WENT
LAST NIGHT;
"
Evry Woman Thinks She Wants to special interesting and amusing. screen version of Fulton Oursler's Wander Mother of Pearl-When Anbody famous novel of the same name.
Plays or Singa
Richard Dix, in his portrayal of Carroll Gibbons & the Savon Hotel the Great Jasper gives one of the
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port
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