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TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 19, 1933.
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"FRIENDS AND LOVERS”,- CENTRAL THEATRE.
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BRIDGE - NOTES
HOW SLAMS ARE MISSED
....
FROM OUR BRIDGE CORRESPONDENT
A.
Hearts-3 8 5
Diamohds-KQ 64 SZ Clube 8 Spadės-K J 6 3 2 Hearts-A 10 9 7 6 3 Diamonde-None Clubs 9-2
À correspondent sends a hand is the following: which he states caused "heated ar- Y.-Spades-10 8 6 gument among the players." all know those heated arguments. also their futility. With players In "Friends and Lovers," now who use a definite system it gen showing at the Central Theatre, the erally is possible to say that they exotic Lily Damita is seen as a were right or wrong under that beautiful woman who lures gulli particular system. But with play- ble men into compromising situa-ers who rely upon the light of "na-B-Spades—A Q 9 tions and then requires them to ture" or common sense it is not so easy. They hit or miss allowi pay large sums to avoid a scandal. ing a wide margin for luck, some Eric Von Stroheim, as the "in- times bringing off brilliant coups Jured husband" who does the impossible under a system, but still ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS, collecting, is splendid, while Adol- more often failing to achieve tha
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NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS.
Young
experienced
phe Menjou and Laurence Oliver are cast as victims of her wiles.
"Friends and Lovers" is directed by Victor. Schertzinger and Hugh And Kerr Herbert, Frederick Blanche Fridoric aro excellent in the supporting cast.
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sweeps
best results.
Here are the cards: |Y—Spades—A % 6
Hearts--4 Diamonds-A Q 9 5: Clubs—A K.Q. J. 10. Z.-Spades-K J.983
Hearta—A K ̧8 2 Diamonds-K 74% Club-5.
Score love all, 2 deals and One Spare; A No Bid, Y [Clubs: B No Bid; Z Two Trumps. A No Bid; Y Four Trumps. All pass.
Hearts-4 Diamonds A 10 7. Clubs J 10 763 Z-Spades-7 4
Hearts-K Q 2
Diamonds 9 8 5
Clubs-K Q1 4
BADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. The following programme will be, broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong. Broadcasting Station ZBW. jon a wavelength of 955 metres (845) K.C.)-
LUCKY STONES ON SACRED HILL
Spanish Pilgrims Trek
To Tortosa.
SOME · STRANGE BELIEFS
Madrid.
From many parts of Spain people visit Tortona (Catalonia) to 12.30 p.m.-European programme of dig for mysterious small, star Victor &H.M.V. records.
port.
I p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-shaped stones in a hill on which an
ancient hermitage: stands. 1.50 p.m.-Rugby Press News, etc. This year the stars called A relay of the Rotary Club Tifa "crevetas" or small crosscs-are Speech from the Gloucester Restaur
of S.W.B. Band.
ant--Mr. G. W. Reeve, B.A., on "New more numerous than in other years, And Old Ideas
because it has rained a great deal, M. (approx:) Close Down.
according to the natives."
They explain that when the Pianoforte & Violin Recital From the Virgin Mary, was on earth she sat Studio
4-5 p. Chinese recorded pro- down to rest on the hill, and drop- Iped a few "trevetas" that she held 5-6 p.m.A relay of the Band of the in her hand. From those original 1st Battn, S.W.B., conducted by Band-stones grew others; rain' helps
gramme.
AB vulnerable. B deals and master J. I. Geeks, from the Military them grow. bids One Club. A grand slam is Hospital, Bowen Road, by kind per- to be made in Spades if, as is like (During the intervals recorded music for the precious stones. "Crevetas" mission of the Officer Commanding. Natives spend much time digging
recorded
are
pro-
said to cure rheumatism.
. Y opens with his singleton will be broadcast from the Studio). Club. But at. none of the six 6-7
P.M.-Chinese tables was It called. At two gramine. tables the contract
7-10.30 p.m.--European programme. was Four and
7 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota- Five Spades respectively. At tions, etc. table four A played in a contract 7.3-8.20 p.m.-Variety. bids of Four Hearts and was, defeated, 8 p.m.-(Local Time & Weather Re- Two while at yet another table B play-Band.
port). Nojed in a contract of Seven Clubs, Play Gypsy No doubled by Z.
Song
*VOLDIENS OF THE KING."-- KING'S THEATRE.
Hungarian Gypsy Band B4082. The bidding might go-2 and Y
Now You're Here "Soldiers of the King," the cur
The points raised by my correas remaining silent-B One Club; A Frances Day (Soprano) B4427. rent attraction at the King's Thea-pondent are that, after Y's Two Two Hearts! B Three No Trumps; Fiano Solo tre, in which Cicely Courtneldge Clubs, Z should have called Two A Four Spades; B Five Spades; A Body and Soul
Hearts. Also that, on the bid Six Spades. This is quite rea-Song-
Carroll Gibbons B3347 Chineer Cakes
the leading role,
ding as it occurred, after Y'a Four sonable. From the bid of Three She is Far from the Land ladies and gentlemen, hard-work- gaily alung providing entertain-
No Trumpa Z should not have stop No Trumps A knows that B holds Danny Malone (Tenor) B4478. ing and trustworthy, week for ment in which sentiment, song, pa- ped. 2 said that, without know-more than his initial hid of One Xylophone Solo- AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY for
EMPLOYMENT in any capacity.i
Espanita triotism, fun and romance are mix-ing anything about Diamonds or Club indicated and that he has schools by A. II. Crook, W. Kay and
Fritz Kroeger B3854 W. L. Handyside. Price $1, on sale Can provide security If necessary.
the Ace of Spades, he was not go guards in Spades and Diamonds. Humorous Song the at the publishers, Newspaper Enter-Will accept any resonable salary ed by hands well versed in
ing to risk the slam.
Alternatively, and probably better.
When Cupid Calla price, Ltd., BA, Wyndham Street.
for a start. Please dial 28939, or art of popular showmanship.
"Which," I am asked, "is corA might bid Spades on first round write to 67. Des Voeux Road, David In this picture Miss Courtneldge|rect? How should the two hands instead of Hearts, when a contract House, 1st Floor. THE CENTRAL
la scen both A the conscientious
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Edward Everett Horton, the well-know Hollywood comedian, is another member of the troupe, and Anthony Bushell is the soldier hero.
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"KING OF THE JUNGLE" --QUEEN'S THEATRE.
have been called?"
Now my correspondent doés" not state what system, if any, was in force or whether natural bidding was being used. But whatever the process there is no doubt that Y's bidding was wrong.
ANOTHER DELUGE NOW DUE
Peking Professor's Opinion.
· GEOLOGICAL-~ CONGRESS
· IN WASHINGTON
Washington.
headaches and
Moreover, it is believed, if girls keep them in a comer of their handkerchief a lover will come along within three days. On Easter Sunday 25,000 pil- grims visited the hill-Reuter.
"BLACK BOOK" OF BOARDERS. Bureau Formed To Aid Landlords.
Vienna.
Landlords In Budapest have formed a bureau of information to "Gracie Fleids B4472, deal with the city's 20,000 ́ lodgers, according to the "Neuer Wiened Abendblatt."
Instrumental-
Lazy Night
Song
Cedrie Sharpe Sextet B4440.
The Border Ballad
Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) Piano Solo-
Sweetheart
Organ Solo-
This will constitute sort of "black list" of bad tenants. Land- B4467.(lorda with flats of rooms to let will receive a "code" in which a num- Rale da Costa B4402. ber stands opposite the name of
each tenant.
A Brown Bird Singing
When they receive an application, Sydney Gustard B4410. all they have to do is to enquire Humorous Song- My Lucky Day
Gracie Field: B4471, Hawaiian
On a Little Street in Honolulu
Hile Bawallan Orch. B5940, Band-
Blue Forget-me-not
Hungarian Gypsy Band B4082.
It's Best to Forget
Frances Day (Soprano) B4427.
Moonbeam Dance
from the Bureau as; to the charac- teristics of number so-and-so, and details 'concerning his wife'"' and [family, are: afforded. Reuter. FISHY STORY FROM CAROLINA
Bong
E-
‚" ;,
Carroll Gibbons E3347.
Alligator And Two Fish On One Hook.
¿
In the first place Z made a sound bid of One Spade/ His · ragged suit was reinforced, by the. Ace King of Hearts and King of Dia- mondo. There a bo question about his initial, Sida: Y's response- "King of the Jungle," which of Two Clubs-op cha hand con- brings Buster Crabbe, world cham-veva little or nothing to partner. pion swimmer, to the screen in the it may mean a biddable suit and role of the Lion Man, is the current dislike of Spades But it certatu-The earth is due for another
Piano Solo ly does not show a very strong food-or a whole series of them-- attraction at the Queen's Theatre.
Crabbe is the central character hand. To it made the minimum if the past behaviour of the oceans in a story of animals in their response of Two No Trumps. He continues in the future, according
He might to a theory advanced to the Inter Bong native Jungle and in the artifical could not do more.
The Dear Little Shamrock national. Geological Congress here.
Danny Malone (Tenor) B4476. Furroundings of a circus. He is have rebid his Spades. And it is
In an address, Dr. A. W. Grabau Xylophone Solo-
A fisherman bere claims to have caet as a youth who, orphaned in auggested that he should have
of Peking, China, said that since as The Dreaming Snowdrop
caught a three-foot alligator, n big the jungle at an early age, grows called, Two Hearts. But this, Infar back as the, geological age
Fritz Kroeger B3856. catfish and a small perch on the same up in company with a pack of lions my opinion, is unsound, as such a known as the Cambrian, more than Song
lipe at the same time with Ɑné Melody at Dawn Captured and brought to the bid might have given an entirely 100,000,000 years ago, when life
He says that the United States, he becomes head wrong impression that 2 had a two-was just getting its start on earth, Instrumental...
book Arst anared the perch. Then suiter, whereas he had only three the level of the sea has periodically By the Sleepy Lagoon
the catfish came along, tried to Hearts and the stage for feature risen and fallen in a regular
B4440.[swallow the perch and got choked. Song showing had not arrived.
rhythm. He called it the "pulss-
The alligator in turn, tried to swal 2 was right in bidding Two No' tion theory,"
Peter Dawson (Bana-Baritone) B4407, low the catfish and was snared by Trumps, even after Y's ambiguous The cause of these periodic Piano Bolo
the cats fins. He displayed the Can't We Meet Again bid of Two Clubs. When, then, floods is not known with certainty,
Rale da Costa B4402, assortment, still intact, as proof of.
|his story,~~~Reuber,
trainer in a cirens.
The picture risen to a breath- taking climax as the maddened Janimals break loose from their cages, when the circus catches fre, and race through the city streets, leaving behind them a trail of blood and rufp.
response.
•
Allendale, "South Carolina.
Gracia Fielda B4472, pièce 'of bait.
Cedric Sharpe Sertet The Glory of the: Sea
Ensemble E3826:
Borákov),
played by Mr. Biteon Ma (Violin), and Mr. Harry Ore (Planoforte) 1.20-9.45 pan-Operatic Belections. The Barber of Seville (Overture)
(Rossini)
Berlin conducted State Orchestra,
by Dr. Bloch D1294. Carmen-Potpourri (Bizet).
bid Four No Trumps 2 was still in but it may be linked up with the Organ Solo doubt. He could not picture Y activity of radio-activa substances Bird Songs at Eventide Crabbe plays opposite Miss as having
so wonderful a hand like radium in the interior of the
Sydney Gustard- B4410. }'· Frances Dee, as the only person either on his
Bong- Arst or
Becond earth.
Mary Rose who can control the wild man.
This radio-activity probably
Gracle Fields B4471, I consider that the bidding venerates beat, some scientists be- Hawallan- MAIL REVIEW
-All Through the Night - should go Z One Spade; Y Thros leve, and there is evidence that the
Hilo Hawaiian Orch B5980. Club; Z Three, No Trumps; heat may escape.at intervals By:s
8.28.9 p.Orchestral. "DANGEROUSLY YOURS”......
Four Diamonds. Z. now
being "blowing off steam" process that Salut D'Amour (Elgar) MAJESTIC THEATRE.
assured that a slam, is in sight, may have something to do with Now Light Symphony Orch. B8926, ** Marek Weber & His Orth. 01412)
|Serenade (Pierno)
Flying Dutchman-Overture (Wagner) "Dangerously Yours," now show to show his Ace.
could bid with" safety Four Hearts causing the ocean floods,
Bymphony Orch conducted by Cle Y should then Geologists: have long known that] ing at the Majestic Theatre, is a bid Six No Trumps. Or it might the continents many times in the Hymn to Chanson
mens Schmalstich C1870. the oceans have : partially flooded ("Badko
All records in the above fast-moving comedy
ova European programmes Hndly suppiled by LAMMERT BROS. which charming lady detective go-Z One Spade; Y Three Clubs; earth's past, put many had held Le Coq DO Rimsky-Kormior) Mess Moutrie, & Co, p
sets out to use her feminine wiles Three No Trump; Y Four Dia the theory that this was due to Reginald King His Orch. 82414, 942-1038 A relay from Daven-
*suave gentleman monde; Z. Six No Tramps.
tra, relayed from wed by: Light Or- Futurist Theatre, crook, a renowned jewel thiet Actually a grand slam was to be sinking of the continents. A dummer Night's Dream (17 of Ernest Parsons Tom Daven
Dr. Graban, however, sald at Czarda (Growanian, arr, Kotelly); ''
State Opera Orch. C1888-4 Birmingham, Warner Baxter has the role of a made by the finesse in Spades evidence indicates that the rise and
chestra]: Concert".
*-*(Gramophone | TE society thief and the beautiful But the small slam. certainly fall of sea level every few million
Volca of Spring (Stranis)
cords). Should reception prova satis-
this relay will be continued Herbert Mundin, contributes should have been called either on years is the real cause of the Chopinata Potpourri the girl sleuth.
a' system and feature showing or foods. Some areas of the con- (arr Silbermann)
Today's Opening
ondays Opening 10 Miriam Jordan plays the part of on direct and natural bidding.tinents have risen and fallen, but for kneek Weber la His Orch. C2549 Stock-and-Commnity Quotations au greatly to the bilarity of the pic An exampla from the recent in this was only secondary to the The Kreutzer Bonata (Beethoven) Swan, Culbertson & Fritz
14.21 11----From the Studio, and received from New-York byɛ. Mestra. ternational Match of a missed slam ocean movements, he said-Beuter (Continued at foot of next Column 10.85-11.95 p.m. Close Down,
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