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THE CHINA MAIL.
MANNERS IN DOMESTIC BRIDGE
BY FRANK ENGLAND
some
KOMO
Less Pardonable Then there is the player who for "What do FRYK:
we want kame, partner?
WISE AND
OTHERWISE
IMPOSSIBLE
An economist states that. France
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In the new autumn fashions The waistline's had a slip, It's now, till further notice. Just above the hip.
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This is not to be a dissertation know what I ought to do." Again
The will
never pay her war debts. on the enormity of quarrelling with no unfairness is intended.
remark is genuinely apologetic, fifty alllion Frenchmen can't be your partners in the sanctity of
though it expresses regret for the wrung! your homes. He would be a bold uncertainty of mind rather than for man who would stempt to cure a the hesitation. To make it at all: A Most Old-fashioned Version, husband and wife of making efforts however, conveys quite unjustifi- Mary had a little pram.
ably to the partner the informa- to improve each other's game.
tlon that; "Really, I have My purpose to-day is ↑ little good stuff in my hand and some of more practical. There are many, your suit. Ought I to support you things which take place in domes-or bid my other strong suit? There
ought to be a game for us tie Bridge which offend against the
where." spirit of the game. Without wish. ing to make a game of Bridge by a coxy fireside for threepenca a hun-
Forty points dred as hard and steely as a game Oh! Two Clubs." This is less at the Club at one pound per cent.purdonable than the breaches of
The Aberdonian who is putting there is no reason why one should etiquette which I have previously
mentioned, or they may have sprung off buying an Atlas until world at- not hope to see it played in thei
from impulse while this savours of fairs look a little more settled. true spirit of a sporting contest.premeditation. If genuinely ignor Much in said and done in domestic ant of the score a player should Chicago Version
unobtru- Bridge which does not satisfy that consult the score sheet
sively, or, if necessary, quietly ask madest requirement.
the score, and then proceed. The inquiry should most emphatically Let us take the bidding first. The not be made solely to draw part- denter bids One of a suit. Thener's attention to the state of the parine amines his or her handcore, either to explain your bid or to warn him of something which he may have forgotten.
Tune of Bidding
TO-DAY'S BRIDGE TIP
North:-
Club 75 4
South:-
ClubA6 2
South is playing No Trumps and has entries in dummy and How should hír
hand. he piny the Club sult to avoid lowing more than one trick?
own
ANSWER
The Ace should be played the first round. If the adverse Clubs are divided 2 and 3, three tricks can be made by any play: if East or West has all
or 4 ta King three tricks cannot be made, but in the one case of West baving King bare playing out the Ace will gain and the finesse will lose.
dare not suggest that one noun is more apposite than
pro- the
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Thanksgiving
A Tennessee man has built hospital-because he was jilted.
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Here to-day and gun to-morrow.
Aftermath
rank whisky without any Polly. A gay young fellow named Solly
After a night in a bar He tried driving a car, Now in quod he's repenting his folly.
THIN
d young lady named
A gaucherie which usually entirely due to timidity is to raise There was
No your partner's bid from One
Flynn, Trump to Three with the remark, Who was so excessivcly this, The "Not vulnerabic, partner."
mark is unnecessary, foolish in
your own interests, and possibly
unfair to your opponents.
In the play of the cards at domes- much tic Bridge I think there is less scope for eriteism than in the
That when she essayed To drink lemonade, .
She slipped through the straw
fell in
Misunderstanding
"My boy's
bidding. It is true that sometimes jcambridge."
taking medicine
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VAIL REVIEW
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ROUND HONG KONG'S
CINEMA THEATRES
"MY LIPS BETRAY"-
KING'S THEATRE
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"KING KONG”—CENTRAL
THEATRE
Lillian
screen Harvey, exotic
The possibility of an ape yestu- actress, and John Boles, are fea-ing for the companionship of a wo tured in the Fox musical fantasy. man whose fragile, golden beauty "My Lips Betray", now showing at has stirred it to a never-before ex- perienced emotiòli of protective the King's Theatre.
The story, which is a sequel to tenderness, is give a modern inter- pretation In RKO-Radio Pictures! "The Love Parade", is a romance "King Kong," now at the Central
between A Prince and a pretty, Theatre. vaudevilla singer,
Fay Wray plays the girl whose The Prince, who is a clever song champion, greatly to her diamay composer hears one of his songs by land terror, in a Lillian Harvey," the vaudeville
gigantic anthro- singer, at a special royal perform-pold, fifty feet tall and perhaps jance. They meet incognito and seven million years old.
fall in love.
"King Kong" captures Mins. Their romance is nearly broken. Wray in the jungle and, instead of when, with the country on the verge
of bankruptcy, the Queen demands destroying her as he does, almost that he consent to a political mar- the entire group of explorers' with riage. At the last moment; bow-her, he preserves her life and ever, oil is found and, with the treats her with a clumsy sort of country rich, the Prince is free to lenderness, despite the fact that he could crush her between his marry the girl of his choicé.
The supporting cast includes El thumb and forefinger. Finally, in Brendel, the famous Jewish come-the climax of the picture, heat- idian.
tempts to devastate New York, City in a molded "blundering - effort to assist her.
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"THE NUISANCE,”...... QUEEN'S THEATRE
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"The Nuisance," now showing at the Queen's Theatre, features Lee Tracy
PA a fact-talking shyster and lawyer engaged in a racket of ob taining bogus evid: nee for clients in accidents.
Madge Evans, as a feminine de- at tective, is sent out to trap him, but falls in love with him. Instead
AMBULANCES OF THE AIR
Britain's Eatest. First Aid. Development.
SEVERAL DETACHMENTS FORMED
London.
as a perjurer. The shyster lawyer then exerts all his powers and stopa Flying ambulancen are Great the traffic of the city by legal Britain's latest life-saving develop- technicalities until she is released.ment.
cards are played with too much em. "I thought he hadn't been looking They are married and she is jalled phasis, as if the partner cannot well." realise that they are winners with- out being told. A discard is flung on the table with too much of a flourish. The position of a high card is tos plainly revealed to the partner and to the opponents) by a long delay before a low card la played instead.
$
Stupid Remark
one
"Herbs can do a man far more good than beer," states a herbalist Thyme, gentlemen, please!
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The supporting east Includes Official approval has been given Charles Butterworth as "the pro-by the Air Ministry to the scheme fessional Bopper" who throws him-prepared by the British Red Cross self before motor-cars Frank Society for the organisation of Air a "quack" doctor, Ambulance Detachments, and the
Dangerous "Many
are Morgan motor accidents caused by tight nuts," says mechanic. Especially when they Jare at the wheel.
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Dedicated to Miss Hello
"Oh my dialing. Clementine"
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Virgina Cherrill and John M.Iton. Society Has now arranged to begin
recruiting.
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A LADY'S PROFESSION".——— MAGESTIC THEATRE
Such detachments have already been formed by the Surrey and East Lancashire branches of the Society, both of which own aeroplanes, and others are in course of enrolment.
"A Lady's Profession." starring Every member of Air Ambulance
I propose to pillory just falling-that of the self-conscious player who says: "Why did you ruise me? We can't possibly get them." This remark is stupid, for
know what mistakes Read This To Your Wife you never
There the opponents will make if you give
are 75.000 man-servants (Allaon Skipworth, Roland Young detachments will be trained to give them a chance, and the sure way in London. This excludes married (and Sari Maritza, now showing at first aid, and to load stretcher cases other I will une "his" henceforto lose the game is to tell the op men.
the Magestic Theatre, is an amus-into and out of seroplanes. 1 need
ing comedy.
Although in normal times, staics ward to cover both cases), wrig-ponents how weak you are.
les, and says with e rising infle. not point out that it is unfair to
They called him Robinson make such u remark to deceive the Qu which ends
perfect
opponents, and you are therefore in cause he loved to cruise so. | scream of interrogation. "One Noa very embarrassing position if
Hope Springs after all you make your contract. Trump?"
A psychologist declares
xion
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WDAY, purchased the practice This is not intentionally unfair. PENINSULA HOTEL. what we che ne recone
of MR. WILLIAM HALL hitherto carried on by him as
who fears what may be said later Architects, Civil Engineers and Surveyors un-j of the bid if it should end in dis-
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ROSE ROOM.
Novelty Promised For
some rich food,
Most Movies
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To- night.
Emotion pictures.
Theatrical Proverb
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In this story Roland Young and the Sociely, the detachments will not Miss Skipworth are cast as a pair have their own acroplanes, their of Titled Britons, who discovering members will have special qualifica- that they have no money, set out tions for dealing with urgent medi- for America where they open up a cat cases, such as the transport of that speakeasy. There principal difi- patients to hospital by aeroplane or Let's try culty is not with the law, but with the carrying of doctors and nurses the bootleggera, who insist that to the scene of accidents. In time they take far more fiquor than they of war they would be available for lean use.
duty with the Air Medical Trane- The English pair, in a series of port Service.
| highly amusing incidents, succeed At full strength the Air Ambu-
In beat the bootleggers at their lance Detachment, which will
One good turn doesn't make a own game.
new programme, revue.
der the name of HALL & HALL ataster. But It is definitely against 20-22. Queen's Road, Central.
All the spirit of the game.
bids "Kayamally Building". and will
in tones as even continue the practice under the should be made style or firm name of WAY AND and non-committal as is possible to provided by Don and Sally and the
human nature. The manner in Worth Sisters, is promised the For Women Only which auch bids are made means, dinners in the Rose Room at thei far too often, "Partner. my hand Peninsula Hotel to-night.
HALL at the same address.
HARRY WAY
GEORGE ALBERT VICTOR HALL Hong Kong 12th. October, 1933.
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A writer deciates that thirty- five is a nice age for a
WOMAN.
In really rather poor, but they tell Of Don and Sally there is no need Especially if she happens too be me I ought to keep the bidding open to speak, this being their second forty-five.
If 1 can. Don't go on unless you season in Hong Kong, a re-engage-
have something really good." ment due entirely to popular de-Hot News
Almost worse is the very empha-mand; but the re-opening of the
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"SUNSHINE SUBIE”......... ORIENTAL THEATRE
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con-
sist of men, or of men and women, is one Commiandant, three pilots two ground engineers, two mechanics and one clerk.
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The Commandant must hold a cer- "B" tificate in First Aid and licence. He, or she, should also hold "Sunshine Susle,” which is now a navigator's 2nd class Hoence. showing at the Oriental Theatre, Each pilot must hold, a certificate brings' to the screen the most cap-in first aid and a "B" licence. In According to the latest litera-[tivating of German musical comedy a detachment, the Commandant of waiting-actresses-Mins Renate Muller, which does not hold a navigator's "One No Trump" with an Rose Room a week ago was marked ture in my dentist'a eager glance at the partner to by the appearance with them of room, a great trade boom ex-who sings and acta delightfully, 2nd class licence, one of the pilota and who has great personality, should, if possible, hold one of these. make sure that he realises his re- another dance team, the Worth pected about the year 1928.
and
Jack Hulbert, also has the Circulars have now been sent to sponsibilly to Improve the bid if talented, whose work proved high- This Week's Howler
Sisters, young, charming
finest roles of his career in that of all flying clubs in the, country ask- he possibly can..
ly acceptable to the visitors, ·
A commentator fw a spud with Herr Hasel, the bank commissioning them to get into touch with the
tic.
Another troublesome habit of For to-night Don Jennings han "ryce" fx.
| hesitating bidders is to say, as if promised a novelty in the form of a.
to apologise for their delays, "This series of tangos which he will Buzz Man's Holiday is very difficult." or "I really don't elaborate with the three girls.
POP
The bee-keeper's.
The Colonel Joins The Opposing Army.
DOES MY PRACTISING MAKE
YOU NERVOUS
.IT DID WHEN I FIRST.
HEARD
THE NEIGHBORS, THREATENING
YOU
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airs who conducts a beer-garden county director of the Red Cross, choir in his leisure, and whose who is the officer responsible for the songs and anties yield hilarity in organisation of Air Ambulance De- fullest measure,"
tachments in their district-Reuter,
By J. MILLAR WATT.
BUT NOW I
DON'T CARE
WHAT HAPPENS
TO YOU
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(Copyright, 1913, by The Bal Syndicate, Tan)