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THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-SIXTH ON- DINARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Oce of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., en THURSDAY, 8th February, 1934, at NOON, for
the
with a
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
CULBERTSON
CONTRACT
DENTISTS.
MR. HARRY FONG, DENTIST, DR. S. L. KWONG, Dental Surgeon
WISHES TO ANNOUNCE THE REMOVAL OF THEIR OFFICES From
74 Queen's Road 2nd. Fl. To
5th F., King's Theatre Bldg. Telephones 21265 9-1.00; 2-6,00.
LAU PAK WAL, Dentist.
HONG KONG OFFICE: GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st Floor. Telephone 20488. KOWLOON OFFICE:- 335, NATRAN ROAD, 2nd Floor, Telephous 58381.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
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THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
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by Ely Culbertson,
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THE CHINA MAIL
Romance "Amicably" Ended
THE DANGERS OF BIG HANDS
There is scarcely a Bridge player In the world who, when he has Ipicked up a hand of freakish dis- tribution, does not unconsciously ask himself the question, "How much will this hand cost me?"
With goulash distribution, with unbalanced holdings in the vari our suits, the extraordinary be comes the ordinary, and the un- usual, the usual. One freakish
hand usually means other freakish hands. Hence, ordinarily this type
re-
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD., of hand, even though its longest Kowloon Baysuit is the highest ranking in the New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L"
Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors. deck, invites a cheap sacrifice by opponents. Granted, however, that you avoid the dangers of opposing bids, that you can successfully out call any sane declaration the op ponents may make, there still mains a greater hazard-your part- ner. If your partner is like most) Bridge players, he will probably contribute to the disaster which faces you, especially if your suit is so long and strong that he can- not have adequate trump support Many Bridge players in thle situs. tion take out an Opening bid with ja Jump bid in a new suit, disre garding the obvious lack of fit in the hands, and continue to bid and rebid until a losing contract is as- in sured. Then opponents step and double, and the result is disas ter, when more sane bidding would have brought success.
EMPLOYMENT.
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POSITION VACANT.
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
- Public Auctions -
THE Undersigned have received
the purpose of receiving the Report instruction from Mrs. More of the Directors together Statement of Accounts for the year Proprietress of "Lauriston" private
hotel. ended 31st December, 1933.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of at No. 1, Bowen Road to sell by the Company will be CLOSED from Public Auction on
Wednesday, the 31st January, 1934) TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY,
to Thursday, the 8th February, the 30th. and 31st. January, 1934, 1934, both days inclusive.
commencing each day at 10 a.m.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. B. CHAPNELL,
Secretary.
Hong Kong. 24th January, 1934,
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LIMITED
No that
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:
Teak hatstand,
Recently I witnessed the bid. ding and play, in a rubber game, of the hand below:
South, Dealer.
Neither alde vulnerable. North:-
5.-2
H.-A K Q 870 D.-K 10 9 2 C-Q 7
West:-
S.-A 7 6 43
H.-S 2
D.-8 6
C-5 4 3 2
East:-
S.
HJ 10 9 5 4
D. J 7
C.-A K J,10 9 8 South:--
S.--K Q J 10 9 8
H-
D-A Q 6 4 3 ཚ་་
The bidding: (Figures bids refer to numbered explanatory paragrapha).
G H
Dbl.
Kay Francis
Hollywood, accustomed to marital smashes, is astounded at the news that the romance of statuesque Kay. Francis screen star, and Kenneth McKenna, her actor-husban-, has gone the way of many other movieland love stories. The couple agreed to an "amicqble separation" after two years of apparently happy married life.
NORTH AUSTRALIA
SURVEY
Finance Problem Holds
Up Project.
£100,000 ESTIMATED COST Canberra, F.C.T.
PRADIO R
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
CINEMA
NOTES
MAIL REVIEW
"TARZAN THE FEARLESS" CENTRAL THEATRE.
"Tarzan the Fearless," a thrill-] ing drama of the jungle, based uni the stories of the famous ape-man is the current attraction at the Central Theatre.
Buster Crabbe, an Olympic swim- ming champion, as Tarzan, is ideal in the title role and accomplishes: amazing feats and daring stunts when he engages in desperate bat- tles with the wild animals of the jungle.
A delightful romance is inter- woven in this story, of a girl whom he saves from a pool swarming with crocodiles.
LEE
THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
At 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
& 9.30 p.m.
"A STUPID
BRIDE-
GROOM"
A Chinese Picture.
FOR SALE
Jacqueline Wells plays the mantic role and the supporting cast includes Edward Woode, Matthew
го
1934
Betz, Philo McCallough, E. Alyn POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES Warren and Frank Lackteen.
MAIL REVIEW
"STAGE MOTHER".—QUEEN'S THEATRE.
Alice Brady, who took a promin- ent part in "When Ladies Meet," has the leading role in the latest M.G.M. theatrical drama "Strange Mother," which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre.
The character is that of a dom- ineering "stage mother" who forces her child to success on the stage. through difficulties of every kind— success that she herself has mise- led.
from
Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
$4.90
$ 7,50 $ 7.75
Part I British Empire Part II Foreign Countries Ivert and Tellier Scott Stamp & Coin Co... $ 9.00
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in Postage Stamp, Garden Seede, Religious Goods, Toys etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street,
P. O. Box No. 620. Hong Kong.
PROMISING·
INDUSTRY IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Big Demand For Snake-Skins.
An exceptionally strong cast has The following programme will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong been assembled in support, includ- Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W.ing Miss Maureen O'Sullivan,
the younger daughter struggling for metres on a wave length of 355
fame under her mother's guidance, Franchot Tone, as her lover, Phil-OVERSEA FIRMS INTERESTED 1.2.15 p.m.-European programme. Hip Holmes, Ted Healy, and Rus- 1 pm-Local Time and Weather sel Hardle. Report
1.3 p.m-Recorded music.
of the Hong MAIL REVIEW 1.15 p.m.-A relay Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room.
A proposal to conduct a geo-(845 K.C.'s) :- physical survey of the whole of the
part of northern
Aus- tralia is being considered by the Governments of the Com- monwealth. Queensland, and Western Australia.
1.30 pm-Bugby_Prass News, nic. 2.15 p.m.--Close Down Relay from The Ko Shing Theatre.
5-8 p.m.-European 'programme. 5-7 p.m-A relay of the Hong
|· "FALLING FOR YOU"-KING'S
THEATRE
The Minister in charge of development (Senator McLach- lun) said that the proposal was still in an undeveloped state, and that progress would depend on the willingness of the three Gov-Kong lintel Dance Orchestra from the ing at the King's Theatre, Jack ernments to make available the necessary money.
Hong
Kong
Hotel Roof Garden. 7-8 p.m.-Recorded music.
7 pm-Closing Local Stock Quota- Lions, etc.
7.5.7.32 0.-Concert Items.
Song
Carceleras (Prison Song) (Chapi), Serenata (Tosti),
Madame Amelita Galli-Curel
The Premiers of Queensland and Western Australia had sug gested that the Commonwealth should bear half the cost and that after the two States should share the
remaining half, but this alloca-Pianoforte Solo-
Danse Creole (Chaminade), tion might not be acceptable to In his the Commonwealth.
Song- opinion, such a survey offered a promising means for testing un- prospected areas of the north.
It is understood that the cost
South West North Enst 1S (1) Pass 3 H (2) 4 C (3) 4 S (4) Pass 5 H (5) Dbl. (6) Chesterfield G S (7) Pasa couch & arm chairs, Teak cabinet. 6 S (8) Dbl.(0) Pass Pass Teak dining table, Teak side board, 1-Obviously a sound Opening bid. of the work proposed would be Violin Solo Dinner waggon, Chairs, Teak bed-2-Equally obviously an unsound about £100,000.-Reuter.
steads with springs & mattresses. Teak wardrobe with
bevelled
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN mirror, Teak dressing table, Chest the ANNUAL OR Jof drawers, Bed linen, Towels, Car- DINARY GENERAL MEETING pets, Cutlery, Crockery, Glass ware, of Shareholders will be held at ornaments, Pictures, Enamel bath, the
Hotel. Hong Porcelain wash basin, etc., etc. Hong Kong
12th Kong
MONDAY, the
also February, 1934, at 11.80 a.m. for Fine carved black wood ware the purpose of receiving the Report One Plano of the Directors together with a
on
Fine mauritrius,
Statement of Accounts for the year plants. ended 31st December, 1933.
Palma
and
Terms: Cash on Delivery
Forcing Takeout. The hand contains 3 honour-tricks and en- tirely lacks a fit with partner's bid suit. This suggests caution in the bidding.
3-Perhaps slightly
B
apades are the safest suit for!
It is, of the partnership. course, evident now that the contract is one too high.
matter of venturesome 9-This comes 25
of his part- course, in view in view of North and South's
the ner's previous Doubles of strong bidding, but, after all,
heart bid.. the hand should produce 7
lost South In the play dou- tricks, and any loss, if bled, would be in part bal tricks a club and the Ace of anced by the honours held. trumpa. In view of his honour
two
(Soprano)
Una Bourne,
O Bole Mie (Capurro-d! Capua), La Donna E Mobile (Woman is
Fickle) ("Rigoletto"-Verdi),
Enrico Carano (Tenors. Danse Espagnole (De Falln-
Kreisler). (a) Minstrels (Debussy) (b) Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky- Korsakov and Hartman),
Yehudi Menuhin.
7.32-8 p.m.Variety. Song
Evry Little While, Try Gettin' a Good Night's Sleep,
Frances Maddur (Soprano). Orchestral
Cavalcade Twentieth Century
Blues, Cavalcade Lover of my Dreams, Jack Payne and His B.B.C.
Duet
Cape Town. Wanted-Badly wanted: Mambas, cobras, pythons, puff-adders and jother anakes from South Africa.
Such is the extraordinary call has gone forth from the British industry and manufacturers in In "Falling For You," now show-loversea countries.
That it is seriously meant ap- Hulbert and Cleely Courtneldge pears from the fact that it has been give one of their best performance forwarded through a very respon- In this highly-entertaining comedy sible body, the Imperial Institute at London, and that the Leather of laughter and thrills.
The fun is fast and furious, com- Manufacturers' Research Associa- mencing with the antics of Jack ton has joined in the appeal. and Cicely on ski-ing slopes and Indications already exist that the ice rink, set against the magni- Union has started to develop a pro ficest scenery of the Swiss moun-mising snake industry and that the tains.
monopoly which at present is in The story of two screen journs-the hands of Java and the East lists in Switzerland in search of an Indies generally may soon be some- heiress, gives the two clover stars what shaken by Africa every opportunity of demonstrating
Experiments have lately taken their initimitable humour and wit place at Port Elizabeth in the tan
MAIL REVIEW
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"CRACKED NUTS"-ORIENTAL
THEATRE.
ning of snake-skin leather, and a number of overssa frma are en- gaged in establishing contracts.
Storekeepers In Natal and the Northern Transvaal no longer look a pest, but at anak antirely as
Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool-are en prepared to pay reason. sey, the mirth-provoking comedians, able fee for the bides of good specl-
inens. who have made thousands langh From is to és a yard is the re- with their antics and frolics on the gular oversea tariff for choice screen, add another success to python skins,
already formidable laurels Ba
Union Lags Behind
dio Pictures' rollicking production Only since 1926 has the oversea Dance Orchestra"Cracked Nuts" the current attrac-snake-skin trade become really im-
tion at the Oriental Theatre.
Cover the Waterfront, Mood Indigo, Layton & Johnstone Orchestral
J
Mosle in the Air-The Song You, MAIL REVIEW Moon Bong,
On View from Sunday, and Mon-4-Were it not for North's Forc.holding and in view of the fact Vocal The TRANSFER BOOKS of, the day, the 28th. and 29th. January,
ing Takeout, South, at this that he knew his partner was the Company will be CLOSED from 1934,
point. would show the diamond type of player who forced with- TUESDAY, 30th January to MON-
suit, but, misled by the Forcing out sufficient values and who DAY, 12th February, both days
Takeout, he desires to assure could not bear to see a hand a suit in which his Inclusive.
his partner of the rebiddability played in
holding was a singleton, his loss of the spades, visioning a sible Slam. In view of North's was much less than she had reason overbidding proclivities, South to anticipate, might well pass.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 23rd January, 1954.
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS
LIMITED.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 22nd Jan., 1984.
THE Undersigned have received THE
instructions to sell by Pablic
Auction
ON
[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Thursday, the 1st. February, 1934
Nat the ORDINARY YEARLY commencing at; 11 mm.
GENERAL MEETING of HONG|
at The L Everett Inc. Office,
pos-
FRIDAY'S HAND What is the best contract for hand was overbid when North and South on the hands be
Of course, North should pass.
The
Albert Sandler & His Orchestra.
portant, and South Africa has lagged behind Rhodesia and Kenya. The Dutch East Indies to-day are exporting 1,600,000 “snake skins an- nually, together with 400,000 skins "THE DEVIL'S IN LOVE”....
other luf
reptiles, including MAJESTIC THEATRE.
crocodiles, The Union, it is stated, The B.B.C. Wireless Chorza,
Weather Stories of the Foreign Legion ai-will And that it can sell as many 8 p.m.-Local Time An Report,
8.3-11.38 D.A relay from the wará make excellent material for of the latter as it can supply. shing Theatre.
Vocal Walls-
Wine, Women and Song,
taikle dráman, and "The Devil's In how abpwing at the Majestic Thes- tre is no exception.
the Forcing Takeout was made, low and what should be the suc./New Rugby Mid-day Previve," the Fox production which is termined by an inquiry: '
and if North is to bid again, it cessive steps in the bidding? must be on the basis of in- North, Dealer.
formation furnished a fit some- where else in the hand..
KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will Queen's Building, Top Floor, Con-6-From a purely tecnical stand- be held at the offices of Messrs.naught Road. Jardine, Matheson
&Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 16th: day of February, 1934, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be; CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 2nd to FRIDAY, the 16th
·February, 1984, both days inclu- ∙alve,
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary, Hong Kong, January 25th, 1984,
A Quantity of Valuable Office
Furniture.
On View from day of sale Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 24th January, 1934.
Bring Your PRINTING
Problogs to US
North and South vulnérable. North:-
S-A
▸
H-A Q7 5 3 2 D~~Á K Q 988
$8.8
point, not a sound Double, as, for all East knows, South has a perfectly safe excape. OZ course, as the cards lic, the five-West:- heart contract, can be defeated 2 tricks.
7-This bid la based on the fact DA 7 6 5 4 2
that South knows his own CA75482 suit le practically solld. The East
J10
8.4'32
Double" of five hearts by East „Indicates that his partner's is
S
S--South, of course, might stop ||
98.
A and let his, partner, take lili
medicine but after things" point to the {that," regardless of
not North in voldri
obabiliti
Victor Jory and David Manners
17.30 p.m.-Close Down. All relays from the Hong Kong Hotel are by courtesy of the AADRES- ment and during the interwin-Word-share honours as the doctor and ed mysle will be broad from the the captain respectively, and Lar etta Young makes a charming Sgure Stadio,
TURKISH POPULACE INCREASING. 4.000,000 Rise In 6 Years.
́Istanbul.. The population of Turkey has in- creased by 4,000,000 in the past alr years.
When the last census was takes in 1927 there ware 14,000,000 people In the country. Now it is asti mated there are 18,000,000,
Here are the official prices as de- Python (minimum width sight inches), 6s 6d' per metre..
Leguan, from 1/- upward. Crocodiles, 100 to 1/- per fach width of akin.
Small miscellaneous snakes from in a rather minor role. Vivienne à few pence up to 10/- each. Osborne is very convincing as the exotic proprietress of a cafe,
Extra fine quality pythons, '25/- a foot Heußer.
ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
OPENING
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