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MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1934.
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COMPANY MEETINGS
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the FORTY-FIFTH OR-
DINARY YEARLY MEETING will:
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DENTISTS.
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EMPLOYMENT.
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be held at the Company's Officca, F. COMPANY MEETINGS & 0. Building, on WEDNESDAY,
A
MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
14th March, 1934, at-11 a.m. for the] CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1933 and electing Direc tors and Auditors.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the THIRTY-SEVENTH
ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING The Register of Members of the
of Shareholders In the Company Company will be closed from 3rd will be held in the Company's March to 14th March, 1934, both Board Room, Srd. Floor, Exchange days inclusive, during which period Building, Hong Kong, on WED no Transfer of Shares can be regis-NESDAY, 21st. March, 1984, at
NOON, for the purpose of receiv
tered.
By Order of the Roard of Directors, ing a Statement of Accounts and GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.. the Report of the Directors for the
Agents.
year ended 31st December, 1983; electing Directors and Auditors;
Hong Kong, 21st Feb., 1984.
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT
&
LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
BRIDGE NOTES
Bad Distribution
by Ely Culbertson.
THE CHINA M
There is no player in the world great enough to foresee and com- pletely circumvent the dimcultie that arise from bad distribution. When all the “- trumps are used. against you, and, in addition mide- suits. break, badly, you must maki the beat or a bad situation and try to go down as little as possible if-
the contract cannot be You see made, the hand comes 'up in Duplicate, you must realise that everyone else. will encounter this same bad break, and therefore if you hold the penalty to a minimum [you will still get a very good score
on the board."
South, Dealer,
Both aides vulnerable, NORTH:—
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D.—T 3 8 C-X Q.6 4:
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SOUTH:-
S—A K Q.10 € HL-Q7.4,82
D.-94 C.--
EAST:-
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K-J 10.9 6 4 D.-K Q J 10
(Figures after numbered
C- 10 9'3 The bidding: bids refer to planatory paragraphs). South West North East
PARN
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"Royalty Arrives on Broadway
♫ Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Barrymors. Aiming at two birds with ons stone, Lionel Barrymore, member of the theatrical "Royal Family," arrives in New York from Hollywood-with his wife, the former Irene Fenwick, Barrymore in to undergo a cours of medical treatment in the metropolis, following which he will make his first appearance on the legitimate stage since 1924.
China's Position As World Force
Problems Of Entity Reviewed
“IRRESPONSIBLE MILITARISTS:
London.
CINEMA
NOTES
MAIL REVIEW
*FLYING DOWN TO RIO”—-
· KING'S THEATRE.
HEADIO1
• The following progrengde will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong, Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wave length" of 355 metres (845 K.Cs):
1
1210,-Eurpean programme,
B.M.---Local Time and - Weather.
1.01. pan-Racorded music. 115_pm-A®_relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong
Hotel Grill Room. | 1:30 pm--Local Weather forecast, etc.
213 pm-Clone Down.
Beautiful Dolores Del Rio en-Report. acts the most, thrilling romance ever experienced by a girl in RKO Radio Pictures musical, extrava ganza, "Flying Down To Bla ⠀⠀ Loved by two handsome screen heroes, Gene Raymond, as" an American, and Raoul Boullen, as a Latin-American, she is frst vir- tually kidnapped by Baymond who Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hong soars aloft with her in his "Flying Kong Hotel: Boof Garden, Piano" and wooes her with origin-tions, etc.
• Dual, Transmission: “To-night. 5-8 pm European programme... 5.7
of the Hong Kong p. relay
an-Closing. Local Block Quota-
programme,
7.3-8
al compositions d
Later she is spirited aloft by Band Roullen, but Raymond gets aboard the same plane; and in the climax Roulien in bested in lore, and Do, lores and Raymond are married far above the clouds by the plane's pilot.
p..--Recorded
Faust Frolics (Gounod, azs. Somera) Carmen. Caprice (Bizet, arr. Bomers) Dan Debroy Somers Band Orchestral p
Mother
Pearl-Ey Woman
her of
Mother of Pearl When Anybody
Plays or Bings D
Thinks She Wants to Wander
Eddie Baxon & His Orchestra.
The production in enacted by an all-star cast, including Ginger Ro-Vocal-Drinks All Round
gers and Fred Astaire, celebrated idol of New York and London, and la chorus of 200 beauties, selected
from 10,000 applicants....
MAIL REVIEW:
""DANCING LADY,"—QUEEN'S
THEATRE
Columbia, Vocal Gem Company.. Pianoforte Bolo SANTA
Triana ("Iberla");t(Albania). ^ Military March'in B Flat (Schpbert,
art. Backhaus)
Vocal Gema
Wilhelm Backhaus.
Patience (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Band-
Columbia Light Opera Co..
The Evolution of Dixie (Lake)
Reg
Band of H.M. Grenadier
Song
Guards.
If Love Were All: (“Bitter Sweet")"
(Coward) -
Song
Ivy St. Heller (Soprano)..
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, two of the most prominent stars on the screen, are cast in a thrilling story of back-stage life and ro- mance in "Dancing Lady.”
The story is of a chorus girl, în |- (Coward) gets
Peggy Wood (Soprano), a burlesque show who is offered marriage by an attractive million- A Musical Jig-Baw (arr. Aston)
Orchestral
Regal Cinema Orchestra,
Zigeuner ("Bitter Sweet")
8 pm Local Time and Weather
on to say that the comparison are play-boy. She refuses him, 1 S (1) Past 2NT Pass
That China as an entity may between China and Europe was however, and prefers the pre- 33 Pass 49
eventually emerge as a much tending to become less close and carious existence of a dancer and Report
8.3-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con- to the stage-man-cert. Pass Pass (2)
more significent thing for the might indeed be misleading in gives her love 1-Although light, this hand must world than it had ever been be- relation to future developments *ger.
10.30 pm-Rugby Mid-day Press be opened, particularly in Hofore, was the opinion expression "In recent times China's posi- The glamorous Joan Crawford, News
10.35 p.m.-Close. Down well play, because of the 100 by Professor F. M. Roxby in his tion has greatly changed," he who won praise in "Modern
N.B.: From 8.30-10pm. "ZEK. honours and the very fine distri-presidential address at the an said. "On the other hand, ex-Maidens,” gives a very striking per- Hong Kong" will broadcast a pro- bution.
nual conference of the Geogra-ternal pressure, constantly in-formance and is well supported by gramme of European, music on. 840 2-West might have doubled at phical "Association.
creasing, by forcing China out of Clark Gable, as the debonair stage K.Cs
as theAll relay of the Hong Kong Hotel this point. However, from the The subject of his address her complacency and isolation in-manager, Franchot Tone,
Orchestras are by courtesy of the bidding he was not even sure he was entitled "China as an Entity to the vortex of the restless life millionaire sultor, May Robson, Management and during the intervals would make both of his Aces-the Comparison With Eu- of the modern world, has pro- Nelson Eddy, Winnie Lightne and recorded music will be broadcast from
the Studio.
· and furthermore, despite his rope."
vided her with both the incen-Robert Benchley.
觐
4
"LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT":
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
WIL
actress who
beauti-
seu-
OLIVE SHIRTS IN
BRAZIL
Fascist Movement Has Wide Popularity.
SUNDAY MORNING PARADES
San Paulo, (Brazil), Black shirts, Blue shirts, Green
length in trumps, he bemoaned Whether China could hold to-tives to, and the models of, the fact that he did not hold gether as an entity under ob-more closely-knit form of nation: MAIL REVIEW an honour. In addition, from his viously increasing pressure was al organisation. tra holding it looked to him as if not a question that could be an- "On the other hand, the the opponents might make four swered in the light of observa abolition of the Imperial of "no-trump and go down at four tions or reports, disconnected fice removed the only visible
"Ladies they talk about," spades, and he did not want to land often conflicting, on current symbol of political unity at
lis sentimental reformation theme the most critical stage" of chance driving them to the political events and tendencies,
said Professor Roxby....
her long history...
În - a; drama - dealing with. pri- former contract.
Organised Nation State. "If upheaval, turmoil and son life. It
written by This hand was dealt in the re
When so framed, the answers chaos have been the most appar Dorothy Mackaye, the and for the transaction of any other cent Individual Masters' Tourna- Ordinary business of the Company, ment held last month. Most west ranged from the view that China ent results so far, it does not at ful
NOTICE is also hereby given players chose to underland one of was no more than a "geographi- all follow that China as an on-tenced to San Quentin prison, fol- that the TRANSFER BOOKS of their Aces, and, having nothing cal expression" and was losing tity will not eventually emergellowing the death of her husband shirts and now the Olive Shirts!
Where whatever superficial unity she as a much more significant thing in a brawl.
Since the revolution of 1980 the Company will be closed from go by, chose a low club.
Barbra Stanwyck brings out her great number of political groups undoubted - ability to depict the have sprung up in Brazil, and one NOTICED IS HEREBY GIVEN MONDAY, 12th. March, 1984, until the lead was made, the success of once possessed, to the view that for the world than it has ever
that the FOURTH ORDINARY WEDNESDAY, 21st. March, 1984, Declarer in making the most of the she was well on the way to be been before.. GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE both days inclusive, during which hand depended on whether or not coming an organised nation state. "Our judgment on that issue role of "Nan Taylor," who is used of the most prominent is the Olive.
No attempt to answer these must not be based upon our viewļas a decoy by Bank robbers. Pres- Shirt movement. HOLDERS will be held at the period no transfers of shares can after taking a round of spades and
discovering the adverse tramp als questions, said the Professor, of of the success or even the sincer-ton Foster is good as the reformer About half of the 10,000,000 In- Registered Offices of the Company,] be registered.
tribution, ha. immediately sensed such vital significance to the ity of the political experiments who tries to help Nan's friends, to habitants of the State of Ban Paulo that the heart auit would als world, could be made of much of the last few years, but upon escape. The atmosphere of the life are of Italian origin, and Fascism break badly, with probably a string value unless it was based on jour calculation of the much behind the prison walls is well appeals to soms of the younger of cards in that suit held by East. reasoned appraisement of the deeper forces making for nation presented and the film proves generation,
evolution and nature of Chinese al self-consciousness. S
Sof The Olive Shirt movement." has Hong Kong, 25th. February, 1934. Those Declarers who subsequently society. The character and sig "To promote It, deliberate and Maude. Eburne, Dorothy Burgess, adopted the Greek Bigma (Letter S)
led the Ace of hearts from. Dummy nificance of both the similarities sustained efforts have been made Lillian Roth and many others do as its emblem. to test out that suit were doomed and divergencies between differ for several years. Some are of well in the supporting cast to go down 2 tricks, as the Grent parts of that vast land would a highly objectionable charac-h round way ruffed. The careful De also have to be studied: ter, such as the manipulation of MAIL-REVIE
King's Theatre Building, 5th floor,: on WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of] March, 1934, at 12 o'clock noon to. receive the Directors' Report, and Accounts for the year ended Slat December, 1933, to elect Auditors, and to transact such other business.
as may be properly transacted at
By Order of the Board, D. L. KING,
Secretary.
DOCK CO. LTD.
an Ordinary General Meeting of THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA clarer, still hoping to make his To this purpose Professor Rox-school text-books for anti-foreign the 'Company.
And Notice is further hereby
given that the Register and Trana-
thrilling and entertaining,
contract, but not wishing to so by painted fascinating picture propaganda, but in the main it "TM NO ANGELZ-STAR down more than one, led the first of the history of Ching, its is agentine and vigorous cul-
fer Books of the Company will be▼VALE IS HEREBY ". GIVEN round of hearts from his own hand peoples, its languages and – ita tural movement," A
closed from the 12th to the 21st LY
that the ORDINARY YEAR- so that if West ruffed, a low card MEETING OF SHARE could be played from Dummy.m day of March 1934, both days in-HOLDERS will be held in the Even if the defense started of clusive.
Office of the Company, 2 Queen's by leading three rounds of dia Hong Kong, 28th Feb, 1984. Building, Hong Kong, on MON-[monds, careful play would allowi
· LIANG CHI HAO,
DAY, 26th March, 1984, at Noon, Déclarer to still take nine tricks Managing Director.
for consideration of the Directors' and go down only one, as South, Report and Statement of Accounts instead of taking, five spade tricks, for the year ending $1st December, three heart tricks and a club, could 1933.
tako" six", spade tricks, and three The Share Register and Trans- tricks in clubs and hearta, fer Books will be closed from the 19th to 26th March, 1984, both days inclusive
THE HONG KONG - FIRE -
` INSURANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SIXTY-FIFTH ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of
SHAREHOLDERS will be held at "the Offsen of the undersigned on TUESDAY, the 27th March 1986, at Noon, for the purpose of receiv. ing the Report of the Managers, together with i ment of Accounts for the ended the stat December 1
The Sh
Reg
By Order of the Board of
Director
Hong Kong, 9th
FOR SALE
1934
{COCK/
MABAERE. POSTAGE STAMP CATALOG
geography
"Europe and China are na tions of the first division of mankind,”; he said: "They are great continuilled of histor)-- cal development which may embrace many distinct Jan- guages and political unite: *Civilised - Europe was one country under the Roman Em. pire, while China has divide ted between separate
through great part of its his tory.
Bas-had-
of
THEATRE
Political Unity Problems Mae West the exotic tar Professor Boxby said that ul-"Bho Done Him Wrong “ has been tra-nationaliam was a highly in- principal role In the lates fectious disease and the nation- mount production, "I'm No alism of the young Chinese was now showing at the Etar Theats often as extreme and extrava- Sensational and darlı gant ar the form of it which we story, the picture moyas were so painfully familiar in mo- and unir tad meti dern Europe,
ing
"Regarding the aspect of political unity, the Profes-
The
movement. gained publicity lately when a distinguished Brazi Ban author, who was President of the Brazilian Academy of – Letters, joined ita rank yang me
The Olive Shirts hold many Sun-- day morning' parades in San Paolo.
POLISH WORKERS' HOLIDAYS
“English Saturday”
Withdrawn
New
of Folan
WATERWA