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CONTRACT
by Ely Culbertson.
World's Champion Player and Greatest Card Analyst
bid."
'BRIDGE INHIBITIONS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
never make a Pre-emptive
The Bridge player who miskes this statement is robbing himself of one of the most effective weap- ons in Contract. On certain types of hands, such as have a pre- dominant suit and are practically void of outside honour strength, ¦pre-emption—that is, an attempt to shut out the enemy's communica-
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS. tions-is the only line of defense.
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NOTICES.
GENERAL
NOTICE.
It is a striking illustration of the military sayng that attack is the defense. For instance, the best other day in a Duplicate game I saw a number of players sitting in the South position pick up this hand:
Spades A Q 7 6 5 4 3 2 Hearts K 7 3
Diamonds 4
Club#
K
Certainly no holding can be less suggestive of defense
jone.
Looking Over Mount Ranier from Plane
A magnificent view of the top of Mount Ranier, towering 14,408 feet above Puget Sound, Wash- ington, as seen from an aeroplane which soared 2,000 feet above the mountain. Note the crater in the peek at left. Although capped with eternal snow, the peak was once the mouth of a fire-belch- ing valcano.
than this INDIAN SADU
BAFFLES THE
SCIENTISTS
Foretold Earthquake To Minute
For
CINEMA
NOTES
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"WASHINGTON MERRY GROUND"QUEEN'S THEATRE
FIERCE FIGHT WITH
CROCODILE.
European Boatman
Rescues Native.
Mbabane (Swaziland).
A thrilling fight between crocodile and a European' Boatman at the point on the Usutu River occurred during the retcht floods. Kelly, the boatman, spotted a large crocodile making for a na- tive who was crossing cattle at the
FRADIO
-TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. wave length of 355 metres (846 K,C's):--
опа
1-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Report
1.03 p.m.-Recorded Music.
•
1.15 pm. A relay of the Hong, Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong
Kong Hotel Grill Room.
1.30 p.m.Rugby Press News. etc. 2.15 p.m.-Colae Dawn.
Dual Transmission To-night from
Z.BK.
4.50-6.40 p.m. (approx:)~A Running Commentary on the Football Match between the South Wales Borderers and St. Joseph's from the Kowloon Football Club Ground. By courtesy, of the Kowloon Football Club and the Hong Kong Football Association.
6.40 p.m. (approx:)-7 pm-A relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Or chestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof
7
Ping Local Stock Quota-
tions, etc.
7.08-7.27. p.m.-Musical 'Comedy.
Vocal Gems
Wild Viocita (R. Stolz),
Maria Elsner and Martin Krasmer with Chorus & Orchestra. Selection-He Wanted Adventure,
New Mayfair Orchestra. Vocal Gems-Music in the Air, -7.27-8 p.m.-Orchestral Programine Light Opera Company. Toccata and Fugue
(Back), Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Lyric Suite (Grieg Op.54),
Royal Albert Hall Orchestra can- ducted by Sir Landon Ronald. 1. Shepherd Boy,
23 “stic March.
4.
of the Dwarfs,
ford, and turned the boat between Tone-Poem-26 No. 7. (Sibelius),
On the other hand, it requires |but a minimum of support in tho partner's hand to assure the mak ing of a fairly high contract—pos- sibly even game. There is no question in the mind of the player. up these cards as to what the final TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN declaration must be if he is to play
1905 INCIDENT RECALLED LESSONS In English, that in addition to our present the hand. Spades are preeminent utilize territory we have now been appoint-in his holdings. He can
London. ed Authorised Ford Dealers by the any strength his partner may have
Western science is sometimes with another Ford Motor Company, Exports, Inc., in other suits, but Shanghai, for Canton and Surround-declaration, and particularly play-baffled by things in the East.
The inimitable Lee Tracy who foretold, to the constance Cumming in COMPANY MEETINGS Territory as well as the entireing defensively, his cards are sure instance, there is the case of an
very them. Provinces of Kwangai and Kwel- to be worthless. Hence, the fear old Sadu
entertaining film entitled "Wash- A fierce fight followed, in which chow. There is no other authorised of loss with an utter lack of de-minute, a big earthquake.
This is how the story was relatington Merry Gound" pro- the crocodile made a determined Ford Dealer in any of the above ter-fense if opponents play the band.
and the chance of gain if the handled, in a lecture to the Royal Society duced Columbia Pictures Com-effort to get the native, who, for |ritory.
is played at a spade declaration. of Arts, by Sir Edwin H. Pascoe,pany, and directed by James tunately, was on the up-stream WALLACE HARPER & CO., LTD. unerringly point the way to the Director of the Geological Survey Cruze, is showing to-day at the side of the boat. Kelly used his cort
proper Opening bid-four spades. of India, 1921-32:-
Queen's Theatre.
oar to ward off the crocodile, 10,30 p.m.-Eugby Mid-day Prese A shut-out bit of this type is) "In the town of Jammu (in
News. The story is centred in Wash-which flogged the water into spray.
10.95 p.m.-Colse Down quite effective in all cases where Kishmir, while investigating the ington. and exposes political | Ultimately the native fell exhaust- All Relays of the Hong Kong Hotel 1906 earthquake) pirates who hamper Congress and ed into the boat, and the crocodile Orchestras are by courtesy of the the openents' strength is distri- effects of the buted in both hands. Even with a was taken to an old Sadu who was handicap Presidents, only to be disappeared.—Router.
Management, opponent may said to have foretold not only the crushed by a dashing "young fool"
8.30-10 p.m.-European Récorded to overcall a high earthquake, but the month, the day.who wins in the end-and the girl
Programme from. "LEX." on (VG k.cz. when lacking a and the time when it was .td take he loves,
suit. In such place.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong}
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEAR-
N
the HEAD OFFICE WRMr.
NOTICE.
LY MEETING of the Society will
XE have This Day authorised powerful hand an be held at
ERIC MACDONALD well hesitate Union Building, Hong Kong, on
BRYDEN, Chartered Accountant, Pre-emptive bid FRIDAY, 25th MAY, 1934, at 11 o'clock am, for the purpose of re-to sign our firm name in all matters powerful trump
amused incredulity Was MAIL REVIEW reiving the Report of the Directors pertaining to our Hong Kong Office. cases his best defense is to over-
call a Pre-emptive four-bid with silenced by his production of a
"My
and the Statements of Account 10 LOWE. BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, four notremp, foreing partner to newspaper printed In English and 31st December, 1933, and of declar- ing Dividend, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 8th MAY to 25th MAY, Buth Days in-} clusive.
By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 30th April, 1934.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-FIFTH OR- DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building.[ Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 25th MAY, 1934, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1933, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
Chartered Accountants.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1984,
AUCTIONEERS, appraiseES
AND SURVEYORS,
bid his longest auit. Assume that dated some days before the earth- the first player has opened with quake in which his prognostication| four spades, and the player to the appeared. left holds:
"In black and white there was
Spadea
Hearts AQ 65
Diamonds K Q 8 7 6 Clubs A Q J 10
"There may
&
"UP TO THE NECK”...
KING'S THEATRE
"Up to the Neck," starring Ralph)
ST. JOHN BRIGADE FLAG DAY.
Police Section Parade This Afternoon.
"Finlandia"
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leopold Stokowski,
Report.
8 p.m.--Local Time and Weather
8.03-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con-
8.00-8.55 pm-Selections by Derby Somere Band.
Lionel Monckton Memories (Lionel
Monckton). The Gay Nineties-Waltz Medley, [Shipmates O' Mine-Descriptive
***Ballad.
8.55-9.40 p.m.--A Concert, Violin Solo Serenade (Pierne),
Serenade (Tonelli),..Bence Chemet. Song-
(Deilber),
Chanson Indoue (Song of India)
Madama Amelita Galll-Curet
(Soprano). Instrumental Quartet—
Molly on the Shore (Grainger), Tambourin (arr. Sharge),
The annual Flag Day of the St. the rophecy, correct to the minute! by and Winifred Shotter, der John Ambulance Brigade is being Bolero-Les Filles De Cadix
be more things inscribed by a famous English critic held on Saturday. It is. sincerely. heaven and earth than, are dreamt "the most original and divert-hoped that the public will generous-
(Rimsky-Korsakov), for Ralph ly support the occasion as the whole LAMMERT BROS. The old forgies among the Bridge I can say is: Were that old man to Lynn." is showing
of in our western philosophy. Alling story ever written
at the King's of the proceeds will be devoted to Theatre to-day. players and those who prefer to foretell an earthquake here in Lon-
the maintenance of the clinics and The depend on guess rather than rea-dom to-morrow morning. I should
story Introduces Ralph medical work for the sick poor in son will double, having in their take an carly train to a quiet spat
Lynn as N. B. Good, a
would-be the New Territories. actor, who acts as well as his possession no better weapon and in the country,"
To give further publicity to the hoping against hope that partner Sir Edwin declared that although dramatic
name suggests. His rival at
Joccasion, it has been arranged, in may be strong enough to bid, but acientists might surmise that a rival through life, always succeed-ment, that the men's divisions will Academy remains his consultation with the Police Depart- feeling that whether he does or certain action of a large fault was ing where he fails. not, a penalty strength in the other in a state of strain and that an
assemble at Murray Parade Ground] THE Undersigned have received suits. Actually, the Opening bid earthquake was due, it was impos-Shotter the heroine of so
Opposite Ralph Lyna is Winifred to-morrow at 6.30 p.m. (by kind Tinstructions to sell by Publie Flutes the latter hope. West's sible to foretell when the shock was Ralph Lyng Alms-this time in a ities) and march through the town many permission of the Military Author- hand is also of the attacking type likely to occur.--Beuter,
characterisation which is different via Garden Road, Queen's Road, She is as April Dawne, nee Mary Bonham Strand, and return along Jones, & hard-hearted chorus girl Des Voeux Road,
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and is admirably fitted to that de-
fense against pre-emptive bids
now the
which is now a part of the Culbert-spades. Thereafter the only los-who is not hard-hearted under the son System-namely, the Notrumping cards were two heart tricks surface. Overcall of Opening bids af four and the King's of clubs. and Ave. It Weat doubles and Consider
situation MAIL REVIEW East passes, the hand will pro-which resulted where the four- bably be made, for North can have notrump Overcall
used. many holdings which will permit North rightly passed and East bid The TRANSFER BOOKS of the On View from Wednesday, the South to make his contract. In five clubs. South, had made a Company will be CLOBED from 8th 3rd. May, 1984. MAY to 25th MAY, Both Daya in- clusive.
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A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 30th April, 1934,
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nth the SIXTY-EIGHTH OB-
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of] the Company will be held at ita HEAD OFFICE, Union Building. Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 25th MAY,Į 1934, at 11.25 a.m., for the purpose) af receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account, to 81st Deceitber, 1988," and of declaring Dividend, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th- MAY to 25th MAY, Both Days In clusive.
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"THE CONQUERORS”— ORIENTAL THEATRE any event, the prospect of a paying pre-emptive overbid and his op- penalty le remote.
ponents had found the chink in his give stirring performances in the
Richard Dix and Ann Hardingi armor. He therefore passed. West RKO Radio production. "The Con paased, but now North came to the querors now showing at the rescue with a bid of five spades.Oriental Theatre, East passed, as did South, and
The actual hand was: South, Dealer.
East and West vulnerable.
NORTH:-
9.-10 9 8
- 10 8 4 D-A J 9 C.--5 4 3
WEST:—
.8
HAQ 65
D-K Q 8 7 6
C-A Q J 10
SOUTH:
S—A Q 7 6 5482 H-K 7.3
D.-4
OK
BK J
· HL-9 2
EASTI
C-9,8:7 6.2
D-10.6.8 2
On Saturday, St. John nurses and indy volunteer helpers will conduct the sale of St. John fiaga and flowers in the Colony, and on the (mainland,
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"FLYING DOWN TO RIO”— MAJESTIC THEATRE
Beautiful Dolores Del Rio
en
It is the atory of a. romance duracts the most thrilling romance West now doubled, feeling that ing the ups-and-downs of the ever experienced by a girl in RKO- after all it was better to accept United States from 1878, after the Radio Pictures' musical extrava what he felt was a sure penalty Civil War, until the present day. ganza, Flying Down To Elo." even though slight, than to bid for
a Slam which was far from cer into the nation's problems and vic-heroes, Gene Raymond, as an lain. As the cards lle, East and torfes, and shows how it struggled 'American, and 'Raoul Roulien, as West can make five clubs or dive through three financial crises-dura Latin-American, she is first vir- diamonds, North and South bave reached the limit of their trick- taking powers at four,
The picture gives a vivid insight Loyed by two handsome screen
*
In the first instance South gain- ed a rich reward by his bold, at- tack when, practically, without de febbe? In the second instance, where West used modern methods.
ing that period.
[MAIL - REVIEW
“COURAGE,”—ALHAMBRA THEATRE
tually kidnapped by Raymond who soars aloft with her in his "Flying Plano" and wooes her with origin- al compositions.
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теле
"THE BHADOW:”—STAR THEATRE
to combat Pre-emptive bida, he, in A stirring drama of a mother's stead of South, made the plus love is presented in the story of store. Bridge, like other games, "Courage" Warner Brothers' latest pays the richest rewards' to those Attraction, which has been adapted Henry Kendall and Elizabethi Where Bouth bid four spades who keep up-to-date. As we have from the famous play by Tom Allen pre featured in an exciting and West doubled, the hand was learned through bitter experience, Barry,
mystery thriller, The Shadow, made. West ppened the diamond the business world has no place for Belle Bennett, as the mother produced by the United Artists' Kings which was won with Dum old fogies, In Bridge, too, those Marlon Nixon, as her daughter Company. The picture is very my's Ace. A trump was then lad who uns modern, methods, and make and Leon Janney are
and when the Knave was playadery bid an effective attacking or The im offers unddal ste
well acted and shöldszitaruudience
| In""" surpenas until the finish,
the Queen was finessad, the" Do: gorenalve wahoon are the one who ment for those who welcome the out-Jeanne Stuart in lao ** notable clarer rightly readier....
make the highest scores.
HD of the ord[dary story,
Double as showing a void in.
ambng the supporting east.
Virtuoso String Quartet. Chorus O Who will Oe'r the Downs so
Free (de Pearsall),
pianoforte Solo
The B.B.C. Wireless Singers con- ducted by Stanford Robinson.
Prelude in A Minor (Debusky), All-Wien (Old Vienna) (Godowsky), Isabelle Talkovsky.
Now Sleepa The Crimson Petal
(Quilter),
Song-
A Falry Story by the Fire Violoncello Solo
John McCormack (Tenor). Musette (Bach-Follain),
(Merikanto),
Kaburka (Popper Op11 No. 8),
Pablo Caints.
9.40-10 pm-Dance Items, Fox-Trot
I Cover The Waterfront. In A Second Hand Store. Waltz
If you Say "Yes" Cherie, " Fox-Toot
There's & Cabin In The Pines, You're an Old Smoothe.
walts
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