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BRIDGE NOTES
Wasting A Trick Profitably.
by Ely Culbertanz.
I recently discussed a hand in which it was necessary to lose trick in order that a squeeze posí. tion might be developed. On the very next day a hand was played in a Duplicate game nt Crock- ford's Club, New York, in which this paint is beautifully illustrat ed.
and
Having 11 winning tricks, needing 12 to make his Slam con- tract, the Declarer as forced to resort to a squeeze .In order to
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In doing this, he found a safety play, which, though it was unneces- sary as it happened, forms an in- teresting secondary, feature of the hand.
East, Dealer,
North and South vulnerable.
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Typical Scene of Flood-Ravaged New England
Flood scenes at Methuen, Mass., which are typical of conditions in many parts of New England, where swoolled streams caused by heavy rains and Spring, thaw have inundated large tracts. (Top), the waters of the Merrimach River raging through the Rosemont section of the town. (Below), one of the many homes isolated by the flood on the outskirts of Methuen.
SLUM CLEARANCE
IN BRITAIN
£115,000,000 Needed For Programme.
EMPLOYMENTS FOR 110,000
Amusements
Cinema Notes
“TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING”QUEEN'S
THEATRE
"GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS” -KING'S THEATRE
FRADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMENE
The following programme will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wave length of 355 metres ́(845 K.C.'s) :--
1-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 1 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.*
1.03 p.m. Recorded Music.
Tiong
1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room.
1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press News, etc. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
A Vocal Recital by Miss Maria de Osma
Dance Music from the Hong Kear Hotel.
4-5.20 p.m.-Chinese Recorded Pro- gramme.
5.20-7.10 p.m. (Approx)-A Kan- ning Commentary Match between
Football on the the China Olympic of the Champlons and the Rest
Colony, from the Hong Kong Foot- ball Club Ground, by kind permission of the Hong Kong. Football Associa- tian.
7.10-7.30 p.m. (Approx) Chinese
Programme.
7.30-11.30 p.m.-European From
gramme.
7.30-7.40 p.m. A Venelian Bar- carolle Serenade (arr. Willoughby)
⚫ played by the J. H. Squire Celeste 7.40-8 p.m.-From the Studio.
Octet
A Recital by Miss Maria de Osma
(Dramatic Soprano)
accompanied by Mrs. Nura Kanis.
Programme
Rimplante (Serenade)
1.
12.
Ave Maria
3.
"George White's Scandals,"#{ca+ turing Rudy Vallee, America's famous, radio crooner and jazz band leader, is Fox Film'a current port attraction, now showing at the King's Theatre.
Fox's new musicale could onlyi A grim and realistic drama of be a success with such stars in the prison life if portrayed in First picture as Jimmy (Shdozzle)
London. The total programme
of slum clearance in England and Wales National's
Enrica Torelli.
G. Lucantoni
3. Campalvi
Llora (Cancion) Lolita (Berenade) A, Buzzi-Pecela 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-
8.03-8.20 p.m.- Tannhauser-Venusberg Music
(Bacchanale) (Wagner)
Bruno Waller conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.20-8.37 pm Vocal Gems from
Light Opera production, "Twenty Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Chu Chin Chow (Norton)
will, it is estimated, be brought up Thousand Years in Sing Sing."
to approximately 300,000 houses by
Light Opera Co.
Ames, Clif Edwards, Gregory Ratuff, Dixie Dunbar, Gertrude The Quaker Girl (Monckton) the time all the schemes that are The story, which was adapted Michael and George White.
Light Opera Company. In addition to the numerous 8.37-9 p.m.-Band Selections. the Ume all tho schemes that are from the book by Warden Lewis E,
The Regimental Band of H. M. outstanding have been officially Lawes, of Sing Sing Prison, is the songs and dances, the film is en- Nautical Moments (arr. Winter)
friched by one of the tenderest love,
Grenadier Guarda. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
The bidding: (Figures after checked.
most remarkable dramatisation of stories ever screened.
Selection of Wilfred Sanderson's Songs Company will be closed from May bids refer to numbered explanatory!
About 20.000 replacement
The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards 21st, 1934, to May 28th, 1934, Inclu-|paragraphs),
houses will be built in the first human emotions ever made. Every
(arr. Godfrey) elve.
South West North East year, 35,000 in the second year and phase of the life of the convicts is "ROME EXPRESS"—MAJESTIC Reminiscences of Scotland :
70,000 in the third year. It is con- touched on, including their per- templated that the last houses of sonal lovca, their friendships and the programme may not be com- their loyalties. pleted until the sixth year.
By Order of the Board, IS
J. F. SHEA,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th May, 1934.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Nth the TWELFTH ORDIN
ARY YEARLY MEETING OF [SHAREHOLDERS will be held in
35 ANT
2H
2NT
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the Lounge adjoining the Com-13-South used the four-notrump end of the crusade to £3.100,000
pany's Restaurant, 1st Floor, Ex- change Building. Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, 9th JUNE, 1934, at
·1-1-o'clock-am:
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from
1934, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board Directora.
of
THEATRE
*
THE MEANEST THEF
THEATRE
The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards 9-11.20 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Pass BNT (1) AD
Excellent technique and brilliant Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra' from the Pass GNT (2) Pass
acting are featured in "Rome Ex-Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room'
10.30 pm Ragby Mid-day: Prens Pass GS (3)
Paso Pass
Spencer Tracy is in the leading press," "which," according to critical ¡News. honour-tricks 1-North, with 2%
The programme is expected to
11.30 p.m.-Close Downl and the fact that his partner give employment to 110,000 per-role of Convict Tom Connors, opinion in the greatest picture Eng
land had yet produced.
All Relays of the Hong Kong Hotel has made a free rebid in sons throughout the period of the "big shat" of the underworld, who
The action of the film, takes Orchestras are by courtesy of Manage- spades, wishes to insure the crusade.
was eventually sent to the electric places in a train, and is feature ment. hand's being played at garne. The capital cost of providing the chair for a crime he had never by such notable playerá до 2-North now wishes that his ear-replacement houses will be £115 committed. Miss Bette Davis, play- Esther Ralston, Conrad Veldt,
ller bidding had not sounded so 000.000 and the Exchequer contri- strong. However, this bid is bution in the first year will be in opposite Tracy, lenda excellent Joan Barry and Gordon Harker, li has been termed as the British re-
Port of Spain, Trinidad. forced and he holds two Aces. about £620,000 and will rise at the support.
[ply to "Grand Hotel.".
A man has been sentenced to six bid only to reach a Small Slam. per annum. The Exchequer sub- "WHARF ANGEL”—ALHAMERA Į
"CITY LIGHTS”—LEE THEATRE months' imprisonment here because he stole a penny from a blind boy Had North bid five spades in-sidy runs for 40 years. stead of five no-trump, he would The cost to the local authorities,
One of the most unusual and Charile Chaplin, the world's in the street; broke open the poor "have passed; "now he bids only £3-168-per-house each year for
six spades.
forty years is estimated at £214,- colourful tales ever shown in local greatest comedian, is-featured-inbox in a Church, and stole West opened the King of hearts. 300 in the first year, rising to theatres is Paramount's current at-"City Lights," now showing at the woman's handbag while she was
Lee Theatre. It is one of the best praying-Reuter. 28TH MAY, 1934 to 9TH JUNE South reasoned on the bidding that (£1,070,000 in the fifth year. The traction "Wharf Angel."
The actions of the picture take pictures that Chaplin has starred West would hold the only high capital value of the Exchequer
The Japanese flotilla of war- rounde subsidy is £56,000,000 and of the the audience, through San Fran-in, being alled with humour and 'hearts after at most two
old Barbary pathos. cisco's glamorous
In the fof them had been played, and that rate subaldy £28,000,000..
He is supported by Miss Virgina ships will make a cruise The average rents, including Coast to the coast of China. Not Eaat had the only diamonds which
able players such as Victor Mc- Cherrill, who plays the role of the Baltic Sea in July, stopping in the newly bullt Polish port of Gdynia were higher than his own eight. rates, will be:-
week;
Lagles, Dorothy Dell Preston blind girl. Houses, 6s to Bs #
Foster and Allson Skipworth are Flats, 9 to 128 a week; The value of the subsidy may be featured.
The film, which was adapted. be reduced to two cards in each Laken as 51. a week. player's hand, neither East This programme applles only to from a story by Frederick Schlick. house is especially realistic in its battle Went could retain more than one the legal slum-that is a elub, and the third small club in which is not fit for human habita-scenes and in the ship's stokehold. Dummy would, be a winning trick. tion and cannot be made fit at rea-McLaglen and Foster play their parts to perfection, and are very This combination could not be desonable expense.
There remains the problem of convincingly supported by Miss veloped if East and West still had three cards each when South had the house which is not unfit, but Skipworth. rum all of his winning tricks. which requires reconditioning, or
"KONGO"-STAR THEATRE- It would have been possible, of is overcrowded. course, to plan to win the Ace of dreds of thousands of houses of this class and the Government is
Throbbing of war drums, hearts, draw trumps and duck a round of diamonds to East, after preparing a Bill which will deal muffled beat of countless black feet wards taking the Ace of diamonds with the problem of recondition trampling the underbush of
African jungle,`and Ing and overcrowding-Reuter. and ruffing out two rounds of hearts
vil in a wheel-chair, emphasising ao that Dummy would still have the
MAN BLACKMAILS his commands with a long bull- eight but East would have no more
whip. That is "Kongo," a Metro- hearts which might beat it.
Goldwyn-Mayer melodrama featur- ing Walter Huston.
A. W. BROWN, Manager & Secretary, Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1934.
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In this case each of them would
have to hold at least one card in
his sult, so that if the hand could
nor
An
There are hun-
BEGGARS
Posed As Police Officer
There was always the possibility, however, that West had held eight-card heart suit, and that the first round of hearts would be ruf- fed: It was just as easy to duckl this first trick and serve the double) purpose of wasting a trick and Police have caught Gyorgy Radi guarding against the Ace of hearts blackmailing beggars! being ruffed.
Budapest.
His system was to tell the beg
So South ducked, and West shift-gara that he was a detective, and
the
the
a "white de-
In the feminine roles opposite Huston are Lupe Velez, and Vir glais Bruce..
"PENTHOUSE"-OMENTAL THEATRE
"Penthouse," "featuring Warner
ed to a club. This was won by to ask to sea their permite to beg. Baxter, and Myrna Loy, is a Metro- South's Ace, and tramps, were When they had none, he demand-Goldwyn Mayer production ledge will sure you of perfect drawn, the Ace of diamonds cash-led a percentage of their takings. The fimiis based upon a novel] ed, and another diamond in the Otherwise, he said, he would in- of the same name by Arthur South hand discarded on Dummy's form the police. Ace of hearts. South now, return-
support, at and comfort,"
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But it was the beggars who
Somers Roche, which was publish. ed in aerial form in the Cosmo- Warner Baxter gives one of hir finest performances in the picture as a scion of an aristocratic Now duce his holding to one club in or South's night of diamonds be a win York family, and a society lawyer der to keep a heart, and Fast was narys Dummy's eight of clubs far who chooses to defend notorious in the same." predicament, leathed the twelfth winning trick at racketauration
(Continued af Foot of Nest Col) the sad.
ed to his hand by ruffing a heart, eventually informed the police politan Magazine, and::led' all' blå trumps out. La Reuter,
Finally, West was forced to re
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