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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934′′
BRIDGE NOTES
STRIP PLAY
by Ely Culbertson.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme, will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station a wave length of 855
One of the simplest of all types 2.B.W. on of handa to play is that involving metres (845 K.C.'s) :---- the so-called strip or elimination, and yet there is probably no type) of hand that is more frequently misplayed..
1-2.15 p.m.-European Programme.
1 pm-Local Time & Weather Re-
port.
1.03 p.m.-Recorded Music.
1.16 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong! Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room (by courtesy of the Management).
1:30 pay Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, etc."
2.15 p.m. Close Down. Hawallan Selections from the Studio 4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 6-6.15 p.m.-Children's Studio Con-
Ilanda requiring the elimination of one or more suits occur with considerable frequency in almost Kowloon Bay, every session at the Bridge table, Shipbuilders & Repairers. Call Flag "L" and yet, while very easy to recog- -Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors. nise, there are many players who| fail to discover the correct method! of handling this type of holding.
An interesting example of a 7-10.40 p.m.-European Programme." 7 p.m.-London and New York Stock strip play accured is a recent
& Commodity Quotations. Duplicate game at Miami, Fla., the
7.05-7.22 p.m.Vocal Gem, great winter resort of Eastern Les Cloches de Corneville (Planquette)
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Groesbeck, playing the South cards The Quaker Girl (Monekton) below, was the only person to make The Waltz Dream (Strauss) five-old on a hand in which the method of play adopted by him was designed to assure a contract of "Petroushka" (Stravinsky) played by the London Symphony Orchestra conf four-odd against moat possible ducted by Albert Coates. East and West distributions.........
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author
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PAUL
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WYNNE GIBSON ERIC UNDEN Dorothy Appleby John Darrow Anita-Louise Sam Hardy
VICKI BAUM'S GIVE MY LOVE
A B.F. Zeldman Production directed by Kurt Neumann. Presented by Carl Loomelz, A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TO-MORROW "THE SAVAGE GIRLS"
WITH
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1st Tableau-The Mid-Lent Fair. 2nd Tableau-Petroushka's Room. 3rd Tableau-The Moor's Room. 4th Tableau-Petroushka is slain, Hi
Ghost haunts the Magician.
H. p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- port.
842-8.38 p.m.--Variety.
Piano Solon-
Piano "Show Memories"
Vocal Duet-
Turner Layton.
What's Good for the Goose, is good
for the Gander
Ger. Oh Gosh, I'm Grateful!
Sam Browne, and Girl Friend.] Organ -Solo-
Wedding of the Painted Dall
Medley of Old Songs.
Vocal Duet
Night on the River
Lexli James.
The Old Covered Bridge
Pinno Duet
Layton and Johnstone.
I Want a Fair and Square Man
Ain't she the Dainty
-Carroll Gibbons and John W. Green.
8.38-9 p.m. The Band of H.M. Cold- stream Guurda.
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1. Wedding of the Rose (Jessel)
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB Pass
1 S 4 8
2 H Pass
2 3 Pass
3. Valse des Alouettes (Drigo),
4. Amoretten Tanze (Gung')
Pass
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THE TENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (Wen- ther Permitting) it HAPPY VAL LEY on SATURDAY, NOVEM- BER, 1934, commencing at 2.00
p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 29th October, 1934.
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Amusements
Cinema Notes
THIRTY DAY PRINCESS"- KING'S THEATRE
2. Hobomoko-Intermezza (Reeves)
5. Swastika March (Klohr)
6. Entry of the Boyards-March (arr. Winterbottom)
7. Marche Lorraine (Ganne)
-9-9.20 p.m.--From the Studio.
Hawaitan Selections by Ho Yuk Ming: and Ho Yuk Lun.
and
9.20.9.30 p.m. Archibald Joyce Waltzes (arr. 'Debroy Somers) played by Debroy Somers Band.
9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity Quotations.
935-10 p.m.-Musical Comedy, 1
Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward)
Columbia Light Opera Company. Selection-
Never before has charming Syl-Vocal Gems- via Sidney, star of "Pick Up" and "American Tragedy", been so con- in vincingly demure as she is "Thirty Day Princess," now playing)
LAMMERT BROS. at the King's Theatre. Always an
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Moon Glow
Your Mother's son-in-law Love in Bloom
With my eyes wide open I'm Dream-
ing.
actress-worthy-of-front-page-fame, Miss Sidney wins new laurels in this new picture- laughable tale of a great impersonation which Fox Trot places a down-and-out ham actress in the public eye an the crown princess of an obscuro European country. Ilired to substitute for THE Undersigned have received the real princess, who is ill with instructions to sell by Public the mumps, Sylvia plays her role In fact, Auction
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Cary Grant, as Porter Madison
Cocktails for Two
Heaven on Earth
Ev'ry Time I Look at you.
Oh! Muki Muki Ohl Waltz--
Love is a Song
10.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, III, is the virile hero and Vince Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further Barnett is Count Nicholaus, -other- London Stock & Commodity Quata- wise known as "Sourpuss", the tions, followed by New York Opening Hited fiancee. And the cast is well Quotations.
10.40 p.m.-Close Down. supported by such luminaries as Henry Stephenson, Edgar Norton! and Edward Arnold.
committed. Miss Bette Davis, play- in opposite Tracy, lends excellent
Kong Air Mail, First Flight, China" GIVE MY LOVE"-CENTRAL support.
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"THE MAN WHO DARED”— ALHAMBRA THEATRE
"I Give My Love," Universal'a adaption of Vicki Baum's latest literary achievement, is now show- Based on colourful incidents in Ing at the Central Theatre, with the life of the late Anton Cermak. Wynne Gibson and Paul Lukas in one time Mayor of Chicago, who the leading roles.
'was shot to death by a bullet in- Miss Baum, who is hest remem-tended for President Roosevelt, bered for her novel "Grand "The Man Who Dared," a Fox Film Hotel," again gives her admirers production, is now at the Alhambra Ja powerful story modern society Theatre.
life in this film.
The story of the picture traces
the development of a young immi
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as a miner, through one of the most turbulent periods of recent times. It reveals the persever A grim and realistic drama of ence and the unswerving devotion prison life if portrayed in First of a young man for the righteous National's production, "Twenty principles of his adopted country. Thousand Years In Sing Sing."The axis around which the plot The at which was adapted of "The Kan Who Dared" revolves, from the book by Warden Lewis Elis a romance between the young Lawes, of Sing Sing Prison, is the immigrant and a beautiful girl of most remarkable, dramatisation of his own nationality. Bruaque and human emotions ever made..
fearless as his life is, he reveals Spencer Tracy is in the leading himself the tenderest of lovers and On view from Wednesday, the 31st, October, 1934. role of Convict Tom Connors, u the most considerate of companions.
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