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"THE CAT'S PAW"-KING'S THEATRE
Harold Lloyd, the famous come- Idian of the silent picture days, makes a welcome return to the screen in a new and original story in "The Cat's Paw," now showing at the King's Theatre.
Lloyd introduces a new way of handling political corruption and racketeers. resorting to the wisdom
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from China to find a wife, is thrown into the maelstrom of a ty! pical American election campaign.
Supporting the comedian are Una Merkel,- George Barbier, Nat Pendleton, Grace Bradley, Alan Dinehart,
Fred Grant Mitchell, Warren, Warren Hymer, J. Farrell, MacDonald, James Donian, Edwin Maxwell, Frank Sheridan, Fuzzy Knight and Vince Barnett.
"THE SCARLET EMPRESS”—. QUEEN'S THEATRE
Marlone Dietrich, the glamorous German star, steals all the hon- ours in Paramount's spectacular
On sale at all book-stalls and at the SPECIAL XMAS SALE drama of Russian royalty in the
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Ifarald Lloyd and his partner in fun, Una Merkel, as they appear in the comedian's latest and most
unusual story "The Cat's Paw," now showing at the King's Theatre.
BRIDGE. NOTES
THE CULBERTSON COUP
by Ely Culbertson.
Years ago, while living in Paris,
I met an old Frenchman with whom
T'occasionally played Bridge.
His bidding was terrible, and his
THE FUTURE OF THE MAURETANIA
No Longer On List Of Winter Sailings
RETIREMENT RUMOURS
Absence of the Mauretania
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Pro- gramme,
12.30-1 p.nt-European Recorded Music.
1 p.m.--Local Time and Weather
play even worse, but he did con-from the list of autumn and win- Report. tribute one thing to my Bridgo ed-ter sailings just issued adds 1.03 p.m.-Recorded Music. ucation and that was certain know strength to the rumours in Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong 1.15 pmA Relay, of the Hong ledge of hoir to play such a com- Liverpool shipping circles that Kong Hotel Grill Room (by courtesy
of the Management).
bination as A 10 9 6 in one hand
1.30 p.m. Reuter Preas, Balletins, Bagby Press News, etc.
2.16 p.m.-Close Down. Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra. ZEK. Programme
and Q 8 5 3 in the other, seeking great liner has made her last
Transatlantic trip. to limit the opponents' tricks in the suit to one.
An official of the Cunard White When I took up Bridge-playing ir Star Line in Liverpool, when Amerien I brought with me thiansked if the vessel, was to go into 6-8 p.m.-European Programme. contribution of hia to the theory of the hands of the ship-breakers. Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from 6-7 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Bridge and convinced both partnera said: "She may not have finished the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden (by and opponents at the Bridge table her career even though her At-courtesy the Management). that the plan devised was the most lantic crossings may ceuse... It is 7 pmClosing Local Stock Quota- satisfactory method of playing this possibile that she will go cruising Commodity Quotations.
tions, London and New York Stock and particular combination with the in American waters. She has purpose of eliminating as much as been a very popular cruise ship Pinnoforte Solos possible the element of guess.
with Americans who, because of Mazurka-Op. 24 No. 4 (Chopin)
7.08-7.10 p.m.-Concert Iteins.
Ignaz Friedman.
My friends call it the "Culbert-her handsome decorations, re- Mazurka-Op. 33 No. 4 (Chopin) son Coup." but is not, as I said, gard her as an aristocrat among really mine, except in the sense liners."
that I have brought it to the atten- Few big ships have reached tion of other Bridge players.
Jhonourable retirement after such
So much for theory.
a romantic career as the Maure Recently at the Yale Club
tania has had during her quarter- in!
of-a-century's service on the At- New York City a Duplicate Bridgelantic. In addition to holding tournament of seven tables was the Blue Riband of the Atlantic held, and one of the hands dealt for many years, the "grand old was the following: South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
days of Catherine the Great, "The STILL MOURNING FOR North
Scarlet Empress", at the Queen's ; Theatre.
Based on a diary by the glamor- ous Catherine the Great of Russia, who ruled her country with an -iron hand and yet was ruled by
Just Received POSTAGE STAMPS CATALOGUE for 1935
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romantic impulses, "The Scarlet Empress" must be rated a speci- acle by any standards of judgment. It goes beyond lavishness of pro- įduction and artistic beauty. how- ever, in that it is one of the most gripping dramatic stories yet to roach the screen.
a characterization which
QUEEN ANNE
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COASTWISE
by
ALGIE" BENNETT.
An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast.
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"THIS SPORTING AGE"- ALHAMBRA THEATRE
C.--10:4
Weat North
Pass 31 Pasa Раба
lady of the ocean," as the Maure- tania is affectionately called, has experienced many thrills.
On one occasion she was in grave danger from a serious fire which put her in actual peril of being gutted.
During the war when acting as
Songs-
Cello Solos-
A Summer Night (Thomas) My Dearest Heart (Sullivan)
Doris Vane (Soprano). Melodie (Tschaikovsky-Op. 42.
No. 9) Humoreske (Dvorak-Op. 101; No. 7) Gaspar Cassado. Glorious Devon (Edward German) Father O'Flynn (Stanford)
Songs-
7.40-8 p.m.-Albert Sandler and his Robert Radford (Bana). Orchestra.
1: Jealousy (Gade)
2. Live, Laugh and Love (Heyraann) 3. Cuban Serenade (Midgley)
4. Maruschka (de Leur),
5. Masquerade (Loeb)
6. I want your Heart (Haydn Wood).
8 p.m.-Local Time and Weather
a trooper a German torpedo pass-Report
ed just under her stern, missing
8.03-10.20
her by only a few feet. There Concert, . p.m.-Chinage
Studio
were persistent rumours about 19.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletina, · that time that she had been lost London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity when, in fact, she was safely laid Quotations.
10.30 p.m.-Reuter Pree Bulletins,
up at Naples on the orders of Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further the Admiralty.
London Stock and Commodity Queta- tions.
the Declarer does not contain both the King and the Jack.
If the Queen loses to the King in the East hand, the proper play is to return to the hand from which the original lead was made and finesse the suit a second time:
10.40 p.m. Closs Down.
8.30-10 p.m. European Recorded Pro: of G10 kc's. gramme from ZEK. on a Frequency
8.30-9.03 p.m.~
Quartet (No. 10) in E Flat Major (Op.
74) (Beethoven)
Capet String Quartet of Paris
fat Movement-Poco Adagio: Allegro -Adagio ma non troppo, -Presto.
9.03.9.10 p.m.---Variety,
Allegretto, con Variazioni. Songs Just by your Example
Dancing on the Celling Pianofort Solos-
"When once we have a thing," Count Alexei. Sam Jaffe as the he continued, "we like to keep it. South
The bidding: idiotic Grand Duke Peter and whether there is a reason for it H
East But it is one of the peculiarities 2nd Louist Dresser as Empress Eliza or not; just as we cling to our 4H
Pass of Bridge, as of life, that the best 3rd beth likewise make
the most of appendix, the biological vestige The problem in this hand is the John A. Sherman, a member of the
Pass plan does not always win. Mr. Ath of days when we were veget-correct method of playing the spade Yale Club, was one of those who arians, like rabbits," he said.
suit in order to limit the opponents held the South band, and of the Silk-hatted City men wore to one trick. The correct play is seven players who held his cards useless ribbon round their hats, to lead the Queen to the Ace-nine he was the only one to lead the and this was a relic of the fillet in Dummy. This assures a mini-Queen and in causequence to lose Jack Heit, the hero of "Flight." with which women, 4,000 years mum of three tricks whenever King, two tricks in the suit as both the "War Correspondent," "Dirigible" ago, bound a loose fabric round Jack-x are held in the West hand. King and Jack in the East, band and "Submarine," comes to the their heads. Alhambra Theatre in a story of
In the cases when King-Jack-x are won, Mr. Sherman correctly re-Band Mr. Webb said that, he found in the East hand, two tricks of turning to his own sport, "This Sporting Age," a the investigation of the cockade:
hand for a Columbia production.
Holt personifies the
a worry. "I wrote to the Lord course will be lost by this method finesse against West's supposed modern Chamberlain as to whose ser- of play, but these cases are coun-Jack. sportsman who is equally at home vants are entitled to use it," he they are in the West hand rather named, as I have said, in my hon-
terbalanced by the occasions when This entire method of play with horses and women-who said. "I was informed most handles each with gentle but de-courteously that it was entirely than in the East.
our-ia advised against strong cisive rein.
As Capt. John Steele, a matter for the Heralds' College that it eliminates the guess in all players, a low-lead away from the The value of the Queen play is playera. Actually against weak Holt proves himself, more than So I wrote to them and was told, ever, worthy of the 17 wears of again most courteously, that it the situations where the King Is to Ace is likely to produce more satin- stardom that have been his. was entirely a matter for the the one hand and the Jack in the factory results as East, in such
When his beloved daughter, play-Lord Chamberlain." ..
other and assures the making of cases, with the King, is likely, to ed by Evalyn Knapp, is wronged The busby of the hussar was three tricks. Certainly, if the have an overwhelming urge to play by Walter Byron, Holt takes re the result of Army officers' jeal-Queen is not covered, it is safe to it and thus save the Declarer from venge in his own hands. An army ousy. It was originally a cloth assume that the hand at the left of any guesses whatsoever. officer and star polo player, he cap with a narrow edging of fur meets his man on the polo field and worn by Hungarian mercenaries wreaks justice abruptly.
in the British Army, The Others in the cast are Hardiouniform of the soldiers was then Albright, J. Farrell MacDonald, in accordance with the colonel's purse. One colonel put on two inches of fur, another four, and so on, till it was all fur but the top.
Reno and Laddie.
"SON OF KONG"-MAJESTIC
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But why were the buttons on
a woman's dress on the left side?
An entirely different type of That. Mr. Webb confessed, re- story from that of its predecessor,mains a mystery. "Son of Kong" picks up where "King Kong" left off. Carl Den
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