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HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY 1985-On sale at all Book-talls and
at the Offices of the Publishers, 3A, Wyndham Street.
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1935
BRIDGE. NOTES“
Looking For Future Profit
by Ely Culbertson.
CUSTOMS PROBLEM FREAK FACTS ABOUT FILM FAVOURITES
IN HUNGARY
Officer Fumigated COMEDY OF DISINFECTION AND RED TAPE
The difference between the áver- age Bridge players and the expert!
An incident at the customs is like the difference between the lamb of Wall Street and the Big boundary of Budapest, where Business man spelt with two capital small tolls are levied on goods car- B's. One reads the market reports, ried in, caused much amusement sees an immediate profit and grabs and controversy. for it. The other goes into the
On being notified that a case of
deeper questions of assets and typhoid had occurred in the sub- liabilities, and plunges with cau turbs the disinfection institute sent Leather Handbags, Salt tion, even though by so' doing he its van to collect the dresses and Cases, Purses, Hat
seems to be passing up a sure linen of the patient for disinfec Boxes, Collar BoxeR-
tion. Belts, Etc.
MAN WO LOONG Leather Case Store 5, Pottlager St.
thing.
COMPANY MEETINGS York City was able to
On to-day's hand, which was played in the pair event of the On the return journey the cus- American Whist League National toma official at the city boundary Championships held in Chicago, professed himself unconvinced by Mr. Geoffrey Mott-Smith of Now the chauffeur's explanation. The mako A van bore no name, and he declared deduction which might very well it his right to inspect its contents. have been the cause of his own Unable to prevent the man from undoing. From the bidding ne opening the van the chauffeur was able to decide that the Declarer waited till he was safely inside it, had a singleton in'a certain suit and then closed and bolted the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN which deduction a beginner, or door, carrying the official back to that the TENTH ORDINARY even an average player, might not the institution, where he was aub-
However, Mr. Moit jected to a thorough disinfection. YEARLY MEETING of HONG have made.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE
COMPANY, LIMITED “
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suit.
officialj
FOUR VISITING CARDS Boatly and KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, Smith went even further and did The problem now arises, who China Mail LIMITED, will be held on TUES-not utile, his information by fol had right on his side? In the in- lowing it up with his normal play terest of public safety the chauf Tele-DAY, the 12th day of March, 1935, of quickly taking his Ace in that feur a thought to have acted cor-"
at the BOARD ROOM of the Com- Floor, Exchange COMPANY MEETINGS pany, Second
Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a State THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO.,ment of Accounts and the Report
LIMITED.
of the Board of Directors, for the financial year ended 31st Deceni ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ber, 1984, and re-electing two that the FORTY-SIXTH OR-Directors and the Auditors..
NOTICE
DINARY YEARLY MEETING will The 'TRANSFER BOOKS of the be held at the Company's Offices, Company will be closed from the P. & O. Building, on WEDNESDAY, 1st March to the 12th March, 1935, 18th March, 1935, et 11 a.m. for the both days inclusive, purpose of presenting the Report Dated this 29th day of January. of the Directors together with a1936. . Statement of Accounts to 31st December 1984 and electing Direc.]
tors, and. Auditora.
The REGISTER of MEMBERS of
By Order of the Board.
the Company will be CLOSED from 14, Des Voeux Road, Central, 2nd March to 18th March 1936. Hong Kong.
both days inclusive; during which,
period no Transfer of Shares can' bo registered..
By Order of The Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD,
He was able to reason furrectly, as the customa ther that by sacrificing the Ace, he would have handled other goods after, touching the infected cloth- would eventually gain far more.
South, Dealer
Ing. North and South vulnerable
North:-
S.-K
HKQ9 B. 15 2 D.-Q 6.3 C-K-Q $
West:-
D.-K 10 5
S-10 6 6 2
:
H.-A J 10 4
·D.-J. 98 4
C.-8
East:-
5.-4 3
W. L. MCKENZIE,
H.6 3
Secretary.
C-10 7 0 4.3 2 South:-
S-A Q J 9 8 7 H-7
THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.
D.-A 72
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The bidding:
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North
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East
PASS
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS South
1 S Hong Kong, 21st February, 1935. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 3 S
Agents...
Nthe THIRTYNINTH OR-4NT
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of 6 S
to do his duty.
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· AND LANDSE DE FEIMÈ
Amusements
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THE KENTUCKY KERNELS”.
KING'S THEATRE
PHILLIPANA
REED
COURSE AT CORNELL TO
BILL GARGAN
WON À LỰC-LINS FRICKE AND HIO FIRST STADE BOLE WEER. „KL, WENT BACKSTAGE YO.CAT "A 11 MET TO LESUS HOWKILD
"PRIVATE SCANDAL”.
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will |ba" broadcasted "to-day. from the |Hong Kong | Broadcasting Station: Z.B.W. on a wave length of 285 metres (845,K,C?:) :—
| JAZZ BANJO AND PIANO RECITAL FROM STUDIO
ZEK. Programime
12.30-215. p.m.- European Pro- gramme.
12.00 pmLondon and New York Stook and Commodity Quotations,
12,85–1. p.m.—Recorded : Music.
1 pm/Local Time and Weather Report,
1.08 p.m-Recorded Music.
1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room' (by courtesy of the Management).
1.80 p.mRouter Press
Rugby Press News, etc.
2.16 p.m.-Clos Down,
Bulletins,
6-8 p.m. A Relay of the Dance Or chestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden (by courtesy of the Management)
7pm-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.00-7.30 p.m.-Light" Selections.
Wood Nymphs (Valsetto);
(Erie Coates)
Orchestral
‡A Littló Láve a little kiss (Silerà)
Because (d'hardlot)
Mock Morris Dances (Grainger) Handel in the Strand (Grainger)
A murder mystery with a fast Waltzes from Vienna Waltz Medley
7.80-6 pmFrom the Stadlo.
A Jasz Banjo mód Piano Recital by
comedy tempo and side-splitting| laughs is Paramount's latest re-Fred Carpio and Julian Silverio.
8 p.m.- Local Time and Weather lease, "Private Scandal," featuring Report.
8.09-11-pm-A Relay from the Tal Ping Theatre (Chinese),
9.30 p.ni-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity
Quotations.
The other side argues that if an
A Southern feud is the basis for Zasu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary official allows a vehicle, to pasa unchallenged he opens the door to the hilarious situations in "Ken-Brian, Ned Sparks, and Lew Cody smuggling of all kinds, and fails tucky Kernels," Best: Wheeler and The story tells-of-a-real-estate Robert Woolsey's new film at the broker who contemplates suicide to cover up the loss of Investors' King's Theatre.
The inimitable comedians por-funds. He plans to make it look tray two vaudeville magicians who like a murder on his life insurance. pose as Southern gentlemen when He tells his plan to his partner, their infant ward falls heir to a Phillip Holmes, his daughter's 640 kliocycles. vast estate in Kentucky. How the flance,
GAOL FOR STOWAWAY
When Eddie Cantor's Daughter Sailed
French liner Ile de France for
trlo become involved in a family But a real murderer beats him feud and their efforts to extricate to the job, thereby throwing sus themselves forms a rollicking Topicion on everyone. When the de
a scenario by Harry
10.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins,“ Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further London. Stock and Commodity Quota- tions.
11 pm...Close Downl 8.50-10 p.m.-European Recorded Music from Z.B.K. on A Frequency of
8.30-8.66 p.mConcerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 20 (MAX Bruch) played by the London Symphony Orchestra. Master Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) and
8.36-8.80 p.m-Variety. Plano Solos
Musle in the AirMedley
Albert Sandler
Dancing on the Ceiling Just by your example
Jessie Matthews (Soprano)-
Nymph There's a ring, around the moon in Carroll Gibbons and John.
W. Green
I want to be a Nudist
Vocal Gam
Ralè da Conte A youth who said he wanted mance, with gay melody, modern tective arrives, everyone is afraid Vocal Duct-Moon Glow to hid farewell to a daughter of dancing by a bevy of beauties, and his own scandal will be probed,
Layton and Johnstone, Eddie Cantor, the film comedian, a friendly war between two olans and the lles complicate the detec-Violin Solo-Song of Paradise and was allowed to board the with Colts against Remingtons. tive's job.
They throw the blame on.
to Songs-- that purpose, was sentenced to Mary Carlisle, beautiful blends everyone but themselves and, but 28 days' imprisonment at Ply-ingenue, plays the daughter of the bring the guilty person to justice PEAS mouth for stowing away in the hostile Colonel, portrayed by Noah eventually, in a most unusual and Piano Durante Selection ớt
¡liner.
of decidedly thrilling climax. Beery, Spanky" McFarland
Ned Sparks is cast, as the ex69-| He was John Roderick, aged Our Gang Comedy" fame is seen perated detective who, in the face CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND the Shareholders in the Company The bidding on the part of the 18, smartly dressed and well]
LAND INVESTMENT CO. LTD. will be held at the Company's Town South player was most optimistic spoken. He was found, it was as the orphan.
of the lies, is, nevertheless, able to Song- Office, 2 Lower Albert. Road, on but whether or not the contract stated, after the liner had sail- George Stevens directed "Ken-solve the problem with abundant [OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THURSDAY, 14th March, 1985, at was a sound. one Mr. Mott-Smith, led, was locked up until New tucky Kernels," an RKO-Radio Pic-laughs. NOTICE
that the FIFTH ORDINARY noon for the purpose of receiving sitting in the West position, was York was reached, detained at lure, from GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE the Report of the Directors together faced with the problem of defeat Ellis Island and returned in the Ruby and Bert Kalmar, who also "MERRY WIDOW"__ORIENTAL
• thp HOLDERS will be held at the Re-with statement of Accounts declaring it.
Ile de France.
composed "One Little Klas," the gistered Office of the Company, ing a Dividend and Re-electing Not having any way of telling It was also stated that in No- theme melody of the picture. King's Theatre Building, 5th, Floor, Directors and Auditors.
just which of the minor suite to vember, 1933, he had atowed on WEDNESDAY, the 20th The TRANSFER BOOKS of the open, Mr. Mott-Smith chose his away in the Empress of Britain "BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR Franz Lehar masterpiece, "Merry Ballads we Love Selection, (art
A low card was and was put ashore at Cher- 12 Company will be CLOSED from 2nd singleton club. p'clock noon to receive the March to 14th March, 1985, both played from Dummy, and the de bourg. He then hid in what he Directors Report, and Accounts days inclusive.
clarer made what actually turned thought was a dummy funnel, "Biography of.,a Bachelor Girl" of the same name, featuring faust, Froles (Gounod, arr. Debroy for the year ended 31st December, By Order of the Board of Directors out to be a bad error by winning but it was a real funnel, and he is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adap-Maurice Chevaller and Jeannette pa
the trick with the Jack rather than was so badly blistered that notion of the Theatre Guild, success, MacDonald, now at the Oriental The Open Road A Hiking Medley the Ace. Had South won this trick action was taken against him. "Biography" featuring Ann Hard-Theatre, with the Ace he would have saved Last July, in the name of Maling and Robert Montgomery. The hauntingly romantic "Vilia”. two club entries to the Dummy colm Travers, he was sent to!
The photoplay version of S. Nis sung by Miss MacDonald, as are and, as will be seen later the extra prison for four weeks for stow-Behrman's social comedy brings "To-night Will Teach Me to For: entry would have enabled him to ing away in the liner Montcalm, together for the second time Ann get," "Melody for Laughter" and
(Continued At Foot Of Neat Col.) in which he spent 10 days.
day
of
March 1935,
at
1984, to elect Auditors and Direc-i tors and to transact such other! business as may be properly tran sacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.
And Notice is further hereby given that the Register and Trans fer books of the Company will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 20th day of March 1935, both days in- clusive.
LIANG CHI HAO,
Managing Director.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SIXTY-SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING of
GENERAL Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on FRI DAY, the 29th March 1935, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving
J. D. THOMSON,
.
Secretary. Hong Kong, 21st February, 1985.
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GIRL”—QUEEN'S THEATRE
THEATRE
Eddie Pola (Comedian).
The Vagabond King
Light Opera Company. 9.80 p.m.-Reuter. Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations. All the famous songa of the
9.35-10 p.m. Debroy, Samera Band.
Debroy Somers). Widow," are presented in Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's musical romance Carmen Caprice (Bizet, arr, Debray
SOMETS).
Somers).
(arr. Debroy: Bomers),
19 pirtiClose. Down,
*
PASSION ISLAND'
Small Pacific Islet With Strange Name
Harding and Rebert Montgomery “Widows are Gay.". Chevalier's songs | whose joint performances. ́in include. I'm Going to Maxim's" and "When Ladies Meet" made that one "Girls, Girls, Girls," Together, Miss of the most delightful of last nea- MacDonald and Chevalier sing fulfil his contract. At any "rate"
"The Merry Widow Waltz,” son's pictures. after winning the club Jack, South
The distinctive, supporting cast Chevaller and Miss MacDonald quite correctly led his singleton
features Edward Everett Horton head a huge cast', which includes heart, Mott-Smith felt ab the role of a pompous, big-wig Edward Everett Horton, Una" Mer solutely certain from the bidding politician from a backwoods state; kel, George Barbier, Sterling Hollo that this card was a singleton, as Edward Arnold, Charles Richman, way, Donald Meek and Heman In 1628, Cortez, the Spanish an South had never supported the sultiGrets Meyer and Willard Robert Bing,
after North' had"bid"and"rebid: it.] He further realised that South would probably not immdiately
}xon.
The story concerns a young lady "THE VANISHING SHADOW"
MAJESTIC THEATRES
Make Lido your Ren- for COUGHS, BRONCHITIS, SORE play the heart suit, holding two/Portrait painter slightly down on
dasvona.
Lift just completed
the Report of the General Man- LAMMERT BROS.
agers, together with a statement of Accounts. for the year ended the 31st December 1934,
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 16th to the 29th March, 1935; both days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON &
CO., LTD. General Managers,
The Hong Kong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 8th March, 1985,
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ON
Auction
Tuesday, the 12th, March, 1935, Commencing at 6.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, "Duddell Streat
A Fine Collection of
BLE POSTAGE
on: dal
PAMPS
THROAT, COLDS, and BRON-
CHIAL TROUBLES GENERALLY cards in it, before drawing trumps her luck, and a magazine editor However, Mr. Mott-Smith, went a equally anxious to better his for
FRENCH WARSHIP TO TAKE POSSESSION
plorer who conquered Mexico discovered a tiny Island in mid Pacine, 1.800 miles west of present site of the Panama Canal. Recently, the French ca
'crufser Jeháně A thrilling mystery drama, "The d'Arc: left" Los Angeles tõ' and Of chemists everywhere, or post little further in his reasoning. He tunes. When these two put their Vanishing Shadow, with six more suite formal possession of this de free, 75 cents per bottle, from the saw that if he went up with the beads together and join their res-chapters in Part-II, featuring On-solate spot in the name of the China branch of the Dr. Williams heart Ace, the whole sull could pective careers plenty of action slow Stevens and Ada Ince, is now French Government
Although this coral-zinged atoll, Medicine Co., 451 Kiangze Road, easily be set up by the declarer and excitement ensures showing at the Majestic Theatre.
and since the latter was marked i
The photography of "Blography. The picture deals with hair- less than a mile square, is mark- Shanghai.
with the minor suit Aces, there of a Bachelor Girl" is the work of raising crimes and strange destruc-ed on the charts as Clipperton Is- would be nothing more to the hand James Wong Howe, Chinese M-G-Mtions by means of strange scientific land, it is known as the lie de Pas-
cameraman, who achieved the out-rays."
Jalon (Passion Tiland); which roman- He, therefore, played a low card:
standing photographic work seen Others in the cast, who share in tie zame it gained from a legend cur- knowing that this would Joka s heart trick for his aide, but hoping in"Viva Villa!" and other produc- the innumerable thrilling scenes are rent years ago, According to this James Durkin, William Desmond, the) island was! once ruled by a that by so doing he would sub-
and Sidney Bracy,
negro king who decreed that all sequently gain two other. tricks.
the women on it should become ine mates of his harambe very
One of the women killed him while he slept; and years later the |tragedy waste discovered by
crew of a United States gunboat who landed there,
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This is what actually occurred. South wón thé trick: In Dummy, ruffed aboart" in his own hand, $7.00 re-entered the Dummy with the "For Love of You," $1050 King of spades and ruffed still an musical comedy, featurl 50 other heart. He now drew trumps, Riscos and Naunton $8.99 but at this point te realised the Windsor Starling prod $8,69 seriousness of his misplay at Trick the current release
16 \ Thế Dummy contained but one
one ráb
club
in the
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