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FRADIO
TO-DAYS PROGRAMME.
The following programme will ha broadcast to-day from the Hàng
Like other valuable things in Kong Broadcasting Station- Z.BW.. life, entries are often obtained on a wave length of 355 only by some sacrifice. At times, it (845 KGS).
is necessary to give up a winning trick, overtaking it in order to create an entry At other timerr high cards must be thrown away. At still other times an important stopper must be dispensed with. It is typical of the finished player that he willingly makes the sacri fices when he needs entries, where as the novice is likely to win every trick with the lowest possible card and as a consequence find himself stuck in one hand or the other and
Vocal Recital from the Studio, Dance Music To mi kat 12.30-2.15 pm—- European ramme
12:30 pm-Recorded. Music.
1 pm-Local Time & Weather Be port.
130 pm. Rester Press. Buletina. Rugby Press News, etc.
2.75 p.m.--Close Down 4-7 ---Chinese Programme. -7-pm-12 midnight---European Pro- gremme.
7 pm-Closing Local Stock Quota tions
Orchestral
forced to lead from a tenace, ori 2.03-7.30 p. Light even to lose established cards Selection
other hand.
which are helplessly locked in the Tschaikovsky in Vienna (arr. Waltery Fantasie on thè "Opera - MHostname
Erzahlungen" (Offenbach) Old Friends-Potpon (arr. Hermas
Finck)-
Love's Last word is spoken (Bixio
7.38-7.45 pm---Four songs by Mavis Bennett (Soprano).
In the deal below, failure to hold an entry or two in reserve caused a player to go-down two tricks at a game contract when proper play would have yielded him not only 1. jhis contract but three over-tricks
as well. Thus, a bit of senseless 2 javarice-made the difference be jtween six-odd and one-odd.
NORTH:n
S-K 10 7 5 4 2
SIGHT RESTORED AFTER 18 YEARS
Is Disappointed In Human Faces
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LÀ K
WEST:
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D. 4 3 2 C-T
This is the story of a man
SOUTH:-
S-A 96 HJ 7 DK'S
C-8 65432
Sylvia Syden has been given many
ON SIGHT exacting roles, and her portrayals cided upon by the Ministry of HOPES TO WRITE AN ARTICLE of these have elicited nothing but Finance for the suppression of praise. Her performance as the non-registered banks. Indian girl married to the white The measures are to the effect blind since the age of two who EAST:- man. Gene Raymond, in "Behold that the authorities of various has had his sight restored, has My Wife." have brought the same results from critics everywhere districts are to be instructed to looked upon the faces of his fel- take steps to deal with banks low beings and says he is dis.
appointed.
this film has been screened. ·
S.-8
HK 93
D. A 10 9 8 7 6
The Dall's Song (Tales of Hol
man") (Offenbach)
Wine, Women and Sing-(Strankaj The Lass with the delicate Ai
(Ame)
By the Walters of Minnetonks
(Lienzance)
7.45-8 pmBand Selections. The Gondoliers (Sulivan) Geishs. (Jones)
8:
pmLocal Time & Weather Ea
8.03-8:30 pm-Variety.
part
Piano Solos
Let's fall in Love
Love in Love, anywhere
Vocal Duets
Carroll. Gibbons.
Roll along, covered Wagon
Don't forget
Violin Saloe
Grinding Remembrance
Band-
Walsh and Barker.
Albert. Sanden.):
Ballroom Menaries (No. 1—Waltzes) 8.30-8.40 p.m.-From the Studio, A Vocal Becital by Gas, L'Aquino accompanied by Mr. W. da Roza (By Special Request)
Programme
1. Smallin' Thre...
CQ 10 9 -
The bidding?
West
... North
East
2. Luma d'Estate.
Pass
Pass
1 S
2.S
Pass Pass
SNT
Pass
Pass
The picture draws its story which have not yet been regis- The man is David Williams from the hypothesis that a wealthy tered, that those banks which For 20 years he lived in a vil South boy, frustrated in his intention to have already been registered lage in the Caernarvonshire hills. marry a girl, would attempt to re- with the provincial governments He has been operated on by Mr. 2 D
on his meddling
Tudor Thomas, the London eye2NT venge himself family. To accomplish his purpose, are to be instructed to register specialist, and he can now see pass Pass be marries an Indian girl whom he with the Finance Ministry and faces and objects at 30 feet meets in his wanderings through that non-registered banks are to New Mexico, brings her back to be refused the privilege of join his thoroughly outraged family. jing the Bankers Associations.
H. B. Warner Laura Hope Crews!
New York and introduces her to
“LOVE TIME" MAJESTIC THEATRE
Pat Paterson and Nils Asther
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3. Le Chaland gdi pässe. 4. Tell me tonight.
8.40-8.57 pm Old and New" (A Potpourri of Popular Melodies)
8.57-910 pm "Four Aces" Suite
9109.30 pm Vocal Excerpts from
He is remaining under obser- With South the Declarer at (Billy Mayerl) played by Raie, da vation at the London School for three notrump, West opened the Costs the Blind at Swiss Cottage where heart six South played a low Musical Comedy he is continuing his apprentice-card from Dummy, and won East's Vocal Gems ship as a boot repairer and is Jack with the King. (Why win a learning to read and write trick with an Ace when the King
is just as good?)
South now found it desirable to finesse in diamonds, but the lead
Writes A Letter
In a letter to a tutor to the blind Williams says:
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The Cat and the Fidde Songs
Three Wishes ("The Good Con
panions")
Let me rive my happiness" to you
("The Good Companions”).
Jessie Matthews (Soprano)
The Love Parade
Vocal Gems
9:30 p.m. - 12 midnight—A Relay nt the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orch.
10 pm-Peuter Press Bulleting Re sults of the Hong Kong Bowls. Asso ciation League Matches
10.30 pm Engby Midday Pas 12 midnight-Close Down Vote-There will be a Relay from the Tai Pir Theatre on ZEK. on *-
to be held on MONDAY, the 13th and Monroe Owsley in the prin- day
of May, 1925, at 8 pm., atịcipal supporting roles, give extra- the Offices of the Public Works ordinary intelligent and satisfac- Department, by Order of His Ex-tory performances.
"I am quite happy here and it was in the wrong hand. Of course, COMPANY MEETINGS cellerey the Governor, of one Lot."Behold my Wife" which is a
of Crown Land at Peak Road B. P. Schalberg production, was are featured in Fox Film's cur-looks as if I am going to enjoy with the wealth of entries in Dum my, this did not worry him; he led in the Colony of Hong Kong, for directed by Mitchell Leisen who rent production, "Love Time, myself thoroughly.
for I have been for plenty of the nine of clubs and won the trick term of 75 years, with the option of adds this picture to his recent which brings to the screen. renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed triumphs, "Death Takes a Holiday" the first time the love story of the walks round London and I have with Dummy's Jack (What, play by the Surveyor of His Majesty the and "Murder at the Vanities”.
immortal composer. Franz Schu- had a great disappointment in the King when the Jack will win
seeing human faces.
the trick?). King, for one further term of 75
bert and his Valerie.
"My ideal was far too high. Now the Queen of diamonds was] News. “PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”.
Set in Austria in the early years and in a way I have had to go led, and East, being a Bridge play- ALHAMBRA THEATRE
of the nineteenth century. "Love down a lot..
er of parts, promptly covered with Time" follows Schubert from his "I will give you. what the King in order to block the suit Frequency of 640 Telocgeles from Adapted from the Broadway suc-remote village home to the court imagined a human being, was Even at this late point South could pr-19 midnight.
Take, for example, a tall have saved at least his contract cess by Lawrence Langler and of the Emperor at Vienna. With like. Armina Marshall, "Pursuit Of Hap him goes the lovely Valerie ("Pat" and slender man. I thought he by allowing East to hold the trick piness," which is now being screen- Paterson), who, history relates, was big from the ground up and s so that on the next round the. Ace ed at the Alhambra Theatre, is the was the daughter of a nobleman that a slim person was something would overtake Dummy's Queen. THE 30-HALF-PINTS MAN story of the quaint dilemma of a high in the favour of the Emperor, cylindrical like a walking-stick and the diamond suit could be ran handsome Hessian soldier who de- though she was reared as a village
"A man who was broad I Bat you wouldn't catch South giv tell you what I'll do, I'll r serted the British Army because maid-
imagined was the same shape as ing up a trick when he held a so into a public house, drink 30 half- the United States Constitution pro-|
a cricket bat, and that all faces lid suit, so South proceeded to play pints, and then go some sober," of mised him the pursuit of happi-OUTCAST LADY ORIENTAL were peaceful
the diamond Ace and then another fered a man charged at Birming "Some day I hope to be able to diamond back to the Jack
ham with being drunk. write an article on sight, but At this point, South's hand was Happiness for him centres
"You needn't trophie,” said the around a pretty. Puritan played by There is a swing, an irresistible every time I try to start my dead. Premeditated murder in the Clerk. The man said he had only Joan Bennett, but before this out power in the drama of "Outcast article I see something new and first degree could not have been had two half-pints; he was fined
When I more effective. North could cash|21.- lander's romance reaches its climax Lady" which opens at the Oriental my brain is puzzled
see fully I hope to be an artist three more tricks two clubs and he has several amusing adventures Theatre to-day. with the bundling customs of the Undoubtedly 90 per cent, or its so that I can draw the faces ofle heart but that would establish human beings as I imagined long suits for both East and West ... great impetus as entertainment Charlie Buggles, Mary Boland, comes from the splendid Romanti them to be when I was blind." and Barbara Barondess are fear cism of its two principal pro- tered in the supporting roles of tagonists, Constance Bennett and LIFE AFTER DEATH "Pursuit of Happiness," which was Herbert Marshall
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THE ROSS SYSTEM NEYER FAILS,
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““DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR”–
CENTRAL THEATRE
THEATRE
Doctors Prove That Revival Is Possible
fand, particularly since a lead meanwhile could hold only three would then have to be made from clubs, since otherwise he would would not take another trick As South could develop his twelft the spade King, North and South have by blank his spade Ace. and
it actually was played, North led a trick by merely ducking a round spade immediately and West, won of spades. with the Jack. West then estab- On the next three tricks South lished the heart suit with one more would take Dummy's Ace and Kinr lead and Declarer was forced to af előbs and then lead the Jack of
An exceedingly strong support. jing cast helps to keep the tempo of the emotionalism, including such well-known names as Henry:Step- henson Alec B. Francis, Robert
Two French doctors have taken ash Dummy's high cards lest be clubs. overtaking it with the James Cagney and Pat O'Brien Loraine, Hugh Williams, Mr electrical photographs of the lose even them. The result was Queen. At this point West would are both capable of carrying a pic-Patrick Campbell, Lumisen Bare heart-after "clinical death" ture through alone and it is usual and Leo Caroll
that is, after breathing has that South, playing for nine tricks, be forced to reduce his hand, to
took only seven.
two cards. Throwing his Of South had realized the value heart would make South's STAR stopped and the heart has ceased
Ito beat
The photographs have shown of entries not only would his con-high Throwing a spade, and that the heart remains electrical-tract have been assured, but he taining only the lone Queen, wou ly active for as long as 20 would have fallen without any ef- enable South to lead a spade,
ly a good picture too. When they
de get together in one picture the "ROYAL CAVALCADE"
Tenancies only other one of this kind beingj
"Here Comes The Navy,” released
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MALCOLM ROSS,
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SCARBOROUGHLEENGLAND,
THEATRE
here a short time ago, it is bound Royal Cavalcade,”
chronicle
Fast's Ace, win the last trick Do: Dummy's spade ten, for East would die-have nothing but a spade to lead
*back
to be a laugh riot. The present of King George's 25 years as ruler minutes after death This elecfort into a squeeze position, where the Queen with Dummy's Kin raction at the Central Theatre of the British Empire, is the Startrical activity has been react by he could have held East and and, after losing this trick
ainly proves this theory.
Theatre's attraction.
vated by injections of adrenaline West to one trick. The ope vil Doss of the Air" is one Scene follows cene in quick suc It seems certain that in re heart lead should have been of the finest pictures of its kind to cession. Most of them were taken corded cases of rescositation by with Dumavy' &- Ace
sch Hong Kong lately, and a from newsreels Millions of people injection of adrenaline after an mond Queen led. If Fas oduction was only made possible have shared his 25 years of reign, parent death, it is the slimming South could win with the
the co-operation of the US. Af and, like his poorest subject...he of the needle-prick to the heart Dummy's Jack, and
Combat equipment stated, to has known all the sorrows and joys that does the trick, and not the band with the King of heart
on four more rounds been worth some $750,000,000 to which man is belt This Aim drug
WRE
mbled to make the cture clearly demonstrates the love and The French doctors work sog-Dummy would discard
O Brien and
always ahown by the mygests that within the first 20 and West would have
we virtually minutes of clinical death there hand down to are Margaret Låndsay
ris still possibility
"Refusing to accept.
which the Bouth-sucesed
what
have given im