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Cluding Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll, Gene Raymond. Mit Green,
Frank Sid Silvers, Parker, The Boswell Sisters. Sidney Blackner, Ralph Morgan and other stage, screen, and radio personalities.
"Yarkshire man.”
Howard is a born in the old town - of. Yendon. He had contributed his services to many amateur theatri- Undersigned have receiv-cals while working for his father.
HOW TO MAKE A MUSSOLINI
Man With A Little Extra Iron
WHAT GOES TO COMPOSE" "A HUMAN BODY:
Enough water to fill a 10-gal
ion barrel; Enough fat for seven bars of
soap;
1935
BRIDGE NOTES
Cue Bid In Partner's Suits
By My Culbertson
£20,000 CONTRACT FOR FILM ARTIST
Betty Davis Signs For Three ears
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,
RELAY FROM DAVENTEY OF
› TEST, MATCH SCORES. MANAMA Cinema Revice"
19.30-215 - European ramme
12:30 Recorded Music. 1pm-Local "Time"`"and" "Weather Report.
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chestra
Miss Betty Davies, the Eng fish actress, recently signed a One of the chief beauties of Sydney Howard the British comedian, makes his first bid for
Corporation for City Film
The following programme wa Mr. C. E. M. Jond, the scien-Contract Bridge is that new si-three-year contract with the
tuations continually crop. CUR American screen honours in Re
$20,000.
be broadcast to day" from " liance's Trans-Autic Merry-tist, stated recently that he and intelligent and alert play-
Miss Davies was born in Lon-Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Go-Round," showing at the King's agreed with Dr. T. E. Lawsonjers are very frequently able to Theatre to-day Howard is a the eminent physician, that the invent new and interesting bids. Con, and is the daughter of Mr. ZBW. on 2 wavelength member of an all-star cast prescription for "one man We have all heard of the Over and Mrs. Jack Davies, both con metres (343 KC-1
call in the opponents bid suit rected with the theatrical and.
film industry. which shows first round control
She has appeared on the of this suit through the posses- sion either of the Ace or of a stage in several musical shows roid. It is very rarely, how and began in a C. B Cochran ever, that one can cue bid in one evne charnsA PROPERT Her first part under the new of partner's suits Carbon for 9,000 lead pencils;
-pm-Hong Kong Hotel The opportunity to do this contract will be in "Sharps and Phosphorous for 2200 match-presents itself only when two Flats, to be filmed at Ealing
215 Piz-Class Down heads;
5-8pm-European Programme definite situations exist. First, Studios, in which she will Iron for one medium-sized the partnership must have pre appear with Stanley Holloway.
5-7 m-Hong Kong Hotel Dance Miss Davies is 28
Orchestra, vionsly decided on some other
7am-Closing Local Stock Quote Lime enough to whitewash a suit. Second, there must be a would be
inferential tions. chicken coop, and
double of the second suit by one force, four diamonds must 2.03-7.39 pa-Orchestral Music, paper bags. Then one day he
Small quantities of mag of the opponents, so that when
be recognised as a Slain try. | Ruins of Athens-Turkish March noticed an advertisement in 1
nesium and sulphur
the partner of the player who newspaper calling for a part-
Mr. Joad was delivering the has bid the second suất decides time" comedian. He made his Haldane Memorial Lecture on to make his cue bid in it, the ori St.professional start in the minia-
Science and Human Freedom at ginal bidder will not miscon- ture variety shows then in vogue the Birkbeck College of the strue this ene hid as a simple at seaside resorts. After four-
University of
He raise, showing perhaps a desire years of this he was signed for
added: one of the first revues ever staved in England He toured with the show for 14 months and was just gaining recognition when the After World War broke part. the Armistice he had to begin all over again..
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Tuesday, the 2nd July, 1935 commencing at 11 am. at their Sales Room, Duddell A. Quantity of Furniture, Sundries and A Few Pieces of Suit Lengths
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to play the hand in that suit- Take these ingredients, com- Using this bid. North and bine them in the right, propor-South on to-day's hand reached tions in the right way, and the an easily makable Small Stari result, apparently, is a man contract despite the fact that "The proportions may vary their task was made dimenit slightly. For example, if you for them by a very sound mis
of iron. ance double on the part of ane
After four years of touring increase the amount Great Britain and South Africa o may get a Mussolini A of the opponents. as a "single" in vaudeville and as larger proportion of soft soap
a featured comedian in popular produces I will leave you to
supply the answer.”
revues, be burst into fame
Mr. Joad said this prescrip- Battling Smith" in "Hit the Deck." Then came "Funny Facetion applied to the body, but he had only to go to the biologists with Fred and Adele Astaire, and geneticists for information
Grass is Mother Nature's Carpet, provided to cover the ground. Mother revues, there is an abundance of soft greeni grass your home will not only bel more pleasing bat it will also be more valuable.
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North and South vulnerable. NORTH:-*
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2s to genus, species and race, SOUTH;— and to the psychologists for a ¡statement in terms of inherited disposition, temperament, men- tal structure and complexes in Although somewhat different to the conscious mind. Charac- his previous films, Bing Crosby's ter could be brought within the latest song and dance hit, "Mis-bounds of the formula.. sissippi, which is now being screened at the Queen's Theatre,!
is likely to prove an even greater
necess.
Bing has ample opportunity to use his voice, his rendition of the jage-old negro Spiritual, Swabee River, being especially attractive
The scene is laid on one of the river steamers-30 common on the Mississippi. Bing takes the part of a care-free young man who lost the girl he loved by being a coward, and he nearly loses his fsecond girl by being too brave.
GARBO ATTEMPTS TO STEAL AWAY
Cameramen Penetrate
Disguise
Hollywood Greta Garbo left Hollywood recently for New York en route for Sweden, to spend a five
mouths holiday.
Her departure was planned as She dressed herself secret. in old clothes to avoid recogni- tion.
Included in the mammoth cast is W. C. Fields, one of the stars of the old silent days, who has re2 turned to the screen to become an even bigger name than he was be- For the information of visitors fore. Others are Joan Bennett, the following list of some of the Queenie Smith, John Miljaa Gaal highest points on the Island and Patrick and the Cabin Kids. Mainland is published:—
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EEKLY EDITION OF
STOLEN HARMONY”— ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Cast in the leading role of "Stolen Harmony,” his new Para- mount picture, George Raft again terns to the type of characterisa
star in tion that made him, a "Scarface.”
But someone must have recognised the shabbily dressed figure hudd
an old CAT station
As she emerged as into the train dozens man "shot" her
DAVID COPPERFIELD””.
ORIENTAL THEATRE
Charles Dickens'. : iamostal
Starred with Ben Bernie and his band, Haft plays the part of an classic, comes to the Oriental ex-convict who tums over a new j Theatre to-day with the mammoth leat for a chance to join Bernie's cast essential to do it justice. band for a trans-continental tour. This is one of the greatest confen- He falls in love with Grace | ders for the title of "The boat min. Bradley, the little dancer in ture of 1935.”
WEST:-
MESA Q10 5
I-Q 82. During 5
C-10 7 6 5
EAST
S-J 7,632 EL
1H
DQ 10 9 8 7 Crank 82.
The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered explan- atory paragraphs), North Best South West
Pass ·2H (1) Pass (2) Dbl (3) Pass Pass (4) Pass 5D (5) Pass (6) Pass Pass Pass I-A pre red bid. Strictly speaking, South has not the adequate trump.support needed to raise his partner's suit. However, South de- cides that if he had two clubs his only alternative The would be definitely
>>(Beethoven)
The two-card minor suit is Turkish March: (Mozart) the only sound force avail-Sleeping Beauty Fancama able to North. He knows Mask (Dachaikovsky) that if his partner raises Concert Waltz in A (Gazonnor) diamonds, he can always re-1 Witches Dance ("La. Tregenda")
(Paccind) Valse Triste (Sibelius)
turn to hearts (M Mgmt
A very fine nuisance double. Serenade (Volkman); Flickz of the Bast, of course, recognizes that North's force is in 3 fake suit. He doubles to in hibit the opponents from reaching of Slam. which he feels fairly certain they can make
Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakoy) (Exy Kayer) played by Rale
780-7343 pmFour Aces Suite Conta
243-7.58 pun--Two Sangi from Blessen Time" song har : Richard Tamber (Tenor) I Love lost forever mure 2. Once there lived a Lady Fair. (756-9 pm--From the Studia.
"A. Cinema Review" by Shoneta * --Local Time and Weath Bepart Lee Theatre (Chinese).
308-11 Relay than return to four hearts II pa Close Down.
shown the North has strength of his hand and ex *pressed his interest in a Slam by the four-diamond bid. He now can do no more
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South, despite his weak 8.38-10 p.m.- European Recorded trump holding, has definite-Mic from ZEK. on a frequency of ly a little bit more than a 640 kc's.
8.30-8.40 p.m. A to two! Daventry
Relay
fram
minimum raise hearts. He realises that his England v South Africa A Ban partner was trying for a ning Commentary by Captain HET Slam and he further realises Wakelam on the second day's play in that the latter probably was the second Cricket Test Match Be Cricket Ground. considerably discouraged by layed from Land's
London,
Orchest pa Light
Piano Solo
Variety?
Hill Dag Selection.. If I love again
East's double of four dia- 8.40-3 monds the diamond suit Men obviously being one of the Dancing down the Ages" (arm. Finck) weak spots in the North Potpourri of Waites: No. 3
(Eobrecht) hand South therefore de The Haymakers (Traditions.) cides to give his partner one Triamine (Traditional) more chance to contract for $9.33 pm a Slam. He does this by making a cue bid in his part-
•ner's suit, showing control of the first round of that suit -and almost certainly 112 this case with the Ace South bids five diamonds in tending to pass to five hearts, as he has now shown the full strength of his hand Songs-- 6With the practical certainty
Songs
Patricia Rosabazanaca.
Just by your emample Dancing on the Ceiling Organ Solos
Jessie Matthews, (Sopzano)
Famous Tamber Melodie
H -old Ramse%
Yon and the night and the Maxie
Leslie Hutchinsen
Fairies in the Moon Inter
An hour with you... Vocal
It's Written all over your face.
of no losers in either hearts Orchestra diamonds or chibs, North can contract for the Slam. Either the spade Queen in Dummy, a singleton spade. or even a doubleton spade, žƒ the Ace is right will take care of the situation in that suit. There must be at the worst an even money play for the Slam
East chose a low spade as his
The Boswell Sixbers. 9.33-10 p.m.-Dance Music.. 10 Bester Press Bulletins 20.05 pmClose Down
CLERK WHO ROSE TO THE TOP
ssed by any subse- bids his partner ght make. For instance. if over two clubs North bid two notrump. South would not feel strong enough-to bid three hearts, which opening lead agaust the Star would be an inferential West won with the Ace and re- force, but on the other hand turned a diamond, which the he certainly would not wish Declarer won with Duminy's to pass.
Having decided Ace. Declarer now led a heart. that there is only one bid in to his Ace and then re-entered the South hand (unless the Dummy by rufing a low North starts forcing), South spade The marked-heart
A man who begin as junior decides to make this bid, the finesse was now taken and clerk and rose to be head of the one which seems to give the North was able to claim the rest Fear Assurance Company, lets most important information of the tricks.
Fortune Of Nearly Half A Million
£445,500, it was announced re
rey, who was with the Pert Assurance Co. for nearly years
Bernie's troupe, and for her sake. No fewer than 65 stars and 2-North is too strong to bid Even without the spade open-cently
four hearts, which would ing, which admittedly made determines to make good. Bat featured players are included in
He was Mr. George Shrin automatically close the aue things easier, North could not all, of Redgates. Reigate, Suz when the company's funds are the cast. Among the stars are
tion Since three diamonds have lost his contract. stolen he is suspected of the theft. W. Fields, Lion Barrymore, When the entire troupe is cap Madge Evans, Maureen Salis tured by a band of desperate out van, Edna May Oliver, Lewis Iawa, Raft comes to their rescue Stone, Frank Lawton, Freddie and by pretending to be one, them, saves the band at the risk his own life.
"HAVE A HEART MAJESTIC THEATRE
Bartholomew, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Young Basil Rathone, Hugh Williams and Herbert Mun-
It is one of the few pictures on record in which the writer of the adaptation, himself one of
James Dunn and Jean Parker the leading novelists of contem-
are teamed together for the first porary literature, plays one of the
time in this delightful. Uttle love roles; the
story Have A Heart and so auc-pole, the cessful are they that we are bikely
to see more of this partnership in the future
young
His Hugh Wa- riter and van,
THE GIRL FROM MAXIMS”
STAR THEATRE:
ADAMSON, AND HIS TORMENTOR:
He left $5,000 to the
flent fund of clerks of
pany.
TURKISH PRINCESS
GETS DIVORCE
Three Times Mar