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HOLD UP SIGNAL
By Ely Culbertson
Expert players do not by any means confine their playing sig- nals to the echo,” which calls for a continuation of a suit or for a switch to another suit. They are several situations in which the denomination of the card played may indicate something entirely different. In one of these it is of invaluable assistance | in indicating to partner how long) to hold up an Ace of an adverse; long suit. The proper use of this signal enabled East and West↓ on to-day's hand to defeat South's! game-going
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- commencing at 10.30 am.
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A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
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One of the Russian dancers in the Tropical Express Reve Company now performing at the King's Theatre.
Amusements
Cinema Notes
**MY SONG FOR YOU”— QUEEN'S THEATRE --
UST 25, 1935
Jan Kiepura's third film to reach the Colony has everything| to make it as successful as his first, "Tell Me To-night," which broke box-office records at several cinemas.
ADULTERY CHARGE
Doctor And Wife Of Dentist
TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED
Chan Sia-hung, "32, Chinese doctor, and For Mo-kit, 23, mar, ried woman, were charged before
RADIO
TO-DAYS PROGRAMME
"PERSONS NOT FAT LIVE LONGEST”
Yerts
before the American Academy of edicine, a
Physician stated persons who aren't- fat. Eve the Jongest
Common sense coun-
ften reject
The followly programme will surance companies Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon be broadcast to-day from the overweight folks, or change higher Magistracy yesterday, on the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station complaint of the latter's husband, ZBW. on wavelength of 355 with having committed adultery metres. (845′′ECD)..
at the Wo Ping boarding house at Special Relay of Darenter Kowloon on August 13
Inspector K. W. Andrew, ste tached to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, appeared for the prosecution. Shum Kun-hung, 30, dentist, the”” husband "of the second accused, was the com plainant.
ZEIMA»
Dance Music
5-8 pm--European programme. 5-7 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Orch. 1-5 pm-Concert Items. Songs-
Bolero Les Filles de Cadix
(Belibes)
Chanson Indone (Song of India) ("Sadko"-Rimsky-Korsakov)
Amelita Galli-Cure (Soprano)
At the Brook (Boiadeftra» - Bercense (Faure)
Songs
Sascha Jacobsen.
The Roadside Fore
After evidence had been given
#Chinese detective the Magis-Violin Solos trate adjourned the court-for three-quarters of an hour in order to call a waitress of the Kam Lang Restaurant to give evidence (at the request of the first • de-
fendant, and after obe had donel so be convicted both defendants, sentencing the max to six months" and the woman to three months* imprisonment.
OLD PORTUGUESE
·LADY PASSES
Mrs. C. C. Loureiro
BURIAL YESTERDAY AT
HAPPY VALLEY
(Vaughan Williams) Bright is the Ring of Words (Vanghan Williams) Deg
Stuart Robertson. (Baritone) Pianoforte Salos
Valse Cablice (Forgotten Waltz)
(Liszt)
Capriccio in F Minor (Dohnany??
Vladimir Horowitz.
726-743 pm-Petit Suite de Con-
cert (Coleridge-Taylor)-
743-8 pm-Vocal Gems.
premiums on account of the zisk. heart. A host of ailments (even Fät pats necessary stram on, the
Theumatism, scidity, shortness
breath and lassitude) are often as- sociated with
So get rid of this
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IRISH HOSPITALS SWEEPSTAKES
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The date of the Irish Sweep
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"Veronique (Messager)
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port, Closing Local Stock Quotations. The prize-money- viragain be 8.05-10:30 pm. Chinese Studio divided into units of Sină,000, each Concert
10.30 pm-Close DownL. 8.30-10.15 pm. European
of which will be sub-divided into prizes of $38,000, $35,000, £10,000 Pro- and $100, together with the horse prizes, the vaine of which cannot
acceptances for the race is official-
The remains of the late Mrs. Corfira Corveth Loureiro, who gramme from ZEK, on a frequency As in "Tell Me Tonight" Kie died, aged 84, on Wednesday, of 640 Kilocycles.
pura is cast as a great singer, were laid to rest yesterday after- 8.30-847 pm- Debroy Somers be calculated until the number of
Band
while Sonnie Hale, who starred noon in the Roman Catholic CeCammen Caprice (Bizet, arr. Somers) by announced. with him in the other film, plays metary at Happy Valley, Father Fast Frolics (Gounod, azt. Somers) West opened the Queen of his manager with a rare touch of A. Rossello officiating. hearts, on which dummy played comedy.
the King and East the Ace. The The film opens with Kiepura hearts were continued, South singing the theme song as he Three comes on board his yacht in the
..
jonly two hearts and five trumps,] “ELINOR NORTON”—KINGS
THEATRE
(Continued at Foot of Next CoL)
"THE QUEEN'S AFFAIRS”
ORIENTAL THEATRE
What's Yours 2-A Convivial Medley
(arr. Somers)
847-9 pm Organ Solos. It Was So Beautifni
The Clouds Will Soon Roll By.
Quentin M Maclean.
My Song Goes Round the World By a Waterfall
International Reziroad Express
(Descriptive)
9.35-10 pzzalie Tunes. Songs-
According to the Moon
Alice Faye
Hunkadots. Cha Bw
|
Fax:Trots--
It's an Old Southern (From "George
Sang-
Love Passes By "Eet's Live
To-night")---Tulio Carminati.
Fox Trot
Everything's Been Done Befo
(Reckless")
Songa
What is this “Thing 2: Show me the Way to Rozance)
("Temptation") Frances"
ruffing the third round. rounds of trumps cleared the Mediterranean. Later we bear On View from Friday the 30th trump suit, after which a dia-him sing excerpts from the opera | A magnificent coronation scene August 1935.
mond was led. ·
“Aida” and during a wedding is one of the highlights of "The Frederic Bayco. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
Of course, West did not want march in church he sings the Queen's Affairs," the film co- 99.15 pm A Relay of the Daven to take the first trick since this "Ave Maria.”
starring Anna Neagle andy News: Bulletin (copyright by could not be a winning play un- A large number of the scenes Fernand Graavey, which is to be Renter). less South had only a singleton- are taken in France and they shown at the Oriental Theatre for Gypsy Waltz Volga Walts
915-935 pm-Russian Tunes- He was pretty sure that South lend a charming background today and Thursday.
Broken Life (xx. SchwarİK) did not have a singleton diamond the story.
The scene is laid in the palace | Tosen (arz. Schwartz) since, having showed up with
throne room, &,000-square feet in Polka Frieda area, with a vista through thres doors 25 feet high and 10 feet Among those present were her club suit which had not been bid
wide.
great-grand-nephew Mr. M. F. West accordingly held off and al- Norman Foster wishes to offer The Queen's progress is made Baptists. 23 chief monmer lowed dummy's Queen to win for sale to the highest bidder between two rows of soldiers in Messrs. G. Rocha, E. Sequeire, A Fox Trot on this trick East played the 30.000 feet of standard width full regalia-her boyguard and Baptista, C. Baptista, J. Baptista.
Au Revoir L'Amour 10 pm-Beuter Press Bulletins. deuce of diamonds. This card motion picture film
she finally stops before the Artis A. Ribeiro, T. Vas, Miss H. E 10.05-10-15 pm. A Belay from. seems unimportant, but it was It is in storage in Papeete on bishop who places the crown on Baptista, Father Brooks, Father Daventry. the very thing West had been the island of Tahiti in the South her head. She then continues Orlando. and Mr. Silva, Several
“Summertime at Home, No. waiting for. In such a situation. Seas.
her passage across the throne-beautiful wreaths were laid on Beach Thomas, ERE.
“The Villages” ́A ́fik by Siz Wi- with two or four cards in the It is what he had left when he room to assume the throne.
10.16 p.m.--Close Down, diamond suit, East would have was called back to the For Film |înaagurated an "echo,” and only studio in Hollywood after he had with three cards (or a singleton) completed about one third of his would he have played his lowest own private undersea motion ́pic- card: Since the deuce could not ture project.
he would then have a five-card
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possibly be the beginning of an “Under tropic conditions, the echo, West decided to act on the film will be good for about five assumption that East held three months more." he says. "If I diamonds (if he held a singleton (can go back in the meantime, I can South could not possibly be shut use it myself. Otherwise, unless out from the dummy) and that I can dispose of it, it will be a South held only two diamonds.dead loas.”
He concluded that it was imper- Foster was recalled by the ative to take the Aee of diamonds studio for a place in the featured on South's next lead of that suit. cast of "Elinor Norton," the After the first diamond had Mary Roberts Rinehart, atory been taken in Dummy, a small which is now at the Kings Thes club was led, and East ducked (a tre. Claire Trevor, Engh standard defensive play), South liams, Henrietta Crosman winning with the King and West Gilbert Roland are the other fen-
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