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BRIDGE NOTES
CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY
A Wife's Superior
Play
By Ely Culbertson
SEPTEMBER 18–1935
&imusements
Cinema Noter
"CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYFT-—- KINGS THEATRE
I am told that the favourite
Warner Oland journeys "this indoor sport of married couples time to Egypt for his latext all over the world is trying to Charlie Chan thriller. The pro- convince themselves, each ducers could not have picked a other, and the world at large more ecrie environment than this that the other member of the country, “which is famed for its married partnership is by far tombs, for a picture of the kind the inferior member of the in which Uland has spécialised bridge partnership. Most during the past few years. “ GENERAL NOTICES wives think that their husbands Before embarking on the film
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TUITION
play atrociously, and the hus- Oland, who is noted for his ac- bands delight in picking out (curacy of detail; made an intansive wifely Contract Bridge flaws study of the “dettk corse" that and dwelling on them at great is supposed to be highly respect- length. I receive some 500 ed in that country. The shadow letters daily from the "other of death is alleged to hang over half" of a pair united in holy any person who probes into the wedlock but not in Bridge be-tombs. liefs-
At the conclusim of his search
I was therefore delighted he came to the conclusion that when Sidney J. Brown, of Jack the evil fate that awaits most sonvile. Florida, sent me the people who delve into the my- following beautiful example of steries of the dead was more * expert bidding and play, with matter of imagination than any the simple comment that that thing else.
"Mrs. Brown played it In Charlie Chan In Egypt,” Since I am known to believe Oland solves z murder mystery my wife a master of all depart-in connection with the opening of ments of the game of Bridge, Tone of these tombe am happy to find another man who has the same high regard for his own wife's ability. North:
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HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY 1.30 p.m. 1935-On sale at all Book-stalls and {* at the Offices of the Publishers, 3A.j Wyndham Street,``
FOR SALE
A selection of the best varieties of
Reliable and Tested
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary
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fing of comedy and romance.
Double
Mae West is shown here surrounded by the for her new Paramount Sla," "Goin" To Town.” *King's->heatre.
AN IMPRESSION OF ABYSSINIA
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMIE
The following, programine wil
-broadcast to-day. from the... Hong Kong Broadcasting Station -
BW. on a wavelength ot [dottell (645 ECÀ
"THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NEW ZELLAND MÉGET"
12.30-215 pm- European
Recorded
Ipi Local Time
Report
1.15 pm-He Kong Hotel Or Febestra
1:30 pm-Beater Press Bulletins, Rugby" Press" News
4.7 pmChinese Programme. 6-615 pm-Children's Studio feert
Saing (Luigia).
Programs.
Kryption
NATURE OF THE PEOPLE Picaforte Re-
AND THE LAND
BARREN VIEW ALONG RAILWAY
FROM DJIBOUTI
citač by „Erdet Legisid:
Moments Musicaux (Schube Op. 94)
230-8 pix~Variety.
Yodd
Down the old road to home
Jimmie Rod
Band
Memories of Horatio Nicholls Orchestra
“Eevilerile” Memañer Twenty-Five Teres of Warden
Comedy.
8 pm-Local Time and Wes Report
8.03-8.25 pm Frem Stado
The Mythology of the New Zer- Inhil Waori by Mrs T. W. Leriz.
825-538 pa-Harry Kay's Tiger agations. 1. It don't mean & Thing Happy
Feet: Everybody Love my Baby I Got Phyth
2 Memories of You; Rain; Goodbye.
Elses.
3
Dialy After you've gone No
body' Sweetheart.
St. Louis Blues: Some of theser Days
8.38-9 pm Band Marie.
Press
Tombs outnumber men along the desolate boulders have been A realistic newspaper story, the first half of the railroad passed. with Richard Cromwell and Arline from Djibouti to Addis Ababa First Running Water Judge in the principal roles. They are a fitting element in a Only 30 kilometres away at "Name The Woman," is to-day's landscape which must be of the points, other travellers say, attraction at the Queen's Theatre most depressing on earth. there are rich districts, but Cromwell is seen as a cab re- It is a land where cultiva-Menelik, when the railroad was porter who is assigned to an im- tion of any kind is out of the started distrusted foreigners portant marder story, because question, it gives no promise of and would not allow their ru there is no one else in the office the rich platean beyond the road to tap any but barren sail at the time to cover the assign escarpment.
The first running water comes ment The adventures he has The tiny, narrow-gauge train after nine hours steady travel while trying to solve the murder rattles out of Djibouti station from Djibouti: Trees and even makes this a worthwhile picture, at 7 am leaving behind
agreen grass become frequent, A sequence in which he battles platform so jammed with beg-giant cryxes, tiny dit dik and with the villain in the rumble gars cake sellers, and hangers other seat of a motor-car descending on that getting baggage on often, and the flat-topped trees Bay Blas Overture (Mendelssohn)
antelope are sighted steep hill at 60 miles an hour, board is almost a practical im-are hung with the nests of Tancredi Overture (Rossini).. will give you a breath-taking possibility. It is composed of a weaver birds. thrill. Albert Rogell is respon stock engine, six or eight toy
La Source Ballet (arr. Winterbottom) Mr. Brown neglected to state keeps the action smooth and con-
The Ethiopians on the trame Smutny the Wood (Michaelis) sible for the direction and he freight cars, and two coaches have been acting as guides alle Turkish Patrol (Michaelis) the bidding, but I assume that vincing and has interspersed the
On Board
3-9.15 pmLA Kelay of the Davez day- A Customs inspector)try News Bulletin (Copyright by Ren with story with just the correct blend-pondents and a few Ethiopians ing the animals and trees, ort
On board are foreign corres from Dire Dawa has been-nam-ter).
9.15-9.30 pm. Selection of Russi returning from abroad to aid enthusiastically describing huwwatte of Russian Melodies
Telodies. their country. The former are "there are canyons throughout Beauty War **CASINO MURDER CASE” equipped with every variety of this country where an invader Down the Mather Volga --ORIENTAE THEATRE- thing supposedly necessary on could be beaten off with rocks." Pas D'Espagne, Wall
the plateau. The Casino Murder Case." masks, bed rolls, and clothing of
There are gas young doctor returning
Shut Off By Deserts Shining Mood (Russian Folk Song) with Paul Lakas as the featured all sorts.
A
·SEN===From the Stüdia. I do not recommend the player, brings to the screen a by his wife, his chauffeur and a the waste lands and explained: One is accompanied from America, has looked at
Selections by "The Mixie Makers.”. double, but Mr. Brown did hap third distinctive
10, pm-Big Ben: Rem pen to mention that West Philo Vance. S. S. Van Dine's will follow.
portrayal of black Great Dane His car There are one reason for our doubled, and it had a great famous fictions detective.
backwardness up to the time of effect on the play bett
The evil waste lands begin Haile Selassie's coronation Rather than present a purely almost immediately, as the enThese deserts kept us shut off West's opening lead was the dramatic mystery the producer, gine starts its long gradual and most forgotten for cen- spade four, which Dummy's Lucien Hubbard has chosen to climb And so does the array turies. that the double must have been thriller King-won South now assumed make the latest Philo Vance of tombs Among the volcanic At Dire Dawa, slupping point based
an unusually humorous boulders which cover the hill-for the coffee and fruits of on a long suit in yet mystifying story with rapid-sides so thickly that it is hardly rich Hamar province, the the hand accordingly. diamonds, and preceded to play fire action and sparkling dialogue. possible to set a flat, they are stops for the might The
Two rounds of hearts were followed funny moments is assured by the for they are simply
That the new picture has its often hardly distinguishable, toms official heards 17 ports by a heart ruff with Dummy's fact that the inimitable Alison circles of rocks among the rocks baggages to the hotel, bullies crude loaded with correspondents' singleton trump, after which Skipworth is prominently east as around them. Once in a while the proprietor into making the Ace of clubs furnished a the domineering Mrs. Llewellyn" the tomb of some forgotten room where there is none, and discard for South's last heart around whom much of the action chief, is marked by a roughly-goes off to bed Passengers,
A club was now ruffed, reduc-circles.
piled cairn in the centre of the facing nearly 15 hours travel circle.
the next day, do likewise. The People
Tactical Hazardo
|| BISHERIGES - £550 The men appear at the intre. Even from a train window primer to For the information of visitors Clocks. Table lamps, Gramophone South, therefore led a spade to
quent stations, and at times in and on a trip through some of tions by the the following list of some of the and Records, Cabinets. Brass and Dummy's. Ace, and played a ers in pictures, Lee Tracy and three small sickly
With the two fastest wisecrack-between with their two or its easiest terram, the tac
following the highest points on the Island and Glass Ware, Ice Chest, Porcelain third round of clubs. from Schnozzle-Durante, in the lead camels or a few goats.
looking hazards of the Mainland is published:-.
Ware, Pictures, etc, etc.
Dummy. She ruffed this with ing roles of "Carnival the pic themselves are emaciated. There are gorges like that of
They plateau are obvious the diamond seven and was now ture could not be anything but Somalis for the most part the Awash River where left with two diamonds (the success. Queen-Ten) and a losing spade, The picture has for its back-with mud roofs, filthy inside several hundred feet abov
They live in square stone houses train crosses by a steel since East's King was now ground a huge carnival. All the and out. The standard dress water. To blow up this established West had nothing fear, love, and sorrow which is a rags and a spear and thus to cut the but diamondk
naturally associated in this kind There must be water holes in should be comparativel
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions THE Undersigned have receiv- ed instructions to sell Public Auction
TH
by
Friday, the 20th. September, 1935 commencing at 2:30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:--
ing South to five trumps. Two
Bed Room and Dining Room rounds of diamonds revealed the Furniture, Chesterfield Suites, fact that West had originally Carpets and Rugs, Ornaments, held five and East only one
ISLAND
also
Fest
Victoria Peak
1,823
Signal Station
∙1,774
A Selection of Black Wood: Furniture and.
Mt. Parker":
1,734
One Radio Set.
Mountain Lodge
1,725
Two Enamel Baths.
The Eyrie...
1,725
On View from Thursday
the
Peak Hotel
1,305
19th September 1935.
Taikoo Sanatorium
1,000
Mt. Davis.
877
Bowen Road (filterbeds)
297
MAINLAND
Taimoskan
Fest 2,124
Kowloon Pent
1,971
COASTWISE
“ALGIE” BENNETT
An interesting
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LASMERT BHOSZ
Auctioneers, Hong Kong, 27th Sept, 1955)
TO-MORRÓ
AT THE MAJESTIC
“CARNIVAL” MAJESTIC
THEATRE
thorn trees, the pastel mineral "In ten years, given streaked hills and an occasional much of the land troop of baboons who scratch funder cultivation." and look as the train passer young
At this point, when South led of show are reaHatically depict this country, if people live for Italian aeroplane out her losing spade West was ed in the picture. In addition to there, but these are not viable observers do not feel it forced to ruff it with the dis Tracy and Durante, Sally Ellers from the train. There are rich of an embarr mond Five and now West was and Dorothy Burgess are featur-only the black boulders, the the Ethiopian forces in the lead with no choice but led players. to play from his guarded Jack of diamonds into South's tenace and give up the last two tricks. To make matters more in- teresting, this hand was played in a team-of-four contest: Whe Mr. and Mrs. Brown's
held the same cards the her table, they also bid
"BLIND DATE" STAR STHEATREN
That
rest Americ
Dry River Beds.
In the gre dry river beds,
aten a hundred feet of
the earth, there are
gazelles, but th
water for
times there
scrubby trees,
desert
bitsing
Bulletins.
If pime Globe Downs:
MINORITIES IN DANZIG-
Dr. Greiser Attends At Geneva
“CHINA MAIL:""SPECIAL
Geneva, To-day. The President of the Danzig
mate, Dr. Greiser arrived here Monday night to attend the League of Nati
users and white
like a fora. hair they
Assembly de- -petitions
Daz *electi
In their WEST Small
combs Like all hillmen, they are barefoot or wear leather If they have rifles,
them Palcemen women, less in
of Cartoons
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