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"CURLY TOP”—KING'S
THEATRE
From the dull and drab life of
BR DGE NOTES AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION
By Ely Culbertson
a small town orphanage to a sun- Before offering my
new
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ny, palatial mansion in South-streamlined model of 1935 bid-
Bach
for STAMP
COLLECTORS
By A. EL
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme
(845 KC+3)
the
RELAY OF HONG KONG HOTEL
ampton, adequately sums up the ding system, I gathered to! HE June and July issues of the touched burt traces remained be broadcast to-day from THE HONG KONG OPTICAL, quick rise to luury and happi- gether in conference some of T. contains an interest Associated with this defect is an Hong Kong Broadcasting Station
ness enjoyed by Shirley Temple the foremost experts. in her new picture "Curly Top new feature of the proposed in study on the defects of the other from the 2e. duty plate on RW. on a wavelength at 355
method was carefully analysed Hong Kong Georgian issues, parts the frame to the right of the metres. In this new Fox Flim comedy and checked against every pos of which is reproduced below. neck 20 drazia with "music, Shirley, to ible exigency. On one conten gether with Rochelle Hadson, who tious point two of the council. This is the most spectactar of all 27 An old defect which varied a It is anzusing good deal. It looks like an as- portrays the role of her big sis-lors he'd diametrically opposed Georgian defects. ter, are adopted by Jolm Boles and views and I encouraged them to know that although there are cending puff of smoke. M and
Local Time and Weather Report, taken from an orphanage to his thrash out the subject
always many people in Hong Kong "ni"*** palatial summer home. -
After a full half hour discusinterested in stamps, this marked
29. Small white patch about Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press
GOVERNMENT NOTICES
PUBLIC AUCTION
ARTICULARS
CONDI
two youngsters
1. The broken croten. SE. 50.| 28 Defect at tip of nose." SE
我
DANCE ORCHESTRA DAVENTRY RELATS
1230-2.15
European Recorded Programme.
am
* 1.39 pm 2
Close Down,
Shirley and Rochelle enter upon sîon, the disputants: seemed to variety was discovered outside the centre of parting of hair. SE 34 News, etc:- their new life with all the joy of agree on the essential principles colony, some say in Japan, others Another old defect and like the 2.15 putem
in a dreamland and a recess was taken with say in England, and it was only fast, has not appeared for about] 4-7 Bull of happiness. Shirley's new-found high hopes for a reconciliation when applications came in from fifteen years. If and "nil
outside for this stamp, that the 30. The so-called "cigarette de 7 pm-12 midnight—
Chinese Programme. *ffect.". SW 36. This faw, which) resembles a poff of smoke coming con- from the mouth, occurred about 1923-1. It varied a good deal in appearance, so the cause is rather
Grow
were again dead-locked.
aware
European Programme. 7-7.30 pammen par Orchestral Mune.
Doubinushka (arr. Rimsky-Korsa-
kov).
Polovtsi March Prince Igor")
(Borodin).
Tone Poem Finlandia," Op. 26,
No. 7 (Sibelius). Pomp and Circumstance March No
5 (Elgar)
Overture Light Cavalry" (Suppe).
Four Songs by Richard Tauber
I. Love lost forever Mor
("Blossom Tize").
blossoms forth into on the entire issue. happiness Pons of the Sale by Public
Alas! laughter, song
and dance, and
On returning to the local people became
her charm soon
and childish question it was found both had what they were missing.
The defect occurred‹ în a Auction to be held on MONDAY pranks form the foundation of a argued their respective cases the 21st day of October 1935, at 3 delightful romance between Boles too well. Each had convinced signment of 4.000 sheets in 1917 pm. at the Offices of the Public and Rochelle Hudson.
the other. They had ex-bearing the requisition letter F. Works Department, by Order of
Shirley's talents, are given full/Changed their battle-flags and! No doubt many of these stamps uncertain. Has been faked. His Excellency the Governor of
were sted before being dis-
SL The "white dot." SW 48 one Lot of Crown Land at Mong sway and audiences will com un That threw the matter into covered, otherwise it would be Consists of a blank area at the Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong der her enchanting spell when the voting box and we settled more plentiful than it is.
root of the nose, and OR well- Kong for a term of 75 years, with she sings "Animal Crackers in it by rule of majority.
The damage consists of the loss marked copies it encroaches on the the option of renewal at a Crown My Soup" and When I
Co-operating Opponents of the right side of the crown ex- eyebrow and the plain back-720-743-p Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor Up-":
Time and again hopeless cept for the circlet and flower ground to the left Known on
(Tenor). of His Majesty the King, for one- John Boles sings two of the appearing contracts are made upon it. Also, the orb and roost both M. CA and Script papers. It farther term of 75 years.
hit numbers in the film. They by alert declarers through the of the ornament upon it in the was retouched, perhaps in two are: It's All So New. To Me"imple process of enlisting the mid-line is missing.
stages, for a smaller variety oc- Jand the theme number, "Curlyo-operation-even though it This defect must have been very curred for a time. ¡Top.TM Rochelle Hudson, who be unwilling-of the opponents. soon noticed by the printers, för 32. A curious condition may be makes her singing debut in this Sometimes these opponents are it does not appear to exist on any found on the 6 and 25 e stamps picture, sings "The Simple Things caught in the mesh of a other value, as is the case general-printed about twenty years in Life."
squeeze, coup or end-play, and ly with headplate defects.
when sheets of these values ap.[743-8 pa mannot avoid giving the declarer It does, however, exist on the peared to be at times badly print- Debroy Somers Band. that extra trick he needs. "CHINA" overprinted stamp of ed a condition perhaps due to the Selection On other occasions, however, the same value. Both varieties ink used being unsuitable for the Selection
Glamorous Night. the declarer can only hope to are catalogued by Gibbons (100b purpose. On these badly printed The Big
sheets the stamp SW 39 may be found with a woolly mark about the tip of the nose. This may be due to a small plate defect being accentuated by the it used.
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“WINGS IN THE DARK”........ QUEEN'S THEATRE
2
Another aeroplane story, yet ret the defence to stray from and la).. one that is vastly different from the straight and narrow path any other ever produced, is to- of proper play and make the day's attraction at the Queen's fatal error which will give him Theatre, where Wings In The his contract. This occurred in Dark" is being screened
The hand below:
South Dealer
Instead of dealing with the de structive side of aviation, this picture has for its background the efforts of
a young airman, portrayed by Gary Grant, to per- fect “blind" flying. There is á welcome, absence of those scenes which show 'planes crashing to their doom in flames.
Neither side vulnerable North:
S-10_8
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S-J 5.4 2. E-Q7
D-K 10 6
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S-Q 9 73 H-J
D-A Q 9 3 C.-Q.10.7
Tragedy is introduced when.! on the eve of achievement, the young inventor is blinded in an East: accident. The disappointment he has to endure in putting aside his life ambition because of this cruel stroke, of fate is, however, relieved by the devotion of the woman he loves, a role which is capably handled by Myrna Loy, who departs for the first time in many years from the comedy drama film
“PRIVATE WORLDS” -STAR THEATRE
messager to
A challenging those who fear and do not under- stand love is contained in the] story of Paramount's "Private Worlds, an enthralling psycho- logical drama...
South:
S-A K 6.
H-A 843:2 D.-J.7
C-A 8 2
The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered ex- (Continued at foot of next Col)
"TIMES SQUARE LADY" MAJESTIC THEATRE
26.
C
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* * *
ago.
2. Once there. lived a lady fair ("Blossom Time”) (Clustsam)
3. Thine my thoughts are, Mar- Ja garita (Belmond).
4. Good Night. Oh! My Love!
(Abt).
Broadcast with Carlyle Cousins and Dan Donovan. & part-
.93-8.15 pm
Local Time and Weather Report.
Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends
1. Black Coffee.
2 When the first PiccaniÁRAZY WES
BOTAL
3. According to the Moonlight. 4. It's an old Southern Custom- 18.15-8.45 pm---
I have g admired the enter
Australian and New. Zealand Post Offices, in their use of cancellation stamps in order to "How's that?" Half an hour's quick
A Relay from Daventry. popularise their various services change variety with Bert Etrol. Bet-
PEVAIT DEFECTS
UT on scalp. NW 48 Cut about 2 mm long commences just above the "head in the midline, running downwards to the left. Most have occurred many years ago, for it may be prise of t found_on_both M. CA and Script issues
27 Cut scalp.
Recent mails from New Zealand Erol, Marie Dayne, Frank Form- Very similar to No. 26, but the cut is more horizontal.
indicate that a telephone campaign by, Joe Brennan and Ida Newton. Known only 20.
is in full swing there. My letters Ralph Coram, and the Band Pre Postmarks
sented by Ralph Coram and, John bear such slogans 28: Defect was res
Pydney." Your telephone will reach your 815-9 p.m. friend in the other island.
**0
on the Ic. and early in 1932
NW5
A. Belay of the Daventry News. an-Bulletin (Copyright by Reater),
Derickson and Brown.“
Meanwhile the Australian planatory paragraphs): South West North East thorities have evidently been trou-9-913 pm 11.-
Pass
bled by the carelessness of people 2EL (1) Pass Pass 4B.(2) Pass
Pass 1A shaded raise but justifi-for foreign postage.
who neglect to consult the tarifs..
This 821
|
able for defensive purposes. Adelaide cancellation stamp 2South could not know the ties the warning:
weakness of his partner's Minimum Jetter rate to USA raise, and consequently con- 3d Addressee pays double de- tracted for game without ficiency. any further ado.
der The Play
West chose as his opening
Rather a long slogan, but none the less pointed.
1. Over Somebody
Shoulder.
2. The Little Dutch MIL. 3. One morning in May.
Else's
4. You oughta be in pictures. 9.13-9.30 p.m.
Old Tanes
What's yours?—A Convivial Medley
(arr. Debroy Somers). Honeysuckle and the Bes (Fizz);
⠀⠀ If you want to know the time ask
z policeman (Regus).
Sweet Genevieve (Tucker); At Tri-
nity Church (Gilbert). 9.38-10 per a
'ead the spade deuce, the eight Greece-A remainder stock of was played from dummy and 10,000 thirty-year-old franked A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Bast's Queen was topped by de postcards was used up by the Dance Orchestra, clarer's Ace South made a Greek authorities during the re- 10 p very speedy survey of the situacent revolution. These
Cards
Big Ben: Renter Press Bulletins.
A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra. 12 midnightim
Close Down
"Times Square Lady" tells a tion. It took him no more (which are impressed with the 10.05-16.25 pm poignantly beautiful story
of a than a few seconds to see he 1901 "Hermes type and show
A Relay from Daventry. young comiry girl who goes to had four certain losers, even if views of Greece on the back) were down the streets of London. Devised "Pop Goes the Wessel!” Up and New York and is swiftly caught trumps broke, with practically distributed to Government troops and presented by John Padney. Adapted from the widely read in the vortex of life there. Phyllis Bottome novel of the role of the girl is taken by lovely them. South saw one possibili-We have no cards for sale.)
The on hope of eliminating any of in Salonica and Athens (NB 16.25 pm-12 midnight same name, and acted by Clau- Virginia Bruce, and the man she ty, however. dette Colbert, Charles Boyer, falls in love with is Robert Tay- At Trick 2 after winning the
An interesting point about the Joel McCrea, Joan Bennett and Lon
card we have seen is that, although spade Ace, South immediately it has a printed impression of the The settings for the film have returned a low spade, not stop-3L value, it also bears an albino! peers into the remote nooks and been eleborately carried out, and ping to draw trumps. To do so impression of the 10 L. deno crannies of the mind to expose in turn we are introduced to all would give the defence time to the fears, complexes and inhibi- tions that are the real villains of the attractions of modern life collect themselves and plan Isobel Jewel singa frequently ahead But South, wasting no
flat-footed. The latter care.
Helen Vinson, "Private Worlds”
romance.
mination.
Italian Colonies-Tripolitania
An isolated hospital for the during the course of the picture. time, caught West. literally There is the possibility that the insane is the strange and drama HICKEY MOUSE VARIETIES lessly marked his partner with alian correspondent thinks that
is worked out the life dramas
tic background of this film
of a little group of people, doe- tors who administer to the
minds and hearts.
“RUGGLES OF RED GAP”—– ORIENTAL THEATRE
– ALHAMBRA THEATRE
the spade King and mechanical-
latest Tripoli Fair issue will be the last of these annual sets. Our
NOTE: There will be a relay from
the Po Eing Theatre (Chinese) on Z. E. K on a frequency of 640 kilocycles from 8-11 pm
SEER WHO REALLY SAW
'ne Bidalez was taken to the
Philadelphia-When Miss Her-
police station and charged with
fortune-telling, she said she would prove her powers to the policemen. "I knew you would arrest me,” she erilaimed. "I foresaw it all a month ago.”—Beuter.
TO-MORROW
ly did not go up with his Jack. it only appeared because i To-day and to-morrow
Kow-It did not occur to him that de already pristed before the Govern- mental ills of others, yet who los popular first run house, the clarer with the King of spades ment adopted its new policy
Alhambra will show 1523 to understand their own of new Mickey Mouse cartoons in dummy could possibly lead a
a selection in his hand and only one left garding commemorative serienj
This type of programme received low card of the suit rather Tibet The 1 cheker stamps of a very favourable response from than the King.
the 1933 issue is printed on a very the public when tried by the Hong Of course, the spade ten held thick native paper quite distinct Kong theatres, and should make the trick and after trumps from that of earlier arrivals, Charles Laughton is assisted as wide an appeal in Kowloon were drawn South's spade King which was, in some cases, so thin by five of Hollywood's leading Old and young alike find some provided a discard for one of as to be almost transparent. thing very amusing in Mickey, dummy's clubs. As a result. Among a quantity of the 7 and 2 comedy players" in Paramount's "es of Red Gap" They probably one of the greatest fun South lost only three tricks in trangka stampe our Publishers disa duaurier
creations of recent years, and as the minor suits and fulfilled his covered a are Mary Boland,
few pairs of each valne Charlie Bug- gles, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts the films are separated by one or contract
which were printed together in the Ratten House, Daddell Street and Leila Hyams..
two of the “Betty Boop" and "Po-
Incidentally, South's tricky form of what amount to "minia- The picture opens in London peye the Sailor "series" monotony play was one which could (and ture sheets, Le wh narrow when Egbert Frond, a rough disis avoided.
tion in the "Silent Guide Direc- tory to Hong Kong.”
TELL THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
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SERVICE
lant
mond from America, wins “Bug- gles,” the perfect butler-valet,
from his titled master in z poker rame.
actually did), gain but could margins between the two stamps not possibly lose, barring acci- and wide margins around them. THREEPENCE RID FOR COWdents from freak, distribution It Is evident that these Tibet Even if West had kept swake stamps are full of interest. Any- at and gone up with the spade thing may turn up, for it is bid] Jack, South, still uld have viom that the Tibetan authori
avoided one ciab loser by using consider of, little impe nce tho the spade King for a discard matters of sheet size, perforati just as he did. Then he would shade, etc,
At a tithe distraint sale *In America “Buggles" mas-Lean der, Herfordshire one quitzades ás a Colonel in the for Bdő was inade for a cos English Army, becomes the lion túa
of Red Gap. society, and is in-funder the fected with the democratic idea obtí Thimself
have gone down one trick the care of the world's more
postal officials.
AT THE MAJESTIC
CHEVALIER FOLIES BERGERE