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Auction
Monday, the 28th October, 1935, commencing at 5.15 pm st their Sales Room. Duddell Street
A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
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HE undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
On Tuesday, the 29th October, 1935. commencing at 10 am.
at No. 10. Kennedy Road. A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:-
THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, OCTOBER
Amusements
Cinema Notes
"THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL”“”.
-KING'S THEATRE
Baroness Orezy's famous story of the French Revolution, "The Scarlet Pimpernal" is produced by British International Pictures, land comes to the screen for the first time with Leslie Howard in the leading role
The story concerns the adven tures of a mysterious“ person. self-styled the Scarlet Pim- pernel, who starties and the revolutionary authorities by assisting prisoners of the new regime to escape Leslie Howard treats the role of Sir Percy Blakeney with perfect under standing. Merle Oberon has the leading feminine part.
and
Besides those already mention--| ed. Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce. Anthony Bushell, Joan Gardner fill the other parts: very well. The production is by Alexander Korda, and directed by Harald Youn**.
"CASINO DE PARIS”
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Although they have been mar- zied for several years, this is the first time that Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, America's leading song and dance experts, have been co-starred in a fhm
Each successive Warner Bros." to surpass in musical seems splendour and quality all its pre- decessors. The story-of "Casino de Paris" is really of very little importance, although it is much
1935
£3.500 FOR PRINCESS HELEN FROM GREECE
A real beauty, Miss Prus Stack, heads the women's He and Beauty League of She is shown arriving in New Yoek, en route to Creates to es- tablisk branches of her tion" "thers."
FARMERS WANT
EMUS KILLED BY
MACHINE GUNS
Hundreds Of Acres. Of Wheat Ruined
SITUATION NEARS CRISIS
Wheat farmers have asked
PENSION
REPLACES
BRIDGE NOTES
Changes
“By Ely Culbertson
ALLOWANCE The Approach-Forcing system
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
has stood · like a bulwark, supTbe following programme yril
Son Heir To Smallporting all champions in contract be broadcast to-day
bidding. It is sound. Every Hong Kong Broadcasting Station body knows it and proves it by ZEW. on a wavelength "ef daily practice. Players may metre 1865
Fortune
RUMANIA NOT INVOLVED
tem.
-Blind uninformative no-
SPŠ ZEK Progfanne & 1230236 «pt
1230 pm-Recorded Music. ImLocal Time and Weather
[Report"
contend they are using another (A" RELAY OF THE HONG KONG
HOTEL DANCE ORCHESTRA method but when one boils t Princess Helen, Greek princess, down it comes back to the basic and former wife of King Carol of principles of the Culbertson 13 Rumams, has come into $3,500 trump opening bids cannot com-
pete with the more scient ja year.
But it will come from her na-method of giving precise infor tive Greece-not Romania.mation as to suit lengths, the
The Greek Finance Minister, location of specific cards and etc. after interviewing ex-Kms George general strength. of Greece in London, has informed the princess that she will hence-bidding forth receive a pension"
115 pm—Hong Kong Hotel Or- chestra
130 - Retter Press Bulletins,
215 pm-Close Down. 5-8 pm — European) Programin
However, I am speeding up the 5-7 pans.-A" "Relay of the Hong
and accelerating the Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra..
tempo of play by some slight 7-7.22 pm Theme and Varia The Greek Government has set changes in the biddable suits, tions Suite No. 3 in G. Tschaikor.
sky). faside a sum of money which will Any four cand sait containing a
#722-747 - pan---Popular Tunes" bring Princess Helen an annual Jack and a higher honour (AJ Selection-Rose. Marie income of $3,500, which, at her xx, KJxx, or Q JIX) ∞ "bet-Twenty Five Years of Popular
The suit Deed death, she can bequeath to her son ter, may be bid. Michael
not contain a trick and a half as heretofore, but may be shown once. A rebiddable suit fone
Song
Selection. The Gold Diggers of 1933
747-8 ··pm—Four: Songs Richard Tauber (Tenor).
Small Allowance
1. Once here Lived a Lady Fair Princess Helen has so far been
("Blossom Time”) living on a small allowance from which may be bid twice) must
("Blossom Time"} King Carol, to which strict condi- contain five cards or more head-2 Love Lost for Evermore
[ed by Ace-King" or three honors | 3. Dear Little Nightingale tions are attached.
such as A Kxxx A Q 10 x x
One of them is that she must not
give interviews regarding Mmer 3 10 x= Lupescu, Carol's friend, or writel uncensored letters to her small son.! She has depended almost entire ly on the generosity of her brother,: the ex-King of Greece.
more convincing than is usually the Government to send troops MICKEY MOUSE'S
the case with this type of film or
machine-guns to Western
BIRTHDAY
SEVEN CANDLES ON CAKE
Holding a four card or five card biddahle suit, three honour-tricks Jare requirements for an opening bid. Two and a half honour- tricks will be enough to sopen. *
rebiddable suit
Quick Thinking
(Moskowski)).
4 Santa. Lucia. (Nexpolīta
Folk Song)
"8 pm- Local Time and · Weather Report: Closing Local Stock Quots. tions.
2.06-11 pm — A Belay from the Tai Ping Theatre \(Chinese)
TI PI-Close Downl 8.05.10 Am-European kranmme from ZEK. on a frequency
of
540 kilocycles Piano Salos
8.05-827 pm-Variety Items
Green
If the Moon turns Green
Give me a heart to sing to
Carroli Gibbons.
The Boswell Sisters
Work
On the hand below, the Fast player made a very brilliant. play Al is cast as a fine actor who Australia to fight the emu
which brought about the defeat of special. meeting of the
the contract. “He held up an Ace has been dubbed temperamental At a and unreliable, and consequently Bonny Rock branch of the Wheat-
in a case where it is usually pro- per to win with it and he had Vocal-Dinah Drawing Room,." Dining Room finds it difficult to get bookings growers' Union, it was stated that He meets Ruby, and his sister. the position was now, because of!
to make up his mind to do it instrumental Beaut land Bed Room Suites, Carpets,
Hesters, on hearing of this, saggests that the ravages of the emu, much
quickly as otherwise he would Song Fans and Electric
more serious than three years ago, EGYPT'S MICKEY IN 3,000 B.C. have been marked with it Crockery, Glass Ware, Ornaments, they team together."
Those who assist in making when hundreds of acres of crops
South, Dealer Pictures, Kitchen Utensils, etc.,
the film a success are Glendawere ruined:
Both sides vulnerable
etc..
North- Farrell (as Al's sister), Helen the **torchTM Morgan Patsy Kelly, Sharon Lynne,
Westcott On View from Monday the 28th Rogan. Gordon Jorce Compton. October, 1935.
3 This Furniture is almost New and of Modern Design).
Terins: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers Kong, October 22, 1935..
Holders of drawn Debentures who desire to be paid on the 31st October, 1935, are requested to inform the Treasurers. Messrs. Percy Smith, Beth & Fleming, on 30th or before Wednesday, the October, 1935.
AND NOTICE is hereby given THE Undersigned have receiv- ∙as 1 ed instructions to sell by that Debentures numbered above which are not cashed on Public Auction ·
the 31st October, 1935, will be
THE
on
paid on the 30th April, 1936, after Tuesday, the 29th October, 1935, which date they will cease to bear
interest
By Order of the Committee,
AK MACKENZIE
Hon. Secretary.
Hong Kong, 25th October, 1935.
FOR SALE
-commencing at 230 p.m.
at their Sales Boom,
Duddell Street
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
S—Q.73 F-K 52 D-10 8 7 6 C-J 5.4
**Hollywood (California). Nearly 1,000 emus have beeni
Mickey Mouse was seven on singer, reported, and the farmers are September 28, Seven years ago, Phil determined to exterminate them on September 28, 1928, Mickey and before their crops are ruined. made his first bow to a flo There are several former andience in a small cinema in New machine-gunners among the far-York, and won an instantaneous West:- mers in the district, it is pointed success. His first film was “Steam- out. All that is needed is a few boat Willie."
"CURLY TOP”—ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
SEA SERPENT
The top song writers of Holly-uns and some ammunition wood are now writing songs for
diminutive star's sensational Shirley Temple as a result of the success in singing roles in re- cent pictures.
S-10:54 HJ 7 DJ 9.53 2 C-9 8 3
This year his birthday was cele~! brated all over the world, : but] nowhere more enthusiastically than East:-
PRANIHILING the Hollywood house of his 2
23 SAILORS PROOF POSITIVE
creator, Mr. Walt Disney. Mr. Disney and a few friends gathered DA 4
C-A76
to watch Mickey cut his own birthday cake. complete with seven South: candies.
For Shirley's new production "Curly Top," a staff of four
Boston (Massachusetts). musical wizards, headed by Ray
Adelbert Langhorne
Far Back In Past Henderson, were assigned to the Skipper
of the fishing composing of the five tunes and the 22 men
But Mickey dates, it seems, from Fire which are the highlights in the schooner Imperator have put into far back in the past. picture.
port, swearing that they saw thousand years ago they had a "Carly Top" is probably Shir-sea-serpent, 70ft long, rising out Mickey Mouse in Egypt. ley's happiest and most natural of the sea off Bostor and swim Picture. Her round of songs are alongside their bost
comprising:
Chesterfield Suites, Dining Room and Bed Room Furniture, Carpet Ruga, Glass and Porcelain Ware Cloisonne and Brass Ware, E. P
The men got out their swordfish Ware, Ornaments, Clocks, Fic that of a darling little girl who harpoons, but before they could A selection of the best varieties oftures, Linen, Gramaphones and{ could not help bringing love into use them the serpent, which was Records, Sewing Machines, Ice the lives of the people about her apparently without fis, swam Reliable and Tested
Cherts. Cooking Stoves, Teak Irving Cummings directed the
away out of range, moving across Desks, Teak and Filing Cabinets, picture which was produced by the surface of the waves like 8 Typewriters, Adding Machines, Winfield Sheehan.
water snake." Blankets, Curtains, Bath Towels,
supplemented by a series of fas The animal's head rose to a cinating new dance routines, height of 2011. from the water, worked out by Jack Donohue they say.
The story of "Curly Top" is
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A Selection of Black Wood Furniture.
**and
One Electric Ice Chest "Elec- trolux Ltd”
On View from Monday the 28th October, 1935,
Terms: Cash on Delivery
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ISLAND
METAL POLISH
Victoria Peak-
1823
Signal Station
Mt. Parker
Mountain Lodge
The Eyrie
Peak Hotel
Taikoo Sanatorium
ML Davis
Bowen Road (Alterbeds)
MAINLAND
**THERE'S ALWAYS
TO-MORROW?”_STAR THEATRE
The skipper and his men say the
animal's head resembled crocodile-Benter.
"QUINS" FILM PROSPECTS
Ban May Be Lifted In A Year
"His
whe
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The bidding: (Figures
Things might bære, been, so
Diffrent * Gracie Fields. Instrumental-Blaze : Away
Many Happy returns of the day
Eddie Peabody. Song.m
I'm going" Shoppin",with. Piano Solo
Smoke gets in your eyes
You
Dick Powel
* Cazoll Gibbous. 827-9. p.m. Concerto in A Minor, [Op, 16-(Grieg}..
9.9.15 pm-A Relay of the Daven [iry News Ballefin: (Copyright by
Reuter.)
9.15-9,40 pm-Light Music Love's Dream after the
A Night in Venies pa E
Destial
Czibnika)
(Strauss, am. Weininger) A-Musical Comedy Switch (arr. Hall) Count of Luxenbourg. Waltz: (Leher)
4. Santa Lucía (Neapolitan
9.40-10 p.m.--Vocal Gems. Welsh Memories (arr."Evazza) Drinks at@Hound
after There is a Tavern in the Town
(Czibulka)
bids refer to numbered explana---
10 pm-Big-Ben: Reuter Press Bulletins."
10.05 pm- Close Down
"I have goodtory paragraphs).
West North East scientific author- South
Pass INTA Pass(1) ity for
that " IE
-Pass 2EL
Pass Mr. Disney said 20.
Pass
lead from dummy was desired, de- Pazs i4H.(2) Pass
clarer played the heart right back 1-Despite the three Aces and the
King, the East hand is too and finessed the ten-spot. West skimpy to enter the bidding won with the Jack. This proved when vulnerable at the level of to be the setting trick for East
could still make his three Aces. two.
Professor -Jean Capart an Egyptologist, who is Director of the Royal Museum in Brus - sels. "Professor Capart has proof, taken from ancient excavations, that a predecessor of Mickey Anished in Egypt in 3,000 BC. In
his collection of papyrus manus-
The
This hit of trickery seldom for occurs to even the expert mind. In the usual superficial manner of
-A rather optimistic bid.
only reason I can find it is that South minst have
wanted to end the rubber thinking most players try to be clever in such situations by win- quid dy
ning with the Ace and leading the suit back immediately." This will careless akes the
The Play West, with his weak holding,
cripts are numerous drawings finally decided (although, incor work only aga from comic strips of those days, rectly) to discard his noamat declarer. "If the latter in which a character appears whose fourth best diamond lead and time to consider he can readily resemblance to Mickey Mouse is opened a pade, hoping thereby see that East, with the guarded to strike his partner's suit. He Jack, would not dream of leading entryless the suit, since the quite startling."
chose the ten-spot and this
many fazzishes no opportunity was allowed to ride around to the
finesse either at that point declarer's Jack South then
ster. The dreking play, on How heart, East played
other hand, worked because it red Torical to South-that -play
14-YEAR-OLD HEROINE
and the dummy the
This was the point
There's Always To-morrow” tells the story of a business man who is misunderstood by his wife and children. Into his life comes a beautiful girl, his former se cretary, who loves him. Instead of breaking up his home and taking him from his family she
Montreal their eyes to his good, qua According to a Toronto mes opens lities.
The picture is a faithful re-sage, the Dionne quintuplets Doreen Mann, 14, of Clarendon presentation of a book of the may yet make their first film ap-road. Gravesend, has been award- same name by Ursula Parroft pearance with Miss Mary Picked the Royal Humane Society's Ralph Morgan, Lois Wilson and ford, although Me David A Croll certificate for diving into the Binnie Barnes have the leading Ontario's Minister of Public Wel Thames and regering
fare, has rejected for the moment bather in danger of drowning. parts
Mier Pickford's offer £5,000 for
their physician, is satisfied that itan Ace this purpose. A
The babies cinema debut cannot will do them no harm, Miss Pick case take place for a year or more, Mr. ford's proposition will be consider and East
Dafoe, ed Hugh Walpole's immortal storyCroll states, but of a woman's life, has lost nothing rather it has gained by its ansference from ook to screen.
when first po-
VANESSAMAJESTIC THEATER
thinking by Bast paid ends Mast players hesitatingly win with for in zimost [is proper to.
realise
trick Wes not have declare
Fastest River Flows
Faster
geven
quick
Tus ption
to
with the
low and EZ the Ace, must
ingly lacking
played for the
Jack the only hope
Cinema Notes
(Continned From Column 3)
ENTAL
from so