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at Messrs. Palmer & Turner's old premises, Alexandra Building. A Quantity of OFFICE FURNITURE and FITTINGS Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
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HE-Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Fublic
Auction
On Friday, the 29th. November, 1935 commencing at 230 pm.
at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of
· VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
also
A Selection af BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and
One Upright Piano.
November 1935.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
Cinema Notes
"THE BISHOP MISBEHAVEST KING'S THEATRE SER A windshield for a camETE WAN the unusual device resorted to by studio technicians to permit an actor-to-throw-a-bez-of-snuff-at
{the lens
This was employed in "The Bishop Misbehaves," Metro-Gold-. wyn-Mayer's whimsical comedy- mystery. In the amusing story of the bishop who turns detective, Edmund Gwen, the famous-En-
glish actor. playing the mystery
solving Bishop, has to halt four crooks by throwing sanf in their faces. Is the close-up it, had toj be directed at the camera. A piece of plate glass was used to keep it out of the delicate lenses: and mechanism.
Other unusual tricks were em-] ployed by technicians in filming the comical story. Tacks were carefully laid and marked to punc-}
There is comedy, seams, cmance and music the Nitwits the new ture a running automobile for one Wheeler Woolsey glarzer, coming to the King's Theatre to-morrow, Lower detail in the picture. The car was left Robert-Woolsey and Bart Wheelers lower right, Betty Grabie, who carefully driven over the route seis featured Top to bottom left, Woolsey and Wheders. Whether, Woolsey veral times, then the tacks were and Charles Wilson, detective inspector Fred Korting, the skoletan placed, and a perfect juncture re-and Wille Best: top to bottom, right, Hale Hamilton and Woolsey Wlham Goald, Erik Rhodes Betty Grable. Charles Wilson, Edward Feel-and-Bd. sulted.
Deering; Evelyn-Brest-tald by Kesting, and Wilson, of her husband's death.
A special dumb-waiter, in which Norman Foster escapes was built just large enough for the actor, and carefully counterweighted so that he could go up and down. Special camera arrangements were made to film this.
was
The new picture, which directed by E. A. Dupont, the not- led European director, is based on Fred Jackson's successful stage Maureen O'Sullivan- " Nør- play- man Foster, Lucile Watson, Ar thur Treacher and Charles Mc-: Kaughton are among the princi- pal players
"THE GLASS KEY”—QUEEN'S
fame.
THEATRE
་
FAMILY FED DURING
SUMMER ON $2
WOMAN PLANTS SEEDS AND
REAPS REWARD
Memphis, Tennessee.
A poor woman has maintained her family of seven through out the entire summer on an original expenditure of $2.60.
was
"This astonishing - result achieved" "by purchasing $2.60 worth of seed and planting it in a quarter-acre of ground
Silverhazel Disaster
which
RIDGE NOTES
One Notrump Response
By Ely Cubertson
Since a one notrump res [to*st-opening suit one b
limited response -- showi maximum of about two tricks and in all probabili considerabl
RADIO
TO-DAYS PROGRAMME
The following programme wilts
the
|be bromscast - to-day: from Hong Kong Broadcasting Station
SA of ZB.W. on a wavelength ra
such a one notrump response to metres. (845 K(33).
two must be
Consequently,
Inlayer, in
accordance
bild winning
with
1985 Approach-Forting bidding principles, will unhe
bid three notrumpan. the slightest ray of hope when his partner rises to tro.”
The
East-West
PIANOFORTE RECITAL FROM THE-STUDIO
The Magic Makern 12:30-2:15 pm- European
Pro-
1230 pm. Recorded Mask. 1 pm Local Time and Weather Report
15-Hong Kong Hotel Or
three chestn
notramp contract on the hand 130 pa-Renter Press Bulletins, below was beaten hy very fine Engby Press News, etc.
25-gun Close Down.
pam whinese Programme. 6-6.15 pm-Children's Studio Con-
defence by the South player. However, East and West did have a good play for the hand cat and might have made their con 6.30-6:45 pm-From the Studio. tract with a slight sip on the A Talk on "Safety First" by a part of the defence or brillong Kong Police Officer.
7-11 pm European Programme. anteness by the declarer.
Light Opera and West, Dealer
Musical Comedy-
Neither side vulnerable
North:
SA 8 6 54.
HQ J
D94
CQ 7 6 4
West-
S-K J. 7: E-10·2
D-A K Q∙10 3
C.-A.8.2
Easte
SQ.92 F-A: 8.8 DJ 8 6 5
South-
53
S.-10.3.
HK 97 6.54
CAK 10 9.
The hidding: (Figures sit bids refer to numbered explana tory paragraphs). West
iD.
Vocal "Ge
The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivana Selection
The Maid of the Mountains
(Fraser-Simson).
Focal Gem
Ball at the Savoy
Selection
Please Teacher
2.30-75€ pProin the Studien
-A ̈® Pianoforte Recital by Nors Kenis.
Programme
1. Variations in Finer...Haydn.
2 Pastorale and Capriccio
& Freinde No. 12
Scarlatti. Rachmaninoff
250-8 pm Gracie Fields' Med-
ley**
8 pim-Local Time and Report
Music
2018.30pm-Light Orchestral
Selection of Scotch Kelodies
(Myddleton)
Destiny. (Baynes)
La Paloma Cradler)
Bird of Love Divine (xydn Wood)
I hear you calling me (arr. Eayda
Wood)
North East South Mediterranean (Bar)
830-9 pm-Variety. Piano Solos
Pass INT(1) "Pass | 2NT (2) »Pass... ANT(3) Pass
Pass
Pass- f1—In view of his balanced dis-
tribution, Fest decides Songs against the alternative re- spose of two diamonds. -With
six almost certain tricks at notump, West boldly raises, to two of that|
aftwo
According to the Moonlight- It's an old-Southern Custom
Gargnall Gibb
Love, forever I adore you In your arms “to-night
Ronald Murgatroyd (Tenor) Guitar Solo.
The World is waiting for the
Samise
The Boswell Sisters. Humorous Life begins again
del Flanagan and Allen.
You're all I need
3-East, with a diamond fit and Song
an Ace, a Queen and two Jacks, goes to game almost automatically.
Instrumental...
The Grasshoppe 9.9.15
Connie Boswell.
p.m-A Eday of the
George Raft, remembered and appreciated for his fine perform- jance as the "dance-Sand-leader in
“It takes a lot of stuff to feed Every Night At Eight," has my four children, my sick husband, even greater role in "The Glassa father and myself" declared Key.**
Mrs. Alfred Reeser; But she pro- The story is the product: of duced from her small supply of
Continued from Page tj (weather permitting) HAPPY comprising:- VALLEY on "SATURDAY, 30th Chesterfield Suites, Teak Bed Dashiell Hammett's canning seeds:---10 bushels of beans, 20
the bushels of cucumbers, 15 quarts of This was carried out on-Sunday-
JAPANESE BOAT HOLED November, 1935, commencing at Room & Dining Room. Furniture, brain; and is very much on 2.00, p.m
Carpets, Ornaments, Pictures, Ice lines of that author's "The Thin peas, 5 quarts of carrots, 11 On Matory morning the Governor Chests, Clocks, Table Lampa, Por Man"
bushels of potatoes, Enshels Taft, the first ship to answer their celain & Brass Ware, Alum, & E.
Paft has not had an underworld onions and enough other vegetables P. Ware, etc, etc
role since he appeared as Paul to all 180 tins while she also sold distress signals, arrived: She was Muni's henchman in "Scarface." enough vegetables to buy groceries. able to do little to assist them. It was his portrayal in this pic She then bought some pigs with however, but the Chicago Mar, ture that first brought him screen the proceeds.
suit rather than make the Vocal-Dinst came up shortly afterwards,
weaker end call The picture presents him The mayor of the nearest town-attempted to come too close and
diamonds. ás a two-fisted battler who defies ship, Mr. Melhorn, said he came
struck a submerged rock herself, On View from Thursday, 28th. the autocrats of the underworld to upon the indomitable woman pick-but the damage was not suficient
aid and protect his friends.
ing shells along the river bank to prevent her making port ander The supporting cast has been her family. From these she her own steam
Meanwhile, two United States] carefully chosen and includes
netted about $1.
sinthe Play--- such favourites. as Edward, Am-
appearance All seven in the family live in destroyers put in an
and fruch zuzzijns were, made to
South opened his fourth best Hong Kong, November 26, 1935, old, Claire Dodd, Rosalind Keith wooden shack men.
kry Milland and Gilin Williams, bank
take off the crew of the Silver- heart (the six), North playing -Berter:
hazel On Tuesday morning it the Jack and East stayed off was decided to abandon the rock with his Ace The heart Queen and return to the ship, and this was continued and when the My lent, and she rises to new heights was eventually-accomplished.
declarer held up again (not) Dealing chiefly with the pro- blem of making a success of marin her characterisation of a so-
That day several of the native knowing that North held only riage in these days of financial cret bride of the man who is saflors made a hid, fur safety in a two cards of the suit) the bur
den of the defence was squarely uncertainty, Columbia's "I Love obliged to prosecute her own hastily constructed raft. Ther
father on a bribery charge. You Always,” is an absorbing and
were picked up by the destroyerson South's shoulders South In the role of wife, Miss Stan-
SHIP ABANDONED -2. permitted North's Queen to entertaining study of modern day
wyck visits her husband's aparte life.
Remaining on board the slowly hold instead of overtaking it ment secretly at night and sees sinking ship was beginning to try and clearing the suit virtually Nancy Carroll and
George his chief investigator shot down the men's patience, and as the forting the latter to shift to Murphy are featured, and once in the courtyard Fine Furniture made by Powell again Miss Carroll proves herself
days passed and the rescue parties clubs. Ltd., Old Oil Paintings, Valuable a dramatic actress of real talent, stars as Warren William, Glenda off, it was decided to abandon the contract
The club shift defeated the The cast includes such famous did not succeed in taking them Curios, Silver & E. P. Ware, Cut-while Murphy, comparative Farrell, Grant Mitchell, Henry ship and the rock entirely and clare took dummy's-Ace. im- glass. Bronzes and Ornaments, neweomer, farther establishes his O'Neill, Douglas Dunbrille, and swim jetc, etc.
ability, drawing further sympathy William Davidson. from a role that might easily have been otherwise.
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ON
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The opportunity of serving you
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HONG KONG HEIGHTS
A Quantity at
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:-
-
also One Upright Piano.
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the
On View from Saturday the highest points on the Island and 30th. November 1985.
Mainland is published:-
1,725 -1,205
"TLL LOVE YOU ALWAYS
ALHAMERA THEATRE
Murphy is cast as an egotisti cal- youth "who graduates with
the river
“AGE OF INDISCRETION"
MAJESTIC THEATRE
were
by News Bulletin (Copyright by Renter).
-9.15-9.30 pi
cert. -Waltzes.
Tales from the Vienna Woods
(1. Strama)
Hero The Chocolate Soldier (0. Stranas)
930-10 p.m.--Prom, the Studio. Selections by "The Music Makeus.
10 Big Ben Bester Press Bulletins.
19.18-11 pim.~* Dance.
11 pai Close Down.
FORMER ABYSSINIAN EMPEROR DEAD
Whether or not de-
Addis Ababe: The Zonmen to the ships that
mediately, the defence could Abyssinian Experor. Lij Yasu. standing by.
set up three club tricks. When died on Monday, at Garamuleta, This also mean North later got in with the Ace in south-west Harzar,・・ where that they would have to give up all hope of saving any of their of spades, declarer could not be had lived in captivity since personal possessions.
So on escape a two-trick set
*Bad 1982. The deceased, who was 39 South overtaken the second years old and the grandaon of Terms: Cash on Delivery
honours from an engineering col Paul Lucas and Madge Evans Wednesday all jumped overboard heart and continued the suit, Menelic was deposed in 1916 LAMMEET BROS.,
lege. Bushing Nancy Carroll into co-star in "Age of Indescretion and swam for it.
They were hoping to get the lead later with Death, it is stated, was due to Auctioneers basty marriage with promises of modern melodrama of beination of the captain and his dog, have been made
picked up safely with the excephis unb King, three odd would consumption-Trans-Deean Ser- Hong Kong, November 26, 1935. placing the world at her feet, he big city, which is showing at the
{vice: s lady passenger and two of the sets out to conquer New York Majestic Theatre to-day.
It is easy to see that had crew. Too proud to accept menial labour Faul Inkas, the noted Czechos
East won the second rome 'OL "It was a terrible experience, hearts, his contract would have in the engineering field, be con- lovakian actor, has an excellent Mr. Floye concluded.
"I have been a laydown but East had no Sdently waits for something really role as the debonair man-about-
never had it before and I sincere way of telling how the hearts. good to turn up Nothing does town who has loved often but
at foot of text. Ch23 - were divided. The family resources ebb rapid never wisely. Madge Evans gives ly, and his wife tries taxidancing an understanding performance. as a means of supporting her hus-The film has comedy romance: band and herself. When Murphy and pathos, and should make discovers the source of thefe in wide appeal
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come, there is a quarrel, but he
goes back to accept one of the jobs
whe
assed.
(he has turned down and finds that |the opportunity has
desperation sriferis planning" to les steals soms zukamy to show h last good flug Ostrasibly.
gineering job, and while he This term in prison, his
STAR
Enthusiastic Welcome
SILVERHAZEL: DISASTER
Continued from Columa &
ly hope hall never have it again Although all of us drank enorm ous quantities of brandy, which was the only drink we had, rose- of as became in any way inebrist
For King Georgeye is now on his way to
home m England and the ers are also bound for ective homes, which are. England or Canada: