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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1935
BRIDGE NOTES
LAYDOWN SLAM
By Ely Culbertson
Most slam hands should be
Amusements
Cinema Notes
"DIAMOND JIM”—KING'S
THEATRE
"Diamènd Jan." the glittering played in a suit rather than in screen play based on the life of notrump, in order that tricks James Buchanan Brady, the ar may be developed by railing, the super-salesmen, the man The hand below, however, was who made the gay "nineties" gay- played in notrump rather than er, opens to-day at the King's at six dubs because North was Theatre. anxious to have the opening!
lead come up to the strong South hand.
South Dealer North-South vulnerable North:-
S-9
H-KJS 3
D. 3 2
C.—K QJ 874
West:
S-J 54.
H-10 942
D-A Q 5 C.-10.65
East:-
S.-Q 10 7 3 H-7 6
D-10 8 6 4 C-9 $ 2
S-A K 86 2
H-A Q 5
D. K J 97 C-A
"Diamond Jim” is the man who wore $2,000,000 in jewels; who offered Lillian Russell $1,000,000 -to many him; who made a for
tune of $12,000,000 o "a"start" jof $31; and who gave millions ta charity and friends, and steel cars to America.
You will see Edward Arnold, afi "Sadie MeKee" fame, as “Dia- mond Jim 7 Jean Arthur, besati- ful Birmie Barnes as *Eliam Russell Cesar Romero, Hugh O'Connell, George Sidney, Eric Blore, Robert Meade and a host of others, including Bill Hooli- hahu as John L. Sullivan, the
of heavyweight famous period.
"PEOPLE WIEL TALK”-
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Grace. Moore and Tulfo Car- minati are in "One Night of Love" to be screened at the Star Theatre next Saturday,
SANITARY BOARD
Restricted Area For Offensive Trades
LICENCES REFUSED
GOVERNOR SHOWS GRATITUDE
Letter Of Thanks To Sir H. Pollock
HIS EXCELLENCY ADMIRES SKILLED CRAFTSMANSHIP
RADIO
-TO-DAYS- PROGRAMME
The following programine will be
The following letter has been broadcast to-day from the Hong received by Sir Henry Follock Fong Broadcasting Station ZE.W.
from the Honourable Colonial
Searetary Sir Thomas Southorn:
on a wavelength "of""366" metros.
Sir-1 am directed by His Ex-(845 KC2).
cellency the Governor to converA LITTLE ABOUT THE DUTCH
to you personally, and through you, to the members of the Public Reception Committee
·FAST INDIES
The Music Mikes 12.30-215. p.m.si/Dirtpean
and theramore.
1230 pm-Recorded Music.
Pro-
115 pn-Hong Kong Hotel Or
people of Hong Kong and in parti- 1 p.m.--Local Time and Weather cutar to Sir William Shenton, the Report Chairman of the Reception Sub Committee, His Excellancy's most chestra.
1.30 pm Beater Press Bulletins, sincere thanks for the warm wel-Rugby Press News, ele
2415 p-Close Dewis.
come accorded to him on the oc-
casion of his arrival in the Co- 47 pls/Chinese Programmas, lony.
Glamorous Night.
which Vocal Gem
Bitte Street
30-3
Report
7-11 p.m.-Europess Programane. 7-738 pm Bucerpts from Light His Excellency has received
Opers and Musical. Comedy. with very much pleasure the EngSelection lish and Chinese copies of the Trial by Jury (Sullivan)
andin Vocal! Ge Address of Welcome
Jolly Roger thanking you for them he wishes
Selection... to express his admiration for the skilled craftsmanship adorned both the addresses and
pm. From the Studio. the handsome caskët in which
“A-Little about the Dutch East A letter from the Government they were contained
Indies
by MD D-VI÷Stėsvenson. signifying the withdrawal of the His Excellency further desires
Sp-Local Time and Weather motion by the Legislative Council me to convey to yourself and to
205-5.70 Pin-"Indian
Love The team who kept you laugh- dealing with a further amendment the other Members of the Com
8.10-8.40 pFrom the Studio. after ing throughout "Buggles of Red to the by-laws made under the mittee his appreciation of the Lyrics" (Woodforce-Finden).
Selections by "The Music Makers" 840-9 pm Concert Waltzes. ex-Gap" and Pursuit of Happiness heading "Markets," set forth in excellent arrangements, and the are together again" in "People Schedule B of the Public Healthable manner in which they were
and Buildings Ordinance, was laid carried out, at the ceremony of Wine. Women and Song (Strauss! East Will Talk”
They have a brand of humour on the table at the fortnightly the presentation of the Addresses Moonlight on the Alster (Fetras) Pass Pass that is all their own, just as Lau-meeting of the Sanitary Board of Welcome at Volunteer Head-The Merry Widow (Lebar)
quarters Pass rel and Hardy and Wheeler and yesterday.
Mr. W. J. Carrie, President of Pass Woolsey have. Their special pre-
serves are domestic pawners and the Board, said that the by-laws into force until they after January 1, 1936, after which 1-With more than five honour-marital disagreements, and they would not come
tricks, South feels sure, after are funnier this time than his partner has responded to have ever been before. This pic-date the Public Health and Build- the opening bid, that a tire is of a suburban couple, and ings Ordinance will be repealed
inter-and the by-laws re-made Raggles-and Miss Boland game can be made.
concen-
15. 3D.(1) 4NT (3) 5.(4)
Pass
•
Pass 6NT (5) Pass
2-A rebid of the club suit pre: their parts so well as to be
would push mere routine too recognisable to all far. The cheap opportunity
to show the four-card heart! holding should not be spurn-
This does not mean that surface ships are obsolete. There are ranges of the oceans which shore- reach aircraft based
cannot There protection for merchant! shipping must be provided by South:- RHE Undersigned have received surface ships equipped with air-| instructions to sell by Publicraft There are coastlines and rivers of the world that must still be policed by surface ships. Thus
The bidding: (Figures Wednesday, the 18th Dec, 1935, surface ships are still required.
but they must be heavily armed bids refer to numbered commencing at 1100 a.m.
įplanatory paragraphs.) with aircraft. Ours are not.
South West North Vulnerable
Pass 20. To-day our Fleet is
Pass 3FL (2) Pass 5C. rated in the Mediterranean. What would it do if war broke out? (Suitable for Christmas Presents) Around it lie shore-based aircraft within striking range of its every comprising:-
Platinum and Diamond, movement. within range of Platinum Sapphire. Platinum and every harbour. What would hap- Emerald. Platinum and Ruby pen if it had to defend itself
Clocks, Enamel against attack from the air? Rings Watches,
It could be attacked both in!. Dressing Table Sets, Cut Crystale,
harbour and at sea. Such at etc., etc.
tacks could be delivered by bomb-1 A Fresh Consignment of Choco-fing aeroplanes capable of speeds late in Fancy Boxes b. and up to 248 miles an hour, Attacks ;
would be made with heavy bombs. upwards).
Jewellery on View from Tuesday such as have sunk battleships in trial tests by American bombing o'planes, and with thermite ellite bombs Thermite ellite bara
a temperature around 3.000 degrees Fahrenheit We know of no substance - that Hong Kong. December 13, 1935.will extinguish them. Their blind-
ing heat can burn through steel
Thermite bombs are small, from!
could be dropped in showers upon the steel decks, like demonise 4
a height beyond heilstones, from the range of guns. They might fire the magazines, and burning: ellite, in contact with water, gives off a poisonous gas. Heavy bombs I would penetrate the weakened decks or detonate in the water alongside.
can the Navy make? Its total complement of front-line aeroplanes is 171 It bas no bombers comparable in speed range, or carrying capacity with those I have just mentioned.
the 17th December. 1935.
Chocolate on View on Day Sale.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
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Auction
од
Wednesday, the 18th Dec, 1935, Commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 95, Hankow Road. Kowloon TOYS! TOYS!! TOYS!!! Dressed Dolls, Furniture Sets,
Horses Rocking
Tea Sels, Mechanical Toys. Crackers, etc, etc.
and
A Quantity of Valuable House hold Furniture and Black Wood Ware
On View from Tuesday the 17th December, 1955.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT-BROS..
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Hong Kong, 13th Dec, 1935.
FOR SALE
A selection of the best varieties of Reliable and Tested FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
from Messrs: Sutton & Sons, Reading *zd
825
What
Answer
Supreme Protection
ed.
"DEATH FLIES EAST” – ALHAMBRA THEATRE
The story
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. T. Southor. Colonial Secretary-
Coast of Luxembouez (Lebar) Amorettentante (Ging')
9-9.15 pm- Relay of the Dares try New Bulletin (Copyright by Reater).
9.15-9.40 Variety.
Piano Solos-
An application for an offensive FRENCH ADMIRAL'S S
trade licence to store sharks' fins at No. 36, Nanchang Street, second floor, was refused, Mr. Carrie 825- ing that the Selection Committee had unanimously agreed to refuse
that
TIFFIN PARTY Entertainment Prior To Sailing
Sweet Adeline
Arthur Young and Reginald
Foresythe-
One Night of Love"
Mister Robert Harris.
Organ Solo-
(Boy Soprano).
The Bine Danube Waltz
Vocal Duetm
"Beginald Foor
I've told every little ster-Husie in the AirLayton & Johnstone. You and the Night and the Music Guitar Solo
Gracie Fields.
The World is waiting for. the
Sunrise
3. Len Filis.
3The immediate bid of four The shroud of mystery that the application, with the Board
It, cloaks a murder in a speeding agreeing. He further said notrump is excellent. avoids a pitfall. Were South continental plane provides the the Board had agreed to refuse all GOVERNOR VISITS FLAGSHIP Song
Estera, J. P. Vice Admiral to show his preference for melodramatic theme of Columbia's applications made outside the area
of the hearts, or rebid his spades, new mystery drama, "Death Flies of offensive trades.
Present at the meeting were Mr-Commander-in-Chief with notramp, and if the East"
concerns a young W. J. Carrie (President), the Hon. French Fleet in the Far East,
a number of distin-Voca final contract was notrump,
Me and the Old folks at home on a Mr. R. M. Henderson (Vice-Presi-entertained
A The Hill Billies. an opening lead through the California nurse, paroled
9.40-10 pFrom, the Studio.. diamond holding might be poisoning charge, who rushes east dent), Dr. G. W. Pope (Medical guished guests aboard his flag- obtain a confession Officer of Health), the Hon. Mr. ship the Primanguet yesterday,
A Pianoforte cital by-Mariza fatal. It is imperative that by plane to
Bazette. the notrump contract be from a Sing Sing convict, doomed M. K. Lo, Mr. F. C. Hail, Mr. preparatory to sailing for Saigon
to die the following day, which is Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Dr. R A. delat 11 am to-day.
Liszt 11. Liebestraum played by the South.
·Rachmanitra... 2. Prelude After North's weak response certain to clear her. At Tucson Castro Basto, Dr. Li Sha-fmm, Mr. The Vice Admiral will embark
Chopin to the four-notrump-bid, two strange men join the motley C. J. Boe (Secretary), and Mr. Im on the sister ship Lamotte Piquet
Ping-tseung (Assistant Secretary)-at Saigon, and will transfer hiss: Nocturne
Debussy- South can do no better than passenger group.
PressTM Bag, returning to Hong Kong in 4 Prelude
10 Big Ben: Reuter Arriving in Dallas one of the
Bulletins. His Excellency the GoveFROT,
10.10-10.30 pm-Light Orchestral CHINESE GUNBOAT about two months time,
Sir Andrew Caldecott, visited the Mic Primanguet yesterday and among Mennett (Beethoven)
Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer, In the Shadows (Finck) others entertained were: E E. Fr'acte Gavotte ("Mignon”). C.-in-C., and Lady Dreyer, Ma Fairy Tale (Heykens) jor-General W. A. Bartholomew, Through Night to Light (Laukier) The launching ceremony took G.O.C. Commodore G. C. and Mrs. Blue Devil's March (Williams)
to show his preference of North's two suits and leave passengers collapses and is found the rest to North.
to have been poisoned. He is 5--A very fine bid, based on the sent to a local hospital and the without him. natural inferences from plane continues South's leap to four no-After a few hours in the air how-To-Kwa-Wan Ceremony trump. South could scarce-lever, a detective on an unknown by make this bid without at mission is found dead-poisoned. least three Aces and with-The plane returns to Dallas and out strong support for one the young nurse is suspected be-
LAUNCHED
This Morning
3
Consal General for or both of North's suits cause of her record and because place this morning at 9 o'clock of Sedgwick, Lady Southern, M. C. North has no hesitation in she has violated the Californian the Canton Government's small Rennet,
gunboat Boi Chow at the Houg France, and Mrs. Bennet; Mr. going to a-slam and he parole by leaving the state. naturally chooses a notrump Conrad Nagel, featured as a Kong, China Dock Co., Ltd, at Van der Straeten, Doyen of the Consular body, Mrs. Van der contract to protect the pos-young professor en route to Wash-To-Kwa-wan.
The new vessel, which is 185 Straeten; the Hon. Dr. A. R. and sible tenace holdings injington with secret documents; in- spades and diamonds in the terests himself in the young girl's feet long and 19 feet wide, has Mrs. Wellington; the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, IGP Sir Robert Ho clever ruse, taken six months to build. predicament. By a South hand.
Tung, Dr. and Mrs. Strahan and Of course, the Slam was a he is able to clear her and trick|
Miss Strahan the murderer into a confession.
It is time to get our perspective the setting tricks before North right How much longer must could get the lead. skwe remain as we are to-day, Messrs. Arthur Yates & Co., Ltd, seventh air power in the world,
Sydney.
fifth in Europe? How much low
The opportunity of serving you will be a pleasure and your com- mands will have our best attention. GRACA & CO.
ger must we witness other nations
ROTARY MEETING
Prof. Shellshear On Origin Of Man
"FOG. OVER FRISCO
ORIENTAL THEATRE
NEW P.&O.LINER'S RECORD
"MUSICAL CHAIRS”
Successful Dress Rehearsal
ན་
10.30-11 p.m-Dance Music.
11 p Close Down
ANNUAL MEETING
Local Horticultural Society
Ground forces could be attack- ed with light and heavy high-ex- plosive and shrapnel bombs by modern high-speed bombers. A rain of small thermite or ellite! bombs would scorch the troops to
the Annngl Presiding at death. And for the laying of gas laydown, as there were 12 top there is no more efficient instru-tricks without a finesse gir in
Meeting of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society, which ment than the aeroplane, which clubs, four in hearts and two in
was held in the board-room of can spread a fine rain of poison-spades. If the hand had been
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and pas liquid, rapidly contaminating played at six clubs, East might
Bette Davis, who was told that The new P. and O. liner
Co.. yesterday, Sir William a large area with death-dealing have opened a diamond. In
this case West would have taken she had no "sex-appeal" when Strathmore (24,000 tons) made
Hornell warned members that the continuance of the loan of she first tried to eater flus, puts the passage from Marseilles to the lie to this belief with her per Bombay, on her maiden voyage,
the Volunteer Headquarters formance in "Fog Over Frisco," in exactly 10 days. She thus the current attraction at the regained the record from the
Italian line, whose best time If the success of last night's for the Annual Show of Flowers Oriental,
The story is high-powered, the was 11 days for the run from dress rehearsal is any criterion, and Vegetables was something dialogue good, and the humour Genoa to Bombay, this distance the production of Ronald Macken-on which they could not count zie's "Musical Chairs by the indefinitely. Sir William: also building heavy bombers faster
crisp and breezy, and Miss Davis being 100 miles shorter, de
her Passengers in the Strathmore A.D.C., booked for to-night and commented on the falling or of carries the whole show on
Amongst than ours, with a speed equal to
those prese. and higher than that of our
pretty shoulders. She is cast as sent a congratulatory cable-to-morrow night at the China exhibits at the last Show fighters? The expansion of the
another to a long list of sic were Mr. J *T. Air Force so far authorised will At yesterday's tifin meeting of Frisco Arline, the queen of the gram to the company on arrival Fleet Cink Theatre, will add yet
cesses The dress rehearsal went (Hon Secretary), Mrid An- Tres- without a hitch and was eagerly drew Tse (Hon F.O. Box No. 620.5 HONG KONG not rectify that position by April the local Rotary Club, held in the San Franciscan waterfront, who at Bombay
Roof Garden of the Hong Kong rules with such an inferible whip
appreciated by a lazte audience surer), Lieut. CoL HR. L. Dow- biggin, Mr. H Green Mr. I F. of soldiers and sailors, Make no mistake, times have Hotel, Professor J. In Shellshear, that even her smile can changed. The aeroplane is sapin the course of an intensely in-fdeath.
Grose, Mrs. F. C. Hall, Dr. reme among the striking forces teresting address on "Recent Dis
HaureMrVHL C. Jarrett, G. A € Heriots Mrs R
MEGG. No Pinson, Mr. L. PA Robinson (Committee), - Dady Soutborn, DeutCol ME Lögin, Mel Go Ang Harriman, Mrk E. Pestonji, Men (ZAz C. The Holy Spirit School conduct-Hecklots, Mr. I. Rüssell. Mr H Sisters 140, Green, Mr. P. CHI, Mr H L prire Derry's 2nd Mr. C. B. Johnson
after Riddle fempersonated by the little ones, and a Nativity Play enacted by the upper classes. The sing- of hym and carols behind
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A detailed criticism of the pro- One of the most popular musi-duction will appear in to-mor
izow's issue of the China Mash Foals of the yest, - featuring the Navy must have more aeroplanestion of Man," said that the centre to give it hitting power. To-day, of research in this line was gra-
Fay Wray as a little movie|dancing wonders, Fred - lacking the protecting shadow of dually shifting to the Far East
The speaker was introduced by extra giri, and Paul Lakes, with and Ginger Rogers, "Roberts" the wings that are supzEINE,
Professor L Forster, President his ever charming accent and con- now being screened at the Maje risks a second Coronel
of the Club, who said that Pro-tinental manners, as a polished, tie Theatre. fe
Irene Dunne has the fessor Shellshear was leaving the gentleman crook, combine to make Colony shortly for Australia Dar iz love team of unusual feeling singing role. She ing his stay in Hong Kông he had and action in The Countess Of of the famous done välmmable archaeolo
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