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broadcast to-day from the Hong, who made the gay “nineties" gey=" mediste tricks is never strongly
Kong Broadcasting Station 2435i,jer, la showing to-day at the King's | prevalent-among- the expert
Wilhem Schindler „E. W. Hamilton)this it was most certainly accord-
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-Demand „Kim” in the man who players. They plan their cam-
Joseph Schindler
{ed last nightman" convey their
53 pai-European Programme. ware $2,000,000 in furnar v paign with the opening lead and
B. G. Smith-Wright|polutedness will just enough em-
the... Hàng offered Liffish Russell $3,000,0 Eina Jo Paget phasis to make their presence Telt, Kong Hotel Dince Sheilah Jeffries and without overtopping all the 6-6.36 pm. Children Studio Coo many him; gàS DELE X-
tune of $12,000,000 from a start to the tyre the web and woof of Irene Boumer their scheme appears to be a Mary Preston.
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John Pyised the heightening emotion of her 7-730 pmOrchestral Music |to Amaricti A good declarer knows where i Samuel A. Plagett Harry Odell Big Kenes" with a nice dis-Overture in D Minor (Handel art.
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a trick may be needed to gain is the very essence of drame, standerd. two or he may deliberately then Ronald Mackenzie's Two Good Characterisálisis trump his own top cards to get Musical Chairs" triumphantly Susi Rossi was the PolloN maid Ball at the Savoy the lead in the proper hand orproduced by the local A.D.C-Ansa to the life. Her coquetry, He Wanted Adventure reduce his trumps to the level last evering before a most en-essentially vulgar ambition. Please Teacher, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEX of those held in an opposing thusiastic audience at the China her hardheaded nose for a bargain, Nthat on FRIDAY, 20/12/35, hand. As in chess, be my Fleet Club Theatre, is a great her insolence all were portrayed the Supply of Electricity will be give away a piece to gain play; because it depends chief- in a vivacious perforiance set in ly for its effects on that rather exactly the right key. Miss Rose interrupted at 9 am and again better fighting position.
The hand below illustrates nebulous quality which the un-is to be heartily congratulated. at 4 pm for a period of approxi-
a declarer may folding of acute characterisa- mately one hour in each case in how cleverly
Elva Ja Paget gave a no less tion represents, rather than on discriminating performance of the the area bounded by the sea, Jor play the opponents.
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incident in the play, but its main ing a hair, and giving herself to↑ virtue lies in its swift and drama- a man she intensely dislikes, at tie unfolding of sensitively of bottom, with a cynical casualness served psychology, the bitter cut that takes one's breath away. burst of Mr. Schindler at the very Mrs. Paget most adequately con- lend adorning a tale with" 3. rich reyed all the essential hardness
perceptive izony.
behind the alluring exterior of her There are 80
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being no exaggeration to say that Two other character sketches of
are together again in "People Will Talk"
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Stans fell in Alabama
They have a brand of huma“ Carroll Gibbons
that is all their own, just as Lau- Santhum
I'm in the mood for love ("Every Woolsey have. Their special pre- rel and Hardy and Wheeler and Night at Eight"}
Song-
Lamry Boss (Tenor) servea are domestic manners and marital disagreements, and they Through the Doorway of Dreams are funnier this time than they
(“Big Broadcast of 1936′′).
Jessica Dragonette (Soprano) have ever been before. This pic- Xylophone Solo-
ture is of a suburban couple, and Dancing Butterly
Ruggles and Miss Boland inter- pret their parts so' well as to be recognisable to all
Rudy Stariza
We Just couldn't say goodbye.
Chick Endor and Charlie Farrell
Band
Claridge's Hotel Orchestra
9.15-10 pm Ortets,
“THE GIRL FRIEND" --- ALHAMBRA THEATRE
hearts
9.20.9.45 pms Eslay from Day. Tiously endeared her to our Jack Haley, one of the merriest comedians of them all,
goes through naties that will leave you las ling from laïghter as your backbone wil permit. He scores Jone. of those rare ...personal Press triumphs fist skyrocket a player
Hildegarde (Soprano);
Gay, light-hearted and brim- The Japanese Sandman Alexander's Bagtime Band {
ming with tunes that will have 845-9.05 pm-A Relay from Deven-everyone hopefully parsing his.
or her lips trying to whistle them, A Relay from Palestine. Sprecheg East South at least seven of the eight charas the evening were outstanding on the occasion of the inangaration of the Girl Friend" is a friend in- King George V Jubilee Forest, relay deed Ani Sothern, now a fully- 1H Pass 2H. 25. ters introduced to us in his some-Helen Prior's rendering of the ed from Nazareth
,dedged star, sings and dances her 13H 3S Pass 4S. what tempestuous household are spiteful, herpecking Mra. Sekin 9.05-9.20 p.m.-A Belay of the way through the film with all the DbL Pass Pass Pass carefully drawn, shartly delineated idler, and Hazy Odell's cruelly Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright charm and vivacity that has pre-
West's double of four spades human beings, observed - with * efficient study of the American by Reuter) was somewhat speculative, for nice judgment and a refreshing "go-getter" Mr. Plagett, the sort of East's raise did not promise any originality.
man who takes "wisecracks” down İparticular honour-trick values.
A Fine Stady
in a notebook and makes Rotarian East's pass of the double was
First and foremost there is his jokes, and does it while wearing a La Palom Serenade
O Sole Mio (di Capus) correct; he had bid as weakly as son Joseph, an embittered, cynical straw beater and a made-up tie Spring Song (Mendelssohn) possible and yet held a King war wreck, hasing his life's philosoming to husbands" which a Sereande (Schubert)
Mrs. Prior was grand is the Cradle Song (Brahms) that promised a defensive trick phy on the utter futility of things acid-tongued woman can provide
West opened the King of in general and the weaknesses of
10 am - Big - Ben: Beater clubs. How would you, as de-
human nature in particular. His Again, she extracted every orace Bulletins.
10.10 p.Close Dosa. clarer, plan the play?
There are four obvious losers: Warped outlook pervades every-out of the possibilities of the part, two in each red suit If West is mooning about playing Bach
thing he says and does whether and they were many,"
Difficult Parts can be stripped of trumps, the and Beethoven on the piano, finding My sympathies were: with John North-South hands stripped of self swept off his feet by z Pym as Geoffrey Preston, ely the clubs, and West put in the lead shallow and insincere American least sympathetic and most difficult through diamonds, he may be adventuress, or being unconscion-part in the play to play comincing forced to lead a heart up to de-ably harsh and cruel to the girly. The strength of the part, if darer's King.
Claire Trevor, the attractive who, finally, attempts to kill herself any, seemed to me to Haim its very
blonde who has several times disillusion of her love for him colourlessness, and that it got a
been east as Shirley Temple's This monstrous egotist, how- thost adequate performance facien
An unusual situation has numurs, in case together with the obvions try for a throw-in curiously enough, is in the My Pym speaks wonders for both
arisen in the Canton of Geneva Hugh Williams; the English actor Is strength, even of disillusion, all EW. Hamilton seemed to me to in consequence of the refusal by of "Sorrell and Son fame, in honour, he will surely be let in his own. It was a remarkable feat miss an essential something in his the Socidist majority of the Mary Roberts Rineharts famous the lead, and of course once for the author of the play to draw portrayal of Mr. Schindler In Cantoral Government to carry story "Elinor Norton, the cur East is in he will spoil the party not only convincingly but with fairness to the actor it must be out the measures for the rent attraction at the Majestie
But what are the chances for Jopponents will certainly resist
this line of play? The
I Bast holds any diamond (main a sympathetic character, with actor and producer.
with a heart lead
ito poyalar appeal. - And Roger Pryor, the third of the main
man as has come this way in many a screen odering.
AIR DEFENCE INte, is as happy's leading
GENEVA
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the necessary skill to give us, in stated that I am not quite sure organisation of passive air de- This is undoubtedly - Miss - Declarer found a very beat the short course of a stage phy," what 'it was. The part seems to fierce which were decreed by Trevor's most ambitions role, and ful plan with great probability in unerring insight into fall between the two stools of mear the Federal Council same time for the firft "thase she is given of success. The first move was Joseph's strained mental processes. farce and z
straightforward ago, and meanwhile have been an opportunity to show that she to duck the opening lead, even it was a no less remarkable feat characterisation.
introduced by all the other, is one of the
though South held a singleton by last night's player, E. G. The difficulty was to decide Cantona. Bast played the nine-spot to e-smith-Wright, that he extracted whether Mr. Schindler was a har In view of the refract Williams will also benefit by his
:
“ROG OVER. FRESCO“
ORIENTAL,THEATER
courage a continuation. "West contioned with the Queen of the full richness from his material rassed business man first and an attitude of the Reds the part in this time:
Federal Coacik: kas" appoinísť clube, and declarer executed the fine and sensitive piece of old rose with an eye for a Freya commission of three officials, headed by a high, amuy" officer, AAMC Second move, which was to dock characterisation and a quite out-ankle second, or vice versa. And
standing case of techaïque.
at the very end of the play there with instructions to organise the the second club lead as well! Mr. Smith-Wright, in addition to comes a moment of something air defence of Genera
The point of declarer's play-
| playing what was the most in-presching tragedy, cots et je was that he chose to try to evolved character in the play, also These opposing fortes detract the Socialist admini
It will be recalled that und tablish a long diamond rather produced its doable feat for somewhat from a straight pfinancial affairs of the than a heart trick. The conces which he deserves, the highest trayal, and it is no wonder that of Geneva got into such sion of two club tricks was no credit I shall have something to Mr. Hamilton gave me the impress state that the Feder loss, since it was a simple say about the production later son of being lost from time to change for the otherwise in-
ment was rec time. Though they may sound-Bo,
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evitable two diamond losers.
· Another Highlight
Of course, South discarded a Sheilah Jeffries most sympatheus remarks are not so much a diamond on the second club, and tic and polished rendering of the criticism of the actor as of the his remaining suali diamond difficult part of Mary Preston was author Me Hamilton: certain * 28 destined to go off on the other highlight of last evening's
enangk
club Ace He now threatened presentation. I mention the word patent diffenities cherriff two diamonds in his own “dificult” because the part re hand after unblocking the suit, quired that restraint which comes Infilising dummy's three trump of perfect understanding, no less entries for diamond leads ami to than a tempestuous outburst. when get back to the thirteenth ber feelings, fusly zao zway with Gramond should it clear.
Decierer's play was a superior
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