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MISCELLANEOUS
BRIDGE
To-day's Short Story
Like Alfreda
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1936
By Germaine
Beaumont
Peyrehrane! YOUNG Mme.
"I think it's that I don't know more than satisfied you," said Antoine. with the small
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BRIDGE NOTES
MATCH POINT SCORING
By Ely Culbertson
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Many people say, in condem- It certainly looked as if it nation of duplicate games with house ΠΑΠΟΣ
were. Was it the house and match-point scoring. that such which her husband proadly its aloof atmosphere which had games necessitate unsound and
suddenly humiliated Mar-lunnatural · bidding. It is showed her in detail
You see, my dear, there is guerite, or was it his connection the match-point scoring system with the lovely, ethereal, suave makes it important to play many this little drawing-room lead-Alfreda? Beside those long hands in notramp that would or ing out of the library, and then fair, bright ringlets his wife's dinarily be played with some suit LOCAL TOURNAMENT AT AMERI- we come to the big drawing-short brown hair now seemed as tramp, simply because the first You find it all a little trifle flat. The picturesque trick at notrump counts a few! CAN CLUB, 4th FEBRUARY, 7:30
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black velvet dress, cut low points more below the line than of
across Alfreda's white sloping at a suit contract. The holding of old-fashioned, perhaps?".
made Marguerite's 100 honours, which really has no yellow knitted jumper look bearing on skillful play, must also
WORLD
OLYMPIC:
"Oh, no Antoine. It's bean-shoulders,
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The daughter of humble slightly gaudy. people, she was ready to admire YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and almost any drawing-room This "Chin Kai" one. large and airy, was won- promptly printed. Office. No. 34. Wyndham Streetderfully to her liking. Telephone 2002
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Peyrebrune then showed her the disused gran- deur of a long pearl-grey dining- room with a statue of Pomona in a niche opposite a bust of Pericles in another niche, and after a visit. to the kitchens they went upstairs to look at the bedrooms.
red
"I thought you would Pro- bably find my parents' old room rather gloomy-it's got BUSINESS DIRECTORY plush hangings and upholstery and it's very big-so I told them to get this one ready for you. See if you like it. It Alfreda's room.”
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story, will be “No Sale," by Walter
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be considered in duplicate games. But sometimes this unmature 3 bid- ding creates additional problems for declarer in the play of the hand, thus giving him more op- portunities for clever and bril
to me this is a Iliant plays; and redeeming feature.
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الله
LOCAL NEWS The following deal was played
BREVITIES recent jat seven notrump in
sectional tournament Seven dia- There will be
Do meeting monds would have been an easier the Fanling Hunt to-day or "Well?" asked Marguerite, a contract to make; but the match-
day this week. little uneasy at his silence and point scoring system which was at his obvious comparison of being used affected the bidding. herself with the painting.
"I think you're right. This room doesn't really suit you."
"No, it doesn't ""*
North, Dealer.
Neither side vulnerable. S.-8
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"I see you wouldn't be at home in it," said Antoine drily.
She 172:3 installed, then, S-10 9 7 the plush hangings, D. where she looked like a fly that C-10 9 8-5 had fallen into some red cur- rant jelly.
Marguerite went into a Bay.lightful small room with shaded among
pink walls and a painted ceiling of blue-peonies and lilies-of-the valley.
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Two More Hands Discussed
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SIR W. HORNELL'S TRIBUTE
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INCIDENT. IN LATE KING'S
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INDIAN VISIT
Sir William Hornell, in a tri-
bute to. His late Majesty King
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will
the
George V, which was broadcast be broadcast to-day from last night from the local station Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZB.W. on a wavelength of $55 ZBW, said:—
I was in London when King metres. ($45 K.C.'8). Edward the VII died. His death! |came with awful suddenness. when the English spring was at her-loveliest. Among the Kings: who were at the funeral the most prominent was the German Em-Report ¡peror.
A TALK ON "THE WORLD
BRIDGE OLYMPIC” • RECORDED PROGRAMME 10.30-9.15 pallia - European Froj
gramme.
12:30 pm-Recorded Music.
1 pm Local Time and Weather
↑ 115 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Or-
chestra
Press Newsų
1.30 pm Renter
It is bewildering to think of-zll that has happened in the world Raphy Prem News, etc. since the May 6 1910. That 2.15 p.m.-Close Down. George V should have reigned
4-7 pm-Chinese ProgrammNE. through all this portentous period
6-6.15 pa-Chffèrers' Studio Con and that through a ta shatter-7-10 pm-European Programme. ing changes--he should not only 2-7.45 pan-Symphony No. 3 in have retained his subjects' loyal-E at Major" (Beethoven). 7,45-8 Band. Music. ty but won the personal affection
cert
on the Rock-Overture
of every one of them is an over- (am Winterbottom).. whelming thought. I will not try Lead, Kindly Light (Parday).
(8. Hume).
to analyse King George's amaz-The "Champion" Harch. Medley of ing appeal to the world to the any modern world with all its inevit- Report
able hardness and cynicism.
8 pmLocal Time and Weather
801-8.35 pm-A Concert.
Requiem ("Requiem") (Verdi). Ave Maria (Ave Regina) (Verdi). Mangherita. Pemas (Soprano), Pianoforte. Solos
Perhaps some of you who are Songs- listening to me were in India| The RMS. Empress of Japan during the King's last visit there. left Yokohama yesterday for Van-I am not thinking of the Delhi couver via Honolul
and is ex-Durbar mor of any of the magni-| pected back in Hong Kong as ficent receptions given by the In- February 28.
|dian Princes. I am thinking of
a scene in Calcutta. A ceremon-
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The forthcoming wedding is an- al welcome was being held in the D-10 86 C-762 Founced of Mr. Brinley Williams maidan - Calcutta's great open {space. Elaborate police arrange Inspector, Sanitary Department,
after
The fact was now that Mar-
The bidding: (Figures guerite's unfortunate insistence
Alreda's short-comings ids refer to numbered explana- had unloosed a drama. An-tory paragraphs). toine, before, had never given North East South West "Alfreda? There she is."
than a casual}
Pass 2D (1) Pass Antoine pointed to a portrait Alfreda more
look in passing. Now that she 4D (2) Pass 4NT (3) Pass on the wall between the two!
Thad been insulted she became
5NT (4) Pass.. INT. (5) Fass windows, a very beautiful por-
2353 Pass- trait of a woman, painted some-for him the paragon of all the Marguerite came! where about 1840. Marguerite virtues, and considered it for some moments to see that the only way of pleasing him after this was to and then said decisively:
"She's a nasty piece of work, be a like Afreda as possible. your Altreda."
"What's that?"
"I say, your Alfreda is ty piece of work," said guerite.
a
Rakoczy Marèh (länet).
On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn).
Mark Bambourg
Song
A Det fizet).
Strange Harmoury—"Tosca" (Puc-
cina).
Enrico Caruso (Tenor).`
violin Soice
Chanson Arabe
·For).
(Rimsky-Korsa-
Prelade
Ballet,
Le Delage (The Deluge)
(Saint-Saens).
Torcha Seidel 8.35-9 pm Scenes
de
and Miss Lupe, Alicia Valenzuements had been made they all la, residing at 29, Sai Yeang Chat broke down. The crowd was so vast that it could not be controll- Street, 1st floor, Kowloon.
ed. There sat the King and Queen C
two thrones on the As a mark of respect to His open meiden, while a sex of ador-Op. 52 Glamounov) played by New
humanity surged around Symphony Orchestra, late Majesty the business at the ling
9-35% Relay of the Da- ortnightly meeting of the Erhan them. The King and Queen were
ventry News Bulletin (Copyright by 30 com Reater). Connell was not proceeded with so utterly undismayed
serene ¡pletely resterday.
that gradually 915-9:50pm--Light Orchestral there came to many there pre here sent the conviction that this was Poet and Peasant Overture (Suppe).
In a Monastery: Garden (Ketelbey). after-one of the supreme moments of Zinetta (Geobl)
that fateful drama of British rule When the great red Dawn is Shin-
Einige (Sharped ve in India which is still being play-
The Rosary (Sevin).
1-It is proper to show the suit The .3. Shirala
is due from Singapore to-morrow
first instead of raising North's! hearts for the two-diamond-
is forcing for response
heart support later.
Programme.
round and South can show his The President Coolidge is due ed and that the pivot of the Lighty Lak'a Bowe (Nevin). -
to sail for America at midnight drama was the King. The Imperial Saint D'amour (Eigar). on Friday instead of noon
on drama of the British race will go I kiss your ps (Rudolphe). Saturday.
on but the curtain Has fallen to- Les Million D'arlequin (Drige). :9.50-10 pm-From the Stodia. day to rise again and discover a
"World. Bridge. Olympic.”
a very strong bid since it carries the bidding past the three-notrump level Showing two Aces and the King of hearts.“
rubber
not a bad risk
celled.
The s.3. President Jackson will
Ways
to-morrow
The
WO
our several
PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLES
Continued from Page 1)
STRIKING FEATURE
ceedings in the House of Lords was the new King's solitary red- covered throne on the dais, where for a quarter of a century there has been a throne for the Queen and a chair for the Prince of Wales on the right of the King's throne.
It was a thankless business. She let her hair grow and look- nas-jed untidy; lengthened her skirt!
Bon; wore 2-This is Marand looked like a
black velvet and looked like an had infant prodigy. She changed nothing now Until
The Dollar line President new setting For King Georre A Description of the Tournament. troubled the peace of their her fashionable shoes for laced
Jackson, which WEE previously the Fifth is gone. The actors are and Discussion of the 1925 hands. by marriage, which was hardly two buskins with low heels, and lost
for her height 4 The other two Aces. hadjan inch or so
due to arrive in Hong Kong or stunned to silence the drama M. E. Polt - old. months
Antoine
10 pm Big Ben: Close Down game, South from without rising a hair's breadth 1-In
Friday from America, is now not is for a moment stilled. taken Marguerite away
large in Antoine's estimation. She would prefer seven diamonds, ane until 5 p.m. on Saturday. The King is dead. Long live the jher employment in a
knowing that North must have
BO ship will sail for Manila at noon King." And tobacconist's and Marguerite even stopped making up her
a long heart-suit upon which Jon Sunday.
shall take up again had left it willingly, for Antoine face in order to be pale like
be can discard one of moze and Alfreda, and was asked irritably
tasks, but the rich
memory of a life was goodlooking, BROADCAST ON Z.B.W.
losers.. In a match-point dupli- The concert and dinner which of devoted service, the memory agreeable, and they had under-if she were unwell
When. Antoine was not about cate, the notrump contact is was originally arranged to take of a gracious personality of sin- A striking feature of the pro- stood each other perfectly at
she ran to Alreda's room, made
place at the Sailors and Soldier's gular humility and charm is with To-night at 10.05, Mr. M. E
During a honey- Politi will discuss two of last all points.
West opened the ten of spades: Home this evening has been canas and will remain with us al Trouble East played the Queen and South year's bridge tournament handsmoon in Italy, from which they faces at the portrait, and then
had just got back, they had studied it minutely.
now proceeded discovered an identical aversion for nothing. It was not pos-the Act. South
sible to imitate Alfreda
to make his Grand Slam by means wasps and macaroni
Weeks turned into months of a squeeze. The technique of arrive in Hong Kong at 5 pm on equal enthusiasm for ices and
of while this went on For some his play was excellent and is Saturday next instead of on Fri pistachios, the pigeons Venice and the Ponte Vecchio. time a young man, a Govern worthy of attention. First, South
The House was crowded when. And this perfect rhythmic ment surveyor, had been stay-led to the Ace of hearts, then day as scheduled. The steamer is
inn in the village back to the King. Then he 22.12
Chan- accord, this gentle harmony, ing at an
after prayers, the Lord cellor left the Woolsack and in s Alfreda's portrait to destroy it the country. Marguerite met from his hand
Seventeen cases (one imported)
clear voice took the Oath of him when he came to see An- three and Queen of clubs, care and six deaths from diphtheria, in a moment.
Allegiance and signed the roll, "My dear," said Antoine, toine on business. They con- fally saving a low club in his five cases and two deaths from
Yee Lap-fai, Chan Sai-ping, followed by Lord Halifax, Lord Some tinued to meet, and when the hand rather than the Quem, in women, autumn came and Antoine went case at a future period of the enteric fever, two cases and ore Woo Tak-hon, alus Woo Kee Plymouth and 300 Peers, while others dislike them. Personal-shooting a great deal, Mar- play he might wish to take a club death from cerebro-spinal fever ching, alice Woo Tip-chan, and many Peereses clad in mourning nd 50 deaths from tuberculosis Cheung Chi-hon were this mar-watched from the gallery—— ly I prefer brunettes, and I've guerite appeared to have taken finesse.
Next South ran his four dia-were reported to the Health asing remanded to February 6 when Reuter. proved it by marrying you a fancy to walking.
thorities in the week ended last they again appeared before Mr. One evening Antoine came mondz, the last being his own It's none the less true that I admire Alfreds, who was HLY home with the local doctor, who ace This reduced all players to Saturday, and in the 24 hours W. Schofield at the Central Mag- ended on Monday faree cutes of intracy charged with Zonspiracy to great-aunt, very much indeed was an elderly man and an old the cants, and East was squeezed
And it's none the less true friend, and had been shooting if he discarded the King of diphtheria and two of enteric murder Mr. Wang Ching-wei
Manking that the blonde Alfreda, your with him, and found, when he great-aunt, is a nasty piece of looked for Marguerite, that she spades, South would immediately fever were reported. work," Marguerite was unwise had gone. She had left a letter cash the Jack. If Bast discarded enough to answer.
North Dealer
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Both Sides Vulnerable
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now scheduled to sail for Manila
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"everyone to his taste. people like blonde
What
2
he discarded the
V. C.S LUCKY MONTH
club, South could lead to dummy's explaining that she had gone Ace, dropping the King, the Jack
would win the last trick. "May I ask you, madame, away with the young surveyor.
Antoine told the doctor, who! These talks illustrate the nor-what it is that you find to re- mality of the hands selected. In proach her with, from the said
"There's something I've heard no case need the average player heights of your perfection ??? feel any timidity in entering the "From the heights of my per about him, but I can't remem- tournament to be played here on fection I reproach her with her what it is.”
He remembered later. February 4, for careful analysis (looking like something out of a
"It's not about this man, but} and deliberation in play should fancy-dress party. produce: par for the player of sight she's made of herself! it's very odd. Did you know How would you like to see me that someone else in your family ordinary skili.
with curls like rolls on a pie once went off with a surveyor crust and leg-of-mutton who was working in the s sleeves?"
|trict? It was your great-aunt Antoine Peyrebrune looked at Alfreda."
[THE END] his wife in astonishment. W
"But look here, Marguerite, į that was the dress of the period. You don't imagine they wore the same clothes at the begin-
FLOWER FAIR AT EMPORIUM
Opening To-day
The China Emporium "are hold
ing a Chinese Flower Fair in their ning of the last century as we
Boof Garden: in preparation for de to-day, do you?”,,!"
DESLAID PASSPORT-
December Sees
Son Born
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CONSPIRACY TO MURDER
Defendant's Again Remanded
Mr. P. Sin appeared for all defendants, while Mr. D. Strei was for the Growl
FUNERAL NEXT TUESDAY
(Continued from Paze 1)
ly an hour. The proceedings: will The published. han the bandon The late King's remains are Gazette later. The Accession Bro- beng conveyed to London on clamation will be read at 10 am.
"the" duly appointed) Thursday King Edward Queen to day in Mary and the other members or ples in London, the provinces the Royal family will follow the and the overacas empire-Beater. coffin on foot from "Sandringham to Wolferton station, two and a half miles away.
A be Chidred's Favourite.
Health Corrective SERVICE AT KANDRINGHAM
Almost withou. szeption children London: The body of seed a laxative from time to time, George was take last night from
as a precaution against the sor Sandringham-" / village to the ailments af childhood. But the lan "A gun-carriage will meet the, lucky month for Brigadier Philip train at King's Cross, and will church. The coffin was draped tires need by sinits are unsuited to in the Royal standard, with the delicate organs of the young and Neame, VG, whose wife, formerly probably convey the remains to Miss Alberta. Drew, it was an-Westminster Hall for the lying-in-the Duke and Duchess of Kentition to the problem of what to give cross of Bowers. The Queen; **Baby's Own" Tablets are the soln-
momced recently, has given birth State.
December has always been
to a son at Bareilly, India
PFULL STATE PROCESSIÓN
the Princess Royal and Lord the child. The tablets, are midly
- Dwenty-one-years ago to the day Landon, Later King George's Harewood, and the members of lasative, and cleanse the Hitle ones {way. They dispel constipation,Ų MIKY the Brigadier won his V.C. at funeral will take place at St. the Royal household walked beintestines in a gentle yet though When M. R. Letorry, Clerk of Neave Chapelle. He was born on George's Chapel, Windsor, on kind the com, while a piper play-feverishes, check diaren erect After being Frenday next. The ying-in-State ed the lament. "Flowers of the indigestion and. "wind Indace sound the Chinese New Year. The fair! Never mind what I imagine the Course at the Mothery December 12, 1888
-ean track, ne Paris, arrived by air will open to-day and will contiune What matters is what I
this will be held at Westminster Hall Forest.” 3 Be was front fo-mirvog "to-Rhead
mutil midnight on Thursday." - Joee And if you think I'm at Croydon he found that he had
The Roof has been tastefully going to sleep in a rocEZ decorated for the occasion and a timet fright for company „Targa: assortment of Chinese flowers you can't see her a you
is being erkihtted for sale.
mislaid his passport, me
by a tiger
The coffin was carried into the church. siz Grenadier
from.
the Gnard of
healthy sleep, break up coldag
warms, inmediately case the of teathing
Chenciats everywhere, well
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