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BRIDGE NOTES
FREAKS
By Ely Culbertson
are
Amusements H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
Cinema Notes
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK
Motor Machine Gun Section
All ranks are requested to, at- Hong Kong Volunteer Defence tend a lecture by Colonel H. C. Carpa Orders by Lieut-Colonel H. Harrison, D.S.0, at Corps Head- B. L Dowbiggin, OBE. Comman-quarters on Monday, S0th March dant, Hong Kong Volunteer De at 5:30 pm.
No. 1 (M. G.) Company Parade at Corps Headquarters on Friday, 3rd April at 5.30 pm. Musketry instruction at Miniature be Range.
Dress Mufti.
"STARS OVER BROADWAY”
QUEEN'S THEATRE Besides being the film debut of To many people freaks
radio stars James (ence Corps. the most interesting part of a the popular
Hons Koar
Friday, 27th March, 1936. circus and certainly they furnish Melton and Jane Froman, the pie
GENERAL some interesting situations inture has an all-star cast which Bridge. To-day's hand for ex-includes Pat O'Brien, Jean Muir.
His Excellency the Governor ample is amazing not just be Frank McHugh and Frank Fay. cause it was a freak. In includ-The story reveals the private has been pleased to approve the
No. 2 (Scottish) Company ed a paychic with the declarer lives, and loves, the struggles and following promotion in the Hong declara- tribulations, of successful radio Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
The Company will parade at playing in the wrong
with effect from 18th March,
Corps Headquarters on Thursday tion as a result thereof, a lucky sturs."
There is a most unusual mix-1936:--
Sergeant Daniel Marshall to 2nd April, 1936 at 5.30-p.m. for Gas Drill. Box Respirators must break when the opponents open- ed the wrong suit, followed by ture of musical numbers, which
to the rank of Second Lieutenant. an unlucky chance preventing vary from classical selections
Colonel H. C. Harrison, D.S.0, be carried.. the hand from being a laydown new catchy compositions by Har-
Dubin the G.S.O.1, China Command, will talk and again followed by a fabul-ry Warren and Al ously impossible situation where famous Hollywood song writers on the recent Combined Opera a spectacular specialty tions at Corps Headquarters on the player with all the trumps There is
the picture created Monday, March 30th at 540 p.m. was compelled to keep following number in
All ranks who took part in the suit until the dummy had dis-and directed by Bob Connolly call-
Operacions are invited to attend. carded all its losers and had ed "At Your Service, Madame.”
Pat O'Brien has the role of MOTOR CARS AND CYCLES nothing left but five high trumps |
No vehicles are to be parked in- to top the opponent's five low theatrical agent who is about to
say goodbye to the world because side the Drill Hall or immediate he is unable to find any clients,ly in front of the entrance with when he hears a porter in his out special authority.
Recognising Cars may be parked at the west hotel singing- unusually gifted voice, he puts end of the Parade Ground clear the youth under contract. James of the road (repeated).
BOX RESPIRATORS AND Melton, who makes his bow to
STEEL HELMETS the screen in the picture, is the!
0. C. Units will arrange to re- Miss Froman, also mak- porter.
picture, turn to the Quarter-Master by 6th ing her debut in this
April 1936 all Box Respirators plays opposite Melton.
ones.
FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN| that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Office of the Com-i azy, 2 Queen's Building Hong Kong, on MONDAY, 30th March, S
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The Share Register and Trans-
THE Undersigned have receivefer Books will be closed from the instructions to sell by Public 21st to 30th March, 1936, both
days inclusive.
Auction
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Wednesday, the 1st April, 1936
commencing at 10.30 a11.
at No. 14, Tak Shing Street, (1st Floor) Kowloon
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
On View from Tuesday the 31s: March, 1936.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
1.
Frank McHugh furnishes much and. Steel Helmets issued for of the comedy as an absent-mind-Combined Operations3.
PARADE ed and over-zealous song plugging} friend of Pat O'Brien. Others in
Corps 1st Battery
Section the cast include William Ricciardi.!
Commencing Marie Wilsor, Frank Fay.
Thursday, April 9th- and continu- William Keighley directed the ing on alternate Thursday during
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"A TALE OF TWO CITIESTM
ALHAMBRA AND KING'S
THEATRES
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courtroom
April, Map and June "A" Section will undergo further training un- der orders to be issued direct as follows:
B. C. Staff
No. 1 Gun No. 2 Gua "L" Section.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVRY beget freaks, however, and West was reconstructed for the filming Dress Overalls,
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All Kilt Apron recently issued must be returned to the C.Q.M.S. on Thursday, 2nd April for ne cessary alteration to pocket.
No. 3 (M. G.) Company The Company will attend a lec ture by Colonel H. C. Harrison, USO., at Corps Headquarters on Monday, 30th March at 5.30 p..
M. G. Br, Signal Section The O. C. Section expresses his
appreciation for the full turn-out and excellent work carried out during Combined Operations.
Sports The Section will par- ticipate as part of "Static Ma- chine Guns." Entries should be submitted at an early date.""""
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will
broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station. ZE.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 EC'1)-
Relay of Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra Daventry News Bulletin 12.30-215 --European
TRITIMG.
Pro
1 pm-Local Time and Weather Report
1.30 pm-Beater Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, etc.
2.15 pm-Close Down.
4-7 p.m.-Chinese ProgramLITIS, 6-630 p.m.-Chinese Dance Music. 7 pm-12 midnight-European Programme Rosenkavalier Waltzes (J. Strauss) Tales from the Vienna Woods
(J. Stranes) Danube Waves Waltz (Ivinovic) Over the Waves—Waltz (Rosas) The Merry Widow (Leba)
7-730 pm-Concert Waltze
7.30-7.45 pmA Recital by Derek Oldham CTenor); ter
1. Still as the Night (Bohm). 2 Homing (Del Biego)"," 3. Derek Oldham Medley. 155. Du mới được Foo Beatl by Vivian Elis
1.
Streamline--The First Waltz. *Streamline-Piano Selection.
edgy. Spa-Local Time and Weather
AP
Monday, 30th March 1936. It is hoped that all ranks will make an
Report effort to attend the talk on Com: 803-9 bined Operations by Colonel H. C. Humorous
Sm-y-t-b-e Harrison, D.SO...at 5.40-p
Wednesday, 1st April, 1936. Come and Join the No Sh Section will parade in subsections
Vocal- as detailed..
Section Dinner. A meeting will. he held after parade to discuss this matter. (Synd
Accent in Fouth-*- By the wishful Tell
Instrumental
Portia, and AMEL
The Shick of Araby
AT MENÍ JI Capri Caprice
Nat Gonellà And His Eeorgiana: Songs-Kags.
Don't you ever fall in love
Breed Manley.
نی
Marcel Pilotti
Ole Faithful Take a boots off" when'tà' des
The Hi Bh Instrumental-
Fax-Trat Medley
Harry Bay's figy
Captain T. Addis Martin.
Corps Infantry best L/Sergt. Cole. Parade. The parade for Tues-} Sergt. Webb. day, 31st March is transferred to Parade at Corps alonday, 30th March" for the lect Headquarters on Friday, 3rd ture by Colonel Harrison on the Organ Solos-
Sylvia Raliet ast Combined Operations.
All ranks should make a spe[2 Overalls, Blue Caps. Corps Engineers
cial effort to attend this parade. Monday, 30th March, 1936-Stonecutters Range - Small Arma
Classification --- Lewis Gaz Monday, 6th April, 1936 - Gas,
All Lewis Gun Sections of “A”. Mask Drill.
Company and all members of B′′ Corps Signals
Company except those who have Songs Parade at Corps Headquarters not yet fired Lewis Gun will are at 5.30 p.IL on Tuesday, 31st for Classification on Sunday, 29th
Switchboard oper-Į ators under L/Cpl. Wadmore will March, 1936. parade as instructed.
All ranks must parade at Corps Headquarters at 5:30 pm.
Respirators for Anti-Gas Instruc-
M. G. Troop
East's opening bid was of course a psychic and South, al
So vast that it occupied every though he did possess spadefoot of the floor space of one of loser, chose a cue bid in the op-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's largest
to indicate the stages,
that ponents' suit
held: Freaks changed the course of history strong hand he SIXTH ORDINARY no mean hand himself from of "A Tale of Two Cities," star- LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers. GENERAL MEETING of Share an offensive standpoint. His ring Ronald-Colman, which opens! Hong Kong. 25th March, 1985. holders will be held at the Regis five diamond bid was pre-emp-to-day at the King's and Alham-Lecture on Operations.
*ered Offices of the Company. tive against his opponents, bra Theatres. King's Theatre Building, 5th floor, warning partner not to return) It was the revolutionary Tri- MONDAY, the 30th day of to spades. South decided he buna of Paris where in 1789, the March, 1936, at 12 o'clock, Noon, wanted his partner to show nobility and the aristocracy of to receive the Directors' Report. some strength despite his own France stood on trail before radi- and Accounts for the year ended solid heart suit and wrongly re-cal revolutionary leaders, and
1st December, 1935, to elect bid his cue bid. After West heard themselves sentenced Directors and Auditors and to had shown his second suit, death on the guillotine. ransact such other business as North, realising that East's bid. In that room, 146 years may be properly transacted at an must have been psychic, assum-the history Ordinary General Meeting of the med it was also psychic so far changed; from a monarchy, Thursday, 2nd April with Box
as the suit itself was concerned, France became a republic. Company.
And Notice is-Further. Hereby and eventually carried the bid-
Carpenters, wine-shop keepers tions. that the Register and ding to seven spades. Why and other modest persons sat in Transfer Books of the Company South failed to bid seven no-the judicial benches of that court- Parade at Corps Headquarters Reserve, 1st Battery, with effect Daventry New Bulletin (Copyright
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Launch leaves Queen's Pier at 3.25 a.m. and Kowloon at 8.30 am. Range Officer Lieut. J. H.
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TRANSFER
In a little Gypsy Tea Boum Louisiana Fairy Tale
Orchestra-
Vale Rosing.
Roberts--Selection 9.9.13 p. Four Songs, by. Peter Dawson (Bam-Baritone)
Glory of the Sen (Sanderson).
by Reuter).
2. The Border "Ballad (Cowen), 3. A Jovial Monk am I (Andran).. 4. The Admiral's Broom (Bevan). No. 1937, Gunner B. L. Bickford,
9.13-9.30 pm "Tidworth Tattoo." 1st Battery, is transferred to Unit 9.30-9.45 pm-A Relay of the
will be CLOSED, from the 23rd trump neither that player nor room in 1780- men and women
on Tuesday, 31st March at 5.30 from 27th March, 1936.
9.45 pm-12 midnight—A Belay of to the 30th Day of March, 1936, anyone else will ever know. who had felt the oppressive hand
Or- No. 1795, A/CμL R. A. I. Simp- pm. for M. G. Instruction, West made the natural open-of the rulers too long. Imperson- (both days inclusive.
chestra.. ing of the King of diamonds. ating them in the film version of ed to Headquarters Store as ear-ransferred to Unit Reserve, No. 1
All Gas Mask should be return son. No. 1 (M. G.) Company, is the Hong Kong Hotel Dance South sighed with relief when the famous Dickens classic werely as possible. he saw the solidity of North's Mitchell Lewis, Fritz Leiber, Tui-
Armoured Car Section trump suit, and after winningly Marshall, Blanche Yurks, Lo-|
Section will parade at Corps the diamond Ace; laid down the eille Laverne and other notables Headquarters
on Tuesday, Sixt spade King, intending to over- Before shem stood Donald March at 5.30 p.m. for Vickers take it.
When West showed woods. as Charles Darney, on Gun Instruction. out, however, he realised that trial for his life. Ronald Colman,| to overtake would lose a certain star of the picture, was" at bis
LIANG CHI HAO,
Managing Director.
Hong Kong, 19th March, 1936.
UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY LIMITED
(M. G.) Company with effect from
7th March, 1936.
LEAVE
Major J. C. Macgown, M. B etc. Medical Section, granted Leave as from 8.4.36 to 8.4.1937.
10 pm-Big Best 12 midnight-Close Down Note: There will be a Chinese Re- corded programme from ZEK. on a frequency at 640 Milocyeles from 8-10.80 m
No. 2225, Sigar. L. Alltree, Percy Smith Seth and Fleming lat
as, Battery, "L" Section, 27.3.36. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. spade trick Therefore, he side as his counsellor. Elizabeth parrot, at that are exception- Corps Signals, granted leave
allowed his King to win the
Captain, Allan, Edna May Oliver, Herrally hilarious in their roles, and from 15.3.36 to 15.436. THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL |trick. Since the North hand
No. 1200, Cpl. C. R. Logan, No. B. Walthall, Reginald Owen were the rubber-legged Errol hands in TH
GENERAL MEETING of only could be entered by trump there, each impersonating a char- one of the best performances of 2 (Scottish) Company, granted Shareholders will be held at the ing, and that would mean creat-acter who helped to change the his seren career. Berton Chur-leave as from 21.3.36 to 21.10.36. Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co..ing a winner for East, South had course of history. Ltd, Hong Kong and Shanghai practically resigned himself to
chill, as the tolerant motor` mag- No. 1665, Sergt. K. C. Hamilton,
as from 6.2.36 to 223.36.
No. 2292, Sergh B. S. Bevan
More than a week was required
(sd.) B. C..B. ANDERSON.
Adjutant, E.KV.D. Corps. AFFILIATED UNITS
Bank Building, on WEDNESDAY. his fate when he led out the to film the Revolutionary Tribun.[Aate, also merits special mention.M. M. G. Section, granted leave Nursing Detachment, H.KY.D.
8th April 1936 at noon for the pur-Ace of hearts and discovered al sequence of the picture, one of pose of receiving the report of the the amazing break. When West the several spectacular settings. General Managers together with showed out East's entire hand
for the dramatic humERNI story Ja Statement of Accounts to 318i was counted as having been
December 1935.
originally six hearts and six produced by David O. Selznick
and directed by Jack Conway. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the spades. His belief in miracles Company will be CLOSED from restored. South laid down his "CORONADO" 28th March to 8th April 1996. five remaining high hearts, dis-
both days inclusive.
་་
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Hong Kong, 18th March, 1935.
carding dummy's five losing clubs, while East with five
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
"THE INFORMER"
-STAR THEATRE
Superbly enacted by a brilliant cast, this picture brings vividly tol life the characters and scenes of Liam O'Flaherty's widely-read and much-discussed novel,
Against the colourful back-
Corps ENROLMENT.
Guttinger, Mrs M. K
P.. O. D. Cadre, granted leave as 21.5.36—Mrs. M. Good, Mrs. M. from 4.4.36 to 4.1236
STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH Left The Colony
No. 2087, Gunner T. W. Duffield. 1st Battery, as from 27.3.36.
Completed Three Year Service No. 1960, Pte. A. C. Xavier,
Holmes, Mrs. J. F. Kayll, Miss G. E. Lakeman, Miss J. M. Lakeman, Mrs. M. Bees, and Mrs. F. M. Rimmer
RESIGNATION
"Coronado" is one of the best ground of Dublin, the picture has | General Managers. trumps muttered curses into his
beard as he faced the necessity of this year's musicals, mainly be the troubled years just after the Corps Infantry, No. 11 Platoon, 27.3.36-Mrs. A. Lowe. of following suit
cause of the presence of Eddy World War as "is period with as from 21.3.36. Duchin and his popular orchestra, the desire to get money, Gypo though the singing of both Miss Nolan, a human derelict, “in-
No. B/17, Private, V..H. C. Jar Burgess and Joanny Downs is all forms on his hunted pal, Frankie rett, 5 CM. Post, Reserva 25.3.36. that could be asked.
McPhillip, for a price.
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NOTICE
No., 2568, Garner, G. S. Wilby, ANNUAL ATHLETIC KEETING The story is the old one of the With £20 in his pocket and his ging's College, Battery "A" Soc.:
The following preliminary rich boy and poor girl in love, treachery on his conscience, Gype 243.36.
events will be decided at Corpa with refreshing variations, and becomes alternately tortured by
Headquarters as under?--
is laid against a background of fear, crazed by remorse, and ex- No. 2569, Signr. Singh, Randhir,
of Ellis Kadoorie Se.: Corps Signala, Semi-Finals Taesday, 7426
the popular Hotel Coronado infuited to dranken delusions The Director of Ambulance has Southern California. Misa Bur-grandeur produced by his. Ill-got-24-3.36.
entertainer ten “wealth.”- the honour to acknowledge with gess is cast as an
..
No, 2570 Sigar. Singh, Sohan,
High
grateful thanks and appreciation with Duchin's band in the hotel, All of the story transpires in Ellis Kadoorie Se. Corps Signals, Finals.
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while Downs is the carefree son one action-packed night, giving 24.3.36.
No. 2571, Tpr. P. F. MazCibe, offa wealthy motor manufacturer, the drama e cohesion all too sal- $200
possussed of a talent for writing dom attained Suspense builds Butterfield and Swire, | songs.
swiftly, as Gypo blunders through 24.3.36. There is a great deal of comedy the fog shrouded night, mounting In the film, furnished mainly for to a terrific climax
No. 2572, Tor. W. E. Grieve, Mackinnon Mackenris and Co. Jack Haley Andy Devine, Alice The romance between Preston Troop, 24.3.36.
10 White and Lean Erroll Baley Foster and Heather Angel nords-No. 2573, Pte. E. A. da Silva,
and Devine as a sailors return strong contrast to the attraction Harbour Office, No. 9 Platoon, ing from the Philippines with a between Melagden and Miss Gra- Corps Infantry, 26.3.36. 200 pet patrot and very voluble base.
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