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Recipe for
mance
"THE GARDEN MURDER CASE" KING'S THEATRE
Aa the super-scientific detec- tive, Edmund Love gives a per-
BRIDGE NOTES
When To Take Out In Notrump
By Ely Culbertson "
A bid of one 'notrump over
suit
bid. formance in this picture that is partner's opening utterly delightful. He crawls his when the next opponent has thrilling adventures, way in and out of a series of passed, is known as a negative more than response. It denies sufficient once being in actual danger of strength for a raise or a take-
lout in a suit.
sudden death.
But not one of his thrills can
be compared to his sudden falling in love: It is the first time in
A take-out of one no trump
one honour trick with stoppers should be made when holding?
in two suits; or one-plus toi Philo's adventures that he was two-plus honour tricks, however undergone this experience, and distributed.
the way
and entertaining.
Are
2
Bid
be reacts to romantic Since
one no trump situations is at once humorous response shows weakness, the opening hand probably will pass Virginia Brace is the smart unless holding well over the society girl who gives him pal-minimum strength required for pitation of the heart, and to save his opening suit one bid. her from police suspicion hel Partner bid one heart.
is not only his reputation, batjone no trump with: his life.
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Nat Pendleton, Gene Lockhart, raise, bid two no trump.
two no trump take-out is fore- Mitchell and Frieda reacort 31 honour tricks, with at least while Henry B. Walthall, Jessie two cards of partner's suit. Ralph Charles Trowbridge and Etienne Girardot contribute not-it often is wise to refuse to win Playing no trump contracts.
the first lead of opponent's suit, in the hope that communication between the defenders may be cut off But the exceptions to this rule are equally important. Never has Elissa Landi, Para-Each hand must be judged on mount actress, been assigned its individual merits. role demanding so much from her Jacknowledged versatile capabili
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SPORT NOTICES
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
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FIFTH EXTRA RACE
ably.
"WITHOUT REGRET
QUEEN'S THEATRE
also Paul Cavanagh, Frances Drake and Kent Taylor. Her characterisation
MEETING wil be held once a complete deviation erisation is
South, dealer.
Neither side vulnerable..
NORTH
S. 8 5 4 2
H. K 10
D. K 7 5 CK 842
ther permitting) at HAPPY VAL Past performances. Recognised WEST LEY on SATURDAY, 16th May, as a comedienne, in sophisticated s. QJ 7 6 3 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m. comedy parts,
Exceptional H. A 9
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The First Bell will be rung at skill, Miss Landi appears in an D. J 4 3 2
intensely dramatic portrayal C. 97 which calls forth all the deep emotional histrionics which she has proved herself to possess.
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East Pass
The bidding: South
•North West INT
Pass 2NT NT (final bid]
* One heart would have been a bet- ter opening bid.
In "Without Regret," Miss Landi gives a performance that justifies the varied talents of which she is capable. As an at- tractive young woman travelling in China, she is swept off her feet by the ardent attentions of Kent Taylor, handsome, ne'er-do-well javiator. She lives to regret her
marriage to him.
When West opened the six of Being officially spaces and East played the informed of his death, she marries king, the declarer gave the sit- again, this time a man worthy of uation serious thought. It was her love, Paul Cavanagh, wealthy, obvious that his contract could famous titled London physician. not be made without clearing Frances Drake, Taylor's ex- the heart suit, and when the sweetheart appears, informing opponents should take the lead. her that her first husband is alive how many spade tricks could and demanding blackmail or she they run ? The answer lay in will expose the bigamous mar- the opening lead of the spade riage of her rival. Many drama-six. Assuming that
was not
"YELLOW DUST" ALHAMBRA THEATRE
tie, thrilling situations follow from a short suit-and there Miss Landi's attempt to save her was no reason to think it was- husband's career from scandal, the leader could not have had disgrace and ultimate ruin.
a sequence of QJ 10, or he would have led the top. East, then, is marked with another honour after the king and, if the suit is divided 5 and 2, it When a hard young prospector will be blocked. falls in love with" an
On this reasoning, declarer California gold camp entertainer. on the first trick and led a tells her the location of the rich-
heart. As he had foreseen. the est mine he has ever struck, and spade suit was effectually block then hears that she has not only ed and the three no trump con-
tract W25 filed claim on his mine for her Note that a holdup at the first
made - with east
alluring
a Juave
self, but is favouring trick would have been fatal.
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Hong
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"STRANGE WIVES”...
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Fenton and
and nerve in mid-air, a musicalition with their lovely daughter tives come to live with them, country becomes a flapper. They and is splendidly acted and dir-Romero, Phyllis Brooks, Francis act by Miss Odette Navara and (Miss Sullavan) and her cousin,They are a temperamental lot. try to marry her off to an artist ected. Roger Pryor and June 1. Sullivan, Valerie Hobson, Ivan ļother items.
with whom she is in love (Ban-One of the sisters-in-law mar-but instead the latter falls in love Clayworth appear in the leading Lebedeff, Leslie The Troupe enjoyed great suc-jdolph Scott). If you have tears, ries a millionaire. A brother-in-with the wife.
roses, ably supported by such many others. cess in Manila, where they were prepare to shed them now, as the law marries a movie actress and It is one of the most absorbing players as Esther Halston, Hugh
beautiful acting from all concern becomes a leading man. Another stories ever told on the screen O'Connell, Ralph Forbes, Cesar [RADIO ON PAGE 10) ed and the poignantly true pic-girl just arrived from the old
invited to broadcast.