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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from Her Kong Broadcasting Station ZB.7. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845-KC's).~-
Relay of Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra
ZE.K. Programme " 12.30-2.15 p.-European recorded programme.
12.30 p.m.-Excerpts from "Car- |men" (Eizet).
WHY HE TOOK THE WHISKY.
Theft Charge Fails
not
Samuel Johnston, aged 35, of
found Northampton, guilty at Northamptonshire As- sizes last month of breaking inte a Kettering wine and spirit stores and stealing six bottles of whis ky.
Johnston, whose defence was that he always had the intention of paying for the whisky, said that the front door of the store was fastened, but a sliding door at the side was not locked. En- tering; be found nobody about. He then took the whisky, intending to tell an official of the firm, whore he knew, what he had done, and to pay for the spirits.
Discharging Johnston, Mr. Jus- tice Hawke said: -You know
12.50 p.m.-ITO "Celly Sotos by what a fool you have been." Maurice Marchal.
1 p-Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.
103 Light Orchestral Music 1.30 pm-Beuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, Local: Weather
forecast, time and announcements.
140 p-Songs by the Four Crochets.
1.53 pm-Dance Music 2.15 pm-Close Down 5-8
European Programme.
5-7 pm-RelayHong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
Vocal Gema
Monsieur Beaucaire Selection
Princess Ida (Sullivan) Vocal Gem
Mercenary Mary
Selection-
Please Teacher
7.30 pm-Violin Solo by Albert Sandler.
Spanish Serenade (Johnny Bey-
kens).
-BRIDGE NOTES
Precise Slam Bidding
By Ely Culbertson
DERTS PAID IN FULL
£12,500 Left To A Bankrupt
Having been left $12,500-- one-
A "good hand" can be made sixteenth of a $1,000,000 (£200,-| up of so many different kinds [000) will-by an uncle in Ameri- of honour trick combinations ca, John Singleton, a bankrupt, that even R master player has paid all his debts in full.
Singleton was formerly a taxi- seldom knows which of the high cards in his hand are valuable cab proprietor in Bradford, and for slam purposes, and which applied for the annulment of his are without value. The 4-5 no bankruptcy recently.
trump convention locates aces, Mr. W. Foy Cresswell, the Off but sometimes it is a lower cial Receiver, said the receiving card, such as a queen, which order was made in 1928 makes the difference between The debtor's uncle was Mr. success and failure at a grand George S. Singleton, formerly at İslam.
Bradford. Of the 200,000 he had Two friends of mine, excel- left, $1,200 had already arrived in lent players, went wrong on the England, and Mr. J. Singleton had following hand, and no
one cleared his liabilities. could find it in his heart to blame them.
South. dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
WEST
2. The Child and his Dancing Dell S. 982
(Johnny Heykens).
One of the most amusing in- cidents in this picture is the scene YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed. "China Main which jolly British sailors are Office, No. 34, Wyndham Street. fraternising in peace time with
7 p.m.-Light Opera and Musical Telephone 20022.
their German prototypes, during Comedy. which they teach them how to sing "Danny Boy." Even this touch of star, has the role of the country
4. Song of Paradise (King). merriment has its intensely drama-girl who sings her way to fame
7.43 pm-Leslie Hutchinson tic side, for the brave young A-Phil Regan is her assistant and bert Brown is forced to shoot the Lyle Talbot is the gambler. Gen-Songs at the Piano. lad who was his friend in order to vieve Tobin is the society carry out the task to which he had Talbot loves. committed himself
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
- Public Auctions
Tin Undtrenger haver reiste THE Undersigned have received
Auction
on
Friday, the 26th June, 1936 commencing at 230 p.m.
at their Sales Room,
Duddell Street
A Quantity of
VALUABLE. HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE T
comprising:-
girl
3. Always (Smith).
1. Dreaming a Dream ("Tes
Madam").
2. This is no Sin ("Hi Diddle-
Diddle").
3. I only have eyes for you
("Dames"). 4. Love
like a cigarette.
EL 10 7
NORTH
S. KJ 10 7 6.
F. J 4.3
D. K Q J
C. A K
(D. 10 6 3
in C. J 9 6 4 2
Others in the cast include Allen Betty Ballour as the mother of Jeakins, Marie Wilson, Spring Able-Seaman Albert Brown, pre-Byington. Joseph King, Donald sents a remarkably natural por- Ross, Frank Dawson and Harry. The Morning After (Hands 1H trayal of the devoted parent when Seymour". the boy and his friend “Ginger" come home on leave.
across the Table.").
EAST
S. 4 3
EQ 9:5
D. 9 8 7 5 2
C. Q 87 SOUTH
S. 4 Q.5
HAK 8 6 2
D. A 4
C. 10 5 3
The bidding:
South
West Pass 2S.
North
East Pass
Pass 4EL Pass -5C. 7S.[final bid]
Pass
Pass
8 p-Local: Time Signal, Wea-SEL ther Report, Stock Quotations, and 4NT Announcements.
"It has been a ́ windfall". for both debtor and creditors," said Mr. Cresswell.
"LOVER OF ENGLAND" AGAIN
$2,000 Gift To Reduce National Debt
The Chancellor of the Erche- quer recently received $2,000 from "A Lover of England,” -** a contribution towards the reduc- tion of the National Debt He expressed his thanks for the gift and his warm appreciation of the spirit which prompted it.
In June, 1933, it was announced that "A Lover of England" had sent to the Chanceller a parcel of gold articles as a contribution towards the repayment of the American Debt. The National Debt now totals £1,796,036.000.
RICHMOND WOMAN AGED 104 Constable's Last Relative
Mrs. Mary J. Stubbin, a
Granting the application, Judge McCleary said Mr. J. Singleton great-niece of Constable, the had been very fortunate.
artist, who died in 1837, recent- ly celebrated her 104th birth-
handled by means of the jump day in her Richmond home. five no trump hid, a new feature!
She claims to be the only
of the Culbertson system which surviving relative of the great is the only grand slam force in landscape painter. Her health and appearance are the envy of existence. When
player
jumps to five no trump [not many women 20 or 30 years. preceded by four no trump] he younger.
demands that his partner bid Fifty guests were present at seven if he hold any ace, and her party, including the Mayor the queen or better in the five and Mayoress of Richmond and no trump bidder's suit. Other other well-known people in the wise, the partner must sign off district where she has lived for
over 20 years. Jat six.
In the hand above, South, after North's four heart bid,
would have jumped immediate-i ly to five no trump. North,
Visitors Welcomed
Mrs. Stubbin still reads and
Five
8.05 pmA Relay from the Lee North did his best, playing having an ace but lacking the knits without glasses.
•
"THE MAN ON THE FLYING Before her son returns to his ship TRAPEZE-STAR THEATRE
Theatre (Chinese).
for complicated sort of queen of hearts, would have years ago she made a remark- she presents him with a watch in- scribed with the initials of Nelson! In the role of a hen-pecked hus-
11 pm-Close Down which had been given to her as a band at home, a down-trodden 5.03-10 pm-European Programme squeeze which would have given signed off with six hearts; and lable recovery from a fractured
thigh. keepsake by the father of her clerk at the office, Fields aastmes from the ZEK. on a frequency of 640 him the contract if the same there, or at, six spades, the
defender had held the queen offhand would have been played "I always welcome visitors." child.
his characterisation, dominating kilocycles.
8.05 p.m.--The New Mayfair Ox-hearts and the queen-jack of and made.
she told a press representative The possession of this watch in-one hilarious scene after another
chestra.
clubs; but it was hopeless. North and South had every recently, "and I shall certainly sailor to the without a stop.
Venetian Nights. spires the young
Onlookers blamed North for honour trick in the deck, and it be downstairs for my birthday. His troubles begin immediately Britelodia (Humphries). greatest deed of heroism.
raising the hearts, but he had seems ridiculous to lose points "I am proud to have lived in when at the point of retiring for Roberta-Selection (Kern).
support for a rebid suit, and on such hands. Sweet Adeline-Selection (Kern).
Modern con-five reigns and to have received the night, a complete and supreme Medley of Jame Tate's Songs did not want to deny this sup-tract bidding will eliminate a letter from King George V. bit of mirth in itself, burglars 8.35. p.m.-"Songs without Words" port by bidding three no trump most of such
unnecessary on the occasion of
my 100th break in and Mr. Fields is forth- (Mendelssohn) played by Ignaz Fried-
Cases of this type are easily losses.
janniversary." This picture, featuring William with dispatched by his nagging man (Pianoforte).
Howard, to the 848 pm. Four Songs by Rose Boyd and Jimmy Ellison, is about wife, Kathleen
In-Bampton (Contralto).
"THE EAGLE'S BROOD"-~ QUEEN'S THEATRE
*
His daughter, Mary Brian, final-
1. When I bring to you adourid, Toys.
Light, my light.
Swans (Kramer).
Announcements
the new adventures of "Hopalong" cellar to catch the culprits. Cassidy in the picturesque, dan- stead he indulges in a bit of ap- gerous days of the old west. plejack drinking with them, even 3.
palms as east 20 "Hopalong" is cast as a peace of-becoming a member of a tempor-4 Do not go, my love (Eageman).
of Hellary and hastily improvised quar-| 9 p.m.-A Relay of the Daventry Centre, determined to restore law tet. He lands in gaol, and the News Bulletin and
(Copyright by Beater). and order and wipe out the reign thieves go free.
9.20 Saxophone Solos by Howard Jacobs. of terror established by a gang of) bad men. Cassidy also has by rescues him. His selfish young! 1. From the Land of the Sky-Blue mission to accomplish, and with brother-in-law steals his ticket to bis pal "Johnny Nelson," hot-the wrestling match upon which 2 Down in the forest (Landon
his heart. He reta 3. At Dawning (Cadman). headed. young cowboy, the two he has net
the missing liates by telling his boss he must 9.30 p.m.-Tunes of not-so-long-ago set out to locate
attend his mother-in-law's "fun- by The Four Musketeers. grandson of a former outlaw.
A series of exciting events traileral" and gets the afternoon off. 1. Young and Healthy. the two boys before they are suc- His efforts to get to the fight end 2 Take me away from the River.
13. Musketeers Melodies. William disastrously after a series of rol- cessful in their hunt.
Wazer.
Roziald).
9.43 -Court Symphony Or-) Chesterfield Suites, Black Wood Farnum, Dorothy Revier and Ad-licking events. The effect of his chestra.
"funeral" story results in his de-Selection-The Dazask Rose Ware, Teak Bed Room and Dining (dison Richards are in the Cast
mouncing his "in-laws." He de (Chopin themes). Room Furniture Rattan Ware, Howard Bretherton directed.
parts with his daughter.
With a Song in my heart-Symphonic | Office Furniture, Steel Filing
Rhapsody (Eric Coates). 10 pm-Big Bea: Close Down then on, things change for the better. His boss begs for his re- turn to the office where he acted
Cabinet,
Typewriters, Sewing "GENTLEMEN ARE BORN Machine, Gramaphones and Re- ORIENTAL THEATRE cords, Rugs, Carpets, Porcelain Cigar Safe," Oil Paintings, Pic--
Franchot Tone has three lead-jas memory expert. tures, Ornaments, Electric Tableling ladies in the talented all-star
From
The film closes in the same hil- Fans and Lamps, Cutlery, Silver cast of this picture. They are arious fashion which character- and E. P. Ware, Bronze and Brass Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay and ises the entire comedy. Ware, Cloisonne and Aluminium Ann Dvorak, and their roles are Ware, Porcelain and Glass Ware, of almost equal importance. Washing Machine, Geysers, Cook- this picture, which con-and Kathleen
In
The supporting players, who include, in addition to Mary Brian Howard, Lucien
PEDESTRIAN KILLED
Motorist Who Did Not Stop
Leonard T. Whiting, aged 30, an
ing Stoves, Curios, Ice Chests, cerns the adventures of four col-Littlefield, Grady Sutton, Vera Filters, Curtains, Linen, Billiard lege boys struggling for a place Lewis and Oscar Apfel, all con-Oxford motor driver, was at Ox- in a disorganised world, Miss tribute to the fan of the piece. ford Assizes recently sentenced to Lindsay plays opposite to Tone. Clyde Bruckman directed.
Cues and Balls, etc., etc.
On View from Thursday, the 25th June, 1936.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1936.
Ber wealth and his poverty cause many a rift in their path of love.
Jean Muir has the role of sweet-i
“EVERYBODY'S OLD MAN"
ALHAMERA THEATRE
18 months' hard labour for the manslaughter of Walter, Badrick, an Aylesbury ganger, at Wolver- cate, Oxford, on March 20.
He was also sentenced to six
of the
con-
Whiting pleaded guilty to tak-f ing the ear and not guilty to mans- laughter.
Auctioneers. beart and later the wife of Tone's. This new Fox picture is a months hard labour for taking a
cbum, while Ann Dvorak is the breezy, delightful comedy romance sweetheart of still another of his of canny age pitted against mo-car without permission friends.
dern youth. It introduces Irvin owner, the sentences to run S. Cobb in his first starring role, disqualification was imposed..
currently. A 10 years' 'driving' Other noted players in the casti include Charles Starrett, Russell and gives full scope to the radiant Hicks, Majorie Gateson and Brad- „humour, the genial, kindly wit that
has long made him America's fav ley Page.
ourite story-teller.
It was stated that Badrick was Cobb, who made his sensational feature debut as the jovial steam-walking home when he was knock- boat captain of "Steamboat Rounded down and killed by a car which Whiting had taken from outside The story treats of life on the the Bend" occupies the centre of
län Oxford cinema, and that Whit- Great White Way, particularly the interest in the new picture, with night clubs and the palatial gam-lovely Rochelle Hudson, Johnny ing did not stop.
Downs and Norman Foster elect- bling halls. It is the story of `a} little country girl who goes toled to head the splendid supporting
PIPPERMINT
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always delicious with
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the big city to make good in thea-Cast trical work.
crushed ice Broadway, until the meets a bie
iced water
GET FRERES REVEL (Garstone) unce
The plot deals with the curious She finds it a tough job to crash adventures a king of industry en- counters when he retires from gambler, who puts her over in a business to devote his time to big way and makes her the toast straightening out a group of wild
and reckless youngsters..... of the bright light district.
Comedy and thrills follow in Miss Hudson and Foster are quick succession until a smashing coupled in the romantic leads, and climar, in which the gambler is Sara Haden, Donald Meek and slain by the brother of the wo-Warren Bymer are prominent in Įman he loves.
the supporting cast of the picture, Winifred Shaw, musical comedy directed by James Flood.
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