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BRIDGE NOTES New "Smother" Play
By Ely Culbertson
One of the rarest of end-plays.
Amusements
Cinema Notes From
The Theatres
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
5 pm-European Programme. 57 pm-A Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.
7 pm Violin Recital by Zino Francescatti.
M.
Sonata (arr. Salmon)
1.
OLYMPIC TORCH AT DELPHI
Whole Population Waits Hours
is ez-
TRAVEL MADE HIM CONSTIPATED
Salesman Says Kruschen Keeps Him "On His Toes"
"I and
a commercial traveller," writes a corespondent, and due to "FURY" KING'S THEATRE
22 OF 52 TEAMS ARRIVE
endless travelling by train, I find that AT OLYMPIC VILLAGE I become constipated if I do not keep myself well purged. Kruschen Salts In this picture Spencer Tracy
is the only thing that will do this "CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
effectively and not interfere with my is that in which a guarded de-and Sylvia Sidney portray a pair
The following programme will
Delphi, To-day. work take a large dose of Kruschen fensive trump honour is captured of young lovers, planning to
The Olympic Torch, on its every Saturday night and on Sunday. a kidnap sus- despite the fact that the declarer marry. They are separated by
town in which be broadcast to-day from the Hang
act on me. On week-days I take a for the dummy has only a blank Tracy's arrest as
yesterday, where the whole po small dose the first thing on rising. honour in back of it. The usual pect. The small situation is that dummy at the be is held in prison for question-Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. Way to Berlin, arrived here when I have no work to do, the Salts a wavelength of 355 metres.pulation had been waiting ex It is necessary that I be 'en my toes pectantly for many hours. The all through the day, and this is the start of the hand has three trumpsing is quickly stirred to action by
runiers were welcomed with de-only way that it possibly can be done. to the act, the declare five to the sy rumours.
monstrations of the keenest en-I have tried other laxatives, and they have proven to be either unreliable Queen-Jack-ten-nine, and the play- Led by a vicious type of trouble (545 KC's).
by (splendidly played
thusiasm.
or harsh in their action."-V. L er under the dummy the King maker
Kruschen Salts is Nature's recipe After two Bruce Cabot) a mob storms the guarded three times.
Leni Riefenstahl, who firesses have been made without prison to "get" the suspect.
trusted by the Fuehrer to make the for maintaining a condition of in- ternal cleanliness. The six salts in The scenes that follow, showing
official film record of the Olympic Kruschen stimplate your internal the King having been played, the
sheriff's futile attempt to!
smooth, regular action. declarer proceeds to strip the the
Games, completed the Greek sec-organs to hand.
to acco- Eventually the other op-fight off the rabble and the actual
tion of the Torch Relay yesterday Your inside is thus kept clear of those ponent is thrown in at the twelfth wrecking and burning of the pri-
with the arrival of the Torch in parities which, allowed
mulate, lower the whole tone of the Delphi..
system. trick and is forced to lead a suit son, contain aliam of a hair-rais in which the other three handsing order. The closing sequence, are all void.
On this lead the in which 21 of the mobsters are his Queen. and on trial for their lives, leads to a
7.13 p.m. Robert Radford (Bass.) declarer plays.
defensive player powerful climax and is sustained defensiverial THE Undersigned have received whether the
(Handel). if right ap to the logical, though. Hear mel ye winds and Waves
twist that precedes 2 I'm a Roamer (Mendelssohn) under-surprising,
3. Father O'Flynn (Villiers (he does not cover but
Stanford) trumps, the declarer merely dis- the final fadeout.
In addition to the excellent cards from dummy and wins the
work of the co-stars, other fine turned in by: last trick with the Ace.
unusual
of performances are type A
George and in the Frank Albertson smother" play occurred hand below. East's guarded Walcotts, as Tracy's brothers: trump Jack was picked up after Walter Abel, as the district at- the declarer had been forced to torney; Edward Ellis, as the shorten his own trump holding sheriff, and Walter Brennan, his and thus found himself unable to assistant; Jonathan Hale, the de
fense attorney, and numerous carde. take the marked finesse.
others in the large cast. South, dealer East and West vulnerable
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Pass Pass The way the cards were divided three- it is easily seen that a notrump contract would have been
the
Gorelli) (arr. Kreisler). 2. Variations (on a theme by
~~Beethoven) (Kreisler)
Rondino (on a theme by
4. Glorious Devon (Edward
German).
17.28 pm-Sydney Cinema Organ Music.
Gustard in
1 Eric Coates Medley 2. Hermana Lohr Medley.
3. Musical Comedy Medley. 7.15 p.m.-Four Songs by Hilde
L I believe in Miracles.
2. Listen to the German Band.
13 HOURS BY AIR-QUEENS 3 Darling, je vous aime beaucoup.
4. For me, For you. THEATRE
8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Thirteen Hours By Air" is the ther Report, Stock Quotations story of romance and intrigue Announcements. laboard a trans-continental passen-
32 TEAMS TO COME
more Olympic Village: Two
at the flags have been hoisted entrance of the Olympic Village, those of Chile and Iceland, show-! ing that the teams of these two At pre- countries bave arrived.
have sent 22 out of 52 teams arrived.
this being
US. BASEBALL RESULTS
GIANTS TRIUMPH OVER CARDINALS
New York, To-day. The following were the results
The Chilian team was 40 strong THREE HOMERS FOR J. MOORE and that of Iceland-mostly men jof gigantic stature consisted of
25 active sportsmen, one of the numerically strongest of the League baseball matches
the played yesterday:--- teams, by comparison with
National League Both population of Iceland. teams arrived from Hamburg at, Cincinnatti
the Lehrter Bahnhof, and the re Wea-ception ceremonies at the station, and town hall and the Village were re- peated with the same cordiality always previously.-Trans- Ocean Service.
6.05 p.m.-A Relay from the Taijas ger plane. It is an oddly-assorted Ping Theatre (Chinese).
11 pm-Close Down. lot of passengers the ship is carry-
8.05 pm-European Programme: iaga girl who says she's a so- cialite; a nine-year-old heir to a from ZEE. on a frequency of 549 fortune of millions; a "doctor" kilocycles.
8.05 p.m.-The New Mayfair Or- who reveals a surprising lack of chestra. information about medicine; andļOut of the Bottle-Selection two other suspicious-looking male Tell her the Truth-Selection
Savoy Irish Medley passengers.
MacMurray, a pilot "deadhead-Savoy Welsh Medley
The Big Broadcast of 1936– ling half-way across the continent
Selection to fly the plane the remainder of
8.27 p.m.-A Pianoforte Recital by
these 1. Capriccio in E Minor, Op. 76
(Brahins).
easier to fulfil. However. I do its journey, soon gets to work Arthur Rubinstein. not think either North's or South's solving the problema of
Ee accuses Miss Ben- bidding can be severely criticised-identities.
West's opening lead was nett, the socialite, of being in- spade King and the Ace in dum volved in a jewel robbery; he al- South naturally most gets shot when he refuses won the trick. then won the first round of hearts the offer of one of his male pas- in his own hand and was warned sengers to set the plane down in. by West's drop of the five-spot to a remote spot; he gets into a fist Mills Brothers.
aruther passenger. win the second lead in the North fight with
hand. He won the second round Meanwhile, the young heir is mak of trumps with dummy's Kingjing life miserable for everyone in thus keeping a tenace position the cabin. over East's Jack.
2 La Gathedrale Englentie, Prelude
No. 10 (Debussy). 3. Sevilla (Sevillanas) (Albeniz). 4. Navarra (Albeniz).
8.45 pm-Old Numbers by
1. Tiger Rag
Some of these days.
3. Sweet Lucy Brown.
4. Miss Otis regrets. 5. My Headache...
R. H. E. 7 6 1 Byrd and Kampouris hit home
rous. Boston
4 11 2.
Chicago
Demarre homered. Brooklyn
3
7 2
2 8 0
4 10 0
.16 19 0
"Y" SWIMMING Pittsburgh
TRIUMPH
THREE
WINS IN FOUR RACES
STEVENS' GOOD DIVING
Philadelphia
Chuck Klein and J. Moore (3), hit homers.
St. Louis
New York
2 10 0
8 8 Σ
Melvin Ott, Mancused and Kei- iber hit homers.
A triangular swimming tourna- ment was held last night at the
repro Philadelphia YM.C.A.. between teams senting the "Y", East Lancs and Detroit the Royal Engineers, the " emerging winners in three of the Washington...... the four events.
9 pm A Relay of the Daventry
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8.20 pm-Debroy Somers Band. What's Yours-A Convivial Medley
(arr. Debroy Somers) Dixieland-Selection.
Chicago
American League
7 13 6 11
01
2 12
1
3 13 0
Twelve innings were played.
The standard of swimming was fairly high and the diving was
510 good, L/Cpl. Stevens of the Royal New York
Selkirk and Dimaggio homered:
6 13 Engineers being particularly out-
St. Louis standing.
Bottomley homered.
Contrary to expectations, the crowd that turned out to watch Boston the swimming was not quite as Cleveland large as that which attended the "Y" first gala, but the spectators homers. that were present were treated to his some fine sport.
9.33 pm-Nat Cosella and Georgians.
10 p.m-Big Ben from Daventry. CLOSE DOWN.
The results were:
Men's 200 Yards free-style relay (teams of eight); 1, YMCA, 2, East. Lancs, 3, Royal Engineers.
3. 10 8 19
1 Q
Weatherly and Earl Averell hit
-Beater.
FREAK BRIDGE HAND
HELD BY K.C.C. PLAYER
How these tangled threads are South, of course, despite the finally unwoven provides a climax fact that the trump situation was that it would not be fair to reveal now revealed to him, still knew here. It is the obnoxious young- he had to be lucky to fulful his ster who finally brings things to a
He returned to his climax. contract
The entire story is played with hand with the diamond King and immediately took the club finesse. such swift speed and finesse that The club Ace was cashed and the lit leaves you breathless. In ad- third club ruffed with the deucejdition to fine performances by of hearts. South now cashed his MacMurray and Miss Bennett, other top diamond and then led there are grand interpretations by ZaSn Pitts as governess of the
Members' 25 Yards Aggregate a spade towards dummy.
this trick annoying heir, and by Bennie
Handicap: 1, J. Milla, 2, E. Vergotti, West perforce won
follow 3, G. Magnas. situations Hilarious and now had no choice but to cash Bartlett as the heir. John Fo-orous romance.
South, of ward, Alan Baxter, Brian Donievy three black cards.
other in quick succession Men's Diving (teams of two); 1, a melodramatie Erst Lancs, 2, Royal Engineers, 3, course, followed with three spades and Fred Keating deserve especial each
there is a kid-Y.M.C.A.
A very enjoyable evening was and the dummy with two spades mention, but the entire film is a winding up in credit to everyone connected with smash in which and the last diamond.
napping, a motor-boat chase for At the twelfth trick West, due it
the abducted girl and a free-for RE, L/Cpl Gorman, East Lanes, 3, spent at the Kowloon Cricket Club
last week when a triangular Con-" to South's having taken the pre-
Men's 125 all battle between sailors, marines Cpl. Gregson, East Lanes
Yards medley relay tract Bridge match was played 1, YMCA, 2. East Lancs. &, Royal with the American Club and the caution of playing out both of his
Jand their girls at the context hall.
Others in the cast include Eddie Engineers. top diamonds, had no card of that
After the swimming two water-Club de Recreio as guests. Din- suit to lead and was again forced
"Viva Villa"" is a fictional ver-Acuff, Marie Wilson, Guinn Wil- The seven to lead a black card:
The "B" teaming, the chair being taken by Mr. of hearts was played from dum-sion of the life and loves of Panliams and Anita Kerry besides polo matches were played between per was served during the even-
cho Villa, one of the most inter-hundreds of extras in the roles of two scratch teams.
beat the "A" by 3 goals to 1, while F. W. Shaftain who, in a the "C" bezt the "D" by the same speech welcoming the visitors, my and East was helpless.
mergin
announced that a cup would be Just as in the classic example esting figures in world history in sailors and marines,
presented by Mr. Ezra Abraham of this situation mentioned in the the first 20 years of this century. first trapped-literally smothered. Through the saga runs a strong East felt that his only chance and dramatic plot, with Beery as would be to trump low, hoping Villa, and with Fay Wray and
de Mille as the two This is the story of a young re- against hope that the declarer Katherine might be confused and, thinking most important women in his life,bellious convict who falls in love! Others in the notable cast in-with the daughter of the prison tramps had been led, play his
WOMANLIKE
She Was 106-But She Kept It A Secret
*VIVA VILLA”—STAR · ·
THEATRE
"ONE WAY TICKET"
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Individual placings: L/Cpl. Stevens,
short
ARMY AQUATIC to the club scoring the highest
SPORTS Inter-Company Half
jaggregate of points in the series
of three matches.
Mile Relay
.?
Mr. Shaftain also mentioned (a
pated recently when his partner, Mr. W. L. McKenzie, called seven Ace South, however, discarded clude Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook, guard, Faced with the prospect
freak hand in which he partici his losing diamond and won the Stuart Erwin, George E. Stone, of losing her when she goes to Joseph Schildkraut, Phillip Coo-college, the convict, played by
The East Lancashire Regiment spades over an opening bid by dealer of one heart. This was last trick with the trump Ace.
per, Frank Paglia and Henry B. Lloyd Nolan, conceals himself in
Inter-Company - Hal
doubled and resulted in grand Walthall Jack Conway directed. a trunk and makes good his held their
race at swimming texam excape. Discovering him thus and le unwilling to lose him, Peggy Con-Shamshuipo
yesterday under Blam being made with 150 hon- "MISS PACIFIC FLEET”..............
weather conditions, ours. He held these bonoars in klin, the prison official's daughter, favourable MAJESTIC THEATRE
leaves the school and the two rung Company winning first place spades with similar holdings in closely clubs, without a red card in his Joan Blondell and. Glenda Far-loff to be married. Responding to a with 34 points, being
the police followed by "A" who secured 36 hand. This is believed to be the rell, blonde beauties of the screen, nation-wide alarm
polita The other places were fin most outstanding freak hand ever Mrs. Christina Lawrence of again teamed as gay, gold diggers, launch a search for the two.
Replies were made by Mr. K. K Chelsea,
are in the Warner Bros. produc There is a dramatic turn in the ed by "D" (S) Coy (44 points), held in this Colony.
events which follow, which lends HQ Wing (45 points), and "Ch
Bounds, of the American Club, Hon "Miss Pacific Fleet"
the several of the film's Cay (66 points).
jand Mr. F. E. A. Remedios, of the Playing with them are those to two inimitable comedians, Hugh most intense and exciting mo
"The fndividual placings, with the Club de Recreio. Herbert and Allen Jenkins, with ments.
Others in the cast are Robert times, were as follows:--- Warren Hall, the famous radio singer, in the romantic role. The Middlemass, Nan Bryant, Thur te Taylor "47 Company 12 mins American Club 2,510, Kowloon ston Ball, George McKay and 55 4/5 sees; Pte. Lovack (6) Com CC1,910, Club de Becreio pany 13 mins 13 2/5 secs.; Pte. Halme picture is a gry" and "rollick comedy which also carrier aan Gloria Sher
bas
Oakley-crescent, died at the age of 106.
Like many more women she kept her age a secret except to the members of her family.
When she was 100 years old friends pressed her to inform the King and receive the castomary congratulation. But she declined.
The sences.
“A” Company 12 mins 50 2/5 secs -570 points.
were as follows