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BRIDGE NOTES
VIVE LA FRANCE !!
By Ely Culbertson
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
4-7 p. Chinese Programme 7-11 pim-European Programme. 7pm. Concert Programme. Orchestral-
TALMA ANCHORED IN KOWLOON BAY Aftermath Of The Typhoon
paired
It will be recalled that the ves-i sel took shelter at Junk Bay dur ing the typhoon and during gales of 131 miles per hour dragged her anchors and was carried through
The ss. Talma left the Kowloon Wharf yesterday morning after discharging all her cargo into the My immediate feeling when The following programme Will Kowloon Godowns. She is at pre- an opponent dashes my hopes be broadcast to-day from the Hong Sent anchored in Kowloon Bay with a brilliant coup is that it Kong Broadcasting Station ZBW. pending instructions from her virtually is robbery for one's on a wavelength of 355 metres owners as to where she will be re- opponents to play so well. This (845 K.Cs). reaction is as human as it is deplorable. But soon, I am glad to say, I can look at things with a less jaundiced eye. My bridge sense comes to the fore. and lets me sincerely admire matter the workmanship. no who was the craftsman.
The immediate cause of all this philosophising, if it is philosophy, is the following Song of the Fles (Moussorgsky) hand. played by Pierre Albar- Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone). ran. one of Europe's most bril-Flute Solo- liant players, during a recent His series of match games.
CHOOL opens on Monday, Sep Tn Undais e sent by rublis partner was Sophocle Venizelos;
tember 7th Examination for Auction New Students at 9.50 am
Prospectus,
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Overture to Opera "Die schone
Galathea (Suppe) Arthur Bodanzky and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera New York Violoncello Solo-
A La Guitare (Nelck)
Song-
emun Channel causing damage She to her rudder and keel was eventually anchored safely in Adolphe Frezin.Kowloon Bay after a very anxious!
time.
FOR SALE
DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
This, cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as barbor, plow, and altho,
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Madrigal (Caubert)
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Virtuoso String Quartet. Albarran is French. Venizelos! Viola Solo-
Londonderry Air (arr. Tertis) Thursday, the 27th August, 1936 Greek, and I am half Russian and half Scotch, these games had a decidedly international flavour.
on
at 11 o'clock a..
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(for account of the concerned) 1,115 Cases Dried Lichee.
8 Packages Lead Powder.
25 Packages Sandalwood.
1 Package Cassia.
85 Packages Medicine,
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51 Packages Black Pepper. 37 Packages Rattan.
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Auctioneers Hong Kong, 25th August, 1936. THE Undersigned have received THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC to sell by Publi
CO., LTD.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that
IT IS HEREBY NOTIF of One Dollar per Share has been de
clared for the six months ended 30th June, 1936, and will be pay- able on and after FRIDAY, 11th Dividend SEPTEMBER, 1936. Warrants may be obtained on ap- plication at the Company's Re- gistered Office, P. & O. Building.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES
Auction
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Monday, the 31st August, 1936, commencing at 11:00 am.
at No. 3 Humphreys Building, Kowloon
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE also
One Piano One Radio Set
East
The bidding: South West North
1H Dble Pass 1D. IS. Pass 4S. (final bid)
South's bids were shaded, but well justified by his excellent distribution.
Song-
Lional Tertix.
Bolero Les Filles de Cadiz
(Delibes)
Amelita Galli-Curei (Soprano).) Pianoforte Solo--
Danse Creole (Chaminade)
Song-
Parted (Tostil
Upa Bourne.
Richard Crooks (Tenor). 7.40 pm-Song Memories Eouquet of Spanish Songs
Sevillan Serenaders. There is a Tavern in the Town
(Traditional) Harold Williams and the B.B.C.
Welsh Memories
Male Choru
The Maestros.
8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Wen- ther Report and announcements.
8.03 p.m.-Two Songs by Hilde- gazde.
1. I believe in Miracles.
2. Listen to the German Band. 8.10 p.m. From the Studio.
Jazz Piano Mediey by Pomping Vila. Programme.
1. Ain't Misbehavin'.
The Trail of the Lonesome
9.
Pize.
3.
Liza.
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Koomburn.
5.
Rose Room.
8. p.m.-De Groot and his Or-
I sat West and was decidedly chestra. tempted to double the final con- Selection of Chopin Melodies.
(arr. De Groot). tract, but restrained myself
with the conviction that the Der Kaspec (De Groot). hand must be of a "freakish" Chanson Bohemienne (Boldi). On a Dreamy Summer Night nature.
(Krome). The club king was my open-The Gypsy Princess--Selection
the ing lead. When I saw
(Kalman). dummy I was both disappoint-Under the Roofs of Paris (Moretti). ed and relieved. Disappointed 8.50 pm Two numbers by Sir
On View from Sunday, the 30th in that it looked like a tough Harry Lauder, Pa
Terms: Cash on Delivery
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Hong Kong, 25th August, 1936.
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Agents, Hong Kong. 30th July, 1936.
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Auction
Monday, the 31st August. 1936, commencing at 5.15 pm
at their Sales Room,
4 Duddell Street A Fine Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS Terms: Cash on Delivery, On View from Saturday, |29th August, 1936.
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pennies.
job to defeat the contract; re- lieved that I hadn't walked into
redouble.
I Of course,
9 pan-News and announcements couldn't realise that with from London South's none-too-robust four 9.20 p.m.-"Clarinet Concerto No. card trump suit he had a tor- 1" (Weber) played by the Garde Re-
publicaine Band of France.
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27-A land measure
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tuous road to follow. After
9.30 p. From the Stadio. A Recital by Valerie Morris, the club king 1 shifted to the king of diamonds. South won LRAM. (Pianoforte) and Violet the ace and ruffed a diamond | McGowen, LRA.M. (Soprano).
Programme. with a low trump in dummy.
1 Pianoforte Solo- When I followed with the six
Devotion. Schumann Liszt to this trick, South "placed 2 Songs me with the Q 10 remainder.
Still as the Night... Bohm. My first overcall, and opening Obstination. Fontenailles.
L'Heure Exquise lead, evidence of at least three! clubs, together with the count 3. Pianoforte Solo- of four diamonds in my hand, Rhapsodie (Op. 79, No. 2) the satisfied Albarran that I had, at most, one spade, and since he desperately needed entries to his own hand, and also since the percentages favoured the 5 play, he finessed the nine of,
10 p-BIG BEN from London. trumps on the next lead from
Viennese Waltzes. dummy. When it held he ruff-Tres Jolie-Waltz (Waldteafe!). led another diamond with the Dreams on the Ocean-Waltz
king of spades, while East dis-
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Songs-
Wiegenlied Mattinats Serenade Pianoforte Solo-
Marche Grotesque
(Gang1). Blue Danube (Strauss).
carded a heart. A second Vienna Blood (Strauss). trump lead was won by his ten
Brahms.
Kumperdinck. Leoncavallo. Strauss.
Sinding.
10.15 pm-Cinema Organ Music
spot And then he made the Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin) really brilliant play of the hand.
Quentin M MacLean.
He led a low diamond and, when Take a Chance-Selection.
I played the queen, he allowed Broadway Thru' a KeyboleSelection
me to hold the trick!
East discarded his last heart,
but I now was helpless. If I
Terance Casey. į
.10.30 p.m.-Dance Music 11 pm CLOSE DOWN.
led the ace of clubs, dummy proceed as before. If I led the would ruff, declarer return to ace of hearts South would raff} his own hand by trumping aland lead his good diamonds, heart, pick up
East West's last allowing
to trump. spade, and win the balance of Dummy's last trump is used to the tricks with two good dia-ruff a club, and South's last monds and the queen of clubs. club is discarded on the king If I underled the club South of hearts.
would let it ride to his queen, Actually I led the jack of ruff his last club in dummy, and hearts, dummy played the king,
NO MORE
Prickly Heat
Thanks to the use of
ATRIDOL SOAP
Bast ruffed, and South over- ruffed. South then cashed two diamonds and trumped a club, conceding the last trick tol West.
Note what happens if South trumps that fourth round of diamonds. East overtrumps, returns the jack of clubs, and the two club: tricks set the hand immediately. Albarran's. play of this hand was as fine as I ever have seen, and I don't want to see many like it in the future, at least not from the 'opponents" side of the table.
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