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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936
BRIDGE NOTES
Unusual Squeeze
Play
By Ely Culbertson.
Amusements
Cinema Notes From The Theatres
"TILL WE MEET “AGAIN”—– QUEEN'S THEATRE
HE SOLD MATCHES IN LONDON ONCE
Bat He Left $500,000 In His Will
Once upon a time Charles Atkins used to sell matches in the streets of London-
Then, he got married and emi- grated to Adelaide, in Australia:
At first be was a hawker. .Then he built up a wholesale business. Then he bought an hotel.
Now he has died-and he has left £500,000."
When a generous correspon~
The heartaches of lovers, tom dent supplies me with excellent material for one of these daily spart by their devotion to their articles, why shouldn't I grasp respective countries, are drasti- the opportunity for a short cally brought to the screen in this vacation? I do, forthwith! picture, which shows two happy lo-
"Dear Mr. Culbertson:
vers, stars of the theatre in London, "This is the most unusual Herbert Marshall and his Vien- squeeze play I ever made or nese sweetheart, Gertrude Mic- remember. It was a squeeze hael, whose wedding plans are and a throw-in, but it was not wrecked by the declaration of war. cellent supporting cast are an end-play because it was a Marshall, as a loyal Baglishman, Holt, Jessie Ralph. Ted Healy, middle-play on the seventh joins his colours and Miss Mi- Shirley Ross, Margaret Irving trick. And, instead of having jchael, who, unknown to her sweet- Harold Huber and Al Shean. given up the four tricks I could heart, is a member of the German! HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY Astrologer and Palmist, from Bombay afford to lose, first, it happened Secret Service, places herself un-
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“ROAD GANG”—MAJESTIC THEATRE
der the orders of her commanding "Played last night with my officer.
Marshall is assigned to the Bri- wife against Mrs. R. L. Win-
This picture of raw, stark real- ham as West and Bill Muench tish Intelligence Service, and enim, said to bare the terrors - prî-
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,
The following“ programme
JAPAN'S STEADY PRESSURE
Bid For Australian
Trade
DIFFICULT DILEMMA ENCOUNTERED
Melbourne. Steady increase
of Japanese pressure for a more he broadcast to-day from the Hongligid and favourable trade agree Kong Broadcasting Station Z.R.Wment has forced Australis into a
un a wavelength of 355 metres. (8453). RELAT
difficult dilemma
Australis now enjoys a highly with OF DANCE MUSIC FROM}favourable trade balance
Japan which she is loath to lose. |Australia aho has obligations to Great Britain and the other Bri-
HONG KONG HOTEL DAVENTRY KELAY
programine.
1230-215-pz-European recorded tish Dominions which would be affected adversely “by any exten- 12:30 pm Barnabas, von Gery sive new concessions to Japan. and his Orchestia with Luciense]
And yet Australia recognises Boyer (Soprano).
1. pm-Iocal: Time Signal and that Japan has a good case Weather Report.
linore freedom to sell in Austra- 103 pm-Instrumental Variety lian markets. Every effort is be Items.
for
playing the role of East, theters Germany, disguised as a Get-isoners are subjected to in a penal Press, Local: Weather forecast time resolve the problem, but it is
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1.30 pm-Rester Press, Rugbying made by the Government to
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moving slowly, and carefully. Meanwhile Japanese pressure is increased and haste is demanded with threats of reprisais for fail- ure to comply.
1.40 px-Dance Music.. 235 pm-Close Down 4-7. pra-Chinese Programinė. 7-12 midnight European Pro- grammė.
Price Kept Firm Japan undoubtedly could, carry out these threats. It has been said that Japan cannot do with fout wool
But an appeal to her
man soldier. Miss Michael is also institution rar try grafting politi-and stationed in Germany, and when, dans, is set in the sombre, back accidentally, she meets her lover, ground of a farm conducted by a realises that her love for him is so county for convicts, and a mine great that she cannot betray him where incorrigible prisoners are Unconsciously, however, she shipped. In the former place the
7 pm-Light Opera and Musical gives him away to the German brutality is almost mediaeval, but Comedy. authorities, as an English spy.st the latter conditions. ате so Selection Then she forgets her loyalty to terrible. that inmates are
Merrie England (Edward German) her country, and risks death be either to go insane or die.
Vocal Gems-Monsieur Beavesire
(Messager) fore a firing squad to save him. There is a wealth of dynamic c. B. Cochran Medley
people to use other materials The way in which the sweet drama and fast action, with thrill Selection Wonder Bar
would "affect purchases enormou- hearts outwit the German agents upon thrill, including a convict's Music Comedy Gems
ly. The loss of Japanese competi- and make their successful escape strike and battle, with police 732 pm/A Belay from Daventry-tion in the Australian market D. J 10 9 2
*Monologue Melody". Syncopat would bring prices down, for the across the border into a happier guards, who use gas bombs and CQ 10 2
ed piano music by John Ridley. world of peace and love furnishes Tommy guns, in the bowels of the "My wife (she's the top, or the unforgettably thrilling cliniaz earth; a running gun-fight be Orchestra.
2.45 pm The Columbia Concert sustained keenness North. hand) bid a diamond:Lionel Atwill, Rod LaRocque and tween police cars and a car in Love in Idleness (Macbeth) Bill said a spade; I said two no Frank Reicher head the excellent which a courict is desing for his trump; my favourite wife said supporting cast
life; and the blasting of a mine she'd have another of the same,
hmnel with dynarzite. not too sweet.
The picture has AND ALHAMBRA THEATRE" large and talented cast, which is headed by Donald Woods. Kay "San Francisco" promises to be Linaker, Carlyle Moore, Jr. Henry one of the most talked-about pic-O'Neill and Joseph King.
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"SAN FRANCISCO”—KING'S
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WASULİY
ORIENTAL THEATRE
of Japanese buyers in Australia has kept the market firm for years.
Indiane Sweetheart (Fiansen)
Added to this, if Japan-were to Nexpolitan Melodies Medley
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Wea-weaken the market, Yorkshire ther Report and announcements. would probably not be benevolent. 8.03 pm Vanety Programme. Japan's partial 'withdrawal from Piand Solos-Melodies of the Month Australian sales would make this
No. 15-Len Green.
country more reliant on the Bri- tish market, and heavier supplies there would have an immediate depressing effect on prices.
Sou
The End begins
(The King Steps, Out”) Stars in my eyes.
Suggestions have brought threats of reprisals from Japan which cannot be taken lightly. Japan is in a position to make re- prisala. She has demonstrated her ability to make trade treaties in the Far East. --
Preference Wanted
"West led the spade 3,. if it matters, which it doesn't, and I let them keep it. I took the next and started diamonds. East eventually took the ace, and I took another spade, dis-tures in many, many months. carding a club, and ran di most popular screen stars for the
First, it teams three of the "SMALL TOWN GIEL
The King Steps Out") ·
Grace Moore (Soprano) monds, discarding a heart.
first time-Clark Gable, Jeanette
Band-Queen of Hearts-March “I still was prosperous
It has been only a handful of Songs
On the Beach at Bali Bali enough to afford to lose two MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. It
is a picture brimming with ro-years since Miss Gaynor herself, Fast was getting
I met my Waterloo- more tricks.
She:
Connie Boswell ready to foreclose when he disance, love, comedy, beautiful was a Hollywood "extra.”
rocketed to overnight fame in Instrumental-Aloha Beloved covered the New Deal wouldn't music and excitement.
Kanui Lulu The picture takes us into the "Seventh Heaven," and since has allow it. He had to give the
the become a beloved favourite wher-Vocal-Shoe Shine Boy
In the future she is likely to Government one of his good seething, mad excitement of
Rhythm saved the World spades or else his red 3 spot, in Barbary Coast when it was a by-ever motion pictures are shown
The Mills Brothers make even stronger efforts” to-es- It takes "Small Town Girl" is her first which case be'd be sold out in word around the world.
Vocal-America Calling
tablish a Japanese trade bloc. Her for Metro-Goldwyn-
The Carlyle Cousins intention is to gain preference for hearts. Or the same in clubs. us into aristocratic Nob Hill, into appearance
house, the Mayer. It is one of the company's Orchestra-Piccadilly" "Concert-17- So he turned in a spade and the old Tivoli opera
Japanese goods, and if four were rangement dummy led the ace and a low historic Palace Hotel and other more important photoplays.
Produced by Hunt Stromberg Hamorous Summalist Alphabetes, dealt to the Australian four-mill- included a severe blow would be heart, so East collected only the landmarks of the old San Fran- legal rate of interest. You mix ciso and to the earthquake that and directed by William Wellman, Instrumental-It's love again Medley ing industry. In recent years the
to the the picture boasts a cast that in
**The Keyboarders the next round of drinks and leveled a beautiful city metaphors.
ground 30 years ago, in a series cludes, besides Miss Gaynor and Song-Let's put some people to work! Far East has bought great quant- ties of Australian flour, through is of the most realistic disaster Taylor, Binnie "What kind of squeeze
("When Knights were bold" Stone, Andy Devine, Frank Craven Band-Rise and Shine Selection
Tack Buchanan Japanese agents that? It didn't much matter scenes ever filmed.
- Indeed, Australia faces Japan his and James Stewart. The screen what the opening lead was, or} Clark Gable offers one of
§ pan-News and amouncements in the Far East as a serious trade what anybody played, or when, greatest characterisations as play was written by John Lee from London. or which opponent got thrown Blackie Norton, owner of the most Mahin and Edith Fitzgerald from 9.20 pm A Relay of the Dance Competitor. Strendous efforts are
popular resort
the Coast, Ben Ames Williams! best-selling Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel being made to build up trade
Grill Room.
with the Dutch East Indies and "Yours,
Jeanette MacDonald is superb as novel
10 p-BIG BEN from London. China, and in both places Japan "Philip E. Barney, Tampa, (the country girl who starts her
12 midnight-CLOSE DOWN. is doing the same. Political com- Fla."
singing career on the Barbary
NOTE: There will be a Chinese replications in the Indies are consi-
corded programme
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Bames,
Lewis
Summer's Finest Sunday
There is, unfortunately, no Coast and rises to great operatic 13 HOURS RUN particular name for the "kind of heights, only to return ∙to the squeeze" referred to, but in any Coast because of the Man she loves. Spencer Tracy scores in an event, it was a good one.
Mr. Barney's breezy style unusual role, a8 a kindly priest probably requires clarifying for who chooses the wicked street for less-than-expert players.
his evangelistic work. In the ex- West opened the three of spades and declarer allowed
East's nine to hold, winning the last two diamonds. second round.
August 23 was
acclaimed all over England as the best Sunday of the summer,
Clapham and
from
2.E.K. on Frequency of 640 dered more vital than is generally docycle. from 8-10.30 pm realised, but at the moment trade
jalone-is-of-ouncern to Australia.
MAN OF PROPERTY GAOLED
He Stole Three Ice-Creams
Norman Brown, described as of
Australia's tariff policy has lost her trade in the past. She is try- ing to make sure it does not lose her more in the future. Sales of wheat to Japan have been enor He let go
mous. Japan now threatens to For the first time this year, The diamond one club but, in order to guard
give the trade to Canada, with whom she has composed her dif- ace was knocked out and, on clubs and hearts, bad to dis thousands of holiday-makers were
ferences temporarily. When Ar- the third round of spades, which card one of his precious, spades able to enjoy an uninterrupted day
(of sunshine followed, dummy discarded a as well. The ace and another club.. Four rounds of dia-heart threw him on lead. He
In the Channel Islands and Houndsdown, Totton, near Southentina and the United States re- monds were played, on the last cashed his remaining spade, but parts of the South Coast over ampton, was sent to prison for 14 turn to the export market they too of which South discarded a had to lead away from his club 13 hours sunshine were recorded days at Eastleigh last month for my capture come of the business club. East had great difficulty king into North and South Maximum temperature exceeded stealing three ice-cream bars, worth finding safe discards for the combined tenace.
70deg all over England and Wales a shilling from At Southend and Dawlish the ther- tricycle.
ONE RECIPE FOR LONGEVITY mometer reached 76deg.
Superintendent E. Pragnell said Bathers. were more numerous that Brown owned property "and man named Mahane Shri than ever before this season. On yet at night he behaves in a Maharaj has just died in many beaches sunbathing space strange manner and bicycles about Bhavangan State, India at the was filled to capacity. In some alone." He read a lits of previous age of 130. places there was moonlight bath-convictions for stealing and other) {ing at night
This Is Another Of
Those Fish Stories
Chase, Fred Gough, aged 48, of The story of an air-conscious face a huge "shovel-nose" shark, Brindley Village, Hednesford, was 20-foot shark that escaped three measuring, according to the fisher- bitten on his right hand by a husky fishermen by flying through men, at least 20 feet,
the air, clear over their boat,, was j The marauder of the depths ap- He lay undiscovered by the added to the fish folklore of the peared to resent their attentions, stream for about an hour. and Boston Fish Pier recently, for he lashed about vigorously, at- was later taken by a youth named. It happened while the schooner tempting to leave abruptly -and- Lloyd to a doctor in Hednes-Raymondé, which docked with a cimaitaneously for points south, fard, who conveyed him by car to large cargo of cod and haddock, east, north, west and directly be the Royal Hospital, Wolverhamp was off the Georges Bank, some low. The sturdy fishing, line held, ton. He was in a serious condi-250 miles east, of Boston Light, however. tion
and it is vouchsafed for by no lesa Suddenly, the shark chose a new The hospital authorities had no a fisherman than Capt. Carl Olson, direction and a new medium, and serum to treat the bite. After master of the Raymonde. ** W with a facility - which the three considerable difficulty à supply was One morning, it seems, three of fishermen -said:put; the “ daring sent by fast train from London the schooner's crew, Albion Muise, young man on the flying trapeze to Peter Dousette and Jack Shannon, shame, flew through the air, clear- POSTAL ORDERS MISSING"}were hauling, in trawis in a dory/{ing both the dory and himself of Suddenly they met with marked the line Free, he immediately met
>> Postal orders -to the value of resistance at the end of their line. about to keep engagements £540 disappeared from a sub-post All three toil strengthened where on the compass/ loffice in Brixton Hill, ~ London backs herved in co-operative ef- The fish, in other word
S.W., last month.
fort, and they hauled to the sub-laway.
|offences.""
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