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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1932.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
"SPIRIT OF FUN"
ROUND WORLD FLIERS
of the great merger which made the company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ho became associated with the picture distributing end of the business, as head of the International Depart- ront.
Accompanying Mr. Loow on the dash around the world to Mr. Joseph Rosthal, attorney, and Master in Chancery of the State of New
Jeracy.
DUE HERE SUNDAY Mr. Arthur Loew, first Vice-Pre- sident of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor and in charge of its international af- The oumination or strip play is fairs, is en route to Hongkong upon fairly common and almost every an extensive trip around the world. session of play will develop two In his dash from New York, the
During and over since his Uni- or three opportunities to execute famous motion picture producer is
voraity days, Mr. Rosthat has al Here is an interesting varia-utilising the fastest means possible ways been a very close friend of tion in which the declaror
to visit the M.G.M. offices in Aus- Mr. Loew's, and since his admission obliged to plan the elimination train, the Far East and South to the bar, this friendship has con from the very first triek, and Africa.
tinued. The co-pilot on the flight finally, having exhausted tho en-
Accompanied by Capt. James B. Captain James B. Dickson, who tries in dummy, cleverly forced Dickson, U.S. Air Corps Reserve,as been in the air for over 2.700 an opponent to complete ita execu- as co-pilot, and by Mr. Joseph hours and is one of America's ace
pilots. Capt. tion.
Dickson la just Rosthal, friend and prominent lawyer, Mr. Locw will arrive at Kaithirty-two years old, so that the Tak nerodrome on Sunday next in combined ages of all three engaged his speedy Lockheed Orion plane, on the flight does not equal a hun- dred ycare. Capt. Dickson is "The Spirit of Fun."
From Now. York, the party proud of the fact that he has landed travelled to Australia by the Mataon schedule in 400 cities in every State of the United States, and in liner Monterey, arriving in Sydney five Canadian provinces in 1929, at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday last.
when visiting all the members of mediately upon arrival they were the Board of National Association motored out to Mascot aerodrome, of Real Estate with Mr. H. Culver, where the "Spirit of Fun," pre- the then national president. It was viously shipped from the United during this trip that Hal Roach, States, was ready waiting for them. the famous motion picture producer, Within three hours of their arrival
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The Bidding. Miss Murdoch, in the South, opened with one spade which West doubled informatively, North hid two apades and Mins Mardoch car- fried the bidding to four,
The Play.
West opened the king of hearts | For Mie Mersch to win the first
trick with dummy's ace would be | fatal, for she must utilize that entry to complete elimination of the heart suit. Therefore she |passed up the first trick, but won the second when West continued with the queen of hearts.
She then returned dummy's lust heart at once, ruffing with the juck
of spades to avoid a possibility of an over-rat by West. She then led the age and king of spades, followed by a small club which West wisely refused to win.
Im-
in Sydney, the party were in Mel-purchased hie 'plane "The Spirit of bourne, the capital of Victoria, ar- Fun", and he engaged Dickson as
pilot.
riving there at 4 p.m.
Mr. Loew left Melbourne for Adelaide early yesterday morning. and according to schedule, will cross the Australian continent to Wyndham, vin Alice Springs, to day. From Wyndham the hop-off will be made across the Tasman Sen to Bima at 6 a.m. to-morrow, and from Bima the intrepid trio will speed up the Netherlands Alr Service route to Sourabaya and Batavia. Singapore will be reach ed on Thursday next, and from there the 'plane will proceed to Alor Star and Bangkok. With one stop page for re-fuelling.
purposes at Hanoi, Mr. Loew hopes to make the hop from Bangkok to Hongkong in one day, arriving here late on Sun- day afternoon.
Sunday in Hongkong. Sunday night will be spent in Hongkong, and next morning the Fun" will depart for "Spirit of Shanghai, where n stay of a week is anticipated. Leaving Shanghai on October 31, the plane will return to Hongkong, and will proceed to Bangkok, from where, by quick and stages, the fight to India South Africa will be continued.
This interfered with Miss Mur- doch's plan to eliminate the club suit from both dummy's and her own hand, for after winning with the king of clubs dummy had only
One of the motives for the round- one remaining spade entry and
the-world trip, in which Mr. Loew that would be required later for 1s engaged, is to officiate on or about the diamond finesse. However, November 15 at the opening of the Miss Murdoch could still demand Metro Theatre in Johannesburg, assistance from her opponents,
South Africa. The theatre will be She led small club from operated by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dummy, and of course West won Films Ltd. for the special pre- with the ace. Ile had only dia-sentation of M.G.M. productions. monds, and clubs remaining and The 'plane used by Mr. Loew on since a diamond lead would cost a the flight is owned by the Hal Roach trick, he had to return a club, Studios, and has a cruising speed thereby completing the elimina
of 180 miles per hour, with a top tion of that suit from dummy. speed of 220 miles per hour. Carry- Miss Murdoch trumped and led in five passengers and 156 gallons A small spade to dummy's queen. of petrol; the 'plane has a cruising She returned a small diamond, range of 1,200 milies. The "Spirit' finessing the nine and West was of Fun" has already made a tour of in the lead with the queen.
17,000 miles in South America, He must now lead either a club, visiting all the important capitale, permitting Miss Murdoch to dis- and has broken every existing nero- card a diamond, or olse lead a dia-plane speed record over every single mond directly into the acc-jnek flight made in the Southern con tenace. He conceded the remain-tinent of America: A flight of 1,760 ing three tricks and Miss Murdoch miles, was made in 9 hours 15 min. made her contract of four spades.utes, and the 'plane completed the Throughout the hand, she con-hop from Buenos Aires to Rio de stantly made use of the informa- Janeiro, a distance of 1,850 miles, tion gained from West's informa-in coven hours, 20 minutes. tory double, for that practically marked nm with all the outstand ing high cards,
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Two lots of Crown land were sold af the auction held at the P. W. D. office yesterday afternoon.
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The first comprised about 12,000 square feet, situated at North Point and was offered at the upset price of $21,000. Bidding was brisk, and the was eventually sold to Mr. Lee Iu-cheung, of Messrs. Lee lu-kee, Sanitary Engineers, for $23,000.
The Recond lot, of about 2,232 aquare feet, at Shek Shan, was bought at the upset price of $2,790, by Mcsere, Hazeland and Gonellá,
SALESMAN SAM
Barely thirty years old, Mr. Loew has not only had an interesting business career, but also a thorough grounding in, every aspect of the show businesa,
Interesting Career,
The young head of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer International De partment was born in New York on October 5, 1897, and immediately after graduating from college in 1918, onlisted with the U.S. Navy for the duration of the Great War. Achieving an enviable war record, he was discharged with the Armistice with the rank of Chief Machinist's Mato.
From the navy he went Im- mediately into the theatre business, beginning bla career as a booking agent in a theatro organisation founded by his father. At the time
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Capt. Dickson has been handling the plane for the past two years, and the present flight is the Reverest test on his reputation for flying to schedule. To arrive in Hongkong on Sunday, Capt. Dick- son will have to bent every record on the trip from Australia to Alor Star, and on the two trips from Australia to China.
The only previous flights made from the Southern continent to the Far East were thone by Capt. de Pinedo, the famous Italian Ace and by the R.A.F. Squadron.
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