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Jean Harlow was required to be
come a novice la two professions that
to
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An important announcement. materially affecting the future of The following hand is an inter- broadcasting in Hongkong, was made by the Post-master General.) the eating example of constructive Mir. M. J. Breen, in an interview
Miss Hee Wise bidding." As has been previously on Saturday."
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were entirely new to her during the Alming of "Three Wise Girls", the Columbia pictare cominsday next. Queen's Theatre on The early scenes of
the Unostentatiously,
local Girls" Giri
As a explained, in the constructive one present small town girl who jerks sodas in a over one system of contract bid-broadcasting authorities have been drug store. She was called upon be proficient in the art of making ding the third constructive bid working on the scheme to provide sodas should be considered forcing, while pean and Chinese listeners, and separate programmes for Euro- elaborate sundaes, ice cream and other
luscious
concoctions, the fourth constructive bid defi within the next six months it will Having never viewed a seda fountain
the side has be brought into effect. from the soda jerker's side, Jean had nitely states that
The ZBIV transmitter, which, at to take lessons. A professional disagreed to go game.
present, is housed in temporary penser was hired to teach her how to create the delicacies. After a
quarters at Kowloon; will be remior- few hours' instruction, the star could
ed to its permanent quarters, near make chocolate frappes and Lovers
the Kowloon Football Club grounds, Delights with the best fountain
next to the
new offices of the CARTHAGE tendanta in the business.
Shing Mun Dam Commission. The SOUDAN new station building is almost completed, and the masts will be erected within a few weeks.
In order to provide continuous programes while the scheme is being put into effect, the old quar- ter-kilowatt transmitter, which served as the main ZBW transmit- ter (from the Peak) until the two- kilowatt transmitter was installed! twelve months ago, will be utilis- ed to provide both European and Chinese programmes
The old transmitter, which has South, the dealer, has a choice been thoroughly overhauled and Kay Johnson, who plays are between two bids--a ao trump ored in the new quarters, and as re-adjusted. is now being install- minent role in American Madness," one club. He holds the tenace posi- Columbia's dramatic production tion in spades and also clubs. How soon as the work is completed,
exclusive Fifth Avenue shop. though the
Kowns to
aired star hnd {
the was not seca many entirely familiar with the well-known "peacock strut" used in showing
best advantage. So Will iany Beaudine, the director, hired two expert manneking to instruct Miss Harlow how to act like a a professional model. The two girls also appears in the modiste's shop sequences of the picture. Mac Clark, Walter Byron, Marie Prevest, Natalie Mosthead, and
Pres. Monroe Apr. 15. Arman Kaliz are among the players
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in the cast of "Three Wise Girls". "American" Madness"
showing at the Theatre, was dynamite,
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The Bidding
he seek additional information?
programmes.
to Cecil B. De Mille; and she made ever, due to the ace and one dia- will take over the present ZBW
programmes. one great explosion in his eyes when mond, he elected to bid one club.
The new transmitter will then' he saw her playing in "The Silver
West passed and North rebe dismantled, and after minor Cord, Result it landed her right in the
lead of "Dynamite," De Mille's sponded with one heart. This is the adjustments have been carried out. famous production. This is how it second constructive bid and as it will be installed with the old happened: De Mille went to the is a one over one bid-that is, a transmitter: theatre one evening to see The suit bid of one overcalling part! As soon as the work of installa- Silver Cord. For two acts his eyes ner's suit bid of one--it is also ation is completed, the new trans- never left Kay Johnson's face. When forcing bid..
mitter will be used to provide at the end of the curtain went murmured in 4 the second act he
East passed. There have been European programmes, while the very epniented voice, found two constructive bids. Shall South quarter-kilowatt transmitter will
inquired companion. The lead for Dyna- now go to the no trump or shall be utilised exclusively for Chinese mite
reply. Losing was the time, Mr. De Mille scrawled a lines on a card. suntmoned an usher and sent the thessage round to Kay Jehnson.
thrilled Very when she received the card on which ten. "Some to see me te was written, morrow Cecil B. De Mille." I was only two days later that Kay was signed for the heroine of
Dynam and after a week's work she signed This is another one over one her name
on the dotted line of a longforcing bid, and in addition, it is term Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Kay Johnson is native of Newthe third constructive bid. There York, and is of English and Scotch is
would prefer the contract to he no question but that South a noted father, ancestry. Her architect, designed the famous Wool-hearts rather than no trump if worth building in New York City. North holds a good five card heart
She was
contract.
While I do not favour the bidding of three card suits as a general practice, there are times when it must be used to make constructive bid. Therefore I would recommend in this hand that South reply with a bid of one spade,
soit.
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TALMA programmes in September or Oc- tober.
It is probable that the present retained for the European pro- wave-length of 355 r. res will be tammes, another wave-length he- ing provided for the Chinese pro- grammes. If interference is caus- "Say it with Music" Masters.of rhythm and syncopation
His partner. cannot pass eithered between the two transmitters, are described by the high-brow as the one over one force or the third it may, however, be necessary to be constructive bid. To respond with scrap the 355 metre wave-length. musical avages who should
A re-adjustment of programmes civilised by a compulsary course of two hearts would be making a Bach, Mozart, Wagner, and other sign-off bid, therefore North cleet will be made by the Broadcasting
Thits Breat
composers.
muggesteded to make the fourth constructive Committee before the new scheme remedy leaves lovers of armoration bid and overealled the bid of one
comes into effect, in order to pro- and they will welcome
full-time broadcasting for it with Music" with Jack Payne and pace with a bid of two diamonds. vide
both Chinese and European listen- which will open at the This is a fourth constructive bid his band," Central to-morrow. Jack Raymond and definitely states that the part- Extra studio amplifying appara
plan of directed the picture, the which is not simply the presentation nership has elected to carry the tus has already been ordered from of the band but the narration of a hand to game. It is a game force England, and the present Broad- very human drama, linking the just the name as an original forecasting studio in the Gloucester fortunes of a down-and-out composer, ing two bid or original forcing Building will probably be extend- who detested "jazz" in all its forms, three bid. with a great yncopaled production built upon the solid foundation of one of his own airs.
"A Bit of Divorcement"
Etranger.
ers..
ed.
One of the biggest bug-bears in radio in Hongkong is the exces- sive humidity during the hot wea ther, and, the experiment is de- signed not only to ameliorate the conditions under which the staif work, but to provide a maximum de- grce of technical efficiency Trom the plant.
Consideration is also being giv- South now responds with two no trump would be inviting a slam, en to the possibilities of install- and he is not interested in a flaming air-conditioning apparatus in Two women, linked to one man by in this hand unless his partner has the studio, in order to dry it dur
some reserve strength. It is better ing the summer months. the ties of family, one, the wife, no longer in love with him; the other, the to bid two no trump in order to Then the give partner an opportunity to daughter, a entrance of two new men, younger, show whether or not he holds a
release from the five card heart salt." romantic, promising
held emotional imprisonment that hanth
the After the bid of two no trump women. Who make "sacrifice!
And what was it at be? North could not allow the hand to This dramatic tangle of criss-crossed be played at no trump but should lives and loves provides the basic plus respond with three hearts, show for Bill of Divorcement" the ing a good five card heart suit. RKO-Radio pieture in which Jolin Barrymore and all-star supporting This is all the information that
the screeni at the cast appear on Central Theatre for the last time to- South needs to carry the contract to four hearts-as a matter of fact, he would be justtified in bidding five hearts. However, even after a bid of five hearts, North should pass, as his partner may be expecting to and strength in diamonds.
Clemence
day. The picture, from Dane's famous stage play, was directed by George Cukor.""
"Street Scene," Samuel Goldwyn's screen version the Elmer ice of "Street Scene, prize drama which ran two solid years in New York, is the vehicle in which
The Play
Miss Estelle Taylor's character change i Eust would open the king of dia-
takes place. And it is under the able
of King's Vidor, one of the peers mosds. Declarer wins in dummy
LONDON SUNSHINE.
EQUABLE WEATHER "CONTINUES IN METROPOLIS
London, April. 8. The exceptional spell of warm, sunny weather which has been al- most unbroken in Southern Eng- land since March 21 continues. London enjoyed 10.4 hours of sun-
the directorial ranke, that it is ac- with the ace and immediately re-phine yesterday, with a maximum complished. Miss Taylor's rule in turns the eight of diamonds, allow-temperature of 69 degrees Fahren-
beit. "Street Scene" which now showing
he
queen.
Summer time begins. to-night at the King's Theatre, is that of Mrs.ing East to win with the ten.
East will probably return a club and will encourage people to take Maurrant, the mother whose tragic life forms the burden around which which declared should win in full advantage of the spring sun- The poignant and gripping drama re dummy with the nce, then lead the shine, for the weather forecast volves. Elmer Rice In the
the deptli of jack of spades and win with the states that the anti-cyclone which his wisdom leaves it to the audience
He should now lead his covefa the British Isles shows no to justify or concerns and following fack of diamonds. If East refuses definite. Signs of dispersing.
profound to cover it should be trumped in British Wireless. tragedy pity. With equal impartiality and dummy with the nine of hearts. poignancy he shows the blight which the mother's tragedy casts upon the daughter and her boyish lover, played by Sylvia Sidney and Willlam Collier, Jr.
her
with a
A club is returned from dummy, and trumped, and then another diamond in led and trumped in dummy with the jack of hearts. All the declarer must lose in a heart trick, and his contract of five odd would be made.
Eburne,
"Robbers' Roost," Maureen O'Sullivan, the Irish Jass who made her screen debut under the Fax Flims banner in "Song O My Heart" and who subsequently became be one of the most thrilling romances a film favourite with her work in of the season. Maude
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