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NOTES SUPPLIED BY
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Jean Harlow was required to be
come a nuvice in twe professions that
next
to
1
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
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ZBW BROADCASTS
CHINESE & EUROPEAN
PROGRAMMES
An important announcement,
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were entirely new to her during the filming of "Three Wise Girls", the The following land is an inter Columbia picture coming to the esting example of constructive Queen's Theatre on Thursday: Wie bidding. As has been previously The carly scenes of
local Girls"
explained, in the constructive one Miss Harlow as present gruall town girl
who jerks sodan in Rover one system of contract bid-broadcasting authorities have been drug store. She was called upon ding the third constructive bid working on the scheme to provide be proficient in the art of should be considered forcing, while pean and Chinese listeners, and separate programmes for Euro- elaborate sundaes, Ice cream sedas and other Juscious concoctions. the fourth constructive bid defl-within the next aix months it will *1 MIRZAPORE Having never viewed a soda fountain from the soda
jerker's side, Jean had nitely states that the side has be brought into effect. to take lessons. A professional dis- agreed to go game. penser was hired to teach her how
After to create the delicacies. few hours
the instruction, star could make chocolate frappes and Lovers Delights with the best fountain at- tendants in the business. Later. Miss an Harlow gets a job as model in
A exclusive Fifth Avenue shop. though the platinum-haired star had
she seen many mannekins, entirely familiar with the well-known peacock strat" used in showing gowns to best. advantage. So Will- ium Beaudine, the director. hired two expert mannekine 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, Mae Clark, Walter Byron, Marie Prevost, Natalie Moorhead, and
Pres. Monroe Apr. 15. Arman Kaliz are among Live players
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The ZBW transmitter, which, at present, is housed in temporary quarters at Kowloon, will be remov ed to its permanent quarters near the Kowloon Football Club grounds, next to the new offices of the CARTHAGE Shing Mun Dam Commission. The t*SOUDAN new station building is almost completed, and the masts" will be NALDERA
KAISAR-1-HIND erected within a few weeks.
In order to provide continuous Carge anıy programmes 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 between two bida no trump or re-adjusted, is now being install one club. He holds the tenace posi-ed in the new quarters, and as completed, tion in spades and also clubs. How soon as the work is ever, due to the ace and one. dia- will take over the present ZBW mond, he elected to bid one club.
programmes.
The new transmitter will then West passed and North re-be dismantled, and. after minor De Milesponded with one heart. This is the adjustments have been carried out,
it will be installed with the" old"
transmitter.
famous This is how it second constructive bid and as
very
few
od for the heroine of "signed
is a one over one bid-that is, a suit bid of one overkalling part ner's suit bid of one--it is also a forcing bid.
Է.
East passed. There have been two constructive bids. Shall South now go to the no trump or shall
he seek additional information.?
J
As soon as the work of installa- tion is completed, the new trans- mitter will be used to provide European programmes, while the quarter-kilowatt transmitter will be utilised exclusively for Chinese
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Kay Johnson, who plays ap minent role in "American Madness," Columbia's dramatic production showing at the Theatre, was dynamite to Cecil B. De Mille; and she made one great explosion in his eyes when he saw her playing in "The Silver Cord," Result it inded her right in the lead of
18 De Mille went to the happened:
see "The theatre one evening to Silver Cord." For two acts hic eyes never left Kay Johnson's face. When the curtain went down at the end of the stond act he murmured in a
contented voice,
"I've
found "her" "Who?" inquired his startled led companion. The lead for Dyna-
was the
Losing no mite,'
reply.
scrawled time, Mr. De Mille
While I do not favour' the lines a eard, summoned asher
An and sent the message round to Kay bidding of three card suits as a thrilled general practice, there are times Johnson. She WAS when she received the card on which when it must be used to make a was written, "Some to see me to-ennstructive bid. Therefore I would
It was morrow-Cecil B. De Mille."
was recommend in this hand that South two days later that Kay was reply with a bid of one spade.
NALDERA TALNA This is another one over one and after a week's work she and her name on the dotted line at a long forcing bid, and in addition, it is
BURDWAN term. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract. the third constructive bid. Thers
It is probable that the present KAINAR-I-HIND 12,000 18th May. Kay Johnson is a native of New
is no question but that South wave-length of 556 r.
.ces will be Tork, and is of English and Scotch would prefer the contract to be retained for the European pro
MANTUA 111,000 1st June.
ancestry.
Her father, anated architect, designed the famous Wool-hearts rather than no tramp worth building in New York City, North holds a good five card heart grammes, another wave-length be 1Cargo only...
ing provided for the Chinese pro- sult.
grammes. If interference is caus- His partner cannot pass elthered 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 musica! savages who should be constructive bid. To respond with scrap the 355 metre wave-length. A re-adjustment of programmeY civilised. by a compulsary course of two hearts would be making Baca, Mozart, Wagner, and other sign-off bid, therefore North elect will be made by the Broadcasting
This great com
composers.
auggested ed to make the fourth constructive Committee before the new scheme remedy leaves lovers of syncapation bid and overealled the bid of one comes into effect, in order to pro-
and they will welcome "Say
and spade with a bid of two diamonds. vide full-time broadcasting for it with Music"
Payne with Jack'
and
both Chinese and European listen This is a fourth constructive biders. his hand, which will open at the Central to-morrow. Jack Raymond and definitely states that the part- Extra studio amplifying appara- directed the picture, the plan of which is not simply the presentation nership has elected to carry the tus has already been ordered from hand to game. It is a game force England, and the present Broad- of the band but the narration of a very human drama, linking the just the same 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 delested "jazz" in all its forms, three bid. with a great syncopated production built upon the slid foundation of one of his own aiza.
"Say it with Music"
Masters of rhythm and syncopation
"A Bill of Divorcement" ..
if
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Consideration is also being giv-
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South now responds with two no trump would be inviting a alam, en to the possibilities of install- FIRST CLASS FARE TO SYDNEY, £78 RETURN and he is not interested in a stam ing 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 bettering the summer months.
One of the biggest bug-bears in 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 sive partner an opportunity to radio in Hongkong is the exces- daughter, a stranger:
ther, and the experiment is de- entrance of two new mer, younger, show whether or not he holds a sive, humidity during the hot wea-
promising release from the five card heart suit. TOLLIC, mprisonment that held
signed not only to ameliorate the both
The After the bid of two no trump conditions under which the stai sucrifice? And what was it at be? North could not allow the hand to work, but to provide a maximum de- This dramatic tangle of criss-crossed be played at ne trump but shouldgree of technical efficiency from
the basic. plot respond with three hearts, show the plant. lives and loves praviivorcement" the for "A Bill of RKO-Radio picture in which Johny a good five card heart suit. Barrymore and all-star supporting This is all the information that
make Who to
women. Who
.
cart appear on the serece at the Sonth needs to curry the contract LONDON SUNSHINE. Central Theatre for the last time to- day. The picture, from Clemence four Dane's famous stage play, directed by George Cukor.
"Street Scene."
of hourls as a matter was fact, he would be justified in aldding five hearts. However, even after a bid of five hearts, North should pass, as his partner may be expecting to find strength in diamonds.
Samuel Goldwyn's screen version of "Street Scene," the Elmer Rice prize drama which ran two solid years in New York, is the vehicle in which Miss Estelle Taylor's charader change takes place. And it is under the able ere of King's Vidor, one of the of the
peers
The Play.
ÉQUABLE WEATHER CONTINUES IN METROPOLIS
London, April. 8. The exceptional spell of warm, Bunny weather which has been al- most unbroken in Southera Eng- land since March 21 continues. London enjoyed 10.4 hours of sun- re-shine yesterday, with a maximum temperature of 69 degrees Fahren-
East would open the king of dia- mosds. Declarer wins in dummy with the ace and immediately was the eight of diamonds, allow. at the King's Theatre, is that of Mrs. East to win with the ten. Maurrant, the mother whose tragic
•Street Miss Taylor's role in
Scene" which is now showing
East will probably return a club
heit.
Summer time begins to-night and will encourage people to take
fe 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 ace, then lead the shine, for the weather forecast: valves. Elmer Rice in the depth af jack of spades and win with the states that the anti-cyclone which wisdom leaves it to the audience green. He should now lead his covers the British Isles shows no to justify or condemn, but he presents
his
the events preceding and following Jack, of diamonds. If East refuses definite signs of dispersing.
to cover it should be trumped in British Wirelcas. with tragedy
# profound With equal impartiality and dummy with the nine of hearte. pity. poignancy he shows the blight which
A club is returned from dummy,
the daughter and her boyish laver, and trumped, and then another
played by Sylvia Sidney and William diamond is led and trumped in HONG KONG, Collier, Jr.
:
**Robbers* Roost,"
dummy "with the jack of hearts..
All the declarer must lose is a heart rick, and his contract of Maureen O'Bullivan, the Irish lassive odd would be made. "
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