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LADY of the TROPICS
FILM: "Clouds over Europe."
STARS: Ralph Richardson, Laur-
ence Olivier,
YERDICT:
bright mantier,
Melodramt in thet
-KING'S
The real star of this film is Ralph Richardson's umbrella. It crops up periodically to impede or hasten the netlon and is involved in most of the numerous altuations,
The story is frank metodrania with bearded Nazi spies, death-rays and missing planes laid nut liberally. Laurence Olivier, the nominal star, is only the romantic Interest around which Ralph Richardson as a seemn- indy dull Intelligence officer and Valerie Habson his reporter sister wrap a diverting comedy.
The film follows the farce-murder stories of the American school with an English twist. It 14 first-rate entertainment.
Guide To
The Shows
TO-DAY
KING'S: “Clouds over Europe." QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
"Lady of the Troples,” ORIENTAL: "Jamaica Inn."
"British Intel-
MAJESTIC:
ligence."
TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
"Lady of the Tropics."'
ORIENTAL: "Amazing
Williams
Mr.
MAJESTIC; "Grapes of Wrath," KING'S: "Turnabout."
BRIDGE
"SIX OR SEVEN?"
Here is another hand, sub- mitted by a correspondent. which is typical of many which are correctly bid into a slam, but which the Declarer often fails to make through bad trump management,
The contract was "Six Spadės" by South, and the
opening lead was the 6 of Diamonds by West:-
خوب میان این تجمع
10, 8, 6, 4
A, K, Q. 10, 7
OA, K, J, 5
4
W
'10. 3. A
E
3.
A. N. J. 1
K. 10, 9, 4, 2
the
In actual play, South failed to make his contract, presumably by bringt so elated at Anding Queen of Trumps right for him that he drew three rounds before realising that he needed two of the four in his own hand for ruffing, However, in the subsequent dis- cussion, an onlooker casually re- marked that "Seven Spades" could be made against the opening lead of the U of Diamonds. Try it, and If you agree or if you don't--the solution follows hereunder;--
West North
East Bouth
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◇ "
2
• A
3
◆ 1.
• 4
4K
4.
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♥
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V7
• J
7
OJ 04
07
14
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0
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2.
10
10
45
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The last three tricks will then be won by the set-up Q 10 of Hearts and Kof Diamonds in Duramy.
This question of trump manage- ment is one which well repayy a ittle study. In the above solution you will see that South provides for all except the worst possible adverse distribution of Hearts ond Diamonds, subject always to the Diamond Gnesse being right.
Can you get "Six Spades" with- out making seven against best do- fence?
FILM: "Tyraabout."
STAR: Carole Landis, John Hub- bord, Adolphe Menjou,
VERDICT: Neat adaptation of Thorne Smith's farce.
the This gay little Alm follows Thorne Smith story as closely us Wil Hays, the Lord Chancellor and the burning point of celluloid permit.
Remember how Mr. Ram, the elderly Egyptian idol grows tired of the young couple's bickering and switches their bodies?
Carole Landis is the girl who sud- denly finds herself in a man's body, John Hubbard the husband who finds himself a woman—and about to be- come a mother,
fis unorthodox behaviour 215 21 cigar-smoking young natron gives the Bin some of its best moments.
"GONE WITH THE WIND"
"Gone With the Wind" will pro- bably be released in Hongkong next month. This film, in which Vivian Leigh, Clarke Cable, and Leslie Howard star, has been one of the biggest successes of the year. It has Just completed a run of 43 days in Shanghai.
STAMPS
MT.
FUJI
Japan has issued many stamps picturing the beauli- ful Mount Fuji, sacred moun- tain of Japan.
The new 20 sen stamp portrays a striking view of Mount Fuji. At the top of the stamp is the im- perint chrysanthemum and below is shown a branch of Japanese cherry blossoms.
The colour of this slamp Is pale blue and white, which brings out the beauty of both mountain and blossoms. The designers of the stamp are Masaru Telzo Kasort.
Afghanistan-Two
Hedy Lamarr and Ro-
bert Tay- lor are the lovers of "Lady of the Tropies."
Flim: "Lady of the Tropics." Stars: Robert Taylor. Hedy.
Lamarr.
Verdict: Nickel-plated glamour.
-Queen's & Alhambra.
ROBERT TAYLOR and Hedy RO
Lamarr are the stars and Saigon the setting of "Lady of the Tropics." It drapes an esesntially thread-bare plot in large quantities of expensive- ly-created glamour.
Mr. Taylor appears as a play- boy who steps off a friend's yacht and almost at once walls into the arms of a lovely, half-caste. She is aching to leave and settle in Parts as the chle Frenchwoman she certainly looks, but her beauty is such that Saigon is loth, to let her go.
At least a very influential man is loth to let her go, and even marriage to the handsome Ameri- tan falls to remove the obstacles. Only a sudden death does that.
There is no use pretending that -any-of-the-characters-in-"Lady-of- the Tropics" are convincing, but it has enough technical excellenes almost to make one forget the tow- dry nature of the plot.
goud
Mc. Taylor, radiating health and magnificently handsome as ever. strolls through it all with
charm, at the Engers lovingly over the smouth beauty of Miss Lamarr,
easy
camera
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4,
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Kimura and
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6.
Merced Lake?
values
7. Sylt?
8.
The first telegraph Ine.
in the United States?
9.
A Rocky Mountain can- nry?
new
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France-Two semi-postal issues have appeared, the surtax from which will go towards War Relle! funds. The 40c, plus 00c. (brown). a French soldier against a shows a landsempie svith the outline of the Strasburg Cathedral in the back- Kround. The 1 fr. plus 600.
Morocenn Innd- blue), shows a scape, in the right foreground of which sits n soldier of the Foreign Legion.
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Monaco-A set of fifteen values has made its appearance, cach bearing a surtax and the words "Red Cross." The designs are six In number and include the cathe- dral, St Nicholus Square, the Palace Gate, a view of the coun- try, the Castle, and a view of the Harbour.
Paraguay-A "Homenaje a la Universidad" (Homage to llic Uni- versity) sot of stomps has
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10. Micronesia?
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BOOKS
A Brilliant
wit
ISS ROSE MACAULAY.
M has never written more
brilliantly than in "And No Man's Wit" (Collins, Bs. Gd.). She has something of Mr. Shaw's genius for the dialogue of ideas-the dialogue of clashing points of view, often comical.
It is to a Shavian altuation that she introduces us, indeed. Dr. Kate Marlowe, militant Liberal English- woman, travels France Spain In search of her son, who fought in the International Brigade and had been heard of since. She not takes with her the son's dance, her daughter, who is a novel- addict, another son and a Com- munist chauffeur; and before long they find themselves the guests of a Spanish marquis, who lod been a friend of her lost son's at Ox- ford, though he was vehemently opposed to his Left optalons.
The marquis's household, how- ever, is not unanimously Fran- coite. Every Right point of view. --Carlist, Monarchist and Falun- gist--has champion in it; and there is a Frenchmun to act us philosophic commentator.
Miss Macaulay gives the conver- sation of her characters the vigour of action that makes it running stream of entertainment.
She has what the novel-reading girl in her story looked for in novels the art that takes life. adventure, love, hate, revolutions, murders, people, conversations, jokes, and moulds them into nent, lovely, dazzling pink shape like sherry trifle stuck with vil- incnds."
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I fancy, however, the brain-work in Miss Macaulay's novel might have been too much for the girl. For, with all her laughter at human beings, and their narrow ideals, Miss Macaulay has written Lnk that is both profoundly intelligent ond *fundamentally merious.
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"And No Man's Wit" is a re- markable series of flashlights on the age in which we live.
The Later Yeats
VEN those who prefer the
to the later Yeats will and "Let ters on Poctry, from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley" (Oxford University
Press
Bs. 6d.) a book of extraordinary fuselnation.
There was never a poet more preoccupied with his urt than Yeats. ind though he admired come bad poetry and hated came Hood poetry his opinions always
n
By Robert
-Lynd-
have the weight of a great and original personality behind them.
Not that some of his comments are not shocking; as when he speaks of "Wilfrid Owen, whom I consider unworthy of the poets corner of a werkly newspaper." Owen, he declared. "is all blood, dirt and sucked sugar-stick."
DUTET
"Listen will you quit that doggone breathing?"
Poets, it is clear, are not always the best critics.
Humour
OLD
MAN" (Con
"Mt
stable, 78. Od.). Mr. Damon Runyon's new book, is a collection of sage and humorous commentaries and ancedotes on all sorts of things. He begins, oddly rough, with an appreciation of the 23rd Psalm. Bankers, nuns, snobs, and doclora are among the other subjects.
Cricketer
How refreshing it will be
just now to have a new boolt of
cricket reminiscences, "Tours and Tests" (RTS. (s.), by so lively an expert on the game -as-Mr-Rennel:-Furnes!--Here-we- are taken delightfully from the village green to the tense atmo- sphere of the Test Malch. A book that gives a holiday to the imagina- tion.
It Has Been Said of Judgment—
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.-Southey.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities which he at- tributes to mankind.-Shenstone.
Human nature is so constituted that all sec and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.-Terence.
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with the judgment of charity.-J. Mason.
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.-Johnson.
Men's judgments are a parcel of their fortunes; and things outward do draw the inward quality after them.Shakespeare, In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.--Thomas a Kempis.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing: othera judge us by what we have done.-Longfellow.
Geographical Oddities
Some years ago the inte Dr. David Starr Jordan, one of the world's greatest lethyologists, was called upon to explain a my- stery among the fishes of Yellowstone National Park. Certain species of trout indigenous to waters of the Pacific slope had been found in streams in the park flowing to the Atlantic down the east slope of the continental divide.
Dr. Jordan cleared this mystery by finding a marshy moun- tain meadow on the continental divide, in the park, which has two outlets-one to the Pacific through the Snake and Columbia / Rivers, and the other to the Atlantic through tributaries of the Yellowstone River. Small fishes could easily make the migra tion over the continental divide from one watershed to the other,
It remained, however, for Lawis R. Freeman, well-known writer and explorer, to discover, in 1924, the world's only small lake known to have an outlet to three pecans. He found it' high up on the continental divido of British Columbia, a lake little bigger than a pond, discharging its overflow through three outlets to the Pacific, to the Arctic, and to the Atlan- tle...
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