6-13
DONALD DUCK
AND HAVE THE MOVIN' MEN HERE AT SEVEN A.M. SHARP OR Y DON'T GET PAID,
UNDERSTAND? I GOTTA BE 7 OUTTA THIS HOUSE BY EIGHT
OR PAY ANOTHER
DAY'S RENT!
Cope this, Wake Chanty Batman
CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
How
JOSEPHINE CULBERTSO
The Discard Came Too Soon
EXTRAORDINARY length in a After the opening lead declarer suit in one opponent's hand, with should have seen that not only his consequent shortness in the other, is contract but an extra trick, ns-well, responsible for an incalculable num-were virtually "on ice." He should ber of defeated contracts. A large have laid down the nee of trumps to proportion of such cases, however, make certain that all the adverse can be guarded against by correct trumps were not in one hand, care- technique on
the decinrer's part. fully preserving dummy's deuce of To-day's hand illustrates how much trumps as a communication card to difference a little care makes.
his own hand. With both
both opponents folloving, the king then should be
after which played,
dinmond queen could be led through in per- If West, should cover,
South dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
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West opened the diamond king and,
after seeing the dummy, switched to the spade king. Declarer won and, in a frenzy to set up a eard on which to discard dummy's only losing spade, laid down the dia-
queen
for the ruling-finesse West's marked ace. West all right,
but
dummy's deuce overruffed by East's three-spot, a spade came back, and another diamond was overruffed with the heart queen. Finally, de- clarer. had to lose the club ace for the fifth losing trick and a 500 point penalty.
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the
the heart deuce would provide entry
for the hand
to the closed
of
on
the cashing the Jack and ten of diamonds, which dummy would 'discard a spade and a club. Normal play of the club suit then would insure two tricks in the suit. (If West ducked on the lead of South's singleton, duminy would win, and a ruff of the low club woulti establish the ace).
Instead of
North-South
1,140 points.
losing 500 points, should have earned
To-morrow's Hand
North dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
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SYNOPSIS: Dulcy Ward (Aun Sothern),
chose "heart is where her brain should be", is al- waps trying to people-and things
ssing
up. On the dock
July 25, 1941.
By Walt Disney
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The Misadventures of a Beautiful Blonde With a Passion to "Help" People
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DULCY
Adapted by
RANDALL M. WHITE
From the stage success by
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
and
"Dat Gordon," Dulcy pouted, "it's time so for you to come back”.
"I'm not, Mr Forbes, Dill answered.
here," Duley began-and the big tired business man trembled. "We start the day with a plunge 1 the lake. 11's icy cold--but you'll love it! Then breakfast and after- wards tennis, golf, badminton, horseback riding → just every- thing?"
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Reason Why
U.S.A. Should Interfere.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuter).—Mr
Sumner Welles'
statement on Japan's aggression is regarded here as indicating clearly that if the Japanese occupation of Indo-China is pro- ceeded with, American action in the economic sphere is very likely.
even
The failure of Vichy to offer even token resistance or protest is a handicap to. such action, according to some ob-: servers, who feel that Vichy is You see the
"I'm sure, Miss Ward," Mr Forbes ventured, "that's a splen- did progranume for you younger people but, personally, I'm afraid all I want to do is sit down some-, where and relax.
doctors tell me -"
"Oh, Mr Forbes," Duley bubbled, "the doctors are always making incuntains out of molchills. Why, exercise and good fresh air are the best tonics in the world."
WITH EACH PASSING MO-
WMENT Brother Dit was
becoming more and more certain that here was another of Tulcy's schemes that was going to back- Bret
Little Support For Fakir Of Ipi
SIMLA, July 24 (Reuter).-The
always ready to oppose the situation in Waziristan continues to British as in Syria but will fight offences against Government troops be relatively quiet though sporadie no one else no matter how pro-are voked.
The red,
Fakir of Ipi, who is now at If, therefore, two sovereign Kharra with about ten followers, id sales like Japan and France make continuing his appeals to the various an agreement. appears difficult for tribes
assistance in his hostile outsiders to intervene. But one of activities.
the most important sections of Mr. It is understood that appeals to Welles' statement dealt with this very Bakkarkhel and Janikhel Wuzirs problem, clearly, indicating that the have gone unheeded. belief is held by the United Staten Government that Indo-China Is a
Henry, the "poor lost soul" whom k country unable to resist agres=|
had
Dulcy afraid
rescued from the Parole Board, had not yet achley- ed the smoothiness of the thorough- Ly
butler whom he had re- English don't
placed, but he was loyal-and he had a good
strong pair of arms. Gordon Daly, sitting idly in a small boat with his precious motor model between his knees, could stand it no longer.
"But worry. I'll tell Dlucy to drive very carefully."
That on her MARC CONNELLY
second try Dulcy slid in to
per- feet landing, was somewhat rc- assuring.
where her brother Bill (Dan Dal- ley, Jr.) has to meet Angela Forbes (Lynn Carver) the girl he'd like to
to marry if her father (Roland Young) would let him, she meets Gordon Daly (Jan Hunter) who is there to pick Chinese orphan,
up "Sneezy" (Donald ifute) that he's
at adout. Dulcy plans
to
party-at the Ward lodge to help Gordon sell an acroplane motor he's invented and makes Bili invite his future family-in-law be- cause C. Roger Forbes, Angela's- father, is head of Forbes Aircraft.
Chapter Threa
THE GRIZZLED AT- on the
TTENDANT
village boat dock peered again through his binoculars. This time his body, stiffened and he looked more closely. Then
"Welcome to Lake Opowatapono- mie, she called out. "So glad you. could come!"
Angela came in for a bit of special attention.
"And Angela," she said. "You're lovely. Thank goodness you're you. Bill's always had such dreadful taste in girls up to now!"
"You'll take it easy, won't you, Miss
Ward Mr Forbes said ner- vously as the party and their lug- gage were being loaded into the boat.
"Don't worry, Mr Forbes-just sit back and relax," replied Dulcy. Bill's instructions were a threat- ening command. "Drive 'slowly, do you understand-slowly," he whis pered. "My future wife, father-in- Inw, and mother-in-law are in this boat."
As the boat started out, at a pleasant pace, there was every in-
"For the last time." he thun- dered, "I'm ordering you to go back to the house. I tell you Miss Ward's forgotten us!"
Henry had been rowing him Ground in circles within
a little hidden cove for
hours. There
might
have been a physi- cal encounter between the two men had not a "Yoo-hoo, Gordon," un- mistakably in Dulcy's voice, saved the stuntlon. Little Misa Fix-it them in her pulled up beside speedboat.
you realise this monkey's been rowing me around for hours?” Gordon complained angrily.
סנדיי
Duley was hurt. "But, Gordon," she pouted, "It was the only way to keep Mr Forbes from seeing you and the motor before the stage was set. It's time now for you to come
back,"
Gordon and his motor had been transferred to the speedboat. Henry had
jockeyed the rowboat around
~he crossed deliberately to adication that Mr-Ferbes-request-nd was about to lie her tow line.
small booth, reached in, and pulled a
sudden cord. A blast broke. loose from A mighty airhorn.
C. Roger Forbes, who had finally been induced to sit down after what he consider-
ed an interminable wait since his arrival on the train from New York, leapt up as though he had been shot from a can-
non,
the
"What
devil's the idea?" he shouted.
"Dulcy Ward's coming- and I want to give everyone on the lake an even chance,” the attendant, answered calm- ly.
By this time the naked eyo could distinguish a speedboat zig-zagging across the lake at
tremendous rate. Bill Ward, hovering in the back- ground with Mrs Forbes and Angela, saw his madcap sister was driving, and had Gordon Daly's little Sneezy at her side.
The airhorn squawked again and again. A middle-aged man, fishing over the side of his boat, hastily reeled in his line as his companion grab- bed the cars. A launch, heading out from shore, changed its mind, did a hair- pin turn, and headed in again.. Even n brood of ducklings, swimming contentedly with their mother, ducked under the surface and disappeared.
DULCY, MIRACULOUS- THING in her path.
LY, MISSED EVERY- As sho narrowly avolded cutting the landing dock in two and zoomed out in the lake again, Mr Forbes gulped to Bill: "Is that .. is that your sia- tor? Isn't there дпу other way we can get to your lodge? I... I don't care much for speedboats !"
and Bill's command had had their effect upon the driver.
"Isn't this lovely?" exclaimed Dulcy and Mr Forbes replied: "It's 4 charming spot" even though he didn't lock enough at ense to indicate that he meant it.
"OH
<H, THERE'S MR LEACH," said Duley as she pointed ahead to a solemn, saturnine man lying in a canoe tapping intently on a portable typewriter propped up In his lop." "You must have heard of Vincent Leach-one of our most brilliant playwrights. He's a surrealist-absolutely no one un- hin. *You simply must
derstands meet him."
Just then they dtut
Little Sneezy, bored by the slow pace at which they were return- ing, while no one was looking -reached down and pulled the throttle on the dash all the way Out
The boat had been levelled on Mr Lench and his canoe. Dulcy might have turned out, at a more Ielsurely speed, but there was no time now. She did nonage to avold cutting him in two as her craft sprang Buddenly forward- but the wash as she passed tumbled canoe over and Mr Leach, his typewriter, and reams of manu- script were scattered into the
the
lake.
It was the horrified Mr Forbes who saw the playwright come to the surface dazed and sputtering. "Miss Ward!" he shouted. "That
in the ring at the stern. Slowly a low hum above become distinguish- oble as the roar of an aeroplane motor. Soon the plane hove in sight, swooping and diving crazily. One sharp glide brought it so close that its construction features could be observed.
"Isn't that a land plone?" Dulcy asked.
"It sure is," answered Gordon wide-eyed" and It's landing in
n
This would appear to give America such rights to action as accrue to anyone willing to stay the hand of bully, especially after the bully has so repeatedly and clearly announced/ an offcial desire to see the Pacific Ocean status quo maintained,
Endangering U.S. Sources
Mr Welles' belief that Japan is secking bases for allocks further afield and his frank statement that, the Japanese appear to be endanger- Ing American national defence sup- piles are seen here as preliminaries to economic pressure if Japan carrles out the Decupation of Indo-China.
The fact that he spoke in the name of Britain and the Netherlands East Indies
as well
as the United States on the subject of their total lack of territorial ambitions in Indo-China has aroused hopes here that some parallel measures will be undertaken by the three natiors together t Japan's thrents end in action.
Talk And Action
a
In the past, there has been notable tendency on the part of Japan to think that Americs always talks but never acts. But it is felt here that
the Increasing Armness of American statements of policy on the Far East cannot but end in action if Japan persists in "making changes by duress."
Soviet Capital Safe Till End Of August
A Neutral Prophesy
STOCKHOLM, July 24 (Reuter), "If the slow rate of the German advance continues, Hitler may not
the water. Go after him, Dulcy-get to Moscow before the end of over there around the point."
.
[ENRY had been looking up
Hat the sky with rest of
them. He was still fiddling with the tow line and the ring at the stern of the speedboat. Dulcy, in response to Gordon's stepped
There
on the gas.
edly were in the mind of
August," writes tho "Handels Tidning" to-day, quoting statements made by the Germans.
Much of Russia would then remain
be conquered, addo the paper.
this "poor lost soul" previous ten days.
safety
of
his
thoughts of the cell as he froze frantically to the stern of the speedboat and became a spread-eagled link between his flying companions ahead and the rowboat which he felt he had to drag with his feet to save himself from
drowning! Gordon saw Henry's predicament. Stop!" hre
yelled and Dulcy to look back. "Henry, let go! You're slowing us up" alie said. Always obliging, Henry did. When he finally bobbed back to the surface of the lake he sput- tered: "1.
I can't swim and they had to take time to fish him
Dhe plane was half submerged man Leach. he's in the water, when they reached it but the pilot
..he's drowning?"
Duley picked him up under pro-
test,
"Half my next play was in that boat, he fumed, as he growled onto the narrow deck at the stern. "Well, thank Heaven, it wasn't the whole
play,"
consoled the amazing Dulcy. Anyway, maybe It was Fate
maybe the play would have been a terrible
"You've made me feel a whole lot better," Leach hissed through his teeth. It was sheer c coincidence that at that very moment. Dulcy stepped on the gas quite suddenly and another wild leap of the bont Bent the playwright back into the lako to join his conoe and wait for more reasonablo rescuers. !.
FORBES found the lodge Man entirely lovely place where. the peace and quiet of Nature might well have mended his tattered nerves if Nature, unaided, had been given the chanco.
"I've laid out a complete sched- ula for every minute of your stay
whom they found balancing him- self gingerly on one of the wings was remarkably calm and unconcerned. Ho pulled himself Into the speedboat quite casually anti only shrugged his shoulders when the plane sank completely out of sight.
"What happened motor trou- ble?" asked Dulcy.
"It's all frightfully embarrass- Ing" this new gift from the sky responded airily us ko sloshed, a Almy silk hankerchief from one of his water-logged pockets. "The truth of the matter is I completely forget I was in my land plane. Isn't that silly?"
"Permit me to introduce. my- self," he continued. "I'm Schuyler Van Dyke,"
Not...not the Schuyler Van Eyke?" was Duley's amazing re- sponso. "I'm Dulcy Ward.
Woll be delighted to have you as our guest at the lodge over there,"
See what Mr Forbes found in the way of`peace and quiet in the west instalment;
news-
According to German statements, the rate of progress of the German advance during the last 20 days is only half that achieved in
the Confusing Announcement News of the operations is con- fusing
but. perhaps the situation is also confusing. Propagandists, says the_newspaper, announce the arrival of German mechanised troops at support troops is necessary before a certain place, but consolidation by capture can be claimed by the oment communique while the Russians be- hind the advance German hold up the support troops.
troops
Kiev Still Held For instance, Kiev was probably reached by some armoured units when this was announced by the Germans, Afterwards larger Ger- man units, probably with much loss, forced their way to Kiev which may encircled now. Although the encirclement of Kiev was announced a week ago, it is not yet in Germon hands.
be
Similarly the
promised glant German sweep from south and north against Leningrad has not materialis- ed, probably because the Russian de- fence is not so disorganised as the Germans 50ggest.
Ukraine Unprofitable Even when the Germans have taken Kiev, they will be merely on the edge of the Ukrainian granary. Until they possess Charkov and its regions, the Germans are hardly from the resources of the Ukraine likely to derive any real benefit
and they are a long way yet from Charkov.
Murder
Suspected
The body of a Chinese male nged
35 was found this morning by Ser- geant Allon of the Police behind the Kowloon godown.
The man's hands were tied behind his back and rope was tightly-led around his neck.
Murder is suspected.
SHE'S NOT HERSELF
AND HE'S TWO OTHER.
GUYS!
BRIAN AHERNE
KAY FRANCIS
The MAN WHO LOST
HIMSELF
with
HENRY STEPHENSON
S.Z. SAKALL
NILS ASTHER SARAH PADDEN DOROTHY TREE
NEXT CHANGE LEE THEATRE
Based on the novel
by H. Davoro Staepoole Associato Producer: Ben Horsh Directed by Edward Ludwig Produced by
Lawrence W. Fox, Jr. 'A UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
Fellowship
of
The
Bellows
JUNE
SCORE 470