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Stepping from her "Maizie” characterisation for the first time in some months, Ann Sothern in her new pic- ture, to be shown in Hongkong to-morrow, is seen as Dulcy, a wealthy girl with a heart of gold and a penchant for getting herself and everyone whom she contacts into the famous stage trouble. The picture is based on comedy of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly; this serjal adaptation is by Randall M. White.
CHAPTER FIVE
LOOM ONE COULD
GLOLICE ONE COULD
was the principal item on the menu for breakfast next morn ing at the Ward lodge.
True to his promise of the night before, C. Roger Forbes came downstairs looking for boat and train schedules and ordering his wife and daughter to' pack.
Bill and Angela in one com- bination, and Gordon and his motor in another, were a lot off than when they worse
their cherished
about it before we are married she pulled out- chair for the sight- she absent- -but he won't be able to do ly molified visitor,
mindedly placed Bili's letter, which she still enrried in her hand, on the anything about it."
table. Mr Forbes picked up the letter, boldly and properly addressed. to bin, before his breakfast served.
race.
Angela wrote the note. Bill found Duley on the ter- he "Where's Henry?" asked. "I've something impor- tant I want him to do for me." "Henry isn't here," was his sister's entirely non-co-opera- tive answer.
The time was short. Bill hurried Dulcy over to a secluded corner and whispered: "Then I want you to do me a favour."
"No more favour for anyone
started, as regards Mr Forbes I've reformed," was Little Miss Fix-it's sorrowful reply. approval of
Bill had heard that before. He plans.
Duley ought to have been in sincerely wished it were true
but he was absolutely certain complete despair but
it wasn't. word wasn't Failure was a
knew little about. That
she
"See this letter," Bill whis-
Hongkong Telegraph.she had no coherent, or logical pered as he pushed a plainly-
Monday, July 28, 1941.
WILN
Daley had no reasonable argument. why he shouldn't read and he did. He had surprised Angels with and was waiting in her room when his discovery of her elopement plans Hi came in, bag in hand, ready for the final takeoff.
"Mr Ward,"
angrily, he said "When I necepied your hospitally this week-end I didn't suspect you'd try to make off with my daughter!"
"Pardon me, sir,” replied Bull with
underwent equal anger. "You not only suspect- edit-I think you expected it. But
expectations your be thanked for that. .She certainly change--and I dare say Dulcy can deserves thanks for giving you that note-and f'in going to see that she gets it!"
I was the mnad Van Dyke who was shed. dried the tears ley plans to save what seemed to be addressed envelope into his sis ding because of the "bawling out" brother had given "her. He'd a hopeless situation didn't mean ter's unwilling hands. "Give it her
one been wandering around a bit alm
more exciting lessly ever since that something wouldn't "turn to Mr Forbes--but not up" it almost generally did. second before he gets on the events had engrossed the attention of
his week-end "Inamorata. för better or for worse.
boat to go to the train!" Gordon announced his depar-
"Why ture for the city as soon as he under the provisions of the Telecommuni- could locate Sneezy, who seemed
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to have strayed away where. He told Dulcy he was sure "Forbes would rather fly his planes with rubber bands" than with a motor that had his
name on it.
OF
what's in it?"
Dulcy asked, hanging back.
"Oh, for the love of Pete, you don't have to know," Bill an- swered. "But it has some secret plans for a new kind of . amphibian. And, if you value your life, don't you mess up this job!"
Dulcy thought it strange that Brother Bill kissed her hurried- ty and said goodbye.
and
*
LET US BE READY
TIRED THE time has come when
BILL Hongkong must get rid of its
DULCY'S FUMBLING casual and sceptical attitude to
EFFORTS in his and Angela's political and military events in
behalf, decided to try a plan of the Far East, and to assess calmly and dispassionately the his own. He found the girl he
MR FORBES GRUP
FLY REFUSED the possible developments of the was determined to marry alone
inviting breakfast Dulcy of future and their relation to the in the library hiding from her Colony, Britain and her Em- father's latest storm.
He had "Listen, darling." he said fered to serve him from the pire, including Hongkong, have,
across the lake for a common with the United quickly. "This looks like our buffet on the terrace. States taken steps during the swan song unless we do some phoned week-end which renounce the thing about it. We've got to do launch to pick him and his fami- impatiently. He previous policy of appeasement it now-this minute or else!" ly and he was waiting nerv
Reluctantly Angels agreed to ously vis-a-vis Japan. The meaning
a dish of behind these actions is clear: brave her father's wrath and weakened, however, when he Japan must cease her aggres-elope, within the hour, with the lifted the cover off
scrambled eggs. sive designs in the Pacific, or young man of her choice.
"Sit down, please, and I'll fix some take the consequences.
"We'll leave your father a We in Hongkong welcome note," Bill said. "He'll know for you right away," said Duley. that decision. Many,, in fact, feel that it has been too-long- There will be no the conse- shrinking from quences, whatever they may be. Both the local authorities and the Imperial Government can feel assured that the whole- hearted loyalty and willing sup- port of the community will be given under any circumstances.
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BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Skill Takes A Holiday
As
"Now, now," he said. "Don't cry. People just don't understand you. I know how it is-they don't under- stand me either."
day,"
WHAT HAS
GONE
BEFORE
Dulcy Ward (Ann Sothern), whose "heart is where her brain should be," is always trying to help people-aud messing things C. Roger Forbes (Ronald Young) is guest of honour at o house party Duley has ar- ranged.
Forbes and Angelo (lite Burke and Lynn
Carver)
are with falm. Dulcy's brother' BIU (Dan Dalley, Jr.) can't Forbes objections to overcome
hin marrying Angela Gordon Daly (Ian Hunter), whom Dulcy
has met by accident and with whom she has fallen in love, present at Dulcy's request to try sell an aeroplane motor he has invented to
to Forbes who owns Aircraft. A mildly de- stranger who craspice a plane in the lake near The he lodge has
has joined the party; represents himself as Schuyler Van Dyke (Reginald Cardiner),
fluancier. Forbes is leaving
after a serica of mishaps which has enraged him, He's seen Gordon's motor (with a vital part inissing) and has refused to buy it.
"Oh, er-say ten thousand dollars pending a liter contract on a twelve percent royalty basis," con- tinned Van Dyke expansively.
HAD THEY BEEN LESS IN-
TERESTED in the exciting business deal they were consummat- ing the trio in the boathouse might have observed an interesting inci- dent on the dock Just outside the
door.
A launch pulled up and a man with a travelling case prepared to get out. It was Homer Patterson.
What makes you so sure I'R And my brother here?" he inquired of the boatman who had brought him.
"You said he was a loony-bug. didn't you?" the countryman re- turned.
"Well, er-cr," Patterson stammer-
"Then, if he ain't at this place
"G-gosh! You're the first person that's sald a nice word to me to-
replied
Dulcy gratefully, ed in embarrassment. "Everything's gone wrong!"
"Tell me about it. You can con- I'm gonna be very surprised," was fde in me
we understand each the cryptic response.
back entrance other,"
urged Van Dykte-and no "You say the
uttered in more was ever
Patterson speech
'Or embarrass anyone." remarked as he stepped ahore and comforting tones, for Mr Van Dyke this way? I don't want to sturtle was always courtesy personified."
he
"Well, it all started over Gordon's the boat pulled away.
"Hey! Hey! Come back here?" molor," Daley began. "It's an aero-
though! Mr Forbes ning down from the lodge. He was plane motors on practically shouted Mr Forbes as he came run-
marooned waiting and anything. I
it bulmething hop still would buy pened, and now he's not Interested." thought the launch was the one he
had summoned to rescue him. "Forbes is crazy. Just like the "The aeroplane manufacturer was rest of them," said Van Dyke with the first person Dulcy met when she conviction, "Tell me, do you think came out of the boathouse with Gor-
- don
and Van Dyke. She'd have "Good! Why. It's worth millions!" shouted her glad tidings to the cook,
exclaimed-and her heart the gardener, or the stable boy it. this motor a good proposition?"
anyone of them had been the arst." "Oh, Mr Forbes! Guess what!" she cried as she grabbed hold of him and blocked his way.
Dulcy
"Please, Miss Ward," he growled.
both "I'm
Van Dyke was silent for à mo- ment. He gazed thoughtfully out was speaking.
over the lake.
"You know," he said. "This may have been a lucky week-end for
Van Dyke's going to back considering adding large scale acro of us lucky teen tid to been plane manufacturing to my other Gordon's molor," she continued ex-
the interests. Perhaps
motor is citedly. exactly what--1-need-Would it be possible to look at it?"
me through." "et in no mood for guessing games.
"Yes, sir. here's a check for a sixty-day option," brake-in-Gor don who was riding the same high, fast-moving cloud,
FORDON had just Anished The big shrewd business man's crating the motor for ship thinking apparatus did a sudden and ment back to New York when an complete somersault. He dropped WILS carrying, fairly excited Dulcy and Mr Van Dyke the bag ho
from
Gordon's the chock grabbed found him in the boathouse.
"Gordon, stop! Open the box!" then turned to Van Dyke,
"Have you seen the motor?" he exclaimed Duley.
"What for?" asked Gordon dully, asked incredulously. "Mr Van Dyke wants to see the motor
to back it," was amazing statement he heard.
The general hope, however, will be that the moves made by the United States and the Em-
well South might pire will be sufficient to doter
the assumption bridge writer likes to publish trump, Japan from doing anything that No buds in which vice, in the shape passed will make it necessary for the
and solid club sult. As to Northi's jump present economic sanctions to of atrocious bidding, is triumphant North was counting on a long and is all she claims it is I should be toons to the present day aeroplane
Yet, in the interests of truth
on
"Absolutely!" the pseudo financial Industrial wizard orated with the and
sweeping gestures. "In six months' will be obsolete. "As I was telling Miss Ward," time your planes have
motor is one of the greatest Van Dyke broke in, if the motor This
to give you willing
that
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action.
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AK 10 03 VK8
North dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
AAQ
A74 QAKQJ04
QB
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J102
09
K 1076 42
W E S
10 T8 AJDES
A97542
♡ Q3058 0852
The bidding:
North
ANT
BNT
East South Pass
B 4V Puss
Weat
Pas Pass
Pau Pass
· Pass®
OV
West opened his singleton diamond -not that any other lead would have result. Dummy won, changed the the heart ace was cashed, and a low heart was led toward the closed hand. On East's follow-sult play of the heart ten, declarer made the correct first of ducking, (This was the Kucas of hurdle that declarer had to clear in have the play, East might easily held the K-10-2 of hearts and made the
same low play on the second West had to win with his heart king, and no return could de
Actually, he shift- feat the contract.
to find words for this action!
lead.)
From the physical point of view it has long been unenviable, as- suming that developments at any time should take a grave turn. But our defences against an invader are good and are. aided by strategical advantages. But
within the thero are,
dangerous elements, largely made possible through the freedom with which people have been able to move a both in and out of the place, duced in a rubber game by tive fate in this deal. First, the bid- Those clements-fifth columnists players whose long experience should ding had been ridiculous; second, the make them considerably above aver- trumps had to lie marvellously for of the worst type-have shown age. In this case, however, skill was the declarer, and third, the spade their bands on more than one at a discount and luck at a tremen-nesse had to succeed. occasion lately in a way that dous premium. The final contract
was nothing short of atrocious. suggests they have plenty of
No great fault can be found with confidence in themselves and their organisation. The task of the opening two notrump bid, de the comparative weakness in spuite rounding up and eliminating clubs, nor can the three heart res these people is a heavy one, but sponse be severely censured, al- it has to be tackled, and with though, since South obviously in all the vigour at the Colony's com mand. The general publle can help
ed to clubs, but declarer ruffed East's ace, drew the last trump, and then took the spade finesse. This also Was
necessary since declarer could discard only three spades on dum- my's diamonds.
scarcely need say that the de- fenders felt, and with justification, This bidding was actually pro- that they had been abandoned by
tended to bid his hand twico, necessary, it is strange that he did
a great deal: firstly by eschewing not first mention his higher ranking their "maskce" attitude; secondly by for art tremendous bit of luck
The first keeping their ears and eyes open to aubversive words and deeds; thirdly found by the North-South pair was
to
tint. North's weakness, clubs, hap- by reporting suspicious persons the
Is no Ume for pened to match South's vold. After authorities. This complacency rather
precautions all, North never mentioned dia- imands, hence from South's point of no which prove unnecessary than
view, it was more likely Lint North precautions at all. If, in the final
had. greater strength in clube than analysis, Hongkong is to be drawn into an armed conflet, let us be as in diamonds. Thus when North, hav prepared as possible to meet the emergency,
To-morrow's Hand
North dealer, Rubber bridge. Neither alde vulnerable..
49849 ♡8 Ó AJ 1082
AQ7
AD
J10 8G
07543 J10
N WE S
VAKQ
75
408063
AKJ10072 90.
How should East-West defend
Ing heard his partner's-three heart against Bouth's contract of five takeout, persisted with three no-spades doubled?
a fale option business. I predlet, Mr Forbes, that
day you will be a broken man!”
Don't miss the final chapter to-morrow.
"What do you mean--a fair option price?" Gordon managed to inquire while slowly recovering from shock.
GRIN AND
BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Is that all it says?—just that you'ro graduated?
there any further Instructions???
Aren't