THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10,
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
McKENNEY DUMBBELLS
ON BRIDGE
Lets Lead Hold To Make Contract
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY WHEN the bridge players of the nation assemble at the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach, Fin, for the winter session of the no- they wit And tlonal fournament, something there
that In quile unusual. The Cabana Sun Club-will have a special type of card table, constructed to hold the cards on the lable in spite of the brisk ocean breezes.
Today's hand is one that resulted in a lot of interesting discursion at Inst year's winter, national tourna-
be trump could ment. Three no made easily, but several North and South pairs found themselves in a difficult five-diamond contract.
West's opening lead of the king of spades held the first trick. If South had mnde the mistake of
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RECORDED MUSIC:
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ARTURO Toscanini and his NBC of a Ifandel dance movement, ondual
Symphony are back among current records after an absenco of some months, with an Inspired and inspiring performance of Mendels- zohn's Incidental music to "A Mid- (ЯСА Night's
Dream," Victor; four 12-inch.) It is the must extended excerpt from the score so
recorded, including the un famillur finale for solo soparno and women's chorus in addition to the most familiar overture, Intermezzo, and wedding nocturne, scherzo, march.
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with a now
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
UN Statistics Show British Export Rise
Lake Success, Feb. 9.-Britain was among the four countries which in 1948 "greatly surpassed" their prewar export figures, according to the latest issue of the United Nations' monthly bulletin of statistics.
The other three were Aus- The remaining fifteen countries the for which figures are shown have
levels of exporta considerably below, those of prewar years.
tralia, Switzerland and United States.
Mozart's early and Inconsequential symphonies, and an overture by the whose musie
There will be a skelets of d Frenchman, Mehul, was doomed to oblivion by Rossini's, building like a giant refrigerator
The designed by a lunatic, and if any (RCA Victor; four 12-inch.)
the one all performances
says it is not beautiful ho ruttering brilliance
Uncho's will be told that it de functional, Royal Philharmonic. Unhappily the austere, and hygienic. There wili music to the sort you enjoy hearing be another sketch of a
The tables in the bulletin showing Iding looking
the volume of foreign trado of 19 unce or twice and after that seldom ably dignified play again.
like a theatre. This will be re-
countries reflect the slowness of likely to claslı
recovery
of exports owing to the In this category also is an 'or- fected as being
in is dislocation of the war years and to power-station chestral sulie taken from Lecocq's
neighbourhood, By the time tho the present obstacles to international operetta, La Fillo
de Madame
is half finished someone trade. building is recorded by the New York will suggest that the north banke
Efrom a more
and convenient site conducting. (Columbia ishte f-completed the happy, energetic, and melodioun
will begin over again. all "Italian," also has been given a new 12-inch.) Lecoct was such a slavish
The
building will recording-by the Beston Symphony
Koussevitzky that has imitator of Offenbach you wouldn't be taken over, by the Board of and Serge
Cultural Welfare,
to house to recommend it in the be able to tell one from the other everything
of performance and recording. Offenbach hadn't done the rou-officials, and Whitehall Court will way
The tines much better.
bo tom down to make n new site (RCA Victor; three 12-inch.)
for the National Theatre. these of knowningmess spritely
baton- venerable masters of the
Koussevitzky-with and these standard scores, which they must have conducted hundreds of years, is an during their the timen A
engaging phenomenon.
Check Your Knowledge
Name the lowest point on the earth's surface.
Mendelssohn's fourth symphony, Tonic-Symphony
2. What is the meaning of Omar Toscanini Khayyam's fast name?
Beocham's New Offering
Sir Thomas Beecham has the same When did World War II start? durable enthusinan but his current album is of the "made" variety and
Entitled pointless.
"Music Seems
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taking this trick with dummy's are. his contract would have been de- fented. West continued with
queen of spades, which was won in dummy with the ace, declarer discarding a small club from his own hand.
6. Who wrote "Elesty in a Coun- from the 18th Century" it contains try Churchyard"?
an overture by Paisiello, a precursor of Mozart who was obscured by his muccessor, a Beecham arrangement
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ND GIRLS MAGAZINE Pixie O'Scowl Fixed Shoes.
-He Repaired Them for Crickets, Elephants- By MAX TRELL IZ NARF and Hanid, the shadow- Now the ace and king of dia- monds were cashed, and the king children with the furned-about and nce of clubs. A small club was names. heard the sound of hammer- ruffed by declarer with the jacking coming from deep down under of diamondd, and a small trump the Old Oak where the Pixies lived. led to dummy's ten-spot. On the
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in dummy high clubs clarer discarded two of his losing henria. After
heart conceding trick, he won the rest of the tricks, making his contract.
It South had made the mistake of taking the first trick with the ace of spades in dummy, it would have been Inpossible to establish the club suit without first allowing- East to get in the lead with the queen of clubs. East then would have switched to the jack of hearts, and this would have defeated the contract.
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"Band." went the haminer. "Bang- bang?" The next moment they heard
gruff voice saying: "Work, work, work! Shoes, shoes, shaca
I spend my time just fixing shoes, Sixes, dozens, ones and twos. Some neod heels and some neert soles,
And some have nothing left but holes!"
Kharf and anal glanced at each other. They thought they recognised the volce of Pixle O'Scowl. Then they lifted up a small flat stone at the foot of the Oak trunk and went down a long dark winding staircase to the Pixie workshop under the roots of the tree..
Sure
In Blue Overalls
Pixle enough they found O'Scowl, dressed in blue overalls and a work-cap, sitting at a wooden cobbler's bench, hammering nails in an old-shot. He looked up at them... Kloomily. Instead of greeting them. he said: "It's no use your standing there. I can't fix your shoes unill week after next Thursday. Good- bye."
"We didn't come to have our shoes fixed, Pixie O'Scowl!" Hatid ex plained hastily.
"We heard you hammering, and came down to watch you working." sald! Kunef.
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Hearing a nose in the wood, the two pals enter it, and at once meet their friend Rollo, the gipsy boy. "You're just the person we're looking for." calls Bill. "Rupert's wanting to know what happeni la smoke when it rites, and why it doesn't make the sky black, "We' saw your bonfire in the wood,' to we've come to ask you." Rollo smiles and stares at them. ."Hey, -not so fast,” he says. "My bonfire; did you as??' But we've only just come, and haven't made a fire yet. There's some mystery here 1 **
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RED RYDER
I'LL GET YOU NOW, RYDER!
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Pixia O'scowl fixed shoes.
Hindemith And Bartok
Twenty Years of Uproar
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US Alarm
At Slump
In Prices.
The
Columbia is marketing first AT a concert in the Conservatoire recordings of two contemporary Royal de Musique in Brussels, excursions in serious music con- Sprautz had just begun to conduct
Chicago, Feb. 9. World Symphony currently--Paul Hindemith's Quar- Dvorak's New tet in E-flat played by the Buda-when a kindly thought occurred to United States Government has pest String Quartet and Bela him. Turning to the audience, while ordered a complete investiga- Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra still waving his baton, he shouted, played by the Pittsburgh Symphony "Stop me if you've heard this one tion on the Chicago Board of Trade following wild fluctua- Strabismuă on
tions in the price of grains. under Frilz Reiner.
the Amazon (VII) and a general slump in com-
modity prices.
The quartet (three 12-Inch) is abstract, of course, but not at all remate. It has directness of
and solidness expression
of or- chitecture. Much more emotional
the concerto (Blx although its evocation of emotion hardly
could be called blatant. Both
12-Inch), A
quartet and concerto have the benevolent power of honest music which is to grow in your mind and heart. And both performances are attentive and loving; both recor dings are excellent.
(Tomorrow-Unusual Angles)
the
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creatures.
(From Blotteaux) BLEARY-EYED old Indian A offered to lead us by a secret trail to the mountain-cyrio of the we learned huacapl. From that the bird is a cross between a barn-owl and a parrot, and our gallant leader decided to decoy it by constructing a wooden model The of each of these Doctor's argurient is that, on seeing
and the owi
the parrot, buscapl will be uncertain which to make friends with since he is bil of both. He will hesitate, and that will be the moment lo clap a large butterfly net, over him. It will then be Mr. Rawlins's imitate his call, and so entice male, the notorious eng-layer. The call, no the Indian described it
of rapidly is
repeated a 'kind 2. The tent' maker (his father's hiccough, and the alarm note sounds trade), 3. Jenny Lind. 4. Six. 6. like a dried pea hitting a sheet of September 1, 1930, when Germany zinc. Armed with these facts wo invaded Poland, 0. Thomas Grey. started to climb Mt. Hiyasukas.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
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surface Is 1200 feet below sea level.
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They range from Hungary, whose export level is only 31 percent of 1937, to Poland, which in the first half of 1946 reached a figuro of 04 percent of its prewar level.
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Index numbers for sale prices in
months the closing
of 1048 shown for more than 30 countries. Of these, 19 countries show down- ward or stallonary tendencies, while 11 show upward tendencies.
It is clear that the strong upward pressure on the price level which beginning of was evident at the 1048 was greatly allayed in many countries towards the end of the year. Assoclated Press.
Caution Seen On Rubber
Market
The drop on the grain market
New York, D.-Number 1 contract has sent wheat prices below the rubber futures today closed 10 to 16 $2 a bushel level for the first time points higher on sales totalling 02 in two years, and wholesale food contracts. prices have dropped 22 cents during the past week,
Standard futures closed 10 points higher on sales totalling two con- tracts.
to
Tho market was steady from
close. bolstered by stability at London and Singapore, but activity was reduced in futures and physicals were dull.
Soya beans today fell the full 10-cent daily limit to $2.15, hog prices have been consistently falling and are now at their lowest level opening since wartime controls were lifted, and there is nervous fluctuation on other markets as tradera decide to stay on the sidelines unill the situa- tion stabiliscs.
Traders on both sides were cautious because of the convulsive The decline in the wholesale food neulon of other commodities,
Sellers were wary has carried it to its pecially grains. price index lowest level since October 8, 1940, about pressing, offerings because of the East and the prevailing discounts when controls were still in opera- the firmness of supplies from tian.
Conversely under synthetic prices. In Washington top administration huyers were hesitant because of the by domestic Agriculture officials are hastening to indifference shown
nofactories. farmers that there is
ussure reason to parle.
domestic
in Unfess the decline They say that Government price commodities is arrested, bearishly- supports wil quickly check the minded traders fear repercussions fall, but admit that unless prices on the purchasing power of recover soon the Government will cultural areas which would By STELLA have to pay out millions of dollars the sales of car tyres ote.
In support operations.
"Humphi Came down to watch BORN today, you need to cultivate
a little more positive aggres- seem to know how to get along
"Do as you please," grumbled Pixie O'Scowl. "Don't ask me any questions. I'm too busy."
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You have a love for children and
me working ch? That's no help.
siveness. By nature, you are an with them better than most adulla. P'll watch myself} Just go home.
make a fine executive. But you are the quiet, You would probably working."
professor a long teacher, takes But Knart and Hanid knew that reserved type who
with time
first impression and vocational adviser working to make Pixie O'Scowl always pretended to usually bores-from within rather older groups
in the be angrier
then he really was, than pushing from without. A twenties. they smiled and said they'd be glad
combination of
two char- to stay.
When it comes to marriage, you acteristics would probably speed up
one to arc
want
comfortable your progress toward success.
You have excellent--judgment;-n-homa You should be able to make earn o keen, native wit
ready it that by your ability to tongue. Being an optimist at heart comfortable living and your gift.
are usually able
ΟΠΙ to look for making everyone like you. An you the bright side of things no matter excellent host or hostess, you will how dark they may
at want to entertain extensively. You make an exceptionally first. You have the ability to make should money, If that is what you want understanding parent. and if you will concentrate on it.
To find what the be interested
stars have In But you are apt to
select your tomorrow, in things other than commerce and store for "Please," Hanid sald finally, "ean business. The arts and sciences hold birthday star and read the corres- we nsk just one question?"
a fascination for you and you would panding paragraph. Lei your birth- "No!"
day star be your daily guide, be happlest in one of these fields. O'Scowl... "Just
1'ixic onc, please."
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 "Oh, all right. What is 11 Be quick about 17"
(July "Whose shoes are you fixing?"
To one side of the cobbler's bench were a great pile of shoes. But none of them were the regular kind of shoes that people wear. Some were round like pintes, some were as tiny as the heads of pins, sume had three toes, some were webbed.
Strange Shoos
appear
AQUARIUS
LEO (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)--
24-Aug. 23)-New due to wise perhaps A poor
for most of your business, day activities, so be guarded in all you advertising, is indicated for you undertake. Don't make promises right now. Help any in need. you can't keep.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept.
22)
ngri-
affeci
The consensus of opinion suggesta Mr Charics Brennan, the Secre- tary of Agriculture, blamed the drop that the market is on debateable
ground. on "speculative influences" and said that it should have little effect on wheat producers.
18.25 traded
Prices closed as follow No. 1 Contract Hubber Futures, March Mr Leon Keyserling, vice-chair Apri man of President Truman's Council May of Economie Advisers said: "It is Junc not surprising, but very disturbing." August -United Press,
HONGKONG SHARES
This morning's turnover on the wis $202,541.00. Exchange Stock Transactions and noon prices:
BUYERS BELLERS BALES
July
September
18.12 nomina)
10.00 bld
17.95 nominat
17.30 bid
17.00 bid
17.85 nomina)
17.75 nominat
17.70
17.65
October
November
December
17
January (1950)
17.60
February-
17.55
March
17.50
April
17345
Standard Contract Rubber Fatures.
February
March
10.15 bid
April
30.00 nominal
May
17.03
United Press.
... 1825 nomina)
LONDON MARKET
London, Feb. 9.-Prices in the rubber market here torlay closed as follow:-
BIARES BANKS
HKC Bank
East Asia INSURANCES
Union Underwriters DOCKS, ETC.
1035
2 1825
arch in pence per lb.) April/Jung July/September
11-5/16
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15.40 15.70
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Pixie O'Scowl frowned. "They're shoes that no other shoemaker in the PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 211-4 Romance and marriage may have LAND C
smooth world will fix. Elephant shoes, spider moderately fair day, but not one: their setbacks but you can shoes, beetle shoes, mouse shoes, for overexpansion. Take things as
over alt disagreements with tact grasshopper chocs, erleket shoes, they come; make the best of them. and patience. snail shoe (for snails have only one foot), rabbit shoes, and duck shoes.
ARIES
22-Apr. (Tar.
20)-
LIBRA (Sept 23-Ost, 23)-With your horizon as a little extro effort on your part Do you see now why I'm so busy? Routine looms on Who else con they
usual. more important than to but me?
Be you can sidestep trouble and make more or I'll careful of all detail work to avold definite progress right now. Don't bother me any never get done." Then he went onari error. hummering, and sang in the same gruff voice that Kuart and Honid had heard before:
Shoes that rabbits wear in hopping, Shoca that crickets use for Shopping..
Shoes that elephants do their tricks in..
And I'm the one who does Dic fixin'!"
So Knarf and Hanld just sat and watched and didn't say another word.
RED REELS BACK WARDS FROM HANLON'S
On the Brink
RED/ GET OUT OF THE WAY!
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 211-Be
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-Bo dre definite,
exceptionally diplomatic, especially cautious today. There
guarded in all
in anything you write. An unwel- poor trends, so be
you undertake. come visitor or unhappy news may demand tact.
Electric Telephone INDUSTRIALS
Cement Robe STORES, ETC.
Dairy (NI
Watson (0) Watson (N)
SAGGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-Stick 22)-Avold crowds today and you
trouble. avold
Safeguard fairly close to routine right now. will
possessions. Postpone Don't overexpand on any venture personal until you know a lot about it.
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CANCER (June 23-July 23)- CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-3pm. 20)-- employer and Personal Initiative will count. A Conditions between change of residence may improve employee may be a little disturbed, your outlook, too. Remain, optimistic. so be very tactful...
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Closing Rates Feb. 9.
Argentine Peso (Official) US$0.2077
Argentine les (Unofficial)
Austraẞn Brazil
Belgium
11.10 England
200 391
France
India
New Zealand
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0300
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Pera
Portugal
Bouth Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
£300
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Exchange Rates
Business was done in the local un. official exchange, market this morning at the following rates:-
Sterling pound note (per &1)
Gold bars (per taal)
FIC plaires (per 100)
LOAN TO SPAIN
New York, Feb. 1-The New York Times said today that the Chase National Bank of New York; hus raude a short term loan to. Spain of £8.250.000. It is said to be the first major Spanish credit by a United States commercial bank In recent years-Associated Press,
Uruguay Venezuela Netherlands
Batayin Singapore
Hongkong Stannghol
United Press
OUTWARD MAILS
Unters otherwise stated, registered ariicies and parcel poste afose 30 minutes earlier than the ordinary mail. If meile.
registered close before 10 m,
LO parcel posts clown at 8 pm on the previous day. “Malla are closed, at Kow- loon Central Port Omice, half an hour carller than the GPO closing timnes.
THURSDAY, FEDNUARY 10
Closing Times By Air
Rangoon, Calculla, Karachi, Balireln, Alexandria (Nairobi, Johannesburg and Marselien via Alexandria), Rome and London. (CPO) 4.30 p.m.; (GPO) 8 pm. Bangkok, Bingapore, Batavia, Colombo, Sydney and Auckland. 5 pm,
Japan DDT. Balgon and Paris,
pm,
Closing Times By Sea Saigon, 10 am,
Shanghai, USA, Canada, Central · and... South America vie Bon. Francisco (No. Parcet for Canada), 1 p.m.