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BRİDGE" NOTES

THE THREE MINOR CONVENTION.

TO SUPPLANT THE TWO-CLUB. (By Capt, Lindsay Mundy.)

There is no getting away from ): the fact that the Two-Club con- vention suffers from one severe Ifan tobacco growers have receiv defect, in that it removes from ed well over 21,000,000 for their the game the normal use of that crop, Official figures obtained by bid.

menal

Increase, the

well as local tobacoo.-Reuter.

East.

Nil

KJxxxx

The bidding would go:"

practically a game hand.

West: Three Clubs I

Three Diamonds.

FRADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme ·will

be broadcast to-day from the Hong

Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W.

NATIVE ASKS TO BE EXECUTED,

Suicide After Court's Refusal.

Johannesburg.

Following the refusal of officials

on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 at the Benoni Court to comply {K.C's) ===

with his-request that he should be killed, a native mine labourer hanged himself in a disused shaft of a gold mide.

12.30 pm-European programme of Victor & Brunswick recordam berm

1. p.m.--Local Time & Weather port

139 pm- Eugby Press News Selected London New Fork Stock have Quotations, etc.

....

Z PZL-Close Dow

~7-10,307

programme,

Where is the executioner? I want to be killed," shouted the native the day before, interrupt- Ing the proceedings of the Court

· 4,50-7. Decorègramme, lauring the hearing of. & Case.

7720 hm-Orchestra. The Skatera (Waldbeufel

International Concert Orch. 35798. High Water (Brennan-McCurdy) Midnight Bollections ** (Malneck-Signorelli) Whiteman &. HE

Song

Jascha Heifetz 1332

Hans Harth 20203,

Cuban Love Song

(Stathart-Fields-McHugh) **

Trampa at Sea

(Stothart-Fields McHugh)

violin Bolo

Menuet (Bach-Winternita) Gavatte (Beethoven)

Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone) 1550,

(O'Sheel-Dann)

Fritz Kreisler, 1130;

The Bitterness of Love:

Anmereans Grab (Wolf)

On being questioned, he declar- ed that other natives had accused him of being a murderer, and had turned him out of his room at the compound. As he had recently be

morning his dead-body was found dangling over a deep shaft of a disused mine. Beuter.

Instrumental

1st Movement of Violin Concerto in.

E Major (Bach)

Bratza (Violinist) with String and Harpsicord of the Bach Cantata Club London.

Piano Solo

Partita No. 2 in C Minor (Bach)

Harold Samuel.

u, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) Chole

and Orchestra of the Bach Contata Club London.

Flute Solo

Rondeau and Badinerie (Bach) Hobert Murchie with Strings and Harpsicord of the Bach Cantata Club London.

Harps/card Bolo

the Customs Department show Constantly do I find hands on that last year the output increas which I would open with a Two Bast: Four Clubs I have a ed from-2,000,000 to 10,000,000lbs bid, if only my club suit were biddable suit of Clubs, and my fu a single season.

some other suit, so that I have hand contain two quick tricks. Notwithstanding this pheno-to fall back on the choice be a long solid suit of Hearts and a West: Five Hearts Showing Federal tween under-bidding my hand slam invitation. CO., LTD.,

Government succeeded in negotiatin.One No-Trump or even in One East: Six Clubs-Showing PER Layer. Motcert Orch. come converted and was no longer Kowloon Baying an agreemenet with the tobee-suits, or giving a wrong picture re-biddable length in Clubs, Vienna Blood (Strauss)3992 a heathen, he wished to meet the

Club, if there are two unguarded complete hatred of Hearts and Call Fisg "L" Kelvin Motors. Co companies under which growers of the hand by bidding Three knowing West will go back to Voices of Spring (Stranas)

|Almighty." received a minimum of 2/3 a 15. Clubs.

Hearts if Clubs does not suit

Boston Symphony Orch, directed by for their crop-equivalent to more

"I know it is a crime for me to On the other hand, I find that him.

Serge Koussevitzky 6903. kill myself," he said, "but if the than 400 per cent. above world the opening bid of Three of a

7.20 p.m. Closing Local, Stock Quo values,

West: Seven Clube-He cantations, Selected London & New York authorities do it with my consent, minor suit is the most unsatis-read East's hand. The tobacco companies under factory bid in the system; it is While giving due weight to the

Stock Quotations, etc.

It will be all right." 7.30-8.39 p.m.- Concert, took to buy 7,250,000 lb. of the cur- neither fish, desh, fowl, nor good fact that this Three Club'conveu:]

8 p.m.-(Local 7

Time & Weather Reofficials and then left. The next

He was pacified by the court- rent season's tobacco at a mini-red herring. It is used

port). with tion has the demerit of starting Violin Solo Valse Bluette mum price 2/3 a 1b. Actually hands which can be quite ade-Ithe bidding rather high, never:ellite (Ponce-Belletx)

(Drigo-Auer) the largest company. purchased quately pictured by the use, of atheless, I think that is complete- 1,000,000 lb. more than its quota Two-bid; which bid would in fact ly outweighed by the advantage Song at the same price. The total pur- almost Invariably be used in the gained by restoring the normal, The Last Rose of Summer (Moore) chases by companies for the sea case of a major suit with exact-jnon-conventional use of the Two Robin Adair (Keppel) son now exceed, 10,000,000 lb. ly the same distribution.

Club bid to the game. These na Plano Solo

Frances Alda (Soprano) 1188. To those who are still seeking

A New Convention.

tural Two bids are the blood- an increase in the present import)

Consequently, I have decided to stream of the system, and I have

Polish Dance (Scharwenka) duty of 3-a lb. The Government abolish the Two-Club convention always hated being shut off from

Homoreska (Dvorak) has replied that this duty in the Direct system, and to sub- one of them. equivalent to a protection of 600 stitute in its place a Three-Club per cent. The world parity is 6d. convention. The qualification

ib.

for a conventional. Club call is As has been pointed out car lier in this article, the natural There is no possibility of any that the opener should have some Three Diamond bid is very use- reduction in the excise duty of hopes of game on his own, with- 4/6 lb. imposed upon foreign as out any biddable support from his less, so why not make use of it

in another way? Let this open-]: partner.

No particular number of Hon-ing bid be of just the same Song our Tricks is required. though strength as the Three Club bid, obviously a fair sprinkling will but confine it to those hands of necessity be there or the hand which have length and strength

in both the major suits. could not attain to the necessary negative response would then be The strength, but even 511⁄2 Honour |

Four Clubs.. tricks such as A Kx x3 AKxx. ¡A Q ̈xx : x without a sufficiency of probable tricks, is not enough. quired to show the absence of 8.30-9.15 am-Variety.

two quick tricks. It would al-Orchestral- The negative response, show- ing the absence of two quickways be followed by Four Hearts Jack Denny & His Waldorf-Astoria tricks, is, of course, raised frem from the opener, and the respon- Two to Three Diamonds Hearts and Spades, the posses- Beyond the Blue Horizon'

der would then choose between Song If the opener then reopens with Three No-Trumps the responder sion of the latter by the opener Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano) 22514. Trang Fook Fiano Co.). with a bad hand has no further having been announced by his Buffoon One of these is "Milkorne," the liability. If, however, the re-opening bid. Alternatively the Victor Concert, Orchestra 24028. first of a series of such foods formulated and approved by food opening is in Three of a major responder, if he hates both ma- Song

You, Try Somebody Elze authorities in the College of Home between raising it to Four, or 10 x x, may bid Five of it, or a suit the responder must choose or suits, and if he has a very

strong minor suit, such as A QOrchestral

Russ Columbo (Baritone) 22881. When Mrs. Roosevelt visited the hand admits of, or alternatively show one and a half Honour

In the Dim Dim Dawning making any positive bid which

bid of Four No-Trumps would college recently, she lunched on "Milkorno" in cheese polenta with making a negative response of tricks divided between the two tomato sauce, She has announced Three No-Trumps. This leaves

The Pickens Sisters 22075, that this and other low cost foods the way clear for the opener to minor suits. In the Three Dia-Orchestral

mond convention a No-Trump bid Make Love the King show his second suit; and the re- formulated by the college are

Rusa Columbo & His Orch. 24105. being relied upon by her to help sponder must then select between is never negative, and in the

I've Told" Ev'ry: Little ́Star Three Club it is only negative

Jack Denny & His Waldorf reduce the White House budget 25 the opener's two suits.

Astoria Orch: 24188 iper cent.

when used as a second denial bid by the responder.

Sanm I am prepared for an o Always in All Ways an outcry

Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano) 22514. against the piling up of conven- Orchestral, tions, so I hasten to say that the

each Jazz Nocturne Three Club convention can be

In Respiroide, the new scientific Victor Concert Orchestra 24028.

medy Song used alone without the Three Dis

treatments are combined. N Call me Darling

Russ Columbo (Baritone), 22861, coveries have been made which render are both used, they should be an- Orchestral

this

Respiroids, held in. the Paialble nounced as the Three Minor con-

A Little Street Where Old Friends mouth,

radually

dissolve releasing pleasantly aromatic but highly per vention. This Three Minor: con-

mledal and curative vapours which Ozzie Nelson & His Orch, 6443 circulate throughout the breathing vention will henceforth always be Vocal Triom used by my team in matches. From this moment it is incorpo rated in the Direct System.

COMING SOON!

GREATEST DRAMATIC SPECTACLE OF OUR GENERATION!.

When the Pages of History Ran Red!..

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Auctioneers. A Paramount Super-Spectacle, As Great As All of Creation,

Hong Kong, April 27, 1933.

THE Undersigned have received,

Tinstructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON

TUESDAY, May 2, 1933, commencing at 10.30 a.

at No. 6, Waverley Terrace

(Kowloon Dock).

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FORNITURE.

Terms: Cash on Delivery. On View from Monday, May

1933.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers,

Hong Kong, April 20, 1933.

GREAT SUMMER SALE NOW ON.

Sun Helmets from $3.50 up to $21.00

All less 20% discount

all kinds of Shoes

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THE NATIONAL COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK, LTD.

MRS. ROOSEVELT'S

NEW FOOD.

Cutting The White House Budget.

Ithaca, New York. Some of the new low cost foods, developed by Cornell University, are going to have a place on the

White House menu.

Economics.

"Milkorno" is composed low corn meal, dried shine of yel

salt,

Two Examples.

This negative response is re-

I dislike the idea of a negative No-Trump bid, but it is the way to leave the road cleanly the opener to bid Four Clubs of With "milkorno" in the menu, Four Diamonds. the college has developed meals

5 cents, par As an example, if the opener mond convention. When they |costing as little as

person. Menus, featuring the en-holds: riched foods, are being prepared by the college för relief organisa tions and Individual families. -Reuter

PAULINE

DANCING ACADEMY,

now

Latest Ball Room Dancing Nightly.

HAK 10 x X

D-A KQ 10.xx Cx the bidding would be T

Three Clubs, Three Diamonds (assum ing the absence of two quicker tricks), Three Hearts, Three No- Trumps: (assuming the absence of a biddable suit), Four Diamonds, leaving the responder to select a game bid in Hearts, Diamonds, or, rarely, No-Trumps.

THREW HAMMER AT HOME SECRETARY:

Madrid.

John McCormack (Tenor): 1568.

Goyescas-Intermezzo 'Cello Splo

(Granados)

Adagio (Bach-Siloto Casala)

The Song is You

Orchestral

Pablo Casals 6635,

Orchestra 24183.

-

we Ozzie Nelson & His Orch. 6442

Dream Sweetheart

Meet

Allemande and Courants from Suite

First Harpsicord Buite

Rudolph Dolmetsck

Suite No. 2 in B Minor for Fiates and

String (Bach)

Willen Mengelberg and his

certgebouw Or

10.30 p.me-Rugby 1-Nowi, 10.31 p.m.--Close Down, de

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For Throat and Chest Troubles. This Direct Inhalant Method Brings Speedy Relief.

asthma, and affections of the throat, Cougha, colds, sore throat, bronchitis, windpipe and lustgs generally, have into the stomach, usually been treated by remedies taken

Other remedies. have consisted of the inhalation - of from volatile liquids.

Both treatments In Vitaolt for respiratory

have their value but is incomplete.

troubles

these two Now dis-

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Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long tubes and Into the membranes of the

The Pickens Sisters 22075.

dem erstem, reaching even to the Orchestral

corners of the lungs. These 1. Called to Say Goodnight pours soothe the inflamed mem

Russ Columbo & His Orch: 24195: branes, break up the phlegm, ease the 335-035 pm From the Stadler breathing, destroy the germinie Thus

A

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Hungarian Dance No. 5 in Sharp, the sliva into the stomach, though

La addition

Indirect treatment, by virtue of elements, which are carried Misar (Brahma) played by the m Royal Opera Orchestra with Guest a far more potent degree than any

In this Conductor Dr. Malcolm Bargents other cough remedy taken

Sang Chron. Respiroids are also an excellent pre ventative for throat and chest affec Lika, un the Love Lorn Turtle from tions cold weather you' should le

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A Seville man has been sentene. New Lady... Instructresses ›› have As another example, take these ed to 4 years 2 months and a day arrived..........⠀⠀⠀ All' the latest hands which are dealt with in the in prison, and fined £6, for throw Dancing Steps taught. Classes Two-Club section of my book, and ing a hammer – at Senor Castres Song o Afternoon; Practice Nightly 8-12 which actually occurred.

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