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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933.

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BRIDGE NOTE

THE CHINA MAIL

HAND VALUATION.

TIRADIO

At old

The necessity that an initial bid and not suit declarations. of One of a suit should show-de-Bridge you "declared. There was fensive as well as attacking value no competitive bidding. is recognized by most players of Several modern writers, however, Contract and Auction. While all have developed the Idea of an do not agree as to the minimum arithmetical count to apply to all requisite strength, the generally bids at Contract You add up the recognized-standard is two quick value of your hand. According to tricks at Auction and two and a the total you call or support half for Contract. The slightly The latest in the field is anʼable extra strength is advised for Con- writer with the peetidonym tract because, of the conditions of "Criticus," who, in s book entitled the game. This is a sound "Contract Simplicities recom standard and, although certain mends a count of d for an Ace, 3 witers advocate an opening bid on for a King, 2 for a Queen for Jess, even on one and a half quick a Knave, and 1⁄2 for a Tem He tricks at either game if distribu-tells you to bid One of a suit if tion favours, there are good reasons you have a count of: 10%; "bid Two

Why is it bad to make such

TODAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will

ROUND HONG KONG'S CINEMA THEATRES

be broadcast to-day from the Hong MAIL REVIEW Kong Broadcasting Station ZRW.

on a wavelength of 355 metres (845) "ROCKABYE-CENTRAL

K.C.)

12.30 pm- European programme of Columbia & Regal records.

THEATRE

"Rockabye starring Constance

MAIL REVIEW

SOCIETY GIRL" ORIENTAL THEATRE

James Dunn-has a role which

1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-Bennett, atreases the theme of suits him very well. Opposite him port

ed London &

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press News, Select tions, to New York Stuck Quota

2pm-Close Dow

Down 68 PaEuropean 6-8.14 p.m.

programme.

A Children's Overture-

Roger Quilter) Sir Henry J. Wood conducting

London Philharmonic Orchestra DEB1-2. piano Solo

6.14-0.45 pm—A Concart. Songs Without Words

(Mendelssohn).

Song

Friedman 2694-D.

Ships That Pass

in the Night Vale (d'Arcy-Russell)

(Longfellow-Stephenson)

Madame Clara Serena (Contralto).

8316

Organ

Solo Moonbeama Dance (Gibbons) Ragamuffin Romeo (Wayne)

Terance Casey DB260.

Song

Twa Bonnie Blue Ken

(Burne & Whitehead) My Nannie's Ava (Burns)---·|

Elder Conningham (Bass)

(Baritone) 6566, Octet

Moonbeams and Shadown (Squire) Melody (Dawes)

3. H. Squire Celeste Octet 5830. 6.46-7.20 p.m. Variety. Xylophone Solo-

The Clatter of the Clogs

Rudy Starita DB247. I Got Her Of my Hands

Chick Endor & Charlie Farrel DB001, Plano Solo

Have You Forgotten?

Billy Mayeri DB777. I'll Follow You Violin Solo-

Layton & Johnstone DB1044, On the Air Matt Malneck with Carroll Gibbons His Bay Friends DB1001. Xylophone Solo

The Dancing Tallor

mother love. The heroine adopts plays Peggy Shannon, and the new a baby, only to have it taken choice of his leading lady is a away from her when she is In-happy one. volved in a murder case.

Peggy Shannon as a society Joel McCrea is the young play heiress stages a boxing exhibition" wright who attracts Constance, but for a party, and meets Johnny It is Paul Lukas the ever present Malone, who knocks his man down best friend and admirer who wins in the main event of the evening, her in the end.

The young hostess is Interesteds Jobyna Howland enacts the role in the fighter, and finally succeeda of the mother, and provides the [in taking Johnny out of his train- honour in the picture. She is falling.

of spirits in more senses than one.

This picture was directed by MAIL. REVIEW George Caker, and is rather un- usual,

MAIL REVIEW.

"PUPPETS OF FATE", QUEEN'S THEATRE

"GIRL CRAZY”—MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Gags By Wheeler and Woolsey: It is taken for granted that those who go to see Wheeler and Wool- soy in this faree of the whimsical doings on a dude ranch, go because Godfrey Tearle stars to "Puppets they enjoy Wheeler and Woolsey. of Fate," the British picture now There are old familiar gegs and. showing at the Queen's. Support-jokes to laugh at and a generous Ing. him are Russel Thorndyke and assortment of new ones so well. Isla Bevan.

Kitty Kelly is a new and noisy

It is a picture full of action, personality and sings T Got mystery and thrills. The story Rhythm" deals with a coiner'a den. James Carter, the Twickenham Studion Art Director stated that he visited a real coiner's den before' con- structing the set for the picture. 1. A railway train on fire is another

A KING'S CHESS-BOARD FOR SALE.

Paris.

thrilling "shot" in the picture. In A chess-board which was re order to stage this, several railway gularly used by Louis XVI is one carriages were brought into the of a number of art treasures studios grounds and a track was which are to be sold here short- laid down and signals erected. y.

set on fire. Then the train was wrecked and The board is of mother-of-

pearl and ebony-Reuter.

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Kowloon Bay, for not lowering this minimum. of a suit if you count 16, and Three New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L"] All players do not understand with a count of 20 or more.. If]

Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors. the reason. They accept or do not your hand totals 12, and you have accept the standard laid down but three suits guarded, bid One No do not appreciate why any Trump, If all zuits art Zuarded, bitrary rule should be enforced, or practically guarded, bid Two No It is quite true, that holding seven Trumps on a count of 18 and Thres of a suit-say, 8-QJ9.7.6.42- No Trumps on 22 and Four No and nothing else of value you can Trumps on 26. When your partner expect to win at least four tricks has made an attacking bid you if Spades are trumps.. The falways bid three either in your mathematical figures are that in a strong suit or suit headed by Ace hundred hands you will make four if your count is 13, usually when or more 87 times, five or more in it is 12, and frequently when it 57, six or more in 83, according to is 11. how the Spades aro

divided Of course there is much more. between the other three players. Distribution is considered. You But though you may reasonably have to leara the proper count expect to make as many tricks, when you have a singleton or probably more than in the hand chicane in a suit and the sum given last week (S-AK.7.5.4. varies according to whether your H.-K.8.3.2. D.—9.6. C.-J.4.), as partner has made an initial bid or ja minimum, a bid of One Spade has overcalled an adversary.. Al- would indeed be þad either at though the author admits that no Auction or Contract, because this count. can be strictly accurate he Vocal Duet QJ. high hand has no defensive claims that his method is an excel- value at all.

lent general guide, and be states that if "every time you held ̈ 15 with a five suit you bid Three No First: You have no assurance three times out of four." In fact, Trumps you would win more than (indeed on such a hand you can he is a powerful advocate of the have only very faint hope) that you No Trump against the suit bid as Vocal Duct- will be allowed to play the game game winner. in Spades. If it is not, your bid

"Bidding on my system," he has done no good as your partner writes, "you will sometimes be Plano Solo probably will lead your suit and down one and find you trickless in defence. two and I doubt if you will be very occasionally Second: You are deceiving your down three more than once in partner, who has a right to expect thousand handa." But he suggests at least an Ace and a King in your that you will never miss,amake- hand. If He cannot rely upon your able game and seldom a makeable Violin opening bid he will hesitate toelam. He demonstrates the ad- support you in future. The whole vantages of his system by numer

Matt Malneck with Carroll Gibbons structure of partnership is defeat-ous examples from match play. 7.20 p.m. Closing Local Stock Que-of a man-about-town who is trying & His Boy Friends DB1001. more amusing situation than that fed and the subsequent bidding will The results are certainly imprestations, Selected London & New York to find an out of the way cottage be vitiated.

sive. In spite, however, of his Stock Quotations, etc. Only be reliance upon the sound assertion of simplicity. the reader

7.30-8 p.m. From the Studio. in Kent, by enquiring in the bar ness of the initial bid can the best will find that he has a great deal companied by Mrs. L. St. A. Sharpham. plies only one of the many laughs Patter Songs by Bryan Lewis ac-of the local, "pub." Yet that sup contract be discovered for the part-to memorize. A powerful objec

Programme.. nership. Further, your partner tion to all counting system is that, 1. An Eyewitness

in "Mischief" now showing at Account of the may double, and rightly double, a however effective, they are intoler Chicago Olymple Games.

King's Theatre, high bid of the opponents on the ably dull. The player la convert-

2. Sad Endings.

Typically English with its p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-humour, Mischief" provides «a strength of your opening call, rely-led into a counting machine and port. ing upon you for a trick or two in the fascination of the game is lost. 8.-10.30 pmChinese Studio Con-welcome change for the jaded the suit you have named or in your

cinema-goer, and is totally differ. hand somewhere. Or he may build

Fressent and twice as funny, as sny upon the misinformation you have given with disastrous resulta

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At the present time various!

WINE OUSTS BEER IN BOSNIA. Taxation Responsible For 50 Per Cent. Drop.

Belgrade.

arithmetical systeme for counting up the value of your hand are in vogue. They are all derived from the old Robertson Rule, invented in 1902, in the days of the original] game of Bridge. On this principle Wine is ousting beer as a drink an Ace is made to count, 7, a King in Bognia owing to its extreme

5, a Queen 3, a Knave 2," and a cheapness." Since the Government Ten 1 These make up. together dropped its duty on wine and what is called an average hand-a spirits, the consumption of beer total of 18. When such cards in has fallen by more than 50 per the band collectively represent a cent.

total of 21 (as for instance 8 Aces In Sarajevo, for instance, com- or 1 Ace, 1 King and 8 Queens or parative figures are

Rady Starita DB247. Leven Pounds of Heaven

Chick Endor & Charlie Ferrell

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Helen-Selection

Billy Mayer! DB777. Vocal Duct

You'll Always be the Same

Streetheart

Layton

+

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cert.

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News,

10.30 pm-Rugby Mid-day 10.85 pm--Close Down.~

The picture abounds in thrills of this description:

Godfrey Tearle plays bis part exceedingly well; all who see him Will realise that this one of his best pictures. –

MAIL REVIEW.

"MISCHIEF"-KING'S

- THEATRE

'It would be difficult to and a

picture we have seen lately.. - All records in the 'above European

Ralph Lynn in the leading role programmes are kindly supplied by is at his best, and is ably support

ed by Winifred Shotted in the Mrs. Anderson Music Co. BELGRADE TAX WAR Stuart and James Carew.

leading feminine röle, Jeanne

ON BACHELORS. W

Half-Fares For Newly

Married Couples.

Belgrade.

The story, as in most English productions, is rather complicated, but so profuse are the amusing

situations, that one scarcely

notices the story. The picture should certainly not be missed.*

The "war on bachelora" is be-MAIL REVIEW: ing intensified here, according to the "South Slav Herald."

STHE LOVE RACE”-

STAR THEATRE.

A State tax is levied on all 14 Kings and Ten) with at least Year. Quantity of beer consumed unmarried men over 30 years of three of the suits guardad, "the 1928

$1,000,000 gallons age. In addition, the Ministry The Love Race" at the Star in hand is deemed to represent the 1982

400,000 gallons of Communications has now an- charged with comedy. Stanley general minimum, strength for a Wine now costs only twopence a nounced that all honeymoon Lupino provides laugh after laugh. Justifiable initial bid of One No pint, as compared with fivepence a couples shall be carried on The picture was directed by Tramp Ass rough-and-ready plat for beer, Jugoslav rallways at half the Lupino Lane, and with such reckoner this old rule is useful The brewers are urging that ordinary fares,

comedian directing, one is assured and may well be applied at they employ a large number of Incidentally, Belgrade is one of real entertainment. Auction, but at Contract & count of workers who will be thrown out of of the few cities where there is a Jack Hobbs, Dorothy Boyd-and 28 is desirable. But the Robertson employment unless the taxes on marked surplus of men over wo-Dorothy Burtlam.help to make Rule was framed for No Trump wind are restored

picture a farce of farces

men Reuter

Keeps George.

WHAT)

THE:

YOUR

POP And The Laundry George Keeps,

YOU DOING?

LIVING

-COMMENCING TO-MORROW-

CAT

THE KING'S

17-

SOUNDING Douglas FAIRBANKS

MILLAR WATT.

....

CENTRAL.

but

COMING TO THE THEY CALLED HER THE 'DOVE' .. hers was the fury of the wildcat HERBERT BRENON'S

OF

TRI RIO

Dolores Del Blo Leo Carrillo