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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

CINEMA

NOTES

The following programme will able When your partner has made an hand is considerably stronger than be broadcast to-day from the Hong MAIL REVIEW opening bid you are placed in ais indicated by his initial bid.

But you may say:, "Is there no

Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. position of responsibility.

Apart from those unusual cases auch thing as a Denial or Take-out on a wavelength of 855 metres (845 where a player can bid game on Bid. What am I to do when I hold | KC's) :— his own carda, in the ordinary way only one or two of my partner's

It is only by intelligent. bidding of suit and want to show. him I do not

12.30 p.m.--European programme the two partners that a game con-like it and desire to change the of Victor & HM.V. records.. tract can be resched.

auit?" Presuming the score to be love,

1 Am-Local Time & Weather Report.

In these circumstances you can

Z deals and makes a bid of. One do it by bidding more than neces- of a suit. Let us say that he bida sary for a minimum raise. If, One Spade. What is his partner after the opening bid of One Spade, you bid . Three of a suit, to do?

that, shows partner at once that you wish, if possible, to play the hand in that suit.

Two positions arise:

1. When A (second hand) says No Bld.

2. When A makes a bid.

The support of an Initial bid of In the first case Y will be eager One No Trump requires little ex- to jump into the fray if he can planation. The mere fact that Z possibly do so. Of course, if he has bid One No Trump · indicates [has a thoroughly bad hand he that he has at least four possible (should remain silent and leave the tricks in his hand, that he has no One Spade bid alone. ·But if he sound biddable sult, but that all has even medium hand he should four suits are guarded or at least ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS, make some sort of bid,

tentatively guarded. You raise The reason for this is that while him to Two No Trumps with two CO., LTD., ・、 the One Spade bid may have beenjand a half quick tricks in your Kowloon Bay, on the miniumum, it is possible hand, or with a good five card suit Call Flag "that Z has more, perhaps much you bid that if the distribution is Kelvin Motors more, than the minimum. It ls, unfavourable for No Trumps. therefore, incumbent upon Y to keep With three quick tricks and no five the bidding alive and to give Z` a card suit you raise him to Three second chance of calling, if he so No Trumps. desires, as the opponents may not The second position is when A makes an interposing bid. Z has This is a most important part-¡bid One Spade, and A makes a bid. Inership at Contract and one which It ・ may be Two Hearts, Two many players coming fresh to the Diamonds or Clubs, or One No game, especially those who have Trump; played Auction before, fail to realise.

OPTICIANS.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,

'Phone 22232.

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NOTICE.

PAULINE DANCING ACADEMY. A number of the famous Shang- hai Dancing Instructresses have been engaged by our Academy. Also a new orchestra in atten dance.

Tea Dances: Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m..

ido 80.

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This alters the situation entirely for Y.

"THE". SQUEAKER"——KING'S THEATRE

WOMAN WITHOUT FEAR

Lifetime In Australian Jungle.

"NIGHT AMONG SHARKS.

Port Darwini One of the most intrepid woman in the world who has lived danger ously throughout the 20 years of The Squeaker," now showing at her eventful life has arrived hers because she wants to stay with her the King's Theatre is one of Edgar Wallace's most notable stage plays, mother for a time.

Here are some of the details of In adapting it to the films, he wrote the dialogue, chose the cast the career of this Woman Without and produced it himself. The re- Fear: 1.30 pm-Rugby Press News sult is excellent and an outstand- Brought up from the age of

etc.

ing success as the first All-British seven in virgin jungle." 2.p.m.-Close Down.

talkie to be produced by the British The nearest town, Fort Darwin, Chinese Studio Concert To-night,|Lion Studios,

was 130 miles away from her homa. 6-8 p.m.-European programme In this picture, Percy Marmont Went in school with a few chil- of Victor & H.M.V. records. achieves a personal success. He is dren as companions every day ábly supported by Gordon Barker, through two miles of swamps, Trilby Clark, Anne Grey, Alfred bamboo thickets and grasses 12 feet Drayton and Eric Maturin, whose high, through country inhabited by acting is of the best

6-6.18 p.m Capriccio Italien

(Italian Caprice) (Tschaikowsky).

Leopold Stokowski and the

Philadelphia Orch, 6949-50. 6.18-6.15 p.m.-A Concert..

Song-

The Wistful Moon

(Verlaine-Szulc)

Evening Fair

(Bourget Debussy)

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A LADY'S PROFESSION".

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

one of the wildest black triber of the North, incidentally crossing : à river, the most notorious breeding- ground of crocodiles `in the {territory, în s'dug-out capoe. · Every. evening the children returned home the same way.

Married

buffalo hunter when

·Had Ave children. Reared then

'"A Lady's - Profession," starring Alison Skipworth, Roland Young she was 16. and Sari Maritsa, now showing at

Spent nine years of her married the Queen's Theatre, is an amusing life following herds and hunters, [comedy.

In this story Boland. Young and Marrakal and Alligator Rivers

skinning and packing hides, between Miss Skipworth are cast as a pair of titled Britons, who discovering in makeshift huts of boughs. Some that they have no money, set out for times has had no other home for |America · where they open up s

her family - than a fex mosquito:: speakeasy. Their principal difficul-neta. Has frequently crossed creeks ty is not with the law, but with the Oh, That We Two Were Maying bootleggers, who insist that they and rivers in wet season up to her neck in surging "muddy waters, také far more liquor than they can holding food and her children's

Mary Garden (Soprano) 1499, Piano Solo-

Nen Wien Valse (Strauss-Bright) Coppelia-Waltz (Delibes)

Mark Hambourg C2505.

Thy Beaming Eyes

(Gardner-MacDowell)

Song

(Kingsley-Nevin) Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone)

When then is the least upon He is released from the neces-Violin Solo- which Y can make a supporting|sity of keeping' the bidding alive, bid?

and should not do so unless he has

I fix it at one and a half quickmore than one and a half quick tricks, and don't forget that I place tricks in his hand. · A's bid given this as the Irreducible minimum. Z a second chance if he has more Without one and half quick to show, and I should keep silent tricks, keep silent.

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unless be has more than normal' But with this holding make a bid expectancy, of some sort. And it does not fol- Examples (1) Z bids One Spade; low at all that you should neces- Two Hearts, Y holding: sarily support your parner's ault. Spades 7 4 2 Hearts K J2 D: K 65 On the contrary it is better to C: K 5 4 3 should say No Bld. He show another suit of your own. is not quite strong enough to bid This will not be regarded as a Two No Tramps, but his hand has

rer's bid as it would be at Auction, B make a game bid In Hearts, (2). but merely an indication of some 2 One Spade; A Two Hearts: Y strength.

holding: SPADES: 7 6 HEARTS: Thus Zhas bid One Spade. You A Q 10 5 DIAMONDS: K J.10 2 are Y and hold:-

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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

- Public Auctions

THE Undersigned have received,

Auction

Tinstructions to sell by Public

ON Monday, the 3rd. July, 1933, commencing at 11 am.

at No. 26, Conduit Road,

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

On View from Sunday, the 2nd. July, 1988.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 27th June, 1833. -

Island.

Fart

Victoria Peak

1,823

Sigual Station

1,774

'Mt. Parker

1,734

Mountain Lodge.

1.725

The Eyrie.i.

1,725

Peak Hotel

1,805

Talkoo Banatorium

1,000

Mt Daris

Bowen Road (Alterbeds)

877 297

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Mainland.

Talmoshan

Kowloon Peak

Feet 3,124 1,971

MOTOR

DIAL 27761

TRANSPORT

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN

Auction

ON FRIDAY, the 30th June, 1938, commencing at 11 am

at their Sales Room,

4 Duddell Street.

1 Case Pocket Knivea

28 Sacks Flour

SPADES: 7 64

HEARTS: A Q 9 6 4 DIAMONDS: 8 2

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CLUBS: A'Q 6 should bid Two No Trumps. (3) Z One Spade: A Two Diamonds. Y holding: SPADES 17 6 HEARTS A Q J 10 8 6 ĮDIAMONDS: 7 2 CLUBS: KQ 9 Bid Two Hearts. You have just should bid Three not Two Hearts. the minimum entitling you to make: (4) Z one Spade: A Three Hearts: la bid.

Y holding: SPADES: Q 10,873

CLUBS: K 7 3

.

Do You Know My Garden?

(Haydn Wood)

use.

1172.

clothes above her head, with black The English pair, in a series of highly amusing incidents, succceed servants behind her carrying the

babies in beating the bootleggers at their

The name of this remarkable |own game.

No One Knows (Gordon).

Sari Maritza is seen as Roland woman is Mrs. Thelma Hunter. Renee Chemet 1270. Young's daughter. Her romance campe and intends to settle down to She has now given up the buffalo 6.45-7.25 pmSelections by The with Kent Taylor, a son of an Hollywood Bowl Orchestra M-40. American millionaire, runs through

Carneval Overture (Dvorak)

The Fire Dance (de Falls).

out the picture.

Fantastic Symphony-March to MAIL REVIEW

the Scaffold (Berlioz) Islamey (Balakirew)

The Sleeping Beauty-

TELL ME TO-NIGHT”........

CENTRAL THEATRE.

fahan the coast near Darwin. a "quiet", Ufe, catching and smoking

But already she has had a men- sure of excitement, plane

Struggle Amid Sharks. 'She had a terrible: experiance-re- cently when her canos capsized" in the shark and: crocodile-infested "Tell Me Tonight," which is waters of Vernon Shoals. Stock being shown at the. Central She had paddled far out to sea Theatre to-night by special re-in order to get bigger fish. A gust quest, is a Gaumont-Ufa produc-of wind upset her cange. She man- tion and is undoubtedly one of the aged to right it, but, waterlogged, best musical comedies since "Sun-it frequently capaised -- "as”” she

Ballet Suite (Tschaikowsky) 7.25 pm-Closing Local Quotations, etc.

7.27-8 pm-Variety. Orchestral-

La Guajira. Don Azpiazu & His Orch. B6298. shine Susie." Humorous Song-

Our Avenue

Orchestral—

This is No Dream Victor Arden

struggled back 60 miles to land, pro

The scenery is magnificent and which she reached the following- the story full of parkle and fun morning after clinging for hours of Gracie Fields B2758. A famous tenor sets out to Zern in darkness to her uncontrollable craft. (search of rest from publicity. He She was found bring exhausted In

meets Koretsky, an enterprising the bottom of the canoe. crook, and the two become friends. Undaunted, she set out again as Phil Ohman & Their Orch. B6209. On arrival at their destination the soon as she had recovered, in a Humorous Song--`

crook is mistaken for the singer lugger with four men, bound for an and the substitution leads to many oyster bed 200 miles away, The Vegetable Blues

Frank Crumit B4356, complications.

A gale drove. the Jugger in to a Xylophone Solo-

Jan Klepura, who plays the part rest: near Cape Den and Mrs."- of the singer, has a very powerful Hunter and her four? male com--: On the Track

Jack Simpson B4851. voice and his rendering of Tell panions spent three days on the Orchestral---

Me To-night," the theme song, is a rocks until rescued by a lighthouse. feature of the film. Arather popa keeper-Beuter. Lamento Borinqueno

Don Axplaza & His Orch.

Under the Moon

A good rule at Contract is not HEARTS: None DIAMONDS`K 6 2 to raise your partner's bid of One CLUBS: A K 8 7 2 should bid Four fn his suit unless you hold four of Spades. ft or at least three to the Queen. After an interposing bid, com- Because you must always remem-mon sense must be the main guide, ber that an initial bid of One may It is useless to support partner's have been made on only four of the bid because you have help in his suit

salt but nothing outside. That is But if you hold four of partner's the way to drive opponents into a suit, even although they were only game bid--the last thing you de- Song four little ones, and one and a half sire....... But when, as in example tricks outside, raise his bid at number, - 4, you have great once,

assistance for partner in his suit Z. One Spade. Y holding:—jand valuable help outside, then SPADES: 7642. HEARTS: 9. support him up to the hilt. Do hot

452 should bid Two Spades. |DIAMONDS: K 7 6 5. CLUBS: adopt half measures,

Take the case where you hold only three of partner's suit, but you have one and a half quick tricks in your hand and no sound sult bid. In this position you should bid One Trump over his Spade,

For example with:-SPADES: 5

RELIGIOUS FILM SCREENING.

At Oriental Theatre On Sunday,

137 Doz, Cotton and silk stockings 3 2. HEARTS: K 9.5. DIAMONDS: The religious flm "The Exposi

lar bit in the film is "Things I Do,

B6298.1 Do For You.".

Sonnie Hale, brother of the loves, to track down the slayer of his father "a fence" for stolen famous. Binne Hale of the English

bonds. Gracie Fields B2758, stage, plays the part of Koretsky, Orchestral

the crook, while the horon The term "under-cover man" is The Cop on the Beat,

played by Magda Schneider, a note a "eque

commonly used in America to de- The Man in the Moon and Me

or Police, In- charming German actress, who is former. Victor Arden-Phil Ohman & making her debut in British Alms. Their Orch. B6299. Miss Schneider has acted the

{MAIL: REVIEW & Hamorous Song-

same part in three versions with

"HIGH STAKES” STAR Kiepura-German, French and

THEATRE

· They're Always Together

Frank Crumit B4356. English. Xylophone Solo:

The Clock and the. Dresden --` China Figures **

Jack Simpson B4351.

8 pm Local Time & Weather

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UNDER COVER MAN”. MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"High Staken the current at traction at the Star Theatre. It in a fast and exciting pleture showing the "inside" life of "gold-diggers,” who prey on the loneliness of tion of the Sacred Body of Sain. Report.

George Riff, whose meteoric, rise wealthy měn. Francis Xavier, which was showa

-.8.3-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio to stardom in gangster filma "bas Lowell Sherman, actor-director, All these bids are known as Con- at the Prince's Theatre, Kowloon, Concert.

shattered all records, is seen again plays the part of a speakeasy structive Bids, designed to give in- is to be shown at Oriental Theatre 10.30 pm- Eugby

on the local screen in "Under habitué, who saves his brother's formation and to keep the bidding on Sunday at 11 am. jja

Press News.

Cover, Man," now showing at the honour and money. A Quantity of Household Furn-alive, Note, however, that they do The film will be shown under the 10.35 pm-Close Down.

Majestic Theatre.

The cast is well chosen and, in- not promiss partner more than the patronage of His Lordship, Bishop All records in the above Euro- Haft fills the important role of a cludes the vivacious Mae Murray, minimum assistance and do not in- Valtorta. This will be the final péan programmes are kindly sup-big-time crook, who gambles with Karen Morley, Edward Martindel vite him to bid for game, unless his showing of the film in Hong Kong, iplied by Messrs. 8. Montris & Co. his life and the life of the girl he and Ethel Levy,

Mid-day

1 Case Torch light battery sells 42 Lady straw hats

K 87 CLUBS; A J42 bid one No Trump. TWO PIE

7 Doz, Tins lavender brillantine 19. Doz. Straw hats:

and

& MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

ture, Rattan Ware, and Miscel laneous Goods, etc., etc.

Tertia-Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers Hong Kong, 28th June, 1932.

POP

These Fathers, Will They Never Learn ?

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FOR YOUR MONEY

SO THAT HE

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COMMENCING TO-MORROW

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THE CENTRAL.

By J. MILLAR WATT.