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Magnifies Pictures 42,800 imes

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“SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE"-CENTRAL THEATRE

CARRIED IN POCKET:

London.

The smallest film camera in

CONTRACT

(RELY CULBETTSON) World's Champion” Player and.

Greatest Card Analyst-

DEFENSIVE CARD COUNTING

BRITAINS SILENT HEROES

Boastful "Old Soldier. Has Gone.

DEAN INGE'S FEAR.

London.

WISE AND

OTHERWISE

PRODE POSITIVE,

We are told that we all owe a great debt to science. And don't know it, having just had the

hør.

SHORT, SHORT ETORY. "Just watch Nins laugh that of." said the fat man's wife as ska sewad

It was a pathetle yet a gallani band who attended the annual Ber-electric light bill- "Secrets of the French Police", the world has been demonstrat the current attraction at the Cen-ed in London. It can easily be

vios for mbless ex-Servicemen In a recent article, I discussed St. Paul's Cathedral:

Read It To Your Wite. tral Theatre, was adapted from slipped into a pocket, for it is no the value to the Declarer of ob

A commer Mr. H. Ashton-Wolfe's famous thicker than a novel, takes pic-taining an accurate count of the There were - some hundreds

says that the hai memoirs of the French Surete, tures one twenty-sixth the size distribution of suits adversely them, a number arriving in motor husband on combined with the story The Lost Princess". The film is a very in- of a penny stamp, has lenses held. The defending players may ambulances. Some were carried, seven years,

also turn this knowledge to their into the Cathedral, others propelled worth while being teresting cne and contains many scarcely larger than peas, and advantage and sometimes, defeat themselves inside by means of traveller. thrilling episodes.

works from a strip of film less contracts that seem certain of suc mechanical bathchairs. The, major The plot concerns itself with the than one third of an inch incess, if they will but pause in the ity, however, hobbled in with the rounding up of a crazy" Russian,

play long enough to reason from help of crutches or stout sticks............ who hypnotises a flower girl and

width.

the known to the unknown, and Dean Inge preached. tries to pass her off as the Crown Yet this baby camera throws determine the distribution of suits “Have we half-forgotten those on another waistcoat button. Princess Anastasis, daughter of pictures upon an ordinary-sized in the various hands. As a start terrible four years?" he asked.

ing point, every player has avall Thindng of the crowd that yearly AT THE DENTISTS: home screen-that is, one 80 able the information disclosed by gathered on Armistice Day one was All's swell that ends well. Gre-inches high and 40 inches wide, the Opening lead, the cards in his inclined to say, "Most certainly not

It magnifies them 42,800 times. own hand and those exposed in the Yet on the other days of the year LAUGHING LAST.

Dummy. Each subsequent play did we think enough about it? Dia "Init" possible One of the secrets of the inreduces the element of the unwe think that most of the middle fever laughed at these vention is the microscopic size of known, and thus makes the reason-aged men we met had been through a writer, quoting some the "silver grains" with which ing more scientific and more exact. the terrible experiences they hardly humour. Up In Sco the films are coated, while not tract in notrump was defeated by

An example of how a game con- ever talked about?

are laughing at them "Where is the once familiar figure! "The Squeaker," now showing at only the width but also the accurate card count on the part of of the boastful old soldier who loved By Way Of Confession.** the King's Theatre is one of Edgar height of the picture is halved one of the defending players is to fight his battles over again? We A boy of my acquaintance · re- Wallace's most notable stage plays. Consequently, one foot of film given below.

the Russian Czar.

Gwili Andre heads the cast, sup ported by John Warburton,

| gory Ratoff and Frank Morgan.

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"THE SQUEAKER”—KING'S THEATRE.

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In adapting it to the films, he will do the work of four. wrote the dialogue, chose the cast

and produced it himself. The re- After the film has been] sult is excellent and an outstand-developed, it is slit automatical- ing success as the first All-British talkie to be produced by the British ly down the middle, and the strips are spliced, making one

Lion Studios.

In this picture, Percy Marmont strip of film twice as long and achieves a personal success. He is half as wide as the original one. ábly supported by Gordon Barker,

Trilby Clark, Anne Grey, Alfred-Reuter,

Drayton and Eric Maturin, whose acting is of the best...

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"HIGH STAKES”-STAR THEATRE.

"High Stakes," is the current at-

on the loneliness of

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A LADY'S PROFESSION”.

QUEEN'S THEATRE,

"A Lady's Profession," starring

South-Dealer. Neither side vulnerable.

N “Spades-10 8 4 2 Hearts K-6 52 Diamonde-Q 5. Clubs-A J 7.6

W

Spades 743-* *Hearts-Q 7:42

Diamonds 90 6:32 Club-8

E

Spades—A Q 9 8

Hearts J. 10.1 Diamonds-A ́872 Clubs Q 5 4 3

.8 Spades-K

Hearts-A 98.8. Diamonds-KJ 10.4.

Clubs-K 10 9 2.

never meet him now. I suppose Cently laughed for two hours with- that the realities of those terrible out stoppings I shall carry years were too bad to talk about. own clubs next time. One wonders what they are think

ing about it all Many of them, no.... TO-DAY'S WORST. - doubt, feel that the older generation Samuel Intull, the ex-millionaire blundered badly to make such a disfisancier, who is sognted in the aster, possible.

United States for fraud, is starting.

It was this silence, perhaps car- a big business in Greece. - This ried a litt too far, which made the known as adding Insult to injury. Dean express the fear that a genera [tion had grown up who were not Taking No Chancel

C

warned of the awful possibilities of The youth who writes his Tove another war struggle which letters with invisible-ink would probably result in the entire |wreck of civilisation-Reuter,

PRIZE MISPRINT,

"The wedding presents, which Jand did not make a short-suit lead, were both costly and humorous, The would have chosen that suit for

the Opening. The Declarer con

tinued with another lead of clube Springtime Warning.

from ~ Dummy, completing the Poets are born--not paid fnesse against East's Queen. Hê

traction at the Star Theatre. It is Alison Skipworth, Roland Young a fast and exciting picture showing and Sari Maritza, now showing at the "inside" life of "gold-diggers," the Queen's Theatre, is an amusing notrump, played by South, and Queen, and East considered the Mary had a little lamb

The eventual contract was three now led a low diamond to Dummy's Nursery Rhyme (Revised). who prey wealthy men. 3.

comedy.

West's Opening lead was the 2 of situation” and thến" won' with the] Which she complained was tough. Lowell Sherman, acter-director, In this story Roland Young and hearts. This lead probably mark- Ace, 4

(This does not mean "hán plays the part of a speakeasy Miss Skipworth are cast as a pair in length. Three hearts appeared tricks, 2 heart tricks and possibly

ed his heart suit as of four cards He knew the Declarer had 4 club of course), "China Mail" Ofice, SA, Wyndham St LAMMERT BROS. habitue, who saves his brother's

honour and money.

of titled Britons, who discovering in the Dummy, and East held two. 13 diamond tricks. He felt assured The cast is well choses and In-that they have no money, set out for Thus, the Declarer also held four that there was but one chance to cludes the vivacious Mae Murray, America where they open up a

[hearts.

defeat the contract. South,” If his A Willesden woman was accused Karen Morley, Edward Martindel

The Declarer's next play was to reading of West's hand was cor- of biting her mother-in-law. It is and Ethel Levy.

speakeasy. Their principal difficul-attack the club suit-probably not rect; also held a 444-1 distribu- understood, however, that the hus ty is not with the law, but with thejhis beat play. However, winning tion, with a singleton in the spade bandwas always finging his MAIL REVIEW

bootleggers, who insist that they the first trick with the Ace of suit. This singleton was probably mother in his wife's teeth.

bearts, he led a club to the the only missing high honour In take far more liquor than they can Dummy, winning with the Ace, that suit. East, therefore, now led ** SEX APPEAL.

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He then returned the Enave, and the spade Ace, in order to drop There is a shortage of young The English pair, in a series of when East did not cover, permitted South's singleton, and followed women in the Southern States of the highly amusing incidents, succceed it to hold. West failed to follow with a small spade, which West U.S.A. Hence the theme “sony, Herbert Marshal is co-featured in heating the bootleggers at their on the second round, thus marking won with the Knave, and returned "Brother, can you spars a dame!!! with Sari Maritza, in "Evenings own game.jp

his probable distribution as four a spade through Dummy's fenace, for Sal," now showing at the Sari Maritza is seen as Boland diamonds, four hearts, four spades permitting East to cash "^2"more Majestic Theatre.

Young's daughter. Her romance and one club. West evidently did spade tricks and defeat the con- Based on the novel by I. A. R. with Kent Taylor, a son of an not hold a five-card suit, as other-tract. Wylie, of post-war Vienna, the American millionaire, runs through-wise, inasmuch as he had no Defensive counting had been like this who put a fellow right of. film is highly entertaining and is out the picture.

honour holding from which to lead turned to an effectual mrpose, his distinguished by its brilliant cast,

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A pleasing feature of the film” are the Viennese waltzes which run through the entire picture.. MAIL REVIEW

FROM

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ORIENTAL THEATRE

"The New Fox Follies," now show- ing at the Oriental Theatre, is a

at Mesure. Alex Boss & Co.'s very elaborate musical comedy Garage, Salisbury Road, Star which contains tuneful songs, Ferry Approach, Kowloon.catchy muste, specially dances and A NUMBER OF USED AND a host of pretty chorus girls,

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El Brendel takes the leading role in this picture, other notable w. Collier, Jnr. Noel Francis, actora being Frank Richardson,

Majorie White and Miriam Seegar.

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