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A useful device in defence is the Jack, 10, it is definitely wrong to "Echo," which is also known as play high, low. You are sure of a The Come on Signal" or "Peter trump trick any way and you don't ing. It consists of the play of an want to use your trumps for ruf

port "Ronny", the French musical unnecessarily high card in follow- fing.

ing to a suit lead and the later play It is necessary, therefore, to dia- screen operetta now showing at of a lower card. Against a No tinguish at once the occasions when the Central Theatre is tuneful, Trumper the Echo shows merely you should give the signal and when lively, and entertaining. Kate von

strength or cagerat least four you should not Nagy, in the title role is delightful in the sult in which it is play There was an old rule that you 'should never peter with an honour. while her singing is one of the ed.

outstanding features of the pic- Against a trump declaration it The reason of course is that by ture. The continuity of the plot announces that the player can take playing such a high card you may is smooth. The scene is laid in the third round of the suit either aacrifice a trick. But there are oc Ruitana and Ronny is mistaken for with a high card or with a trump casions when it certainly pays to a noted singer whom Ruitana's While all players recognise the do so, and most good players, now, officials believe they can use to high-low play as indicating ability are prepared to peter with two divert the attention of the Prince to ruff, they do not realise that it cards headed by a Jack or by a 10. Here is a case in point. South of Perusa (Marie Dantzer) while should be used also to show com- they are looting the ruins of the mand of the suit ".

is playing contract of Five! country. The music is exceptional The most obvious case is when Hearts. East opens with the King your partner leads a Ring from of Diamonds. Dummy puts down Ace, King. You hold Queen and Diamonds Queen 7.4, and some others of the suit and wish him to other good cards. West holds in continue it. You should play first Dlamonds-Jack 2 He realises at a high card of the suit on the King once that the only chance of de

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Song-

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Plano Solo

Mary Garden (Soprano) 1439.

By the Brookside (Stafowski) The Prophet Bird (Schumann)

Song

Ignace Jan Paderewski 1426.

By the Short Cut to the Roses

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The Irish Emigrant

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TREVITHICK REAL INVENTOR

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"Humanity" now showing at the It is true that this does not tell King led he therefore plays the King's Theatre is a dramatic him definitely that you hold the Jack East continues with the Ace. story, the setting of which will no Queen. He may read it that you West plays the 2, and East leads a ¡A great variety of Sua Helmets, doubt strike a responsive chord in have only two. But that does not third round and West gets his ruff |

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The "Come on Signal" may be not to misunderstand it. of love one that offers strength

But the object of this article is and happiness and another that given by the play of a high card-

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life a group of vivid characters ex-continue the suit you should play You may have the third round of the 9 on the Ace. If you play the a sult secure, but it may be much cellently portrayed.

3 that is discouragement to him to better from your point of view that 'go on and probably he will shift to 'you should not have the lead im

mediately on the third round.. Janother suit.

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"THE PLATINUM BLONDE", QUEEN'S THEATRE

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steam pressure which rarely ex- ceeded four or five pounds to the square inch.

Trevithick eliminated the con- denser and increased the pres- sure to between 80 and 100 pounds. In this way he produc- ed a portable engine.

On Christmas Eve; 1801, his Barber of Seville-Slander's Whisper road carriage carried the first

(Rossini)

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1. Star Dust'... Novelty

But let us consider first the most, You therefore, wish your part- obvious signal ie, when you hold ner not to continue, the suit but to two only of a suit. Your partner lead anether suit. Otherwise you leads the King which must be from may be put to a disadvantageous 2. The question whether

poor Ace, King or King, Queen. You lead.

It is necessary, then, to put your man and a nobody can marry have two only of the suit and can beauty of wealth and social stand-ruff the third round. The obvious partner off the continuance of the ing and yet keep his Identity is play is high, low and many players suit and this you can do by neglect told in "The Platinum Blonde", make it as a matter of course. now showing at the Queen's Theatre..

ing to signal To make this clear), But it does not follow at all that take this case:---

Spader-A 7 &

Hearts:----10 Diamonds- & 6 Club-Q J 10 8 7 4.

it is necessarily, on all occasions, North The story concerns a freedom-the correct play. loving reporter who thinks that he As soon as the lead is made you is in love with a spoiled heiress, must consider what Dummy holds, She leads him a wild life of parties, what you hold and whether, if you and revellery until he finally dis-ruff the third round of the uit, it East covers that his real love is the girl-jis going to do you any good at all. reporter on the same paper, Thus Declarer is playing a contract Your partner

"The Platinum Blonde" is a new of Four Hearts. filme and the new faces which ap-leads King of Clubs and Dummy pear in the picture will doubtlessly puts down Queen, Jack, 10 9 5 of West

the suit and has an Ace also in his be highly welcomed.

hand. You hold 8 8 of Clubs.

Jean Harlow, who is herself ↑ platinum blonde, plays the leading role with Loretta Young and Ruben williams-

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"AFRAID TO TALK."-- MAJESTIC THEATRE.

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Spades-9 & 0 Hearts-653 Diamonds-A 2 1, 4 Clubs 9 6 2

Spades K 10 B Hearts 742 Diamonds-Q 9·8· Cluba-Ka

Spades 3 2. Hearts-A I QI a.

In these circumstances. It is not wise to Echo and induce your part- ner to clear the suit. Even if you South ruff the third round it is kely that you will be over ruffed by De- clarer. It is true you have "killed" one winner in Dummy. But that may not compensate for making two cards good in Dummy.

If you don't play high on the first The exciting drama, "Afraid To round, your partner, if he is wise, Talk," latest change at the Majestic will not continue the suit and will Theatre," is one of those rare-fea- hold up his Ace. There are numer-

and sends them away thinking at is bad play to echo. the same time.

Diamonds--10-7.2

Clubs A &

Programme

Tell me To-night

Smile and Sing Your Cares Away I Guess I'll Have to Change

mind.

Let's

Out the Lights

Bow

in the Ocean?

Marry Three's a Crowd

My

Darling

wing

3. Lover Everlasting

Merry

Play Fiddle Play

Love's Sweet Dream

my

In 1808 he again added to the gaiety of London. This time he built a circular railway near the new highway, now called Euston- Road, and thrilled the public by rushing them round, at, a speed varying between 12 and 16 miles an hour wor

But he foresaw other possibi- lities than transport for his in- vention: He used it for boring and breaking rock, and for dredg ing, and be entered into a con- tract to lift ballast from the bed of the Thames. He said he could raise 500,000 tons a year.

...

Even that did not exhaust his inventive enthusiasm. He bullt a threshing machine and in 1812 More thant All the World to me

he told the Board of Agriculture Masquerade

p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-that if they used steam, in all the phases of agriculture they 3-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con- would double the population of 10.30 pm-Rugby Mid-day Press the country and make our mar- News.

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8 port

10.35 p.m.-Close Down

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Restor

300-Years-Old Tomb Burnt Out died at Dartford penniless.

BI-CENTENARY OF DISH INVENTOR

London.

Loethen. Score game all; love all

The remains of a 16-year-old| South bids One Heart; East No Princess have just been cremat-| Bld; North Two Clubs: West No ed at Loethen, Anhalt, Gerthany. But the Princess died more Bld; South Two Hearts,

All pass.

than 300 years ago. East opens the King of Diamonds. Her remains lay in the tomb tures which thrills its audience cus occasions of this kind when it West plays the 9. East continues of the Frincely house of Anphalt Potteries To Celebrate.

Similarly with the Ace, Weat playing the 8. Koethen, in St. Jacob's church. leads a third round, Aspark from a lamp set the tomb when you hold four trumps to the East

fire and the coffin of the The man who invented dining As the innocent pawn of the Jack or the 10, or, when you hold which West wins with the Queen on

know them was Josiah Spode, powers which run a great city. Ace bare or King, Queen, or Queen, West is now landed with the lead princess was destroyed-Reuter: plates and dishes as we now jand whatever he lands South

born in Stoke-on-Trent, Eric Linden is excellently cast and

makes game. West is now landed Clubs West does not cover and the was plays his part with a realism which

with the lead and whatever he long Club suit is killed because Staffordshire, 200 years ago. convinces from the start.

next, "The Mummy" is now show, South makes game. Whereas if South has now only one card Spode was a famous potter, and ing at the Oriental Theatre. West does not echo in Diamonds, of entry-viz. the 10 of Hearts and the first potter to add an engrav- ing and printing work to his pot- It is a tale of ancient Egypt, East's obvious lead at the third West has Four Hearts. with huge sets designed by Will trick is a Spade and East and This example is interesting betery Pogany, the American scenic West save the game with three cause in actual play West mada To celebrate the 200th anni- use of the Echo and lest a game versary the town of Stoke will artist, and Boris Karloff breaking Diamonds and One Epače.

lox-Reuter. The "horror" phase in pictures all records for fantastic make-up If South puts up: Dummy's Ace and rubber which might have been have a feast of a whole roasted

of Spades and leads the Queen of aavad. has not yet ended. Boris. Karloff's as a 3,700-years-old-mummy,

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"THE MUMMY”—ORIENTAL

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POP Pop's Opinion Of Scientific Research,

WE DON'T HEAR

MUCH ABOUT

·THAT

ATOM

THAT WAS

·SPLIT

UP

No!

By J. MILLAR WATT,

DON'T THINK

IT TURNED OUT ALL IT

WAS CRACKED UP TO

BE!