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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME:

Report

| MAHATMA GANDHI'S DEVOTEES

Many Callers During Recent Fast.

SUICIDE FOLLOWS REFUSAL

Росла

recorded music will be broadcasting remarks, "I am a man with a

from the Studio).

2.15 pm. Close Down

The following programme will.be. broadcast to-day from the Hong Even the most experienced means of the good spades, the ace Kong Broadcasting: Station: ZB.W.

When Mr Gandhi was fasting at K.C.6)- players of bridge are sometimes in and queen of hearts and the trick on a wavelength of 355 metres (845)

"Parnakuti In Poona, callers were doubt as to the best bid to make in clubs.

The no-trump caller thus makes in starting the auction, so that

12:30 pm-European programme of persistent in their demand for the Columbia records.

"Darahan," (Seeing Mr. Gandhi). "Rain," a story with an exotic those who are comparative novices what she contracted to do, and

1 pm-Local Time and Weather One of them was a. Randit background, tense emotional apare to be excused if they show un-with average players this often exercising their regarded as quite satfactory, for

He 1.15 p.m. A relay of the Hong (Learned man) from Benaras and be the they fall to recognise that their peal and swift plot action, sup-certainty

cast choice, which may not ported by an extraordinary

the Management. (During the inter-sent in his card with the follow- is the current attraction at the wisest that could be made. A cards are capable of producing bet-Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy of a great scholar of Sanskrit.

player who is in a position to deter results. King's Meatre

The glamorous Joan Crawford clare originally may have a hand if the dealer. bearing in mind takes the leading role as Sadle which will justify either a major, the weakness of a singleton in a Thompson, a blithe little "unfor suit call, an invitational bid of one no-trump hand, decides to make tunate" from San Francisco's Bar in a minor suit, or a speculative (the "approach bid" of one club, in- no-trump. In cases like these the viting the partner to take out the bary Coast.

The oppressive, hest-ridden tro-Judgment shown will determine call to anything better that her pics are background for "Rain." whether a game will be made or cards suggest, the probability is

that the latter will say one ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS. Incessant seasonal rain contributes only a partial score obtained.

An actual hand such as one sees trump, so that the sequel will be to the general condition of nerves

¡frequently in play will be instruc- the same as if Z made the declara brought to the snapping point.

Take A dashy, materialistic little girl,tive as an illustration of the pos- tion. In this Instance B will open this from her four suit, and the aubse- with a crimson past, is thrown into sibilities in bidding.

rabid deal, in which the cards "ara dis-quent play will be identical with. enforced contact with moral reformer and his bible-tributed in a fairly normal way: that already indicated. reading wife. The reformer must)

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The climax is as tremendous an any on stage or screen these last tes years. And, though the theme is one of tragic futility and frus- tration, many scenes offer a bright contrast.

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"REUNION IN VIENNA”—- QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Y:-S.-Q. J, 9, 2.

H-A, 6, 4, 3

D.-10, 7, 4

C.-Q. 5.

A:-S-7, 4

H.-, 10 D.-K, 9, 8, 3, 2. C.-K, 8, 7, & B: S8, 5, 3.

H-K, 8, D.—A, J, 6, 5. C.-J, S. 2.

Z-S.-A, K, 10, 6.

H.-Q. 9, 5, 2

• D.-Q.

C-A, 10, 9, 4.

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Now how does it happen that Z may refrain from making the pro- iper bid on her hand--a bid that Her call [will produce game?

should be one spade. She is evi- numerous dently one of the very class of players who will never call a major suit on fewer than five cards. They have not made: themselves acquainted with the (developments in bridge which have few been a feature of the past İyears.

The value of the four-card major suit bid, when there is adequate

CHINESE STUDIO CONCERT TO-NIGHT

6-8 p.m.-European programme. 6-6:30 pm. Variety.

I Like. Mountain Musk

Orchestra-

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When It's Lamplightin' Time in

the Valley.

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra CB622, Humorous Song

Dear Old Fashioned Thing, Sere

Veils, p

Hew words. I have come to see the Mahatma. If you will allow me it will be all right for Gandhi and for me; if you do not, there' is no I must see hope for either of us. him if he is to survive."

*

Another when refused permis- sion to be ushered in Mr. Gandhi's presence he was heard to mutter to himself. "Well, I was born on Norman Long DE383. the Ganges and now I will go and Organ Solo-Ple..ading,

Devotion, Terance Casey 6354, die in the Ganges:" Descritive Sketch

Another Day's Broadcasting,

Clapham

& Dwyer DB1009 Piano Solo

Now That You're Gone, Can't We Talk it Oyer,

Carroll Gibbons & His Boy

Friends 6.30.7.10 p.m.-Musical Comedyy, Selection-

Yet another devotee, a religious mendicant living on the banks of the sacred river Manorama, in the modern province of Oudh, serta representative with dry grapes, figs, apples and almonds to be de DB805livered to Mr. Gandhi as the men- dicanta "prasad" (blessings).—— Reuter.

Oh With the Show, 1829, Cesanova ....Debroy Somers Band!

2755, Vocal Duet-

The New Moon-Wanting You,

Evelyn Lye & Howelt Worster.

WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.

Sang-

The New Moon-The Girl on the Some Suicide Statistics.

Prew, Evelyn Laye & Chorus

trenght in the hand, has been prov-Selection-Cavalcade,

Song

9752.

Debroy Somers Band DX305. The dealer is Z, who has three ed and has been carried to its lo

so that she has agical conclusion in contract bid. Vocal Gems-A Country Girl,

Columbia Light Opera Company "Reunion in Vienna," now show quick tricks,

DX73. 7.10-8 p.m.-Concert Items, ing at the Queen's Theatre, is a hand well above the average, and ding. The auction bridge player beautiful romance of old Vienna, must certainly make a call, or she should not allow herself to be pre. the starring

Barrymore John

and will not be doing her duty to her judiced against this call on

I Want Your Heart (Carter annd innovation

Haydn Wood), Diana Wynyard.

partner. If for some reason known ground that it is an

Love Everyylasting (Cushing and

Friml), These are smiles and tears and only to herself she should abstain and was never sanctioned by the this from bidding no one clse at the teachers of the game in the days romantic thrills offered in

Ina Souez (Soprano) DB839

of version

the famous table will have anything to say when she was a pupfl. screen

Mr. R. F. Foter, pointing out Piano Solo-

La Campanella (Llezt), Broadway play, and a clever cast and the bands will be thrown in.

Mischa Levitzki 2039-M. of actors and musicians contribute This fact makes it clear that the that five card in a major suit con-

denier should bid; but what should stitute the standard puts the case Vocal Octette to the entertainment.

Studies in Imitation (arr. Hughes), in a nutshell when he says: John Barrymore in a uniform is that bid be?

The Keys of Heaven (arr. Button) With a hand like this there is a The simplest rule that i have!

London, Male Voice Octette DX39. while Dianna still irresistible, Wynyard proves herself to be both temptation to call one no-trump, be found for four-card bida Jn the Violin Solo

Air Russe (Wieniawski),

Rene Benedetti 60284-D beautiful and clever as an actress, cause there is sufficient strength in major suits is this: Say to your! The music is one of the features high cards and three of the suits self, "If I had a fifth card in this of the film.

are protected; bat a player who suit would I bid it?" If the an-Song- knows anything of modern bidding (swer is yes, then see if you have a theories will remember that the sure trick outside that suit. That singleton diatond, although it is trick will take the place of the miss- the queen, is a danger signal, giving trump

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"THE PHANTOM OF.. -CRESTWOOD"-CENTRAL THEATRE.

Madrid.

People who cannot read of write were freer from suicides than those of any other grade of edoca- tion during the third quarter of 1932 in Spain. -

Statistics just published show that there were 546 cases of sui- cide, or attempted suicide, during that period.

The largest proportion of male suicides was among married men the smallest -end widower:

among

Hanging was the most frequent method of suicide, and the prin cipal causes were illness and loss of employment--Reuter.

The Three Comrader (Bernholff-

Hermann), Friend! (Sassin & Davies).

Mostyyn Thomas (Baritone)

Piano Solo-

Three Ecossaises (Chopin), Rondo Brillant (Webar),

Ania Dorfmann DX449.

"Spirit" was, the subject of the and Weather Time 8 p.m.-Local

Lesson-Sermon which was read in Report.

Concert all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on 8.3.10.30 p.m.-Chinese from the Studio.

10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press Sunday, August 6th." 10.35 p.m. Close Down. All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.

MEDIAEVAL ARSENAL REVEALED Hundreds Of Weapons,In Buried Store

LESSON SERMON DX234 First Church of Christ, Scientist-Hong Kong.

News,

ing a plain warning that to venture Applying this rule to the band a no-trump will involve some risk. given we find that the ace of clubs Let us assume that the dealer, supplies the sure trick which com ignoring the signal in her own pensates for the absence of a fifth All the clements of the conven-hand, bide a no-zrump. The call card in spades. The dealer should tional murder-mystery story have is left in and A opens the play have no hesitation in bidding ons

The Golden Text. was: "Teach What will happen? The been considered by the author in with the fourth best of her long spade.

me to do thy will; for thou art my

thy

Is LTD. writing "The Phantom of Crest diamond suit. B takes it with the opponents have no call, and Z's

spirit

good" God: wood," which is now showing at ace, and on the fall of the queen partner will be satisfied "with the

(Ps. 143:10). more bid. the Central Theatre. The result is the road is clear for four

Among the citations which com- one of the most entertaining and diamond tricks. On the fifth lead

Called on to play. A will have

prised the Lesson-Sermon was the most baffling tales of its type yet by A her partner discards the dificulty in selecting a lead. She

following from the Bible: "But as seen on the screen.

seven or eight of hearts as an in-will know that to open from a suit

it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor The beautiful victim, for intimation that she has a probable headed by the king is undesirable,

ear heard, neither have entered into. stance, is murdered by a child's trick in that suit.

and in her dilemma she may play

the heart of man, the things which toy. The mystery is solved by The jack of hearts is led, and' as a heart or even a spade up to the

God nath prepared for them that a eriminal. Not a single detective the king must make sooner or later declarer. Whatever she leads the

love him. But God hath revealed appears in the story, and no em the declarer allows the trick to go result will be the same-2, if abe

them unto us by his Spirit: for the phasis is placed upon finger prints. to B If a club is sent through plays- her cards with any discre-

A peasant pioushing near Tuzla, Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the The cast includes Karen Morley, in the hope that A may have some-tion, must make game in spades. Ricardo Cortes, H. B. Warner, Pau- thing in that suit Z is compelled She will lose one heart, one dia-South Jugoslavia, came across a deep things of God....Now we have Ene Frederick and George B. to put in the ace in order to secure mond and one club,

the contract, which is made by Stone.

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huge marble slab, too heavy for received, not the spirit of the

was played with him to raise unaided. With the world, but the spirit which is of As trumps the declarer help of neighbours he lifted the God; that we might know the things would make four tricks over, but alab. Beneath was a store-house that are freely given to us of God."; MAIL REVIEW

if Z called initially one club her built of stone containing, hun-(I Cor. 9,10,11).

The Lesson-Sermon also included There were swords of crusad-the following passages from the "THE CISCO KID"-MAJESTIC partner would be more likely to bid dreds of weapons.

a suit a no-trump than to name THEATRE

which, although headed by the ing pattern, a variety of knives Christian Science textbook, "Science and daggers, battle-axes and and Health with Key to the Scrip Edmund Lowe and Warner Bar-

In view of the fact that many maces, bill-hooks, pike-heads and tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "The great verities of Spirit, "Secrets of the French Police," ter are featured in O., Henry's, has small cards beneath it. the current attraction at the famous novel of the West entitled

the value of the four-card bid, it in pons are engraved with Turkish omnipotence, omnipresence, omni- Oriental Theatre, adapted The Cisco Kid," now showing at players are not yet familiar with scythe blades. Some of the wea-three

marked with science-Spirit possessing all power, ascript, others are

rusty| filling all space, constituting all from Mr. H. Ashton-Wolfts famous the Majestic Theatre.

Miss Conchita Montenegro in the sensible practice if you are

Science-contradict forever the be memoirs of the French Surete,

can be actual. combined with the story The leading feminine role, takes the believer in it to inform the other Roman figures. All are

eternal verities reveal. Lost Princess." The film is a very part of a Mexican dancer with players that you may call on a mi-and disfigured.

this intimation has been given report on the history of this These interesting one and contains many whom both Warner Baxter and jor sult of four cards only. After An expert has been sent to lef that matter

Edmund Lowe fall in love, Nora thrilling episodes..

Gwili Andre heads the cast, sup- Lane also contributes an important your partner will be impressed with dump, which is not far from the primeval existency as the radiant your bid when she has only one or ture was recently unearthed all that He has made is pronounced by 'His wisdom good" (pp. 109,110). ported by John Warburton, Gre-feminine role as the other love in the absolute necessity of denying spot where some Roman sculp-reality of God's creation, in which

two cards of your declared suit. gory Batoff and Frank Morgan.

POP

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terest.

No Light Matter.

HAVE I GOT TO SLEEP

IN THE DARK

DARK

Reuter.

By J. MILLAR WATT.

YES

WELL, LET ME SAY MY

PRAYERS OVER AGAIN

CAREFULLY I

1113, by the Bell Syndic