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"RAIN"-KING'S THEATRE.

SOME GOLDEN RULES

By CAPT. LINDSAY MUNDY

3,000 MILE

RADIO FLIGHT OVER

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. The partner of the opening bid- more than the valueless, and if you on a wavelength of 355 metres (845

recog-

ICE WASTE

Expedition In Early Autumn.

SOUTH POLE ATTEMPT.

London. The chief feature of the second expedition will be à 3,000 mile

waste

I p.m.--Local Time and Weather

Rotary 1.30 p.m.-A relay of the

Restaurant,

surrounding the South 2 pm. (approx)-Close Down. Club Tim Speech from the Gloucester flight across the uncharted its

RELAY OF THE SOUTH WALES Pole.

BORDERER'S BAND. TO-NIGHT. 4.30.7 p.m.---Chinese · recorded pro- It is being financed, and direct- gramme.

ed, by Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the 7-11 p.m.--European programme.

pm. Closing Leesi Stock Quota-American explorer, with Mr. Betzt tions, etc.

7.3-9.15 p.di

as pilot and navigator. programma of Balchen Columbia records

For their fight, they will use 7.3-8.10 p.m.--Variety.

"air brakes" fitted beneath the wings to enable them to slow'down to about 25 miles an hour and; if as gently as a bird necessary, land nic on the ice..

Queen may be either on their left Resorts Local Time and Weather machines especially equipped with

Orchestral

Song-

Goodnight but Not Goodbye, You've Got me Crying Again,

B.B.C. Dance Orchestra CB607. Organ Solo-In Old Thibet,

Gatty Sellars DB721.

You're Getting to be a Habit Orchestral--Young and Healthy,

Ben Selvin & His Orch: CB576.

The Dubarry-If I am Dreaming, Helen The Shepherd's Song,

Heddle Nash (Tenor) DB818

Guitar Solo Banio Sola-Three Little Words,

The World is Waiting for the

Sunrise.....Len Fillis DB498. Orchestral-Keen it to Yourself,

Just an Old Chateau,

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra CB616. 8.10-8.30 p.m. |

der is known as the responder. At hold more than the minimum we

12.30 p.m.-European programme of Contract he has to fill a much more may have a game bid either in KC's) - responsible position than he does your suit, or in mine, or in No- Columbia records.

Trumpa." If the Opener is strong "Animal Kingdom," now show.at Auction.

At the older game if the openers enough to bid again, the Respon- Report. ing at the Central Theatre, is a beautifully told "eternal triangle" bid suits his hand. he merely lies der's next move will show which story supported by a splendid cast, low and does nothing, unless, of of these messages was the one he including Leslie Howard, Ann course, the opponents intervene. intended to convey.

Finessing Against Partner. If the opener's bid doen hot suit Harding and Myrna Loy.

Leslie Howard, the young British him he makes a minimum' bld In One of the first rules drummed into the student of the play of the actor now an established favourite his own suit or in no-trumps.

At Contract he has the addition-cards is, "Never finesse againat in Hollywood, plays the part of a

Many beginners fall to sensitive young publisher, who is al and highly important duty of your partner." in love with Ann Harding, Myrns raising the opener's bid as far to- Loy, is ideal as his nasty nice wards a game or slam contract as nise that, when they hold A J 10 his hand permits, and, if he of a suit, and they see K x x in There is tremendous elemental switches, of deciding whether to dummy on the right, so that the in their partner's hand, to drama in the unseen clash of per- make a pre-emptive bid or not sonalities, the silent battle of In deciding on his first bid, the or

must be governed finesse against the Queen is not minds, the contest between the responder spiritual and physical appeal of primarily by the same main con-really finessing against their part- sideration as the opener, the con-ner. It is primarily making a sure The picture is one that cannot sideration which is the foundation- finesse against dummy's King, the fail to give an hour of fine enter-stone of the Direct System. That finesse against the Queen being re- full legated to second place, and there is to show immediately the tainment,

fore becoming permissible. strength of his hand.

If the finesserwing the first The Pre-Emptive Bid. Hence his first Golden Rule is, round of the suit with the 10, thus "Make a pre-emptive bid whenever finding that his partner holds the it is justified." Let me here recall Queen, he will remain with A. J. "Rain," a story with an exotic that in using the term "pre-over dummy's K x, and thus not! any way lose any of the first three rounds background. tense emotional ap-emptive" I am not in

Jascribing the meaning of "shut-left wins with the Queen, the peal and swift plot action, sup

out" to that word. I merely mean of that auit. If the player on his holds the major ported by an extraordinary cast,

at the any bid which is numerically high-finesser still is the current attraction

er than the lowest available bid in tenace over dummy's King, and so King's Theatre.

the same denomination. Thus the wins the next two rounds. With takes the leading role as Sadie term is equally applicable to open-both King and Queen against him sons of all classes to suit Em Thompson, a blithe little "unfor, ing bids of Two or more, to Jump he was bound to lose one trick in YOUR VISITING CARDS nestly and

printed."China

The second Golden Rule by If, on the other hand, fearing to Mail" ployers' requirements with satisfac- promptly Offee, No. 3A, Wyndham St.

Teletion. Enquiries will be promptly at tunate" from San Francisco's Bar. Raises, and to Jump Take-outs.

bary Coast.

which he must be guided is, "Bebe accused of fnessing against bia phone 20022.

tended to. Everything will be free of charge. Please write or telephone

bid." Hence, when holding normal first round, then dummy's King to 67, Des Voeux Road Central, pics are background for "Rain." loyal to your partner's major-suit partner, he plays the Ace on the David House, 1st floor. Tel. 28919 Incessant seasonal rain contributes trump support of Q x x or x x x x becomes good, so that if the de

Ito the general condition of nerves

or better, never desert your part-clarer holds the Queen the result (brought to the snapping point.

A flashy, materialistic little girlner's sult, if he has made a one-of refusing to finesse is the loss of bid in a major suit, unless you two tricks instead of one, while if with a crimson paat is thrown into have an exceptionally long and the Queen is in the finesser's part-

ner's hand, the refusal to finesse! moral reformer and his bible-jatrong suit of your own.

I would have used the word means the loss of one trick in the reading wife. The reformer must

There is one position in which it) needs try to "save" the girl; the deny," instead of "desert," except suit instead of none at all.

for the fact that I so often hear girl must daunt her charms before

people assert that bidding a differ.jis correct to finesse against your not elmul- the reformer.

jent suft does not deny your part-partner, even though any on stage or screen these laster's suit. In the Direct System taneously finesaing against dummy. it most emphatically does do so. Iten years. And, though the theme The factor which makes the golden

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A Collection of Valuable Curios comprising:

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The glamorous Joan

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The oppressive, heat-ridden tro-

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"REUNION IN VIENNA”— QUEEN'S THEATRE.

to the entertainment.

this

rule so sound is the fact that it is very exceptional for a One-bid in a major suit to be made on any- thing less than a five-card suit.

Denial Bida.

the suit.

FIENDISH MURDER IN SWAZILAND

The Seasons Ballet (Glazounow),

Alexandre Glazounow & Orchestra

LX29/30.

Lucerne Kursaal Orchestra LX/30.! 8.30-9.15 p.m.-Operatic Selections. Dance of the Flowers (Delibes).

Orchestral ---

(Wagner).

Die Meistersinger-Overture

Brano Walter and Symphony

Orchestra DX88.

Orchestral-

La Tosca-Selection (Puccini,

arr. Tavan),

New Queen's Hall Light

Orchestra 8305. Alde Selection (Verdi, arr Tavan. New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra

3904

Orchestral

Orchestral

A

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New Queen's Hall Light

9.15.11 p.m.

Orchestra 9307.

They intend to set out in a spe- cially purchased ship, the "Fanaf jord," in the early autumn, for the Bay of Whales. There, near the spot used by Captain Amundsen when he beat Captain Scott in the tragic race to the South Pole more than 20 years ago they will es- tablish their main base. ·

The "Fanafjord" will then tako them to the great ice barrier whence Ellsworth and Balchen will take off on their great flight.

upon "Everything will depend the weather," says Mr. Balchen "Apart from navigation, the flight should present no difficulties and 20 should not take; longer than hours.

-

Sir. H. Wilkins as Guest "I shall be pilot navigator and wireless operator, while Mr. Ells- worth will be in charge of photo. graphic work and will also lend a hand with the navigation.

"We shall have three cameras, one of them fitted with, a special automatic mechanism enabling it to take one picture every minute.

"If we have to land, I should

South Wales Boderers, conduct think that from a height of 3,000 ed by Bandmaster J. L. Geeks. ft. we ought to Be able to pick out relay of the Band of the 1st Battn.

fmm Mount Austin Barracks. By kind permission of the Commanding.

Offcera suitable spot, and our landing

skis and ‘air brakes' ought to make

Accompanying the expedition as

10.30 p.m.-Rugby Mid-day Press a landing easy." News.

11 p.m.-Close Down. All records in the above European a guest will be Sir Hubert-Wilkins,

kindly supplied by the famous British explorer whe

STOLTAMMEs are

There is a dictum applicable to Five Sentenced To Deat. Anderson Music Co. the policy of the responder which

In Witchcraft Case. grow very tired of hearing. It is to the effect that in Contracti

PRINCE OF WALES MAKES "TALKIE”

To Be Seen As He Really Is.

last year unsuccessfully attempted

to reach the North Pole in a sub- marine...

་་

When he returns, Sir Hubert in- tends to set to work on plans for an- other submarine expedition to the Arctic-Reuter.

SUNDAY CONCERTS AT PENINSULA.

Enjoyable Hotel Functions.

W&5

"Reunion in Vienna," now show-

there is no such thing as a Denial CHILD'S BODY AS "MEDICINE" is a ing at the Queen's Theatre,

bid, and, again, that the only beautiful romance of old Vienna, Denial bid is à Fass Both the

Mbabane (Swaziland). starring John Barrymore and

dicta are utter rubbish. Á PASS Another fiendishly cruel with- Diana Wynyard.

denies any biddable strength in craft case among natives has Agate and Jade

These are smiles and tears and the band, either for raising your just been revealed and will cost Ivoryware, Porcelain, Cloisonne

romantic thrills offered in and Bronze ware, Bowls and Plates,

of, the famous partner's bid, or for initiating one the five persons responsible their version

lives. They were charged with of your own. screen

London and Jade Inlain Broadway play, and a clever cast

If you have, say, a singleton of the murder of a two-year-old For the information of visitors | Blackwood

and You have often seen the Prince purposes" the following list of some of the Screens, Buddahs, Pictures, Orns-of actors and musicians contribute

your partner's suit, and either a for "medical

the film cameras. medium or a strong hand outside among those sentenced to death of Wales on the cinema, I expect. bigbeet points on the Island and ments etc., etc.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

John Barrymore in a uniform is

Pass to deny his suit. If you have trict.. The Chief, his mother,They never do him justice. On View from Tuesday, the 8th. still irresistible,, while Diamant, you obviously cannot employ a is Chief Ngunguna of Hluti Dig. Do not believe

But now at last he will be seen Wynyard proves herself to be both

a singleton or a chicane a his his wife, another woman and a

He has just spent) August, 1933.

beautiful and clever as an actress.suit, provided your hand is not man suspected of being a witch as he really is.

Enjoyable entertainment The music is one of the features valueless there is obviously a great doctor were found guilty of the more than an hour at a film studio Auctioneers

probability that there may be a murder of the child for the pur-at Shepherd's Bush "recording" the again, afforded at the Peninsula different declaration more suited pose of procuring parts of the prologue of a film of his life which Hotel with last Sunday's Sym- has just been complied. And for phonic Concert, provided by the body for medicinal purposes. to the combined hands.

the Prince suffered massed bands of The Hong Kong Hence, if the responder makes a Witnesses said that a child of this occasion minimum bid of One No-Trump or two years, daughter of a Chris himself to be "made-up" with & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. under the the popular the grease paints just like a real film conductorship Two of a minor suit over the tian native living near opener's One of a major guit, the child's kraal, was missing, and actor, so that, for once his face will leader Mr. A. Gellam. There was

And the make-ciative gathering of patrons. "Secrets of the French Police," first message it conveys is that he was later seen in the hut of one photograph with its proper light present quite a large and appre-

and-shade values.

Several old favourites figured in. the

current attraction at the has not got normal support in the of the women.

A native alleged to have par-up expert who attended him was a

an attractive programme of well Oriental Theatre,

was adapted opener's suit.

The second balf of its message ticipated in the crime, nd who German! {from Mr. H. Ashton-Wolft's famous- memoirs of the French Surete, may be either of two things. It had turned King's evidence, said The Prince faced the whirring selected compositions, and on the combined with the story The may be, "I hate your sult. like that he and the chief's mother cameras and the sensitive micro- whole every number was most The These concerts have proved to Lost Princess." The film is 2. very polson, and as my hand is not and wife held the child while the phones and proved that he was heartily received. Interesting one and contains many valueless, my suit or No-Trumps other woman broke ita neck word-perfect in his part.

may be better for us.". Or it may The child's body was then car-studio people said that be was far be decidedly attractive features on thrilling episodes.

Gwill Andre heads the cast, sup-be, "Although I have not got nor-ried to the chief's kraal and put more composed than many real Sunday nights at the Peninsula ported by John Warburton, Gre mal support in your suit, my handlin a hut, where the "medicine" starts at the beginning of a new Hotel and another is in course of

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