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BRIDGE NOTES

By ELY CULBERTSON

THE CHINA MAIL

WISE AND

OTHERWISE

SAD BUT TRUE

The following hand was played at a table of experts at Crockford's If you have not a coin for the Club not long ago, and the unfor- meter, It is no use putting your tonate East player, one of the rank-head in the oven and hoping for ing experts of the country, found the worst. himself trapped through the failure

of his left-hand opponent to live up to his reputation of bidding every hand to the hilt..

North-Dealer.

Both sides vulnerable. | North:~~

י

S-Q 754

H.-Q J7

D.-J 4

C.-A K Q &

Weal

S.-980

HK 10 8 2 D.-7 G G

CJ 189

East:-

S- 10 3

11.-A 9 4

D. A Q 0 8 3 C-8 7

South:-

S-A K 2

H.-3 5 3

D.-K 10 2

C-8 4 3 2

THE BIDDING:

(Figures after bids in table re-i

LITTLE PROBLEM STORY:

that?

ROUND HONG KONG'S

CINEMA THEATRES

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"DANGEROUSLY YOURS"---

T

"Dangerously Yours” now showi

KING'S THEATRE.

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"NO OTHER-WOMAN”—–— CENTRAL THEATRE

"No Other Woman," now show-

AN IMPRUDENCE TO

BE LOVED

Insurance Firm Raises Fine Point.

TRAGEDY VIOLATES CONTRACT

Paris.

Is it an imprudence to be loved!

|Or is it merely a fatality?

This question has arisen in con- ing at the King's Theatre, is a ing at the Central Theatre, is a nection with an insurance claim

powerful drama presenting the love following two tragic deaths.

fast-moving comedy drama

in

A cannibal says Englishman in which a charming your lady detecture offers unusual entertainment with a married woman from Paris triangle in a new theme. The pic-} A young Provencal fell in love the toughest thing he ever tasted. What's Mussolini going to do about tive sets out to use her feminine and is superbly acted by Irene when she went to the South of wiles to chanare a suave gratleman Dunne, Gwill Andre, and Charles France for the wedding of a rela-

Bickford.

tive. crook, a renowned jewel thief.

Irene Dunne is seen as the wife Warner Baxter has the role of a of a steel worker (Charles Bick the woman was happily married, He sent her ardent letters. But society thief and the beautiful ford) and helps fim to achieve and replied, and replied gently but ¡Miriam Jordan plays the part of him into trouble with another wo-firmly, hoping that her lover would

success. Prospèrity, however, leade

A

REASON We mortals have to swat and shooj

The flies from dawn till dark ['Cause Noah didn't swat the two

That roosted in the Ark,

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QUICK AND CERTAIN.

the girl sleuth employed by an inman and he deserts his wife. They! surance company to protect jewels of Its clients.

Instead, he came to Paris, shot

forgot. the are finally re-united, on the verge her dead, and then committed sui-

of divorce proceedings, by the for-cide. giving love of the wife.

Gwili Andre, as the alluring fre. (about £12,000 for which hie blonde, gives a fine performance.

A girl in Chicago shot a man tu make him stop telling her he loved Herbert Mundin, popular come- her. An Gren more effective dian, as Baxter's partner in crime, method, in such cases. is to marry contributes greatly to the hilarity

the fellow.

There's Nothing New ♫

The latest feminine fashion, read, is to wear clips in the ear, I got these years ago, when I was very young.

NOW, HOLLYWOOD.

A women in Chicago, who has

fer to numbered explanatory para- į just got a divorce, only lived with

| Kruphis).

North

East South West IC (1) Pass (2) H (3) Pass INT (4) Paas (5) 2C (6) Pass Pass (7) 2D (8) Dbl. (9) Pesa Раза Pass (10)

-An absolute minimum when vulnerable. This bid proved a very fortunate one for the team.

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THE NEW FRENON REMEDY.

THERAPION NO.J THERAPION NⱭ.2 THERAPION N13

ChPRINCE, Bratense Hapatuen Mal,

DI. LA ČLENo Mal Co.Havarvloch RAN,WA,Landon DORNBLEROS PILLS for the Liver Alienayemtarnak kidney's di lain piel se,

H. B. BEER

Bring your empty bottles back to:

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CASH REFUND ON BOTTLES IN GOOD CONDITION.

Pints

72 bottles $2.52.

1 bottle 32 cents.

Quarts

48 bottles $2.64

1 bottle 51⁄2 cents.

3-This bid can be explained only

her husband for five minutes after the wedding- I understand that. subject to a check-up, she is being ziven the open championship.

How to Win at Bridge. Mary had a little siam

She let her partner in By giving him a slam upon The middle of his skin.

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of the picture. The supporting {cast includes Florence Roberts,

Arthur Hoyt, Will Davidson Tyrell Davis.

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and

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"DIVORCE IN THE FAMILY”.........

I

The husband claimed the 100,000

wife had insured her life in his favour. The Insurance company pointed to a clause of the contract stipulating payment in the case of [fatality, but non-payment in the case of imprudence on the part of the decessed.

Trips in aeroplanes and sub- marines, mountaineering and rac- ing are included in "acts of im- prudence:*:•.

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STAR THEATRE.

Divorce and its effects on chil dren of disrupted familles is the theme of "Divorce in the Family," now showing at the Star Theatre.

Headed by a large cast of noted "But in the present state of actors among whom are Jackie civilisation, is 'it imprudeht for a Cooper, Lewis Stone and Conrad married woman to refuse unwanted Nagel, the film is one of the best advances? Asks counsel for the "The Billion Dollar Scandal" the child dramas of its kind, yet pre husband. "Love is essentially

"THE BILLION DOLLAR

SCANDAL,”—QUEEN'S

THEATRE.

current attraction at the Queen's]sented in the Colony.

Theatre, is a brilliant melodrama, {full of rapid action.

Robert Armstrong has the part of Fingers Partos, an ex-convict and clever-masseur, who becomes the champion of a nation when he' strapping exposes the plans for a gigantic daughters really want is a strapp-nation-wide swindle, details of

as wishing to avoid a lead of Some Brute Says:~- hearts if the eventual contract What some of these should be three no-trump,

convey

which he heard discussed by financers who came to bim for (recrimi-) treatment and gyminsafum lessons..

His performance is one of the best of the present season.

|4- Two hearts might have beening father.

better, but the hand is an ab- solute minimum, and the Open-Squabbles at Geneva."

The ing bidder wished to

League of that fact.

Nations.

“Banknole Paper Missing,"

Maxim for forgers—when found make a note of

5- Still awaiting development

and hoping that

a three trump contract would be defeat

10-

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Now Everyone Knows."

A wireless comedian complains that there are very few new jokes. Listeners have always known that.

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Fashion and Sporting Note.

Women never wear belts now. And some buzers might just as well not.

The supporting cast: Includes several. well-known, stars, Con- stances: Cummings, James Glenson, |Olga Baclánova, Grant Morgan and

Irving Pichel.

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"HELL ON THE WESTERN FRONT"-MAJESTIC THEATRE,

6—A remarkable 'underbid. In the Arst place it was more or less of a signoff, and in the second place the issue had already bees confused by the first heart bld. In this particular case it was made deliberately, in order to trap East in reopening the bidding. 7-Obviously this hand contained

no further Rebids. 8-East finally entered the bidding.

A war film which contains · no Knowing that South would not

A witness appeared before Judge *Clements at Ramagate in white romance, to comedy and no love sign off a hand in which he held any strength at all, and ale fannel trousers and a tennis shirt. knowing that North could be And his honour missed the chance relied upon to push the bidding of saving "This court in not a ten- higher if his values warranted ufa court."

it, it seemed fairly obvious that

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IN A BOX..

8 great deal of the missing Improved Version.

one of the greatest films of sequences, but which to described actual warfare ever screened, in the current attraction at the Majestic Theatre,

"Hell On The Western Front” is And fools - rush in where wise a German picture and was largely

Cross-Country Runners.

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photographed on the actual scene

of the fighting, by official camera, men of the German Government,

strength must be located in the West hand. In this case it was men fear to wed. essential that the partial be de fended. 9-Even with only three trumps, beans refuse to climb up the poles

A correspondent says that his during the Great War. the Double is quite sound. The

he has provided and are growing- hand is probaby worth 4 tricks in defence of diamonds and rapidly along the ground,

partner can certainly be count-x Marks the Spot

ed on for at least 2.. The bal-

anced distribution of the hand of openings for young men in Chi- A gangster says there are plenty

also creates the impression that

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· "THE CISCO, KID”---- ORIENTAL THEATRE,

cago nowadays ".. .and they 5- · Edmund. Lowe and Warner Bax"

ally get buried in them soomer or ter are

featured in O. Henry's |famous" novel of the West entitled The Cisco Kid," now showing at the Oriental Theatre.

Inter

...the

the other hands are probably

balanced: also. 10-Trapped, but unable to extri-

cate himself.

net which had been laid for him. The play was quite simple, and of course, bad South's tactics not Mias Conchita Montenegro in the East was unable to avoid a 3-trick succeeded, he and his partner leading feminine role, taxes set, or a penalty of 900 points. Two would have sacrificed a perfectly part of a Mexican dancer with clubs, three spades, one heart and good 'vulnerable game, but who whom both Warner Baxter and Ed« | two diamonds were lost before the would not trade a vulnerable game mund Lowe fall in love. Nora sorrowful Declaror could only curas 3-trick set of vulnerable oppon-feminine role as the other love in- madsacre was completed," and the for the very fine possibility of a Lann also contributes an important

himself for having fallen into the entst.

Took A Degree.

POP

AND SHE

SOON GOT HIM

terest.

BUT SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS

GOING UP THERE FOR

HER M.

fatality-Reuter.....

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

COMMENCING. TO - MORROW

WHAT WOULD YOU DO If you were the

LAST MAN ON EARTH?

Let your imaginationi run wild and you'll idea of the gay. get un

ety, the spiciness, the

wines and the laught you'll find in

IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE

Rauí ROULIEN

Gloria STUART Edna May OLIVER Hörbart MUNDIN Joan MARSH

Directed by Alfred Werker From a story by John D. Swain Music and lyrics by William Kernell

By J. MILLAR WATT.

MARRIED ONE OF ATHENAC

LEN

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