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·SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1933.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

It is pointed out that all the ships of the White Star Line end In "ic." I may just point out that with me they all end in "ick." COARSE AND EFFECT "A deep feeling of unrest is no- ticeable everywhere just now," declares a preacher. I've changed Into a new pair of winter woolies,

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A Hook for Eyes

The new evening frocks are to be topless, it is predicted. Oh, well, we shall see what we shall

see.

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. `

The following programme will be: broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station 'ZRW. on a wavelength of 355 metras (845 R.C.') :-

12.30 p.m-European programme of Victor & H.M.V. records.

port.

BRIDGE NOTES

ARE CONVENTIONS ILLEGAL?

for

13.

DILOMATS HONOUR U. S. OFFICIAL 1,300 Signaturės From Many Parts.

Washington.

A book whose pages have gone

Surprising as it may appear to legislators should now come

signatures has been presented to those players who adopt with ward and either declare their de-round the world to gather 1,800 avidity every new fangled device in finition of bidding to be wrong or Mr. Wilbur J. Carr to commem- bidding, there are still many else adhere to it and insist that it players, probably a growing num-] is not infringed.

orate his 40 years of service in the United States State Depart- ment.

ber, who refuse to submit to them.. There is another clause in the

The signatures were those of I p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- They have an instinctive, dislike Supplement to the Laws to which

and distrust of such devices. This Mr. Kroesen does not refer but 1,300 Foreign Service officials 1.15 p.m.-A relay of the Hong Kong lastinet is fundamentally sound. It which may be quoted in his favour. scattered all over the globe, and Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong is the instinct of self-preservation. It is said (Clause 8) to offend one by one the pages were col- Hotel Grill Room by courtesy of the The sole aim and object of the against the proprieties if a player lected and bound into an album. than a Management (Doring the intervals verious systems and conventions is given "by word, manner or gesture The process took more

of year. to any indication of the nature recorded music will be broadcast from to communicate information

The presentation to the As- your partner so that he may know the hand held." The One Club, the

How Two Club and other conventions do sistant Secretary of State was the Studio).

2.15 pmClose_Down,

the contents of your hand. Relay of Dance Programme from the far can this be done legitimately most certainly give "by word" an made at the department by 'Mr. Peninsula Hotel To-night.

in bidding?

indication of the nature of the hand Alexander W. Weddell, the new- 4-7 p.m.-Chinese

In un article in a Dutch news held. They announce definitely ly appointed United States Am- gramme,

7-11.30 p.m.-European programme.paper Mr. W. E. Kroesén, hou. the possession of so many quick erjbassador to Argentina--Reuter. 1-7.35 p.m. Variety.

secretary of the International honour tricks. Xylophone Solos- (a) Espanita

,

recorded pro-

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Jilting can be one of the most expensive pastimes for a man ever thought of.

(b) The Dreaming Snowdrop

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER The aimer of 1933.

Songe

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Fritz Kroeger B3566. (a) Il's Bext to Forget (b) Now You're Here

Instrumenta:-

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THAT'S THE SPIRIT!

"The modern girl does not even {stop at drinking whisky," writes a GENERAL NOTICES. critic. Mary has a little dram.

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Moat children have two ages—one for home, and the other for the

frank-car

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Nobody Loves a Fit Girl.

A woman athlete laments that it

is the unathletic girl whom men "fall for."

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Reminds Me of My Young Days,

Mrs. Roosevelt is to get £200 a week for writing for an American magazine. Oh, well! We all have to Marl at the foot of the ladder.

Another Joke About Scotland.

has met him After a Scotsman a friend in need is still a friend in Inced.

(a) Lazy Night

Bridge League, attempts to prove It may be objected that the in- quirements for a bid as laid down be enforced that many of the conventions now formation given is general but not by the laws should used are illegal according to the specific. The bids da not state with severity. That is to say that code of the Infernational Bridge where the exact strength lies, and every bid should have a natural and Lawg. Taking as his basis Clause so do not necessarily contraveno definite meaning and that suits Frances Day R442% 11 of the Definitions, which defines the proprieties. This is rather should not be used as ciphers and

(b) By The Sleepy Lagoon

a bid "as a call by which a player lika hair splitting. Even if, how signals. It should not be possible offers to contract that his side will ever, this distinction be allowed, it for a player to bid One Club without Cedric Sharp Sextot B4440. win at least as many odd tricks can hardly be applied to the "Four-holding a single card in the suit in

Orchestral-

Siren Waltz

(a) My Lucky Day (b) Mary Rose

(a) Can't We Meet Again

ybkqj Piano Solos-

(b) Sweetheart

Banju Solo-

(a) Keyboard Kapern (b) Mazur

7.35-8 p.m. Midsunimer Hight's Dream

(Mendelssohn)

San Francisco Symphony Orch. M18. 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Be port, etc.

83-8.45 p.m.-A Concert. Band Selections—

Pagoda of Flowers

(Woodforde Finden)

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards conducted by G. Miller

C1972.

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SUNDAY - MONDAY – TUESDAY

THE

(one to seven) as hie bid specifies, Five" No Trump Convention. Here, his hand, and the artificial Diamond provided the hand is played in the at a point in the bidding, partners response should equally be regard- (b) My Dream

Marek Weber & His Orch. B352%. denomination he names," he states tell each other without the shadowed as illegal. "Our legislators," Songa-

that the essentials of a bid are (a) of doubt not only how many Aces he writes, "still have the confidence the calling of a certain number of they hold, but in, what suits they of the public. But they must not themselves with looking Gracie Fields B4471. tricks, (b) it must be normally pos-are. This is not a parody of the content

sible for these tricks to be made if convention but an actual statement on. The crisis is at hand and the moment for intervention propit- plaed in the suit called. Conse- of fact.

not meat quently if a bid does

Mr. Kroesen's plea is that the re-lous." Rair Da Costa B4402. these requirements it is not a bid within the meaning of the laws and therefore is an illegal call which Maria De Pietro B2473. ought to come under law 42.

Mr. Ктоенер In this category names specifically the Vanderbilt the Two Club Club Convention, Convention, and the latest "Four- Five" No Trump Convention. Also the he regards as coming under ban all forms of Ace showing and cue bidding where a suit is named but the declaration is not intended suit All to be played in that these and other artificial conven- tlona he considers are ruled out as illegal under the terms of the de- Bame finition of a "bid." At the

that the time he acknowledges

extent legislators appear to some to have recognized the existence of conventions by the reference in the Supplement to the Laws dealing with the Proprieties of the Game, wherein it is stated that it is neces- nar to avold "using any convention in calling which has not been an nounced. The term 'convention' is here used to cover any calling de- arbitrary or gned to convey an artificial meaning or used by 2 player with the assurance that his partner will not accept it in its natural sense. Obviously it is Lilac Time (Schubert)

that a convention The New Mayfair Orchestra C1457.j necessary 9-11.30 p.m.-A Relay of the dance used should be fully understood by in the Paris shops. Frills and ful-Orchestra from the Peninsula Hotel by the other side, and players using

No Laughing Matter

R

Vocal Duet-

Dainty Little Malden (Besley) I've Found a Whole World in You

(Leslie) Winnie Melville and Derek Oldham

B3716.

Bomba were thrown GAR crmed of 14,000 at Graz, Austrin.! Any jokes about Graz widows will Piano Duet- be riersly rejected by me.

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THE MATEY ATOM Scientists have now decided that the atom is more of a friend than an enemy to humanity.

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The Cuban Love Song Today

Bang! Bang!! Bang!!!

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PAST WORK

The U. S. is the home of the diet- leure. See America fast!

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Fashion Note

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Fur-trimmed undies are on show

belows.

A Fair Distinction

Impromptu Rocco (Schutt) Valte (Arenaky) Harold Bauer and Ossip

Gabrilowitsch 8162.

Song-

Romberg! One Alone (Romberg)

George Baker (Baritone) B2461.

Violin Solo-

Albumn Leaf Romance (Wagner-Wilhelm) Tango (Elman)

Mischa Elman 7193. 8.45-9 pm-Light Opera Selections. Geisha (Jones)

Band of H.M. Coldstream Guarda

C103.

courtesy of the Management. (During

BO

the intervals recorded music will be any conventional call should be broadcast from the Studio).

11.30 pmClose Down

A theatrical writer nayn that (All records in the above European troupes of dancing girls are drilled Programmes are kindly loaned by just like old soldiers. But old sól-Messrs. 8. Mostrie & Co.). diers never dya

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NATURALLY

Londor taxi-drivers have formed a concert-party. If they ever stage la revue the title will naturally be "Wot's this?"

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STRANGE..

A financial expert says that con- ditions are improving.......Neverthe- less, it is believed that conditions are improving.

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INFORMATION DEPARTMENT

NAZI DECREE TO AID THEATRES.

Compulsury Playgoing For Officials.

ready to

as to its

reply fully to a proper inquiry by an opponent meaning or use."

'Mr. Kroesen puts forward a plea NOW that the legislators should make clear beyond the shadow of doubt their exact meaning. “It is quite possible," he writes, "that the legislators have unwittingly formu- lated the definition of a bid too

sharply. On the other hand it may be possible that this, has been, pur- posely, done, and that the supple ment Clause 2 (II), haa bean'a re- Bamberg, Bavaria,grettable mistake. At all events we People here are to be compelled may not, and, cannot attach, the to go to the theatre by the Nazi same importance to a supplement as to the laws and their defini authorities.

An order has been issued where-tions.""

A pychologist says that a wife by every local official whose month-

In fact the whole body of the

in never so pleasant as' when she ly salarly exceeds the equivalent of laws, which makes no reference at to wants an account to be paid. This £15 must book at least one seat at all to conventions, can be held to

explains the expression "Bill-in the Municipal Theatre and coming."

month-Reuter.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

POP

A New Drinking Song,

THE

every support Mr. Kroesen's, arguments,

and he expresses the desire that the

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