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THE TWO-CLUB

OPENING

Not To Be Used As A Forcing Bid

By CAPT. LINDSAY MUNDY

THE CHINA MAIL.

I have always definitely and firmly set my face against allow. ing the opening Two-Club bid

the Direct System to be used as a forcing bid that is to say, to make it compulsory to keep the bidding alive after that opening until game-bid is reached.

J

There are two very strong ob- jections to that course.

The first

in that it limits the use of the con- vention to hands which are strong; enough to make the game without any assistance from the partner, which cuts out about 90 per cent. of the hands on which the conven- tion can properly be used.

The second objection jo that those players who do use it thai way make use of the bid of Twe No-Trumps to keep the bidding alive when they have a valueless hand. This is a degradation the No-Trump bid, and excludes

Critically Ill

Bitlle Dove, screen star and wife of Robert Kensston, who is serious- ly fil in her Bollywood hume, suf- fering from pleurisy, Miss Dove, who has not appeared in films Kinos her marriage several months ago, has been ill for several weeks. Only her husband and mother are al- lowed to visit her.

the perfectly proper use of it to the responder is not bound to bid show that the hand can guard tw|further. silta.

Naturally, if Spades auft better

CINEMA

NOTES

|MAIL REVIEW

"STORM AT DAYBREAK”-- QUEEN'S THEATRE

BISCUIT COMEDY IN DOUAI COURT

Confusion In Names Causes Cafe Brawl

RADIO"

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will be

EDINBURGH NOT HINDENBURG broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station 2BW. jon a wavelength of 355 matrem (845)

Paris.

A tin of biscuits is causing the solemn judges of the Appeal Court

of Douai some merriment.

1280 p.m.-European programme of recorded music.

1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Report.

A group of inhabitants of Valen-Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy of 1.15 p.m.-A relay of the Hong

vals recorded musie will be broad-

A background of fine music gives an operatic atmosphere to the new M.G.M. film "Storm at Daybreak," ciennes were gaily dining at the the Management. (During the inter which is now showing at the Queen's station buffet, suddenly there was cast from the Studio). Theatre-an atmosphere supported an uproar. One of the diners de- 1:30 pm--Local Weather Forecast. by the manner in which the sketchyclared that be had read the name of Time, etc. but dramatic, plet in unfolded.

Close Down.

Hindenburg on his biscuits. The

It is a romantic drama agalust a {background of war, the setting be-offending biscuits were thrown to

ing a little towns in the Balkans, the ground and tramped upon. and the principal characters a Ser- There was a scene of great con-]

fusion and finally the police were called in. When the matter camo

bian and his wife and their friend, I [a Hungarian.

3-8

"Musle from the Studio p.m.-European programme.

5-7 pm

A relay of

the

Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden by cours tesy of the Managemelt. (During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio).

Closing Local Stock Quota-

7.8-7,40_p.m.-Concert Items,

The Skaters (Waldtenfel),

7

Brilliant acting by Walter Hus- ton and Kay Francis in the main up in Court, the buffet manager to roles, and Nils Asther as the Hut his great.indignation lost his case. tions, etc. carian, lift the film above mediocrity. Samples of biscuits were duly pro- "But I have the proof," he cried. The humour is provided by Eugene duced for the benefit of the judger

Pallette in a typical role.

MAIL REVIEW..

“THE DEVIL'S IN LOVE”...

KING'S THEATRE

of the Court of Appeal. "Made in Edinburgh" `was stamped on every one The similarity between, the words Hindenburg and Edinburgh may have led to the confusion.

The Court amid much amusement preserved its findings and M When I have set out these objecthan Hearts, the responder will gu

Stories of the Foreign Legion Drumond, of the buffet retired, tions to protagonists of the Forr. back to that suit. If the opener's always make excellent material for after distributing his surplus bis ing Two-Club they always counter second suit is Diamonde, he will talkie dramas, and "The Devil's in cults to those present-Reuter. with the question, "How other bid four of that suit, and the res Love," the Fox production which is wine are you going to arrive at the ponder is at liberty to leave that

now showing at the King's Theatre proper bid on a strong two-sult bid alone if he holds a hand such is no exception.

hand? Until lately I have had to confess that that is A distanet point in its favour, but that it was greatly outweighed by the objer tion, but now I have devised a echeme which is a complete answer to that question.

S-~x X.

A surgeon attached to Fort Ron- {det, a French African outpost, is accused of the murder of his major and sentenced to death.

PUPILS TO LEARN TEMPERANCE.

Reply To U.S. Repeal "Crisis."

Orchestral

(Waldteufel),

E Concert Orchestra

Vocal

Gendarmes Duct, from "Genevieve

de Brabant" (Farnle-Oftanbach), Love and War (Cooks),

Frank Mullings and Norman Allin, Pianoforte Solo

Bungarian Rhapsody (Lisxt) No. 12

In C Sharp Minor),

Song-

Irene Scharrer.

Ay, Ay, Ay, Guyana (Peres-Prlere), Nenchido de Amor Santo (Dolores-

Breton),

'Cello Solo

Michele Meta (Tenor).

Evening Song (Schumann), Jocelyn (Godarda),...Fablo Canals. 7.40-8 pm.--From the Studio.

Mannilla and His

Selections by Jerra.

Romantic

Programme. 1. Sweet Lel Lehus.

2. I'm Young and Healthy (From

3.

42nd Street).

Drowsy

Waters.

4. Three Wishes.

D-II L. K-x x x x

C-x x x x If the opener's hand is some what less strong, so that he cannot He escapes and succeeds in innk- hope to make game without anying his way to Port Zamba, outside assistance from his parner, he French territory, where he works at The Ordinary Course

would bid only Three Hearts over a Mission station and falls in love

Kansas City, Missouri. Before setting it out let me res the negative Three Diamonds. The with a beautiful young woman.

will be tate the ordinary course of events|responder is then at liberty tol

Temperance courses Ha is forced to flee again as the which follows the Two-Club open-leave that bid alone, to put it back search for him continues and, makes offered in all grade schools here ing.

If the responder holds two to Three Spades, if that suits him his way back to the Fort where he this year.

"The Eighteenth Amendment quick tricks he makes whatever bic better, or to raise it to a game finds the real murderer and forces

came as a result of many years Shing best suits his hand. Failing two bid in either suit, if he has any a confession from him.

Victor Jory and David Manners teaching," Mrs. F. V. Hays, head quick tricks, he must bid Two Dia-assisting value in his hand.

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we let down. Then, if the opener makes a one-

captain respectively, and Loretta said, "and then I am strongly opposed to the Young makes a charming figure in This move is our answer to the bid, the responder multiplication of conventions, short-of-game

a rather minor role. Vivienne Os. repeal crisis."-Beuter. as borne is very convincing as an exo- but tie proprietress of a cafe.

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But if the opener has a two-suit hand, he wants to know which of them suits the responder.

understood

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"SAILOR'S LUCK"- MAJESTIC THEATRE

James Dunn and Sally Eilers are seen in their fourth "team" picture Here is that the first negative bid. Two in Fox Film'a, "Sallor's Luck" the comedy-romance which la now show- a hand to illustrate the procedure: Diamonds, denies the possession

S-A XJx x.

ing at the Majestic Theatre, D-A X

of two quick tricks, while the

The cast, headed by Sammy Cohen. H-A KJ xx. Cx

second negative bid, Three Dia- Frank Moran and Victor Jory, also Assume that the responder holds monds, denies either trump support includes Esther Muir, Will Stanton, either

or a biddable suit or two guarded Lucien Littlefield, Buster Phelps and suits,

Sume X HX X X X

D-x x x x

-x x x x

or xxx X.

X.

Xxxx.

A WRONG BID South, the dealer, holda: S-x x

D-A K c-xx Many players who bid their hands by the light of nature,

H-A J 10 xxxx

Frank Atkinson.

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"IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE,”— ORIENTAL THEATRE

X X X X. Obviously there is a game in either Spades or Hearts, according to which of these hands the respon der holds. After the negative Two trusting solely to their car-sense, "It's Great To Be Alive," the new Diamond reply, the opener should are led thereby into bidding Three Fox musical comedy now showing, start with a bid of Two Spades, the Hearts on this hand, and it is very at the Oriental Theatre, features higher of his two suits.

hard to make them see that it is Raul Roullen, Idol of the South This at once tells the responder wrong, yet they are ready to admit American stage and screen, who has that he is fishing for information that they want their partner to the 'stellar role, and is surrounded as to what suit to play the hand in. support their 8-bid if he holds an by a large group of performers that If the responder is unable to sup-ace. When I saw this band played, include all of the most beautiful port this suit a bid of Two No- the responder held:

women of the Hollywood film colony,| Trumpa will, in addition to stating BA Ix that fact, indicate that he has two How I suits guarded. Note that here the and very properly raised the bid Two No-Trump bid indicates some to Four Hearts, with the result that assistance in the hind. Failing they were one down, and every this, and not having a biddable naturally so. The opener has 5% suit toʻshow, the' responder should probable tricks in Hearts, and two In "Smilin' Through," now show- that his hand is ing at the Star Theatre, Norma give another negative bid, which in Diamonds, so this time will be Three Diamonds. worth only 71⁄2, instead of the 8%, Shearer returns to romance, sup- Three-ported by a brilliant cast Including The opener now gets his chance which are required for

D-Q 10 x x x

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.

SMILIN' THROUGH”.........STAR

THEATRE

to show his second suit. On the bid in a major "ault. Had "his Fredric March and Leslie Howard, above hand he should now bid Four Hearts been A KJ, the 8-bid, would It is a splendid 'Alm both as to Hearts, to ensure a game bid, saj bave been correct.

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