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COMPANY MEETINGS
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT
LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
&
NOTICED IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the FOURTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Registered Offices of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th floor, un WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of March, 1934, at 12 o'clock noon to receive the Directors' Report, and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1933, to elect Auditora, and to transact such other business as may be properly transacted sti an Ordinary General Meeting of!
the Company,
further
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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BRIDGE NOTES
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5th Fl. King's Theatre, Bldg, Telephones 21255 9-1.00; 2-6.00.
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Hoover Aide on Senate "Carpet"
It is my candid opinion that a study of the correct, principles of play would result in the making of at least 20 per cent more contracts undertaken at the "Bridge/ table than are now - mada, provided," of course, that defense did not keep. step with attack and the defending players study the basic defensive principles so wall that they would make almost Instinctively the cor rect Opening leads and the correct subsequent plays.. No person de-, siring to excel as a Bridge player can afford to play in a haphazard way and without full consideration of the entire hand before even a card is touched in the Dummy. I have been making a rather exten- sive study of the subconscious) methods of experts and I can as aure you that, whether they know, it or not, the persons who are really expert in the play of the hand follow in the main the same general principles. To be a goodį Dummy player you must, of course, understand the fundamental prin ciples of play, but you must at the same time attack each hand as an Individual problem and take stock, or inventory if you prefer, of your and balance them resources against your liabilities. If the sur plus le sufficient, then your con-MAIL REVIEW tract is probably assured.
An interesting example of how a Deelster, Mr. H. J. Schaefer of Beaver Falls, Pa., followed these principles of the correct play of the Dummy is given in the hand below:
North, Dealer.
Both sides vulnerable. NORTH:-
S.-Q J 3 H.-A 2 D.-A K 10 8 C-AK74
WEST:-
S.-K 10 64 H-K D.-9 4 3 C.-Q 10 6 2 SOUTH:---
S.-9 7 2 H-Q 10 8 7 6.0 DJ 75 C--8
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS EAST:
And Notice in
hereby
to be held on MONDAY, the 12th given that the Register and Trans- fer Books of the Company will be day of March, 1934, at 3 p.m., at
closed from the 12th to the 21st
day of March 1934, both days in
clusive.
Hong Kong. 28th Feb., 1934.
LJANG CHI HAO,
Managing Director.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SIXTY-FIFTH ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING
of
state-
SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on TUESDAY, the 27th March 1934. at Noon, for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the General Managers, together with a
the year ment of Accounts for ended the 31st December 1938.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the. 18th to the 27th March 1934, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Ltd.'
General Managers,
The H.K. Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1934.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC
COMPANY, LIMITED. “
TOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN
Nat the FORTY-FIFTH OB- DINARY YEALLY MEETING wil be held at the Company's Offices, P. & O. Building; on: WEDNESDAY, 14th March, 1934, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts to December, 1988 and electing Direc tors and Auditorage
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from Brd March to 14th March, 1984, both «days Inclusive, during which period
no Transfer of Bhares can be
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William P. MacCrackan (left), former Assistant Becretary of Commerce, confers with his attorney, Frank J. Hogan, as the U. §. Senate cited MacCracken and three prominent aviation officials for contempt of the Senate committee probing airmail contracts. At right. Sergeant-at- Arms Chesley W. Jurney, in whose custody MacCracken was placed.
CINEMA
NOTES
"TOO MUCH HARMONY"-
KING'S THEATRE.
BADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wave length of 355 metres (845 K.C.'s):-
1.2.15 pm-European programme. 1, p.m.--Local Time and Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Recorded music, 1.15 p.m.-A relay of the
Hong
Johnston. and Sam Coclow, who wrote the songs, for "Heelo Every- body" and College Hamour," Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong worked together on the songs for Kong Hotel Grill Room.
2.15 p.m.Close Down, film Paramount's first elaborate
Dance Music from the Hong Kong musical of the new season, "Too
Hotel To-day, Much Harmony", now showing at 4-7.30 p.m.-Chinese recorded muste.
7.30-11-30 p.m.-European the King's Theatre.
gramme.
"Too Much Harmony" is based
the attempts of a pair of] upon vaudeville comedians to break into a Broadway musical show. When the star of the show, engaged to marry a gold-thirsty blonde, falls. in love with an obscure member of the comedians' act, the picture
The to comic heights. rises vaudevillians then take it upon themselves to vamp the "blonds"! away from the star so that their protege can win his love
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C-J 93 The bidding: North
"I LOVE THAT MAN,”— ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Раса
East South Pass 2NT
3H
West
Pasu
Pass
{20 3C
4H
Pass PASS . Pasi
KING'S THEATRE.
PRESENTS
ON THE STAGE
Saturday, 17th, and Monday, 19th March, at 9.30 P.M.
The Famous London Actor
GRANT ANDERSON
with his
GRANT ANDERSON COMEDY.CO.
in London's greatest Comedy success. “WHILE PARENTS SLEEP ”
A comedy with music by Anthony Kimmins.
SUNDAY, 18th, At 9.30. P.M.
"ON THE SPOT”.
A Gangster story
Edgar Wallace's Greatest Thriller.
Tuesday, 20th, at 9.30 p.m. "The Late CHRISTOPHER" BEAN”
A comedy by Emlyn Williams.
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7.30-9. p.m.---Recorded musta 7.30-8.10 p.--Variety.
Irving Berlin Waltz Songs-Melley, Debroy Somers Band.
Band-
Song-
What More Can I Ask?, Brighter Than the Sun, Organ Solo-
Anona Wina (Soprano),
Sidney Torch.
Lullaby of the Leaver, Round the Marble Arch.
Song-Farewell to Arms,
Why Can't this Night Go On
Forever.
Charles Carlisle (Tenor). Saxophone Solo-At Dawning,
Down in the Forest,
Howard Jacobs,
8.10-8.45 p.m.-Orchestral,
In the Stappes of Central Azia
..(Borodin),
Four
cont-
London Symphony Orebestes In "I Love That Man," the cur
conducted by Albert Coates. cund rent attraction at the Alhambra Ways, Suite (Eric Coates),
Regal Cinema Orchestra Theatre, a good woman tries to
ducted by Emanuel Starkey. The bidding as given above, I make a crook an honest man. Spanish Dance No. 1 (Granados),"
(Graandos), consider distinctly bad. North The story deals with-herpenings Spanish Dance No.
New Light Symphony Orchestra does not have an Opening Forcing of a mission worker who fal's in
Gooz conducted by Eugene Go bid of two as bis hand contains love with a "confidence trickster," only 5% honor-tricks and very and Nancy Carroll and Edmunds]
8.45.9 p.m.-Four Chopin Mazurkai
Friedman. barren distribution. Perhaps, how Lowe, in the leading roles, are seen played by
1 Maturgs, Op.41, ever, it is just as well that the in a mixture of sophistication and 2. Mazurka, Op.50, No. 2 Opening bid was over-enthusiastle sentiment.
3. Mazurka, Op.38, No. 3 as it gave Mr. Schaefer a chance The two stars give, good per for a very accurate play to pro- firmances. Nancy Carroll is wist- duce a coup situation.
ful and Edmund Lowe is likeable The Opening lead
was the dla to the end. Harry Joe Brown, the mond 9, a "top of nothing" lead, Director husband of Sally' Eilers, and Mr. Schaefer took stock of his gives the film a good setting. resources: Apparently he was due
"DANCING LADY!"—QUEEN'S
to lose two apade tricks, one or MAIL REVIEW more trump tricks and a diamond.' |However, not discouraged, seeing a slight ray of hope, he won the first lead in Dummy with the diamond |King, The Ace of hearts was now
THEATRE
4. Maxurks, Op.24, No. 4
911:39 am-A relay of the Hong| Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hone Kong Hotel Grill Room.
10.30 p.m.Rugby Mid-day Prem
News,
11.30 pmClose Down.
All relays of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestras are by courtesy of the Management and during the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio,
offers out of the ordinary enter tainment coupled with the thrilling
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, performances of Bull and Buster, led from Dummy, his intention two of the most prominent stars on Europe's famous ski experts, being to follow with the heart 2 the screen are cast in a thrilling and possibly finesse the heart Ten. story of back-stage life and ro-MAIL REVIEW When West played the heart King mance in "Dancing Lady.”
|LAMMERT BROS. on the lead of the Ace, he could, of The story is of a chorus girl in
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"DON QUIXOTE"--STAR THEATRE
course, place the remaining hearts a burlesque show who is offered in the East hand, and decided the marriage by an attractive million-
“Don Quixote," the current at- coup existed if East could be aire play-boy. She refuses him, forced to trump ahead of him at however, and prefers the pre-traction at the Star Theatre, brings [any time or if he could be thrown carious existance of a dancer and to the screen the famous adventures in, with a diamond near the end. zives her love to the stage-man- of the chivalrous knight, splendidly.
Proceeding on this assumption ager,
portrayed by the Russian operatie Mr. Schaefer, after another round. The glamorous Jom Crawford, singer Challapins, of bearta, on which he captured who won praise in "Modernt by a strong cart East's with the 10, re-entered Maidens, gives a very stril Dummy with the club King and form returned a small club; which; wai rated with the heart 6.He now led the diamond Knave, and bare chance that West aid hold
and 14 well dupported by MAIL REVIEW blo, as the;
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