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BRIDGE,NOTES

Unusual But It

Worked

by Ely Culbertron.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Conventional methods and prin ciples of bidding are undoubtedly the best fur all classes of players,} whether they be dubs or experis devia- It is generally found that tions from sound practice lead only to disaster, On rare occasions, however, a master player can de- viate from the usual course and yet achieve a maximum result. On to-day's hand a Jav-down Stam was reached by two nationally known |

ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS. players after a secles of amazing

New Work & Repairs.

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bide by the North player which W. 8. BAILEY & CO. LTD., made a mediocre hand held

Kowloon Bay South grow in strength until Call Flag "L" Slam seemed entirely probable. Kelvin Motors.

South, Dealer. Both sides vulnerable NORTH:--

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dern sanitation. Excellent servants be held at the HEAD OFFICE accommodation, Rent $105.00 per Union Building, Hong Kong, month, inclusive of rates, taxes and FRIDAY, 25th MAY, 1934, at 11 water. Apply B. & S. (Sugar Ac-jo'clock a.m., for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Directors counts Dept.)

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5-6 4

H-84

D-K Q 7 5 2

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S. A K Q 2

H-K 9 6

D-10 8 G 3 C-K J

hidding: (Figures after to numbered explana-

The bids refer tory paragraphs). South

West Pass

North East,

2 С (1 Рава

Pass

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Pass Pass

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and the Statements of Account to

J S 31st December, 1933, und of declar-

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End of Insull's Trail

Air view of the barbour of Istanbul, Turkey, where the flight of Samuel Insull from V. S. justice ended as Turkish authorities removed him from the Greek freighter for extradition to Chicago.

FRADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. a wave length of 355 metres (845 K.C.'s):-

מס

1-2.15 p.m-European Programme.

Amusements WATER TO SPLIT

Cinema Notes

"LITTLE WOMEN"'—KING'S

THEATRE

ARCTIC ICE

High Pressure Pumps For Ships.

The great romantic love epic of SOVIET ENGINEER'S SYSTEM the Nineteenth Century comes to

Moscow. the talking screen with a notable

dramatization of "Little Women". Jets of water, shot out at such Of all the famous novels depic-speed that they will crush stone, tive of that era none is better are to enable ships to forge a way known than the Louisa M. Alcott through Arctic ice

novel relating the heart destinies A Soviet Engineer, Mr. Chijikov, of the four March sisters, Jo, Meg, has devised a system of high pres Beth and Amy.

sure pumps which will force water RKO-Radio pictures has assigned from a nozzle on the bows of an Katharine Hepburn to play the lee-breaker at from 80 to 90 yards enchantress of the Sixties, the girl a second.

who feared that pitfalls of love would break the firm ties of family

This will split the ies. Even vessels not of the ice-breaker

and part the beautiful sisters. type will be able to work in frozen The supporting cast and the roles regions if fitted with this device. they enact are Joan Bennatt, as according to the Tass Agency-Reu- Amy, Frances Des as. Meg, Jeanter.

Parker as Beth, Paul Lukas as

Fritz Bbzer, the German professor, SOUTH AFRICA MAKES

Edna May Oliver as Aunt March; Douglass Montgomery, as Laurie, Henry Stephenson as Mr. Laurence, Spring Byington as Marmee, Samuel Hinds

Mr. As

March. Mabel Colcored as Hannah, John Davis

FRIENDS

(Continued from Page 8)

It is not surprising that

man

Lodge as Brooke and Nydia Weat-should build in harmony with the

man as Mamie.

beauty around him. Is there in all the world anything to compare with

AMERICA'S FASTEST THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE" the Colonial architecture of South

TRAIN

110 m.p.h. Streamlined Coach Built.

MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLE

QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA

THEATRE

Africa, those placid houses, half Huguenot, half Dutch, with their lofty rooms of teak and stinkwood, "The Cat and the Fiddle," is a the pure white gables, the cool delightful musical comedy starring steps, the cake and mulberries which Jeanette Macdonald and Ramon act as verdant sentinels, the gar Novarro. Ramon Noyarro is a in-dens with their hydrangeas and al- petuous young music student in mond-smelling oleanders, and stret Brussels. The completion of his ching away across the plaine to the masterpiece is somewhat delayed mountains, rews and rows of vines Another chapter in railway his-by the sudden arrival into the same and great orchards of peach and

town of an American lady student, pear trees.

Pullman, Illinois.

1 p.m.--Local 'Time and Weathertory has been started with the Report

1.03 p.m.-Recorded Programme.

opening for inspection in the yards Jeanette Macdonald, as Shirley, the

musical student. 1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong of the Pullman Car and Manufac-

She writes jazz and becomes Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hang turing Company where it was built, world famous all at once. He of the Union Pacific Railroad's new Kong Hotel Grill Room.

110-mile

an hour, light weight, composes operettas and starves. stream-lined, three-coach train.

"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN

1.30 p.m.-Local Forecast, etc. 2.15 p.m. Close Down. Recorded Programme from Z.E.K. To-night.

5-8 p.m.-European Programme. 5-7 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.

p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota-

how-tions, etc.

7.03-7.43 p.m.-A: Concert, Instrumental Barcarolle-

Transcription (Tschaikowsky Trans.

by Leo Weiner),

Lener String Quartet. Instrumental Gavotie

Transcription (Gluck-Trans

Leo Weiner),

1-This bid by North is difficult to explain and is by no means

North, recommended. ever. knew that South made it a practice, after having open- ed the bidding, always to give his partner one more chance it a positive response was receiv. Forcing even though Takeout was not made. As a matter of fact, there is no par-; ticularly good hid for the North- hand to make at this point. One alternative bid, two hearts,į is inadequate in the same sense that two clubs is inadequate-Violin Solos

eth

Lener String Quartet. Song-

Waltz Song "Merrie England"

(German),

THEATRE

Painted in canary yellow and FRONT"-CENTRAL built of aluminium alloy, the latest thing in speed for the railway bears

Rhodes himself, with his unerring instinct, immortalised that style in Groot Schuur, and he saw the valuo in these vast spaces and great hills of and clear air of great masses flowers. His vast vale of hydran geas, his rows and rows of rich cannas, survive as tributes to his taste; and what the master began Remarkable war scenes are de- his friend Sir Herbert Baker hat no more resemblance to the term picted in the war film, "All Quiet

How'aften does one perpetunted. trains of to-day than the latter do on the Western Front," the screen meet in travelling throughout the to those of 100 years ago.

adaptation of Eric Maria Remar-Union the three arches of Sir Her- que's outstanding story of the berti Great War.

The new train resembles monster aeroplane fuselage from its blunt, rounded nose to its tapering) fin-like tail.

To reach the heart of a South This story, showing the human African you must praise his house, side, of war through the eyes of and in most cases the praise is de- It has a 600 horse power motor, youth, offers excellent entertain-served. In stone a great tradition cost $200,000 (£40,000) to build

has been preserved, and the twen- A fine cast of players includes teth century is linked up with the and weighs eighty five tons, the weight of one modern sleeping car the late Loula Wolheim. Lewis Van der Stels of carlier times. The train is the result of research Ayres. and John Wray.

Love will find a way (The Maid of work for the development of a

Mountains)

Lhe

ment.

"KING OF THE JUNGLE" ---ORIENTAL THEATRE.

**King

OF CANTON, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary Gen- eral Meeting of the Union Insur- of Canton, Limited ance Society will be held at the registered of- fices of the Society, Union Build-THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE ing. Pedder Street, Victoria, Hong Kong on FRIDAY. the 26th May 1934. ut 1.15 in the forenoon or BO soon afterwards as the Annual General Meeting of the Society

(Fraser-light, high-speed train which would, convened for that day at the same TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

provide safe, comfortable trans- Simpson), Nthat the SIXTY-FIFTH OR- place shall be concluded when the

Helene Esserman (Soprano).portation at a minimum cost. will be pro-DINARY YEARLY MEETING of subjoined resolution

The train measures 204 feet 5

of the Jungle," which it i not sufficiently strong. (a) Ladies Pleasure (b) The Old, posed as a special resolution.

In the snubnose brings the Company will be held at its

(Morris inches in length.

Buster Crabbe, world "That the existing Subsection HEAD OFFICE, Union Building,

Three spades, of course, is an Women Tossed Up

Jigs),

Elsie Avril of the first coach is the power plant champion swimmer, to the screen "(a) of Article 125 of the Ar-Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY,

underbid, and four spades, al.

where electricity in generated in in the role of the Lion Man, is the: "ticles of Association of the 1934, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpuse though denoting a strong hand, Vocal Duct-

Trot Here and There (Donkey Duet) specially-designed units burning current attraction at the Oriental con- "Society shall be cancelled and of receiving the Report of the

does not give South any

("Veronique"-Messager), "the following Subsection

As a mat-: crete information. Directors and the Statements of

The Swing Song ("Veronique"-

Messager), "such Article shall be substitut Account to 31st December, 1933, and

ter of fact, South would pro- four "ed therefore:--

of declaring Dividends, etc.

hably have passed to "126 (a). All Deeds and Instru-

spades. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the "ments requiring the seal of

Company will be CLOSED from 8th "the Society shall be signed MAY to 25th MAY, Both Days in- "by two Directors and coun-

clusive. "tersigned by the General "Manager. All cheques "quiring eignature shall be "signed by the General Mana- "ger or by any such person or "persons as the General MAD-

to

re-

By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 30th April, 1934,

"ager may from time to time BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE "appoint.

In the absence of

"the General Manager all che-

requiring "ques

signature "ahall be signed by the person "appointed by the Directors to "perform the duties of the "General Manager or by any "such person or persons as the "Directors may from time "Lime appoint."

By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES, ·

General Manager,

Hong Kong 1st May, 1934.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LTD.

to

COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOT

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-EIGHTH OR- DINARY YEARLY MEETING of! the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 25th MAY, 1934, at 11.25 m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the

2-This bid, of course, is inferen- tially Foreing. North is re- opening the bidding with a new suit, obviously only four cards in length, after his partner has bid two notrump. 3-South aid later that because

Winnie Melville & Derek Oldham, Pianoforte Solo-

Paganini Etude in E Flat Major

(Paganini), Children's Corner Suite-No. 3.

Serenade for a Dall, (Debussy), Vladimir Horowitz

distillate, a non-explosive. The en- Theatre.

becomes

"MAMA LOVES PAPA”— MAJESTIC THEATRE

"Mama Loves Papa," the cur

at the Majestic rent attraction

tire power plant weighs 20 tons as Crabbe Is the central character compared with the 316 tons of in a story of animals in their na- regular passenger Locomotive.

tive jungle and in the artificial Behind the power room in the surroundings of a circus. He is first carriage, is a mail section and cast as a youth who, orphaned in after that a luggage room. This, the jungle at an early age, grows the first coach, is 72 feet 8 in. long. up in company

with a pack of Song-

while the middle coach is 69 feet one. Captured and brought to Because (D'Hardelot),

10 inches in length and holds 60 the United States, he Bird Songs at Eventide (Coates),

Richard Tauber (Tenor). passengers. The third coach, 71head trainer in a circus.

feet 11 inches long, accommodates of the diamond situation he al-'Cello Solo-Cuprice_(Delius),

Beatrice Harrison 56 people and in the tail of the this most bid four hearts at

7.43-8 p.m.-Light Orchestral Selec-

train there is a buffet. Even the point, despite the fact that he Lions. knew the combined hands held Reminiscences of Grieg (arr. Urbach), dishes used are of a special light

weight composition.-Reuter. Saschinka-(Schirman). only seven cards of that suit.

Marek Weber & His Orchestra. The three-potrump bid, how a p.m. Local Time and Weather ever, is slightly better.

Report. 4-This is the bid which completes 8.05-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con-lova

the picture which North has cert.

10.80 p.m.-Close Down. been trying to paint. North

All Relays of the Hong Kong Hotel all along intended to have the Orchestras are by courtesy

of the hand play in spades, but de- Management.

8.30-10

Recordedge." P.-European

8.30-9.08 p.m.Moonlight layed showing the spade sup-|

640 (Beethoven, Op. 27, No. 2.). Programme from “ZEX” on port until he had given an ac- Kilocycles.

Harold Bager (Pianforte) Acquiescence to the whims of Mise curate picture of his hand dis-

8.30-8.50 p.m.--Victor

9.08-9.20 p.m.-Band Selections from Boland, his wife, gets him into a The late tribution.

Melodies by the Victor Salon Group Gilbert and Sullivan's Light Operas series of difficulties.

Lilian Tashman, Walter Caltétt H.M.S. Pinafore", "Trial By Jury",

and George Barbier are featured The Sorcerer,

in the cast. The Band of H.M. · Coldstream | Guards conducted by Lieut. R. C. Evans.

from

Herbert

Directors and the Statements of 5-All now becomes clear to and Concert Orchestra Directed by

South. His four potential dia- Nathaniel Shilkret.

·Continued at foot of Next Col mond losers have vanished into

Account to 31st December, 1933, and of declaring Dividend, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th MAY to 25th MAY, Both Days In-

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. clusive.

THE FIFTY-THIRD

ARY GENERAL

ORDIN- MEETING

of Shareholders will be held at

the Offices of the undersigned on FRIDAY, the 25th May, 1984, 1

By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager, Hong Kong, 80th April, 1934.

Noon, for the purpose of receiv- GENERAL NOTICES.

ing the Report of the General

Agenta, together with a Statement|

of Accounts for the year

ended

NOTICE.

the 81st December, 1988.

BEG to announce that Mr.. Ip] The SHARE REGISTER and Kwai Chung has been appointed TRANSFER BOOKS will be my attorney for Hong Kong and CLOSED. from the 11th to the China in connection with my husd- 25th May, 1984, both days incla-ness ENG AUN TONG, The Tiger sive,

[Medical Hall under the Power of JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd, Attorney dated 1st May, 1984.

General Agents, na

AW BOON HAW. Hong Kong, 4th May, 1984.

"

Hong Kong, Brd May, 1984.

&

"Ah Sweet Mystery of Life-'Neath the Southern Moon-I'm falling in Theatre, starring Charles Ruggles with Someone-Italian Street and Mary Boland, is a highly Song (from "Naughty Marietta")-amusing comedy dealing with the Kiss me Again (from "Mlle. Modiste" pivate lives of a simple husband

Gypsy Love Song Romany Lit (from "The Fortuns Teller Radin and an ambitious wife,

Ruggles is cast as a middle Sonata class business man, whose eúky

thin air. South definitely contract. West chose to open knowa that North has four heart, which admittedly simplified 9.20-10 p.m. Selections trumps, as, since he has never the heart situation for Declarer. Musical Comedies and The Talkler. rebid the suit, North would not South immediately saw thất this Vocal Gems

bid four apades without at was the type of hand on which to C. B. Cochran's 1930 Revue,

Light Opera Company, feast four trumps. From the make the Dummy rather than bis

Bong- bidding South should read own hand good. Accordingly, after Love Were All ("Bitter Sweet") North for a void in diamonds, taking one round of trumpa he led (Coward), and though he is aware of the two rounds of clubs and ruffed a fact that this Inference is not third in his own hand. necessarily correct, he still in

A diamond was now led as a certain that North has at the safety measure to immediately re- most a singleton. In addition.move the East-West entry card and South has the Kings of both stop a possible heart ruff, which, suits 'that North has bid, 'and! of course, could never have come his spade suit is pretty solidor. East won the diamond - and Despite all the above, he bids continued with another heart, and enly five spades to give his South now ruffed Dummy's last Sorig pariner, a/Hittle leeway, in cans club with a high spade. He then Sweetheart Darlin' (“Pag O'My

Ivy St. Heller (Soprano). Belection-

The Cat and the Fiddle,

The New Mayfair Orchestra. Vocal Duct

Dear Little Cafe ("Bilter Sweet")

(Coward), Perry Wood & George Metaxă Selection-

"Words & Music" (Coward),

New Mayfair. Orchestra.

Heart") (Kahin), 'hijs previous bids have been laid down his last spade, entered |

Malone (Tenors, Danny aver-optimistic,

Da Donny by zuting another dia. Yox-Trot Bibible but careful play was all mond, and drove the last trump; My Dancing. Lady ("Dancing Lady Chat Bouth needed to fulfil his Tenying the Dummy high.

Bad From Frey & His Orchestra.

19 pan-Close Down

"DINNER AT EIGHT”~~ STAR THEATRE

A powerful cast has been as- sembled in the M. G. M.'s gripping Arams "Dinner at Elght."

are

The main players in the picture Marie Dressler, Lionel and John Barrymore, Billa Burks, Jean Harlow, and Karen Morely.

The story centres around Marie Dressler who gives a flamboyant impersonation of a faded musical comedy star who returns from re- Urement, abroad in the nick of time to save a young girl from ruining her life forever.

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Other prominent players in the.. cast are: Lee Tracy, Medge Evansja Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser Hale, Phillips Holmes, May Hobson' and Grant Mitchell