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("LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?"-

KING'S THEATRE

The improvidence of youth, and the struggle of a young couple As a general rule, the play of

An invalid's search for peace against dire poverty, form the plot Third Hand (the Junior adver- sary of Declarer) to the first lead and relief from the incessant for the story of "Little Man, What throb of pneumatic drills is be Now?" Frank Borzage's Universal is his highest card of the ault lieved to lie behind the tragedy drama now showing at the King's led, provided the Opening lead of a cultured woman who found Theatre.

Margaret Sullavan and a low card. There are naturally hanging by a silk scarf behind Douglas Montgomery are in the exceptions to this rule, which are: the door of her room in a Wind-leading roles..

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Clark Gable and Claudette Col. bert are in "It Happened One Night," Columbia Picture show- ing at the King's Theatre on Thurs day.

"TOP SPEED”—ALHAMBRA

THEATRE

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will be broadcasted today from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station IZ.B.W. on B wave length of 355

metres (845 K.C.'a) :-

1-2.16 pm-European Programme.

1 pm Local Time & Weather Raport.

1.03 p.m.-Recorded Musle.

1.15 p.A Relay, of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra-from-to-long Kong Hotel Grill Boom,

1.30 pm. Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press Now, eta

2.15 p.m.Close Down Violin and Pianoforte Recital from the Studio,

ZEK. PROGRAMME.

6-8 p.m.-European Programme. 6-7 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.

7 pm Closing Local Stock Quola- tions, London & New York Block & Commodity Quotations.

3

7.08-7.30 p.m.-Musical Comedy. Vocal Gems-

The Desert Song (Romberg)

Light Opera Company. Selection

Now Mayfair Orchestra.

Married almost entirely without savings, the couple struggle along The woman, who was identified on the bare existence which the 2. When Dummy holds any Miss K. Dorothy Fox, of Hyde young man carns as a clerk, only to card or cards

entirely over which Third Park Square, London, arrived at have their Income cease Hand holds a tenace or a poten- the hotel about a fortnight ago.when he loses his job. Many dis- tial tenace. He example: She said that she had come to heartening adventures ensue, but Windsor to be quiet. Half-finish-nally the young husband obtains ed manuscripts of musical com another clerkship in a department positions in her handwriting store, and the future looks brighter were discovered by the police. In spite of his meagre salary. who searched her luggage.

On the first pay day, however, he "Miss Fox came to Windsor for spends almost his entire month's relief from noise, which she said wages on a single beautiful dress.

Joe E. Brown, who recently had been driving her frantic"nig table for his wife, simply be

cause she has admired it in a furni- triumphed in "You Said A Month Jone who knew her stated.

ture store window, and they again ful," is returning to the Alhambra Theatre in another.. hilarious "She had been staying with a find themselves without funds.

In theme and treatment, "Little comedy, "Top Speed,” a First woman friend, a writer, in a country town. Road drills. Man, What Now?" is reminscent of National production,

Joe this time is cast in the role In the first example it is, of which were being used butside "Seventh Heaven," Borzage's pro course, obvious that if a low card the house, made life unbearable duction of the silent days which of a $85 a week broker's clerk who

Both she and still remains one of the outstanding is on a vacation among millionaires.Maclean, is played from Duminy, East should there. she told me.

no classics of the screen. Appearing Brandishing a foot, long cigar ho play the Knave, as against the her friend could stand it Declarer the Knave is of equal longer, and about a fortnight ago in support of Miss Sullavan and informer all that he and his partner. 1. Dogers March from

Montgomery are such popular Jack Whiting, are more than mult!. of Venice value to the King, due to the poal-they left the house.

players as Alan Hale, tional value of the honours held by:

Hedda millionaires, and that Jack, his 2. Violin Solos: Third Hand.

Hopper, George Meeker, Mae Marsh, partner was the designer of the (a) Serenade from "Les Millons

D'Arlequin" DeWitt Jennings, Sarah Padden, famous Jack Acroplane Motor.

(b) Le. Cygne .......Saint-Breas Fred Kohler and Muriel Kirkland, Joe's boasting of Jack's speed-3. On the Road to Mandalay

Olay Speaks boat skill finally secures for Jack an

Lenoir. invitation to pilot the boat belong-4. Speak to me of Love ing to Bernice Claire's father. The 15. Selection-

"The Student Prince" Romberg rival manufacturing concern has a

& Weather 8 pm Local Time from the Declarer's hand and will "Her whole life was wrapped

musical spectacle representative at the race who Report M-G-M's smash-hit production recognises Jack, and under threat 8.08-10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con prevent the establishment of the up in her music. She was pas-1 Queen as another trick in the suit.sionately fond not only of com- "Hollywood Party" is a comedy that he will pee him before the cert

9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, 3. When Third Hand holds a posing, but of music in all its drama into which romance, music girl he loves, demands that Jack London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity sequence in the sult led. In giving branches. I think that she and dances are woven as integral take a 880,000 bribe to withdraw Quotations.

An Invalid The second case is not quite so

"Miss Fox was an invalid obvious, but, in general, whether when she was seventeen. She has the final declaration is a suit or been under medical treatment for notrump, the Ten should be played, illness recently, but she had no since it partner holds the missing undue cause for anxiety about it. Knave the Ten will force the Ace

"HOLLYWOOD PARTY”...... QUEEN'S THEATRE

More than a

27761. the preferential leads, I mentioned worked harder at her music to parts

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JENNIE GERHARDT"

MAJESTIC THEATRE

Bow Bells (Sullivan)

Vocal Gems-

Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward)

Columbia Light Opera Company. 7.30-8 p.m.-From the Stadlo, A Violin and Pianoforte Recital by Miss Jose Radenky and Misa · Mona

Programme.

*The, Merchant Rosat

10.40 p.m.-Close Down

Re rrded 8.50-10 p.m.-European Music from ZEK. on a frequency of 640 k.c.'s."

† 8.30-8.55 p...

-Orchestral Maxic.

Euryanthe (Weber)

Overture-

Willem Mengelberg and his. Car certgebouw Orchestra, Fingal's Cave renkleres our phon

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in. F.

(Liast)

from the race.

10,30 p.m.-Renter Press Bulletins, Frank McHugh is featured in a Rugby Mid-day Presh News, further London Stock & Commodity. Quota. tings, a huge staircase of glass, prominent part and portrays alone, followed by New York Opening lead. The purpose of this lead is "Miss Fox, who was very weak flanked by glass pillars on which drunkard in his inimitable fashion. Quotations. to give information to partner. when she came to Windsor, had myriads of coloured lights glean. Bernice Claire's wonderful soprano

She Great cellophane hangings deck the is a revelation to all who hear her, When, however, a sult has been a considerable allowance. opened in

which the partner of had no fixed home and spent the pillars, and "shadow marionetter" he time travelling around, living at play in and out of the glazed walls, the leader holds a sequence,

Another remarkable and specta should play the lowest of that hotels or with friends."

cular setting in the moderniatic] sequence and not the highest. This

Throughout her stay at the "Singing Wires" set of chromium Sylvia Sidney, the girl who played reversal of the order of play is hotel at Windsor Miss Fox implated wire in fantastic and modern the part of the heroine in "An based upon exactly the same prin- ciple-namely, that of giving all pressed everyone as being happy designe, in which Frances Williams American Tragedy," returns to the On the eve of the tragedy ah of "Scandals" fame and a great Colony in another tragic role in (Continued at Foot of Next Col.) was in the best of spirits. She singing chorus appears.

Paramount's current attraction, Baid "Good night" to friends in Laurel and Hardy, the great Jennie Gerhardt," now at the the hotel before going to her comedy team, appear in various Majestic Theatre.

sequences with Lupe Velez and

Miss Sidney is a tragic figure, a others. They enact a pair of llop woman caught by forces far beyond Sevilla (Sevillanas) (Athenis)

Arthur Rubinstein. tamers who loose a llon into a great her control. In this film she wing Song-- social affair.

the love of a noted politician, who Down Vauxhall Way (Oilver) legitimate information possible to

Walt Disney contributes a special is killed in a railroad wreck before Pretty Mocking Bird (Bishop) your partner.

Mavis Bennett (Sopranu). "Silly Symphony" in colour that is their child is born. In the For instance, if your partner has presented by Mickey Mouse him-events that follow,

Jennie is Sarabande (Suzer, Op. 8) opened a low card of a suit of which self, who, through an amazing helpless, until the picture reached you hold a 10, the Ten should be

J played to partner's lead not the camera trick, actually appears with a poignant climax in her attempt Knave or the Queen. A little study human actors on one of the great to right herself.

sets.

Supporting Miss Sidney in the will show you clearly the reason for

A stellar cast of the screen, radio cast are Donald Cook, Mary Aator, this course. Assume the situation and stage are presented in this H. B. Warner, Edward Arnold and

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room.

around the table to be this:

Dummy North: 8 6 4 West:-K 9-7 2 South-A53 East: QJ 10

Partner has opened a small card. and you play the Queen. Declarer wins the trick with the. Ace. Later

"HIPS HIPS HOORAY”... ORIENTAL THEATRE

super musical-comedy extravaganza, Marion Gering. and besides Laurel and Hardy, in- cludes Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante, Charles Butterworth, Polly Moran, Lupe Velez, Jack Pearl, Eddie Quil lan, June Clyde, George Givot and Ted Healy and his riotous Stooges.

"TLL TELL THE WORLD”-

CENTRAL THEATRE ·

The drama that lies behind

London Symphony Orchestra. 8.55-9.30 p.m.-A, Concert Pianoforte Solo

Navarra (Albenia)

'Cello Solo-

Song-

W. H. Squire,

The Lute Player (Allitsen) The Floral Dance (Moss)

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Violin Solo-

Ave Maria (Schubert, An. Wilhelmi) Nacum Blinder.

.9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity Quotations.

9.35-10 p.m.-Variety. Organ Solos--

Broadway Thru' a Keyhole

Take a Chance-Selection

"Hips Hips Hooray," the RKO- Radio musical extravaganza, star- ring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, is another of the cycle of Song Wheeler and Hoolsey film frolics.

It contains a bevy of heatles in aaddition to song hits. spectacular

In the hand your partner regains the lead, but he cannot Intelligently and safely continue the suit. He news-gathering organisation is now dances, and good chorus work.

Thelma White, Adele Thomas,

is forced to guess as to who holds told on the screen in Universal's

dians.

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Selection

Terance - Casey,

Derickson Brown.

One Morning in May

Mandolin Solo-

Marr

Banjo Solo- Keyboard Kapers

"Mario" du Pietra,

Tom Costello in Song Hemories

Tom Costello and Chorus, 10 p.m.--Close down,

the Knave and even the Tex. current production. "I'll Tell the Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd, nad Vocal

On the other hand, if Third World," featuring Lee Tracy at Rath Etting are among the feminine. his best, now at the Central players supporting the two come. Hand had played the Ten instead of

Theatre. the Queen, the Declarer would `stlil |

Co-starred with the fast-speak- win the trick with the Ace, but rit| would be obvious to First Hand 1ng, breezy Tracy, is Gloria Stuart, that his partner held both the who travels with Tracy around the Queen and Knave, as the Declarer, world in search for news, as a could have no purpose in sacrific woman reporter, while Roger Pryor ing the Ace to win a trick which plays the part of Tracy's rival in might have been taken with the the field of news.

In the cast is another-well-known Knave or „Queen; »

This manner of playing honours player in the person of Onalow

Stevens. in sequence on your partner's leads is extremely important, and the reasons given herein should be studied until you understand them thoroughly..

MOTHER SENT TO PRISON

"QUEEN CHRISTINA”

THEATRE

STAR

Children Abandoned For

When the police entered the A Day And Night

house they found a letter writ ten by Mrs. Martin to her hus- NEIGHBOURS HEAR SCREAMS band, telling him that she had. gone away and not to waste Doris Phyllis Martin, aged 80, money trying to find her at Portsmouth, was sent to pri-Mrs. Martin, giving evidence. son for four months for abandon-said that she left the house, tell-

4. When the Opening lead Is Greta Garbo, Hollywood's most ing her four young children. It ing her children that she was obviously top of nothing" and the enigmatic star, returns to the was stated that she left them going to their grandmother at play of a high card can only serve screen to eclipse her former alone in the house for a day and Bristol, so that they would not to establish the suit for the triumphs in her latest starring night.

be too distressed. Sho left the vehicle, "Queen" Christina, a pic Evidence was given that neigh-letter for her husband and went [Declarer..

hours heard the children scream- to Weymouth to get a position. With these exceptions, the rea-ture of her own choice. sons for which are clear and Queen Christina" is the story ing.

She added that she wired to easily understandable, the highest of Sweden's glamourous Regent of They were induced to go to their father telling his what she card is the proper play for Third the seventeenth century, who sacri- bed, but at 5.45 next morning was doing. He was now work- Hand to a low-card Opening lead, ces her country and her throne for one witness stated, he was ing at Elstree since the entire object of the game love, which Irks the whole nation, awakened by screams, and, an

The husband arrived in court

is to drive out adversely held com John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis hour later he saw the youngest mandingards in orde estab Stonelizabeth Young and other child with its head through a just before the end af lish lower cards as trick winners well-known stars lend excellent sup pane of broken glass in the back He said that he thought He

bed-room window. for the defence,:

had been influenced in her set!