THE CHINA
WEDNESDAY
ANUARY 16, 1935-
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TO LET-Furnished European Dwelling House No. 11, Mountain. View, The Peak, 6 Bed Rooms with Drawing, Bil llard, Dining, and Drying Rooms, Ser- vants Quarters. Available for occups- tion from 1st April 1935. Apply Mackinnon Mackenzio & Co.; P. &
Building.
FOR SALE - SOON
1935 EDITION of H.K. $ Directory Will be on sale now being printed. Boon Copies PAID CASH IN AD- VANCE will be delivered from frat lot bound up. The Publishers-3A, Wynd- ham Street.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
Public Auctions
HE
Tin undersigned have received
Auction
ON
Thursday, the 17th. January, 1935
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room,
Duddell Street
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
romprising:
FURNITURE
Chesterfield couches and arm-1
chairs, Teak wardrobes with be
BUSINESS DIRECTORY Amusements
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
W. B. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,'
Kowloon Bay. Shipbuilders & Repairers. Call Flag “L”,
Bole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
OPTICIANS
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
Phone 22232. Queen's Road Central.
Leather Handbags, Sult Cases, Puraes, Hat Baxes, Collar Boxes
Belts, Etc.
MAN WO LOONG Leather Case Store 6, Pottinger Et.
Portrait, and Art Photography Developing, Printing & Enlarging Asia Life Bldg., 14, Queen's Rd., C.
Tel 03866.
(1st Fl.)
GENERAL NOTICES.
Cinema Notes
"BELLE OF THE NINETIES".
KING'S THEATRE
Mac West, America's "past time," comes to the King's Theatre in a story, written by herself, the "Belle Of The Nineties."
BRIDSK NOTES Finesse Rather
A Break
by Ely Culbertson.
The story is laid", against the
There is much more in expert colourful background of St. Louis,
Dummy play than sound techni New Orleans and the Mississippi,
The good card player towns during the 90's.
John que
knows the correct type of play Miljan is cast as the owner of the to employ and when to employ it smartest gambling and entertain-when to draw trumps when meat palace in the South.
not to draw trumps, when to
As the most famous burlesque finesse, when to squeeze, and so queen in the country, Mae West on. He also knows the mathe leaves St. Louis, goes to Milan'a mmatical percentages and the establishment. and wins the South theories of probable divisions of by charm. Miljan, trying to be the the opposing cards. All of this, big man in her life, lets himself in however, will not make oné, a for trouble when he attempts to finished Dummy player. The turn Miss West against her prize-real expert is something of a fighter sweetheart ca a psychic. He looks at the distri
How the girl with the hour-glass butional pattern of his own hand figure finds real love. at last, after and the Dummy, he listens care a dramatic climax, brings the 'film fully to the opposing bidding, if to a grand finale you g
any, and then tries to form a Roger Pryor, John Mack Brown, mental picture of his opponents' and Duke Ellington and his orches hands. And on the basis of this tra are featured in the film. mental picture, he quite frequent- ly adopts a line of play that seems to go against the percen- tages...
""***
“OUTCAST LADY"QUEEN'S
THEATRE
--
one
To-day's hand was played in a Michael Arlen's "The Green Hat" recent Duplicate game, and, HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB. first came to the screen as "A strangely enough, only
Woman of Affairs," in which Greta declarer made the right play. Garbo and John Gilbert wero itar-
South, Dealer → red, comes in another version as
North and South vulnerable The Outcast Lady," at the Queen's Theatre.
ME
NOTICE
TEMBERS and SUBSCRIBERS are asked to note that Mr. A. K. MACKENZIE. has this day taken over the Honorary Secretary ship of this Club.
Hong Kong, 15th January, 1985.
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB
Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall are playing the leading Metro-Goldwyn- in this Mayor's latest production of the charming novel.
roles
"The Outcast Lady" tells the story of two orphans, a boy and a girl, whose ancestry have been known 28 wastrels and spend- TENNIS TOURNAMENT thrifts, and who are
shunned by abciety as a result.
ENTRY
¿NTRY FORMS may be obtained. The boy and the girl are in love at the Pavilion. ENTRIES with each other, but the boy's CLOSE on Thursday, 81st January. father cannot allow the girl to ruin
TWENTY
NOTICE.
PHILIPPINE
his son's future in the Civil Service by. contracting such a marriage.
The girl marries another man, a great friend of both the orphan 18. girl and her lover, but for some
be
cide on his wedding night, and thereafter the Alm continues with
TENDS GOVERNMENT mysterious $1,000 bonds numbered 829 to 838 8180, 8131, 3322 to 8824 and 14296 to 14800 are reported, missing.
Before negotiating please com-
munleate with Post Office Box No cast is prominent. 456, Hong Kong G.P.0.
Just Received POSTAGE STAMPS CATALOGUE for 1935
North:-
S-A 10.7.5 43
H-K J 5
D-8
C.-8 3 2
West:-
SK 6
H-10 9 8 2
D.-K 10 7 4 3 CI-J 7.
East:--
S...
HA Q 7 4 3 D-9 2
C.-K.Q.10,9 6 5
South:
S-QJ 98 2
H.-6
DA QU6 5 · CA-4
The bidding:
(Figures, after
North East 8S. 40.
Pass
an interesting series of incidents, bids refer to numbered explana- daring which every member of the tory paragraphs),
South West Pass Others outstanding in the cast 18.(1) are Hugh Williams, Ralph Forbes 4D.
Pass -40. 50.(2) 58.(3) Pass and Elizabeth Allan,
Pass 1-The five-card. major, though
weak, must be bid first. 2-East, being not vulnerable, decides to take a deliberate sacrifice against the game contract, which, he is sure North and South can make. A sét of 450, he knows, wil be better than permitting the opponents to make their game. 3-South's reasoning is in the
(Continued on Page 111*~
"PARIS INTERLUDE”— ORIENTAL THEATRE
Paris, playground of American tourists and workshop of the bounds of the foreign newe ser- [vice, with lting romance, and $4.50 comedy is the feature of Parla In- 2nd Part Foreign Countries...terlude," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Whole World
$10.50 Simplified
13.50 release, at the Oriental Theatre.
Stanley Gibbons
1st Part British Empire
velled mirrors, Teak dressing Scott Stamp and Coin Co... $8.00 The story deals with a girl who,
tables, Teak hatalands, Teak office Yvert et Tellier Champion.. $8.90ited by a Paris correspondent,
desks, Teak and glass cabinets. Teak Dining tables, Teak and cane seat chairs, Teak filing cabinets, Teak ice chests, Book cases, etc.
etc.
Silver ware, Cutlery, Ornaments, Clocks, Tea sets, Crockery, Glass ware, Gramaphones and records, Pictures, Linen, Carpeta, Opium stoola, Typewriters, Medicine cheats, Radiators, Marble statue,
GRACA & CO., Dealers In Postage Stamps, Religions Goods, Garden Seeds, Past Carda etc.
No. 10 Wyndham Street. P. O. Box No. 620.
Honr Eon
PUBLIC AUCTION
1
Bronze ware, Filter, Rattan chairs HE undersigned have received
Iron beds, Flower pots, etc., etc.
also
A Quantity of Blackwood ware
and
2 Piano players,
1 Sewing machine
2.Frigidaires
2 Radio seta
2 Radio Gramaphones.
On view from Wednesday, the
18th January, 1935.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.
Aretioneers. Hong Kong, 14th January, 1934.
B. Undersized
instructions to sell by Pablle
Auction
ON
FRIDAY, the 18257
THE
instructions to sell by Pubile
::
ON
Auction
Tuesday, the 22nd. January, 1985, commencing at 11 am.
at Director's Quarter, Royal Observatory, Kowloon
A Quantity of endan VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
-FURNITURE
Terms: Cash on delivery,
On ylew from Monday the 21st, January, 1935 LUSAKNUT
"LAMMERT BROS,,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 15th, January, 1986,
and stranded there, becomes a fashion writer, wins fame, and Anally finda love in the loyalty of another newspaperman, who has stuck to her through her trouble..
(Continued on Page 11.)
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE Ralphs Shield Contest Concludes
SHAUKIWAN DIVISION SECURE FIRST PLACE
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A Planoforte Recital by Madame
Renee Florigny,....... İstey
Modern French and Spanish Composers
1. Jardin sous ́hi Plate
2. Benceuse
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4. Danse Espagnol
15. Tange
Debussy.
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¡Granados,
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830-9 p.m.--Variety. The following programme will
Song Sans Toi-Tango Chante, bo broadcasted to-day from the Mile Lucienne Boyer (Soprano). Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Instrumental-
R.W. on a wave length of 256
motres (845 K.ODE
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pm-European.
12.80-1 p.m. Recorded Music.
Pro
1 pm Local Time and Weather Report...
1.08 p.m.-Recorded Music:
1.15 pm--A Relay of the Orchestra
On a little street! in Honolulu All through the Night Vocali
Organ Solos
Musketeers Melodies No.12
The Four Munketeers
In a Bird StoreN BUBGNORA Ju In a Clock Storn ....Terence Casey.} Part two of the Ralphs Shield
Songs
The very thought of you. Competition was: completed on the South China Recreation Ground, from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill A Place in your heart
Room (by courtesy of the Manage-OES WE Sams Carlow (Fear), Caroline Hill, on Sunday morning, ment)
9.30 p.m. Reuterresa Humdity the judges being the same as on 1.30 p.m.-Reater Press Bulletins, London 1pm. Stock and the previous Sunday, viz:-Lieut. Rugby Press News, etc.
2.15 p.m. Close Dows.
Quotations Colonel Frost, O.B.E., R.A.M.C. and
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The final award of the judges 14-7 pm.—Chinese: Programme. placed the Shaukiwan Division 66.15 p.m. Childrens Studio Con- "First," with a total of 168 marks; cert the Hong Kong Y.M.CA Division him. Barojan ProgTKIRIS.“
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Mr. Wuest),
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