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by Ely Culbertan."

Among the many playa designed to prevent one's opponents from making full use of their entries a grent majority are the conventional entry-killing plays which remove high cards from an opponent's hand before the right to load is impor tant to him The timing of the play at Contract Bridge is such that [very often an entry is not valuable

one' opponent carly in the hand, whereas aftor several rounds he could use an entry to great advan Lere either because a suit he holds has by this time become establish Jed, or because his partner is now able to rull another suit, or for 'n variety of other reasons.

Most players are familiar with

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removed from the opponents' hands' before they become dangerous, but there are other cases in which it is Impossible to strip the opponents of] GIVEN that high. cards, Eo that other mears the SIXTEENTH ORDINARY Just be taken to cut their lines" of] MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will communication. be held at the Registered Office of the

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Company No. 12, Des Voeux Road In the following beautiful handi Central, at 2.80 p.m. SATURDAY, the the declarer is forced to anticipate 2nd March 1936, for the purpose of by several moves a brilliant line] receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts of defence which is planned against for the year ending 81st December, him; he must foresee the fact that the success of this defence depends

Loretta Young and John Boles have the two leading roles In Jess L Lasky's production for Fox Film, "The White Parade," a dramatic and touching story of student nurses which is now being

screened at the King's Theatre.

Amusements

Cinema Notes

The girl in the title role is pretty Marian Marsh," while most of the obstacles thrown in her path come from her own mother, played by Louise Deaser. Others in the bril- llant cast are Ralph Morgan, Henry

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

-MALAYAN JUNGLE

GAME RESERVE

Negotiations Under Way In FM.S.

PART TERRITORY OF THREE STATES INVOLVED.

In his forest solitudes in Pahang (if indeed, he lives in [forest solitudea) Mr. Theodore Hubback, honorary Game War don, must have read with con- siderable satisfaction the an- nouncement made the other day in the House of Commons that negotiations are proceeding for the establishment of a National Park for wild Hfe in Malaya, on just the lines which he recom- mended.

"Wild Life Of Malaya aka ~Mr. Hubback put an immense amount of work into the execu tion of his Commission in 1930 to report on the wild life of the country and make suggestions for preserving the fauna of Malaya. Since he issued his [very comprehensive ⠀⠀ report (which incidentally is surprising ly readable in ita more discursive passages) in 1982 there has been no further mention of it, and there was some justification for supposing that it had become lost, in the archives and forgotten CAN highly recommend Cook-Boy, 1984,

The TRANSFER BOOKS. of the on the existence of an entry card

Which would be a great pity, excellent cook & good worker.

CLOSED from in the hand of one adversary; and "LADY BY CHOICE"QUEEN'S

apart from any considerations of also highly recommend Chauffeur, Company will be

February, 23rd to

THEATRE

The following programme will the $10,000 expenditure which Careful driver. Apply Mrs. Sloyd, Tel. SATURDAY

SATURDAY, 2nd March, 1935 (both, finally, by a counter move, he must

B. Walthall, Helen Jerome Eddy, the broadcasted to-day from the its preparation entailed. days thelusive) during which period no cut off all chance of his opponents' transfer of shares, can be registered. transferring the lead to the only "Lady by Choice," featuring Carole Betty Blythe, Eddie Nugent, Bar-long Kong Broadcasting Station Presumably the said negotia-

By Order of the Board of Directors. hand which could make the play to Lombard, May

defeat him, The rarity of declarers Pryor. Madam Mariska Aldrich G-GI Parrish, 1934 Wampas baby DANCE MUSIC FROM HONG KONG ganu, into whose territories it is Robaon, Roger bara Bedford, Tommy Bupp and RW una wave length of 355 tions are with the Governments. of Pahang, Kelantan and Treng- KAN TONG PO.

Chief Manager. who are able to rise to such a and John Boyle, is Columbia's cur- HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY

situation is indicated by the fan: rent release now at the Queen's star.

proposed to extend the Park. Recorded Programme 1935. On sale at all Book-stalls and Hong Kong, 11th February, 1995.

that when a hand like this was sub- Theatre,

its picturization by monogram is 12.30-2.15. p.m.- European Pró- Primeval Show Place at the Offices of the Publishere, 3A,

Imitted recently to half a dozen of Wyndham Street.

"Lady by Choice" tells the story an outstanding achievement, and gramine,

Malaya A national park in 12.30 p.m.-London and New York the best known experts not one of

and Commodity Quotations, must not conjure up visions of them was able to find the correct of a fan dancer who as a publicity follows closely the story as record-st

[stunt adopts A "mother." The ed by Mrs. Gero Stratton-Porter, Manila Gold Stock Quotations.

the some such show place as technique. In the Culbertson By "mother" played excellently by

12.85-1. p.m.-Recorded Music. National Christy Cabanne, who directed.

Park at Yosemite, tem of play the general principle

1 p.m.Local Time and Weather USA. It will be a show place underlying this hand has given May Robson, is first seen as

broken-down old lady addicted to brings out the tender emotions of Report

in a manner of speaking, but a birth to an entire group of similar

very much like!

s young girl of the swamps who THE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN-entry-killing plays, of which the gin, a character

ANNUAL MEETING Apple Annis role in the neture

that made her famous on the has to fight her way through to acreen. When she becomes a lady gain an education. despite the to play "mother" to Miss Lombard, overwhelming odds against her.'; she takes an active interest in her: daughter's affairs, both business und love, and brings both a happy conclusions.

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"THE WHITE PARADE”.........

KING'S THEATRE

Roger Pryor, romantic lead in. "The White Parade," an unusual movies, scores in "Lady by Choice" picture of the nursing profession, opposite Miss Lombard. Other featuring Loretta Young and John in the cast

include Walter Con-

metres 1846 K.C.■—

HOTEL

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p.m.--Recorded Music. 1.80 p.m.--Reuter

Press Bulletins, primitive' onethe primeval

forest, untamed if not untame Rugby Press News, etc.

2.15. p.m.-Close Down.

able, and abounding with wild Pro-life. Its principal purpose is to provide a sanctuary for beast and bird.

4-7 pmChinese Recorded Music,

7 p.m.-12 midnight.-European

gramme, '

7-7.25 8.mit.

p.m. Orchestral Musle, - Cave—Overture

Fing Mendelssohn)

Hansel and Gretel Overture

(Humperdinck), nuk ke me) Ungarische Lustspiel-Overture

(Keter)

7.25 -7.48pm Excerpts

(.

from

Tolanthe (Gilbert & Sullivan). nolly, Arthur Hohl, and Raymond Boles, is Jesso" L. Lasky's produc- For Riches and Rank I do not long

Go Away, Madam. Ition for the Fox Film, which is Every Bill and Every Measure Walhurn.

Adapted from the screen play by now showing at the King's Theatre. When all Night long

Strephen's a Member of Parliament Jo Swerling and taken from the The White Parade" is the first When Britain really ruled the waves original by Dwight Taylor, "Lady aim dealing with the semi-clositer-

7.48-8 pm Jarz Piano Recital by jby Choice" was directed by David

ed loves of giria in training for

Billy Mayerl.

Burton.

"THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET-ORIENTAL THEATRE

careers as nurses. It is based on the novel of the same title, by Rian James, who also wrote the screen plot, in collaboration with Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.

Besides a large and impressive Rudolph Bester's famous play, cast of featured players, more than

roles as "young ladies in white" in this powerful picturisation of the student-nurse.

The site of the proposed park is where the borders of the three statea- af Rehang, Kelantan and Trengganu meet. There is al {ready a game reserve the. Gu- nong Tahan Reserve, and this is to be extended from 850,000 acres to about 600,000 acron.........

There are no roads, or settle- ments, only jungle paths trodden by the animals and the abori, ginal tribes which roam the area 1 Billy Mayer's own Selection restraining hand of civilisation -tribes who have never felt the

2. Billy Mayerl's savoy Havana

Memorios.

and probably have no desire to.

8 pm Local Time and Weather But it has been the scene of his Report

8.03-9.26 p.m.Song Memories. Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks

Medley

Love Tales (arr. Henry Hall)

(arr. L. Giraud) ·

8.28.9 p.m.-Band Music. The Jolly Robbers-Overture

(Suppe)

"The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1200 girls were given atmospheric Form Foure-War Bonge Medley which served. to make Katherine Cornell one of America's greatest stage actresses, brings the tender love story of Elizabeth Barrett and screen. Robert Browning to the

Norma Shearer, Frederic

|DAY, the 12th day of March, 1935, In the bidding North and South with

ber

"SUMMER LIGHTNING"- STAR THEATRE

Woodland Pictures-Rural Suite

(Fletcher)

toric.occurrences, for in 1895 at the Lime of the uprisings in the central States, Sir Hugh Clifford (then a high official in the M.C.S.) trekked through this very jungle in pursuit of the Pahang rebels, who had fled into Trengganu. Singapore Free Press

Hyde Park Suite (Jalewicz) Sons of the Brave (Bidgood) Entry of the Gladiators (Fucik) - at the BOARD ROOM of the Com-wisely choose to sacrifice, being March, and Charles Laughton in

9-9.11 p.m.-Hawaiian Music

COTTON EXPORTS pany, Second Floor, Exchange confident that they cannot be hear the leading roles.

Ralph Lynn's asinine fooling has Frederic March

is brilliant as always been a joy and his work in Hawaiian Stars are Gleaming

Oh! Rosalite Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for ly set, and seeing no hope of ̧ de=]

TO JAPAN Browning, who will not be denied the film "Summer Lightning, the Hawaiian Love-Walts the purpose of receiving a Stato-feating a vulnerable game. ment of Accounts and the Report The final contract is four spaces his love, and whose zest for living current attraction at the Star A skoki Fox Trot of the Board of Directors, for the doubled, against which West opens inspires and saves Elizabeth,

Theatre, is no exception.

9.13-8.30 p.m.-Focal Gema

China's Gigantic Plan Chu Chin Chaw financial year ended 31st Decen- the diamond eight. This is won Norma, Shearer. Charles Laughton

The story is a characteristic The Cat and the Fiddle

To Extend Planting 1984, and re-electing two by East's Ace and the Quees re-fonce again turns in a great piece burst of P. G. Wodehouse's bril-

9.80 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, Directors and the Auditors. turned, which falls to South's King. of character acting as the tyrannillant nonsense, and concerns a London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity

3,000,000 ACRES TO BE The TRANSFER BOOKS of the A club is now played to the King cal Victorian father who dominates feather brained young man who Quotations.

9.85 Company will be closed from the and a small spade led, on which so cruelly his family, especially steals a prize pig with the intentarona Hong Kong Hotel Roof

OPENED IN FIVE YEARS 1st March to the 12th March, 1985, East properly plays the 10 South lying on the sick girl for com tion of returning it later to win its Garden (by courtesy of the Manage With a view to increasing raw

winning with the Queen.

panionship,

owner's consent to his marriage to ment), the Press Bolletins, cotton exports to Japan, the South is now too wise to think

10.80 p.-Reuter. Miles Malleson, as the butler, is Rugby Mid-day Prem News, Further Chinese Government is pushing London Stock and Commodity Quote forward a gigantic plan for an an admirable comedy accomplice tions.

increase in cotton planting,^ao- to the star, and Winifred Shotter, 12 midnight Close Down, 1,2 W. L. McKENZIE, {of trumps and it seems necessary How a girl of the Indian swamp.

Secretary, to return to Dummy and lead lands overcomes the obstacles that brings all her demure wickedness Note: There will be a Chiness Recording to Mr. Funatau, Manag- corded from %.EK. on a Fre-ing Director of the Japanese to the leading feminine role. 14, Des Voeux Road, Central, through the Ace again: But as the would have prevented her from Dorothy Bouchier is a vl/acious

quency of 640 kilocycles, from Cotton Spinners' Association to 8-11 p.m. Hong Kong.

hand was originally played, South galning an education, is the story chorus girl out of the hero's past.

China, who is on a short visit in was aware that East, a very bril unfolded in "A Girl of the Limber

Japan from Shanghai, saya the

both days inclusive.

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Dated this 20th day of January that the two remaining spades will "A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST

| break............ East's double was" more --ALHAMBRA THEATRE

than likely based upon the A J`13

1985.

By Order of the Board.

1

this niece.;

p.m.-12 midnight--Danes Or

liant player who ranks among the lost a powerful tale of American THE BLACK CAT-MAJESTIC FIREMEN SCARED BY "Japan Chronicle

country's nest, would win with rural life, now showing at the Al-

his spade Ace and put his partner hambra Theatre,

in with a heart to return a club.]

Baat could ruff, the club and, thus defeat the contract.

and

THEATRE

One of the most unusual pictures

of the season, bringing with it all the uncanny mystery and horror of and "Dracula,”.

DUMMY

Blaze At Theatrical Costumier's

Shenal, Homan, Hopeh and Shantung have large cotton belts, and this year 4,000,000 tan (s tan" is= 0,245, acre), “are to `LIDO DANCING ACADEMY

planted there. The Chinese Göy- ernment intends to open up 144, Des Voeux Rd, C.

A wise South must foresee this East had a singleton, but this is

10,000,000 tan in Kiangsu PTO- (Opp. Sincere'a) possibility. He must realise that won in Dummy and East must fol-"Frankenstein"

Theatrical and fascy costumes vince in the next five or six Opportunity Openi

East, having bid diamonds, suplow, a whereupon a spade is led plus the added thrills, supplied by ported hearts and doubled spades East puts up the Ace, and now those two creators of serie roles, and uniforms were damaged by years. For this purpose, it has #100, (can hold at most two clubs,It is when he leads a small heart South Boris Karoff and Bela Lugoat, "The fire which broke out recently at the already decided to defra Beauti Song Huicidal therefore to allow West to ruffs and captures the Jack of Black Cat is now showing at the premises of Messrs. Berman, Ltd. 000, according to Mr.

in Green-street, Leicester-aquaze | "The Chinese Governm

that If. Ching can increase

darkness they whose annual imports"

which Y,500,000,000

she canno Coohane balance of her foreli

help promote patter tween the two. countri

· Dances for a $1,00%

Beautiful-Dancing} Partnera Large, and Comfort is gone. But a simple solution to is any danger of its winning- a able Place, Bervice at this difficulty is to allow, to trick. By means of this play South a story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a Firemen had a few hectic mo- raw cotton expor ways the Best Danc-lead before East is in a position to succeeds in losing only one spade, Universal productionments when in inglevary night from

– The splendid supporting cast in- bumped into dummy one diamond, and tha Opak im 1r ruf clubs South's next play is one heart "Make Lide your Ren, therefore, his singleton heart! contract of four spades, which was aludes David Manners, Jacqueline fell over,

Wells Lactile acrifice, Instead West can win this trick, but the intended. Lift" just completed lead does him no whit of good. He proves to be good for a doubled Harry Cord'ng, Hent

Albert Cont {can" return club in the hope that game,

get the lead after East's last club spades with his King before there The Black.Cat," suggested from Hundreds of wigs were ruined

Majestic Theatre.

brigadej

to the