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RED MORNING”“”—KING'S

THEATRE

Cupid opposes Neptune as ro- mance in "Red Morning," the new and stirring melodrama of the South Seas, with Steff Dans "and Regis Toomes.. at the King's |Theatre

Miss Duna portrays a female second mate од the Schooner. Papua. Bred on, the schooner, she is reluctant to desert her "home" to marry Toomey. With a promise to settle down with him after her next cruise, she embarks on her final and most adventuroES, TOY- lage..

"Red Morning," an RKO-Radio Picture, was directed by Wallace Fox from his own adaptation of the story by Gouverneur Morris.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB The authentic backgrounds thread-

ed into the story were made by HE SIXTH EXTRA RACE James Shackelford and George

T MEERLAG will be veld (wes Dromgold, who travelled to New

ther permitting) at HAPPY VAL-Guines and the Fiji Islands, to LEY on SATURDAY, 18th May, secure the necessary footage. 1935, cominencing it 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rus ati 130 p.m.

By Order,

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“WHIRLPOOL"-QUEEN'S

THEATRE

Hollywood's greatest exponent of the strong, silent man type of role, Jack Holt can now be seen in his latest and one of his best pictures to date. "Whirlpool."

The story tells of a man, who,

GENERAL NOTICES shortly after being married, is sen-

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

New- "Wise-Crack" Competition

Last Chance To Win Theatre Tickets

CHURCH

Peralta

Degracia

BRIDGE NOTES

"Sink Or Swim

Tactics

by Ely Culbertson:

It is easy enough to duck if one

"RADIO"]

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station 28.W.

is confident of being able to swim on a wave length of 355 metres.

out, and to take a finesse when it (§45 KC3).. does not mean the difference be tween success and complete dis- aster

VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE RECITAL FROM STUDIO Recorded Music

TSO-15

but when a line of play means either everything or nothing,†cramme."

1

European Pro-

115 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Or

many players get what the hunters! 1230 pm—Recorded Music. call back fever: Often the Declar

pm-Local Time, and Weather“, Report er's contract will depend upon risking a finesse when, if the chestra. finesse loses, not only a trick 'butį 1.30 pm-Reuter Press. Bulletins,

Rugby Press News, etc.

216 pm-Close Down

the entire suit will be lost. Thus, in the

following diagram, when

the establishment of the suit is vital to the success of the contract.

47 pm-Chinese Programme 7-11 pm-European Programme 7-7.36

Opera Musical Comedy.

pm--light.

the Declarer most proceed boldry Vocal Gems Jolly Roger

Vocal Gems-Lilac Domino

an a line of play which will resul

if the cards are not distributed Selection Fanfare

exactly as he hopes, in his never winning à trick even with his Ace. North-

C—A Q.8754 South:-...

Cm 3

Vocal Geme-Ball at the Savoy

7.30-3 p.m.-From the Studio.

A Violin and Pianoforte Becital by Miss Jose Radesky and Miss Mons Maclean.

Programme

1. Blue Danube Waltz

2. Merry Widow--Selection

If North has no entry, and twoja Violin. Solos tricks in clubs are not sufficient,

South must lead

North's honours.

the club › threa

Bolero

Strauss

..Lehar

Bohm

Spring, Song...... Mendelssohn

Saint-Saens. Simons

If North had 4. Softly awakes my heart

("Samson and Delilah"} the lead instead of South, North would simply lead the five of clubs 5. Marta and allow East or West to win B. 8 pm-Local Time and Weather Now, when South regains the lead. Heport the six of clubs will be led and the Piano Solo

803-846 pm-Variety- Queen finessed. If Fast holds You've got to admit

Carroll Gibbons Vocal Duet-

Nonny Nonny No ("Jill Darling")

Louise Browne and John Mis Humorou

When I set my rag out.

w

hopel

4

Here is the third, and last, pic-the King South will never win even! one trick in clubs, though Dummy ture, showing Alison Skipworth holds the Ace. If the Queen wins tenced to 20 years in prison. Think- WEDDING AT ROSARY and Tred Keating in a scene in and the Ace clears the suit, then ing of his young wife, and the

the rollicking farce "The Captain the suit has developed five tricks. misery in store for her, he forges

the There may not be much Hates the Sea, opening at the warden's name on a letter stat-

that this will happen, but where it ing that he has died in-prison. Eis

Queen's. Theatre to-morrow.

is the only chance it must be at- wife accordingly marries a judge.

What are they saying to one attempted. His term in prison has not auc- Mr. Paul G. Peralta, manager of other? Or what might they be In certain cases the cards played OFFICE ROOMS in Kayamally Bldg.

Miss Rufina TOTICE" is given that on, and ceeded in reforming him, and when "Aurelia's, and Overlooking Queen's Road Central also

saying? This is your last chance to the trick which the Declarer Eix five

ducks will determine his future Room House Hart Avenue from THURSDAY. May 23rd, he is released. now old and grey. Degracia were married at Kowloon and at at Saifee Terrace the office of the above Society will be takes to racketeering, and meets Rosary Church, Kowloon, on Satur- of showing what you can do in the

course of play. Nathan Road Kowloon, Apply: -

his daughter who is working as a day afternoon. The Reverend way of inventing a smart repartee. Kaysmally & Co. 20 Queen's Ed.

Father Rossi officiated.

When you have filled the "bal- Central

The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. Albaro Degracia of Manila, loons with your ideas, send all.

is the three pictures, together with your Philippines. Mr. Peralta. son of Mr. and Mrs. Cirilo Peralta full name and address, to the Con- of Manila

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The cast includes Jean Arthur,

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MIDNIGHT ALIBI”— ALHAMBRA THEATRE

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN This First National

NOTICE

好

Picture that the Share Register and based on the story by Damon Run- WANTED TO RENT small self-con-Transfer Books of the Company yon, author of "Lady For A Day," tained one or two-roomed, flat, Hong will be closed from the 21st to 25th is the feature attraction at the Kong side. Must be cheap. Write Box instant, both days inclusive, for the Alhambra Theatre to-day. No. 767, c/o The China Mail.

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writer has yet conceived, the prin cipal characters being an elderly and aristocratic spinster, and a New York racketeer. Helen Lowell, the noted Broadway star, has the former role, and gives an outstand-

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Why Not Enjoy DELICIOUS

JAPANESE SUKIYAKI

of

One

the

South, Dealer

Both sides ralnerable

North→→

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since his graduation has been con- Writers of the six best sets of West... nected with the firm "Aurelia's," "wise-cracks" will each receive; whose branch store in Hong Kong two dress circle tickets for the he is now managing

Queen's Theatre.

SQUIRRELS EAT MEAL WORTH $383

Man Returns To Find

Hoard Gone

Hungry squirrels have had a ing characterisation, while Richard meal of £383 in notes at Passau. Barthelmess has the stellar role of Eastern Bavaria. the gangster.

Hermann Zimmerman hid the

the the young

gangster invades the of his house

FRACAS BETWEEN WHARF COOLIES

Rival Gangs Dispute Over Cargo

TWO MEN IN HOSPITAL

Chan Tong, 29, foreman, Chan

SQ.92

4

E-A 8 4 3

D-Q 8 7 CJ 10 9

East-

S-10 6 4 3 H-J75

D-J 6,5 4. C-X 2

South

1D

SAK 5 HK Q 6 D-AK 10 9 2 C6 3

The bidding:

West

Pass

Bas: Pase

Songs

Norman Long.

An hour ago this minute

("Big Business"} What Now? ("Big Business")

Gertrude Lawrence. (Soprano.)

Instrumental

Sweet Sue-Just you

Sang

Nat Gonella and his Trumper

When I grow too old to dream ("The Night is Young

Evelyn Laye (Soprano.)

Orchestra

Talking Film Memories Instrumental-

Memories of you; Rain; Goodbye,

Biner

It don't mean a thing; Happy Feets Everybody loves my, baby; I got - Rhythm

Song

When the Robin sings his song agad Gracie Fields Organ Solom

Love in Bloom ("She Loves me now) Sidney Torch. 246-9 pm-Four songs by Landon Ronald sung by Joseph Hislop (Tenor).

1 Strew on her roses.

2. Down in the forest.

* A Pair wall matched.

4. When I am dead, my dearest. 9-9.15

DMA Violin Recital by Fritz Kreidler,

1 Humoreske, Op. 101, No. 7

*(Deorak).".

2. Caprice Vienois (Kreisler).

3. Fair Bosemary (Kreisler).

4. Randino (Kreisler)...

9.15-9.45

Music

p-Light

Orchestra

The two come into contact when money under a plank in the floor Wo, 25, Ng Hop, 53, and Ng Sing, South

" 26, coolies, appeared before Mr. When he went for it later he Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magis-3NT finest foods in spinster's home in order to escape found squirrels, taking refuge tracy yesterday charged with dis

being "put on the spot by the your brother of the girl be loves. Much from the cold beneath his house, orderly conduct. Two other defen-tract West opens the heart three.I want your heart (Haydn Wood) here to his surprise he is eagerly wel bad eaten his wealth.

the world

Bring friends

for at unusual comed into the home by the spin-

treat..

ster, who is reminded of her own Best quality and Courteous Service. lover of years ago, who was slain

Only $2.00 In Eaal Japanese Style

by her own father.

**Tatamu***

OIMATSU SUKIYAKI HALL

29 Hennessy Road, Wanchai. Tel. 23558. (“DOWN TO THEIR LAST YACHT"

--ORIENTAL THEATRE

"Down To Their Last Yacht,"

PEPPERMINTS USED IN ELECTION

Five Draws Before Settlement

3.45-10. pm--Talkie Ties

Now that I've found you (“That's a

a Good Gir?" Fancy our meeting ("That a Good.

Gir Jack Buchanan and Elsie, Randolph.

Happy, I'm Happy" ("Caravan") Wine Song (“Caravan”) Vocal Duet

that Band

sonie

North

From Offenbach's Sample Box

(Uzbach) 20

Lehariana (Geiger) Pass Pass Fass Potpourri of Waltzes-No 2 Against the three-notrump con-i (Robrecht)

dants, Wong Wong, 32, foreman, on which Dummy plays the nine, Masquerade (Loeb) and Hung Yau, 22. coolie, did not East the Jack and South the King Vocal Duets- appear, being still in hospital owing South now leads the club

three, to their injuries. .“

West plays the nine, Dummy thel It appears that a fight took place four and East the dence. West between coolie gangs belonging to cleverly continues with the club the Kowloon Godowis and Holt's Jack immediately, hoping Wharf over the loading of some] South, by inverse psychology, wid cargo, which the Godown coolies suspect him of attempting Eight peppermints figured in were going to remove from Holt's sort of ruse and will finesse. the election of the Deputy Mayor Wharf to the Kowloon Godown. The first club trick, however, now at the Oriental Theatre is a

(Cape Pro-Billets of wood were used in the was most enlightening for Sout lavish musical extravaganza. It is at Somerset East

vince):

afray.

Bast allowed West to hold the trick permeated with new song hits and

Two candidates had received The defendants were remanded with the nine, whereas if Bast had exotic dances by vast and colour-

an equal number of votes, and for 48 hours in police custody. held the Ten or Jack, regardless of ful ensembles.

the peppermints were put in a Inspector Stimson, who prose what other cards he might have The picture concerns the adven-hat, one being marked - "DM"cuted, stated that one of the injured had, he would surely have over tures of two contrasting classes; a

Deputy Mayor).

men would not be out of hospital taken the first trick to lead a heart, group of former aristocrats whose

At the fifth draw the marked for a week

for East could have no way of vast fortunes have been swept

knowing that West held the Ace of GRAIN 1,000 YEARS Two women are taking part in social climbers bent upon living the

away, and a party of newly-rich peppermint was drawn by Mr.

hearts, and if South held the heart Gawle du Toit.".

OLD Ace and West- the heart Queen, a Transatlantic race to the West life of Riley. These groups are THE OLD FASHIONED WAY" MRS. HORNBILL HAS West could not continue the suit Indies between two 60-ton brought together on a yachting (ketches, one British and the craise to the South Seas.

other French, which started from Gibraltar last month..

British And French Yachts Compete

of Shareholders will be held at the WOMEN TAKE PART Offices of the undersigned on WED-IN ATLANTIC RACE NESDAY, the 22nd May 1935, 31 Noon, for the purpose of receiving | the Report of the General Agents.j together with a statement of Ac-) counts for the year ended the 31st December 1934.

REGISTER The SHARE

and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOS ED from the 8th to the 22nd May 1935, both days inclusive. ··

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TWO FEMALE MEMBERS IN FRENCH CREW

The British yacht Ronda is! owned and skippered by Captain H. V. Hudson, and has a crew of

STAR THEATRE

The famous comedy juggling act

365 NIGHTS IN HOLLYWOOD" that made W. C. Fields, the Fara-

-MAJESTIC THEATRE

mount player, a Ziegfeld Follies star, was recorded for the first

COASTWISE six, including Lieut. F. G. Wat This is not a story but a skit on time by the movie camera for his

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Moon Glow ("Blackbirds of 1834′′)

Layton and Johnstone." 10 pm-Beuter Press Bulletins. 10.05-11. p. From the Studio. Selections by Professor N, A. Tonof and his Tango Orchestra.

10.30 pzz-Engby Mid-day Press News.

11 pmClose Down,

without presenting a trick to Planted And Show Signs

North's Ten

Following this line of reasoning,

South can read two possible distri- butions in clubs-either West ori-|

Of Growth

When a 1,000-year-old statne

TO STAY OUT

Imprisoned In Nest Until Eggs Hatch

ginally held KJ 10 9 and East a was being repaired at a temple Some newly-arrived hornbills singleton, or Fast now has the in- the Shiga Prefecture, Japan, it son Smyth, 2nd Duke of Corn-Hollywood methods of grooming an new starring picture The Old at the London Zoo are famous guarded King. In either case the was found to contain 12 grams of

rice wall's Light Infantry.

actress for stardom, an expose of Fashioned Way," which is

for their high-handed, not to say suit cannot be brought in if the

The lacquered surface of the The women are members of the phony schools design to teach being shown at the Star Theatre. Sheik-like, treatment of their Queen in finessed, so Dummy's club the new of six of the French budding artists the things they In this picture Fields plays a

meek-and-mild "wives

Ace is put up..As it happens, the statue made the space inside it ketch Entrepide, whose owner must know if they wish to go far back woods Barrymore, who, be

grains, which have now been and skipper is M. Jacques Andre in this amazing city. They are tween eluding furious sherits and As soon as Mrs Hornbill has King falls and South takes eleven airtight, thus preserving the

laid her eggs in the holow tree tricks Tenerife, Canary Islands, is to usually ran by money-grabbing over-ripened vegetables, finds time selected, her lord walls her up Even if South's reasoning had planted, and are showing signs of be the first port of call in the broken-down actors.

to foster the romance of his daugh therein with a plastering of mud been wrong, if Bast had fallowed race, which will cover more than James Dunn has the role of a ter played by Judith Allen, and and fibres, which drier into an to the second club but had not play- 5,000 miles..

dance Instructor in one of these even to indulge in a little romance effective hard mortar leaving ed the King, the hand could stil Captain Hudson formerly com-schools and plays the part to per-himself

only a very small hole through have been made against practically and it would have been very diff manded the Gibraltar defence fection. There are many amusing Baby LeRoy, Joe Morrison of which he may feed her and her any distribution. North would sin cult for East and Wer flotilla: Ma

situations. Alice Faye, one of the The Last Round Up fame, and family when hatched.

ply have led a third round of clubs either letting Dummy in and South would have dropped the Ten of hearts or establi After the race the crews of latest screen acquisitions gives Jack Malhall are featured in this when he thinks the nigh both ketches propose to make a good support to Dunn in the song pict

directed by time has come, he breaks awa

heart Queen Upon regaining the eighth and ninth tricks in and-dance numbersar tour round the world.

William BestId

the mortar with his beak.

Jead South would have led a heart monda.“

growth