1935-08-07 — Page 3

The China Mail

Annual subscription, excluding postage abroad. HK336 pay able in advance.

Overland China Dail

Published every-Thursday. Annual subscription, ELE513 including postage `$19, ` payable in advance.

Published by The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.

Printers & Publishers. No. 32. Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. TELEPHONE 20022

London Office:

7 Garrick Sweet London WC2

Colin Türner (London), Ltd

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three Inser- tion prepaid $1.50. Every ad- 'ditional ward five cents for three

insertions

→

All replies under this beading must be called for.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS

WS BAILEY & CO., LTD

Kowloon Bay Shipbuilders & Repairers Call Flag “L”. Sole Agents for Kelvin Mateus.

OPTICIANS

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY

*Phone 22

53, Queen's Road Central

GENERAL NOTICES

-HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

TE

IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Interim Dividend of £210.0 per "Share, subject to de duction of Income Taż, has been declared for the HALF YEAR jending 30th June, 1935, at the rate (of 2/21⁄2 per Dalier.

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935

One of the big spectacular scenes in the Non-Stop Berne, which

is opening its short local senson at the King's Theatre on An

ADAMSON "THROWING THE

CHOR

BRIDGE NOTES

A REAL FREAK

By Ely Culbertson

My correspondence includes at least a dozen letters each day} asking the correct bidding on s freak hand My answers to these letters almost invariably run in the same vein. I am forced to tell those who submit these hands that definitely cor- Irect bidding cannot be given on | freaks. I know that when a freak band is dealt out in a duplicate game is usually bid differently at

different tables-even when all thei players are far above average fand use the Same system. Frecks offer players a chance to show individual initiative and brilliance, and to bid their un-

Amusements ATTEMPTED TRICK neithe

Cinema Notes

THE FLAME WITHIN”—

QUEEN'S THEATRE

now showing at

ON POLICE

False Death Notice

Alleged

usual holdings in such a way A domestic servant whom the that an abnormal result is police had questioned regarding obtained.

ろこ

each

Two really great character stolen jewellery caused an obi Frankly I must admit that I THE DIVIDEND will be pay- able on and after MONDAY, 12th actors, Ann Harding. the famous tuary notice to be inserted in a do get a little bit tired of see AUGUST, 1935, at the onces of American stage and screen star, newspaper concerning her owning seven-six and similar freak

death. . the Corporation, where Share- and Herbert Marshall, the British |

distributions in my mail This was alleged at Peters morning. holders are requested to apply for actor, are rast together ip

this! field (Hants) Police Court when remember having printed one of However, I do not Warrants.

picture

the Edith Emily Quinn was remand-these in a long time and on the THE REGISTER OF SHARES

ed on a charge of stealing a £50 theory that a little of of the Corporation will be closed Queen's Theatre.

ring and brooch from Mrs thing is needed. I am showing every- from MONDAY, 29th July, to Others in the cast include love Edith Bary Rundle.

one of them below which was ĮSATURDAY, 10th AUGUST (bothly and fragile Maureen O'Sulli-

submitted to me by Miss Gladys WANTED THE Services of a good days inclusive) during which van, the young Irish actress, who Scotch Terrier Dog Write Box No. period no transfer of shares canis well-remembered for her per-

Canada of Linenburg. Và 726 t/c "China Mail”

be registered.

West, Dealer

WANTED

FOR SALE

HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTEY 1935.-On sale at all Book-stalls and at the Offices of the Publishers, SA. Wyndham Street

"COASTWISE"

By Order of The Board of Directors

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager, Hong Kong, 10th July, 1935.

THE "HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY

An interesting book of cartoons depicting "Happen- ings on the China Coast. Price $1.

ŠA, Wyndham Street.

"Mail offices A

· MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR VISITING CARDS reatly and promptly printed “China Mall”) Office. No. 3A, Wyndham Street.

Telephone 20022.

JUST RECEIVED.

FIRST SUPPLY

4

OF

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE

SEEDS.

·

GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Garden Seeds. Postage Stamps, Religious Goods.

Toys, Etc.

No. 19, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG

Agents for

Sutter & Sons, Ltd, Reading..

Toogood & Sons, Ltd. Southampton.

Artbr Yates & Co. Sydney

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

-Public Auctions

THE Undersigned have received insunctions to sell by Public

Friday, the 9th August, 1935 commencing at. 2.30 pm.

at their Sales Room, No. 25, Hankow Road, Kowloon

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

comprising

and

FURNITURE

Chesterfield Suites, Bedroom Dining room Furniture, Enamel bath, Carpets and Bugs. Glass and Porcelain Ware, Orna- ments, Clocks, Gramaphones and, Records, Linen, Ice Chest, etc.

etc.

A Selection of

Black Wood Furniture

and

One Radio Sett

On View from Thursday

8th August 1935."

Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS,

"Auctioneers

Hong Kong. 6th August, 1935.

CO., LTD.

formances in “David CopperfeldTM and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street. takes a big step towards stardom with her clever portrayal of the role ass med to her in this film.

Henry Stephenson, who is al ways good in a small part and who has played in approximatels

of Marhalts

THE WOMAN IN RED-- ALHAMBRA THEATRE

FRUT

Dorotav Tree nursed bruises after making a scene for the First National production, "The Woman in Red," which is now being screered

the Alhambra Theatre, but she found sat faction in the fact that it was all for her art.

at

In "The Woman in Red." Miss!

Both sides vulnerable North:-

S-A K 73

ELA KQ J9875

C-Q Test:

H

D-AKQJ873 C-10 8 7 6 5 4 East:--

·S-Q 10 4 ~H-32

D 4 C-A KJ 932

South:

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MAY YOHE

Former Wife Of Lord Francis Hope

ONCE WORE ILL-OMENED BLUE DIAMOND

Boston.

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will

May Yobe, in private life Mrs.he broadcast to-day from the ohn Smuts, the celebrated ac- Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ress of the gay nineties and ZB-W. on a wavelength of 955 ormerly the wife of Lord Fran metres. (845 KC's). is Hope, owner of the famous

Vocal Recital from the Stadio to-

Hope" diamond which was sup-night. posed to bring bad luck to all. The story of Fashion, tho wore it was recently rush- 12.30-2.15.

- European. Pro-

12.30 pm--Recorded - Music *

1 -Local Time & Weather Re- port.

d to hospital in a grave condi-gramme. ion following a fall which re sulted in an injury to the brain

Born in Pennsylvania April 6, 1869, May Yohe made er first appearance on the tage in 1887 at Chicago in "The Arabian Nights."

115 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Orch. 1.30 pm--Renter Press Bulletins, Raxby Press News, etc.

215 pm- Close Down.

4-7 pan-Chinese Programme. 66:15 pm-Childrens' Studio. Com-

The actress spent most of one: 30 pictures is a period of three day falling over backwards from INTERIM DIVIDEND of years, again gives his usual flaw-the rail of a ship on to a huge ONE DOLLAR per share fortless performance, this time as a pile of mattresses some eight feet ( boisterous, good-natured friend Lelow. And no one can tell her the six months, ended 30th June,

that half-a-dozen mattresses är'i 1935 will be payable on TUES-

The Fizme WilninTM is definite-be hard- DAY, 20th August, on which date

Dorothy knows difer

S9.8652

Numerous other successes. Dividend Warrants may be obtain something new in motion pic-ently, after hitting them numer

H-10 6 4

ollowed before she opened the cert ed on application at the Comture drama, something fascinat-ous times. pany's Office, 3 Chater Road.

Court Theatre under her own 7-11 pm-Erropean Programme. ing, gripping, and very`` mash

D.-10 9 6 2 Cim

7-734 pm-“Le Bourgeois Gentä- nanagement in June 1896 with! NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN worthwhile, and should please Tree has one dramatic scene that

homme-Saite for Orchestra Chick revival of a former success, and Strauss. Op. 60). fastidions of sends her tumbling off a yacht The bidding that the REGISTER OF SHARES even

(Figures afte. Touche." jänto the

with John bids refer to numbered explana-ards she left London.

Shortly after- Eldredge, the yacht owner, diving tory paragraphs.) in after her. But instead of West North East water. mattresses were used. 1 D 2 D (1) 3 C

The picture. is Barbara Staa-4 C(2) 6

Pass There have always been actora wyck's latest starring vehicle and 7 C (3) Dbl. (4) Pass whose ability to impersonate the is a thrill'ng drama based on Pass

the most

"GIRLS PLEASE KING'S

THEATRE

of the Company will be CLOSED cinema-goors. from THURSDAY, 8th August, to MONDAY, 19th August. (both days inclusive) during which

pericd no transfer of shares can be registered

By Order of the Board Director

ocean

South

*

134-745 pm Ballroom Memor jeg”. In June, 1913. she returned. 7,45-8 p. From the Studio. his time to the London Opera y Lewis Jonse, singing her old favour

"The Story of Fashion” by Max. T.

8.Local Time & Weather Be

8.03-8.20 p.2-Vocal Gems

3 S Pass te in the revue "Come Over part Pass (5) Tere."

of opposite sex has brought them Wallace Irwin's novel "North 1-Cadoptedly the correct bid at the Lyric Theatre in Jammary

great renown.“ It is an art Shore" 0. EAGER

its own, unlike anything else in Secretary.the histrianic scale.

Hong Kong. 1st August, 1935.

TEN

or.

TWENTY

CENTS

will buy many useful things

at the

ALBIL

10c. & 20c.

STORE

le, D'Aguilar, St.

AND

228, Nathan Road,

Kowloon.

QUALITY

PRINTING

Engl sh theatre-goers, remember with delight the brilliant work of anch star actors as Malcolm Scott, Bert Erroll and W. S. Penky.

Others in the cast: include Genevieve Tobin, Gene Raymond, John Eldredge. Phillip Read and i Russell Hicks.

Robert Florey directed the pro- duction from the screen play by Pealey was famous as "Char-Mary McCall Jr. and Peter ler's Aunt and on the screen the Mine" same character brought fame to Syd Chaplin in the silent version. and Charles Ruggles in the talkies.

the

“ONLY YESTERDAY”.......

STAR THEATRE

Now there comes a screen per- Is a woman's love more lasting. formance that will surely than a man's? What of the man become as famous

Buy who lives and forgets? « Should and

years to come will a woman keep silent when her be recalled with joy. Sydney happiness is at stake? In-the Howard, the celebrated Yorkshire modern view, need there be any comedian. stars in Girls Please" stigma on the unwed mother? as the deputy headmistress of a These questions, and meng girls' finish ng school, in charge others, are prompted by the story of 40 lovely “pupils.”

of "Only Yesterday" John M Sydney looks marvellous gown-Stahl's Universal. drama which led in velvet with an elaborately comes to the Star Theatre to-f frilled modest vest and "family day, with Margaret Sullavan, John heirloom brooch. With it he Boles, Billie Burke and Reginald † wear toque, also of velvet-

Denny in featured roles. Howard's performance is said to Miss Sullevan and Boles spend best that be has together one *evening. of de- ever given. He is supported in lirious happiness-and his regi {"Girls Please by an excellent ment is suddenly called to France.

ast which includes Jane Baxter, A child results from

their in- feirel Forbes, Edward Under-fatuation, but when the father re- down, Peter Gawthrone. Lena turns from the war he fails to re- Halliday, Cecily Oates and Glcognise the girl who has borne her cross proudly, happily and with confidence of the future, Tooj “BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR (přond to go to him with her story, GIRL-ORIENTAL THEATRE she sees him married to another, and write for the day when re- Biography of ર Bachelor cognition shall come. Her life Girls the new Metro-Goldwyn is a tragic story of sacrifice on Mayer film showing at the the alter of love. Oriental Theatre to-day with Änn Harding and Robert Montgomery co-starred iz Bald to present the brightest dialogue ever to come, out of Hollywood.

Moore Mariott

*

**THE WINNING TICKET:

MAJESTIC THEATRE

A new comedy team, Leo Car- Care was taken to preserve the rillo and Louise Fazenda, are original lines from the stage introduced to the screen in this play, Biography," written by Samusing story of those people. N. Behrman Anita Loos, of

egion, who inning-B

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" live

fame, did the adaptation Ma

Supporting the co-stars

Edward Everett Horton, Merkel Edward, Arnoldź Charles Richman

directed stat

EI G

سوته

mder-

Young and Harry "Jacobson. Soup Night of Love

She appeared first in London Wild Violets (Stolt)

Ball at the Savoy with North's holding. North 1893 in "The Magic Opal" and Piano Dets

8.20-9 pm-Variety. has an absolutely certain game in the autumn of the same year A Keyboard feder in his own-hand and a very created a furore with her song

Arthur probable slam He shows the "Honey, Ma Honey.” tremendous strength and dis- tribution of his hand by the overall in the opponents". bid suit-which, of course, is force to game.

FILM STUDIO BAN

West knows from his partner's Adversely Affecting

free bid in clubs at the level

Amenities

One

Gracie Fields.

Humorous

The Carmel Schools are good

enough for me

•Norman Larg.

Little Mountain Cabin

The Hin Bikes Instrumental

The Brothers Bertini

It's Written all over your face

of three that a small slam. is absolutely certain in clubs and a grand slam almost sure dismissed in appeal against the Vocal

The Minister of Health has Hedley of Stephen Fosters Songs It is barely possible from Epsom and Ewell Urban Dis- West's viewpoint that histrict Council's refusal to grant]. The Boswell Sisters partner bas some such holding permission for a film studio to Vocal as six clubs to the King-Queen-be erected at Worcester Court, Jack and a side Ace or Kinz Worcester Park, on the grounds Orchestra however, it is far more prob that it would adversely affect able that there will be no club the amenities of the surrounding losers and that accordingly district seven-odd will be cold. How-

ever,

West realises North's very strong bid and from his own freak distribu-i tion that the opponents .com probably make some sort of slam in either spades or hearts, and even if they do have a losing trick or tricks they will certainly have a very Sne save at seven of either major suit, for the penalty will be far less than the value) of a grand slam would be to East and West West there fore decides to bid only four clubs to lall the opponents into a state of false security and conceal from North the tremendous dist strength of his holding - West naturally is certain bidd'ng will not stop at four clubs.

Batch Medley.

Leslie Hutchinson

Talking Film Memaries

99.15 pm A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright by Reuter). Val

$35-9.20my Hero Waltz Chocolate Soldier (Strauss)

9.20-9.40 B-From the Studio. A Vocal Recitalby Miss Kiss Alves weshalanked by Nura Kanis.

Programme.

be severely criticised except from one angle. North, I believe, might have bid seven hearts, merely on

The Pipes of Par Monckton, the

Ave Maria-Tosia theory that sever clabs could 3. Vianelle Del Anga not be penalised heavily in 4 Homing--del-Ziego

any case, and that since there 6. Una Voce poco is "Ba

Seville Rossini was a bare chance, even with

9.40-10

Pin Light...

North's own strong holdings Made. that seven clubs might be a Contrasts - Potpourri laydown, the risk of letting Melodies (Robrecht).. the opponents play for the sha: (Lindsay") gik

Creasons. Selection (J. Stratzee). huge grand slam bonus was

10 pim-Reuter Press Bulletins. too big a one to take How-

··10:05-11-p_mi--Daïne Music. ever, North was hoggish and ∙11 pm. Close Down decided he wanted a small profit instead of a small loss- South, in my opinion, should have gone to seven bear because of his void in clubs, which North- did not know about However,

uth had decided to let his partner, who had the strong hand, take charge of the bidding, and se cordingly passed

OLD WOMAN TRIES TO SAVE FRIEND

Burnt In Unavailing Effort

West is forced to bid seven clubs little sooner than be expected to as the opponers got të their small slam «with- out wishing much time abou «ft** West bide seven now, Leef! It is obvious, of course, that ing almost certain that North seven clubs is a laydown and will get the Impression that East-West scored over 3,000 points he is making this bid as on the hand instead of 200, which sacrifice and not, with

may|is all they would have made had

North and South gope to seven Ary Suisie Marsh hearts Seven hearts, of course, he hands would be down one trick due, toeople she

hope of fulfilling the contra North does just what expected him to do frankly - do not think

Mrs Louisa Gainsford, age he received when her

died in hospital from

aught alight at her

afton-

Another 70-year-old

wher

the bad division of the spade suit clothing from Mrs. Gainst