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BRIDGE NOTES

EXIT PLAY IN DEFENCE

By Ely Culbertson

A common defence against the throw-in play is the so-call- led exit play. This consists of cashing whatever tricks one. cannot avoid winning and mak- ing a safe exit rather than be forced to take the winners at a later stage when no safe lead may be available. One of the most extraordinary cases of the! exit play I have ever seen curred recently in & rubber GENERAL NOTICES bridge game where the West

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Cinema Notes

"HIS GREATEST GAMBLE”...

QUEEN'S THEATRE

After a short absence from the screen Richard Dix returns in

want. Her romance with Lew Ayres is one of the most thrilling ever seen on the screen and bar been acclaimed everywhere,

MISSIONARY

WEEK-END AT

CHEUNG CHAU Detailed Programme Announced WELCOME EXTENDED TO ALL INTERESTED

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

JAZZ RECITAL BY THE HARMONY BOYS"

12302.15 pm-European Record-

ZEK ProgrĀRNĒ.

There is to be a Missionary Week-end at Cheung Chan, next Saturday and Sunday. Everyoneled Programme Picho is interested will be welcome It will be conducted by the Bishop, and there will be oppor tunities for discussion and ques itions after each address.

The following is the pro- gramme:

Saterday

1.80-p.m.-Lanch on arrival. 200-445 pm Bathing and recrea- tion.

4.45 pm. Tea. De

5.15 p.m. Introductory-Address. "Is Christianity suitable China?”

7.00 pm. Dinner.

for

8.30 pz. Evening Address. [to-day.”

"What is really happening in China

Sunday mete

815 am. Holy Communion.

10.00 am Address.. "Has God

1L30-noon. Interval

Among the many others includ- "led in the cast are such stellar per 9.00am Breakfast.

formers as William Harrigan. - purpose?*.-. Ralf Harolde, Billey Lee, John Qualem, Warren Hymer. Vince Barnett and William Benedict.

the leading role of a poignant love story entitled "His Greatest Gamble.**

"GAMBLING LADY"

ORIENTAL THEATRE

Noon. Address. "What does this: mean to me?”

130 pa Lunch

200-4.30 pm Bathing & 4.30. p.m. Tex.

6.30 p.m. Keeting for open discus-

SIGTL

8.00 pm. Dimmer. 9.00 p.m. Prayers

Conveyance

The Bev. C. Brown, has kindly

I pm-Local Time and Weather Report

ogby Press News, es

1.30 pm-Renter Press Bulletins,

2.15 p.m.--Close Down 5-8 pm.Exopen ProgramME. 57 pm-A Belgy of the Hong" Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

7-7:17 pm."Petit Suite de Con- cert" (Coleridge-Taylor) sk

2177.30 pm-Ensemble Singing. Gee, Oh Goshi, I'm Grateful

Sam Browne and Girl Friend. Fancy Our Meeting “That's a Good

: Girl*

Now that Pre found you That's a

Good Gir?""

Jack Boch win and Flie Randolph

Don't be afraid to tell your mother

The Milk Brothers. 736-8 pm From the Studio. A Jazz Recital by "The Harmony BOTA

9 pm-Local Time and Weather Report: Closing Local Stock Quota- tems.

10.38 pm. Close Down 8-10 - Europezu programme from2.KK. on a frequency of 640 -kiloc jeles

+8.05-3.35 pm-Light Opera, and

Musical Comedy.

Vocal Gems.....

Mercenary Mary (Youmans) Selection

The Sorcerer (Sullivan)

Vocal Gems

Viktoria and her Her

The Gypsy Princess.

the

The gambling vice is usually Teaching the daughter he loves ing Lady" proves that many wo associated with men but "Gambl to love another man is the drama-men, otherwise respectable, have tie feat he accomplishes in this film answered its call also

lent the launch Dayspring to con-SelectionY W Dir portrays the scapegrace but In this picture Barbam Stan vey the party free of charge. The well intentioned father who seeks straightforward woman who fre noon on Saturday with those who 9.938 pm Belay of

wyck has the role of an honest, launch will leave Blake Pier at The bidding (Figures after

8.359 p.z Symphony No. [{"Italian")^iz*A Major Mendelssolin) jbids refer to

to guide his child to happiness. quents numbered

the gambling halls, but are able to get away at that time, Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright no matter how high the price be only the most exclusive, more for and again at 3 pm for later by Router). planatory paragraphs). South

has to pay West North East

the thrill of it than monetary comers. For the return journey (Formerly of Hong Kong). 2C 3C (1) 3D

Their life together is brought gain. Joel McCrea and Pat it will leave Cheung Chau at about 1: Ouvre Tes" year blets Pass 4D 5D

to a tragic conclusion when he is O'Brien are the leading men, and 7 a.m. on Monday in time to arrive Pass (2) Pass 5H (3)

Pass sentenced to imprisonment on ac when the gambling begins to in- in Hong Kong for office hours

count of an accidental killing terfere with her love affair, the Pass Pass

guar-The years pass and the daughter story takes a dramatic turn.

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ex-

Pass

1-North is justified in anteeing game and hinting İslam

at becomes more and more a slave to her mother who tries to break her from the man she loves.

2-A forcing pass. 3-North at last discloses the St in hearts.

"LEGONG" STAR THEATRE

When

home of the native girl they had tentatively selected for the lead-

Dix makes a daring escape from

Gaston Glass and the gaol, and, although he gives the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, the 4 Although South has open-daughter happiness, it costs him Paramount directors, went to the ed with a hand of meagre top his freedom. the card stuff, his good distribu-

tion coupled with North's strong "ONE MORE SPRING-KING'S ing feminine role for "Legong" bidding makes the slam a good gamble

A

and

THEATRE

the all-Technicolour film romance

Stat Massenet.

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Wrap yourself to Cotton Wool Cheung Chan ferry times:

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Bobby Howe 5.30 pm, 9.30 pm.

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The fare is 30 cents.

Fox-Trots

Three Joly Fellows Little Silhouette.

SongBrave Hearts

At The Three VirtnoSQS. Evelyn Laye (Soprano). Anything Goes---Selection

Fox-Trots

Patricia Rossborough.

FOREIGN DIPLOMAT LEAVES S

of the South Seas, they found her Shanghai, yesterday. Mr. Groen-Song- West deliberated long

deftly contrived, blend of veiled and covered, and were un man. Netherlands Consul-General Beautiful Garden of Roses Hong Kong, 23rd Sept., 1935. carefully before making the irony pathos, adventure and ro-able to see her face.

in Shanghai, left here yesterday

Charles Kullman “(Tenor). opening lead. There seemed to mance makes "One More Spring" be too many Aces in the deck one of the most delightful pic-her vell, she informed them that jen route to South America, to 28- Home Ties

When they asked her to remove morning aboard the s 3. Taiping

I'm Afraid to open your letter South had opened the bidding tures of the year.

it was not permissible as it was sume his new post as Netherlands Vocal and showed a second suit, North!

This screen play, in which the custom to remain veiled and Minister to Venezuela. He-was had cue bid two suits, East (a dashing Warner Baxter co-star, is

glamorous Janet Gaynor and covered when there were guests seen off by a large gathering of very sound player) had over- called at the level of three-odd, based on the Robert Nathan best-

Chinese and foreign friends: and he himself had the trump created a sensation in book form

seller of the

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Obviously, a good part of

The story concerns a quartette,

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South's strength must lie. three men and a girl, who take

extremely favourable

distribu-

refuge in an old park toolhouse

tion and the reversal of the and winter there, hoping that by normal order of bidding indicat- Spring their luck will turn. All ed that he held eleven cards in are destitute, but find that life the major suits. With

can be strange and entertaining,

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ALBIL

Aces in dummy, it was extréme bravely in the face ly likely that with a minor suit

The theme of this picture is lead declarer could strip both timely, epitomising as it does the hands of the minor suits

transition from bleak depression then put West in with the Aceto prosperity.

and

and

of trumps, forcing him to lead The metropolitan city park. a heart or give declarer a ruff locale of the action, forms a veri- and discard.

table cosmos where all types of West, therefore, took his Ace rich, the circumspect and incau- humanity congregate. Poor and of trumps immediately exited-with the King of clubs tous, children and grown-ups. and declarer could not make vagabonds and solled scions, of contract (since the spade finesse fortune all make the park their lost

[meeting ground: West was correct in every de- and Warner. Baxter have in "One Without a doubt, Janet Gaynor

other lead declarer would have of their varied screen

With any More Spring the supreme roles made his contract along the and give performances that will lines pointed out.

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TO-MORROW

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When Aulic

live long in one's memory.

Careers,

SIR F. LEITH ROSS SILK HAT KID ALHAMBRA

ENTERTAINED

THEATRE

Lew Ayres in the kind of part

Various Functions In he likes, role with insides to it.

Nanking

and incidentally, the kind of role that made him a star, portrays the part of a bodyguard of Paul Nanking, yesterday. Kelly, owner of a safe, in

A tea party was given in hon-"Silk Hat Kid” our of Sir Frederick and Lady He meets and falls in love with Leith-Ross at 5 pm yesterday by his employer's girl friend. Mae Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Fin-Clarke, and an intense zivalry ance, at the Ministry residence. results, which reaches the danger. Many high Chinese officials ous stage when both men are at were invited to meet the distin-the point of gun-play. Here the guished visitors

story, takes a novel twist and After attending President brings the film to an altogether Wang Ching-wef's dinner at the interesting and dramatic conclu-

Mie arke is an ideal choice

the school tes who becomes ther

Let Line Waichispa Building: last evening, sion

tonight

Sir Frederick and Lady Leith-

by Sir Aler proceeded to Shar

in the house.

(Continued on Page 107

ACHIEVEMENT

Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks

Medley.

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