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BRIDGE NOTES

LEADING OR PLAYING

By Ely Culbertson

Amusements

Cinema Notes

SHE -KING'S THEATRE

that

upon

Realising all the atmosphere of It has been brought to my at-splendour and magnificence tention that many players would marked the famous novel appreciate the Code of Contract which it is based, "She" makes its Bridge Laws more fully if out-bow on the screen. lined in simple words and collated..

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throughout the world who have [are fairly simple.

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iner.

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spectacles. a card in Dammy, that card is led or played unless Declarer is The Kingdom of Kor, as Hag- arranging the cards or pushing gard described it was a magnifi-] other cards aside to secure the cent tropical country. It comes to desired card." "He must label his the screen endowed with all the action by saying “I arrange" or splendour that the combined words to that effect when touching talents of the studio technical cards in Dummy without intention staffs and the wizardry of the to lead or play them.

motion picture camera cas. give.} When an adversary, detaches a The ruler of Kor. the most amaz- card from his hand, that card is ing woman of fiction appeats in led or played when it is so placed the person of Helen Gabhagan jor held that his partner, sees its

Featured with her are Randolph face or can call the card."

Scott.

young modern-day scientist who searches for and finds a flaming fountain of eternal

a

Thus, the question of when card is led or played depends upon who leads or plays it

The Play

as

Fredric March, film here, and his wife, sziled last month aboard the giant Normandie for Europe, where the popular film star will spend a much-needed vacation.

In keeping with the importancer Lake "Dracula," the picture is

youth Nigel Bruce, another scien- of the stars and the vehicle, a frequently interrupted to show a tist who shares Scott's adventures, supporting cast of stellar calibre vampire flying in ghostly shadows In today's hand a pass was and Helen Mack, a mortal woman has been assembled. It includes across the screen. The story is a predicated upon a conviction that who wages, a fierce conflict with Evelyn Vepable, a brilliant young thrilling one, and works up to a the adverse contract could be de- the pazar queen for the love of Shakespearean actress, John most extraordinary climax. feated" but "the best laid plans of Scott.

Lodge, Sidney Blackmer and Wil- mice and men gang oft agley.”

Ham Burress.

West, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

NORTH-

Spade K J 6 3

Heart Q.5 3

Diamond—A K ́O S Club-6

WEST

Spade 4 5 4 Heart A 10 8 4 Diamond

Club A Q JJ 2

SOUTH

Spade Q 10 8 7 2

Heart-J 7 6 Diamond-9 4 Spade-10 4 3

EAST

Spade -9

Heart-9 2

Diamond-J 10 7 6 3 2 Club-K 9-8 5

Pass

THE CRUSADES”—QUEEN'S

THEATRE

*THEIR BIG MOMENT**

STAR THEATRE

STOWAWAY PUZZLE

Deaf Mute Who Cannot|| Be Landed

Surpassing eren his magni- ficent spectacle of the old silent.

When psychic powers are in- days. "The Ten Commandments,"voked to solve a murder mystery Cecil B. DeMille's "The Cru-that has defied practical solution. When the United States liner sades" will certainly be rated there are bound to be thrills and Washington sailed from South- among the finest flans of this chills. And when that inimitable ampton for New York recently year...

comedienne, ZaSu Pitts enacts the she carried a deaf and drimb stow- one of the role of an accidental medium who away who

was beginning his most dramatic stories of history:makes good, interest is doubly as- second transatlantic voyage in

be the her. He has no passport, and of the mustering of the great sured. Such

RKO-Radio identity papers. Kings of Christendom, of their case in the current.

He was march against the great forces Picture's comedy-thriller, "Their of the Saladin, of the seige and Big Moment. Miss Pitts and Washington when she conquest of Acre, and

mal Shim Summerville co-star. peace at. Jerusalem.

The film relates

the

proves to

found on

board the

was two

days out from New York on her It is one of those all-too-rare tast eastbound voyage. Answer- pictures in which the plat keeps ing all questions, in · writing; he moving at a swift pace from the said he was born at Stratford. London, and reached New York as

very outset.

“THE MARK OF THE VAMPIRE MAJESTIC

THEATRE

+

at

a stowaway in the Majestic.

He could not be landed Plymouth when the Washington called there, or'at Havre or Ham- burg, owing to lack of proof of

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will

be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZBW.OF a wavelength of 355 metres. (845 KCD).

DAVENTRY RELAY-DTE KEN JOHN PEEL”.

STUDIO RECITAL

12.30-230 p.

(Approx) European Programina,

1230 thin

Recorded Music.

I p

Local Time and Weather Report 1:30 p

Retter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, etc. 1.40 pm

(Approx) A Relay of the Rotary Club Tiffin Speech from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden The Hon. Sir William Shenton on "Legal Chest- nuts."

·2.10pm-

Close Down.

4-7 pm

Chinese Programme.

7-11 p

European Programme.

7-7.13 p.

"Three Cornered Hat Suite (De Falla).

7.13-7.32 piz

A Cello Recital Pablo Casals.

1. Aria (from Suite

(Bach).

in D),

2. Andante (Bach, arr. Szoti).

3. Menuet (Debussy); '

4. Gavotte Tendre (Hillemacher) 5. Apres Un Reve (Fazre).

732-745 p

Four French Songs by Albert Pre-

jean

(a) Toujours Content de Moi..

(Bos and Bikart). “

(b) Si vous Yoyiez: Celle que 3-

Anne (Boe Billant). (c) Pour. Qui Tant de Foles

(Boyer).

(d) Signorina Bayer). 745-8 pm-

Concert Waltzes..

Acclamations Waltz (Waldteufel). The Grenadiers Waltz3 {Waldtenfel arr. Winterbottom),

Helena, Walzer (Offenback)..` Kongreb Walzer (Strams)

8 pm—:

Closing Local Stock Quotations

Local Time and Weather Reports

8.05-8.30 p.m

Musical Comedy and Talkie Hita Selection

A Bedîme Stávy. Hallelujah Fm Tramp. Vocal Gema

Musical Comedy Marches.

Selection

Talkie Hits, 1932.

Selection-

Fanfare

8.30-9. pm

A Relay from Daventry”

“D'ye Ken, John Feel" A Pro- gramme in honour of the immortal huntsman, who is commemorated al Caldbeck, Cumberland, on October

9-9.15 p.

Henry Wilcoxon is given the most amazing role of his career Jas Richard the Lion Hearted, and Loretta Young, who is more suit- ed to these kind of roles than any other actress of the screen. Cre- The bidding: (Figures after bids member "Clive of India"), makes refer to numbered explanatory (a poignantly beautiful Berèn-

Bela Lugosi, who thrilled and his identity. paragraphs.)

garia

chilled millions of film-goers by No trace of the man could be 18th. Devised and presented by Wil- West North East South

The romance woven into the his amazing -performance. in found when the steamship com liam Maclurg 1C

Dbl * 48

film is beautifully pieced to "Dracula,” succeeds in inspiring pany sent an official to search the Pass Dbl (1) Pass 4S (2)gether.

Because hiz. акту is the same awe in his latest release, records at Somerset House. He Pass (3) Pass

starving, Richard is forced to which deals with the same theme, now says that he was born at 1-North does not care partico marry Berengaria, and, although although, if possible, is even more Brooklyn, and is an American

larly whether South interprets the marriage is at first distaste gruesome. this as a penalty or takeout ful to both sides, they eventually double.

fall in love outside the gates of 2-South's hand is worthless on Acre.

defence Nevertheless this bid cannot be recommended. 3-West refuses to sacrifice be- cause he expects to defeat the contract.

Pass

•

"Best Laid Plans"

FATHER BROWN, DETECTIVE —ALHAMBRA THEATRE

One of the most lovable detec- tive creations of modern

fic-

West had very carefully planned [tion., Father Brown, comes to

the opening lead, obviously a

citizen

Autumn Means Trouble On The N.W. Frontier

(By ROLAND WILD)-

old-

to

A Relay of the Daventry News Bał letin (Copyright by Reuter) 9.15-9.45 pm

From the Studio.

A Recital by Violet McGowen (Mez Zo Soprano) and Valerie Morris (Pianoforte).

1. Sozvesz.

Programme

My Prayer

Sing Joyous Bird

Rose in the Bad

Squire.

Philips.

Forster.

2. Pianoforte Solo:-

2nd and 3rd Movements from

Sonate. Op.10 No. 2

Songs

I will not Grieve

Beethoven).

Thou'rt like a lovely flower

Intermezzo

Schumann.

Hedge Boses Pianoforte Solos:-

Schubert.

Arensky.

Prelude

Vespérale

9.45-10 pm

Schutt

Scott

Song Memories.

the defence, from the very minute the screen at the Alhambra In England autumn means roof-, ground- that the four spade bid was made. Theatre for the first time, in trouble and a plague of mus- Yet, when the first aeroplane He intended to open a diamond the first series of his adventures quitoes. On the North-West landed at Peshawar there were 3. and subsequently underisad his in the difficult task of solving Frontier it means shots from the violent complaints from Ace of clubs to secure a diamond crime.

highlands on to moving troops be-fashioned staff officers because of ruff. A ruff together with his Father Brown, although ac-low. And, like the worst boy in "trespassing To-day, the aero- three Aces would be enough to de-tually quite unrelated with any the school, the Mohmand tribes plane not only saves the life of feat the contract

other figure, is more easily com are always blamed for the trouble Tommy Atkins, but is able Declarer regarded the diamond pared with the "Thin Man" type as soon as it breaks out.

frighten the restive Mehmand 4 Best's of detective, in the portrayal of Not without reason; the Mob into holding his hand. The Air lead with cold suspicion.

which William Powell excelled, and fingers his rife as soon as Force has replaced much of the triple raise of the clubs was pre-than either. Sherlock Holmes or his hands are released from the old dangerous game of spying and dicated undoubtedly upon a minor

Philo Vance... two suiter, a belief confirmed by

plough, that scratches the surface survey from the ground, and if a Father Brown, as Walter Con- of his dry plains. When the crops lesson needs to be taught then in he has a few months' there is only the roar of an en- singleton In much less time tolly sees him, will find a place are

in the hearts of most cinema-leisure. And it is in his leisure gine, a flash in the clear sky, and. than it takes to relate, South com-

It's a lovely War (arr. Delroy, goers. His crisp humour and moments that he remembers that far away, the thunder of drop- Somers). prehended West's plan in its every pithy remarks, his clergyman ap-he is descended from warriors. detail. There was only one hope pearance, which is an essential

ping bombs.

Happy Memories Selection In the old days, meaning not This autumn tanks have been 10 p to frustrate it East might not part of his make-up, and the more than twelve years ago, the used for the first time in tribal Big Ben: Renter Press Bulletina. grasp the situation. Declarer led face which proves to be only a autumn was dreaded

10.05-10.45 p. the six of clubs from dummy at mask for the keen powers of per- North-West Frontier. It meant pended on the preliminary work 10.45-11 pm-

the territory. Even so, they have de- {trick two and East was caught ception that lie behind it, all weary and dangerous, marches by of the Air Force. If the truth be A Relay from Daventry. flat-footed. By failing to put up add greatly to the popularity of long trails of infantry; it meant known, they were probably em- “Under Big Ben”. A homely chat the King he spoiled a carefully the fim.

sniping by invisible men in ter-ployed more for the business of on men and matters in and around plamed defence. West was

rible country. It meant the staff conducting negotiations with the London by Howard Marshall" obliged to win and had nothing

11 p that the old-fashioned frontier tribes, after the seasonal attack better to play for than a short

heroes were made of-which was of restiveness had calmed down, heart suit in East's hand. The

not quite so romantic near-to- than as actual weapons of offence, tance-annihilating Ace and a small heart failed to In The Little Colonel,” Shirley

To-day's news shows that those They are to be used in future to with a. parachute on his back. give East a ruff Declarer won Temple is co-starred with Lionel times have passed. The heroes replace the highly vulnerable The Mohmand, naturally, being the second heart trick in his own Barrymore, in a role that will of the future are pilots and map files of men who used to make stubborn in the belief that his hand and in fear of a third round further endear her to the mil-makers, observers, and photo-their painful marches over the marksmanship (with an old heart ruffled the ten of spades to lions,"

graphers. I have seen the Air bare countryside. Ground forces stolen rife) will put fear into

"THE LITTLE COLONEL”.

ORIENTAL THEATRE

tio.

"Dance · Mneic...

Close Down.

young

induce-West to duck with a hold Her dancing feet, smiling eyes, Force at work, studied their maps will do the "mopping up in the hearts of any armed force on ing of Ace and one small one. and honey crals are hez azmuni flown with them over the terrify future. Both the spying and the earth, will take time to learn the West was not to be deceived. Hetion in her campaign to soften thejing natural, fortresses of the defensive work will be done from lesson. Indeed, it is doubtful went up with the Ace and led an-heart of an old colomel, who for Khyber Pass and the Nabkki the air.

~~}}|whether he will eyer, learn the other heart, but it was too late. got the Civil War was over, and Bidge-with one eye trained back- So your new hero of the fronhopelessness of attacking modern

nursed his prejudices.

wards to the nearest landing-tier is one of those blithe, dis scientific skill

East had no more trunge