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A Quantity of
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BRIDGE NOTES
HOAXED
By Ely Culbertson
The best defence often is totally dependent on the bidding that went before. If the bids were honest, shrewd deductions may be made. K. on the other hand, one or more of them was psychic, a defender's problem may become difficult.
There is only one fair way to criticise the play of a bridge hand. That is to put yourself in the place of a certain player and to ignore the hands which you, as
Im a reader, can see plainly. agine that you had no more in-
formation to go on than had the East player in to-day's hand. What would you have done in his position?
South, dealer.
East-West vulnerable."
WEST
S.- 10 4
H.-7 3
NORTH
S-Q 75 H.-A 10 9 43 D.-Q
C.-9 8 7 3
D.-8 6 4 3
C-A KJ 2
EAST
S-AK 9 3 2 FL-S 62 D.-A
C-10 6 4 3 SOUTH
S$ 6 Н-КОЈ D-K J 10 9 752 C-A
The bidding:
North
Blackwood Ware. Teak Bed South West
Room & Dining Room Furniture, Pass Pass 1 heart Drawing Room & Office Furniture, 2 dimds. 2 spades Pass
East
"THE" CHINA MAH", "MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1936
(Left) The great German seniptor Eberhard Excke died recently in his "55th year. He is seen shove with one of the Olympic figures he provided for the Brandenburg Gate during the progress of the recent Olympic Games in Berlin. (Right) The scene at the Weimar Hall when Dr. Goebbels opened the "Ger man Book Week” in Berlin recently.
Amusements
Cinema Notes From
The Theatres
THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1937-QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA THEATRES
Easily the most delightful pot- pourri of beauty, wit, music, and rhythm offered during the urrent seasɔa, "The Big Broad- ast of 1937," brings to the screen generous helping of the air. wave's most outstanding perform- jers, aided by a host of the screen's
best entertainers.
Scintillating, gay, tuneful and ofter hilariously funny, "The Big Broadcast of 1937′′ includes Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Benny Goodman and his orchestra, Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Frank
*West should have doubled. ers,
Jean Harlow and Cary Grant are in “Suzy,” which is now being shown at the Majestic Theatre.
1 spade Forest, Benny Fields, Leopold Popular screen stars for the firstteur, and Donald Woods, who por- Pass Stokowski and his Symphony Ortime Clark Gable, Jeanette Mac-trays one of the few physicians It who believed in the great chemist. Sewing Machine. Pictures. Cut-13 hearts Pass Pass 3 spades chestra and many other outstand Donald and Spencer Tracy.
Others in the cast include Fritz lery, Porcelain & Glass Ware. Or-4 dimds. Pass* 4 hearts Double
ing singers, dancers musicians, is a picture brimming with ro-
O'Neill, Porter naments. Brass & E. P. Ware, Pass Pass Pass
comedians and specialty perform-mance. love, comedy, beautiful Leiber, Henry
music and excitement.
Hall, Raymond Brown. Akim Lines.
Table] Rugs, Electric Lampe. Ice Chests, etc, etc.
North's semi-psychic opening The story deals with the! Clark Gable offers one of his Tamiroff. Halliwell Hobbes, Frank
characterisations as Reicher, Dickie Moore and Walter! On View from Tuesday the 1st bid was intended to do what it romance that blossoms between greatest
William Dieterle |actually did: "Talk the oppon- Miss Ross and Milland when the Blackie Norton, owner of the most Kingsford.
But South, latter is assigned to trick her off popular resort on the Barbary directed the production. the partner, not being "in on" the the air by Forest, an orchestra Coast, Jeanette MacDonald is su- situation, continued bidding, with leader, and Benny, the result that North found him-
December 1926.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong. 27th. Nov, 1936.
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THE
erts out of game”
impossible of fulfilment,
manager.
the studio perb as the country girl who She discovers the de-starts her singing career on the
iself declarer in a game contract ception and breaks with Milland. Barbary Coast and rises to great Gracie Allen, sponsor of a pro-operatic heights, only to return to I mean, of course, “impossible"
| KEENE, teams her with Forest the Coast because of the man she from North's angle.
scores ia Poor East, and they become popular. An air loves. Spencer Tracy after he had made the opening wedding is planned for the two an unusual role as a kindly priest lead of the spade king, took a dif- but when the moment arrives Miss who chooses the wicked street for ferent and darker view of the Boss flees. She is found after a his evangelistic work. In the ex- situation. His
two spade hectic chase and rushed to the cellent supporting cast are Jack tricks and ace of diamonds were studie to go through with the wed-Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy, the only tricks actually in sight. ding as per schedule. She does Shirley Ross, Margaret Irving, He could not imow that North's and finds herself married to Mil-Harold Huber and Al Shean. opening bid was psychic. It look land. All of this is done to excel-
GWD
ed more probable that it had been lent dancing and splendid music, merely shaded, including two both "swing" and "sweet" aces, and that West'a spade raise Mitchell Leisen was the one who consequently had been based on a directed "The Big Broadcast" and hand such as:-
Adolph Zakor was the producer.
S-Q J 10 x
H-x
D.-X X X
-C.-K x x x x
was
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS"—KING'S
THEATRE
"SUZY”~~~~MAJESTIC THEATRE
Jean Harlow in "Suzy" is based on the best-seller novel of the same title by Herbert Gorman.
Two of the ace leading men of the screen support Miss Harlow in this production in the persons of Franchot Tone and Cary Grant,||
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If this were
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A true picture of the early each of whom is seen as Miss tract. So East's second play was American Indian and the early Harlow's husband in respective the ace of diamonds, and his third American pioneer is offered in portions of the exciting story.
"The Last of the Hohicans," with an underlead of the spade zce.
The TOMANCE. intrigue and The object was, of course, to put Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes drama in the precarious lives of West in with the one card it ap-and. Henry Wilcoxon heading those who stand behind the scenes of international espionage form peared he might have (the spade truly all-star cast
The tribal life, times and cus the background of the plot, which queen) so. that he could return a
toms of the Mohican Tribe of centres about an American girl CHINA YEAR BOOK diamond for East to zut
Upper New York State in the stranded in London The girl, (18th edition) 1936
Imagine the declarer's delight middle years of the eighteenth Sazy, unwittingly becomes eutan- when the second spade lead came century are vividly and faithfully gled with spy activities and stumpliche up to his queen! Three rounds reproduced with no pity or bles upon the evidence which of hearts ending in the damway synthetic sympathy
injected, leads to the execution of a woman disposed of the adverse
trumps Brave Uncas Magua is there, counter-spy and the shattering of and the established diamond suit Nettie Bympo or Hawkeye, the her romance with a young officer. supplied discards for all of eternal pioneer. North's losers. Thas the doubled Others prominently featured in contract. actually and
fulfilled the cast are Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel, Phillip Reed, Robert Barat, West viewpoint, was (first) that son.
The sad part, from the East-Hugh Buckler and Willard Robert- Paul Munt comes to the scre
men hale gatentie, in this picture in what is said to four spades were cold and (se- Philip Dunne prepared the be his greatest film characterisa- cond) that the four heart con- screenplay of the familiar story tion.
The China Year Book is an indispensable reference, book on China; it arms its render with all material necessary for forming correct judgmenta on the Far Eastern situation and embodies
all important documenta statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with
try
foreign and Chinese experts
in the eighteeth edition are the
following: Smuggling. Tangka
with an extra trick!
Wis
"THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR-STAR THEATRE
Truce Agreement, “New Life tract could have been defeated of love and adreature in a coun- Muni portrays Louis Pasteur, Weekly Incident, Hiruta Three-free tricks. If East had shifted try in the making from an adapta- the great French chemist and bac- Point Programme, Soviet-Outer at the second trick to a low club, tion by John Balderston, Paal teriologist who contributed so Mongolia Protocol, Mongol Tez- ritney in Manchakao, Leith the declarer would have been in Perez and Daniel Moore, George much by science." The story, by Eoss Mission, Currency Position, a bad way. West would win and B. Seitz directed them, which Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Col etc.
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NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS ond, but East would ruft and San Francisco" promises to be ed his exile and aided him in his lead another club, Eventually de- one of the most talked-about pic-experimental work: The-zomantle clarer would have to concede two tazes in many, many months. Ek droles are carried out but by ânits more spade tricks.
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