1936-12-24 — Page 2

THIEVES RAD FIUNGE NOTES

WEST END SHOPS

$500 And A Blank

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MOTOR BANDITS BUSY

Two raids were made by motor- car bandits on West End shops at about the same time early last month.

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Forcing Dummy To Ruff

By Ely Culbertson

It is so much a part of the game of Bridge to prevent the declarer from ruffing his losing cards in The raiders got into the shop of dummy, that the occasional cases Messrs. D. Williams and A. Moss, in which it is proper to force the 'women's tailors, in Hanover-court, dummy ta ruff declarer's losing Hanover-street, after smashing cards is almost incomprehensible the plate glass window with to the novice. " motor-jack, wrapped in a than's furlined co

The jack and cost were left be

hind.

The thieves cleared a number of showcases in the shop of furs, coats and dresses worth £500.-

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935

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CHRISTMAS CAROLS BY ST. ANDREW'S CHOIR >

RECORDED PROGRAMMES

HKT.

12.30-215

pan-European

Pro-

gramme.

12.30 pmOrchestral Selection 1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal . and"]) Weather Report

1.03 pmA. Concert.

1.30 pm Beater Press, Rugby Preas, Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Arouncements

140 pm-Dance Music. 2.0% pm-The London Novelty Orchestra. South

2:15 pm—Close Dawa. 4-7 pm-Chinamo Programam 6:30 paFrom the Studies

A Children's Concert

7 p.m.-12 midnight European ProTM

32 pm-The BBC Wireles`23- tary Bind.

Boabdil

„Malaguena (Moskowski). La Tarantelle de Belphegor

Roch Albert). Woodland Pictures Bural Suite

(Fletcher).

Vanity Fair Overture (Fletcher). Prairie Fluten-March (Ord Hume).] Lynwood—March (Ord Hume).

2.30 pan.— Clowing Local Stock Market Report. Quotations and Hong Kong Exchange

27.35 pau Light Convert Items. Soprano Solo-

Der Togel im Wald (The Bird in

the Forest), (Tanbert)

Eisabeth Schumann. Pianoforte Solo

Serenade, Op. 3, No. 5 (Rachmaninos)

This is one of the most para- doxical plays in Bridge, and is used only by experts and down right dubs-the former because they know so much; the latter be cause they know so little. To a

West North East

"29" superficial mind it appears to be

- IS C the 1 H sheer suicide, violating all

Pass 3.H PISS rules of common sense. Actually, Fass

Pass Pass Pam 4 at the proper time it is a super H latively effective stratagem.

Against South's four-heart con-1 The purpose of the play is to tract West opens the spade King. The other raid occurred at the shorten the trumps in dummy so East can see that if South holds Violin Solo Czardas (Monti) shop of Mr. Albert Prager, far-that the declarer will be unable to even one club, dummy's suit can rier, in

A night porter at the Hanover Court Hotel heard a crash and ran He has told the police of seeing a man driving away in motor-car.

art.

Square.

The Other Raid

Pont-street, Belgrave- obtain coincidentally two desired

4

It is understood that this raid; occurred shortly before the one in Hanover-street.

The raiders tried to force the door of Mr. Prager's shop, and the glass window was smashed, but they were foiled by a protection grille.

A motor-car rug was found on

the pavement.

The police have the number of the car used at Pont-street by the raiders. The car is believed to have been stalen.

"FOOTBALL” WREATH

effects:

1. The drop on the third round of the opponents' last trump;

and

2. The winning of a trick in dummy 'which will furnish an entry at exactly the right time

South, dealer. East-West vulnerable.

* NORTH

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EAST S.-K Q10843 S.—A 65 EL-8 6

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D.-A J 9 2 C.-K 97

· SOUTH

A wreath in the shape of a} C-Q J = football was placed on the coffin) of a Fulham schoolboy, Robert Frederick Jackson, of Protheroe- road, Fulham, whose last request to his parents was. "WUI you buy me a football?

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FL-AK 1095 D.-K 7 4 3 C-6

The bidding:

Sergei Rachmaninod.

Bass-Faritone. Solos...

The Jolly Roger (Dewar) Son Of mine (Wallace)

Peter Dawson.

Yvonne Curti

To Bonnie Jone McNamara, five-year-olt beszty winner from Canada, goes the honour of being we of the first children to play Katharine Hepburn's datghter on the screen. In 250 Radio's "Portrait of a Rebel," a drama, of the Victorias, period, in which Miss Hepburn is co-starred with Herbert Marshall, the McNamara tot plays the character of “Flo,” the secret daughter of the heroine.

Frances. Faye

Les Filia

Hawaiian Guitar Solo--

Swanne Moon

Clarinet Solo-

CELERY WITHOUT SAETU

But Gable Remains Unmoved

"WOMEN: DONT LIKE BEARDS"

to

When Clark Gable refused fwear a beard in the part of ¡Parnell in his next picture be

declared, "Women

don't like -whiskers. "ons

His directory--John M. Stahl. searched history and argued: "A lot of guys who were greater lovers than you had beards. Look at. Samson, for instance, and Don Juan, Henry VIII and Releigh."

"Clark's right," Joan Crawford said.

But Eleanor Powell, the dancer, thought "it would be a new experi- jence, anyway, to be kissed by a

bearded man.

Jeanette Macdonald said, “A beard, or lack of it, is all a mat- Hughie Green and his Gang. If all men were totally bald wo- ter of what you're accustomed to. Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin)

Boy Fox and his Banden might object to an occasional Tomes of not-so-long-ago (1922)

swain who wasn't”, New Maxfair Orchestra. Blonde Mary Carlisle quoted: Jerome Kem-Kadley

"A kiss without a beard is like celery without salt”

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy

Hotel OrpheanS. George Gershwin-Medley

All of which left Clark Gable

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy unmoved and beardless.

Hotel Orpheams. 10.30 pm—a Christmas Concert. 1 Chozal

The one rose

Sam Browne (Baritone). YodellingSong = 10*

Dan, Den, the Yodelling Man

Memphis Blues Orchestra-

Harry Torran

.Ern Pettiffer.

"Heart's Desire-Fim Selection

Cine Studio Orchestra.

Melodrama of the mice

Fiotram and Jetsam. Soprana Salo........

Violin Solo-

Melody at dusk

Contralto Solo-

A brown, bird singing be established; all South needs to do is to ruff two rounds, the Ace

(Hayda Wood) ....Mary Kay. Song accounting for a third. Then the Tenor Solos

One day (Hans May) suit will offer three discards. Es-

Regimental Song (Friml) tablishment of the club spit de-

Derek Oldham. pends only upon two fundamenta

8-pm-Local: Time. Signal Wes- requisites-three entries are need-ther Report and Announcements.

8.03 PM-A Variety Programme. ed to Dummy (and there they are. -the club Ace and heart Q J and Song-- the adversaries' trumps must be exhausted before the suit can be ren (which also is easy, because when the Dummy is finally enter ed by means of the heart Queen, East's third heart will fall simul- taneously). But if one of North's small hearts must be used as a ruffer East will still have a trump after dummy's Queen is played and can therefore stop the clab snit

+

Serenade in the night

Webster Booth (Tenor). Piano Solo

Twenty to one-Selection ·

Billy Mayerl

Song

Swing, Mister Charle

Judy Garland (18 years old).{ Vocal Impressions by Freddy Dash

of-

A duck entering water-An old Ford car-Sir Malcolm Campbell's

9 p.m.--London---News KDUSCEMBERts. ---

9.20 p.m.---From the Stulia. Christmas Carols by the St. Ane

Ring cat, wild bells "(Fletcher) Good King Wenceslas

The Royal Choral Society.

THREAT TO PROSECUTE

3,000 MINERS

Mr. George Daughtey, secretary

Áry Maria (Ave Regina), (Verdi). (of the Betteshanger branch of the Margherita Perras. Kent Mine-workers. Association.

Albert Sandler. | Choral---

informed a meeting of Bettechan- and An-

(a) Lailay my liking (Terry)

(Soloist: Master Dernis

ger Colliery stzītērs at Deal last Barthel), month” that the management in- (b) There is no rose of such virtue teaded to prosecute them all for

(Thaen Hall)

breach of contract. There are snow nearly 3,000 men

and boys strike.

Blue Bird Howling Dog-a" train] drew's Church Choir, Conducted by load of cattle--Sounds in an Air-]Rupert Baldwin, ATEL port-An Express train-a baby... 9.40 p.m.-London Palladium Or- London Underground-A Chicken.

Organ Solo

Sir Hit Medley (No. 5)

So East, who cannot dare risk that West would fail to read his spade 6 as a come-on, overtakes the King with his Ace and returns | Orchestra

a spade immediately. This forces Dummy to use that precious small heart, and the contract is lost.

Harry Crondson.

The Great Ziegfeld–Selection

Maurice Winnick & His Orch.

You're not the kind

Song-

chestra.

Classica Selection (arr. Ewing). Longing (Haydn Wood). Everybody's Songs (arr. Geehl). 10 pm-London-Big Ben

Songs of Old

Let's have a Chorus

Columbia Vocal Gem Company. The Family Song Album

(c) See amid the Winter's

(Goss).

(d) Christmas Lallaby (Comer,

*x. B2ll}

Choir of the Temple Church,

London.

Orchestral-

Christmas Melodies-Novel, Adeste Fideles, Silent Night, Holy Night (Gruber)

Paal Whiteman &

11 p.-Dance Music. 11.50 -

Organ Solo-

OR

An Organist's Yulletide

Quentin M. MacLean. GOD SAVE THE KING. Close Down.

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