THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1937.
THE
WORLD
GOES BY
this
OLYMPIC BRIDGE
TOURNEY
To Be Played Soon At Chinese Club
The Olympic bridge tournament, the annual bridge classic, will be held on April 7 at 8 p.m. at the Chinese Cinb, Bank of Canton Building.
There will be sixteen thrilling hands played simultaneously in TRUISE with a duchess
Spring," says an advert. in every part of the world, to deter
mine the World Championship in fair and equal contest. Luck can- not spoil your score and any sys- ter can win.
a home paper.
Probably 6,754,318 snobs all over Britain, not counting women. and children, sprang electrified from their seats on reading this announce- ment, unaware, alas! of the Fool's Paradise they were contemplating
For the Duchess, we can assure them, would neither call nor write when they got home again.
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The fee is only $10 per couple and whether or not you win a prize, you will enjoy playing these sixteen hands, selected by players of great authority.
Al bridge players entering for the games should send their names
Matey as anything aboard, with and fees to the Hon. Secretary. P. a merry word and a warm handclasp 0. Box 247.
for all, she would nevez continne even the closest deck-acquaintance
once the ship had docked.
Even a baronet's wife draws the line at that. We still write to one with whom we once ran an egg-and- spoon race in a certain liner. She never replies.
THE CORONATION
No Invitation To League As Such
London, To-day..
How fortunate, everything con-
No official învitation to attend sidered, that on probing the affair the Coronation has been addressed a little further, we find the Duchess to the League of Nations, declared was only a ship after all.
the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons yesterday,
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Appassionato
"Miss. Brown can so obviously do what she likes with the piano.” Music critic in home paper.
She may have thought she could but she can't, as my old friend Liszt discovered.
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Finding a countess taking forty winks in his concert grand just be fore a recital, Liszt broke the ins trument up passionately with a sledge hammer.
of
A personal invitation had been sent to the Secretary-General the League, however, he added. Trans-Ocean.
One case each of diphtheria, typhoid, measles and cerebro-spinal fever, were reported to the Health Department in the 24 hours ended et midnight on Tuesday.
thrilled you.
Escapade
"The position of the Commissar You can't do that here, Liszt," (Litvinov) is not what it was. He said Bechstein, the popular piano no longer goes to Geneva as Soviet manufacturer, who was passing. delegate, and has not, in fact, been "Is that so, Bechstein?” said out of the USSR for some time.” Liszt.
Home paper.
"Yes," said Bechstein, "and
The so-called Litvinov who occu- other thing, Liszt, you oughtn't to pied his seat at Geneva at the last bring in women in your pianos. session of the League Council, it "I never brought her in in any seems, was actually a Miss Gertie piano," shouted Liszt.
Waghorn, who confessed shyly after "What I mean, Liszt," said Bech-the session that she did it to tease stein, is it makes people talk her fiance, a milk roundsman.
A brisk fight followed, the local "I did it for fun," she said. “I lad proving too good for the Key did not think the newspapers would board Kid, and ever afterwards give me away like that. Liszt was issued with a cast-iron Miss Waghorn has often dressed pianoforte
up for fun before to resemble popa- Many people did not like his play- lar figures in history like Nelson, ing on this, I remember, but, in-Houdini and Sir John Beith, but deed, a lot of people did not like she has never disguised herself as his playing on anything, so there M Litvinov before.
we are.
"It was Mother's idea," she said
I do so hope this lifting of the laughing
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