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No. 22914. Af¬Ã¤¤ ¤§¤£*** HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1932. #

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Sunday, 10th January, 1932

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Nor-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wireless.

TO-DAY.

(January 5.)

Rotary Club Timu, Lane, Craw

ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.

Photographie Exhibition at the University, a.. to @ p.m."

Palmborod as a Newspaper as the General

Post Office in the United Kingdom,

日伍月壹年弍卅佰玖仟麼英 Price)

THIS CONTRACT BRIDGE

BUSINESS.

WHY THE NEW CRAZE HAS TAKEN

AMERICA BY STORM:

Whist Drive, St. Patrick's Chub ITS IRRESISTABLE APPEAL AS A GAME

Hockey Radio Sports Club v. Small Ships,

Queen's Theatre: "The Ghost Train."..

Central Theatre:

·tic."

Dirigible,"

'Star Theatre; Three Bivo Chustad

World Theatre; High Society Blues,"

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances At Hong Kong Hotel, Pon-si

sula Hotel and King's Restaur

who never

FOR PARTNERS.

America has been swept by Cen-instructionally it was well worth the King's Theatre: Tanus-Atlan-tractitis writes, Caliban in a

money. Wilbur and I played to London journal The epidemic setgether and made top spare.. in about three years ago, Everyone I went to san Milton Work. He now plays Contract (with the ex- is not a great contract player, but Ception, of course, of the intelligent he is a magnificent organiser. He play anything was signing letters-answers to cor- anywhere). Shoeblacks, train cou-respondents who wanted to know ductora. High School tehchers, the how to bid. He answers, frue of vendora of hooch and has duge charge, hundreds of corespondents they ali kaow all about "torngines:

» day. I thought of the poet's take-outs and counts of sareng teen. Thousands of people mako a more, or less good living out of! teaching them to play..

ant.

European Mail:-Outward: Europe a Suez (Sphinx) 2 p.m.; Europe via Suez (Diomed) 2.30 p.m.

Europe, a Siberia (Pres. Hoover) 4.30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY.

(January 6.) Epihany, Twelfth Day. Slight Cold (Hsiao-han). Photographic Exhibition at the University, 9 am to.8 p.m.

Rugby Football:-Club "A" H.M.S. Kent, Clubs ground, 3 p.m. Hockey Club, Army, U.S.R.C. ground. 4.30 p.m.

Fanling Hunt Kennels, 3.15 p.m. Central Theatre: "Dirigible," King's Theatre: "Trans-Atlan-- tic

Queen's Theatre The Lyon's Mail,

World Theatre: "High Society Hines,"

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Malt dans more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man,

In the Middle West this simply is I not true.. Malt is nowhere: bat

everybody writes to Milton.

WILL ENGLAND FOLLOW?

Will Contrast ever have the same vogue in England ?

Ely Culbertson, they say, makes £30,000 a year (and they were say ing that before the dollar slumped) Not as some ingenuous people think, by playing Contract-though," when he gets time for a game, Ely

It is a very good game; descen plays a goot one but by writing dant of a long line of good games, about it and by organising the ten-Whist was its great-grandfather- chers. His two boot lead the fold the finest of all card gapore...___!!

Whist

in America among non-fiction" sel-hegat "straight" Bridge ("May I

Star Theatre: "Three Live lors.. Ghosts."

Ton Dances at King's Restaurant an Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and King's Restaur

ant,

AN INDUSTRY,

In short, Contract is not only, game but an industry. I should think it comes next to boot legging

play

to. Hehrts, partner."); straight Bridge begat Auction, which is still played more in Eng- and than is Contract. But Con tract more interesting game than

European Mail:-Outward and the talkies-No. 3 on the list. Auction, since its standard of akill is

Europe ri Siberia (Chenonceaux) 9.30 p.m.

THURSDAY,

(January 7.)

SON IN

Two years ago I saw Ely Culbert- New York. The plans for his great offensive were then just com- plete. He was about to launch, in the Bridge World," the bidding

system which is now almost univer« sally played.

Golf Completion of second round. Taggart Cup (Ladies).

Hockey Radio Sports Club » Geman Club

Photographic Exhibition at The University, 9 azn. to 6 pm,

I went to see Wilbur Whitehead, King's Theatre. Her Wedding who died so unexpectedly this year. Night"

He took me to an afternoon party Queen's Theatre: "The Lyons Mail"

where about 50 well-dressed women. Central Thentre: Mother's were playing duplicate. At the end Millions."

of the party the hands were criti- World Theatre: "High Society

rised. by Wilbur

Blues."

Ten Dances at King's Restiturant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner

There was no money on the game:

Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong the participants just paid an en- Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant trauce fee of 1.50 dollars each, and

much higher-has ousted Auction from our card cluba. And elsewhero

is spreading, and spreading fret: and within a year or two to play Auction will be defintiely" dowdy."

But contract will not, in cur time, sweep England as it has swept America, for the simple reason that our social conditions are different.

PLAY STANDARDS.

In America the backbone of the game, are the women. That is be cause they have next to no home life. Living in apartment-houses, cating in cafeterias, largely shut out from business by the frentied com- (Continued on Page 3.)

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