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July 28: 1941.

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Stepping from her "Maizie” characterisation for the first time in some months, Ann Sothern in her new pic- ture, to be shown in Hongkong to-morrow, is seen Dulcy, a wealthy girl with a heart of gold and a penchant for getting herself and everyone whom she contacts into trouble. The picture is based on the famous stage comedy of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Mare Connelly; this serial adaptation is by Randall M.

CHAPTER FIVE LOOM ONE COULD SLICE with a knife was the principal item on the menu for breakfast next morn- ing at the Ward-lodge.

True to his promise of the night before, C. Roger Forbes came downstairs looking for hoat and train schedules and ordering his wife and daughter to pack.

worse

Bill and Angela in one com- bination, and Gordon and his motor in another, were n lot

than off

when they started, as regards Mr Forbes' approval of their cherished plans.

"Dulcy ought to have been in

despair complete

-- but she Failure was a word wasn't. she knew little about. That she had no coherent or logical plans to save what seemed to be a hopeless situation didn't mean that something wouldn't "turn up"-it almost generally did, for better or for worse.

White.

about it before we are married" she pulled out a chair for the sight- visitor, the absent- --but he won't be able to do ty mobified

mindedly placed Bill's letter, which anything about it."

she still carried in her hand, on the table. Mr Forbes picked up the letter, boldly and properly addressed 10 him, before his breakfast served.

Angela wrote the note. Bill found Duley on the ter- he race. "Where's Henry?" asked. "I've something impor- tant I want him to do for me." "Henry isn't here," was his sister's entirely non-co-opera- tive answer.

The time was short. Bill hurried Duley over to a secluded corner and whispered: "Then I want you to do me a favour.'

Duley had no reasonable argument why he shouldn't read it and he did. He had surprised Angela with his discovery of her elopement plans and was waiting in her room when Bill came in, bait in hand, ready for the final takeoff.

WHAT HAS

GONE

BEFORE

Daley Ward (Ann-Sothern), whose "heart is where her brain should be," is always trying to help people—and messing things up. C. Roger Forber (Ronald Young) is guest of honour at a house party Dulep has ar ranged. Mrs Forbea and Angcia (Billie Burke and Lynn Carver)

with

him. Dulcy's brother Bill (Dan Dalley, Jr.) can't overcome Fo

Forbes objections to his murrying Angela. Cordon Daly (Ian Hunter), whom Dulcy has met by accident and with whom she has fallen in love, is present at

request to try at Dulcy's sell an acroplane motor he has Invented to

to Forbes who owns Forbes Aircraft. A mildly de- ranged stranger who crashes a plane in the lake near the lodge has joined the party; he represents himself as Schuyler Van Dyke (Reginald Gardiner), Anancier.

Forbes a leaving after a series of mishaps which las enraged film. He's scen Gardon's motor (with a vital part missing) and has refused to buy it.

he "Mr Ward,"

saich angrily, "When I accepted your hospitality this week-end I didn't suspect you'd

"Oh, er-say ten thousand dollars try to make off with my daughter!"

pending a later contract on a "No more favour for anyone

"Pardon me, sir," replied Bill with. twelve percent royalty basis," con

"You not only suspect- tinued Van Dyke expansively. was Little equal anger. ---I've reformed,"

underwent expectations Miss Fix-it's sorrowful reply, ed it I think you expected it. But Bill had heard that before. He your

change-and I dare say Dulcy can

sincerely wished it were true but he was absolutely certain it wasn't.

be thanked for that. She certainly deserves thanks for giving you that note-and I'm going to see that she gets it!"

JAD THEY BEEN LESS IN- HAD

TERESTED in the exciting business deal they were consummat- ing the trio in the boathouse might an interesting Inci- have observed "See this letter," Bill whis-

It was the mad Van Dyke who dent on the dock just outside the pered as he pushed a plainly dried the tears Dulcy was shed- addressed envelope into his sis- ding because of the "bawling out" door.

brother had given her. He'd

launch pulled up and a man ter's unwilling hands. "Give it her

bit aim with a travelling case prepared to since more exciting get out. to Mr Forbes-but not one been wandering around a

It was Homer Patterson. second before he gets on the lessly

events had engrossed the attention of

"What makes you so sure I'll and boat to go to the train!"

his week-end inamorala,

my brother here?" he inquired of the boatman who had brought him,

"You

"Why Dulcy asked, hanging back.

what's in it?"

"Oh, for the love of Pete, you don't have to know," Bill an- swered. "But it has some

Gordon announced his depar- ture for the city as soon as he could locate Sneczy, who seemed to have strayed away some- where. He told Dulcy he was sure "Forbes would rather fly his planes with rubber bands" than with a motor that had his secret plans for a new kind of amphibian. And, if you name on it.

value your life, don't you, mess up this job!"

ever

"Now, now," he said. "Don't cry, People just don't understand you. I know how it is-they don't under- stand me çither."

was ever

A

sald he was a loony-bug. didn't you?" the countryman re- turned.

"Well, er-er," Patterson stammer- ed in embarrassment,

"Then, If he ain't at this place I'm gonna be very surprised," was the cryptic response.

"You say the back entrance 15

"G-gosh! You're the first person word to me to- that's said a nice

repiled Dulcy gratefully, day," "Everything's gone wrong!"

"Tell me about it. You can con- fide in me we understand each other," urged Van Dyke and no uttered in more speech comforting tones, for Mr Van Dyke was always courtesy personified.

"Well, it all started over Gordon's motor," Dulcy began. "It's an aero- runs on practically thought Mr Forbes plane motor anything. I would buy it but-something hap- still of-

pened, and now he's not interested."

"Forbes is crazy... just like the

MR FORBES GRUF- FLY REFUSED the inviting breakfast Dulcy

to serve him from the

or embarrass anyone," Patterson this way? I don't want to startle remarked as he stepped ashore and the boat pulled away.

"Hey! Hey! Come back here!" shouted Mr Forbes as he came run- ning down from the lodge. He was marooned-walling-and he thought the launch was the one he had

summoned to rescue him. The acroplane manufacturer was

LET US BE READY THE time has come when

TIRED OF ILL, B

Duley thought it strange that Hongkong must get rid of its

DULCY'S FUMBLING Brother Bill kissed her hurried casual and sceptical attitude to political and military events in EFFORTS in his and Angela's. ly and said goodbye, the Far East, and to assess behalf, decided to try a plan of calmly and dispassionately the his own. He found the girl he was determined to marry alone possible developments of the future and their relation to the in the library hiding from her Colony, Britain and her Em-father's latest storm.

"Listen, darling," he said fered pire, including Hongkong, have, in common with the United quickly. "This looks like our buffet on the terrace, He had rest of them," said Van Dyke with the first person Duley met when she don and Van Dyke. She'd have States taken steps during the swan song unless we do some phoned across the lake for a conviction. Tell me, do you think came out of the boathouse with Gor- "Good! Why, it's worth millions!" shouted her glad tidings to the cook, week-end which renounce the thing about it. Wo've got to do launch to pick him and his fami- this motor a good proposition?"

exclaimed-and her heart the gardener, or the stable boy if previous policy of appeasement it now-this minute or else!" ly and he was waiting nerv-

and impatiently. He Dulcy

anyone of them had been the Grat. Reluctantly Angela agreed to ously

Oh, Mr Forbes! Guess what!" sho vis-a-vis Japan. The meaning

a dish of behind these actions is clear: brave her father's wrath and weakened, however, when he

cried as she grabbed hold of him and blocked his way,' Japan must cease her aggres-elope, within the hour, with the lifted the cover off

scrambled eggs. sive designs in the Pacific, or young man of her choice.

"Sit down, please, and I'll fix some take the consequences.

"We'll leave your father a We in Hongkong welcome note." Bill said. "He'll know for you right away," said Dulcy. As of us. For some time I have been Le Van Dyke's going to back

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Skill Takes A Holiday

Van Dyke was silent for a mo- was speaking. ment. He gazed thoughtfully out over the lake.

"You know," he said. "This may have been a lucky week-end for both considering adding large scale acro- plane manufacturing to my other Interests. Perhaps the motor is Would it be exactly what I need. possible to look at 117"

CORDON had just finished

"Please, Miss Ward," he growled, In no mood for guessing games. "I'm in

me through."

Gordon's motor," she continued ex- citedly.

Yes, sir. here's a check for a sixty-day option," broke in Gor don-who-was-riding the same bigh.. fast-moving cloud,

The ble, shrewd business man's & crating the motor for ship- 'thiriting apparatus did a sudden and complete somersault. He dropped

New York, when an

ment back to excited Duley and Mr Van Dyke the bag he was carrying, fairly the check from Gordon's 'found him in the boathouse.

grabbed to Van Dyke.

"Gordon, stop! Open the box!" then exclaimed Diley.

"Have you seen the motor?" he

"What for?" asked Gordon dully, asked incredulously. "Mr Van Dyke wants to see the motor

to back it," was, the and amazing statement he heard.

indust the pseudo financial

The general hope, however,

rial wizard orated with will be that the moves made by

sweeping gestures. "In six months' the United States and the Em-

"AS well have

I was telling Miss Ward," time your planes will be obsolete. South might

This molor is one pire will be sufficient to deter

of the greatest that Van assumption the

Dyke broke in," the motor Japan from doing anything that NO bridge writer likes to publish trump

hands in which vice, in the shape passed on

a dair option business. I predict, Mr Forbes, that will make it necessary for the

of atrocious bidding, is triumphant, North was counting on a long and is all she claims it is I should be boons to the present day acroplane present economic sanctions to

day you will be a broken man!!! be implemented by more serious Yet, in the Interests of truth and solid club sult. As to North's jump willing to give you

verisimilitude, such cases must be to six hearts, in the face of an un-price and make immediate plans for in exactly one year from this very

Don't miss the final chapter action. Japan has still to make reported from time to time. After known club situation--well, it is hard large-scale manufacture."

(0-MOTTO 10. an irrevocable and fatal de-all, bridge is not an absolute science; to find words for this action! cision, and there is no reason the element of luck is not inconsider- why the more moderate political able. Note to-day's hand. influences should not prevail in a tragedy avolded. The next move be longs to Japan.

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The South China. Morning Post, Ltd. will be pleased to supply cards 14" x 11" of the above list, with the name. printed thereon of any Firm or Club wishing to start a Shrapnel Box

North dealer, Both sides vulnerable.

AJ8 VJ 102 1079 SAJ008

AK 10 00

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A74 OAKQJ04

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N WE S A97542

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The bidding:

0♡

North East South West

Pass រ 2NT

Pann BNT

Pans

4♡

Pass

Pass Pata Par

people have been able to move

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West opened his singleton diamond -not that any other lead would have changed the result. Dummy won, the heart ace was eashed, and a low heart was led toward the closed hand. On East's follow-suit play of the heart ten, declarer made the correct guess of ducking. (This was the first hurdle that declarer had to clear the play. East might easily have held the K-10-2 of hearts and made the same low play on the second

end.)

West had to win with his heart king, and no return could de fent the contract. Actually,

in

shiti

ed to clubs, but declarer ruifed East's ace, drew the last trump, and then also took the spade finesse. This was necessary since declarer could discard only three spades on dum-

's-diamonds. my's

need say that the de- 1 scarcely fenders feit, and with justification,

This bidding was actually pro- that they had been abandoned by

was nothing short of atrocious.

two tate in this deal. First, the bid-

a both in and out of the place. duced in a rubber game by

Those elements-fifth columnists players whose long experience should ding had been ridiculous; second, the of the worst type have shown make them considerably above aver-trumps had to lie marvellously for age. In this case, however, skill was the declarer, and third, the spade. their hands on more than one at a discount and luck at a tremen-nesse had to succeed. occasion Intely in a way that dous premium. The finol contract Buggests they have plenty of

No great fault can be found with confidenco in themselves and their organisation. The task of the opening two notrump bid, de- spite the comparative weakness in rounding up and eliminating clubs, nor can the three heart re- censured, al- these people is a heavy one, but sponse be severely

though, since South obviously In

twice, it tended to bid his hand

it has to be tackled, and with all the vigour at the Colony's com-

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North dealer. .Rubber bridge.

Neither side vulnerable,

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mend. The general public con help necessary, it is strange that he did a great deal; firstly by eschewing not Arst mention his higher ranking their "maskeo" attitude; secondly by major suit prendous bit of luck

The Arsi keeping their cars and eyes open to subversive words and deeds; thirdly found by the North-South pair wan by reporting suspicious persons to that North's weakness, clubs, hap- ned to t match South's vold. After the authorities. This is no time for pened

North

nover men,

ven' mentioned · dia- complacency: rather precautions

mands, hence from South's point of which prove unnecessary than precautions at all. If, in the final view, it was more likely that North

How should 'East-West defend analysis, Hongkong is to be drawn had greater strength in clubs than

in diamonds. Thus when North, hav into an armed conflict, let us be as

the Ing heard his partner's three hourt against South's contract of prepared as possible to

tokeout, persisted with three no-spades doubledt emergency.

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"What do you mean-a falt option price?" Gordon managed to inquire while slowly recovering from shock.

GRIN AND BEAR

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By Lichty

"Is that all it kaya?——just that you'ra' graduated?" "Aren't

there any further instructions??!