THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1937.
Kippax On
The Test
12.30-215 European Programme.
12.30--Memories of Yesterday.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
1 pm--Local: Time Signal and Wea-
ther Reporti
103- The London Palladium
1.30-Reuter Press,
Forecast, Time “arid
ments.
1.40-A Variety
2.15 Close Down:
5-8-European Programme
5 pm-A Relay of Dance Music "from
the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel
6.30-A Light Concert Programme.
Baritone Solos-
When I grow too old to dream, (Hammerstein & Romberg) You are free (Le Baron)
Nelson Eddy.
Ignaz Friedman.
Pianoforte Solo
Song without words
(Mendelssohn)
Soprano Solos
Gitana, Gitana, (Prado &
Romero),
La Pena (Machado & Collet)
Raquel Meller.
Violin Solos-
Variations (on a theme by Corelli);
(Tartini, arr. Kreisler)
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c.'s:
My old Irish Mother, (Dean) Danny Boy (Weatherley)
Danny Malone. Patricia Rossborough at the
Dames.
Here is my heart.
Broadway Melody of 1936”
Selection
"Please Teacher!" Selection. "Anything Goes Selection
7.20 Three Songs by Malcolm Mc-
Eachern (Bass).
Gentleman, Good-Night (Lockton &
Longstaff).
I'm a Roamer (Mendelssohn). Speed (Flotsam & Jetsam). 7.30 Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report
735 the New Symphony Orchestra.
In Memoriam Overture (Sullivan). Islamey Oriental Fantasy
(Balakiref, arr. Casella).
"La Gioconda” (Ponchieli)-Dance
of the Hours.
8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 From the Studio
A Chinese Concert.
Rondino (on a theme by Beethoven), 11 p.m. Close DownL
(Kreisler)....Zino Francescatti. 8.05-11 pm-European Programme Tenor Solos-
from ZEE on a Frequency of 640
ZEK 840 ke's.
Kilocycles.
&.05 pm. The
First Act of "Faust" (Gounod), played by the Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham...
8.26 p.m. The J. H. Squire. Celeste
Octet
Memories of Tschaikowsky (arr.
Sear).
Traumerei (Schumann, arr. Sear). “Mignon” (A Thomas) Gavotte. La Cinquantaine (Gabriel Marie). 8.45 pm. Some of My Songs"
Mabel Wayne.
8.55
p.m. London-News and An~- nouncements:
9.15 London Australia v England: The Fourth Cricket Test Match An account of the third day's play by Alan
Adelaide. Kippax, from (Electrical Recording). 9.35 pm-Variety.
Accordeon & Orchestra”
C'est une Valse Musette
Organ Solo-
The Song of Songs
Vocal
Mistinguett.
Quentin M. MacLean
My shadow's where my sweetheart
used to be
I'm sittin' high on a hill top
Sam Browne.
Vocal
Page Five
Best Act
Of Faust
Tumbling Tumble Weetis
Jack Savage & His Cow Boys.
"Electric" Guitar Solo
Mood Ruby
Vocal-
You're ALL I heed. In the middle of a kiss.
Len Fillis.
Connie Böswell.
10 p.m. London-Big Ben.
Dance Music
For Trot
Mine's a hopeless case. "I breathe on windows.
Cross Patch.
Big Chief De Soto.
Tango
-Mi Musa Campera
Madrecita De Pompeya.. Fox-Trot
On a coconut island.
Me and the moon,-.
Sing me a swing song. A little bit later on 10.31-London-Syncopated
by George Myddleton and Gomm, with two pianos. 10.45 pm-Dance Music
Fox-Trot.
Everybody Dance
Melodies
Denis
My, what a ditt rent night. A star fell out of heaven. Ramba Spanish Jake:“ Waltz A gift from Heaven. 11 p.m.-Close Down
BRIDGE NOTES
By ELY CULBERTSON What's On At the Cinemas
After A Take-Out Double
If your partner doubles for 2 take-out, with about two honour tricks and any biddable suit you should make a jump response--one more than is necessary. A jump response may be made in a major suit such as Q 10 x x x if the re- S-5 3 quired two honour tricks are held. H9 5 2
D Q 10 3 CQ 64
- A jump response of two no trump requires a double stopper IQ 10 x x or better] in the opponents' suit and at least two honour tricks.
The Penalty Pass
WEST
NORTH
$ 98.7 H-None D-AKJ943
-K 10 8 5
EAST
SK Q 2 H-K Q 10 7 4 72 DS?
AJ 93
SOUTH
S—A J:10 64 H—AJ 8 6 3 D5 C-72
The bidding: South West North
East
AT THE ALHAMBRA, QUEEN'S AT THE ORIENTAL — “Big Broad- AND STAR-Champagne Waltz" cast Of 1937", with Jack Benny, with Gladys Swarthout, Fred Mac George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Marray. Jack Oakie and Herman Bing. Burns, Benny Fields, Martha Baye. Gladys Swarthout's excellent singing Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. is a major feature, but a bright film. One of the greatest cast of radio cele- it includes humour, a touch of pathos brities ever assembled. Gorgeously and some of the most delightful music crazy humour. heard for a long while. The musical background is provided by Strauss waltzes.
COMING FILMS
rabbe,
„AT THE KING'S "Born To “Nevada”, with Buster Dance," with Eleanor Powell, James Kathleen Burke, Monte Bine and Ray- Stewart and Virginia Bruce. Armond Hatton spectacular horseman- amusing and light-hearted tale of ship, broncobustling, cattle-roping and small town girl who goes to a big the stampede offive thousand steers city and falls in love with a navy man are the high lights in this Zane Grey Brinting with laughter and music melodrama. Coming to the Alhambra. and-topped by the sensational dancing
of Eleanor Powell Brightest bitis a} parody of the eccentricities of famous conductors of orchestrá.
AT THE MAJESTIC- “Angkor” A film crammed with jungle thrills, against the background of the web region of the world.
“Down The Stretch", with Patricia Ellis, Mickey Rooney and - Dennis Moore. A thrilling horse-ra
Him Coming to the "King":
Although you must respond to a take-out double with a weak hand,
1 spade Pass 2 diamonds 2 hearts on certain strong hands you may
Double pass for penalties if you are certain Double Pass 4 clob
Pass
Pass 4 spades Double that you will collect at least as Pass
Pass Pass much in penalties as the value of
West opened the nine of hearts. any game or part-score that you could make.
Dummy ruffed and played the acet and king of diamonds, declarer in ruff, thus smothering declarer's defies his brother, the Emperor
sweetheart, Betty Patterson: Com
three suits
"Hearts Divided”"," with Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, and Edward Everett Horton Prince Jerome Bonaparte
Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore,
lenda Farrell and Lee Disor
"Gold Diggers Of 1937, with Dick
ing to the King's Theatre.
tending to discard a club. But heart ace and resulting in fivel Napoleon, for the love of his Balti Your partner's double of one no trump should be passed for penal-Fast ruffed with the deuce and de- tricks for the defenders. If declarer to the King's ties with about one and one-half clarer overruffed, next leading allowed East's trump honour to honour tricks, sometimes only one other diamond and heart ruff folas before, lead the heart king small heart for dummy to ruff. An-hold, discarding a club, East could, hongur trick if there is some strength [queen or jack] in at least lowed, and then declarer entered through the declarer and this would
his hand by ruffing a diamond with defeat the contract one trick. the spade ten. He cashed the trump ace, and then threw East on When partner doubles a suit bid lead with the last spade. Fast re of one a penalty pass should em turned the heart king but was phatically be avoided. Nothing but thrown right back with the heart extraordinary trump length justi- queen, and thus was forced to lead fies this pass.
up to dummy's king of clubs at the thirteenth trick
This hand is a good deal trickier shrewd declarer would have made than it appears at first glance. A
In counting up expected defen sive winner against opponents" suit bid, the doubler's partner adds his trump tricks and honour tricks in his contract against any defence by side suits to three expected honour tricks in his partner's hand, no ace of hearts at an early st
taking the precaution to cash more. Unless the total is at least as actually played, if East seven tricks do not pass.
A Difficult Defen
West, in the hand shown be had a chance to distinguish him on the de
South,
Both sides vult
ed-in with a trump honour
time declarer was attempting turn to his hand by means of mond-ruff after-dummy's trumps had been tract would have be declarer overruffed, hold the master trump and able to give his partner
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