THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1937.
Piano Recital from Studio By
Luba Shaftain
Today's Wireless |
12.30-2.10 p.m.-European - Programme. 12.30 p.m.--New Light Symphony Or¬
chestra.
1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and Wes-
ther Report,
1.03 p.m.-The Maestros..
1.18 p.m.--Organ Medley by Reginald
Dixon.
1.25 p.m.-Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.
1.40 p.m-A Relay of the Rotary Club Tiffin Speech from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.
Mr. Basil Fung on "Monograms and Calligrams."
2.10 p.m.-Close down.
4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-11 pm.-Enropean Programme.
7 p.m.-Light Concert Items.
Mediterranean (Bax),
New Symphony Orchestra. La Mattinata ("Tis the day),
(Leoncavallo),
Riccardo Stracciari (Baritone). Serenade Espagnole. (Chaminade,
arr. Kreisler),
Guitarre, Op. 45, No. 2 (Moszkowski,
arr, Sarasate)
Alfredo Campoli (Violm). When Evening's Twilight (Hatton), Sweet and Low (Tennyson, arr.
Barnby) ..The Salisbury Singers. Ich Liebe Dich--Waltz.
(Waldteufel)...Vienna Boheme
Orchestra.
Devonshire Cream and Cider
(Curzon and Sanderson),
Up From Somerset, (Weatherly and
Sanderson),
BRIDGE NOTES
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's :
Malcolm McEachern (Bass). 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-
tions and Hong Kong Exchange| -Market Report.
7.35 p.m.-"The Fire-Bird Suite (Stra- vinsky), played by The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski...
Introduction-Dance of the Fire-Bird.
Part 1-Dance of the Princesses. Part II Berceuse (Lullaby), Conclusion--Dance of King Kastchei.
Arabe 7.55 p.m.-Chanson
(Rimsky-
Korsakov), played by Toscha Seidel (Violin).
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-A Variety Programme.
Orchestraa
"The Gay Nineties"-
Waltz Medley,
New Mayfair Orchestra.
Instrumental-
Traumerei (Reverie), (Schumann), Ken Harvey (Guitar). Doll Dance... Ken Harvey (Banjo). Vocal
Lonely Street,
When Evening comes,
Accordeon Band-
Au Revoir,
Turner Layton.
A Waltz was born in Vienna,
London Piano-Accordeon Band. Hawaiian-
By ELY CULBERTSON
Concealing The Hand Pattern
this bid would have pointed out the correct line of defence, but a it would also have shown stronger hand than was held.
his knew that if he disclosed two-suiter he would not be per mitted to play the hand at four hearts, whether he could make that contract or not. There was a strong probability that East and West-had a game in spades
Generally speaking, there must be a full and free exchange of in- formation between the partnership in a bridge game if the best con- tract is to be reached in the bid-3-This is a very good bid. South ding. However, there are hands in which a good Bridge player early decides to conceal some important feature of his hand because he has the suit in already determined which it will be played if his side is to play the contract and does not wish to disclose to the opponents information which might cause them to defend by further bidding.
It was a realisation of this prin- ciple that gave to `a North-South pair in a team-of-four contest held in New York recently a swing of more than 1,000 points on the hand below.
North, Dealer.
North and South vulnerable.
NORTH SJ 8433
·HA 7*
7 2
CK 8 5 4
EAST
S-A Q 10 7 2 H-98
WEST SK 9.6 5
H-10.6 5 4 D-A 4
D
C-10 7 3
6 5 C -A QJ 9 SOUTH
H-K Q J 32 D-K Q J 10 8 3
6.2.
· ZEK 640 k.c's.
World Afairs * Talk By
H. V. Hodson
Part 1 Itáliari; Part 2--German,"
Part 3-Spanish,
Part 4-Hungarian.
9.40 pm From the Studio.
A Pianoforte Recital by: Ľuba
All my life, Sundown in old Waikiki,
“Shaftain.
George Elliott's Hawaiian
Novelty Quartet. Organ Solo-
1.
Bourree
2.
(a) Prelude, ':
(b) Fugue,
(c) Cavotte,
(d): BourrED:
3.
Rondeau Favori
4.
Waltz Selection... Reginald Dixon. Vocal-
I nearly let love go slipping
through my fingers,
Leslie Hutchinson.
Accordeon Solos-
Speak to me of love,. Stars over Devon,
George Scott-Wood. Vocal-Would you?. Bing Crosby; Piano Solo-i
Butterflies in the rain,
Raie da Costa.
Tino Rossi
8.55 pm London News and An-
nouncements.
by 9.15 p.m.-A Récital
(Tenor). Le Chaland qui passe (De Badet), C'est a Capri (Nazelles).
O Corse, Ile d'amour (Koger &
Scotto), Marinella (Scotto, Pujol & Koger); 9.28 p.m.-"From Foreign Lands". Suite (Moszkowski), played by The Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Clemens Schmalstich.
Rondo
Handel.
Bach.
ja «Hummel, Beethoven. "World
10 p.m. London Big Ben.
Affairs.” A Talk by H. V. Hodson. 10.17 p.m.-Leslie Jeffries and His
chestra.
Musical Comedy Gems.
Evensong (Easthoße Martin). 10.27 p.m.-Dance Music, –
Fox-Trot
I may be wrong.
Chase the Blues away.
Anything
I get a kick out of yon.
According to the moonlight. Fascinating : Rhythm.
Hesitation Blues.
Slow Fox-Trot-Let's sing again.
When you're in love with someone. Waltz
Fox-Trot
There isn't any limit to my lově. Waltz-Love me for ever.
11 p.m.-Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE QUEEN'S “One In A Mil- "Under Cover of Night” with Ed- lion." Introduces lovely Sonja Henie, mund Lowe, Florence Rice, Sarah Ha- Queen of the Silvery Skates, for the den and Nat Pendleton. One of the mo first time to movie fans. In addition to unique mystery stories to reach the the world's champion figure-skater, screen. The story is placed in a gre the film includes Adolphe Menjou..
AT THE STAR Lady Be Careful," with Lew, Ayres, Mary, Carlisle, Larry Grabbe and Benny Baker. Paramounts hilarious comedy of gobs and girls.
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AT THE ALHAMBRA — Avenging Waters”. with Ken Maynard, Beth Marion and Ward Bond. A roaring ro mance of the west packed with spine- thrilling adventures.
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College with a background of science for the mysterious-crimes. This is un- usual and stirs the interesit from start with Lowe as the sleuth. The love interest is supplied by en Florence Rice. Coming to the King 8.
“Mind Your Own Busine Charles Ruggles Alice Brady Talbot, Benny Baker and- Darro. The tale of a naurs writer who has been in his bonnet as well as his column and a wife who gets him AT THE KING'S “The Lost into a. tangle that it takes a general Horizon", with Ronald Colman, Jane alarm to unravel Coming to the Wyatt, H. B. Warner, Margo and Queen's.
A story of) adventure, romance
and
and South had already decided Edward Everett Horton anger
***Hearts · Divided,”
Marion Bains, to play five diamonds as a sa- crifice, the honour score in dia- glamour, acclaimed as one of the out- Davies, Dick Powell, Claude
standing productions of the year. Charles Ruggles, and Ed rd. Everett monds reducing the probable
Horton. Prince Jerome Bonaparte de- loss. There was also a chance
ᎪᎢ . THE ORIENTAL-Tarzan fies his brother, the Emperor
Johnny that
in Escapes", with
Weissmuller leon, for the love of his Baltimore he might be doubled
Coming The latest sweetheart, Betty Patterson. four diamonds, and a bid of and Maureen O'Sullivan.
primeval adventure romance based on to the Oriental-›. four hearts would simply dis-the Edgar Rice Burroughs characters: close the pattern of his hand. 4--East felt that the chance
of
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“Banjo on My Knee With Barbara AT THE MAJESTIC “One Way Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West- making four spades was better Passage," with Kay Francis, William ley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett, than the prospect of defeating Powell, Frank McHugh and Herbert Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar
Mundin. An old favourite of Warner tin: A thrill musicale, depleting the four diamonds two tricks.
Bros.
The strangest and most facin- tragi-comedy that is the life story of ating romance ever told, enacted on a the river-boat people on the Mississippi. Pacific liner from the Orient to San Coming to the Queen's. Francisco with an interlude at Hono- lulu.
5 West was right in doubling. From his partner's bidding and his own gure trick in diamonds it appeared to him that South had bid too much, whereas the making of five spades was pro- blematic.
COMING PICTURES
"White Hunter"-with Warner Ba
menace to
“Bulldog Drummond Escapes. Two hours after the famous sleuth Lands in England, he finds himself fighting for the life of a beautiful girl and tracking down a desperate gang of swindlers. Starring Ray Milland, Sir Guy Stand- ing, Heather Angel, Porter Hill, Re- theginald Denny and E. E. Clive. Coming
next to the Queen's
THE
HONG KONG
It is of course apparent in ter and June Lang in a thrilling story studying all the hands that South of two people amid the can be defeated one trick by a club savage passions. “
Queen's. lead through the King in Dummy. However, West opened his fourth- best spade, and South ruffed and led the Knave of diamonds, which Another dia- The bidding. Figures after was allowed to hold,
with bids refer to numbered explanatory mond was led and West won paragraphs)
the Ace, but, knowing nothing of North East South West South's concealed heart suit, West Pass 1.S 2D (1) 2 S
returned another round of spades, Pass 35 (2) 4 D (3) Pass South ruffed and was able to dis- Pass 4 S (4) 5-D. Dbl. (5) card three of the clubs în Dummy Pass Pass
on his hearts, thus making his Pass 1-Correctly showing the six-card doubled contract. losing only one
length, as if South should be-[club and the Ace of trumps. come. Declarer with hearts as The hand, played in trump, the immediate shorten- fou
four match, resulted in the same ing of the heart holding fight final contract at the other table,
but as South there had bid both his. prove very disastrous. -As it later developed, East suits, West switched to the clubs would have been much wiser to as soon as he took the diamond
set one have shown his four-card club Ace, and thus South was suit rather than rebid spades, trick.
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