THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1937.
Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.15 p.m.-European programme. 12.30 p.m.-Grand Opera.
1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m. A Pianoforte. recital by
Vladimir Horowitz.
1.20 p.m.-Viennese Waltzes.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press, Rugby Press: Local: Weather forecast, time and
announcements.
1.40 p.m.-Duke Ellington and His Or
chestra.
2 p.m.-Vocal Gems.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
4-4.30 p.m.-Chinese recorded music. 4.30 p.m.-A running commentary by Frank V. Read on the Semi-finals of the Tennis Singles' Championship of the Colony between E. C. Fincher and S. A. Rumjahn. Relayed from the Hong Kong, Cricket Club Courts. (by courtesy of the Committee of the Hong Kong Cricket Club.)
6 p.m. (approx.)-Chinese programme. 7-11.30 p.m.-European programme. 7 p.m.-Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (Mendelssohn) played by Fritz Kreis- ler and the State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Leo Blech. 1st movement- -Allegro molto
appassionato.
2nd movement-Andante. 3rd movement-Allegretto non
troppo.
BRIDGE NOTES
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7.30 p.m.--Closing local stock quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.
7:35 p.m.-Mantovani and His Tipica
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Orchestra. Tango Havana Heaven Rumba-Cuban Fete Fox-Trot-
Please. Believe Me Poor Little Augeline For You Madonna
Waltz Moonlight, dancing and you 'Fox-Trot-
Moonspun Dreams
Love's Serenade
p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-From the Studio.
A Recital of Roger Quilter's Songs by Emlyn Walker (Tenor).
1. Weep you no more.
2. My Life's Delight.
Damask Roses.
Now sleeps the Crimson Petal.
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4.
To Daizies.
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7.
Brown is my Love.
Fair House of Joy.
8.20 p.m. Cinema Organ Medleys by
Sydney Gustard.
Musical Comedy Medley. Grasshoppers' Dance (Bucalossi).
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Nola (Arndt). 8.35. p.m.-From the Studio.
Valety.
Kenneth Leslie (Vocal), Doreen Ma (Vocal) núd R. L. Czoric (Piano).' 9 pm.London-News and Announce-
ments..
9.15 p.m.-London –Speeches following. the Luncheon on the occasion of the Annual Shakespeare Birthday Cele bration from the Conference Hall, Stratford-on-Avon. The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Sir George Thomas Broadbridge, pro- posing →→ The Immortal Memory Hugh Walpole, C.B.E., proposit "The Drama" and Sir Edward Sey. mour Hicks replying to the Toast. 10 p.m.Hawaiian Music. Hawaiian Love Waltz,
Roger Quilter's Songs: Emlyn
Walker Recital
Honolulu March,
Frank Ferera & John K. 10.15 p.m.London-Big Ben.
Dance Music.
Fox-Trotn
Ev'ry time I look at you. Sing, Baby, Bing,
Swingin' on the moon.. Unbelievable,
aaluhi
Drop in next time you're passing. Honolulu Stars and Hawaiian
Guitars. A little rendezvo in Honolulu. Organ rinder I'm all
Lost my rhythm, lost my music,
lost my man.
Til step out of the picture. Whotcha octcha Combone for? Slipping through my fingers. It's love again.
Waltz Delilah:
11pm-London St. George's Eng
Noi Lane's Hawaiian Orchestra. land, 1987. A prospect of the Eng- Smiling eyes, «
Hawaiian Love Bird,
King Nawahi's Hawaiiana. Aloha Beloved.. Kanui and Lula.
lish countryside written in dramatic narrative form by A, G. Street.
duced by John Pudney.
11.30 p.m. Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE ALHAMBRA—“Love~ Let- ters of a Star", with Henry Gordon, Polly Rowles, Walter Coy and Ralph
COMING PICTURES
Pro-.
***Green Pastures," the most talked
By ELY CULBERTSON Forbes. An exciting mystery that does about film for several years. not reveal the murderer till the last Barned in England and then permit- sequence. A family hounded by a ted to be shown, it has since passed blackmailer is suspected of the murder the Censor in China and Hong Kong. and the solution is arrived at în an Coming to the King's. unusual manner.
Making A Defender Guess
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"The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,' new version, with the presence of Ro- bert Montgomery, William Powell and Joan Crawford in the cast more than sufficient recommendation. At the King's to-morrow.
AT THE QUEEN'S—“White ter, with Warner Baxter and Lang in a thrilling story of two people amid the menace of savage passions.
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Most hands, and certainly all of [made declarer give serious thought the interesting ones, present more to the possibility that the heart than one plausible line of play. king was held by East, and it was Usually the question declarer must an easy matter to anticipate that if resolve is which plan has the great- that were the case, and dummy est mathematical chance of suc-were to play the deuce on the open- But this is by no means the ling lead, East, on winning with the only-consideration! At times the king and being faced with two cer- problem may be not mathematical, tain heart tricks in dummy, would Boys," with Bert Wheeler and Robert AT. THE ORIENTAL "Mummy's but psychological. And here is shift to another suit. Obviously Woolsey. A mystery satire that puts where the true skill of a player be- there was danger that this shift the usual murder to shame with sheer comes apparent. It is an easy mat-would be to the declarer's badly number of disappearances. ter, although sometimes, a labori-protected club suit.
cess.
Both sides vulnerable.
South, dealer.
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AT THE MAJESTIC
Talbot; Benny Baker and Frankie “Mind- Your Own Business.”~ With Charles Ruggles, Alice Brady, Lyle Darro. The tale of a nature writer who has bees in his bonnet as well as his column and a wife who gets him into a tangle that it takes a general alarm to unravel. Coming to the Queen's.
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ous one, to calculate percentages. Had declarer needed only one. It is not nearly so easy to anti-trick în hearts to complete his con- cipate the probable reaction of antract, the proper play would have
AT THE KING'S “Under Cover Of opponent to a certain play.
To- been to put up dummy's ace, since Rice, Sarah Haden and Nat Pendleton. Night", with Edmund Lowe, Florence day's hand illustrates one of
the he still would have control of the One of the most unique mystery stories Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West- “Banjo on My Knee.” With Barbara simpler forms of this type of anti-heart suit, but with two
tricks to reach the screen. The story is plac-ley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett, cipation.
necessary, neither the ace nor a
in a great College with a back- Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar- ground of science for the mysterious complete duck was correct.
crimes. This is unusual and stirs the tragi-comedy that is the life story of tin. A thrill musicale, depicting the Declarer made the correct selec-interest from the start with Lowe the river-boat people on the Mississippi. tion in playing the queen and, as the sleuth. when East won this with the king
Coming to the Queen's. East was faced with a real pro- blem. He simply could not tell whether declarer's original "no trump and rebid had been merely on the ace-queen of clubs or on merely the ace of clubs and strong position in spades and dia- monds. If West had a certain spade or diamond entry it might be fatal
Wife"-with Your Russell and Johri Boles. The Pulitzer not to return his opening lead. A Spell with Lawrence Tibbett, Wendy Prize play. The story of a woman
Barrie, Gregory club shift might give the declarer Treacher.
Ratoff and Arthur who lived for the strongest love ever just the time he needed in which hits the high spots of comedy, action, you never hated a screen player before. A roughhouse romance that conceived and makes you bate her as to set up his diamond suit. East's rhythm and excitement. decision therefore to return the
DJ 10 5 4 2 C-10 9 2.
WEST S-Q 9 4 3
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S.—10-6 5 2 H.-10.8 7 6 5 H.-K 9 D-A 2 (C-K J 7 4 3 SOUTH S.-A K 7
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D.-K.Q 7.6.
C.-A 6 5
The bidding: South
West North
"The Man
"Pennies From Heaven"-with Bing Who Lived Twice", with Ralph Bel- Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows A blood-chilling drama of a killer re-fun-show of the new season. lamy, Marian Marsh and Isabel Jewell. and Louis Armstrong. The gayest surrected and transformed into a re-to the King's,
Coming aputable and eminent surgeon,
East nine of hearts cannot be severely
1 no trump Fass 2 no trump Pass criticised, for certainly here was 3 no trump Pass Pass:
Obviously, on the return of the heart, South had no trouble with the hand. He won with the jac cleared away the diamond ace, and later was able to claim nine tricks.
Pass no way for him to tell whether the West opened the six of hearts play of the heart queen on the first and, before declarer touched a lead had been a genuine finesse or card in the dummy, he properly merely a device by which the de- went about counting his potential clarer was insuring a heart re- winners. He could see two certain turn. spade tricks, four certain diamonds. and one club, a total of seven, and it was immediately apparent that he would not require three tricks in hearts. If he had, there would have been no doubt as to the pro- per first play. He would have let the heart lead run to his own jack, so that if the king were in the lead-ding with one club. I, second hand. er's hand the jack would win the held S-A K 8 5 3, H.—A K 9 4 3, first trick, and a subsequent finesse D.—7, C. 84. What should I have win two more. The fact that he bid ? did not require three heart tricks
·TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: Dealer opened the bid-
Answer: Two spades.
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