THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1937.
“London Pie” Coronation Radio Revue
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m.-The Regimental Band of H. M.. Grenadier Guards with Richard Tauber (Tenor).
Wea-
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea--
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Dance Music.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press, Rugby Press: Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.
1.40 p.m.-A Concert.
2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.-European Programme. 7 p.m.-"Don Giovanni” (Mozart), Act I, by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Conducted by Fritz! · Busch.
7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.
7.33 p.m.-Marek Weber and His Or-
chestra.
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's
Wiener Schubertbund (Male Choir|
of Vienna) with Vienna. State Opera Orchestra, Conducted
by Viktor Keldorfer. Soiree de Vienne, No. 6 (arr. Liszt). Wilhelm Backhaus (Pianoforte). Lied der Hignon.
Meta Seinemeyer (Soprano). Rondo, Op. 53 (arr. Friedberg).
Joseph Szigeti (Violin), 8.30 p.m.-London London Pie.' Сой ronation Edition. A Radio Revue. Book and lyrics by Harry Howard and Sidney Vivian with an additional momologue by Fred Rome. Music by Harry Howard. Musical arrange- ments by Harry Bidgood." The_cast supported by Harry Bidgood's Band, Production by William MacLurg.
Recording).
4.
ZEK 640 k.c's.
My Kingdom for a kiss. Mrs. 0. C. Womack-
Twilight on the Trail, Cabin on the Hill. Soldiers in the Park.
10 p.m.-Sir Thomas Beecham conduct- ing the London Philharmonic Orches- tra.
Over
"Merry Wives of Windsor"
ture (Nicolai). "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Nocturne (Mendelssohn). 10.15 p.m.London Big Ben.
Reginald Foort- at the Organ "The Mikado": Selection (Sulli-
yan);
Variety Concert
From
The Studio
Moon berg).
Reminiscences of Friml.
10.30 p.m.-Dance Music
Fox-Trot
Oh, you Rogue.
Rom
Did your mother come from Ire
∙land 2
The Miller's Daughter, Marianne... Anything your little heart desires: I could be in Heaven.
Sammy Saxophone. ⠀⠀
Meet the Boys.
Tango
Love's loneliness. Nora.
Waltz-
Sweet, Mary Rose. 111 p.m. Close Down.
Viennese Memories of Lehar (arr. 19.10lectrical Bedon News and An- What's On At the Cinemas
Henry Hall).
You shall be the King of my Heart
(Stolz).
Forest Idyll (Esslinger). Standchen.
p.m.-London
nouncements.
9.30 p.m. From the Studio.
Faithful Jumping Jack (Heykens). "The Flower of Hawaii”-Selec-
tion (Abraham).
1.
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
2.
8.03 p.m.-Franz Schubert's Music.
The First Movement from Quartet
No. 14 in D. Minor.
3.
Roth String Quartet Allegro.
Der Tanz.
BRIDGE NOTES
Negative
A Variety Concert
Mrs. O. C. Womack (Vocal) with Oze and His Boy Friends Ozo and His Boy Friends----
Honeysuckle Rose.
One never knows, does one? Mrs. O. C. Womack--!
Where the lazy river goes by. Music in May.. San Francisco.
Ozo and His Boy Friends-
Lady be good..
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AT THE QUEEN'S "Step Lively, Society beauty though he has never Jeeves", with Arthur Treacher; Patri-seen her, and eventually marries her. cia Ellis and Robert Kent. The inimit- Coming to the Oriental. Lett. able Jeeves in a mad mixup of shoot- ing, gangsters and, assorted variety of giddy misadventures on his first visit to America.
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year.
"The Lost Horizon" with Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, H. B. Warner, Margo and Edward Everett Horton, A. story of adventure, romance daniger and AT THE ORIENTAL—“Two In Aglamour, acclaimed as one of the out Crowd", with Joan Bennett and Joel standing productions. · of McCrea. A romantic.comedy drama Coming to the Oriental. of two young moderns following the discovery of a thousand dollar billin
"After .. The Thin Man,
with Myrna Loy as Nora Charles, epitome, AT THE STAR-"High Tension", assists her famous husband William of the sophisticated modern wife who. with Brian Donlevy, Glenda Farrell, Powell in ferreting out crimes against Norman Forster and Helen Wood,
a San Francisco background.
Coming
By ELY CULBERTSON the street.
Inferences
:
A crackling romance filled with "thrills to the King's. and laughs.
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a woman
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appreciated that it has other duties A study of the dummy, in connec- who coolly chose to accept the favours tragi-comedy that is the life story of
or
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The function of the opening lead four club response would be hard. generally is understood to be trick-(to handle.
AT THE MAJESTIC - "Camille,"
"Banjo on My Knee.”~With Barbara West opened the three of dia- with Greta Garbo and Robert. Taylor, saving and sometimes even trick-
Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West gaining, but it is not so universally monds and East won with the,ace. A glorious love drama of a woman of ley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett,
Paris and of the world'
Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar- tin. A thrill musicale, depicting the also. One of these is to acquaint]tion with an
appraisal of the de-of a wealthy man; then suddenly fell the river boat people on the Mississippi. partner with the nature of the lead-clarer's bid,, made East dubious in love with young Armand.
Coming to the Queen's. er's hand. The corollary of this is about the chance to defeat the con-
AT THE KING'S "The King's vaca- that when certain information is tract. From where East sat it aption" with George Arliss withheld, the leader's partner is peared likely that West had either Gateson, Dudley Digges, Dick Powell ful story starring Edward G. Arnold "John Meade's Woman" power- Majorie justified in assuming that such and the ace-jack-small;
king and Patricia. Ellis, George Arlisis at and Francine Larrimore. Coming to such a situation does not exist. jack-small of spades, and that he his best in a role excelling in humour, the Queen's. These negative inferences, while had counted on two tricks which the part of a man who has kingship humanity and suave charm, and plays subtle, are just as sound and as would not materialise in the face thrust upon him while despising all the A romantic comedy co-starring lovely
"Swing High And Swing Low," far-reaching in their effect as are of dummy's unexpected strength. pomp and ceremony and determined to Carole Lombard, and dashing Fred Mac direct inferences. West's failure to South was pretty well marked with give them all up for love in a cottage. Murray - a festival of song and music show a certain holding on his open-
the heart ace, and a "successful |
of mirth and laughter. Coming to AT THE ALHAMBRA — Western the Queen's. ing lead trapped his partner into a heart finesse to dummy's king-jack Frontier" with Ken Manyard and losing play on the following hand.
appeared imminent to East. No fur-Nora Lane. A Western drama in "On The Avenue”—with songs by West, dealer.
ther diamond tricks, were to be ex-which Maynard as a secret govern-Irving Berlin-a sparkling musical pected, and it seemed to boil down mentcficer, on his wonder, horse, Tar-production with a stellar cast of enter- to a question of club, tricks.
zan, trails the rustlers and manages tainers, including Dick Powell and This after many adventures, to bring them Madeleine Carroll Coming to Queen's. reasoning. by East was logical, and to book. I do not, think he can be blamed for
COMING PICTURES
"The Longest Night", with Robert attempting to steal a club trick by "Pennies From Heaven" with Bing Young Florence Rice, Ted. Healy and leading a low club from his ace on Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows Julie Haydon. Mystery, with an add-
and Louis Armstrong. the hope that declarer, with some fun-show of the new season. Coming provides the highlights of this picture, The gayest ed element of romance and humour, thing like the king-small, would let to the King's.
and incidents following one upon an- it ride to West's queen.
to build a great story. Coming to the other in bewildering succession combine Oriental.
Neither side vulnerable.
NORTH
S.—Q 10 6 3 H-K J 7 D.-7 6 C-J 10 7 6·
EAST S.-7
·H-8 6:
WEST
S-A K 2 H.—Q 54 2 D.--3 2
C.—Q 9 5 4
DAJ 10 9.8.4
C. A 8 3 2
SOUTH
SJ 9 8 5 4
H-A10 ̃ ̄9-3-
D.-K Q 5 CK
The bidding:
West
North
Pass
East Pass 3 dia. 3 no trump 4 spades Pasa Double Pass.
Pass
"Mama Steps Out”—A
girl whom
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As it happened South's club king her mother hopes will marry a cultur- was singleton and thus the contracted foreigner elopes with an American became a laydown on the conces-crooner. Starring Stanley Morner-and “Mind Your Own Business. With sion of West's two tricks in spades. Betty Furness. Coming to the King's Charles Ruggles,Alice Brady Lylez
Superficial criticism might attri-
Talbot, Benny Baker and bute the loss of this hand to East's Betty Furness, Arthur Treacher and his column and a wife who gets him “Mr. Cinderella" with Jack Haley, who has bees in his bonnet as well as Darro. The tale of a nature writer play, but the fault actually was one Raymond, Walburn. A barber follows into a tangle that it takes: n/a that resulted from the opening lead. the movements of Society people alarm to unravel. With the ace-king and a small through gossip columns, idolises Queen's, trump no possible objection 1 could South be found to laying down the spade
3 spades king. This lead wuld have a dual
Pass
purpose. First, to acquaint part- Pass ner with the fact that West held the East's bid was distinctly unortho-ace-king; and, second, to take a dox and also of questionable worth. look at the dummy in order to gauge While he and his partner were not subsequent lines of defence.
Na- using the two way three bid there turally, once Fast had seen that his still was no justification for a pre- partner held two spade tricks he emptive bid on his hand. It was by would have grabbed his own two no means defenceless and, on the aces for a certain victory. other hand, did not have enough TO-DAY'S QUESTION playing tricks to warrant a bid for Question: Must a player have a nine tricks. South was well. ac- certain number of honour tricks in quainted with East's bidding habits order to make a pre-emptive open- and felt that he was attempting a ing bid? "fast one," hence the three spade Answer: No. If sufficient winners bid. South was afraid to double, on are held the hand need contain no account of his singleton club. A honour tricks whatsoever.
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