THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1987.
Dance Music From The
Hong Kong Hotel
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programm
12.30 p.m.Vocal Gems.
"Glamorous Night”—
Far away in Shanty Town. The Girl I knew.
Elisabeth Welch (Comedienne).
"The Waltz Dream”—
Vocal Gems.
"The Merry Widow"--
Vocal Gems.
Light Opera Company.
12.47 p.m.Viennese Waltzes.
Vienna Blood (Strauss).
Blue Danube (Strauss).
D Groot and the Piccadilly Or-
chestra.
From Near and Far
Austrian Waltz Melodies (arr.
Hohne).
Vienna Accordion Orchestra.
1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m. Dance Music.
Fox-Trot
Did I remember?
A star fell out of heaven.
Slow: Fox-Trot—
Blazin' the Trail.
Fox-Trot
He was a Gentleman's Gentleman. Hunkadola.
According to the moonlight.
BRIDGE NOTES
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's
Slow Fox-Trot-
Hypnotized.
Waltz-
Three minutes of Heaven. Slow Fok-Trot-
Dance of the Gadfly.
1.30. p.m.-Reuter Press; Local: Wea- ther Forecast, Time and Announce- menta.
1.40 p.m.-Raie da Costa Memories.
"King of Jazz" Medley.
2
A thousand Goodnights. True.
The Queen was in the Parlour. Just one more chance. p.m.-Turner Layton at the Piano.
"Pennies from Heaven"-Film Se-
lection.
"Born to Dance"-Film Selection. On Treasure Island:
Sailing Home with the tide.. Solitude.
2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
5-8 p.m.-European Programme..
5 p.m.A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong - Hotel.
6.30 p.m.-Half an Hour with Liszt.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12.
By ELY CULBERTSON
The Four-Trump Hand
in
It is a sound general principle in a trick in spades and a trick playing a hand with only four clubs. The first trick, of course, trumps that, if possible, either the was won with the Ace in Dummy closed hand or the Dummy trump and in order to take the finesse in holding should be left intact. In the spade suit a small trump was other words, the play should be so led at once. When East played the planned as to avoid, if possible, Jack, signs of danger were appar- forcing both hands. It may be ne-lent. It seemed probable now, that cessary to use trumps (generally in West might have four trumps to the Dummy) to ruff losers in the Queen. However, that was a fact, that is one of their values situation which could be dealt with but if this is true, then the Declar-flater. A small spade was led, and er "should think long and earnestly the finesse of the Jack lost to East's before forcing his own hand as King. well.
East at this point had no good The hand below, which was play-return. To lead a club would be to ed in a recent tournament, is a good fortuitously present the Declarer example of careful planning of the with the establishment of that suit. play in order that the contract may A diamond retum would be futile be fulfilled. Slipshod methods will as it would be playing the Declar- not avail as there are plenty of pit-ler's game, and a spade is the only falls for those who are hot reason-lead that appears harmless on the ably careful in the timing of their surface. plays.
South, Dealer.
Neither side vulnérable..
WEST S-10, 6·5
NORTH
S-AJ 7 4 *H—109*6 3'
DA ́C—K 9 3′ 2
H-Q 7 5 4
DK Q-2 C-A-7.4
EAST
SK 8 HJ
DJ 10 6 5 43
GJ'8 6 5
SOUTH
SQ 9 3 2 HAK 8 2
D-98.7
CQ 10
The bidding:
South
West North
1 H
Pass
2'S
Pass. Pass
East 1.8 Pass
Pass. 4.H Pass
2
ZEK 640 k.c❜sat
The Halle, Orchestra, Conducted by
Sir Hamilton Harty- Hungarian Fantasia for Piano and
Orchestra...
Jacques Dupont (Piano) and the Orchestra Symphonique de Paris.
Liebestraume.
New Light Symphony Orchestra.
7 p.m.-De Groot and His Concert Or-
chestra.
When the Great Red Dawn is shin-
ing (Sharpe),
Zinetta (Geehl).
In the night (Tate).
Till I wake.
The Temple Bells (Woodforde-Fin
den).
Ay, ay, ay (Freire).“ Standchen (Strauss).
La Paloma (Yradier).
Destiny (Baynes).
7.30 p.m. Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.
7.35 p.m.-Variety.
•
Instrumental-
Evergreens of Jazz (No. 1).
Scott Wood and His Six Swin-
gers.
Vocal-
Love's last word is spoken.
Gracie, Fields
Piano Duet----
"Roberta" Selection.
Arthur Young and Reginald
Forsythe.
Instrumental-
Early Morning Blues.
Albert Ammons and His Rhythm |
Kings.
Vocal-
Take ma boots off when ah dies.
The Hill Billies.
Cinema Organ—
An Autumn Serenade.
Reginald Foort,
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.A Relay from the Tai Ping
Theatre (Chinese),
11 p.m.-Clase Down 8,05-11 p.m.
European Programme from ZEK, on a frequency of 640 kilocycles.
8.05 p.m. Harry Roy and His Tiger
Ragamuffins.
8.25
Fox-Trot Medley.
She's funny that way. From: Monday on. Fox-Trot Medley.
p.m. Overture “Semiramide” (Rossini), played by the Philhar- monic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Conducted by Arturo Tos-]
canini.
Herbert Morrison:
Talk On Changing London"
(Tenor).
Fair Maid of Perth
· Serenade (Bizet).
"La Boheme”-
Your tiny hand is frozen (Puccini) "The Dubarry”—–
If I am dreaming (Millocker). "Helen"----
The Shepherd's Song" (Offenbach). 8.57 p.m.-Variety.
Vocal-
I want the whole world to love you..
Turner Layton.
Organ Solos-
Six Great Melodies.
Harold Ramsay.
Vocal
Fritz
The scene changes.
Hildegarde.
Instrumental—
Somebody's wrong.
Err Pettiffer (Clarinet). Humorous
King Canute:
Flotsam and Jetsam..
Hawaiian
Bebe d'Amour.`-
Serge Krotkoff (Quitar).
Vocal
(a) Polly Wolly Doodle, (b) Bib
· Rock Candy Mountain.
(a) Underneath the old pine tree, (b) the trail of the Lonesome Pine.
The Rocky Mountaineer.
9.30 --p.m.--London-News and
nouncements..
An-
unceme J. H. Squire Celeste
Octet.
Operatică (Famour Operatic Me-
lodies), (arr. Squire). Narcissus Nevin);
Valse Bluette. Air
(Drigo).
de Ballet
Andantino (Song of the Soul),
(Lemare).
| 10.15 : p.m.-London-Big Ben,
Fox-Trot
So do I.
Dance Music
One, two, button your shoe. Another perfect night is ending. Copper coloured girl. Waltz ...
You're my gift from Heaven. 10.30 p.m. London Changing Lon- -don”. · A talk by the Rt. Hon. Her- bert Morrison, M.P. (Electrical Re- cording).
10:45p.m-Dance Music
Fox-Trot
Magnolias in the moonlight. Waltz--
Follow your heart.
Fox-Trot
I've got the world on a string.
· Mood Indigo.
Waltz-
No more.
8.42 p.m.-A Recital by Heddle Nash 11 p.m. Close Down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE KING'S "Three Men On
This was the lead chosen by East, but South now easily made his con- tract. The one round of trumps had aided him materially from standpoint of time as it removed an exit card from the East hand when the spade finesse failed. Now
AT THE QUEEN'S,» ALHAMBRA AND STAR-"Swing High And Swing South's trump fortress was strong Low", A romantic comedy co-starring A Horse", with Frank McHugh, Joan enough to resist the menace of lovely Carole Lombard and dashing Blondell and Guy Kibbee. A hilarious West's length in the trump suit. Fred MacMurrary a festival of song comedy taken from the successful
This was the method of play and music of mirth and laughter.
Broadway play. Ran for two years in adopted by, which the contract was
New York and a year. în London. made. The hand, however, as 1 said, was played in Duplicate, and the Opening lead in all cases was of the same. Where players sought Brothers' stupendous production sug- AT THE ORIENTAL to increase the small number of en-gested by the immortal poem of Lord Cheers For Love", with Eleanore Whit- tries in the South hand by leading by Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havil Frawley. A
Tennyson, with an all-star cast headed ney, Robert Cummings and William fast fun-filled musical a club on the second round, the land, and over fifteen thousand extras. comedy.
West, contract was defeated as after winning the first lead with co when the Queen played the Ace from the South hand, at once re- turned the suit, and the Declarer
Of course, South's hand is a bare could not avoid a Force in the club minimum but, the tendency is very suit, which wrecked the possibility strong, particularly at tournaments, of making four-odd.
The hand is a simple one, but it to open any minimum hand, regard- less of elements of favourable or presents, powerfully that lesson and unfavourable distribution. North's which we all have to learn Takeout and his subsequent Rafse learn again, and that is that we, as to four hearts after South had as Declarer, should make a plan ás sisted his spade suit comes as a soon as we see our combined hands matter of course,
the moment we have had an op- West Opening lead was the dia portunity to take an accurate count mond King...and, granted the 3-2 of our combined strength and weak- break in trumps, the hand did not ness. In making & plan every fea- appear to present any particular ture should be taken into account difficulties from the standpoint. of and every unfavourable break that the Declarer. He felt that he might can be discounted should be dis- have to concede a trick in trumps, I counted.
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