THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1937.
Studio Recital
By
Gaston D'Aquino
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.10 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m.---A Concert.
1 p.m.--Local: Time Signal and Wen-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Hawaiian Music.
1.25 p.m.--Reuter Presa; 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.
2.10 p.m.-Close down.
4-7 p.m.Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.-European Programme.
7 p.m.Dance Music.
Tango-Havana Heaven. Rumba-Cuban Pete.
Slow Fox-Trot-
The Hills of 'old Wyomin'.
Waltz
Stars in my eyes. Bye-Bye Blues..
One-Step California.
Tango El Adios del Boyero. Rumba-Buscando Millonaria. Waltz The Family Album.
7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-
tions and Hong Kong Exchange. Market Report.
7.35 pim, New Gramophone- Records.
Band Music---
Belphegor March (Brepsant), Wellington-March (Zehle),
Massed- Military Bands.
BRIDGE NOTES
ZBW 355 M. 845-k.c's
Songs-
Elegie (Massenet), Serenade (Toselli),
Orchestra
Ninon Vallin (Soprano);
The Whirl of the Waltz,
New Mayfair Orchestra. Ragging the Baga
Songe
New Mayfair Orchestra.
ZEK 640 k.c's,
Piano Selection,
Vivian Ellis (Pianoforte), You're always in my arīns,
Reginald King & His Orchestras Over on the sunny side,
Hugh Morton (Baritone), Lovely to look at,
I won't dance Fox-Trots,
Ambrose & His Orchestra. You and the night and the music, (a) Mam'selle Marie (Creole
Gracie Fields, (Vocal), Song), (Guion),[8.35 p.m. Marek Weber and His Or- (b) Dere's no Hidin' Place
chestra. (arr. Brown), Menuett No. 1 (Paderewski);
"Coeur brise. (Gillet).
"Indian Love Lyrics"
Duets-
(a) Hammer Song,
(Woodforde-Finden);
(b) L'il David (arr. Brown),
Paul Robeson and Lawrence
The Temple Bells,
Brown.
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather
Report and. Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-Favourites of Not-so-long-
ago.
Where the arches used to be,
Flanagan and Allen (Comedians).
I believe in miracles;
She wore a little jacket of blue- Fox-Trots....Jack Hylton &
His Orchestra.
"Streamline”-
The First Waltz,
By ELY CULBERTSON
A Strength-Showing Bid
ing bid, is in some difficulty in finding a good call at this point. She chooses the fairly strong
Less than the dust,
Kashmiri Song,
Till I wake.
Waltz (Durand),
Tiny Tot (Fisher).
The Hermit (Schmalstich).
9 p.m.-A. Pianoforte Recital by Vladi-
mir Horowitz.
Presto-Passionato, Op. 22
(Schumann); (a) Pastourel (b) Toccata (Poulenc). Etude XI Pour Les Arpeges
Composes; (Debussy). 9.15 p.m.-From the Studio.
Italian Opera.
A Recital by Gaston d'Aquino (Tenor).
"Pagliacci" (Leoncavallo)-
Serenade:
"Elisir d'Amore” (Donizetti)— Una furtiva lagrima. -- "Madame Butterfly" (Puccini).
Amore o grillo.
Wickham Steed:
Talk On World Affairs
"Don Giovanni” (Mozart)——
Dehlvieni alla finestra, “7
9.30 p.m. London News and
*nouncements.
"
An
9.55 p.m.---Dol Dauber and His Salon
Orchestra. i
Ave Maria (Meditation), (Bach, arr.
Gounod).
From the Old and the New World":
(Dvorak arr. Leopold). Wagneriaha (Fantasin -on themes of Wagner), (arr.-Schmidt-Kothen), |10.15 p.m.-London Big Bom. ↑ A talk, ș
World Affairs,' by H. Wickham Steed.
10.30 pm-Variety and Dance Musici
Orchestra÷
Serenade in the night,
Alfredo and His Orchestra-
Humorous,
Scientifically, of course! -
Vocal
Murgatroyd and Winterbottom.
Love is like a cigarette,
Fox-Trot
The Sheik of Araby,
Vocal
Kitty Masters.
Nat Gonella and His Georgians.
Thanks a million,
Piano Solo-
Robert Ashley (Tenor);
I was lucky
Hawaiian
Renara.
Sundown in Old Waikiki,
George Elliott's Hawaiian t
Vocal-700
Novelty Quartet........
-Sing, Gipsy sing.. ↑ Anona Winn At the close of a long long day o
(LesAllen and His Canadian
p.m.
Close down.
bid of two notrump rather than What's On At the
showing immediate support for the clubs.
"But I had passed three honour- | 3-North, having passed an Open- tricks and I had to show you the strength of my hand," was the re- mark of a rather inexpert player the to her partner after playing hand below in the absurb contract of four notrump... She thought she was using the four-notrump bid in its conventional meaning of show- ing two Aces and the King of a bid suit, but her partner construed it as simply making..a possible. game practically impossible. In further extenuation of her unusual bid, the lady continued: "I had support for both your suits and I never... thought you would drop me."
AT THE QUEEN'S, “Swing High 4-Of course, South is not inter-
And Swing Low"" A romantic comedy ested in notrump with his dis- co-starring lovely Carole Lombard, and tribution, and now bids the dashing Fred MacMurratya festival shaded spade suit, hoping to of song and music of mirth and find an advantageous spot to laughter.
50
Bachelors.
Cinemas
COMING PICTURES!
"Mind. Your Own Business.”---- With Charles Ruggies, & Alice Brady Lyle Talbot," Benny Bakeri, and: Frankie Darro♫ : The tale nofi æ” natüre› writers<li who has bees in his bonnet as well as play the hand..
his column and a wife, who gets him 5-Having support for both suits.
AT THE MAJESTIC → The Charge] into a tangle that it takes à general bid by her partner, North, now Of The
to Light Brigade",
unravel.. Warner alarm
Coming to theront makes another strong, but very gested by the immortal poem of Lord Brothers' stupendous production sug-
Queen's.
bad, bid.
Tennyson, with an all-star cast headed "Pennies From Heaven" with -Bing-- 6--Completely at sea as to exactly by Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havil Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows what is happening, South de- land, and over fifteen thousand extras. and Louis Armstrong. The gayest
fun-show of the new season. Coming i cides to pass.
to the King'sz00
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Perhaps South, her partner on this unfortunate, occasion, should j have bid five clubs, which could f The result, when the battle was AT THE KING'S — “36 Hours Top have been made, but to him it was over, was that North and South had Kill" depicting the capture of the last “Mama Steps Out~~~A girl whom amazing that North could have taken seven tricks and East and of the public enemies while travelling her mother hopes will marry a cultar- West a six In other words, the lect a sweepstake prize, with Gloria crooner. Starring Stanley Morner and
on a trans-Continental express to col-ed foreigner elopes with an-American” passed the Opening bid and then, without either supporting a suit or four-notrump contract was defeat-Stuart in the leading role.
Betty Furness. Coming to the King's. showing one of her own, jump to
The hand plays best at five clubs, AT THE ALHAMBRA “Fair Warn The Lost Horizon", four notrump... Slightly afraid of
with « such unusual things, he decided to which cannot be defeated. A four-ing an unusual story of murder and Colman, Jane Wyatt, H. Ronald spade contract would be set if a J. Edward Bromberg as the naive de-story of adventure; romance danger and sudden romance in Death Valley with Margo and Edward Everett Horton.” A club were opened by West, allow-tective who solves the startling crime, glamour, acclaimed as one of the out ing East to trump it; but even aand Betty Furness and Joan Howard standing productions of the year. four-spade contract, though unsuc- Payne, as the couple who fall in love Coming to the Oriental..
at first sight.
pass.
The hand was: North; Dealer.
East and West vulnerable.
WEST
S-A
NORTH
SK 987...
HA
D-A 10 6
EAST
QJ97-4
S-6 43 2
9:54:31:
H-10 85 4 3:2 HLQJ9 764
D-K J 77
C-10 6 5
SOUTH
S-Q J 10 5 H-K
D Q 8 2. CAK832.
The bidding. (Figures after, bida refer to numbered. explanatory paragraphs),
North East: South Westo Pass (1) Pass: 1C (2) Pasuri 2 N T (3) Pass, 3S(4) Pass do 4NT (5) Pasg Pans (8) Pres:!! 1-North should not have passed
this hand. The correct Opening bid is one-club..~ 2-South's hand is barely - more than a minimum but fully comes up to the requirements for in Opening bid.
ed three tricks.
[cessful, could not be criticised. But a notrump contract had no chance to succeed.
“John Meade'sTMTM Woman”—a power- AT THE ORIENTAL Tarzan fal story starring Edward G. Arnold Escapes, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Francine Larrimore Coming to Had North's subsequent bidding and Maureen O'Sullivan in a thrilling the Queen'e and Alhambra [been correct she would not have jungle screen-story.
suffered at all-from-her unsound AT THE STAR-“Human Side", a Irving Berlin-8
"On The Avenue with songs by original pass, of a strong hand. She touching drama with Adolphe Menjon production with a stellar cast of enter
sparkling musical was fortunate in that her partner in the leading role ably supported by tainers including Dick Powell and opened the bidding and gave her a Doris Kenyon and Charlotte Hemy, Madeleine-Carroll Coming to Queer
chance to show her real values; but she should not have attempted to correct her error by such a com- tradictory bidzas four notrump.:
The best bids by all concerned wouldchave been:^ (Figure after p bid refers to numbered explanatory paragraph)
North East South West Pass 18 (1) Pass-
1 C 2.S
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Pass4CA.
Pass Pass
Pass
Pas's
1-South does not wish to give the le
full number of Raises in clubs.. because raw three-notrump cons traat may seem desirable; so he makes a One-over-One response on a shaded suit, This response Is practically Forcing, and thus there is hardly any danger of failing to bid game.
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