THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1937.
‘All In Pink” ***** Broadcast Revue From London
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m. The Philadelphia Orches- tra Conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Eight Russian Folk Dances (Liadow). Hungarian Dance No. 1,
Yabicchko-Russian Sailors' Dance
(from "Red Poppy Ballet”). Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens).
1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Three Songs by Jan Kiepura
(Tenor).
Heute Nacht oder Nie! (Schiffer),
La Danza (Rossini).
My heart is always calling you
1.15 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trot
Goody-Goody,
It's been so 'long.
Slow Fox-Trot-Raindrops.
Fox-Trot-
(Stolz).
Saddle your blues to a wild
mustang
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You started me dreaming. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.
1.40 p.m.—Variety.
Vocal-
Love is like a cigarette, The morning after,
Leslie Hutchinson.
J'attends un navire,
Lys Gauty (in French). Sentimental Gentleman from
Georgia, Mood indigo...The Boswell Sistera. Sketch
The "Bluebell Chasers" F.C. An-
nual Meeting...........William
Vocal & Instrumental-
McCulloch.
"If you were the only girl" memo- ries....Carroll Gibbons (piano)
B▾ ELY CULBERTSON
A Question Of Geography
I make a practice of kibitizing[ given two minimum responses. all types of games from expert to First, his heart rebid, and, second, novice. Only in this way can I his club preference over the spade note the errors common to the var-double. West hardly can be blam- ious classes. In the lower brac-ed: for feeling that the five club kets there are so many kinds of bid was doomed to defeat. mistakes that it is difficult to tabu- The diamond ace was the opening late them. They range from mis-lead and, when West saw the dum- counting the trump suit to need-my, he promptly shifted to a low less, or dangerous, finessing. Ex-club. Declarer let this ride to his perts, of course, make few mis-own hand and, in doing so, scuttled takes, but even they have their the ship. He now laid down the Achilles heel. Perhaps the most spade ace and ruffed a spade, then common fault is the inability to re-led the king of hearts and passed verse their mental procésses. By it, discarding a spade. West won this I mean that sometimes they and returned another club. Dum- find it difficult to manipulate the my's jack won. The heart queen. combined declarer and dummy's was cashed and another spade: dis- hands as though they were a unit. carded, and now the club ace drew can illustrate this best by analysis West's king. But declarer still had of a hand I recently saw played in to lose a diamond trick to East and a so-called expert game.
thus the contract was defeated one trick.
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North, dealer..
Neither side vulnerable.
WEST
NORTH
S--8 HK Q 7 6 3 2 D-10. 4. C—A J 10 4
SK J: 6 4 2.
H-A J 10:5
DA
C-K 6 5
D
SOUTH
EAST
-9 8 4
9 8 5 3 2
S-A 10 9 5 H-None ∙D—K Q 7 6
CQ 97 3 2
The bidding:
2 hearts Pass
2 spades. Double
North
East
1 heart
Pass
South 2 clubs
West Pass
3 clubs,
Pass 5 clubs
Pass Redouble Pass.
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PASS
3. diamonds Pass Pass
Double Pasa
་
I venture to say that if the hands had been completely reversed [in other words, if North had by some quirk of bidding been the declarer, with South's hand exposed as dum- my] there would have been no dif- ficulty in fulfilling the contract Try it out for yourself and see how easy it would have been.
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and His Boy Friends.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.-European Programme.
7 p.m.-Half an Hour with Schumann
(1810-1856).
Pianoforte Solo
Scenes from Childhood,"
Soprano Solo-
Ives Nat.
The Almond Tree...Elsie Suddaby. Pianoforte Solo-
Dream Visions.......Vladimir Horowitz. Tenor Solo-
The Lotus Flower,
Beniamino Gigli.
Pianoforte Solo-
Toccata, Op. 7......Simon Barer.
Bass Solo-
The Two Grenadiers,
Theordore Chaliapine.
7.30 p.m. Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.
Half An Hour With Schumann: Vocal And Pianoforte
8.30 p.m
London—“All in Pink” (3rd Edition) Yoicks! and probably Tal- ly-ho!" A Broadcast Revue by Lauri Wylie. Lyrics and Music by various, authors and composers.: Production by William MacLurg.
9.15 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music.
Because (d'Hardelot);
A little love, a little kiss (Silesu),
Albert Sandler & His Orchestra.:: Fantasia of Melodies of Johann
Strauss (Weber),,
Marek Weber & His Orchestra. An- |9.30`p.m.-London →→ News; and
'nouncements:
9.55 p.m.—Variety.
Orchestra
Memories of Horatio Nicholls,
Debroy Somers Band.
Piano Duets:
Chopinezza;
Liszt in rhythm,
-Rawicz and LandauST.
Piano & Vocal-
Sugar Rose, Breakin' in a pair of shoes,
Carroll Gibbons & His Boy-
7.35 p.m. Some Jazz Piano Records. 10.15 p.mLondon-Big Ben.
"Home and Beauty"--Selection,
Nola...
Nikolaus Brodszky.
Rawicz and Landauer.
Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. R.
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.. Charlie Kunz If we never meet againg":- Old Fashioned Love...-Gerry Moore. 8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-A Concert Violin and
Pianoforte
Sonata in C Minor (Grieg),
Marjorie Hayward & Una Bourne. Ist Movement Allegro molto ed
appassionato,
Fox-Trot-
So do I.
"Dance Music.
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One, two, button your shoe. Pasodoble Gurro en el Oro.. Slow Fox-Tro
The hills of old. Wyomin', Waltz Stars in my eyes. Fox Trot
I come from a musical family,
Somebody stole my break. Slow Fox-Trot Blazin the trail. Fox-Tröt Page
He was a Gentleman's Gentleman. 10.43 p.m.-Musical Comedy:
- 2nd Movement-Allegretto expres-Chocolate Soldier" Selection (0.
sive alla Romanza Allegro molto.
Straus, arr. Benedict)
Marek Weber, & His Orchestra. "Rose Marie" Selection (Friml,)
New Mayfair Orchestra. Close down.”“
3rd Movement-Allegro animato. Waltz in A Flat Major (Brahms),
Isolde. Menges (Violin). 11 p.m.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE KING'S. “Dangerous
AT THE STAR--"Crack Up", with Number" with Robert Young and Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Ann Southern: A marital comedy, the Wood, Ralph Morgan and Thomas troubles of a young silk merchant who Beck A thrill-packed melodrama of married an actress and found that he flying aces, foreign spies and modern had nothing in common with her romance. friends of the theatre.
AT THE QUEEN'S “Crown and}} Glory" —ar resume of English history AT THE MAJESTIC —“Satan Met A including glimpses of European af- William, from the Victorian era to to-day, and Lady 2--with-Bette Davis, Warren Alison Skipworth, Arthur fairs.
Treacher and Winifred Shaw. A new- thriller from the author of "The Thin Man" which will keep you in laughter from start to finish.
"Breezing
AT THE ORIENTAL Home”, with Wendy Barrie, Binnie Barnes and William Gargan.—A swift paced brightly humorous movie story about modern night clubs and race horses at the Sante Anita race track.
NEXT CHANGE
KING'S "Personal Property”.
Let us imagine the same opening lead: A diamond to the blank ace. On a club return the ten now be comes the natural play and, when it holds, the passing of the heart
AT THE- ALHAMBRA "Shadow new romantic team will be seen in this king, with a discard of a spade Ranch", with Buck Jones, Described as comedy-drama Robert Taylor and from dummy, is obvious. Another a "Western. De Luxe", the locale of Jean Harlow. Others in the cast in- club return is again won in the the picture is a small cattle town near clude Reginald Owen, Henrietta Cros- North hand, the king of hearts the Mexican border providing numerman, E. E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Cora
ous opportunities for hard riding. cashed, and a heart ruffed. A club to the ace, another heart ruff, and the hand becomes a laydown, North's two long hearts becoming established with the remaining club as entry.
Failure to make this contract was, I believe, clearly a case of op- tical illusion.
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
Question: In, the following bid- ding,
Dealer 1-spade
Partner 1 no trump
3 spades } ni oundiwut çrib Le
Is the three spade bid forcing? zotub
North was shy a trifle in honour tricks on his opening bid, but his hand was too good to pass." South indicated, a good, hand, by respon ing first, with clubs, and later, w Answer: Not absolutely forcing his higher ranking, spade, but a strong urge for partner to North's final redouble was, justified bid again if he has any values, not because he had, after opening, guaranteed by his previous bid,
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