THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1937.
"La Boutique Fantasque By
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The London “Phil”
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m.-Debroy Somers Band
This England A Coronation Toast. Archibald Joyes Waltzes.
The Fleet's in Port again—Fox-Trot. There's a new world-Fox-Trot.
The Big Broadcast-Selection.
1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Extracts
Operas.
"Die Walkure”—
ZBW 355 M. 845 kc's:
“Geisha' -Selection (Jones),
Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, Piano Medley
Piano Medley No. R. 16,
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inations of the Trinity llege. Musić“ London.
7.20 p.m.
Variety.
Quentin M. MacLean.
Cinema Organ—
Charlie Künz.
River Reveries,
from Wagner's
Regimental Band Music-
“Belle of New York”—Selection
(Kerker)... Band of H.M.
stream Guards.
Orchestra
Cold-
Moonlight and shadows, How could you?
Vocal-
""The
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire
Music
Rudolf Bockelmann
(Bass-Baritone) & the Berlin
-State Opera Orchestra. ~
"Lohengrin-Elsas Traum; **Tannhauser”-
Dich, Teure Halle,
Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano).
Blick' Ich Umber, c
Friedrich Schorr (Baritone). "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"-
Morgenlich Leuchtend Im. Rosigen
Schein....Lauritz Melchior
(Tenor).
1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast; Time and Announcements.
Maid of the
Mountains" (Fraser-Simson)-Love will find
a way:
"Merrie England" (German)—
Waltz Song.
(Soprano).
Helene Esserman
Cinema Organ Music-
Vocal-
Things are looking up,
Cicely Courtneidge (Comedienne). Give me a heart to sing to,
Helen Morgan.
K
Anson Weeks & his Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. “La Boutique Fantasqué”
(Rossini, arr. Respighi), played
by
the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by Eugene Goossens.*****
8 pmLocal: Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
|8.03¤ p.m.-—A Concert.
"Don Pasquale" (Donizetti) Sog- Pianoforte Soložis
The Children's Corner-Suite
Walter Gieseking.
Princesita (Padilla),
Popular Melodies,
Harold Ramsay.
(Debussy).
Tenor Solos
Violin Solo
David)
Tenor Solo-
Violin Solo
2.15 p.m.- Close down. 4-7. p.m.; Chinese. Programme.
1.40 p.m.—Variety and Light Operatic 7-11 p.m.--European Programme.
Items.
Regimental Band Music-
BRIDGE NOTES
7.
p.m.--From the Studio. Successful Candidates at the recent local Exam-
By ELY CULBERTSON
The Last Laugh
If you had a dangerous criminal[bid suits rather than merely one. locked up in jail you probably The redouble was optimistic but not would be satisfied to let it go at rash.
that. It wouldn't be clever of you to West opened the ten of hearts,
ten his cell just to hit him with and South groaned when dummy's a stick. After all, he might hit you jack elicited only a low club from first and escape before you could East. West grinned proudly while South made & campaign, but his lock the door.
Yet
amoat West's bidding grin was soon to fade.
*
the hand below. He Declarer entered his hand with the low diamond. had an opportunity to sit by and a club and led enjoy North's discomfort with West dared not put up the ace (had an impossible slam in hearts. In- he done so he would have made it stead he opened the door to take easier for South), so dummy's queen a whack at North and, as a result, won. But now the clubs were run well, see for yourself!
South, dealer. North-South vulnerable.
-NORTH
3: -AK J42 D.—Q 4:
AJ 10 4
EAST S-7 5 2 H-Noñe
WEST S.~K J 9 6 H-10 9 8.7.6 D.-A J 5 C.-7
D.-9 8 7 6 3 C-8 6·5 3 2
SOUTH
Q 10
The bidding:
West
South
I no trump Pass
10.2
North
hearts clubs Pass 6 hearts
Granadinas (Barrera),
Sonata in A Major (Vivaldi, arr.
Natan Milstein,
Tito Schips.
George Enesco.
Confession-Tango, .Tito Schipa.
Pianoforte Solo-
Poems (Chausson-Op. 25),
Tenor Solo-
Menuette Scherzando (Stavenha-
gen).
Eileen Joyce.
ax
Studio Recital
By Local
Music Students
The music goes round and around. The broken record.
Quickstep-
I'm feeling happy.
Many happy returns of the day. Waltz. Give me your hand. Tango Marilou.
For-Trot
Swing.
Moon, over„Miami.
Novelty Boris on the Bass.
9.30 p.m.London News and An
nouncements.”
9.55 pm. Organ Music.
Organ Sonata in G (Elgar),
no Soave e Casto...Tito Schipa. G. D. Cunningham.
"Ist Movement. Toccata from Symphony No.
(Widor)
Charles-Marie Widor. Andante from "Sonata No. 6"
(Mendelssohn),
Edouard Commette.
10.15 p.m.-Variety, and Dance Music.
Waltzes
*
8.50 p.m.-Light Orchestral Items.
The Nuremberg Doll Overture
(Adam) Grand Symphony Orch. Love's last word (Cremieux), Le Chaland qui passe (Bizio),
Albert Sandler & his Orch. 9.03 p.m. The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.11
It happened in Vienna,
Castanets. Orchestra. Mascotte. Cinema Organ-
Popular Melodies--No. 3,
Fox-Trots-
Harold Ramsay,
Let's face the music and dance, But where are you?
Tangos-—
Roy Fox and his Orchestra.
Jingle bells, Twilight..
Fox-Trots
Argentine Tango Orch.
Swing that music, Thankful,
· Vocal-
Louis Armstron
All alone in Vienna, Goodnight, my love,
"Fox-Trot---
&his Orch..
Leslie Hutchinson.
I'm just beginning to care, Waltz
I'm still in love with you,
Henry Jacques with his correct
Dance tempo Orchestra. p.m. Close down
What's On At the
Cinemas
AT THE QUEEN'S
"Roberta",
AT THE KING'S-“When You're in Love", with Grace Moore, Gary Grant with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Henry Stephenson and Thomas Mit chell.
One of the most delightful, Irene Dunne. A musical film. heart-warming pictures in which Grace Moore sings at her best." Several operatic masterpieces are rendered by Grace Moore.
AT THE “STAR When Knights Were Bold" with Jack Buchanan and Fay Wray. The story has been adapt." off and West had to find three dis-ed from the famous
atage success cards. Two spades were easy, but Charles Marlowe and the addition on the last club West had to let go musical numbers provides Jack
chanan with excuses to both sing the jack of diamonds.
dance...
AT THE MAJESTIĆ — “20 Million Sweethearts", with Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. An old favourite of Warner Brothers.
AT THE ORIENTAL "Dracula's Daughter", with Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden and Irving Pichel. A hair raising story of a beautiful woman who has hypnotic power and a deadly în- fluence over everybody she draws into her clutches.
A diamond now knocked out the ace and the heart return was taken by the queen. The king of dia- monds then finished poor West. He AT THE ALHAMBRA-“The First had to choose between discarding a | Baby", with Johnny Downs and Shirley heart and blanking the spade king. Deane. A richly human romance of a
AT THE CENTRAL He tried the latter, but South knew young couple who found out that it
does not need twins to have baby trou-wood Non-Stop Revue" only too well what was going on. ble. A story of love, in-laws mud- show, complete - The ace dropped, the spade king,dling things up and the baby helping catchy song hits, and South cashed the spade queen them to find happiness. for his twelfth trick.
South gravely scored up 2,210 points and thought of the 200 points North probably would have lost at six hearts. Then he leaned back East contentedly to listen to what East Pass had to say to his partner. Lase
3 spades Pass
4. hearts
Pass
Pass
Pass
·Double 6 no trump Pass Double *Redouble
*Final bid.
"The Holly-
A great stage gorgeous girls, stepping dancers
and side splitting comed,
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TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: Are psychic bids allow- ed in the Culbertson system? Answer: They don't have
to allowed. If you want to make them North knew his partner had not go ahead. But don't blame me if committed the idiocy of psyching in you land in the soup. If you have no trump against nonvulnerable op- to psych have a parachute handy ponenta, He therefore suspected (in the shape of a safe rescue sult), that a trump trick was lurking be- And remember that even when, a hind West's double. The runout to paychic bid works your partner will. six no✨trump was an attempt to be wondering later on, 'Is this the make the slam depend on all three | McCoy or the bunk?”
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