THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1987.
Children's Concert
From
The Studio
Today's Wireless
12.30-2.15 p.m. -European Programme. 12.30 pm. "Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York. Conducted by Mengelberg and Toscanini. Alcina Suite DES Handel.5-5.15 Le Rouet d'Omphale.. Saint-Saens L'Apprenti Sorcier).
Dukas. 1 p.m. Local time signal and weather
report.
103 p.m.-Pro Arte String Quartet.
Mozart. Quartet in E Flat Major.
1st Movement Allegro ma non
troppo. Andante con moto. Menuetto & Trio. Allegro Vivacé. ....
2nd
3rd
4th
1.30 p.m.- Reuter and Rugby Press, Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
1.40 p.m.Dance and Variety.
Foxtrots-
When the Guardsman started
crooning on parade, Everything stops for tea,
'Humorous
Jack Hylton & his Orch.
Play up and play the game,
Oliver Wakefield.
Foxtrot-
Just dance...Sydney Lipton & the
:: Grosvenor House Band.
Humorous-
Keeping a stiff upper,
Waltz-
Oliver Wakefield.
Dandelion, Daisy & Daffodil,
Sydney Lipton & the
Vocal-
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c ́'s
p.m
1
Boston Tea Party.
2.
- 3.
I can't escape from you Whatcha gonna do.
4. I'm nuts about screwy music. 5.15-5.20 p.m.-Interval of recorded
dance music from Z.B.W. 5.20-5.35 pm--
6.
7.
5. It's swell of you,
Never in a million years.
There's a lull in my life.
8. Wake up and live.
5.35-5.45 p.m. ---- Interval of recorded
dance music from Z.B.WY
5.45-6 p.m.—
9-La Gucaracha.
10.
11.
Cubalero.
Solitude.
12. The Love bug will bite you.
6 p.m.-Studio-Children's: Concert.
6.45 p.m.-Peter Dawson.
Covered Wagon: Lüllaby,
Empty Saddle's
A Sea Call
Freeman
Leonard. Hill. Ramon.
6.55 p.m.--Viennese Waltzes.
When the Lemons Bloom (Strauss);
Strauss & Symphony Orch. Doctrinen (Strauss), Mean Strauss & Symphony Orch. Wine Women & Song (Strauss),
Grosvenor House Band.
Marek Weber & His Orch. 7.07 pmNew Symphony Orchestra.
In Memoriam Overture.... Sullivan. Carissimā Tintagel:.:
Elgar
Mediterranean
Bax. Bax.
Rock and Roll,
Oh! Leo ... American Eton Boys. Foxtrot
Take my Heart
Vocal-
7:35 pm-Closing local stock quota-
tions, and exchange market report.
Ambrose & his Orch. 7.40 p.m.-Relay. "At The Theatres.”
The Little Dutch Mill,
Foxtrot-
Free
Vocal-
Derrickson & Brown,
Ambrose & his. Orch.
Over Somebody else's shoulder,
Derrickson & Brown,
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
5-8 p.m.-European Programme. 8-11 p.m.-Chinese Programme.
5 p.m.-Relay of the dance Orchestra from the roof garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.
BRIDGE NOTES
Descriptions and songs of London shows by Dudley Glass and Dorothy Brunton.
8 p.m.--Local: Time signal,
report and Announcements.
Weather
ZEK 640 k.c's.
Confession Albeniz),
Tenor-
Orquesta Odeon.
La Cumparsita (Tangos); **- -
Tito Schipa
Piano-
Triana (Albeniz),
Wilhelm Backhaus, Soneto a Cordoba (de Falla)..
Maria Barrientos. Soprano
Chanson du feu follet (de Falla),
Maria. Barrientos.
Kreisler.
Violin-
Jota (de Falla)
| 8.31 p.m.— Gracie Fields & Sandy
Powell..
Queen of Hearts,
One of the little orphans of the
storm
Gracie Fields. Sandy's Own Broadcasting “Station.
Sandy Powell. Things Might have been so different, I haven't been the same girl since,
Gracie Fields.
8.49 p.m.-Foxtrots.
Dangerous You, Love is a dancing thing,
Roy Fox & his Orch.
Song,
It's easy to remember,
“Guy Lombard and his Royal
7 Canadians, "Food for 9 p.m.- London Relay.
thought." Three short talks on mat- ters of topical interest.
Country Dancés,
News and Announcements.
What's
On
Page
At The Theatres. Relay
From London
9.55 p.m.-Gerry Moore
the Piano.
Moöre.
Moore. McHugh
May White Blues
Gerry Building
With all my heart
10.05 pmBallads
for
soprano and
baritone.
Down Vauxhall Way (Oliver),
Mavis Bennett.
Mavis Bennett. The Spanish Lady (Hughes), Limehouse Reach (Proctor-Gregg),
Stuart Robertson.
Pretty Mocking Bird (Bishop);
A Summer Night.
(Marzials & Thomas) My dearest heart (Sullivan),
Doris Vane. In Summertime on Bredon (Peel), Sea Fever (Ireland),
Stuart Robertson.
10.30 p.m. Dance Music.
Fox-Trot
Cowboy,
It's got to be love,
Roy Fox and his Orchestra. Rumba Fox-Trot-Cuban Pete, Slow Waltz_fs
At the Close of a Long, Long Day,
Joe Loss and his Orch. Rumba Fox-Trot Serenade; Fox Trots
It happened in the Moonlight,
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra, Magnolias in the Moonlight, Waltz Follow your heart,
----- Ted Fio Rito & his Orch. Fox-Trots
The Why You look To-night, A Fine Romance,
p-mi:
Ambrose and his Orch.
Close down.
At the
Cinemas
of
AT THE ORIENTAL "The Last Off AT THE KING'S Woman 8.03 p.m.Studio. A Chinese concert. Mrs. Cheyney”. A gay comedy of Glamour."--Virginia: Bruce and Melvyn |11 p.m.Close down. -**
stolen pearls, an attractive and ultra- Douglas make a delightful picture 8.03-11 p.m; * ----- European programme smart American widow played by Joan their supporting cast includes Reginald from ZEK. on a Frequency of 640 Crawford, the debonnaire Robert Mont-Denny, Pert Kelton, Leon Maricle and Kilocyclesi
gomery and well-poised William Powell Thurston Hall. Lynn Starling and are the principal players in a drama. Mary C. McCall wrote the screen story tic romance as brilliant as its glamor from a play by Milton Herbert Gropper. ous stars.
8.03 p.m.-Spanish Music.
Orchestras
Cordoba (Albeniz), Granada (Albeniz),
By ELY CULBERTSON
Asking Bid Changes
NEXT CHANGE
AT THE QUEEN'S Turn Off The AT THE QUEEN'S “I Met Him in Moon Produced by Fanchon, creator Paris."-Starring Claudette Colbert, of the famous Fanchon and Marco Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young and shows, this whimsical musical comedy Mona Barrie. A sparkling comedy- is not only a delightful melange of romance, written by Claude Binyon, dancing, romancing girls, gayety, cat-author of "The Bride Comes Home"? chy songs and uproarious fun, it has and The Gilded Lily" and as fast and falso an unusually strong story. Cast funny as anything Claudette has ever
includes Charlie Ruggles, Eleanore done. Whitney, Johnny 1 Downs. Kenny Baker and Marjorie Gat
AT THE ORIENTAL- Under Cover "Of Night.", with Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Sarah Haden and Nat Pendleton. One of the most unique mystery stories AT THE ALHAMBRA - “When to reach the screen. The story is You're In Love. The story of a gay, placed in a great College with a back- light-hearted and charming escapade ground of science for the mysterious in which Grace Moore has been trans-crimes. This is unusual and stirs the formed into a charming comedienne. interest from the start with Lowe as Playing opposite her in the male lead the sleuth. The love interest is sup- is Cary Grant with Aline MacMahon, plied by en Florence Rice. Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell, Catharine Doucet and Luis Alberni in the supporting cast.
AT THE ALHAMBRA—“That I May
My Approach-Forcing system has jump bid of an opponent's suit as a reached a stage of relative finality, cue-bid and South's Four Spades and no major alterations in it need as a shut-out that they heartily be expected, or feared, for some disliked their use as Asking Bids.. years. I except, however, Asking These two Asking Bids are Bids and the Two-Way Three Bid. technically quite sound," but it was These devices, being new to the a mistake to demand that people system, might have to be modified should give up the bidding habits or extended in the light of ex-of a lifetime.
The restoration of the cue-bid in perience.
The 1937 edition of the "Gold the opponent's suit, on the other Book" fulfils both prophecies. hand, is to me a positive improve-
Live With Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, in the ment. The methods of cue-bidding There are no alterations
“J. Edward Bromberg, Jack La Rue, and Russell Simpson. Swift system itself, but there are some rendered necessary by making the
AT THE MAJESTIC- “Cain · "And drama, replete with comedy situations. minor changes in Asking Bids, and non-jump bid of an opponent's suit
Mabel", starring Marion Davies, as a The tale of an ex-convict who is gang- the Two-Way Three is given ex-an Asking Bid were clumsy and beautiful waitress who rises to stared into further crime but fights back. tended uses, while the responses to complicated. It is much more na-dom on the musical comedy stage, and
AT THE KING'S="Green Light.”—— it are slightly modified. To-day Itural to keep the "cue-bid at its Clark Gable, as a daring youth who shall deal with the Asking Bid time-honoured level and shift the battles his way to fame in the boxing Errol Flynn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke,
ring.
Margaret Lindsay and Anita Louise. Asking Bid one trick higher.
For clarity let me set out the old and the new mechanisms:
changes.
There are only two alterations in King Bids. They are:
1. The immediaté Asking Bid (North: One Diamond, South: Four Spades) is abolished. The immediate jump response to Four resumes it's old meaning of a pre-emptive shut-out
North East South West
IH 15
(2)
H
1 S
15
3 H
No
(8) TH
In 1986 Two Spades în (1) was 2. A bid in an opponent's suit an Asking Bid; now it is a cue-bid. at the lowest level is no longer In 1936 Three Spades in (2) was an Asking Bid, but reverts to its a cue bid on a hand with not more former position of an ordinary than two honour-tricks; now it is cue-bid. To ask” in an oppon- an Asking Bid. The Three Spadej ent's suit it is now necessary to in (3) was a cue bid on a hand s with more than two honour-tricks, give a single jump.
I was constrained to make these and it had · to be preceded by an changes" "for psychological rea-Asking Bid which was generally sons.” I found that players were quite unwanted; this cumbersome
accustomed to· regard a non-bidding is now abolished.
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