Dance Music From
The HK Hotel
Tchaikowsky Songs
Studio Recital
Empire Exhibition'.
Today's Wireless
1238-2.15 pm-European Programme. 12:30 pm-Barnabas Von Geczy and
His Orchestra..
Poem (Fibich).
Malaga (Rixner).
Pony (Rixner)."
Ragamuffin (Rixner).
Black Eyes
(Ferraris).
Russian Impression
Souvenir P'Ukraine (Ferraris). Free And Easy (Porschmann). 12.51 p.m.-Gerry Moore (Piano)-
Taggin' Along With You- Quick-
Step.
With All My Heart Fox Trot (Film. Her Master's Voice'). Slow Fox-Trot Medley:
Intro: You're the picture (I'm
the frame),
Love is like a cigarette.
1.00 pm-Local Time signal and
Weather reporti
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.e's
Stardust Covered Bundle (Hodges) She's The Wealthiest Woman On Earth (Godfrey). Kitty Mas- ters (Vocal).
The ABC March (Foort and
Ferring).
Keep Smiling (Foort). Reginald Foort at B.B.C. Theatre Organ Fll Bet You Tell That To All, The
Boys (Tobias-Stept).
Nothing's Blue But The Sky (New-
man-Spina), Len Bermon (Vo-, cal).
• Dixon Hits No. 7
Intro: Is it true what they say about Dixie? Sweetheart Lets Grow Old Together, The Touch of Your Lips. Lost, Lovely Lady. The
Glory of love. Reginald Dixon (Famous) Blackpool Organist).
An-
103 pm Cinema Organ and Vocal 1:30 p.m.-Reuter Press, Rugby Press; One Kiss (New Moon-Romberg). Local: Weather forecast and
Reginald Foort on the Organ nouncements.. 3
of New Gallery Cinema, Lon-1.40 p.m-Variety-
dozz
BRIDGE NOTES
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Only A Rose. Song Of The Vagabonds (From The Vagabond King') Orches- tre Raymonde.
Vocal-
The Scene Changes" (Hill). Fritz (Hart and Bligh),
Comedians-
Digging HOILes.
Hildegarde.
(What hap-
pened to the breakdown man)' (Flanagan and: Curwen). Flan- agan and Allen..
Selections
A Day At The Races (Kahn, Kap-
er and Jurmann).
Intro: A Message from the Man
in the Moon, Bine Venetian Waters, To-morrow is an- other day.
Intro:
Schubert Quartet
No. 14
In D Minor
Gracie In The Children's Ward Gracie Fields
6.45 p.m. -Schubert, Quartet No. 14
D Minor.
Played by the Roth String Quar-
tet.
7.25 pm-Closing local Stock Quote- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.
7.30 p.m.-Latest Variety Records.
Novelty Fox-trot
Dancing Moth
Jay Wilbur and His Band Humorous Sketch-
Sandy's First Baby.
Sandy Powell and Company. Piano
To-morrow Is Another Day (Film Day at the Races) Where Is The Sun (From: Cotton Club Parade)
p.m.
Songs
The Gold Digger Of 1931. (War-)7_45
ren, Dubin, Arlen and Young
All's fair in love and war, Let's put our heads to-1 gether, With Plenty of money and you
Anton and The Paramount Theatre!
Orchestra."..
Orchestral---
By ELY CULBERTSON
Novelty
Austrian Bidding Methods
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine
my Davis)
Leslie Hutchinson. Studio Tchaikowsky Mrs. R. Sanger (Soprano)
and Gerald Sydney (Accompanist).
One Name/
Lullaby.
Inmitten des Balles.
Nur wer die Sehnsucht Kennt. 8.00 pm-Local: Time signal, Weather (Jim-18.03-11 p.Chinese Programme.
report and Armorncements
11.00 pm-Close Down
Wondering Shoes (Hill (Billies)18:05-11 pm European
The Hill Billies.
Piano-Accordeon Band-
There'll Never Be Another You
London Piano-Accordeon Band.
A friend How returned toļas a penalty, from bidding again America was in Pistany, the Czecho- and halting safely at Four Spades. 2.15 pm-Close Down slovakian Spa, taking the cure, Asked if this was not cheating, 5-8 P-m-European Programme. when Herr Walter Herbert, a lead-Herr Herbert smiled. "It is play--11 p.m.-Chinese Programine
5.00 pm-Relay of the Hong Kong ing player of the triumphant Aus- ing according to the rules," he
Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Gar- trian team, arrived back there said; but he made it clear he
den of the Hong Kong Hotel from Budapest. Herr Herbert, who thought it sharp practice. As, in- is one of the most important musi-deed, it is. To break any law on cal conductors in Vienna, was purpose for one's advantage is taking the cure for acute rheuma- dishonourable.
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toid arthritis, and interrupted it While the Austrians' system con- only to play in the world cham-tains an unusually large number of pionship.
jconventions, it would appear that He speaks perfect English, and they use them somewhat sparingly. he learned it from the same person Here are two deals which show the who taught him bridge. He had Austrians bidding slams without an English governess when he was using a single artificial bid and nine years old. She grew weary (without at any stage jumping the of trying to keep him and his bidding. Both slams are reached equally troublesome brother out of by natural Approach calling. The mischief, SO she taught them first slam, moreover, which occur- bridge. They took to it at once, red in the World Championship and Herr Herbert has played it final was called after Mrs. Calbert- since, though he regards it as un-son, who dealt the cards as West, important compared with
his had made a semi-psychic opening
bid of One Spade.
- career in music.
He told my friend that an im- -portant
the difference between Austrian and the Culbertson sys- tems was the negative response to the Forcing Two.
Schneider NORTH
S.-A
H-A QX I X D.-A J x C-Q Jxx
"I observed," he said, "that when the partner replied with Two No. Mrs. Culbertson Trumps, the opener generally bid
WEST,
D.-X.
Culbertson
EAST
S-I X
H-X X D.---10.9·8 x C.-K 10 9 x I
Jellinek
SOUTH
Three No-Trumps. This meant the S-EQJxxx strong hand was laid on the table, H-J 10 x x with some slight advantage to op- ponents. To avoid this I suggest-C-xx ed making the negative response Two of the next highest suit. Thus to Two Diamonds the nega- tive response is Two Hearts, the negative response to Two Spades being Three Clubs,”
~S.-10⋅ x x X
HK x
D-K Q XXX
1. The Girl with the Dreamy Eyes. 2. Spanish Memories.
3. Crooner's Lullaby.
Moon-Glow.
4.
5.15-5.20 p.m.Interval of recorded
music from ZBW.
Programme from ZEK on a Frequency of 640 Hilocycles
8.05 pm Beethoven, Quartet in E
Flat Major Op.-127
Played by the Busch Quartet. 8.45 p.m.-London Belay-The Empire
Exhibition (Scotland), 1938:
'Planning the Exhibition' A talk by Thomas S. Tait, FRIBA. 9.00 pm-Turner Layton (Tenor). 1100 p.m-Close Down
A Little Rendezvous In Honolulu
(Leslie and Burke). Hypnotized (Silver, Sherman and
Lewis).
Au Revoir (But not
(Gilbert).
6.30 p.m. Children's Records.
The Birthday Of The Nursery 9.10 p.m.--Light Orchestral
Rhymes (Cari,-Wood).
The Corona Babes with Scott Wood and His Orchestra,
The Adventures Of Careless Car- rie And Wilful William Parts III and IV.
Wilful William Takes careless
Goodbye).
Selection La Belle Helene (Offen-
bach).
Portpourri Of Waltzes (Robrecht). Marek Weber and His Orchestra. Hungarian March Potpourri (Pecsi-
Prichystal).
Carrie to Sleepy Town' Jun-19.30 pm-London Relay The News gle Town Frolics.
George Boulanger and His Orchestra.
Uncle Charlie and Company.
and Announcements.
19.55 p.m.-Variety, and Dance Music.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE ORIENTAL "The Devil, his mutinous crew under the influence Doll, with Lionel Barrymore, Maureen of Wallace Beery. Thus the voyage he O'Sullivan and Frank Lawton. Barry had planned as a honeymoon with his more portrays a vengeful man uses a secret method of shrinking adventure with the couple continually who young. bride becomes a slave running people to minute size without destroy-in danger of death. ing life.
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AT THE MAJESTIC “More Than a Gun."-With three great stars in the AT THE KING'S-“They Gave Him Secretary", with Jean Arthur, leading roles, Spencer Tracy, Gladys George Brent, Lionel Stander, Regin-George and Franchot Tone, this drama ald Denny and Charles Halton. exploits of a bespectacled prim pro- a thrilling story of two men whose af- Theraflame with intrigue and courage tells prietress of a business school, who is fection for each other, was turned to forced to take a position as private se- bitter hate because they loved the same cretary to the editor of health maga-woman. zine, a violent health addict
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AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM-Business."
AT THE STAR — “Mind Your Own BRA "Slave Ship", with Warner Alice Brady, Lyle Talbot, Benny Baker With Charles Ruggles, Baxter, Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, and Frankie Darro. The tale of George Sanders, Jane Darwell and nature writer who has a bee in his Joseph Schidkrant. Baxter plays the bonnet, as well as his column and a part of a sea captain who give up the wife who gets him into a tangle that 3D 4H 6D slave traffic, but is double crossed by it takes a general alarm to unravel. 2NT 3H 5D
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North: Dble The Austrian system has an South: 2D elaborate and adaptable set of con- Mrs. Culbertson led the King of ventions: In one Budapest hand Spades, and 12 tricks were made. where
the Austrians scored a (It will be noticed that Herr Grand Slam while their opponents Schneider had opportunities to use stopped at Five Diamonds, Herr the conventional Four No-Trumps Herbert said he used three distinct or an Asking bid and that Herr conventions in succession, includ Jellinek could have “asked." They ing an Asking Bid. My friend preferred to keep to natural suit asked him how many players there bidding, however, since the import- were who could have followed him ant point to be decided was whe successfully through these three ther the hand should be played in conventions. He replied: "Seven Hearts or Diamonds. By the time or eight."
the better alternative, had been Discussing the ethics of the settled it was too late to invoke game with placid humour, Herr conventions and unnecessary, too, Herbert cited a case in one tourna since by then the partners - had where a player, seeing his learned each other's strength. Such partner, was obstinately heading bidding is only possible with per, nakable Grand Slam infect partnership understanding, Clubs, deliberately called out of and speaks eloquently of long and
zus precluding his partner, studious association.
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