GĦNA MAL,
MBER 21, 1937.
Spanish Dances
And
Conchita Supervia
Today's Wireless
12.12.20 pm-Relay of Special Service
from St. John's Cathedral. 12385 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 pm-Jack Hylton and His Or-
hestra. Sta
"Bitter Sweet Selection (Coward). Intros Tokay, "If Love were all",
“Zigemer” “The call of Life Intro: "Ladies of the Town,” “I'll
see you again," "Dear little Cafe," "Kiss me.”
"Drop in next time you're passing"
Fox Trot
Unbelievable-Fox Trot.
Love Live For Ever And Bule My
Heart Waltz..
12.47 pm-Baïe Da Costa at the Piano.
"Four Aces" Suite.
€) Ace of Clubs.
(2) Ace of Diamonds.
(3) Ace of Hearts.
(4) Ace of Spades.
1 pm-Local: Time Signal and Wea-
ther Beport
103 pm-Spanish. Dances and Conch-
BRIDGE NOTES
ZBW 355 M. 845 K.Cs :
tz Superviz. Spanish Dance
No. L No. 2.
Oriental
Andelouse.
New Light Symphony Orch. Granada (Albeniz).
Danza 5 (Granados)...Conchita
pervia-Mezzo-Soprano. Sparish Dance No. 6 Danza Espanola.
HK 640 k.c's
Follow Me One A Barrack-Room
Ballad (B. Kipling & Higgs
1.50 p.m--Dance Music. 215 pm-Close down.
4-7 pan-Chinese Programme. Su-7-11 pm- European Programme.
Madrid Symphony Orch. Punto Arenas-Tango. San Fernando-Tango.
Heinz Huppertz & His Orch. 1.30 p.m-Reuter Press; Rugby Press,
Local: Weather Forecast and - nouncements.
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140 pm-Songs by Raymond Newell
Baritone.
Here's To Life (Talbot & Atkinson). Let Me Love You To-night
(Grey Waller & Timbridge).
By ELY CULBERTSON
A Three Table
Duplicate Game
"Dear Mr. Culbertson: The en- "At table 2, North opened the closed hand is, I think, good enough nine of spades against the three no to send along to you. It was play-trump contract [South not having ed in a three table duplicate game bid hearts] and game was easily and a terrific controversy arose as made.
to how it should be bid. I will give
you three sets of bidding and ask! "At table 3, South having bid you to comment on all three and to hearts and North having led the determine which, if any, of the suit, West, the declarer, went down bidding series was correct.
two tricks doubled.
"This was the hand.
West, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
WEST
S-K 10
NORTH
S.-9.5
6
F-10 73
D. 6 5 4 3 2:
C-753
EAST
S.—Q J 84 3
84
H-K J5
D. K Q 9 8
C-K Q 9 2
D.-J 10 7
川
C-J 10 6
SOUTH
S.-A-7 6-2
H
Q 9 6 2
D.—A
C-A 8,4
The bidding at table 1: West North East South 1 no trump Pass 2 spades 3 hearts Double Pass Pass
Pass
The bidding at table 2. West North East South 1 no trump Pass 2 spades Pass. 3 no trump Pass Pass Double Pass Pass Pass
The bidding at table 3: West North East
South
1 no trump Bass 2 spades 3-hearts 3 no trump Pass Pass Double Pass
"There has been considerable betting done as to which bidding, was correct.
"Yours very truly,
"R. K., Detroit, Mich.”
First, I disapprove of the one no trump used by all three West play- ers as the opening bid. One dia- mond was the correct opening.] Aside from that I think that South, at table 2, deserves the palm for
Wand-
7 pm-Roy Fox and His Orchestra. 7.22 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report PEN
7.27 p.m. Charlie Kunz at the Piano. 7.40 p.m.-Studio-Waikiki Trio,
1. On a Little Bamboo Bridge. 2 Blue Sunset.
3. Kamehameha March.
4. Down Honolulu Way:
5. Hawaii Across the Sea.
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8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weat
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8.03 p.m.-Orchestral Music-by-- Erie Coates & Essie Ackland (Contralto). Orchestral-
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies.
No. 1-1 Pitch My Lonely Cara-
van.
No. 2-Bird Songs at Eventide.
I Heard You Singing.
New Light Symphony Orch. Contralto-The Fairy Tales of Ire -land (E. Coates).
Orchestral London Again" Suite
Langham Place (E. Coates). Oxford Street.
The London Palladium Orch. 8.23 p.m. Studio E Warner (Tenor)
accompanied by E. O'Neil Shaw. To Daisies.
Damask Roses.
Brown is my Love.
My Life's Delight (Quilter).
E. Warner. Rosemary (Frank Bridges).
E. O'Neil Shaw (Piano). Weep You No More. Fair House Of Joy-(Quilter).
E. Warner. 8.40 p.m.
Three English Dances (Quil ter). Played by New Light Sym- phony Orchestra.
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes-
(Arr. Quilter). Played by New) Light Symphony Orchestra. 8.53 p.m.-Four Songs by Elsie Sud-
daby (Soprano).
Spring Had Come ("Hiawatha"
Coleridge-Taylor).
Ave Maria ("Cavalleria Rusticano”-
Mascagni).
The Almond Tree (Schumann). The Mocking Fairy (Besly). 9.06 pm-Natan Milstein (Violin).
Sonata In A Major- Part 1 (Vivaldi). Part 2.
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Homeland (No. 2)
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(Chopin) News &
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When A Worean Simes
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Think Of What You Used To Think Of Me (Turk, Hanley & Lyman)
Like The Big Pots Do (Long).
Gracie Fields.
Chicken Reel (Daly)
If You Were The Only Girl In The World (Ayre). Brian Lawrence and his Bansdowne House Sextet Orchestral
Fanst Frolics (Gounod). Carmen Caprice (Bizet):
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"Gypsy
Part 1"Ciribiribin,”
Moon, "One Night of Love." Part 2-When I Grow Too Old to Dream, "Poem," "Live, Love and Langh."
Vocal
Troise & His Mandoliers.
Das Gibt's Nur Einmal (Just Once for All Time)....Lilian Harvey. Das Muss Ein Stueck Vom Himmel
Sein (Live, Love & Laugh).
Willy Fritsch. Sketch-
Our Amateur Night-Parts 1 & 2* The Regal Radio Party. Orchestral.
Lonesome Without My Baby. Lion Bag. Masters Hawaiians. Band
Six Hit Medley (No 2) Part 1. Intro: In a Little Gypsy Tea Room: Rehearsing a Lullaby; Kiss Me Goodnight......London Piano-Accordeon Band
Six Hit Medley (No. 2) Part 2 Intro: Lullaby of Broadway, Lit tle Golden Locket Call Me Sweetheart. London Piano- Accordeon Band,
Fox Trot-
Favourite Favourites No. 2-Part 1. Intro: Stumbling," "Sleepy Time Girl," "When The Leaves. Come Tumbling Down.” Favourite Favourites No. 2-Part 2. Intro: "Me and the Boy Friend," "I'm sitting on top of the world," That's my weakness The Ballybooligans.
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11 p.m.-Close down.
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Despite South's strong strategy demands trapping rather than aggressive measures. It takes little VISION од South's part to know that North must hold la "blank", and even three hearts for all South can tell, might be se- verely penalised
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South having bid three hearts at tables 1 and 3, I approve West's double at table 1 rather than the three no trump bid at table 3. West is not strong enough to bid three no trump over East's noncommittal two spade response, and this com- the River," ¡ment applies equally to West's re-
bid at table 2.
The fact that the South player, to whom I awarded the pat for his pass, received the lowest score on the hand does not, my opinion, affect the issue. His opponents were extremely lucky to make their contract.
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
Question: What is a reverse bid?
Answer: The bid of a higher ranking suit after bidding a lower ranking suit. It usually is a "At table 1 the king of clubs was strong bid because it forces part- opened and the three heart con- ner to a higher level to express a tract went down one trick.
choice for partner's first bid suit.
Pass Pass
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