THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1937.
New L
Symphony Orchestra
And Mary Kay
Today's Wireless
12-12-20 p.mRelay of Special Service
from St. John's Cathedral
12.30 p.m.-Debroy Somers Band.
Lucky Break-Selection
- (Archer & O'Keefe).
Shipmates O' Mine-Descriptive Bal- lad (Sanderson, Lockton & O'Reil- 1)
Irving Berlin Waltz Songs (Berlin). 12.50 p.m.— Three Songs by Webster
Booth (Tenor).
My Love And I.
Sweet Melody Of Night
(Film 'Give us this Night).
TI Wait For You (lay & Femer).
1 p.m.- Local Time Signal and Wes-
ther Report.
1.03 pm-Hungarian Orchestra.
Bihari's Lament (Bihari). Cockchafer, Yellow Cockchafer. The Last Drops-Waltz (Kratzl).
Magyari Imre & His Hungarian
Gypsy Orchestra.
1.13 p.m.-Barnabas Fon Gerzy & His
Orchestra.
Poem (Fibich). · Malaga (Rixner).
Puszta (Mihaly).
Forget It, And Smile (Bohmelt).
Hindu Song
(Sadko Rimsky-Korsakov). Valse Triste (Sibelius).
130 p.m. Reuter and Rugby Press;
Local Weather Forecast fad
nouncements.
140 p.m.-New Variety Records.
Orchestral-
Puerta De Tierra Bolero.
BRIDGE NOTES
*ZBW 355 M. 845 kc's:::: ZEK 640 k.e's
Aragon-Fantasis, (Albeniz).
Organ
Orquesta Sevilla.
Frasquita Serenade (Lehar). The Whistler And His Dog
(Bryor)
Vocal
Robinson Cleaver.
Old Plantation
(Redmond & David). September In The Rain
(film Melody For Two').
Tuner Layton.
Dance Orchestra
Le Touquet--Paso-Doble
(Damerell, Clifton & Evans). The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
-}
-Fax-Trot
Vocal
+
The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. They Can't Take That Away From Me. (film Shall We Dance").
Hildegarde. Orchestral Sweetest Of All Waltz (Waldtenfel)Orchestra Mascotte. 2.15 p.m.-Close down
5-8 p.m.-European Programme. 8-11 p.m.-Chinese Programme.
5 pm-Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.
6.30 p.m.-Children's, Records.
Children's Overture (Quilter).
New Light Symphony Orchestra. 'Now We Are Six (Frazer-Simson-
Intro: Poems by AA Milne).
By ELY CULBERTSON
Bad Bidding, Good Play
not
Bridge experts usually are
The opening lead of the club king notable for their modesty and, was allowed to hold, the club con- therefore, when one of them refuses tinuation being won with the ace. to allow his name to be used in The diamond queen was laid down connection with a well played hand, and West refused to cover on the it is a safe bet that he had a reason suspicion that the queen had been for hiding his light under a bushel. blank. The queen holding, the ace, The hand described to-day was king, and queen of hearts followed, played in the recent Grand National and declarer was pleased with the Tournament by a midwestern expert 3-3 split. At this point the situation who insists on remaining anony-was as follows: mous. I strongly suspect that the reason for this coyness may be found in his own bidding, which hardly
can be held up as a model of ex- cellence.
South, dealer.
North-South vulnerable:
WEST
NORTH
SK 6.5
H 8 7
DAJ 96 2
C 7 5 4
SAJ98 HJ 10 9 DK 10 5.3 CK S
EAST
S 74
H 6 4 3 D874
SOUTH SQ 10 3 2
Q 5 2 D Q
CA 96
The bidding South West
1 heart Double
North Redouble
4 diamonds Pass
3 hearts Pass... 4 hearts Pass Pass
NORTH
S K 6 5
H None DAJ 96 C None--
WEST SAJ 98
H None DK 10 5 C None
EAST S74
H None D 9 7 CQ J 3
SOUTH
SQ 10 3 2
H.5 2
D None
C 9.
Sneezies, The Friend.. Crawford (Soprano).
by Peter Day
6.45 pm
(Bass-Baritone)... Just Keepin' On (Phillips). Don't Let The River Run Dry:
(Haines & Harper).
Mimi
Red, White And Blue (Noel Gay). 6.55 pm-New Light Symphony. Or chestra and Mary Kay (Contralto). Poet And Peasant-Overture
(Suppe).
Incidental Music To Mary Rose
(O'Neill)
Love's Old Sweet Song
(Molloy, Bingham).
A Brown Bird Singing,
(Haydn Wood, Barrie). Danny Boy (Weatherley).
Orchestra.
Mary Kay Princess Ida--Selection
(Sullivan)
Orchestra: 7:30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.
7.35 p.m.-New Variety
Piano Medley-
Floodlight. (Beverley Nichols). A Little White Room (Floodlight')
Vivian Ellis.
Vocal-
When The Harvest Moon Is Shin-
ing (Wilfred & Swaine). Was It Rain 2. (Hirsch & Hand-
man)
Turner Layton Male Voices w. Piano
Congo Lullaby (film Sanders of
the River).
Love Me A Little To-day
(Herbert & Brodszky).
Comedy Harmonists
Novelty
A Shanty In A One Horse Town. » Waltzing Matilda
(An Australian Song)-
The Hill Billes. S pm- Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03-11 pm. Chinese Programme
Relay from the Po Hing Theatre. 11 pm-Close down 8.03-11 p.m. European Programme
from ZEK on a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles.
8.03 p.m.-Egon Petri at the Piano. Indianisches Tagebuch (Busoni). Concert Study In D Flat Major
(Liszt).
8.15 p
Half An Hour Of
Irish Music
-Kreisler (violin)
Liebesfrendy
Liebesleid (Kreisler).
Tambourin Chinois.
Caprice Viennois (Kreisler). 8.32 p.m.-Light Orchestral Concert. Polonaise Militaire In A Major
(Chopin, arr. Glazounov). Waltz
Sleeping Beauty- chaikovsky). Boston Promenade Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fielder. The Song Is Ended (Concert Ver-
sion'
rving Berlin Serenade (Moszkowski).
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy
Hotel Orpheans.
La Siesta (Barcarolle) (Norton, arr. Lotter)....The Palladium Orches- tra conducted by Richard Crean. Pas D'Espagne, Waltz
Down The Mother Volga.“
Russian National Balalaika Orch. 19 p.m.-Irish Music
St. Patrick's Night (Paddy O'Brien,
gives a Party). Vocal & Talking. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing
Young Charms (Moore, arr. Clut sam).
Mother Machree (Olcott & Ball).
Danny Malone (Tenor) The Green Groves Of Ezin - Irish
Beels. ..William J. Mullaly
Medley Of Reels.
(Concertina).
Sean Nolan (Dublin), (Viol).. The Hills Of Donegal (Sanderson). The Bard Of Armagh (arr. Hughes)- ̧
Danny Malone (Tenor).
Irish Rhapsody (Herbert)..
New Light Symphony Orchestra. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News &
Announceinen star
9.55 p.m. Latest Dance Records. 10.15 pm-London Relay The Satur- day- Game”. A sportive musical broadcasting affair, written and com- posed by Ernest. Longstaffe Addi- tional numbers by various composers. Orchestrations by Harry Bidgood List of Events: (1) Greyhounds For- ward, (2) A Little Golf, (3) The Tennis Rabbit, (4) Critical Cric- keters, (5) A Swimming Episode," (6) The Green Dragon' Plays Darts, (7) The Game of Love, (8) TCoop Tie.
Orchestra under the direction of Harry Bidgood. Production by Wil- -liam MacLurg. 11 p.m.-Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE QUEEN'S
"Shall We much to the picture, and it is hard to Dance", with Ginger Rogers and Fred imagine better burlesque Astaire. The famous dancing team in
a big show with six new song hits.
*
AT THE ORIENTAL: “Pick Me A Star-Handsome cast of screen cele- brities makes this picture something "AT THE STAR "Turn-Off The out of the ordinary in the Way of Moon"-Produced by Fanchon, creator musical comedies. Patsy Kelly, Jack of the famous Fanchon and Marco Haley, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shows, this whimsical musical comedy lead the fun and laughter, and excel- is not only a delightful melange of lent contributions are made by Mischa dancing, romancing girls, gavety, cat Aner, Lydia, Roberti and Rosina“ chy songs and uproarious fun, it has Lawrence. also an unusually strong story. Cast includes Charlie Ruggles, Eleanore Whitney, Johny Downs, Kenny Baker and Marjorie Gateson.
CQ J 10 3 2 The five of hearts was played and West let go low diamond. The
AT THE KING'S-Theodora Goes "Wild” ~~~~~With Irene Dumme as the mad- dence of hearts then made West dis-
cap heroine of a gay romance which gorge a spade, since he could not
is truly deliciously delightful in the grandest role of her brilliant screen afford to blank the diamond king.
AT THE MAJESTIC "Polo Joe” career. Melvyn Dougies has the lead- Dummy let go two diamonds. A low This is far and away one of Joe ng male role. The supporting cast in- spade toward dummy had to be Brown's funniest and most ludicrous cludes Tosalind, Leona Maricle, Henry East ducked by West, since to play the films. He introduces some quips about Kolker, Thomas Mitchell, Elizabeth China, this clearly being the result of Risdon, Robert Greig, Spring Byington, 2 clubs ace would quickly establish South's his visit to the Orient two years ago. Mary MacLaren, Thurston Hall, Mar-
entire spade suit. Dummy's king But it has tomfoolery which means sogaret MeWade and Sarah Edwards. Passeigwon, and at this point victory was As I said above, after nothing easy. Declarer had lost only one South's jump rebid I do not wonder trick, and now had two different that he is not lookingly, ways of making contract. His three heart rebid was terrific As actually played, he led stretch. In fact, considering that spade and ducked in his own hand his partner had redoubled and, by West took two spade tricks, but then so doing, had requested temporary had to provide declarer with the dia- captaincy, South should have passed mond finesse for the fulfilling tricks. at this point instead of making any Declarer could have led dummy's ace rebid whatsoever. As to West's and jack of diamonds to compet a takeout double of one heart, this ob-spade lead, with equal effectiveness. viously was half "psychic." Incident-
ally, North's bidding was also over-
ly aggressive. He was short about
led a low
TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: Dealer bid one heart, one-half an honour trick for his re- Next hand (my partner) doubled.
the double. It must be admitted that Third hand passed. What is declarer's play went a long way to proper response with the following? ward justifying his and his partner's SJ986 H74 DK10373 C94 bidding
Answer: One spade.
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