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Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole For Violin & Orchestra
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12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Special Service
From St. John's Cathedral, 12:39 pm.—Songs by Ginger Rogers. 12.40 p.m.-Latest Dance Records.
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183. p.m.-Compositions
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by Franz
The Land Of Smiles Selection
London Theatre Orchestra conducted by Ernest Irving. Loveliest of Women. My Every Thought, by One Desire
Camo Giuditta")
Richard Banber (Tenor).
Gipsy Love-Selection
DeGroot & His Orch. The Bohemia Orchestra
Gold And Silver, Waltz
Count Of Luxembourg Waltz A
Marek Weber & His Orch. 1.30 pm Reuter and Rugby Press
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140 p.m. Variety.-
215 p.m.-Close down.
5-8.05 p.x-European Programme. 8.05-11`p.m.--Chinese Programme.
An-
5 pan-Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel
6.30 p.m. Children's Records. 6.49 p.m.-Songs by Herbert, Groh
(Tenor).
Water Lilies (Dobrinet-Zander). Sunshine In Spring
Let My Love Fill Your Heart
(film "The Voice of the Heart). 6.59 p.m.—A Concert of Russian Music.
Prince Igor Ballet Dances
(Borodin) The BBC. Wireless
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Gypsy Caravan.
Military Band.
Der Freischutz.
(Weber)
An Evening
p.m.----London
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Russian Medley Of Folk Songs:
(Traditional-arr. Sorokin)
Sorokin Russian Choir.19 Hopak, Melodie Rasse (Moussorgsky
Alexandre Roubitzky (Tenor), 3.15 p.m.- Four Hussian Folk Dances (Laadow) Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Ballad Of The 12 Brigands.
(Russian Folk Song). Bassian Soldier's Song
Michal Gitowsky (Bass).
30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report. 735 pm-Variety.
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8.05 pm Symphonie Espagnole For
Violin And Orchestra (Lalo-Op. 21)] Bronislaw Huberman (Violin) and
the Vienna Philharmonic Orch conducted by George Szell. 8.30 p.m--Songs by Gigh (Tenor).
Mi Par D'Udir "Ancora.
(I Pescatori di Perle-Bizet). Vesti La Ginbba. Pagliaccio, Mio Marito
(1 Pagliacci Leoncavallo). 8.42 pmLight Orchestral.
By ELY CULBERTSON
Defence
Variety.
9:30 p.m.-London Rela 9.50 p.m.-Debroy Somers Band.
Overture,1914 —A War Mare
Memory (arr. Debroy Somers). Fanfare Sélection." Archibald Joyce, Waltzes
(arr. Debroy Somers). 10.10 p.m-Variety. 10.30 pm-Dance Music. 11 p.m.-Close down.
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GST (to 3.30 p.m.) 21.59 He/s 215 Big Ben, The Old Folks at Home (Second Series)-2 A pro- gramme in which we hope to bring back memories of popular melodies of yesterday.
3 p.m. Green Fields and Pavements
Atalk by the Hon. Harold Nicolson, CM.G, MP, about hap- penings in country and town in the United Kingdom.
3.15 pm-Violoncello Recital by Muriel
Taylor
3.30 pm-In Town To-might?
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3.30 pm - Gindarella A Fairy-Play-
GŠT· AU53 Mc/s (13.93 m.) €SH 21:47 Mc/s (1297 m.) ESG 1*72 Mc/s. (16.86 in.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (1976 m) 10.45 a.m.-Big Ben, Reginald Porter-4 pm-A chat on the week's pro-
Brown, at the Organ of the Forum Cinema, Southampton. 45
Pianoforte Recital by Betty Palace of Varieties
11.15 am Ayliffe. 11:30 am
Recently I analysed a hand in West decided to make a surprise which a defender's haste to establish attack and, instead of opening part tricks was fatal I pointed out that ner's suit, led the deuce of dia- in a broad sense, problems of demonds. Dummy played the jack and fense can be divided into two cate-East's king held the trick East 12.30 am-Ballad Concert by Sophie gories one where the need for im- then made a fatal error. On-the mediacy is apparent, the other where hope that partner had led from a suit would
gramme.
15.15 pm-Sports review.
6 pm-Dance Music.
8 pm-News and economic review. 9.15 p.m.-Dance Music. 10.15 p.m.-To-day
Germany.
the best plan is to sit fight and five card diamond she leaving 4 What's On At the Cinemas
East, dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
trick.
AT THE QUEEN'S — Robber ten years later fails to recognise her Barons, with Edward Amhold, Gary
AT THE KING'S "Call It a Day. Grant, Frances Farmer and Jack Oskie. Based on the life of Jim Fisk this pic- tore is a gripping and entertaining ily ever transferred from stage to Most hilarious story of a goofy fam- dramatic romance, its high emotional screen, with su stay cast incinding appeal being its love theme, the court Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita ing of fascinating Josie Mansfield by Louise, Alice Brady, Boland Young, a financier.
Frieds Innescort, Peggy Wood and
Bonita Granville super-attrae-
AT THE ORIENTAL The King tion. and the Chorus Girl"-Swift, amusing Ruritanian romance with a fascinating new star. Fernand Gravet, Joan AT THE ALHAMBRA—“Double-Or Blondell, Edward Everett Horton Alan Nothing.” The hilarious and surpris-
illions, Mowbray, Mary Nashs Jane Wyman, ling story of a fight for honest Luis Alberni.
contestants and work at the cro
wait for the declarer to concede duck a return lead, thus leaving a unavoidable losers. It is not al-diamond communication card ways possible for the defenders to East's hand, East returned the nine determine which of these plans is of diamonds. Unfortunately advisable, and on these occasions the defenders, this play clinched the contract since it established a dia- Us- they are indeed "on the spot.” ually, however, analysis of the cards mond trick in dummy for the ninth in sight in connection with the pre-
If East had done a little counting vious bidding will point out whe ther aggressive or waiting tactics of tricks he would have seen the com- should be used. In the band shown plete fallacy of his "reasoning below the correct defense should about the length of West's diamond have been obvious to East.
fauit Seven club tricks were staring East in the face. The heart king was absolutely marked in declarer's hand, as was the spade ace! It was this latter factor with which East AT THE STAR –“Quality Street”, should have reckoned. Had West with Katharine Hepburn and Fran held the spade ace, in addition to the Tone All the charm and quaintness of the English countryside, during the diamond ace already shown, he Napoleonic era is captured in this film. EAST either would have taken more action It is the story of a young girl who SKJ3 over the original heart bid or would falls in love with a young doctor who H-A QJ 8 have doubled the final contract. goes to the war and after his retund
Thus, since to establish either a heart or a diamond trick for declar er was a case of presenting him with nine tricks, East easily should have [seen that the one hope was tablish spade tricks before fer could set up either a
WEST
NORTH
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H-4 32
D. A-872
C.-7 6
SOUTH
S-A 875 HAK 1097 6
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West
The bidding Fast South
Pass
3 no trump Pass
Pass
1 heart Páss
1 no trump
9 6.
mond: The lead of the spade kin
orth course, would have
result.
Pass
duced
It is a physical impossibility for any one to defend properly unless
North's three club bid was far from he counts the declarer's visible and good. Since South had taken no ac- marked tricks.
tion over the heart bid North had
no right to feel there was a good
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
chance for game. He had excellent Question: The bidding has defense against the opponents no South
West North
them and should not have warned 1 diamond Double Redouble: < them away from that contract. It What should East do, holding $87 be admitted, however, that the 3 H 10854D92€ Q374? Br Answer, East should bid one heart.
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