THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1937.
London Philharmoni
And
Alexander Kipnis
13-12.20 p.m.-Belay of Special Ser
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Today's Wireless
12:30 p.m.-Turner Layton (Piano and
Vocal).
The Echo Of A Song (Edgar, Konig
& Mann).
Leave Me With A Love Song (Ken-
nedy. & Williams)
Paris In The Spring film Paris Cov:
Song)
12.40 p.m.-Hawaiian Music
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Slavonic Dance ***
No. 11 in F Major
Na 13 in B Flat Minor -
No. 16 in A Flat Maior (Dvorak). 1.15 pm-Latest Dance Tunes. 130 p.m.-Reuter & Baghy Press; Lo
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140 p.m. Variety.-
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-Brahms-Quartet In A Minor.
BRIDGE NOTES
THE
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.e's :::: ZEK 640 k.c's-
Op. 51, No. 2. Played by the Lener String Quartet.
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Studio
-Doreen Ma at the
1. Med ey from "Wake Up & Live:
Intro There's a Lull in my Life: It's swell of you; Never in a Million Years, Wake Up & Liver
2 Truckin
3. Stardust.
4 Tes for Two...
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8.20 pm London Philharmonic Or- chestra and Alexander Kinnin (Bass), Froissart Overture, Op. 19 (Elgar).
Orchestra.
By ELY CULBERTSON
A Paying Sacrifice
Aufenthalt (Schubert) Der Doppelganger.
Kipnis with Piano acc by Frank Rin, L'Arlesienne Suite (No: & Bizet).
Farandote. Merrett
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Stanford and her Girl the Elries Away. nce Music.
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THE ideal hand for the declarer, distributionally, and the fact that to play at contract bridge is neither opponent had bid spades one sprink with enough honours suggested that his silent partner to stop the run of adverse suits and might have at least some length in containing length, not only in the has suit. The reason that North, trump suit, sufficient to stand re- in this case, failed to show his peated forces, but another long side suit in addition. When a player ispade suit at the range of four and fortunate enough to be favoured preferred instead to bid five dia- monds for a sacrifice, was that he with such distribution, he can make knew that with two void suits in bids that otherwise would appear his hand, both of which had been insane because contract has this in bid by an adversary, he could not common with war, sooner or later stand the repeated forces. His G.M.T the sheer weight of mere numbers choice was a wise one, as to at-8.15 am Big Ben Londer
[8.25 am-A Tune a Minute will destroy the superior strength tempt to play this hand in spades gy Cochrane of the honour cards. It is for this i reason, among others, that freak hands such as the one illustrated below defy successful analysis, ex cept upon the basis of seeing all hearts might be made. Despite the the hands. For myself, I admit a
four trumps in the South hand-East fondness for diamond suits of seven could still stand one force, and if AT THE STAR--"The or more cards in length. I must be carefully guessed the club situa also confess, however, that on more tion, would fulfil a contact of five. than one occasion such hands have East opened a heart, and North comedy go hand in hand. In thi proved my undoing. For instance, ruffed. North, taking into consider who breaks the bank, returns to Faris to during the Lenz-Culbertson matchstion the combined holding of eight pursue his romance with Joan Bennett O'Malley." Pat O'Brien, Hamp of 1932 I twice took penalties of spades, knew that it would be im-who has been hired by the gambling Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Frieda
Donald 900, fured on by the long string of
possible to enter dummy to take the syndicate to luze him back to the Sybd
tables. She tries to stop him but bej O'Neil cast in t diamonds fairly well sprinkled with
diamond- finesse. He was by no
loses all but finds true love with her hononra.
means certain that it would win in
disaster, simply a mild penalty, and that suffered only by reason of the
and con fact that his partner's tained no entries.
would have resulted in disaster. East's decision to double rather than to continue was probably wise, although by very careful play five
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Mo
Broke the Bank Roland Colman, Joen Clive and Nigel Brace.
Carrol, Mary Astor and Douglas
and star
Ronald
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old Stokowski
Colman and Mades
"AT THE ORIENTAL-
FAJESTIC
In today's hand, however, in!
any event and decided that his best -AT THE QUEEN'S which North was favoured with a plan of playing the hand was to a Girl with Deanna most unusual freak in the way of distribution, there is no story of lay down the Ace of trumps. The Menjou and A
King failed to drop, but now, know- drama with Durbin and ing that only the high trump was famous condo fout against the band, he proceeded
to lead spades and lost the Ace and AT THE ALHAMBR King of spades and the King of Please, with Chades (Buddy) Rogers, diamonds.
Mary Livingst
Jack Berny The hand, of course, could be notous comedy brimful of good music the murder weapons's locals with the story rezolving round the only to the audience are but made if North could find any means numerous troubles of a show manager. the exciting elements of this of entry to the dummy for one lead
cast includes, Dame May through the singly guarded trump Kingsb
East, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable
NORTH
WEST
S.
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D. AQJ95432
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EAST
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Freak hands, as I have said, are laws unto themselves. They are because welcomed by all players they furnish relief from the drab monotony of such distributions as 433-3 and 4-49-2; and they often yield surprising results. Consider for a moment how a slight change would have permitted North to have fulfilled his contract. Had South held only the Queen and one North spade, instead of three spades al 3D together, North would have had a 5 D very good play to fulfil his contract. Pass Pass It is true he would have required
EK 10-6
The bidding:
West 2H
Fast South
1H
Pass
Pass
4 E
Dbl.
Pass
all not comment in detail on two favourable contingencies-2.1
the bidding except to say that Ni
id not take a very great
division of the six outst
nd a favourable locati
ution of
the use of a second
The Great
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