THE CHINA MATE, DECK BER 18 1937
Light Orchestr 31
Nelson Eddy
12-12229
Today's Wireless
Relay of Special Service
from St. John's Cathedral. -
12.30 p.m.-A Ballad & Pianoforte Con-
cert.
ZBW 955 M. 85kc's ZEK 640 kes
Song Without Words F Major cal Weather Forecast &
ments. (Mendelssohn). Benno Moisei-
130 peta vitch (Piano),
Turkish March (from The Rums of
Athens--Beethoven; a. Kabin-1 pm-Local Time Signal and Wea-215 pm-
stein).
ther Report
Espenaub (Concert Etude No. 6103 pmusical Comedy Selections. 7 pm
Fail von Please Teacher Selection (Waller 7.20
Op.
Érd von Sauer)..
Saner (Piano).
Full Sail (Graves-Buck).
Sea Winds (Askew-Harrison).
Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).
Danse Creole (Chaminade).
Pierrette (Chaminade).
Una Bourne (Piano).
Without The Moon.
-Keith
San Diego Betty (film Mayfair Me-
lody Dyrenforth-Smith).. Falkner (Baritone) Emating Song (Mendelssohn).
BRIDGE NOTES
& Tunbridge). Tulip Time Selection (Sievier &17.30 pa
Wark)....New Mayfair Orchestra. Noctu Lido Lady-Selechon (Rodgers).
128 pm-Walties.
Savoy Orpheans.
Nocturne
17.40 pm
tions & He
Acclamation Waltz (Waldtenfel). The Grenadiers Waltz (Waldtenfel ket Report
Regimental 7.45 pm- arr Winterbottom). Band of HM Grenadier Guards Cond by Capt. George Miller p.m.-Reuter & Rugby Press; Lo-
1.30
By ELY CULBERTSON
Use Of Asking Bids
WEST
CA
of
NORTH
very bad
EAST S-Q9xxx
HKI
D-A 10 xxx
-SOUTH
The more I use Asking Bids, me as an example of the less I use Asking. Bids. By luck for Asking Bids which remark I do not intend to imply that I have lost one whit of my faith in Asking Bids as a sound SA K J x x and vainable slar device. It mere-HA Q X X X ly records a stage in bridge self-DQx education.
strongest opponents The Asking Bids do not deny that their use can occasionally produce brilliant results. When the critics add that at times Asking Bids tie their users one trick. How, my correspondent into hopeless tangles, and that they asks, could West tell that often fail to yield the desired in-announced second-round control of formation, it is not the bids that are Clubs was not the King, on which indicted but the players.
West: 2 S 4D ? 5H? 7S East:
60 3 S 5 D The Grand Slam was defeated by
Fast's
West's losing Diamond could be dis What it boils down to is this: In carded, but the valueless singleton? using Asking Bids you must look be It is, of course, highly unusual for fore you leap. That is, you must both hands to have singletons of the But the mistake lay in plan the whole course of the bidding same suit. according to the various alternative "asking" first in an aceless suit, and responses you may receive, and only causing the bidding to mount to when you have made up your mind rapidly. that the responses cannot be gerous and may be fruitful should Two, the rule is that the responder, you embark upon the first Asking with a fair biddable suit of his own Bid
For example.
NORTH
WEST
EAST
SOUTH
S—A Q 9 x HQ XX D-A Jxxx
dan
S-K J 10 8 7 H-AKX
D None
Also, after an opening Forcing
and good support for his partner's suit, should show his own suit and support his partner's later, I think the bidding should go:
West: 2 S3H4C? 4H ? 5C ? 6 S East: 3 D 3 S4D 4NT 5 NT:
18 pm Loca Signa
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m-Negro Spirituals.
Ise Been Buked, Gwina Lay Down
My Life:
Go Down, Moses (arr. Edna Thomas)
Edna Thomas. (Soprano).
I'm Goin' To Tell Good All 0 My
Troubles (arr. Brown) Deep River (Burleigh),
L
Musical Comedy.
Ballad
And Pianoforte
London Log. sh Dance Music.
Taking': W. W.
Maclean, at the Or-
Cinema, El
Ben.
& Announcem
As I See It. Girbert Murray.
“Scrapbook for
12 noon Dancing Time
| 12.15 pm=London Log.
12.25 pm Dancing Time,
| 12:40 pm— For the Colonial Service,
Talks on matters of interest to Go- ernment servants in the "Colonial"
Service **London
Pan Robeson (Bass). 8.15 pm London Relay
Log
8.25 pm
Orchestral
Eddy (Baritone).
Scenes Fittores
Angelus
Fetes Boheme
* Fandomne
Cond: Richard Cream
Orchestr
Through The Years (Heyman-You-
mans).
Dusty Road (L. & 0. Rene).~
For the Children- "The White
ents.
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Band Puszta (Mihaly).. ...Barnabas Von 3 Pianoforte Interinde. Forget It, And Smile (Bolmelt).
Geczy & His Orch.
Charm Of The Valse (arz. Winter).
The London Palladium Orch. Cond:
Richard Grezn.
8.40
pm London Relay For the Co- lonial Service
(Tenor) and Backhaus (Piano), 9 PA concert by John McCor 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News 9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches- tra from the Grill Room of the Hang Kong Hotel 12 midnight Close dow
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News & Economic Zevie
Dance Music.
Diet in the Tropic. Concert of Light Music
Yews.
Peasant Songs & Dances. News & Economic Review. 18.15 p.m.-To-day in Germany.
East need not bid Four Spades What's On At the Cinemas
the
AT THE ORIENTAL
"Saratoga law until the object lesson of three with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow wrecked lives as the result of a minor Langhs and tears, thrills and romance, infraction of traffic regulations gives mingle in this picture. A vivid story him a new slant on things. That and of the racetrack, with paddock intrigue, the girl. A great human interest story West a great race, unusual characters, infwith East Side New York as its setting
(which a delicate romance is woven, the or
play is an ideal one for these stars.
five
They hate, fight, and love through an AT THE ALHAMBRA “A. Saccess- action-packed drama in which much ful Calamity With George Arliss, whimsical comedy leavens the heavier Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant, Mit | moments.
chell, David Torrence and Eandolph. Scott The tale of a millionaire who faked
ure in order to win back his from pursuits that were herr
over the Hearts, since, after CAK 10 9x Forcing Two, Three Spades is not These cards were held by twoja mere preference bid, but announces partners who were experts at Asking good support, if it is preceded by Bids. West opened with One Dia-first showing another suit. mond, and East responded. quietly thus knows that East has four
four or with One Spade. Although he had five Diamonds and the values for a Two-Spade response, Spades. East could see no object in foreign, "Asking" In The Right Suit
the and wished to discover what West's He is now compelled to make
AT THE QUEENS "Morocco.”- reaction would be a simple One over first Asking Bad in the right suit,
cture, featuring One. West replied to One Spade Clubs. The response of Four Dia-Revival of three sta
Dietrich and with Two Spades.
monds gives him the pleasing news Gary Cooper, Marle
Adolphe Menjou. Now if East starts using Asking that East has second round control Bids to find out if West has third of Clubs and the Ace of Diamonds. AT THE MAJESTIC round control of Hearts or Clubs, Au Asking Bid in Hearts elicits the O'Malley Pat with a view to bidding the Grand facts that East has second-round Bogart, Ann Sherida Sybil Jason, Donald Slam, the bidding will mount too control of Hearts as well, but has O'Neill are cast in high for him to be able to elicit sub- not the King of Diamonds, for if he O'Malley's fetish is the sequently the much more y le in had he would have responded to formation 23 to West's hold of Four Hearts with Five Diamonds: trump honours. Those honours are all he is really ested in. Wat's raise in Spades, be ing a natural, unforced re-bid, clear ly shows that he has good values,
pected
eith
the
Seren
the three
Six only obediently
hich
produce some sort
Clubs
Spades Fast the
Slam fore
lay
Now West makes a Repeat Asking Bid in Clubs, inquiring whether East has third-round control. This is a case where a player hopes for a negative response to an Asking Bid,
East denies third-round con- second-round control must ded King. His response he has third-round con- erefore he must have leton or the King Queen. favourable,
should, of course, be presum
now knows that the
discarding
therefore bids
Small Slam in Spades.
The Great
and
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