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Excerpts From Gilbert
And Sullivan
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1938.”
Today's Wireless
12 noon-Relay of Service of Inter- cession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-B.B.C. Dance Orchestra &
Leslie Hutchison.
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal & Weather
Report.
1.03 p.m.-Gracie Fields.
1.13 p.m.-Hawaiian Selections.
My South Sea Sweetheart.
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's
Many Happy Returns of the Day.
Kitty Masters. Tiger
Rag (Second Version).
Mills Brothers. She's the Wealthiest Woman....on
Earth
Kitty Masters. A Surrealist Alphabet. A Spot
(Homorous of Fishing. sketches). ..... Clapham & Dwyer. I'm a Little Prairie Flower (Fox- trot) .Billy Cotton & his Band. Ray Kinney 2.15 p.m.-Close down.. with-Dick McIntire's Harmony | 6-7 p.m.--Chinese Programme. Hawaiians,
Blue Sparks..... Masters' Hawaiians. An Old Hawaiian Guitar. --- Swanee Moon.
Guitar Solo by Len Fillis.
Haleiwa. Papalina Lahilahi.
:
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast & Announcements.. 1.40 p.m.-Gilbert & Sullivan Excerpts. "Iolanthe"Overture Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Mal- colm Sargeant.
"Patience".
Sad is that Woman's Lot,
Bertha Lewis. Turn, Oh, Turn in this direction.
Chorus of girls.
A Magnet hung în a hardware shop....Leslie Ranas with Chorus of girls.
1.56 p.m.-Variety.
BRIDGE NOTES
Double
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7 p.m. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
Slavonic Dances
No. 10 in E Minor. No. 12 in D Flat Major. No. 14 and 15 (Dvorak).
7.15 p.m.-Kreisler.
Serenade Espagnoi (Glazounov). Jota (De Falla). Libeslied.
Liebesfreud (Kreisler). 7.30 p.m. Variety.
Lovely to Look At (from "Roberta"). When I grow too Old to Dream (from
"The Night is Young")
Irene Dunne (Soprano).
A More or Less Volga Boat Song.
By ELY CULBERTSON
Dummy
"Dear Mr. Culbertson: I played right but that the club suit itself. the inclosed hand last night în a might not break two and two,
West's return after the club king duplicate game, going down one
This trick at my four club doubled con- undoubtedly was a diamond. tract. Later, my partner insisted I certainly would not finesse! that I could have made it At a I would play dummy's ace, then matter of fact, on examination of would cash the king and queen of all four hands I saw that he was spades to get them out of the way. right, but it seemed to me that his My next play would be a second suggested play was "double dum-trump. East, on winning with... thế my. I give you the hand and the ace, would face this situation: bidding:
North, dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
WEST
8.—-8 6 2
NORTH
SA 10 9 3
H.-7
D—A Q 64 C. QJ 10 5
H-10 9 8 5 4 3
D.—7 32
C.-K
EAST. S.-J 7 6 4
H-K Q 2 D.-K. J 10
C.--A 9. 6
WEST S.-8
NORTH S.-A 10 H.-None D-Q 64 CJ 10
H9 8 5 4
D. 3 2 C--None
EAST
ZEK 640 k.c's
Tricky Little Tune.
Slavonic Dances By Czech Philharmonic Orch.
GSD 11.75 Me/s (25.58 m.).
GSB 9.51 mc/s (31.55 mi.)
G.M.T.
Major and Minor. 8.15 a.m.-Big Ben. 'London Log". Moonlight on the Waterfall,
8.25 .m.-Popular Orchestral Concert. The Little Boy that Santa Claus For-19.15 a.m.-'All Kinds of People"
got....Billy Cotton and His Band. The Love Bug Will Bite You. Julietta
Max Miller.
Ever So Quiet.
At The Battle of Waterloo.
Bobbie Comber. 8 p.m.—Local Time Signal and Weather
Report.
8.03 p.m.-Albert Sandler and His Or
chestra..
Samson and Delilah-Softly Awakes
My Heart.
Serenade (Toselli).
My Dream Memory
"Street Girl"').
(Theme Song
me Back my Heart (from “Sym- phony in two Flats"), Amoretten Tanz (Waltz) (Gungl), 8.20 p.m.-London Relay "Empire Variety Theatre," The Bill includes Flotsam and Jetsam, and Dave Burns as Compere, supported by Van Strat- ed and his Band. 8.50 p.m.-London Relay "London
Log."
9 p.m.-Miliza Korjus and Egòn Petri
(piano).
Shadow Song (Dinorah).
The Doll's Song (Tales of Hoffman).
Soprano. Concert Study in D Flat Major.
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(Liszt). Indianisches Tagesbuch (Busoni).~
Egon Petri. La Villanelle (Dell' Acqua). Thousand and One Nights Waltz
(Strauss)
Soprano. 9.30 p.m.--London Relay-The News. 9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel. 12 midnight-Close down.
BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY
TRANSMISSION 1
Frequencies
GSG 17,79 Mc/s' (16.88 m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.)
Thirty-two Years a Butler:2 9.30 a.m.-Recital by Peter Dawson. 10.00 a.m.-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at 10.15 a.m. 10.25 a.m.-Close Down.
TRANSMISSION 2.
Frequencies
GSJ 21.53 Mc/a. (13.93 m GSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.97 m.)" GSG 17.79 Mc/s. (16.86 m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.)
10.45 a.m.-Big Ben, The Pig and
Whistle.'
11.15 a.m. Isidore Schwiller and his
String Sextet.
11.45 am-Programme of Gramophone
Records.
12.20 p.m.-Empire Variety Theatre." 12.50 p.m.London Log"
1.00 p.m. The Commodore Grand Or-
chestra.
1.30 p.m.-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Times Signal at 1.45 p.m.
1,55. p.m.-Close Down.
TRANSMISSION 8
Frequencies
GSH 21.47 Mc/s (19.97 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16,88 m.) GSF 15.14 Mc/s. (19.82 m.)
GSJ (to 3.30 p.m.) 21.58 Mc/s
1:55 pm--Opening Announcements. 2.00 p.m. Big Ben. Luigi Voselli and
his Hungarian Orchestra.
2.30 p.m. At the Black Dog. 3.00 p.m.-Dancing Time.
| 3.30 p.m.—Association
Football;
commentary on a match in the fourth round of the Cup Tie.
4.30 p.m.-The News, Saturday Sport, and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal at 4.45 p.m.
5.00 p.m.--Close Down,
SOUTH
SK Q
H-A J 6
D-9 -85
C.-8.7 4.3 2
South
The bidding:
North East
-1 diam'd no trump z clubs
3 clubs
Pass
Pass Double
4 clubs Double Pass
Pass Pase
SOUTH S-None
H J6 D.-9 8-
C. 8 7 4
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The opponents having taken two tricks, I would need six out of the remaining seven, and East would have to give them to me. Obvious Westly, he could not lead a spade into dummy's tenace. The high heart 3 no trump Pass lead would be ruffed in dummy, and Pass my jack would become established. Pass On a low heart lead I would play
the jack, ruff the low one, and AT THE STAR-"Lawyer Man.” "Probably the bidding was sour, chuck one of my diamonds on the William Powell, Joan Blondell, Helen but let that go. At the moment spade ace. For East to lead the we are fighting only about the playdiamond king would establish the "West opened the ten of hearts, diamond queen and present me East played the queen. How would with the remaining tricks. There- you play from that point? I will fore the only fairly safe exit East not confuse the issue by given my could make would be the club. own play the line suggested by Winning in dummy, I would dia- partner, bu
but will merely mention card a diamond on the spade ace, that I lost one diamond trick and ruff the spade, and lead my re- three clubs, the dummy being ruf- maining diamond, then any play fed down to a point where East's East made would hand me the nine of clubs finally became high.
"Yours very truly,
“R.J‚B., St. Louis, Mo." The play of this hand is strongly
balance.
Obviously, when East won with the club king and played mond, you played dummy's
Indicated by the bidding. After and that was vour undoing.
taking East's heart queen with the ace, I would lead a low club toward
TO DAYS QUESTION Question: What is the correct
dummy. - When the king appeared opening bid on the following hande from West 1 would take It for SA QI7 H—95, D—KJ 10 granted not only that I would find all the other vital honours on my
8 6, C-8 67 Answer: One diamond:
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