Concert By Casals
And John McCormack
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 24, 1988.
Today's Wireless
12.00 noch-Relay of Service of Inter- cession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Studio. Some Piano Com- positions. of MacDowell, in commem- oration of this Composer, Jan. 24th being, the anniversary of his death. (A. T. Lay).
12.50 p.m.-Light Orchestral.
Molly on The Shore. Shepherd's Hey (Grainger).
Royal Opera Orchestra of Cov-
ent Garden.
Mock Morris Dances (Grainger).
New Light Symphony Orch. 1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wes-
ther Report.
1.08_p.m.-The Ballyhooligans and Hill
Blilies.
I Got Rhythm.
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's
ZEK 640 k.c's.
Gracie Fields and Sandy Powell. 16.30 p.m.--Childrens Records. Lamento.
Land of Magic (Tangos). '
Heinz Huppertz and His Orch. Ninon.
Love for Ever I adore you.
Reginald King and His Orches tra with Gaven O'Conner
(tenor).
Fritz (Introducing "The Village
Band").
The Scene Changes (Billy Hill)..
Hildegarde.
Horsey Horsey (Foxtrot).
Billy Cotton and His Band.
2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
I'm Nuts about Screwy Music 5 p.m-Relay of the Hong Kong_Hotel
(Foxtrota).
Ballyhooligans.
A Shanty in a One Horse Town
Waltzing
Matilda
Song).
Hill Billies.
Favourite
Favourites
Medley).
Ballyhooligans.
(Australian
Across the Great Divide.
My Little Buckaroo.
Hill Billies.
Choo Choo.
China Boy (Quicksteps).
Ballyhooligans.
(Foxtrot
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press;
Weather Forecast and Announce ments,
1.40 p.m.-Variety and Dance Music.
You Showed me The Way (Swing
Step).
Where Are You? (Slow Foxtrot).
Victor Silvester and His Ball
room Orchestra.
Gracie's and Sandy's Party.
BRIDGE NOTES
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Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. 1. (a) Do I love You.
(b) Your's and Mine.
(c) You've Got Something There. (d) The Moon Got into My Eyes. 2. (a) Love is never out of season.
(b) When Love is Young."
(c) You Can't Stop me from
Dreaming.
(d) Have you got any Castles,
Baby?
3. (a) You Can't Run away from
Love.
(b) I'm Feeling like a Million. (c) Okay for Sound.
(d) The Cuban Cubby.
4. (a) Seventh Heaven..
(b) All the Way from Ireland. (c) You Needn't Keep it a Secret.
5. (a) Take Another Guess.
(b) May be It's the Spring. (c) What Will I tell my Heart. During the Interval dance records will be played from ZBW.
By ELY CULBERTSON
INCONSISTENCY
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The Adventures of Careless Carrie and Wilful William. Wilful William takes Carrie to Sleepy Town Jungle Town Frolics. New Nursery Tunes for Old Nur
sery Rhymes. "At Mother's Knee." Kush-a-Bye Baby, Lullaby, Sweet and Low sung by Essie Ackland. 6.47 p.m.-Choruses.
The Student Prince Serenade and
Drinking Song.
Raymond Marlow, Paul Clemon, Olaf Olson and Chorus. Because.
Maire My Girl.
The Maestro Singers with Piano. 6.57 p.m.-A Concert by Casals and
John McCormack.
Kol Nidrei-Op, 47 (Bruch). Menuet (Haydn).
Casals.
Music of the Night. (Coates). A Song Remembered (Coates).. Candle Light (Cadman-Shippey). Anold Sacred Lullaby (Corner arr.
Liddle). McCormack.
Menget (Debussy).
Gavotte Tendre (Hillemacher).
Casals.
7.30 p.m.-A short talk' in French on
the Tonkinese Exhibition.
7.35 p.m.-Studio Raymond Lui and
His Hawaiian Serenaders.
1. My Tane.
2.
3.
4.
Maori Brown Eyes.
Blue Hawaii.
Hawaiian Medley,
5. Naughty Hula Eyes.
6. The Four Islands...
8.00 p.m.Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
8.05 pm Chinese Programme-Sta-
dio Concert.
11.00 p.m.-Close Down.
8.05 p.m.-Studio Some Compositions of MacDowell in commemoration of the American Composer, Jan. 24th being the anniversary of his death (Lind- Bay Á. Lafford).
8.25 p.m.--Viennese Music.
Vienna Blood-Selection.
Maria Heater, Herbert Groh, and
Max Schipper.
Old Vienna Melodies, (Good Old Times and This Year's Wine). Edith Lorand and her Viennese
Orch.
The Swallows-Waltz.
J. Strauss and His Viennese
Orch.
The Blue Danube-Waltz Song. Voices of Spring-Waltz Song Marta Eggerth (Soprano). Donausellen.
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Commemoration Of
Death
American Composer
The Last Waltz....
Edith Lorand and Her Viemose
Orchestra.
9:00 p.m.--London Relay—“Empire-Er-
change.”
Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and the Colonies. 9.15 p.m.-Piano Solos.
Chopin
Mazúrka in D Major. Mazurka in A Flat Major.
Paderewski.
Färjeon P
Tarantella in A Minor.
Cyril Scott
Lotus Land.
Danse Negre.
Eileen Joyce.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.50 pm-Walter Glynne and Marek'
Weber's Orchestra.
Forest Idyll (Esslinger).
The Hermit (Schmalstich).
Orchestra,
I'll Walk Beside You (Murray).
Walter Glynne.
Song Of Paradise (King). Columbine's
kens). Orchestra..
· Rendezvous- (Hey-
Walter Glynne Medley (Intro. Just Because the Violets, Smilling Through, Sweet
etc.),
Walter Glynne. Waltz (Duraud).
Tiny Tot (Lotter).
Orchestra.
Genevieve,
Tales of Autumn (Fomona) (Wald-
teufel).
Blonde or Brunette, (Waldtenfel)
Waltzes.
Orchestra.
10.30 p.m.-Dance Music.
Foxtrots
Carelessly.
Fifty Million
Wrong:
Robins can't be
Billy Cotton and His Band
Tango-
O Balalaika.
Aloha Marimba.
Mantovani and His Tipica Or-
chestra.
Foxtrots-
My Heart's in Old Killarney. Across the Great Divide.
Maurice Winnick and His Or-
Foxtrots
chestra.
With a Twinkle in Your Eye.
That Song in My Heart.
Jack Hylton and His Orch.
Foxtrot-
Did You Mean It.
Waltz
Have you Forgotten so Soon.
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. 11 p.m.-Close Down.
What's On At the Cinemas
card for which One of the greatest vices that ato show the one bridge player can have is inconsist-partner was searching, he fumbled South had bid four ency. A partner who is always ag-it miserably. gressive
always conservative]no trump on the precise hope that should cost us no tears. Forewarn- North would be able to show the If he could, a slam ed is forearmed, and it should be diamond ace.
adjust would be an odds-on chance, since a simple matter for us to our bidding to his known tendency, the solid heart suit almost surely The partner who gives me a severe would permit the discarding of as North headache is one who reverses him- many losing diamonds as
and, held. "Of course, if the answer to self at the most unexpected
The four no trump were five clubs, South usually,
moments. crucial
slam, cause of inconsistency is often, I would lose interest in the think, lack of confidence in one's since the opponents could presum- own judgment. A player who is in ably take two diamond tricks some doubt over the merit of a bid the start. The fact that West dou- he has already made only makes bled the four no trump bid had no on North's matters worse by allowing this bearing whatsoever
bids. proper action. If West had passed, North, in to-day's hand, lost a grand I venture to say that North would opportunity through nothing but have made a correct bid of diamonds, to show the pace. funk.
double probably threw North into a panic, his one idea being to escape onto safe ground. It is hard to violence conceive, however, that he should not have realised that it would be Just as safe te bid five diamonds en route to a final spade contract. Obviously South's idea that if North had the diamond ace a slam would be probable was correct. Ruffing the second club lead, South D-KQ J 6 4 drew trumps and got rid of all North's losing diamonds on the long heart auit, then ruffed his own loser
dummy.
doubt to distort his
later*
South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH
S. J 10 73 H9
D-A 5 3 2 C-10 8 6
WEST
H-8 6 4 2-
D.-9 7
C.—A K Q J8
SOUTH
EAST
H-10.7-6.
AK 854 H-A KQ J S
D. 10 8
C-7
The bidding: South
1 spade
West Pass
North
East
4 spades Pass
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But because of North's, panic, în- stead of earning the alam bonus, the partnership received credit onl for an overtrick.
A TO-DAY'S QUESTION -
Question: In the following bid- meant
4 no trump Double 5 spades Pass ding situation, is the double Pass,
Pass
for a take-out or does the doubler As a matter of fact, North's expect his partner to pass? triple raise was eminently correct. South
West North East
Pass 2 diamonds
He had precisely the honour hold- 1 no trump Pass Pass ing and distribution that' should Double
Answer: This is a penalty double. dictate such a preempt. Obviously, however, he must have felt that he A double never is for a take-out had overbid the hand because when, when the doubler had previously
opened with a no trump bid. moment later, he had the chai
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