Scotland v. Wales At Rugger: London Relay
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1938.
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18.30 p.m.-Gilbert & Sullivan Excerpts | 1.40 p.m.-Songs by Tino Rossi (Tenor)
"The Pirates Of Penzance”
Overture... Light Opera Orchestra
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Pour, O Pour, The Pirate Sherry.
Stuart Robertson & Male Chorus. When Fred'ric Was A Little Lad.
Dorothy Gill. Oh, Better Far To Live And Die.
Peter Dawson & Male Chorus. O, False One, You Have Deceived Me....Dorothy Gill and Derek Oldham.
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Glow Worm-Intermezzo
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Indian MailDescriptive (Lamothe). Berceuse (Jarnefelt).
Dance Of The Merry Mascots
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Song Of The Vagabonds (from 'The
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BRIDGE NOTES
Tant Qu'il Y Aura Dea Etoiles
(Hornez, Vendresse & Scotto). Chanson Pour Ma Brune
(Koger & Scotto)..
C'Est A Capri (Nazelles & Grosz). 1.50 p.m.-De Groot & His Orchestra
Destiny (Baynes).
La Paloma (Yradier).
The Song of Songs (Moya). La Violetera (film 'City Lights"-
Padilla).
"The Waltz Dream'-Selection
(0. Straus).
2.15 p.m.--Close down..
6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.
7 p.m.-In A Persian Garden' Song Cycle. From "The Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam (Fitzgerald & Liza Leb- mann). Quartette: Dora Labbette; Muriel Brunskill, Hubert Eisdell and Harold Williams with Piano.
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from his life. Adapted from Dic- kens" David Copperfield by Max Késter.~~
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Janet Lind & Webster Booth. The Song Of The Drum (Ellis &
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Dance Music: New Variety
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10.45 a.m.--Big Ben. They're Off."
non-stop Variety of song, comedy, and rhythm.
11.15 a.m.-The Norbert Wethmar
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Herman Finck & His Orchestra. 9.30 p.m.--London Relay The News.. 9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches-11.45 a.m.-W. H. Berry as 'Mr. Mi- tra from the Grill Room of the Hong cawber,' in some episodes from his
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tions.
7.35 p.m.
Chopin.
Cortot
(Piano) playing,
Valse In A Flat, Op. 69, No. 1.
(Valse Des Adieux).
Tarantelle, Op. 43.
Wales. A running commentary by 12.10 p.m.-The Old Folks at Home.' H. B. T. Wakelam on the Interna- | 12:50 p.m.-London Log." tional Rugby Union Football Match 1.00 p.m.-The Commodore Grand Or- from Murrayfield, Edinburgh. (By courtesy of the Scottish Rugby 1.30 p.m.-The News and Announce- Union).
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as 'Mr. Micawber'. In some episodes
By ELY CULBERTSON
An Australian Lament
Apparently bad luck, besides be- ing no respecter of persons, doesn't care in which hemisphere he oper- ates. Here is a sad tale all the way from Australia:
Playing
"Dear Mr. Gulbertson: rubber bridge the other day, the following hand was dealt. First I' will show you, only my own and partner's cards:
NORTH S.-Q 8 7 5 3 H.-9 6 4 2 D.-A 3
C.-K 10
SOUTH
S—A K 6 4 H.-A Q 3
D.-Q 2
C-A Q J 3
"With the opponents remaining
WEST S.—J 10 H.-None D.-—10 8 6 4 € 9 8 7 6 5
4 2
EAST S.—9 2 H.-K J 10 8 7 5 D.-K J 975 C.-None
SOUTH S.-A K 6 4
H.-A Q 3 D.-Q 2
C.-A QJ 3
discreetly silent, my partner and II discovered [very sadly] bid as follows:
SOUTH
1 spade
4 clubs
4 hearts
NORTH
3 spades
4 diamonds
4 spades
grand slam can be made
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8.15 a.m.-Big Ben. London Log,' 8.25 a.m.The BBC Empire Orchestra. 9.05 a.m/All Kinds of People: My Work as a Theatrical Manager and Agent.' A talk by Bert Aza.
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2.20 p.m.-'At the Black Dog.' 2.50 p.m.-Scotland v. Wales: A run- ning commentary by H. B. T. Wake- lam on the international Rugby Un- ́ion football match. From Murray-
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What's On At the Cinemas
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"East ruffed. the club lead and returned a heart. I suppose I should have finessed rather than having abandoned all chance, for success, but to keep the loss down
AT THE QUEEN'S “The Life Of 1 future. How he wrecks the system, West I decided to play the ace.
Emile Zola"-Warners' most ambitious defies the police, gangsters and force. strangled this with a trump and I film production of many months. This his foes to give him back his rights then had to lose not only another picture is a vibrant, tense and emotion-form the plot of the story. club ruff but the king of hearts and al story about the man who fought a
nation with his pen and successfully AT THE STAR-“Angel.” Can a a second heart' ruff.
champloned the cause of the exiled good woman love two men at the same "Looking at the hand afterward, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, With Paul Muni time? A fascinating, devastating "An-
that a in the title role, supported by distin-gel”, brought to life by glamorous Mar
guished players, the film is finely made lene Dietrich both presents the pro- on any and merits high rating as cinema art blem and supplies the surprising an- other lead or even at no trump. On, and fully deserves significant recogni- swer. The all-star cast includes Mar- let us say, a diamond lead dummy's|tion.
lene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn ace wing and the club suit is run
Douglas, Edward Everett Horton and Herbert Mundin. off, dummy discarding two hearts.
THE KING'8—“Heidi', with 5 diamonds
Four rounds of spades, ending in Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur
Treacher and Helen Westley, Shirley AT THE ORIENTAL--"On The 6 spades
dummy, would leave the following Temple's greatest triumph, supported Avenue."Irving Berlin's latest, A "When my four club asking bid position: Dummy would have left by a great performance by Jean Her-New York real life romance set to mu elicited that North had first round one spade, two hearts, and a low sholt. Johnna Spyri'a story read and; sic. With Dick Powell, Madeleine Car- diamond control and second round diamond. East would have left only loved by millions, reproduced with all roll, Alice Faye, Ritz Brothers, George
détails on the screen. club control, "besides excellent the KJ-10 of hearts and the king spade support as evidenced by hiɛ] of diamonds. Declarer's holding jump raise, a small slam, of course, would be the A-Q-3 of hearts and AT THE ALHAMBRA "Night AT THE MAJESTIC=“The Prisoner. became an odds-on chance. Despite the queen of diamonds. West's Key", with Boris Karloff, Jean Rogers of Zenda", with Ronald Colman, Made- partner's negative response to my cards would not matter. The lead and Warren Hull. Playing a "straight leine Carrol, Mary Astor and Douglas role" Boris is seen in this picture as Fairbanks, Jr. Anthony Hope's master- four heart asking bid, I thought of dummy's last spade would now an inventor of a burglary system who piece filmed in all detail and with out- that there might be a play for a force East to unguard one of the is cheated by partners, ruined and res-standing performances by Ronald Col-
daughter's bleak man and Madeleine Carrol, grand slam if he held the king of red suits and declarer would make ponsible for diamonds-in addition to the ace. the rest of the tricks on a heart Hence, my five diamond asking bid, The denial to this held my next bid down to a small slam.
5 spades
"Did I say I was thinking of a grand slam? Well, just have a look at the two hands above before
glancing at the full deal which I show below. How many tricks
finesse.
"Do you think that our bidding and the fact that we ended in spades instead of no trump are open to criticism?
"Yours very truly,
"C. E., Auckland, Australia.” No, it seems to me that the final
would you expect to make on a club contract was a logical one and that opening from West? Observe that only the demon of hard luck pre- we had first round control of every vented is fulfillment.
suit and plenty of second and third
round control.
relieve your
suspense. I made precisely eight
This was the entire deal:
tricks.
NORTH
5-Q 87 5.3
H-9 6 4 2.
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
Question: What is the opening-bid on this hands
S—A K Q 10 16 3-A-Q-10-8-6-2
D-3
Answer: One heart.
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