George Lee And
Doreen Ma
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1988.
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Der Freischutz Overture.
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'Bitter Sweet'
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"The Cat And The Fiddle-Selection (Harbach & Kern)....New May- fair Orchestra.
"The Dubarry'-If I Am Dreaming.
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Si Vous L'Aviez Compris (Denza). Ideale (Tosti).
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Liebestraume (Liszt).
Kamennoi-Ostrow-Op. 10, No. 22·
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Spanish Serenade (Bizet).
Spanish Dance, No. 1 (Moszkowsky), Irish Rhapsody (Herbert).
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
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7.25 p.m.-London Relay Take Your
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Weekly Entertainment Feature Presented by William MacLurg, 'Introduction'--The Orchestra.. 'Under City Lights': A brief glimpse
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"The Spinner of Death' Episode 7:10
'Mr. Sitani. Strikes'. Yours Sincerely-The Orchestra. 7.55 p.m.-Strauss.
Immortal Strauss (A Medley of
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Viennese Waltz Orchestra.
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Act. Overture (Prelude).......... Milan Symphony Orchestra cond. by Cav, Lorenzo Molajoli.
See The Square.
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Resta Qui, Mio Tesor....Piero Pauli (Tenor) and Maria Carbone (So-
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Insulting One's Partner
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It's A Thrill All Over Again (Unger-
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Songs about Eyes. 8.55 a.m. Organising
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Sketch-Mr. Penny On Government
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What's On At the Cinemas
The two defenders have, of, won with the ace and, analyzing course, a common cause, which is that declarer might be void to defeat the contract. Their pro-clubs, led a club up to dummy. blems, however, are apt to be indi-! was vital, of course, to prevent vidual ones. A brilliant defensive West from laying down the club pair is not composed of master and ace if declarer had none. When de- AT THE MAJESTIC “Fire Over slave. There cannot be one mind clarer actually followed, West won | England."--All the romance and gran-man Courage", with Jean Muir, Bar- AT THE ORIENTAL “Draeger- for two sides of the table. West, the ace and made the obviously deur of England in the adventurous ton MacLane, Helen MacKellar, and in the hand shown below, was guil-correct play of cashing the dia-days of Queen Elizabeth and the Span- Gordon Oliver. A melodrama of hu- ty of
a subtle insult toward his mond ace.
ish Armada are depicted on the screen man daring which takes place in the After that, however, in this Alexander Korda production depths of a mine where a number of own partner in the line of defence West slipped He could see no with Flora Robson portraying the "Vir-men are enthomed. It reveals the point in returning a club and felt gin Queen," Laurence Oliver as Mi-hates and loves; their successes and. that there was some chance that chael Ingolby, Vivian Leigh, Leslie failures in the lives of miners. East could ruff a diamond contin-others.
Banks, Raymond Massey and many uation. This happy contingency
AT THE QUEEN'S “Slim”, with: did not exist, however, East had to AT THE KING'S—“Racketeers In Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, and Mar- follow. Declarer ruffed a diamond Exile.”—George Bankcroft, in a role garet Lindsay and Stuart Erwin, A to reach his own hand, and let the reminiscent of his memorable portray-story of the colourful, perilous, lives
als in "Underworld" and heart ten ride.
"Dragnet" of high-tension linesmen, those sturdy East won with the and heads the large cast consisting of lads who put up steel towers across. ace, and could make no return that Wynne Gibson, Evelyn Venable, Marc the land and string the wires that car-- would share another trick. West's Lawrence, George McKay. John Cal-ry electrical power over the mountains- heart queen was captured on the laudet, Helen Lowell, Gary Owen and and deserts.
Jonathan Hale next finesse.
* *
he chose.
East, dealer
Both sides vulnerable.
WEST 8.-10 5 4 H.-Q 6 3
A 8
C.-A 10
NORTH
S.-9
H-K J 3
D.-K Q J. 10 C.-K Q 7 5 2
- EAST
S-A Q 8 7 3 H.-A
43 D 62
C.-J.9 6 4 3 SOUTH S.-K J 6 2 H.-10 9 7 5 4 2 D.-9 7 C.-8
The bidding: East
South
1-spade-Pass
2 spades Pass
West
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After West had cashed his club AT THE STAR- "Winterset”, with Charlie Dance."--Stuart Erwin, Jean AT THE ALHAMBRA "Dance, and diamond aces there was a play Burgess Meredith, Eduardo Ciannelli Muir, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, that fairly begged to be made. East and John. Carradine. The play for Charles Foy, Mary Treen, Tommy had, so far, shown only the spade Circle awarded the director a plaque as many new angles. Country boy Er which the New York Dramatic Critics Wonder in a backstage story with ace [thus denying the king] for the best work of the year. A stirring win inherits $20,000 and decides his opening bid, and therefore was romance rising out of the grim efforts make it into $50,000 at the expense of absolutely marked with the heart of a young man to vindicate the name the Big City. A swift farce-comedy- North ace.
of his father. He might have ace and a
with music. small trump [although this was highly unlikely] but certainly he
2 diamonds Pass 2 no trump Pass
8 spades Pass. Pass
Double 4 hearts Double
Pass Pass
the
4 clubs could not have a singleton diamond. Pass If he had had, he would have led it immediately upon taking the North found himself in the posi-spade ace. Any other play would tion of a trapped trapper. He had have been absurd. Thus, when kept passing innocently but with West returned a diamond in inward chop-licking, ready to hope that East would ruff, he was pounce on a game contract, when, virtually calling East a nitwit: to his dismay, the opponents stop- The correct return for West, ped dead in their tracks at three after cashing his aces, was the spades. Then he didn't know what club ten. This would have raised to do. He refused to sell out to a the heart queen to the status of a less-than-game contract and, as a sure trick. East, on taking the consequence, adopted the far worse trump ace, would have returned a course of entering the bidding at third club, and declarer could not the four level. The result was a have avoided being overruffed with final four heart contract that few the heart queen. There-is-consi- declarers would care to play.
derable difference between a 500
West opened the spade ten, Eastland a 200 point penalty!
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