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Mozart Items
By Vienna Philharmonic
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 22, 1938
Today's Wireless
12.00-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service off Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.
12.30 p.m.-Songs by Percy Heming
(Baritone).
Fairings;
Cóme
To The ('Songs Of The Fair'—East- hope Martin).
Jock The Fiddler: The
Fair
Ballad-
Monger ('Songs Of The Fair'
Easthope Martin).
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12.40 p.m.-Carroll Gibbons (Piano)
and His Boy Friends.
You've Got To Admit (from 'Hi
Diddle Diddle').
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's
Wonderful To Be In Love (Nick-
Pinelli),
Do You Ever Remember? (Vec-
sey-BussINS
Marta Eggerth,
Slavonic Dance No. 1 In C Major
(Dvorak)
Slavonic Dance No. 2 In E Minor
(Dvorak).
Orchestra cond. by Vaclav Ta-
lich.
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern). 1,24 p.m.-Barbabas Von Ceczy and
I Want A Fair And Square Man (Theme (Song 'Aunt Sally'- Woods).
Ain't She The Dainty (Theme
Song 'Aunt Sally-Woods). Piano Duet: Carroll Gibbons and
John Green.
His Orchestra”
Hindú Song ('Sadko'-Rimsky-
Korsakov).
Valse Triste (Sibelius).
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
Can't We Talk It Over (Washing-1.40 p.m. Variety.
ton and Young).
Now That You've Gone (Kahn and
Fiorito).
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (Brown and Henderson). 1.00 .p.m.-Local Time Signal and
Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Marta Eggerth (Soprano)
and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
Slavonic Dance No. 16 In A Flat
Major (Dvorak).
Orchestra cond. by Vaclav Ta-
BRIDGE NOTES
Orch. w. Organ-
Orch,
ZEK 640 k.c's..
The Boswell Sisters.
Swing High, Swing Low (from the
film) at
Will You Remember-Waltz, (film
'Maytime').VA
Louis Levy and His Gaumont- British Symphony, with vo- Fal refrain.
Humorous----
Building
A (Evans). Will Evans.
Chicken
Vocal
Light Variety And Dance
Programmes
Marriage Of
(Mozart).
Figaro-Overture
7.47 p.m.--Studio-Recital by Anne
Winter (Soprano) accompanied by
Gerald Sydney.
Four Mozart Songs:
1. O Come Do Not Delay.
2.
3.
4.
I Forget What I Am.
You Who Have Knowledge.
A Throbbing of Gladness.
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. House 8.03 p.m. Chopin.
The Hilly Billy Band (Al and Bob
Harvey).
Susanna From Alabama (Ted and
Ezra).
The Hill Billies with Novelty
Accompaniment.
2.15 p.m.-Close Down. 6.00-7.00 p.m.-Chinese Programme.
"The Gold Diggers Of 1937-Se-17.00 p.m.-Variety and Dance Music.
lection.
'A Day At The Races---Selection.
Anton
Vocal-
and The Paramount Theatre Orchestra, London, with Al Bollington at the Organ.
St. Louis Blues (Handy). Trav'lin' All Alone (Breen, John-
son).
By ELY CULBERTSON
The Trend Towards Simplicity
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Some years ago A. E. Manning-| Foster evolved a "Simple System" of bidding for Contract Bridge. do not know if this simple system has won man, adherents, although I that in hundreds of homes, fancy where Contract Bridge is still game and not a nerve-wracking bat-
(2) "Four Clubs" is an alterna-
tive.
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(3) The direct jump to slam is correct. South can "read" North's hand precisely enough to know that, at worst, tricks will depend on a finesse. In play, of course, the' contract tle of wits and skill, the cards are is easily made.
a
South
regularly bid according to the prin- Here is another example of slam- ciples laid down the doyen British Bridge writers.
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of bidding by direct methods.
was the dealer:-
WEST
NORTH S.2 :
HK 6 4 3
D-K 10 9 6
C-K 10 4 Z
Without going so far as to say that the simpler a bidding system is the better. I can assure my readers that the present-day ten- dency is towards simplicity, Only a week ago two of the best-known writers on the game, both experi enced and successful tournament SJ 9 7 4 players, came out into the open and H-8 2 condemned Asking. Bids. With these D.~J 5 4 writers I agree. When Asking Bids C-9 7 5 3
new I was tempted to write about them in these columns; but, on second thoughts, it seemed cer- tain to me that such involved bids and responses would never become really popular even with players of considerable ambition.
were
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EAST S.--A 6 3
H.-J 10 7 D.
C.
-Q 7 3 2
Q J 8
SOUTH S:-K Q 10 8 5 H. A Q 95 D.-A 8
C.-A 6
In this case the bidding
This'll
(film
Fox-Trots-
Crazy With Love (film
make you whistle'). Magnolias In The Moonlight
Follow your Heart'). Roy Fox and His Orchestra. Vocal-
The Lancashire Toreador (From-
by, Gifford and Cliff). The Window Cleaner No. 2 (From-
by, Gifford and Cliff).
Nocturne In B Flat Minor, Op. 9
No. 1.
Nocturne In E Flat Major, Op. 9
No. 2.
Arthur Rubinstein. (Piano)..
Mazurka In E Minor, Op. 41, No.
2.
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano).
8.15 p.m.-London Relay 'Made In Great Britain'—5: Scottish Tweed. This is a series of
programmes which aim at giving a cross-section of the country and of the industries and interests
of its people. This pro- gramme will take you to a tweed mill in Scotland to hear something of the work of its employees. Arranged by S. E. Reynolds. Production by Pascoe Thornton.
8.45 p.m.-Henri Temianka (Violin and
the Temianka Chamber Orchestra.
Rondo In A Major (Schubert). Humoresque-IV (Sibelius).
George Formby and His Uku-9.03 p.m. Songs by Lawrence Tibbett
lele.
Fox-Trots→→→→
Night In Manhattan (from "The
(Baritone).
Big Broadcast of 1937'). Here's Love In Your Eye (from
"The Big Broadcast of 19379.13 Ted Fío Rito and His Orchestra. Piano and Vocal-
Dinner For One Please, James
(Carr).
The Echo Of A Song (Edgar,
Konig and Mann).
Turner Layton,
Fox-Trot-
The Way You Look To-Night (Alm
'Swing Time').
Fred Astaire ́ (Vocal) accomp.
Waltz
by Johnny Green (Piano) and His Orch.
The Waltz In Swing Time (film
'Swing Time').
Johnny Green and His Orch.
Orch.-
One
Never Knows, Does One? (film 'Stowaway').
Mal Hallett and His Orchestra.
7.35 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-
tions.
Pilgrim's Song, Op. 47, No. 5 (Tol-
stoi-Tchaikovsky).
Song Of The Flea (Goethe-Mous-
sorgsky),
p.m. Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Hungarian March (from Pamna-
tion of Faust'-Berlioz). Minuet Of The Will'O' The Wisps (from 'Damnation of Faust"
Berlioz).
The Enchanted Lake (Liadow). 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News. 9.50 p.m.Songs by Richard Crooks
(Tenor).
Garden Of Happiness
Wood).
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(Lockton-
Anse O Sun (Lockton-Day).
Open Your Window To The Morn
(Royden-Phillips).
|10.00 p.m.-Eric Coates,
Springtime Suite:
Fresh Morning (Pastorale), Noonday Song (Romance). Dance In The Twilight (Valse). For Your Delight-Serenade.
Light Symphony Orchestra
ducted by Eric Coates.
con-
7.38 p.m.-Vienna Philharmonic Or-10.16 p.m.- -Light Variety and Dance
chestra Cond. By Clemens Krauss. Music.
11 Seraglio-Overture (Mazart). 11 p.m.-Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE ALHAMBRA —– "Slim." the most topical of films.. Starring With Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, Mar-Erroll Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry garet Lindsay. Stuart Erwin, J. Farrell Stephenson, Barton MacLane and the Macdonald and Dick Purcell. The tale Mauch Twins.
of two devil-may-cares whose only in- terests in life are each other, their jobs might and the girl.
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West No. No.
North
2 N.T. (1)
5 H. (2)
East No. No.
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AT THE KING'S—“Beloved En- emy", "with Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne. The story is described as a romunce of love under fire, with a man each and woman madly in love with other although their two separate countries are at war..
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be:
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AT THE QUEEN'S—“It's Love I'm is true of some of the other new-
After", with Leslie Howard, Bette Da- 2 S.
vis and Olivia de Haviland. Howard is fangled conventions. Direct, simple 3 H.
shown as a stage star and Bette as his bidding is steadily gaining ground, 6 H. (3)
All pass.
leading woman. They love each other and they with, of course, a fundamental basis
(1) The non-fit in Spades makes but each is a scene stealer
AT THE ORIENTAL"Just Ima- battle continuously ·over it. When,gine", with El Brendell, Maureen of convention to build upon.
"Two No Trumps" rather however, Olivia de Haviland falls in
O'Sullivan and Majorie White. An old than "Three No Trumps," love with Leslie, the story concerns it favourite, representing a glimpse into even holding 12 honour- self with how he and Bette succeed in the future, 50 years ahead, and what
sending Olivia back to her fiance and tricks, the best response....
things will look like then. A funny get the "love they are after."
and novel picture.. (2) With excellent Heart support and his so..far undisclosed honour-tricks, North feels a slam is probable, so he bids "Five Hearts.”
Here is a typical slam hand, which can be bid in several ways. East dealt at "Game All":
NORTH
S.-10 3
H.-5 4.2
D.-K.9 7
C.—A K J 7 3
WEST
S-J 8 5 4
HJ 10 8 7
D-Q 1 8 5 2 C. None
SOUTH
EAST 3.-6.2 H-Q 9 6 5 D-A 10.4 3
-10 4 2
S—A K Q 9 7 H.-A K
D-6
-Q.9 8.6.5
Using dirert, simple methods, bidding might be:-
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(3) South, with first-control in three suits, naturally bids the small slam, which can easily be made.
I have purposely taken two slám hands to illustrate what can be done by direct methods, for most of the critics of simplicity in bidding Bay :-"Yes, simple bidding is all very well for game-contracts, but thewhat about slams? You can both be simple and precise beyond the East South West North game zone." I disagree. Use con- No. 25. (1) No. 3 C, (2) ventions by all means; but use as No. 8 C. (3)
All pass few as possible. You will find that (1) Even with a simple method accurate cardvaluation is every bit being used a game-forcing as helping in reaching the best final conventional opening bid is contract as the use of a multiplicity necessary.
of involved and cryptic bids.
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·AT THE MAJESTIC—“The Prince AT THE STAR--"Petticoat, Fever", And The Pauper.”—Mark Twain's un-with Robert Montogomery and Myrna. forgettable story of the beggar boy Loy. These two stars in an outstand-- and prince who changed places is now ling performance."
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