Casse Noisette Suite By Philadelphia Orch.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938
Today's Wireless
12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral: 12.30 p.m. Patricia Rossborough
(Piano).
Queen Of Hearts-Selection. Broadway Hostess Selections. If I Love Again (Oakland-Murray). Jill Darling--Selection.
12.43 p.m.-Two Songs by Tino Rossi
(Tenor).
Reviens Cherie (Cyrleroy, Cardoni &
Patruno).
2.5
Le Chaland Qui Passe-Valse Chan-
tee (de Badet-Bixio). 12.50 p.m.--The Ballyhooligans.
Temptation Rag-Fox-Trot (Lodge). Somebody Stole My Gal-Fox-Trot
(Wood).
The Ballyhooligans Make Whoopee...
Medley Fox-Trot.
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.e's :
Give Me Back My Heart (from Symphony in Two Flata'-Novel- 503
My Dream Memory (Theme Song
'Street Girl'—Levant). Adoree (West).
Love Everlasting (Friml).
Song Of The Nightingale (Hudson
& Ailbout).
The Second Serenade (Jonny Hey-
kens).
You Will Remember Vienna" (Theme
Song "Viennese Nights' Rom berg)
Orchestra. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press; Announce- Weather Forecast and ments.
I p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-1.40
ther Report.
1.03 p.m. Leslie Hutchinson (Voval & Piano) and Albert Sandler & His Orchestra.
May I Have The Next Romance With
You (film "Head Over Heels'). Watching The Stars (film (Splinters In The Air')...Leslie Hutchinson.
BRIDGE NOTES
Pe
p.m.--Variety.
of Dance Orch.-Evergreens
(No. 1) Scott Wood & His Six Swingers. Comédian———.
.
ZEK 640 k.c's.
Harlem (Eddie Carroll). Roy Club Rag (Harry Roy).
Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins. Vocal-
The Touch Of Your Lips (Noble). The Glory Of Love (Billy Hill).
Hildegarde. Piano-Accordion Song Of Songs (Moya) ......George Scott-Wood. 2.15 p.m.-Close down.
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7 p.m.-Dance Music, 7.12 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.15 p.m.London Relay Take Your
Choice'. Jazz 7.45 p.m.-London Relay A Theme And A Song'. This week: Songs about Hats. Janet Lind, Bernard Clifton, The Three Graces, and The Band. Presented by William Mac- Lurg. 7.55 p.m.-Emil Telmanyi (Violin).
The Old Oak Tree (Miller). Put It Down (Miller).
Max Miller. Dance Orch.--
By ELY CULBERTSON
Nothing To Lose
In almost all hands the logicalface, to discard a heart on the dia- and winning line of defence becomes mond queen. Then, with only one apparent from analysis of the bid-heart left, declarer had nothing to ding, the implications of the open-lose by playing the diamond jack True, he ing lead, and a study of the ex-and chucking his heart. posed dummy. Occasionally, how-realized that one of the defenders ever, it cannot be denied that the had to be out of diamonds and could defenders find themselves in a blind alley. When this happens, it is the duty of the declarer to take full advantage of the situation. To-day's hand, culled from a recent duplicate game, illustrates how easy it is to pick up an extra trick.
North, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable. Match point duplicate.
S-A
D-10 6 4
NORTH
S-K 8 5
H.-K 9 6 4
EAST S.-7.6 2 H.-A 8.5 D.-9 7 3 2 C-K 6 3
ruff. But there was the change, however remote, that this ruff would require the sacrifice of the ace of trumps. Remote as it was, that is what happened.
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London Relay Navy v. Army At Hockey
at the Organ of Queen's Hall, Lon-
don.
Organ Sonata In G. (Elgar)...G.. D. Cunningham at the Organ of Ale- xandra Palace, London.
9.06 p.m.Elisabeth
Schumann
-8)
prano) & Yehudi Menuhin (Viöllu). Fisher-Ways, Op. 96, No. 4 (Schiech-
ta-Schubert).
Gretchen. at the Spinning Wheel, Op.
2 (Goethe-Schubert).
Des Fischers Liebesgluck (Leitner- Schübert)....Elisabeth Schumann. Allegro (Fiocco).
La Capricciosa (Ries).
Yehudi Menuhin. Campanella, Op. 7 Bis (Paganini). "Tzar's Bride-Song of the Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov, ær. Franko).
Yehudi Menuhin.
9.30 p.m.--London Relay-The News, |9,50 p.m.-Raie Da Costa (Piano).
Waltz Romantique (Da Costa). Jazz Goblins (Da Costa). I' String Along With You
"Twenty Million Sweethearts"); What Are Your Intentions (film Twenty Million Sweethearts').
Romance, Op. 73, No. 2; Danse
Champetre, Op. 106, No. 2 (Sibe- | 10:03<p.m.—Variety,` lius).
8 p.m. Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements:
8.03 pm:→→ Studio ---- Stephen
Scottish Lyric Tenor, gramme of International Melodies. Accompanied by A. T. Lay.
1. Italian 'Rigoletto"
quella.
Burns,
in
a
.pro-
Questa o
2. German-Ich sing’mein Lied heut' nur fur Dich! Wulzerlied (Stolz).
3. Russian-Gypsy Song-Ogoin Po-
gas
...Tenor. Piano-Romance (Rachmaninoff). Piano.
4. English-The Crown of the Year
(Easthope Martin)...... ́...
1.
5. Irish-Oft in the Stilly Night-
'Irish Air.
6. Scottish-Auld Lang Syne.
(film:
Cinema Organ-Medley Of Seren-
ades
Al Bollington. Humorous Monologue-Albert Comes.
Back (Marriott Edgar).
Stanley Holloway. Hawaiian Music-
Sundown In Old Waikiki (Carlton
& Ritz).
All My Life (Mitchell & Stept).
George Elliott's Hawaiian No- velty Quartet.
Vocal-
Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong
Whiting, Schwartz, Johnson). Why Don't You Practice What You Preach (Sigler, Goodhart, Hoff- 2. man) :/., The Boswell Sisters. Dance Orch.-Handel In Harlem-
Fox-Trot.......Scott Wood & His Six Swingers..
10.30 p.m.-Dance Music.
Tenor.11 p.m.-London Relay Hockey: The 8.25 p.m.-Leopold Stokowski and the Royal Navy v. The Army. A run- Philadelphia "Orchestra. Nutcracker ning commentary on the second half Suite, Op. 71A (Tchaikovsky),
of the Inter-Service match by 8.50 ̊p.m.-Organ Music.
Thomas Woodrooffe from the Off- Prelude And Fugue In E Minor | cers' Recreation Grand, Aldershot.
(Bach) .Dr. Albert Schweitzer 11.40 p.m.—Close down.
not West was the one who did have to follow, to the fourth dia- mond but, to his misfortune, also was the one who had the blank ace of trumps. Whether he used it at this point or not was immaterial Declarer already had gotten rid of AT THE ORIENTAL "Super- AT
THE KING'S—“Criminals Of his two losing hearts, and needed Sleuth," with Jack Oakie, and Am[The Air."-This is a story of desper- to concede only the spade ace for a Sothern. Murder, mystery, farcialjate aeroplane smuggling by a band of total of five-odd.
comedy and brisk, romance are com-well organized crooks who are bined in this fast-paced film. The story ning contraband
the interna- There was nothing difficult about concerns a series of murders in Hol-tional line from Mexico into the Unit- this hand and it is presented only |lywood secretly executed by a profes-ed States. The cast includes Rosalind to illustrate the theme of playing sor of criminology Oakie is cast as a Keith and Charles Quigley supported cenceited film detective who sets out by Rita Hayworth, John Gaullaudet, in such a way as to lose nothing and to trace the killer without police aid Marc Lawrence and Patricia Farr. possibly gain something.
and get into a number of amusing si- tuations.
What's On At the Cinemas
D. Q J 8 5 C.-A 4
WEST
HQ J 3 2
C.— 3 7 5 2
SOUTH
►
SQ J 10 9 4 3
H.-10 7
D-A K C.-Q.10. 9
ding: South
North
East
Pass
Pass
South I spade
2 no trump Pass
The bidding:
4 spades Pass
West opened his
Pass
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
Question: In the following bid-
West North East 1 spade Double Redouble 2 clubs Double-
West Is South's double for a take-out
or for penalties?
Answer: North's redouble is the Pass equivalent of a bid, hence South's fourth highest double is for penalties.
3 spades Pass Pass
no
club, dummy played low, and East's
JO-JOTTE POINTER king won. Looking at all four hands, In valuing the hand fora it is easy to see that a spade re-trump contract, a player must look turn by East, followed by a heart for two types of values in his hand: switch on West's part, would have Pay cards and stoppers. Pay gained the defenders four tricks. cards include aces, tens, and some- But from East's point of view a times kings or queens, exactly as apade return was unthinkable. The in trump bids. Three card combina- normal defence was to try for ations, however, have more value at diamond trick, since it was quite no trump than at trump contracts, likely that declarer had something where the third card is almost sure like the ace and one or two small to be ruffed. The matter of stop- diamonds. He also might hold pers is of the utmost importance at heart honours and, unless West's no trump. A stopper is a card which diamond king (presumably speak will win atrick in its anit If the ing) were established before East's opponent leads. Every now and then heart ace were knocked out, the a player will take the contract at diamond trick might evaporate.. no trump and his adversary will As it happened, the diamond re- have some long suit. If declarer turn was "right up declarer's al- cannot win a trick in that suit, He cashed the ace and king the entire suit will be run before then entered dummy with the club he can take the lead.
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across
Fun-
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AT THE MAJESTIC “Caravan," with Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker and Phillips Holmes.
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AT THE QUEEN'S—“It's Love: I'm
-AT THE ALHAMBRA — “Slim.” After", with Leslie Howard, Bette Da-With Pat O'Brien. Henry Fonda, Mar- vis and Olivia de Haviland, Howard is garet Lindsay. Stuart Erwin, J. Farrell shown as a stage star and Bette as his Macdonald and Dick Purcell. The tale leading woman. They love each other of two devil-may-cares whose only in- but each is a scene stealer and they terests in life are each other, their jobs battle continuously over it. When, and the girl. however, Olivia de Haviland-falls in
self with how he and Bette succeed in with Robert Montogomery and Myrna love with Leslie, the story concerns it- AT THE STAR-"Petticoat Fever"", sending Olivia back to her fiance and Loy. These two stars in an outstand get the "love they are after.”
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