Anna Lovtsoff
In A Russian Studio Programme
THE CHINA MAIL,
Today's Wireless
18-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral, 13.30 p.m. Herbert Groh (Tenor), and
Light Orchestral.
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea
ther Report.
1.03 p.m. Carroll Gibbons and His Boy
Friends.
1.80 p.th.-Beuter and Rugby Press,
Weather Forecast and Announce ments.
1.40 p.m.-Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B Minor ("Unfitiished").. Played by The Vienna Philharmonic Orches- tra conducted by Bruno Waltor. 2.15 p.th.-Close down.
6 p.m.-Studio-The Children's Hour. 7 p.m.-Dance Music. And Variety. Organ Solo-Dixon Hits-No. 19.
Reginald Dixon. (The Famous Blackpool Organist)..
Band The Strawberry Roan; The Lonesome Trail Ain't Lonesome Any More.. .Big Bill Campbell And His Hilly. Billy Band with vocal chorus..
Accordion Band-Whoops We Go. Again; If The Old River Thames Were The Danube...Primo Scala's Accordion Band with vocal chorus. Orchestra Hitting A New High-
Film Selection; Big Broadcast of 1938-FmSelection Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and His Friends
BRIDGE NOTES
Boy
ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c.'s
Carioca; Fox-Trot-Valentina.
Emil Roosz And His Orch. 7.28 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
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1988.
Cesar Franck
Symphony: Conducted By Stokowski
|6.50 4.m.-The News and Announce. ments. Greenwich Time Signal at 7.00 a.m. 7.15.m.-Close Down.
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TRANSMISSION 1
Frequencies—
In The Town Of Kasan (Varlaam's
Song "Boris Godounov"Mous sorgsky)....Theodore Chaliapino (Bass) with Orchestra.
GSJ 21:68 Mc/s (18.98 m.) 8.45. p.m. Military Band Music,
GSH 21.47 Mc/n (18.87 th.) Slavonic Rhapsody (C. Friedemann- GBG 17.79 Mc/s. (16.86 in.) arr. Winterbottom)....The B.B.C. GS0 16.18 Mc/s (19.70 m.) Wireless Military Band cond. by B. 10.45 a.m.-Big Bon. The Gang Smash- Walton O'Donnell, :'
er' (Episode 6). A radio serial adapt- ed from the novel The Gang Stark- er by Hugh Clevely.
7.30 p.m.-London Relay At The Black Dog: Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour, Presented by Pascoe Thornton and S.. E. Reynolds. p.m.-Local Timo Signal, eather Report and Announcements.
La Tarantelle De Belphegor (Roch 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Anna Lovtsoff. (So
Albert).......The B.B.C.: Military prano) accompanied by Nura, Kanis Band cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell. (Piano) In A Russlan Programme. Tidworth Tattoo, 1935.... Massed 1. May Night Overture (Rímsky--| Bands Of The Southern Command.
Korsakov) London Symphony 9.15, p.m.-London Relay-World Af-11.30 a.m. At the Black Dog' Orchestra guidɛby Albert Coates. fairs. A talk by H. V. Hodson,
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11.05 am.Alfred Van Dam and his State Orchestra, from the Gaumont State Cinema, Kilburn, London."
Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-par-
2. (a) Aria of Galka—From Opera, 9.30 p.m.-London · Relay-The News. lopt.
"Galka" (Monushko); (b) Nor-19.50 p.m.-Karl Erb (Tenor) And Wil-12.00 p.m.-Pipe Band Music.
Anura
thern Star (Glinka) Lovtsoff.
3. Gopak ("The Fair at Sorotchinsk" Moussorgsky); Cortego Des Nobles ("Mlada” Rimsky, Kor sakov), London Symphony Or chestra cond. by Albert Coates. 4(a) Forget It! Red Maiden!..(So. kola); (b) Darling, Maiden (Dargomishsky),..Anna Lovtsoff 5. Dark Eyes-Russian Gipsy Air.
Rode and His Tziganer Song Of Prince Gálitsky ("Princ
Igor"-drodin).'!
ELY CULBERTSON
Winning In Dummy
Mr. Culbertson is conducting, through this column, an examina- tion of bridge players. Rate your- self by subtracting from 100 the points for each wrong answer.
Yesterday's question, was as fol-
lows:
NORTH S.-K 8 6 H.-A 95 D. Q J 5 C.-K 6 4 3
WEST S.-10 5
H.-Q 108 432
EAST S.-J 9 2 H.-K 7 D.-K 10 3
Question 37: You are West, de-D.-A 9 6 clarer, at a four spade contract in C.-9 5 rubber bridge. Opponents made no
bid. Your hand and dummy are as
follows:
West
S-A Q 8 5 4
H.-A 8 6 2 D.-7 3
C.-A 5
East [Dummy]
S. 7 6 3 2
H.-K 7 5.
D.-A K 4 C.-6 3 2
West
CA J 8 7 2 SOUTH S.—A Q 7 4 3 H.-J 6
D.-8 7 4 2
C.-Q 10
East South
1 club 1 spade
The bidding:
North Pass Pass 2 hearts 2 spades Pass 3 hearts 3 spades Pass Pass Pass
Pass
helm Backhaus (Piano).
:
(a) Moment Musicale In F Minor (Schubert); (b) Impromptu In B Flat, Op. 142, No. 3 (Schubert).
Wilhelm Backhaus, Der Nussbaum (J. Mosen, Robert Schumann); Mondnacht (Eichen- dorff, Robert Schumann).
Karl Erb Waldesräuschen (Liszt).
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Wilhelm Backhaus,
Studies, Op. 10 (Chopin)
Study in G Flat Major. Study in E Flat Minor.. Study in F Major, Study in C Sharp Minor. “
Wilhelm Backhaus. 10.17 p.m.-Cesar Franck-Symphony' In D Minor. Played by the Philadel- phin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
11 p.m.-Close down.
BROADCAST FROM
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TRANSMISSION 1
Frequencies-n
GSG 17.79 Mc/a (16.86 m.) GSO 16.18 Mc/B (19.76 m.) GSD 11,76 Mc/s (25.58 m.) GSB 9,51 mc/a (81.55 m.)
G.M.T.
5.00 a.m.-Big Ben. 'Take your Choice."
A weekly entertainment feature. 5.45 am World Affairs.' A talk by
H. V. Hodson.
[12.10 p.m.-County Cricket: Middlesex v. Gloucester, and Lancashiro v. Der- byshire, Commentaries during 'tliv second day's play, by P. G. H. Fen- der from Lord's Cricket Ground, London, and Howard Marshall from Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool. 12.30 p.m.-The BBC Northern Ireland
Orchestra.
1.15 p.m.-World Affairs." A talk by
H. V.. Hodson,
1.30 p.m.-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signál át 1.45 p.m.
1.57 p.m.-Close.Down.
TRANSMISSION 3
GSH 21.47 Mc/s (18.97 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.) GSF 16.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.)
GSJ (to 8.80 p.m.) 21.58 fic/» Frequencies-
1.57 p.m.-Opening Announcements. 2.00 p.m.-Big Ben. 'Famous London Buildings': Westminster Hall. A dramatic survey of its 800 years' history.
12.30 p.m.-Selection: 'The Beggar's
Opera".
2.40 p.m.-The Gang Smasher' (Epi-
sode 6).
3.00 p.m.Milestones of Melody.' With Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra. 4.00 p.m.-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at 4.15 pm:
A
4.20 p.m.-Matters of.. Moment.'
talk by the Hon. Harold Nicolson, in a series for listeners in India. 4.35 p.m.-Sailor Songs. The BBC.
Men's Chorus.
6.00 a.m.-The BBC Empire Orchestra. (5.00 p.m.-Close Down.
What's On At the Cinemas
North opens the diamond queen. How do you play the hand?
AT THE KING'S—“Wife, Doctor AT THE ORIENTAL"Breakfast Answer: Win in dummy. Lead
and Nurse."-A witty and penetrating for Two", with Herbert Marshall, Bar- West opened the club nine and drama, with a twinkle in its eye and a bara Stanwyck, Glenda Farrell the spade deuce and go up with ace
and from the closed hand. You must lose dummy ducked. East, marking de-catch in its heart-presenting in Eric Blore. The picture-deals-in-u one heart and one club. Your only clarer for the queen-10, went up With Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, forts of a wealthy Texas girl to make humourous fashion.a very real problem. merry fashion with the determined ef- problem then is to avoid the loss of with the ace and returned a low Virginia Bruce, Jane Darwell and Sid- a man out of the playboy with whom two trump tricks. The play of the club, hoping that the nine was a ney Blackmer.
Declarer's queen held,
* ** ace is a safety play against North's singleton.
AT THE QUEEN'S—“We Who are possible holding of the blank king. however, and three rounds of spades If you finesse to the queen and lose drew the outstanding trumps. Then, About to Die."—A stark drama of a an innocent to the singleton king, you still must apparently in a dither to get rid of lose another trick to South.. If his losing heart, declarer entered Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal and J. South's holding was the K x, you dummy with the heart ace to dis-Carrol Naish in the leading roles. have thrown away only the unimpor-card the heart jack on the club king.
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prison Death Row, with man framed for execution. Preston
she has fallen in love.
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AT THE MAJESTIC "Personal Property"—A new romantic team will be seen in this comedy-drama-Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow. Others in the cast include Reginald Owen, HeЛ- AT THE ALHAMBRA—“I Cover the rietta Crosman, E. E. Clive, Una tant overtrick by failure to finesse. Whatever the "reason," the play War Starring John Wayne and hav- O'Connor, Cora Witherspoon and Mar- If South originally held K x x you was declarer's undoing. Obviously Ing as its background the revolt of la Shelton. * * *
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of a
Diá
little known episode in history. Wayne AT THE STAR-"Damsel · In portrays a daredevil American camera-tress."-Dealing with a shy American man who is assigned to the dangerous dancer's efforts to "rescue" a British task of photographing a mysterious girl from her matrimonial troubleg. and sinister native chieftain. The cast Fred Astaires now starring picture includes" Gwen Gaze, Don Barclay, Pat with Burns and Allen and Joan Fon- Somerset and Major Sam Harris. taine.
have lost nothing by the safety play. there was no danger of losing a Arab tribes against British rule in Obviously, after playing the spade heart trick while the ace remained Mesopotamia, the picture tells ace, if the king does not fall, you in dummy, and by his haste' de- must re-enter dummy and lead an- clarer had landed in the wrong hand other spade toward your queen. and, thereby, lost a vital tempo. [One point demerit for failure to Now in order to lead a diamond to- make this safety play].
ward dummy's double honour he would have to waste one of his two remaining trumps. He realised [to] late] that this would be fatal, hence Question 38: Both sides vulner-jattempted to build a diamond trick able. You are South, the dealer, and by leading dummy's queen. hold:
TO-DAY'S QUESTION
S.-No
H-A K 10.84
D.-K J 197
C.-J 943
The bidding proceeds: South
་་་་
West North East 1 heart Pass 1 spade Pass
?
What call do you make now?
TO-DAY'S HAND
Match-point duplicate.. West, dealer."
Neither side vulnerable.
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Had East been foolish enough to cover declarer would have won back the trick he had lost. East made no such mistake, however. His pro- perly waited for the second · dia- mond honour. West won with the ace and led a heart. Obviously there now was no chance to establish” a diamond trick, since East lay over dummy's jack-5 with the king-10, and declarer was down to one trump. If declarer, 'after drawing trumps, had properly conserved his entries by lending a diamond town
toward dum- my he would have madó his tract with ease.
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