"Under Big Ben".
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London Relay
6 p.m.--Dance Music.
Fox-Trote
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST, 26, 1988.
Today's Wireless
Swing That Music; Thankful:
Louis Armstrong and His Or chestra with vocal chorus Louis Armstrong. Goody Goody; It's Been So Long "The Great Ziegfeld'), Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with vocal refrain by Helen Ward. Tango-La Carenjutīs. Pasodoble-Bella Espanola....Orques
ta Tipica Roberto Firpo with vocal refrain.
Fox-Trots-
The Glory Of Love; Hold Me Tight I'm Falling.....Jay Wilbur and His Band with vocalists.
I Don't Want To Make History (From "Palm Spring'); There Isn't any Limit To My Love.......... Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut. Rumba Fox-Trot-Serenade (From)
'Gay Deceivers'). Fox-Trot It Happened In
The
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M...
(9.52 megacycles)
Vade With Plano; Cello Obbligato. Ohl No John (Arr. Sharp). Songs That Live Forever (Lockton
Longstaffe). Intro-Come back to Erin; All through the night; Annie Laurie; Sally in our Alley ........ Frank Titterton.
Orchestra
Mock Morris Dances (Grainger): Handel In The Strand (Grainger)..
New Light Symphony conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent. 7.40 p.m.-Chamber Music.
Gavotte In E (For Strings-Bach
arr. J. H. Wood). Minuet (Boccherini).. The Walter String Players (Leader: Jean Pougnet),
Gavotte ("Mignon"—Thomas). Orientale (Glazounov)..... Virtuoso
String Quartet.
Tambourin (Gossec, arr. Sharpe). Molly On The Shore (Grainger)
Virtuoso String Quartet. pmLocal Time Signal, Weather, Report and Announcements. 8.03 Em-Studio-A Piano Recital by
Professor Harry Ore.
· Moonlight (From 'Gay Dečėivers')| Jack Jackson and His Orches-, tra at the Dorchester Hotel, Lon-8 don with vocat, refrain. Slow Fox-Trot Nightfall. Fox-Trot-Way Down Yonder in New Orleans.....Scott Wood and His Six Swingers with vocal chorus. 6.45 – p.m.--London Relay Under Big
Ben'. A talk by Howard Marshall, 7 p.m.-Frank Titterton (Tenor) and Doris Vane (Soprano) with the New Light Symphony Orchestra. London Bridge March (Eric Coates)
.New Light Symphony Orches- tra conducted by Joseph Lewis. Beauty's Eyes (Tosti, Weatherley)... Frank Titterton with Fred Hartley and His Quintet. Incidental Music To "Mary Rose": (O'Neill)....New Light Symphony
1. Air in G (Bach-Saint-Saens). 2. Rigodon (Monsigny),
3. The Bagpipe, (Hiller).-
4. Canzonetta, del Salvator
(Liszt).
די
Ross
5. American Polonaise (Carpenter). 6. Meditation (Tschaikovsky).
7. A Mountain Mood (A. Brax). 8. (a) Dance of the Dropping Leaves;
(b) Sledge Drive (Palmgren). 8.33 p.m.-Orchestral.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"- Overture (Mendelssohn) ....Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted by Dr. Leo Blech.
Orchestra conducted by Norman 8.45 p.m.-Studio-Rev. C. B. R. Sar- O'Neill.
gent 41st Series of Opera.
A Summer Night (Marzials & Gor- A Verdi Programme".
ing Thomas).
19.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News:
My Dearest Heart (Sullivan). Doris 9.50 p.m. Ellaline Terriss and Sey-
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Burnstine, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that kas
beaten every other system in existence.
A THOUGHT IN TIME
Upon analysing the slam hands Please note that both South's shown below, many of our readers opening two-club bid and her sub- will exclaim, "Why there is nothing sequent jump to the slant after her to it! It's an absolute laydown." partner's free raise were beyond We readily admit that to make reproach. Her play of the hand six clubs on the North and South was not.
HIGH CARD VALUES
ACE..
KING QUEEN 1 JACK
Studio Concert
By Prof. Harry Ore
6.55.a.m Steamboat." With Dick
Francis as The Showman.” "The or chestra and a section of the 'B.B.C. Chorus under the direction of Jack
Clarke. The programme devised by Adrian Thomas and presented by William Macburg.
ments. 7 a.m.
7.15 a.m.-Close down.
TRANSMISSION 2
Frequencies
mour Hicks Medley. Intro: Honey-
suckle and the Bee; Only a penny, Sir Simple little string; Church Parade; Lousilina Lou; I want yer, 6.40 a.m.-Next Week's Programmes. ma honey; And her golden hair was 6.50 a.m.-The News and Announce
dnging down her back.......Ellaline
Greenwich Time Signal at Terris and Seymour Hicks with Or- ⚫chestra. [10.30 p.m.-Variety with Murgatroyd and Winterbottom, the Hill Billies and Jack Hylton's Orchestra.. Moonlight On The Prairie (From the Film); Home on the Range (Arr. Ted & Ezra).....The Hill Billies. If You Pretend You're Blue (M. Crick-R. Frankau-T. Handley) Murgatroyd and Witerbottom. Unbelievable (From "Swing Along") -Fox-Trot; Drop In Next Time You're Passing (From "Going] Places")-Fox-Trot Jack Hyl ton & His Orchestra with vocal re- frain.
12.55 p.m.-The B.B.C. Theatre Organ. Through The Doorway Of Dreams 1.20 pm: Next Week's Programmes.
Announce- (From 'Big Broadcast of 1936′).... | 1.30 p.m.—The News and
ments. Jessica Dragonette (Soprano) with
Greenwich Time Signal at 1.45 p.m.. Orchestral Accompaniment.
GSJ 21.53 Mc/s (13,93 m.) GSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.97 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.) GSO 15:18 Mc/a^ (19.76 m.) 10.46 a.m.-Big Ben. Under Big Ben."
A talk by Howard Marshall. 11 a.m.-Gerhardt Husch (Baritone). 11.30 a.m.-Dance Music. 11.55 a.m.-Songs from 'A Princess of Kensington. A comic opera, writ- ten by Basil Hood, with music by Edward German.
TRANSMISSION_3_
I Love The Moon (P. Rubens); From 1:30 p.m.--End of Transmission 2.
The Land Of The Sky-Bine Water (From "Four
American-Indian
Songs"-C. W. Cadman)......Ho- ward Jacobs (Saxophone Solo) with String Quintet & Harp. Timber Fox-Trot; Goodnight, My Love-Fox-Trot (From 'Stow- away')......Jack Hylton and His Orchestra with vocal refrain. - 11 p.m.-Close down.
BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY
TRANSMISSION 1
Frequencies-
GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86. m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.) GSD 11.75 Mc/s (25.53 m.) GSB 9,51 Mc/s (31.55 m.)
G.M.T.
5 a.m.-Big Ben. 'Bravest of the Brave': Marshal Ney, executed as a traitor, December 7, 1815. Written by Colin Clair. Production by Howard Rose.
5.35 a.m.-Violoncello. Recital by No-
rina Semino.
2
"Frequencies--.
GSH 21.47 Mc/s: (19.97 m.) · GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86, m.) GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.) p.m.-Big Ben. 'Clothes and the Man-1: Hats and Caps. Aspects of headgear as an item off everyday clothing, together with some illumin- ating notes on the social significance of the Hat. Arranged and produced by John Richmond.
2.30 p.m.Music at Twilight. With Jean Marsden, W. B. MacMillan, and "The Evening Players.' The music arranged by. Henry Reed. p.m.-Symphony Concert. The B.B.C. Empire Orchestra; leader, Leonard Hirsch; conductor, Eric Fogg«.
4 p.m.-The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 4.15 p.m. 4.20 p.m.-Next Week's Programmes. 4.30 p.m.-'Coronation Scot.' The story of a journey, by D. G. Bridson, in which the course of the train will be traced by way of London, Midland, North, and Scottish Regions. 5.15 p.m.-Fred Hartley and his Sex-
tet, with Billy Scott-Coomber. 5.40 p.m.-Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
THE ALHAMBRA
"Romanie
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AND duction, said to keep audiences edging QUEEN'S "Cocoânut Grove”, with from their seats. Fred MacMurray, Harriet Hilliard, Ben Blue, and the Yacht Club Boys. AT THE MAJESTIC The story of Cocoanut Grove" deals For Three-Fast moving farce of with MacMurray's struggle to get his mistaken identities and poor boy wins rebellious band, who have not worked rich girl type, but with an Alpine set- steadily for over two years, out to the ting and many novel and hilarious. West Coast to play an audition at the angles. Cast includes Frank Morgan boys wins a trailer as his prize in a Oliver, Florence Rice, Henry Hull, Her- Cocoanus Grove. When one of the Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May contest, his troubles really begin. En route by trailer to California the hun-man Bing and Sig Rumann.
tribulations including the annexation
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AT THE 'STAR' “You Said A Mouthful”, with Joe E. Brown, one of his best comedies in the role of a swim--
hands requires nof When West opened the King of gry band suffers all kinds of trials and AT THE ORIENTAL—“Mannequin”, great feat of leger-spades and the dummy was spread, of Fule Davis, a hill-billy auto me with Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracey demain, and yet the Déclarer was heard to murmur chanic who also has musical ambitions. The best of Joan Crawford's picture, PACKS EVETEM lady who played the audibly, "This is a cinch." She The Smash musical climax of the pic The romance of a working girl.
hand managed to get won the first spade lead, cashed ture is the opening night at the Grove set a trick. She be- her Ace of hearts and then went after MacMurray makes the grade, longs to that vast over to dummy with the club army of average Queen and on dummy's King of
AT THE KING'S "King of the mer. players who, either hearts discarded her Queen of dia- Damned:"This picture, a thriller, through carelessness monds and of course the contract having to do with air-raids und war, AT THE CENTRAL "The Poor insufficient planning, frequent-was now irretrievably lost. De-
has for its principals, Helen Vinson Little Rich Girl", with Shirley Temple, The ly let a hand of this type get away olarer attempted to
(Mrs. Fred Perry), Noah Beery and Alice Faye and Gloria Stewart. trump the
Conrad Veldt. Dramatic scenes make tiny star is supported by a brilliant- from them. Thus at the risk of third and fourth spades in dummy this a brilliant Gaumont--British pro cast. boring some of our more expert and her East opponent overruffed readers we dedicate this hand to the fourth round of spades. Why, the "great American_dub.”:
Bouth, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
K Q.10 8
942
K J 10 8.
The bidding
Sonth West North
may we enquire, was Declarer in such a hurry to get rid of her losing diamond?
Her proper play was to lay down the Ade of trumps and then, seeing that East held all three trumpis, simply return a low spade. Her thira spade" could then have been ruffed with one of dummy's small, trumps, and the fourth with the Queen. Her losing diamond could Thave been allcarded at any time.
As we remarked before, the slam Was ice cold. Neje offrer's lliwilliammesh.
VENHAR
a little thought to planning her. campaign cost
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