Pellegatti And Lafford From
The Studio
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1939.
Today's Wireless
12.12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-De Groot & His Orchestra, with Jessica Dragonette (Soprano). 1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m. Turner Layton (Vocal) at
the Piano.
Dinner For One Please, James (Carr); The,, Echo Of A Song (Konig & Mann); Paris In The Spring (film Paris. Love Song'). 1.13 p.m.-Roy Fox & His Orchestra.
True Confession Fox-Trot. :(from)
the film); There's A Gold, Mine In The Sky-Fox-Trot; Sympathy- Waltz (film 'Firefly'); Afraid. To Dream-Fox-Trot (film "You can't., have everything'); Remember Me -Fox-Trot. (film Mr. Dodd takes the Air'); That Old Feeling Fox- Trot (film "Walter Wanger's Vo- gues of 1938').
and
1.30 p.m. Reuter and Rugby Press,
Weather Forecast ments.
Announce-
1.40 p.m. Variety with Frank Crumit, Lavaida Carter, Hildegarde and Jim- my. Dorsey's. Orchestra.
2.15 p.mClose down..
6 p.m.-An Hour of Dance Music and
Variety.
Dance Orch.-Lyin' To Myself--Fox- Trot; Ev'ntide Fox-Trot.....Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra with Vocal by Louis Armstrong.
tar
ZBW 355 M. (845 k,c.'s) and 31.49 M. (9.52 megacycles)
Piano-Accordeons-Wine Song (film
Caravan); Happy, I'm Happy *(film ‘Caravan')..............The London Piano-Accordeon Band under the direction of Scott Wood with Vo- cal Chorus.
Bush} 36 M
Request Programme: Dance tems Music:
A
Coates and Symphony Orchestra
'Empire Ex- change'. Points of view by travel- lers from the Dominions & Colonies.
p.m.-Rubinstein playing Chopm. Nocturne In D Flat Major, Op. 27,
No. 2.
erel); What Can You Give A Nu-9 p.m.-London Relay dist (Clerq).....Bertha Millmott with Orch. Dance Orch.Whoop It. Up-Fox-9.15
Trot; You Don't Understand-Fox- Trot....Clarence Williams & His Washboard Band with Vocal Re- frain.
Dance OrchSky High Honeymoon Quickstep (film Everything Is Rhythm'); No Words-Nor Any 7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. thing-Comedy -Quickstop (film 7.02 p.m.-Sea Shanties. 'Everything Is Rhythm').......; Harry Roy & His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain.
Vocal & Piano-If You Love Me (Noble); My Heart And I (ATM Anything Goes). Leslie Huť- chinson.
Dance Orch.-Head Over Heels-- Fox-Trot (from the film); There's That Look In Your Eyes Again- Fox-Trot (from 'Head Over Heels')... .Ambrose & His Or- chestra with Vocal Chorus. Vocal-Tom Costello In Song Memo- ries (Scott, McClennon & Gilbert) Tom Costello & Chorus with Orch. Dance -Orch.-How'm
Doin'- I Quickstop; Lazy Rhythm-Slow "Fox-Trot.. ...Nat Gonella & His
Georgians: Comedienne --Up Aroun' The Ole North Pole (Hargreaves & Dam-
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
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David Burnstine, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken
World's leading Team-of-Four,
beaten every other
HISM CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES BYSTEN
FACE
KING: 2 QUEEN 1 JACK..
YOYNA, MALUNG SAN PRACH, 196
SCORE 100% FOR ONE SPADE
Inventors of the system that has system in existence.
Merwin Maier's resourceful final bid of seven notrump saved a situa- tion which his partner was not clever enough to read, To start Yesterday you at the beginning, Mr. Maier had a
Rio Grande; Billy Boy (Arr. Terry); Shanandoah (arr, Terry); Agin- court (Willan); Here's A Health Unto His Majesty (Harris); Ten Thousand Miles Away (Willan)
..John Goss (Baritone) and Cathedral Male Voice Quartet with Piano.
7.16 p.m.-Constant Lambert-The Rio Grande. The Halle Orchestra with Piano Solo by Sir Hamilton Harty and The St. Michael's Singers con- ducted by.The Composer. 7.31 p.m.-Halle Orchestra.
Le
Carnaval Romain Overture (Berlioz, Op. 9) ..conducted by: Sir Hamilton Harty. Solemn Melody (For Organ and Or-
chestra-Sir. Walford Davies)
with Clyde Twelvetrees ('Cello) & Harold Dawber (Organ).
A Trumpet. Voluntary. (For Brass and Organ-Purcell-arr. Wood) ....with Alex Harris (Trumpet) and Harold Dawber (Organ). Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (Liszt); An Irish Symphony-Scherzo (Sir Hamilton Harty).....conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty.
Nocturno In G Minor, Op. 37, No. 1. Nocturne In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27,
No. 1.
9.30 pm.-London Relay The News. 9.50 pmA Request Programme
Orch.-Symphony No. 6 In G Major
(The "Surprise" Symphony- Haydn)....Boston Symphony Or- chestra cond. by Serge Koussevit- sky. Vocal-Ombra Mai Fu ("Xerxes"-
Handel) Erico Caruso (Tenor) with Organ (Sung in Italian).
Delilah" Orch. Samson And
Bacchanale (Saint-Saens)....Phi- ladelphia Symphony Orchestra un- der the direction of Leopold Sto- kowski.
Vocal The Lute Player (Allitsen) ...Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra. · Vocal-Lamento Borincano (Hernan- dez-arr. Brito); La Rosa Oriental Conchita Supervia (Espigul). (Mezzo-Soprano) with Orch. (Sung in Spanish).
Orch. Jealousy Tango Tzigane (Gade).....Boston Promenade Or- chestra cond, by Arthur Fiedler. Vocal-Rose Marie (from the film) .Nelson Eddy (Baritone) with Orch. Vocal-Indian Love Call (from 'Rose
Marie')..... Weather
Jeanette MacDonald (Soprano) and Nelson Eddy (Bari- tone) with Orch.
8 p.m.-Local Time Signal,
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Beethoven's Sonata No. 3 in A Major played by Ettore Pellegatti (Cello) and Lindsay A. LaKord (Piano). 8.33 p.m. A Programme of Eric
Coates' Music.
.
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies-1. I pitch my lonely Caravan; 2. Bird Songs at Eventide I heard you singing..... New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Lewis.
Music Of The Night; A Song Re- membered.. John McCormack (Tenor) with Piano accomp. by Edwin Schneider. Cinderella-A Phantasy
Dance Orch.-Night And Day-Fox- Trot....Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. Vocal Music, Maestro, Please (from "These Foolish Things')....Frances Day with Orch. Dance Orch.-The Donkey's Serenade (from "The Firefly')....Jay Wil- bur & His Band with Vocal Cho- rus by the Cavendish. Three. Vocal-Happy As A Lark (film 'Breaking The Ice'). .Bobby Breen with Victor Young & His Orchestra.
Orch. My Own (film "That Certain Age')...Henry King & His Orch. Eric 11 p.m.-Close down.
Neither side whale of a hand in support of his What's On At the Cinemas
dealt. was vulnerable. What partner's opening two-spade bid, did you bid, holding: He first made the mild response of
A K Q J XXX
♡ A IX Ο Ι
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three clubs and on the next round AT THE QUEEN'S "Arrest Of, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Co- jumped to six spades, inviting the Bulldog Drummond" with John Howard burn and John Carradine. Grand Slam.
A thrill-packed
* * North was entirely and Heather Angel. correct in contracting for seven spies to capture an amazing military tain Woman." Bette Davis, Henry Fon- story of the efforts of international AT THE ALHAMBRA "That Cer- spades, but when the bidding re-secret and to murder any one who da, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise and Don- doubled. North verted to West and that player knows too much.
on a
with
ANSWER: The correct bid is one spade since with a solid spade
ald Crisp. The tensely thrilling, poig- should have sus-
nant and powerful tale of a woman's suite, a side Ace and a singleton,
AT THE MAJESTIC “Mad About struggle to bury her past and of hér your hand shows definite Slam pected that something was wrong.
West's double could be based Music." Deanna Durbin in the de- battle for the happiness of the man possibilities if your partner is
trick in clubs. If by some lightful story of a young girl who was she loves. Surpassing even her per- fairly strong. An opening bid of
he held the Ace, double-crossed by her dreams. when formance in "Marked Woman."
** * * three or four spades. is used to remote chance
the imaginary daddy she had invented done about it; came to life. Bubbling over nothing could be shut out the opponents
AT THE STAR—“The Holy Terror.' and de-
but it was far more likely that he mirth, melody and surprises, it is Jane Withers, as a little wild cat at a finitely denies any Slam possi-
was void and could trump the open- Deanna's best to date. With Herbert naval base upsets the best traditions bilities.
ing lead. Since the double of a Marshall, Gail Patrick, Arthur Trea- supported by Joan Davis El Brendel
cher, William Frawley and Franklin and Joe Lewis.
* * * Slam contract calls for the lead of Pangborn. the first side suit bid by dummy,
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· AT THE KING'S — “Beau: Hunks". West's double of seven spades was AT THE ORIENTAL—"Of Human Revival of a great comedy when Stan good gamble. While he was fair-Hearts." Tense human drama, relieved Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the For certain that his opponents could by daft comedy touches, marks this eign Legion, the war is as good as tempestuous tale of Ohio in pre-Civil over, there is still time, however to make seven notrump, he was sure War days. The powerful, cast is, head some of the funniest slapstick ever that without the double his partnered by Walter Huston, James Stewart, screened. would not lead a club. And since there was no other hope, West doubled to get the club opening, murmuring a prayer that spades, would not be rescued.
Score 100% for one spade; 60% for four spades, 40% for three apades, 0 for any other bid. (Note: If you want to pre-empt, four apades is much more likely to shut the opponents out than three apades.)
TODAY'S HAND
North, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
AK Q 10 7 4
♡ AK J 2
10.8.6
654
10 9 8 8 8
J 8 2
OK 103
♣ AKQT 42 Marwin Mufer
bidding: North Bant
Pass Pass
Рава 3
Радд
South
Pabs
1 Pasa
Pass INT
Pass
West
seven
Studying, the hand Mr. Maier decided that in view of his own plentiful array of high cards and his partner's terrific bidding, West could be doubling only on a void suit Furthermore, it looked though there were enough carda in the combined hands to run off thirteen tricks at notrump, and this proved to be the case, Maier deserves plenty of credit for reading West's double and coming] to the rescue.
(Copyright, 1988, By The Four Aces)
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