Broadcast Of Interport Rugger Match
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1989
Today's Wireless
12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathédral. 12.30 pm The Russian Novelty Or- 1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Woa-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m. Swing Music.
1.30 p.m. Router and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments,
1.40 p.m.-Jeannette MacDonald (So- prano), Tino Rossi (Tenor) and Louis Levy & The Gaumont British Sym- phony.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
8.45 p.m.-Relay from the Hong Kong Football Club Ground of the Third Interport Rugby game against Mala- ya: Malaya v Hong Kong.
6 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trots Don't Like (film 'Keep
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
(9.52 megacycles)
Fit'); Do-De-O-Doh....Nat Gonel-1 la & His Georgians with Vocal by Nat Gonella. Fox-Trot Where The World Enda;
Waltz-Must You Say Goodbye?' (film 'Burgtheater")
Eugen Wolff & His Orchestra, Fox-Trots-Love Was Born (from 'Crazy Days'); Stranger In A Cup Of Tea (from 'Crazy Days'). Billy Mayerl & His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain. Tangos-Night On The La Plata; Buen Amigo.. ..Juan Llosses & His Tango Orchestra. * Fox-Trots Gangway (from the film); Moon. Or No Moon (film) 'Gangway")....Jack Hylton & His
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Burnstine, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has
system in existence.
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACKB BYETEM
ACE KING QUEEN:1 JACKI
TOTAL WALIE DE MAINZ
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AVERAGE HANE 675-
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beaten every other
DOUBLE IS LEAD- DIRECTING
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To-day's hand is another inter- esting one submitted to us by
Yesterday you Robert N. Caldwell, assistant city were Oswald Jaco-
editor both by's partner,
of the "Bergen Evening sides were vulner-Record," who writes: "West open- able, and the bid- ding went:
Jacoby Burnstone You
Schenken
14
Раву 30
40
Pass 60
Pass
Dbl. Pass
Pass Pass Pass
Pass
What was your lead, holding:
10 9 x x I
♡ x x
◊ Q xx K
♣ II
.
ANSWER: The correct lead is
ed a heart and I figured that in all probability I had to lose a trick in spades and perhaps in clubs. By way of getting a count, I took the heart in dummy and led a low
club and finessed. When that lost,
I had to play for the Queen-Jack
Orchestra with Vocal Refrain.'; Conga-La Havane A Paris; Rumba -Cachita....Lecuona Cuban Boys with Vocal Chorus: Quickstep-Don't Say Goodbye; Waltz I Hum A Waltz (film "This is my Affair').... Victor. Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra.* 6.43 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
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6.45 p.m.-London Relay-Lucky Dip'.
Third Edition. Presented by William MacLurg, Music under the direction of Jack Clarke including 'Listeners' Corner' edited by Adrian Thomas, Song, anecdotes, and verses contri- buted by listeners and 'Enter Soxton Blake' Episode 3-An adventure of the famous detective, not forgetting Tinker, his youthful assistant. Writ
Opera Relay From Sadler's Wells Theatre
....
Vocal Dear Little Boy Of Mine (Brennan & Ball)............. Los Allen with Sidney Torch at the Organ. Vocal-I'm Playing With Fire(Ber- lin); The Photograph Of Mother's Wedding Group (Damerell) Gracie Fields with Orchestra. Dance OrchDrop In Next >Time You're Passing Fox-Trot...(from Going Places'); Unbelievable- Fox-Trot (from "Swing Along'). Jack Hylton & His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain.
Vocal w. Orch.—“Let's All Join In The Chorus With Tommy Handley And His Pals"-Medley of Old Time Songs....Tommy Handley & His Pals.
Dance Orch.-Did I Remember
Fox-Trot (film 'Suzy'); Knock, Knock, Who's There?-Fox-Trot Jack Hylton & His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain.
"London
ten for broadcasting by Ernest Dud-8.50 p.m.-London Relay ley on a synopsis of Berkeley Gray.
Log'.
7.30 p.m.--Grand Symphony Orchestra 9 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "The Old
with Gigli (Tenor).
Transylvanian
Overture (Hans
Bruckner)...... Grand Symphony.
Orchestra.
Contemptibles' Part 2. The Record of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons to Ypres, between August and November, 1914, by Beatrix Brice produced by Felix Felton and Val Gielgud.
Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen (LaBo- heme Puccini); All hail, : thou dwelling pure and lowly (Faust-9.30
p.m.-London Relay-The News. Gounod)....Beniamino Gigli (Ten-9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches- or) with Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens.
Suite Orientale (Francis Popy).
Grand Symphony Orchestra cond. by Dr. Weissmann. 8p.m.-Local Time Signal,
Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Variety with Gracie Fields, Tommy Handley, Arthur Marshall, Les Allen and Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. Vocal-Rosalie (from the film).
Gracie Fields accomp. by Fred Hartley & His Orchestra. Vocal-Afraid To Dream (film 'You Les Can't Have Everything'). Allen with Lauri Day and Jimmy Turnbull on two pianos. Dance Orch.-Yours Truly Is Truly Yours-Fox-Trot; Fancy Meeting You-Comedy One-Step ..Jack Hylton's Orchestra with Vocal Re- -frain. Humorous
Monologue-Miss Prit chard's Tricycle (Marshall); Out With The Guides (Marshall)..... Arthur Marshall.
Vocal-I'll Stand By (Davis & Coots) .Les Allen & His Canadian Bachelors.
tra from the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel.
(a) Marcellita; (b) Clavel del Aire; Peanut Vendor; (d) Marcial. 10,05 p.m.-Record: I Hate Myself (Davis & Ager); Love In Bloom (film 'She Loves Me Not')....Organ Solo by Sidney Torch.
a far away 19.10 p.m.-(a) There's
look in your eyes; (b). When Pa was courtin' Ma; (c) You go to my head; (d) Pied Piper of Hamlin Town, 10.25 p.m.-Record: I'm a fool for lov- ing you (Wendling-Lewis); Lost My Rhythm, Lost My Music, Lost My Sweet Man (film 'Soft Lights and Music')....Dinah Miller (The Per-
sonality Girl) with Orchestra. 10.30 p.m.-London Relay The Snow Maiden' Acts 1 & 2 of the Opera by from Sadler's Rimsky-Korsakov
Wells Theatre, London,
11.45 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches-
tra from the Grill Room of the HongTM Kong Hotel.
(a) Bewildered; (b) Mocking Bird; (c) Gee! But you're swell; (d) Twi- light in Turkey. 12 Midnight-Close down.
of spades in the West hand. That What's On At the Cinemas
My partner suggested I have played spades first,
would have given. me
chance to count the clubs.
for a club, don't see that
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"You're
a
a spade. The double of a Slam failed. contract by the player not on lead should is 1 conventional lead-directing double that requests the lead of which the first side suit bid by dummy..
Score 100% for a spade, 50% for a diamond, 80% 0 for trump.
good." QUESTION NO. 21 Neither side is....
vulnerable. We admit that we would have Merwin Maier is your partner and
been defeated on this hand, even and Oswald Jacoby on your left is the dealer. The bidding goes: as our unlucky correspondent. We
Jacoby Maler Burnstone You
are afraid that Mr. Caldwell's Pase Равя · 20%
Pass 2NT Раня
partner is somewhat of a "result" Рада
AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM、 The player, who decided that Mr. Cald-
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sparkle that always distinguish a Frank Jenks, Dorothea Kent, IsableTM
The Jeans and Virginie Grey.
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10 20
3NT Dbl. Pass Pass
You hold?
J X X X X
♡ 10 x
J 10 x Xx
4 x 1
What do
to-morrow).
TO-DAY'S HAND
North, Dealer
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you lead? (Answer would then have fallen. This Daryl Zanuck super-musicale.
would be in effect double-dummy play, and the fact remains that when holding eight cards of a suit in the combined hands, the mathe |matical odds favour finessing for
the Queen.
Neher side vulnerable
AK 10 6 8 A 5.
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2J 4 2
♡ Q 10 9 5
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Mr. Caldwell
North Bast South
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The bidding:
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Pass
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GNT
There is only one slight criticism we would make of Mr. Caldwell's play. Instead
of
immediately finessing the ten
of clubs, ~, we would have laid down the Ace, for thore is always a possibility that the club Queen might drop on the first round. However, since the club Queen would not have drop- ped, we then would have reenter- ed dummy, led the Jack of clubk taken the finesse and lost the contract,
(Copyright, 1988, By The Four
Acos)
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