In Town To-night And Other London Relays
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1939.
Today's Wireless
12-12.30 p.m.-Relay of Services of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral, 12.30 p.m.-Leslie Hutchinson at the
Pinno.
A New Song (Hackforth).' Solitude (Ellington).
Tako Me in Your Arms (Roncoroni).
12.40 p.m.-Harry Roy and His ̧ Or-
chestra.
Roy Club Rag (Roy). Harlom (Eddie Carroll).
When Bomba Playa a Rumba (Grey). When a Cuban Says "I Love You"
*(Greene).
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
(McHugh).
My Last Year's Gal (Alter).
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03.p.mp.—Arensky-Trio in D Minor—|
Op. 32.
Eileen Joyce (Piano).
Henry Temianka (Violin).
Antoni Sala ('Cello).
1.30. p.m.-Rugby and Reuter Press,
Weather Forecast
meats.
and Announce-
1.45 p.m.-Variety Programme.
America Calling:.
The Carlyle Cousins (Vocal) acc: by Quaglino's Quintet:
Orange Blossom (Mayerl); Lime-
house Blues (Braham).
.Billy
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ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49-M- (9.52 megacycles)
Mayerl at the Piano.
Grub...Murgatroyd & Winterbbt- win)... Paul Robeson.
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B.B.C. Recording
Of "Vaudeville" Arensky Trie
Broadway (Film: Gold Diggers of 1935). .Dick Powell.
Say Goodnight to Your Old Fashion- ed Mother....Billy Cotton & His Band.
Things (Ansell); Lullaby (Gersh-
tom (Two Mind with Not a Single 6.30 p.m.-D'Indy-Suite for Flute, Thought);
'Cello, & Harp....Quintette Instru.19 p.m.-London-Ronald Gourley (En- mental de Paris.
Slipping Through My Fingers (Film:
tertainer).
It's Love Again); Got To Dance 6.148 p.ni.-Closing Local Stock Quota. 9.15 p.m.-London-"This is France"- My Way to Heaven (Film: 'It's Love Again).....Jessic Mathews (Vocal).
Nimble Fingered Gentleman (Ma- yorl); Mistletoe_(Mayerl). .Billy Mayerl at the Piano,
She Said She Wouldn't (Miller); I'm the only Bit Of Comfort that She's Got (Miller)....Max Miller acc: by an Orchestra.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
...An-
G p.m.--For the Children.
Traditional Nursery Rhymes. netto Blackwell (Soprano). Songs from "When We Were Very Young": (a) Buckingham Palace; (b) The Three Foxee; (c) Polite ness; (d) Markot Square....George Baker (Baritone). -
Serial Story
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the safest opening, the King of spades. South trumped in dummy, entered his hand, then played the spade Queen through West. South then discarded dummy's two hearts on his two established spades and spread his hand..
What would appear to be the worst opening a heart was the only one that, would have defeated the Grand Slam.
Yesterday you were Declarer at four spades. Dummy held:
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The bidding:
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North East Pass
South
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You held:
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HIGH CARS VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACER SYSTÈM
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tions.
6.50 p.m.-Vivian Ellis at the Piano.
Medley from:
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"Going Places" (Ellis). "Floodlight" (Boverley Nichols). p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Vaudoville”: with Alexander & Mose, Charlie Co-, burn, Bransby Williams, Anona Winn, Tommy Handley, Lily Morris. B.B.C. Dance Orchestra under Henry Hall. Programme compered by Tom- my Handley.
8 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather
Report.
8.03 p.m.-Ä Variety Urogramme,
The Star and the Rose (Schwartz);
West Wind (Mencher).....Turner] Dayton at the Piano.
The Umbrella Man (Film: These
Foolish Things)--Waltz;
Where the Shannon Flows Down to Son-Waltz....Billy Cotton & His
Band.
2. 'From Province to Picardy, from Burgundy to Brittany". A talk by Maurice Vignon.
9.30 p.m. London-The News. 9.50 p.m.Cinema Organ Selections. Grasshopper's Dance (Bucalossi),
...Sydney Gustard.
Some Popular Melodies.
Harold Ramsay.
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10 p.m.-London--"In Town To-night".-
Edited & Produced by.C. F. Mechan, 10.30 p.m.-Dance Music,
Show Boat Shuffle (Ellington); Echoes of Harlem (Ellington)... Fox-Trots played by Duke Elling- ton & His Orchestra.
Fox-Trots-Striko Up the
It's Great to be in Love Again (McHugh); A Waltz was Boru in Vienna (Loewę). Turner Layton at the Piano. Madame Ah! La Marquise, ah! (Mis- raki)-Fox-Trot; I Like Bananus (Yacich)Quick Step
Billy Cotton & His Band.
Why Don't You. Practice What You Preach? (Hoffman); Don't Let, Your Love Go Wrong (Johnson) ....The Roswell Sisters.
the Band (Gershwin); The Flat Foot Floogie (Green).......Billy Cotton & His
Band.
(Offen-
Waltz-Tales of Hoffmann
bach); Tango--Nostalgia del De- serto (Billi). ......Barnabas vor Geczy & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Love Walked In (Film:
Goldwyn Follies); The Maidens of Tyrol (Coles-May)....Jay Wilbur & His Bahu:
Fox-Trots-Heart and Soul
(Locs-
ser); While a Cigarette Was Burn- ing (Kenny)....Paul Whiteman & His. Band..
I'm Going Shopping With You (Film:
Gold Diggers of 1935); Lullaby of 11 p.m.-Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE STAR-"There Goes The on the screen in the Groom", with Burgess Meredith and film. The story has its locale at the Ann Sothern.
Bobby, Breen's:
for this sparling comedy and delightful Francisco.
With a unique theme original old fisherman's" wharf of San Here, as happy Sicilian romance this picture has given scope to fishermen, live Bobby Breen and his the fullest extent to the talents of widowed father, Leo Carrillo. Into Meredith and. Ann Sothern.'
their contented lives comé Lee Patrick and Tommy Burp, to upset their fine AT THE CATHAY “The Baroness companionship and break up And The Butler." William Powell and home. Breen sings a number of songs their Annabella, supported by Helen West-in this production. ley, Henry Stephenson, Joseph Schild, ¿ kraut and Nigel Bruce.
AT THE KING'S-"Holiday". A story of a young debütante, stiffed by AT THE ORIENTAL "If I Were wealth and family.position, confused. King" Superb presentation of Justin by the crowded and meaninglessac- McCarthy's dramatic and colourful tale tivity of a socialite's life, who falls in of the noet who had his wish and rul- love with. a young man with a sense ed medieval France for one breathless of humour and a sense of proportion. ly exciting, raily romantic week, with Ronald Colman, Frances Dee, Basil
Rathbone, Ellen Drewm, C. V. France; tures of Marco Polo". Romantic drama, AT THE MAJESTIC The Adven«- Henry Wilcoxon.
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If one were asked. what is the nearest thing to impossible
The opening lead was the six of that could happen in diamonds. What was the correct with Bobby Breen, Leo a bridge game, the
play? answer might well be: To have one side
built round the magnetic personality of the man whose true tale of adventure AT THE QUEEN'S AND AL- earned him the title of "Greatest Liar HAMBRA "Fisherman's' Wharf, in Christendom With a mighty cast Carrillo, headed by Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Henry Armetta, Lee Patrick, Tony Basil Rathbone; Ernest Truex, George ANSWER: The correct play is Bunp. Drama, comedy, music and Barbier, Alan Hale, H. B. Warner and the Ace of diamonds. If you finesse deep human interest pass in review Binnie Barnes. open the bidding with a perfectly legi-make an awful lot of tricks; but the diamond and it works, you can timate two-bid, only if the opening lead has been a to have the opponents bid, and singleton, you will now lose the make a Grand Slam! This is King of diamonds, a ruff and two exactly what happened in one of clubs and be set. You have a sure the most amazing hands we have thing for four spadeo take it. ever soon. Certainly West had a
Score 100% for the Ace of di-
1775
sound opening two-heart bid, and
with any sort of normal distribu-amonds, O for any other play. tion he would have been able to
Question No. 52
make either six or seven hearts, contract and hold A-x-x of dia- You are Declarer at a notrump As the cards were distributed, if West had been allowed to play alxmonds Dummy holde K-J-x-x” You hearts, a club opening followed by need three tricks in diamonds to spade return would have set him make your contract. There is no Hur tricks. Of course. North and danger in any other suit and you South, did not expect to make, their have plenty of entries in both but they did think hands. How do you play the dia- that the sacrifice would, be com- monds? (Answer to-morrow): paratively cheap,
(Copyright, 1989, By The Four West made what seemed him Acos).
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