Barbara Gilmar (Soprano) From
The Studio
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 18, 1989.
Today's Wireless
12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In-
tercession from St. John's Cathedral.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. (9.52 megacycles)
12.30 p.m.-Schumann-Fantasia In C 1.30 p.m.-Reuter
Major, Op. 17.
Wilhelm Backhaus (Piano).
Weather Forecast ments.
'Stone of and Rugby Press, 17.30 p.m.-London Relay
and Announce- Contention'. The extravagant story of how Cleopatra's Needle came to stand on the Thames Embankment by Anthony Gittins. Production by Ro- bert Kemp.
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-1.40 p.m.-Compositions of Lehar,
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Len Fillis in a
Programme.
Hawaiian
An Old Hawaiian Guitar (Leon & Towers); Swanee Moon (Leon, Towers & Pelosi).
Hawaiian Guitar Solo by Len Fillis with. Scott Wood at the Piano.
My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua (Harrison-Noble); Hilo Hanakahi (Halckalea)... .Kanui & Lula (Instrumental) with Vocal Effects. Hawaiian Happiness-Medley, Intro: Aloha Оe; Aloma; Aloha Beloved; Song of the Islands; O Sole Mio; Moonlight Bay; Aloha Oe....Len Fillis & His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus.
Tomi, Tomi; Oua, Oua.....Kanui & Lula (Instrumental) with Vocal Effects.
My Hula Love-Medley March....
Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra.
Fear Nothing (Operetta Paganini’— Lehar).... Richard Tauber. (Tenor) with Orchestra. "Gipsy Love"--Selection...De Groot
& His Orchestra. Love Never Comes Too Late (Operet- ta 'Paganini'); Nobody Could Love You More (Operetta 'Paganini') ....Richard Tauber (Tenor) and Evelyn Laye (Soprano) with the Lyceum Theatre Orchestra, The Land Of Smiles-Selection.
London Theatre Orchestra cond, by Ernest Irving.
The Czarevitch (Operetta in Brief) Herbert E. Groh (Tenor) and with Tresi Rudolph (Soprano) Chorus & Orchestra from the Ber- lin State Opera (Sung in German). 2.15 p.m.-Close down.
6 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.--"Nights at the Ballet”— Selection. Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Walter Goehr.
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 has
beaten every other system in existence.
Both sides vulnerable
WHOSE FAULT?
South, Dealer
A K Q
4
♡ K 8 7
K Q 8 5 3
2
A A 10 3
♡ 9 6
A 72
J 8 6 5 4
N WE S
9 8 7 6 2 5 3
9 6 4
6
K Q 7
A QJ 10 4 2
OJ 10
♣ A 10 9 3
The bidding:
South
West
North
East
19
Рава
20
Pass
a♡
Pass
34
Pass
Pass
6♡
6V
Рава
Pass
Раво Раба
probable to South, especially since he was certain that North would hold a singleton club,
8 p.m.-Local Time Šignal, Weather
Report and Announcements,
8.03 p.m.-Schubert Rosamunde
Ballet Music. Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted by Prof. Robert Heger.
8.15 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Barbara
Gilmar (Soprano).
1. Villanelle (Delacqua). 2. Les Filles de Cadiz (Delibes).
Interlude
Waltz Of The Hours ("Coppelia-
Delibes); Variations ("Coppelia' Delibes)... Symphony Orches- tra cond. by Clemens Schmal- stich.
C
8. Bercuse (Jarnefelt).
4. Drink To Me Only With Thine
Eyes (arr. Quilter).
5. Wine, Women and Song (Strauss).
8.45 p.m.-Liszt-Les Preludes — Sym- phonic Poem. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.
9.02 p.m.-Songs by Jussi Bjorling
(Tenor).
Woman is Fickle ('Rigoletto-Ver-"
di); Heavenly Aida, divine Aida ('Aida' Verdi); Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen ('La Boheme-Puccini)..
9.15 p.m.-London Relay--The News.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay World Af- fairs, by Sir Alfred Zimmern, Mon- tague Burton Professor of Interna- tional Relations in the University of Oxford.
9.45 p.m.-London Relay-Sports News
and Market Notes.
Variety Programme:
Dance Music
9.50 p.m. Variety Programme with Ginger. Rodgers, Harry Croudson, and The Hill Billies, Gerry Moore Primo Scala's Piano Accordion Band. Whistling Gipsy (from 'Comand Per- formance')...Primo Scala's Piano Accordion Band.
An Evening With You-Slow Fox- Trot (film 'Colleen'); I've Got Two Lips-Quickstep.... Gerry Moore
(Piano). No Strings (film. Top Hat'); İsn't This A Lovely Day (film "Top Hat')......Ginger Rogers (Vocal) with Orchestra.
Medley No. 5. Intro: My Heart and I: A Little Rendezvous in Hono- lulu; Diddle-dum-dee; Why Did she fall for the Leader of the Band; Alone; Fancy meeting you....Har- ry Croudson (Organ) with Vocal Chorus by Ken Beaumont. Where I Ain't Been Before
The Cowboy's 'Wells Fargo');
.
(film
The
Dream (arr. Hill Billies). Hill Billies with Their Own No- velty Accompaniment,
With All My Heart-Fox-Trot (film 'Her Master's Voice'); Taggin' Along With You-Quickstep Gerry Moore (Piano). Whoops We Go Again (Harvey): If The Old River Thames Were The Danube (Roberts-Butler).....Primo Scala's Accordion Band.
10.30 p.m.-Latest Dance Music.
Quickstep-Shut-Eye: Fox-Trot-I Go For That (film 'St. Louis Blues') .Jack Hvlton & His Orchestra. Waltz-Sweethearts (from the film); Quicksten-Where Is Our Blue Bird of Melody Lane....Victor Sil- vester & His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trots-The Same Old Story; The
Lady On The Second Floor Geraldo & His Orchestra. Tangos-Desnrecio: Ciertos Amores Orquesta Tipica Francisco
Canaro,
Fox-Trot-Between A Kiss And A
Sigh: Quickstep-Could Be Geraldo & His Orchestra.
11 p.m.-Close down.
We believe that 60% of the blame What's On At the Cinemas
should be attributed to South, for he had already bid his hand right up to the hilt and had no license
to contract
for the Slam.
How-
AT THE KING'S "Hold That Kiss"
AT
THE STAR
"The Awful
Comedy jostles romance when a shop-Truth", with Irene Dunne and Cary girl on holiday and a travel agency Grant in a super-sophisticated comedy, clerk mistake each other for "high so-guaranted to please. ciety" and put up a bluff that lands them in all manner of laughable mis- haps before they reach the altar. With Maureen O'Sulivan, Dennis O'Keefe
ever, North's bid of three spades followed by his subscequent raise in hearts did appear to show the spade Ace, and we therefore charge him with 40% of the blame for the disaster.
that over| We believe South's three heart bid North and Mickey Rooney. should have jumped to five hearts a bid which would have shown' fine support but denied any Aces. And, needless to say, South should then have refused to continue to To-day's hand took place in the Slam since his opponents would Duplicate game at the Harmonie be sure to hold two Aces.
Club in New York City. No sooner was HIGH CARB VALUKS the hand concluded FOUR-ACES SYSTEM- than North and South, who had at- tempted a Small Slam
OF THE
ACE... 3
KING...
QUEEN 1 missing two Aces,
JACK...
appealed to us, each
partner indignantly
You dealt yesterday and held?
AK XX
A K Q J x 1
O AX
What do you bid?
ANSWER: Your correct bid
accusing the other two hearts. You want to play the
of overbidding. Our conclusions hand
were as follows:
South's first rebid to three hearts was fairly sound, although it was based mainly on distribution rather than a plethora of high cards. North now decided to reveal his distribution more fully by showing his spade suit. South's next bid was of course proper-a simply re- bid of four hearts; and North then' decided that since he had underbid the hand up to this point, he was entitled to invite a Slam by raising to five hearts. While this was true, South now concluded that his part
of:
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at game irrespective what your partner has.
Score 100% for two hearts, 40%* for one heart, for any other bid including three or four hearts.
Question No. 102
You are Howard Schenken's part- ner. and hold:
A K 10
K Q J 10 x x
♡ AK 10 9
The bidding: Jacoby You
..(-१) What do you bid? Monday;)
Maler' Bebenkan
(Answer
AT THE MAJESTIC
"Stable
mates", with Wallace Berry and Mic- key Rooney. The story, a dramatic un- folding of the friendship which exists between a once famous veterinary and
* *
AT THE ORIENTAL—“You Can't Take It With You". With Lionel Bar- rymore, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Edward Arnold and Mischa Auer,
**
AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM- BRA-"Ambush." A fast-moving tale trapped by them, and the thrilling of ultra modern bandits, a girl who is
a stable boy, has the flavour of "The means by which her boy friend rescues Champ," the memorable picture which her and breaks up the gang. With starred Wallace Beery with Jackie Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, Wil- liam Henry, William Frawley, Ernest Truex and Broderick Crawford.
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