Florence Drake (Soprano) From
The Studio
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 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.-Coleman Hawkins (Saxo-
phone).
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ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)
Stanford Robinson),
After You've Gone (Creamer, Lay-
ton); Some Of These Days Irving Berlin Memories. (Brookes).. .Acc. by The Ram-1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, blers Dance Orchestra.
Weather Forecast and · Announce- ments.
Star Dust-Fox-Trot....with Djan-
go Reinhardt (Guitar) phanie Grappelly (Piano). 12.40 p.m.-Prima Scala's Accordion
Band.
and Ste-1.40 p.m.-Latest Variety Numbers.
Dance Orch.The Lady On The Sec- ond Floor-Fox-Trot; The Same Old Story-Fox-Trot .... Geráldo & His Orchestra. Vocal-Take My Heart (Ahlert, Young); Would You? (from 'San Francisco'). .....Greta Keller with Orchestra.
Medley: Intro: Hometown; The greatest mistake of my life; Ten pretty girls; You're here, you're there; Let us be sweethearts over again; Horsey, Horsey.
You Needn't Have Kept It A Secret
(O'Connor & Others).
In The Mountains Of The Moon (Box
& Others).
Whoops We Go Again (Harvey). If the Old River Thames Were The
Danube (Box & Others).
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.08 p.m. Songs by Luigi Fort
(Tenor).
"Don Giovanni” (Mozart)--To
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Vibraphone and Xylophone-Buffoon (Zez Confrey); Nutty Woods (Robbins)....Harry Robbins with The Four Bright Sparks. Dance Orch.-To Mother With Love
-Fox-Trot; I Miss You In The Morning-Fox-Trot.... Billy Cot- ton & His Band. Orch: A Day In Tyrol (Romer & Faun); Swing Me Up Higher (A Fair Ground Fantasy-Mackeber)
My Beloved, oh Hasten!; "Don Pas- quale" (Donizetti)-Serenata; Soft Beams the Light; "Mignon" (Thomas) Farewell, Mignon; Ay, Ay, Ay (Perez & Freire)....Sung 2.15 p.m.-Close down. in Italian with Orchestra.
6 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour.
The Bohemians. Dance Orch.-I Dream Of The Pusz- ta-Tango; Do You See The Stars? Tango........Emil Roosz & His
Orchestra.
1.15 p.m.-Al Bollington at the Organ. 7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. Once In A While (Green-Edwards). 7.02 p.m.-Variety with Max Miller, Lionel Monckton Melodies (arr. Ken Harvey, Lilian Harvey, Jimmy
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Burnátine, Merwin D. Maser, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventora of the system that has
beaten every other system in aziatenos.
...
East. Dealer
Mr. McPherran 7.4 8
♡ 7 6 5 2 ◊ K 8 6
108 7
9.66 3 ♡ A
A BRILLIANT LAYOFF
◊ 9 7 4 8 2 A.QJ6
KQ 10 ♡ Q 8
O J 10 AAK 95
W
S
4 8
AJ 8
10 9 4 8
A Q 6 2
1
24
West Dbl... Pass 2♡
Pass
Pass -Pass
North
10. 24
Pass
Pass
The bidding:
East South
While South didn't care much for the dummy that was spread out before him, the cards were
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
TOTAL WAMY Or jogi Be
dis-
tributed so favourably for him that he would
mond trick. And now, although the trumps dropped nicely, Declar- er still had to lose a diamond trick and two spade tricks and was set one. If Mr. McPherran had thoughtlessly cashed his King of diamonds, Declarer would not only have made his contract, but scored] an overtrick!
Yesterday
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you were Jacoby's partner and held:
A AJIxx
♡ 1 1 1
OAK.x
Oswald
The bidding:
Jacoby
14 GA
Schenken You
10
14 Pasa Рабѕ (7)
Maior
ANSWER: Your correct bid is of bidding Mr. Jacoby may well be to pass.
On that particular type have made his con- ACE 3 tract had it not been gambling on six. Furthermore, it KING
for a fine defensive
is a certainty that he would not QUEEN 1
bid that way with two losing dia- play on the part of JACK...N Robert McPherran of
monds in his hand. Hence, you Philadelphia. Mr. Me- may be
sure that your Ace and Pherran opened the King of diamonds represent some ten of clubs and his partner, after duplication of values. -winning the trick, led a trump. A diamond was led from dummy. East played the ten and Declarer finess- ed the Queen. Now most players in Mr. McPherran's position would have taken the trick with no Merwin Maier is your partner. hesitation whatsoever, but he real-to-day and you hold: ised that his partner's play of the ten had almost surely indicated the Jack-ten alone. Thus if he were to take home his diamond King, the Jack would drop on the second round and Declarer could then run off the remainder of the suit.
This naturally took some little while to think out; but having come to the correct conclusion; Mr. McPherran refused to win the dia-
Score 100% for pass, 40% for seven spades (there is likely to be some play for seven anyway), 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 114
:
10 x
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The bidding: Maier
Barnstone Yen Behenken
Pass (7):
What do you bid? : (Answer Monday.)
(Copyright, 1939, By The Four Aces).
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Dorsey & His Orchestra & Others. The Boston Tea Party-Fox-Trot; It
Ain't Right-Fox-Trot
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra. Son Regard (Jamblan-Michel Emer); C'est Ma Faute (Dawson-Jean De- lettre)....Lucienne Boyer (Vocal). Don't Look Now Fox-Trot; Parade
Of The Milk Bottle Caps-Fox-
Trot........Jimmy Dorsey & His
Orchestra.
Max Miller In The Theatre (Record- ed during an Actual Performance at the Holborn Empire, London)
Max Miller (Talking and Sing- ing) with Orchestra and Guitar. Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. R. 7. Intro: Haunting Me; Jump on the Wagon; When Day is done Charlie Kunz (Piano). There's Magic In The Air (film "The Only Girl'); But For You (film "The Only Girl')..........Lilian Harvey (Soprano) with Orchestra. Melodies of Yesterday. Intro: No- body's Sweetheart; Whispering: Avalon; Margie; China Town; I'll Indiana; see you in my Dreams; Somebody stole my gal...... Ken Harvey (Banjo) with Piano. Twenty-Five Years Of Popular Song Vocal Gems-1910-1935 Co-
lumbia Vocal Gem Company with Orchestra.
p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-Cello Solos by Maurice
Marechal.
Elegie (Gabriel Faure, Op. 24): Gui- tarre (Moszkowski, Op. 45, No. 2) with Piano accomp, by Maurice Faure.
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8.15 p.m.-Studio-Concert by Florence C. Drake (Soprano) and Nura Kanis (Piano).
1. Down in the Forest (Landon Ron-
ald).
2. The Star (James Rogers).... Flo- rence C. Drake (Soprano) with Piano accomp. by Nura Kanis.
3. Sonata (Scarlatti)....Nura Kanis
at the Piano.
4. Voi la Sapete (from 'Cavalleria
Rusticana-Mascagni).
5. Vissi Darte (from La Tosca-r Puccini).... Florence C. Drake (Soprano) with Piano accomp. by Nura Kanis.
Dance Music: Musical Comedy:
Children's Hour
8.45 p.tb.-Compositions of Eric Coates,
Cinderella-A Phantasy
Eric
Coates and Symphony Orchestra. I Heard You Singing....Alfred Pic
caver (Tenor) with Piano. The Jester At The Wedding.....Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra. Because I Miss You So.... Hubert
Eisdell (Tenor) with Piano. Bird Songs At Eventide...H. Robin- gon Cleaver (Organ) & Patricia Rossborough (Piano). 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-World Af
faire', by H. V. Hodson. 9.45 p.m.-London. Relay-Sports News
and Market Notes.
9.50 p.m. Selections from Musical
Comedy.
"C. B. Cochran's 1930 Revue"--Vocal Geris. Light Opera Company. with Orchestra, "The Student Prince" — Selection (Romberg); "The Vagabond King" -Selection (Friml)....Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra conducted by Charles Prentice.
"Ball At The Savoy" Vocal Gems (Hammerstein & Abraham)...Light Opera Company with Orchestra. "Over She Goes"--Selection (Eyton, Carter & Mayerl). .The Saville Theatre Orchestra with Adele Di- xon, conducted by Billy MayerL 10.23 p.m.-A Programme of Dance
Music.
Sequence Dance-The Park Parade; Slow Fox-Trot-Tears On My Pil- low....Victor Silvester & His Ball- room Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Romany; Lonely
Geraldo & His Orchestra. Quickstep Why Isn't It You? (from 'Crest of the Wave'); Waltz-If
You Only Knew (from 'Crest of the Wave')....Henry Jacques and His Correct Dance Tempo Orch. Fox-Trot When The Guardsman
Started Crooning On Parade Jack Hylton's Orchestra. Waltzes That Night In Avalon; Co- lorado Sunset --- (film 'Colorado Sunset')....Hilo Hawaiian Orch. Fox-Trota-Pennies From Heaven (from the film); One, Two, Button Your Shoe (Alm "Pennies from Heaven'), ..Jack Hylton & His Orchestra,
Tango Vieja Amiga. Orquesta
Tipica Francisco Canaro. 11 p.m.-Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
AT THE STAR——“My Bill". Screen AT THE KING'S - "Bordertown". version of the well-known stage-play The gripping and colourful romance of "Courage", with Kay Francis in her a young foreign-born American who most appealing role as the mother of satisfies his lust for power in a sordid three ungrateful children and little town on the Mexican border and of the Dickie Moore, who steals right into woman who does not stick at murder one's heart as the little laddie who to link her fate with his. With Pan) fights for her happiness. With Kay Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Francis, John Little, Anita Louise, Eugene Pallette and Gavin Gordon. Bonita Granville, Bobbie Jordan, Elisa-
beth Risden and Dickie Moore.
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AT THE MAJESTIC—“When Were AT THE ORIENTAL—“The Girl of You Born?" Eerie and unusual drama the Golden West". Singing sweet- of a mysterious killing foretold by the hearts in thrill-roles. A glorious ga- star and a Chinese girl who traced the laxy of star. Starring Jeanette Mac- murderer and uncovered a dastardly Donald and Nelson Eddy, with Walter
Carrillo Pidgeon, Leo plot by the aid of the signs of the
and Buddy Zodiac. With Anna May Wong, Mar- Ebgen. garet Lindsay, Lola Lane, Anthony Averill, Charles Wilson and Maurice
Cass.
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene AT THE CATHAY-"Roberta", with Dunne. A musical film.
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