General Knowledge
Bee From The Studio
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1939.
Today's Wireless
12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 p.m. - Cicely. Courtneidge and
Jack Hulbert.
If You Want To Dance (from 'Under Your Hat')......Jack Hulbert & The Rhythm Bros. with the Palace Theatre Orchestra. Together Again (from Under Your Hat')...Cicely Courtneidge & Jack Hulbert (Vocal) with the Palace Theatre Orchestra.
The Cure (Hiccoughs)-A Sketch (Ti- theradge)....Cicely Courtneidge & Jack Hulbert assisted by Laurence Green & Cecile Dixon. Our Greatest Successes. Intro: There's something about a soldier; My hat's on the side of my head; We'll go riding on a rainbow; The window; crawled flies
the up Sweep; All for a shilling a day; But not to-day; Gentlemen, the King....Cicely Courtneidge & Jack Hulbert with Orchestra,
Tap Your Tootsies (film 'Jack of all Trades'); Celebratin' (film 'Lime- light')....Jack Hulbert with Orch.
I p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)
Frances
Marqusee-Sherman) Langford (Vocal) with Victor Young & His Orchestra. Sweet Leilani-Slow Fox-Trot (film Waikiki Wedding'); Love And Learn-Fox-Trot (film "That Girl From Paris')....Roy Fox & His Orchestra..
I've Got You Under My Skin (from 'Born to Dance')... Frances Lang- ford (Vocal) with Jimmy Dorsey
& His Orchestra.
The Changing Of The Guard-Fox- Trot; Harbour Lights-Fox-Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, and Announce- Weather Forecast
ments.
1.40 p.m.-Louis Kentner (Piano) in a
Liszt Programme.
Liebestraume......De Groot & The
Piccadilly Orchestra. Waldesrauschen
(Piano).
Louis Kentner
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1....Berlin
State Opera Orchestra. Venezia E Napoli: (a) Gondoliera; (b) Tarantella.....Louis Kentner (Piano).
1.03 p.m.-Frances Langford (Vocal) and Roy Fox and His Orchestra. On The Trail Where The Sun Hangs
Low-Fox-Trot; What Will I Tell 2.15 p.m.-Close down. My Heart Slow Fox-Trot....Roy 6 Fox & His Orchestra.
Long Ago And Far Away (film "Three Cheers for Love'); It's Like Reaching For The Moon (Lewis-1
p.m.--New Variety Numbers. Organ-Chanson Hindoue (Rimsky- Korsakov-arr. Dorsey); When Day Is Done (Katscher & Sylva) ...Sidney Torch at the Organ of
نا
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.
South, Dealer
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Mrs. Evans
West North
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INT(1) Pags
The bidding:
3 (2) Pass 4(3) Pass
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the Gaumont State Cinema, Kil- burn. Vocal-A Sad Ending
Grisewood);
Oliver
arr.
Schubert's
Ninth Symphony
cond. by Clifford Greenwood.
Our River Thames (Hennessy);
Young Briton's Heritage
(Hen-
nessy). .Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone) with Piano. Extase (Thome).
London Palla-
dium Orchestra cond. by Clifford Greenwood.
Weather
The Admiral's Broom (Bevan)
Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra. p.m.-Local Time Signal, Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m./Studio-Concert by Mrs.
Nash (Contralto).
1. When Song is Sweet.
2. The Sweetest Flower that Blows. 3. My Ain Folk....Mrs. Nash,
For Your Delight (Serenade-Eric
Coates)
Light Symphony Orchestra.
4. Down Here
5. My Treasure...
Mrs. Nash.
(Trad.
Cromwell (Broadwood-Maitland); The Berk- shire Tragedy (Broadwood-Mait- land). Our Bill (F. H. Grise- wood) with Piano accompaniment. Waltz I Can Give You The Star-18 light (film "The Dancing Years'); Waltz Of My Heart (film The Dancing Years')....New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Call Me A Taxi; I Hear You Talking....Four Of The Bob Cats (Selected by Paul Whiteman for his All-American Swing Band). Vocal-Nur Du, Maria! (film 'Ave Maria'); Serenade (film *Ave Maria')....Herbert E. Groh (Ten- or) with Orchestra (Sung in Ger- man). Fox-Trots-Say It With Music (as featured in 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'); Easter Parade (as featur- ed in Alexander's Ragtime Band) ..Henry King & His Orchestra. 6.38 p.m.-Military Band Music.
Marche Lorraine (Ganne); Belphe-
gor, Quick March (Brepsant) H.M. Grenadier Guards cond. by Capt. George Miller. 6.45 p.m.-London Relay-A commen- tary on the departure of their Ma-' jestics the King and Queen from Halifax, at the conclusion, of their 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. visit to Canada and the United 9.30 p.m.-London Relay States. Also speech by both their for Thought'. Short talks on mat- Majesties the King and Queen.
ters of topical interest."
8.25 p.m.-Leslie Jeffries and His Or-
chestra.
First General
Automne (Chaminade), Ravini's Serenade (Ravini).
Stadio 8.32 p.m.
Knowledge. Bee". 9.05, p.m.-Military Band Music.
Royal Review-Quick March (Bas- sett Silver); Tudor Rose (Trayton Adams); The Standard Of St. George Quick March (Alford).... Massed Bands Of The Aldershot & Eastern Commands cond. by W. N. Campbell.
More Food
7.15 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-9.45 p.m.-London Relay-Sports News
tions..
7.17 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.'
Waltz Nanette (arr. Schwartz);
Spring Waltz (arr. Schwartz). Russian Novelty Orchestra. Dream Waltz (Millocker - arr. Hohne); Song Of Hawaii. (Bories- Corbell)....Orchestra Mascotte.
and Market Notes. 9.50 p.m.
Piano.
Mischa Levitski at the
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (Liszt). Prelude In G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
(Rachmaninoff).
Marche Militaire (Schubert). 10.10 p.m. Schubert-Symphony No. 9 In C Major. The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Wal- ter.
7.30 p.m.-Peter Dawson (Bass-Bari- tone) & London Palladium Orchestra Merchant Of Venice Suite (Rosse)
....London Palladium Orchestra 11 p.m.-Close down,
What's
On At the Cinemas
on
AT THE CATHAY "Music for AT THE ORIENTAL-"Blackwell's without one of those cards, Mrs. Madame". A young Italian tenor falls Island". A swiftly-paced drama des- Evans sees that the Slam is practi- into the hands of a group of clever pite the fact that it is a glaring expose thieves and innocently aids in the theft cully certain.
of a half-million-dollar necklace. Star-of some of the more unpleasant aspects A club was opened. When dummy ring the famed Métropolitan opera of life at a city prison
one of went down Mrs. Evens saw that tenor, Nino Martini, with Joan Fon-America's islands in the East River. her analysis had been correct. She taine featured. won with the Ace, discarded the losing diamond, drew the opponents' trumps and conceded the Ace of spades.
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With John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell, Victor Jory, Stanley Fields and Morgan Conway.
AT THE KING'S "Stagecoach". Hostile Indians round them, a killer aboard the coach, nine strangely as- sorted travellers pass through the most
of their life. With AT THE MAJESTIC—“Listen Dar. Yesterday
thrilling week were
Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas ling", with Freddie Bartholomew, Jude Maier's partner and held:
Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Wayne, John Carradine, Louise Platt, Garland, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon, Tim Holt and Donald Meek,
Alan Hale and Scotty Beckett,
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The bidding: Maler Pass
HIGH CARD VALATES
FOUR-ACKB SYSTEM
ACE KING QUEEN 1 JACK
Barnstone Pass
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Merwin
To-day's hand, taken from the Mas- ters' Individual Tour- ANSWER: Your correct bid is nament, was bid by one spade. By opening with one Mrs. Eliot Evans of spade you are prepared to raise Chicago and Oswaldja response of two hearts to three, Jacoby of New York, bid two diamonds over two clubs, who were playing to- or pass a raise to two spades or a gether for the first takeout to one notrump. time.
Score 100% for one apade, 75%
(1) Not quite strong enough for for one diamond, O for any other
a bid of two in one of his very weak bid. four-card suits.!
(2) Correct.
:
Question No. 127
Howard Schenken is your part- You are the dealer and hold:
(3) Mr. Jacoby intends to invitener.
a Slam in the event that his part-
ner can rebid her heart suit.
You
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The bidding:
Jacoby Schenken Burnstone 10 Pass (2)
(4) The positive Slam suit. (5) Mrs. Evans now realizes that her partner's club, bid showed the Ace. Even though she is void in that suit, she realizes it will give her a place to discard her losing diamond. Now her partner has either the King of hearts or the “Ace of spades, and as he certainly would not have invited the Slam, Inc.)
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What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.).
(Released, By The Bell Syndicate,
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AT THE STAR-“Three Comrades", Erich Maria Remarque's great story
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QUEEN'S “Honolulu”, of three heroic war veterans who find Gay tale of a famous film star with a that they have lived through the hor-double, and the mess each of them gets rors of war to face the infinitely into when the pair, change identities greater dangers of peace. The cast in for a space and Gracie Allen sets about cludes Robert Taylor, Margaret Sulla- straightening things out for them. With van, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, Gracie Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill and Henry Allen, George Burns, Rita Johnson and Hull.
Clarence Kolb..
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