Recital By Eva Turner &
A. T. Lay
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1939
Today's Wireless
12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral.: 12.30 p.m.-Herbert Groh (Tenor) and
Marek Weber & His Orchestra. Drinking Song (Schumann)....Ma- rek Weber & His Orchestra and Male Quartet.
Spring's Delight-March-Intermez- zo.(Ailbout)... Marek Weber & His Orchestra (with Xylophone Solo). Serenade (Heykens-Krutzfeld); Good Night, Oh My Love! (Beyffardt arr. Hohne).. Herbert E. Groh (Tenor) with Orch. (Sung in Ger- man). Spring Song (Mendelssohn); Simple Aveu (Thome)....Marek Weber & His Orchestra... "The Czarevitch"-An Operetta in Brief (Lehar-Jenbach-Reichert).... Herbert E. Groh (Tenor); Rudolph (Soprano) with Chorus & Orchestra from the Berlin State Opera (Sung in German). Potpourri Of Waltzes No. 3 (Ro- brecht)......Marek Weber & His
Orchestra.
Thesi
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report 1.03 p.m.
ture.
Wagner-Rienzi”—Over-
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
Weather Forecast: and Announce- ments.
1.30 p.m.-Dance Music,
Fox-Trot-Speaking Of The Weather (film 'Gold Diggers of 1937'); Waltz-My Heart's In Old Killar ney....George Elliott & His Sweet Music Makers.
Rumba--Nonità Mia..
Fred Jack-
son & His Orchestra. 1.40 p.m. Relay of the Rotary Tiffin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. 2.15-p.m.Close down.
6 p.m.—An hour of Dance Music.
Fox-Trot-Don't Ever Change (film Rhythm in the Clouds')......Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-You Couldn't Be Cuter (film 'Joy of Living'); Just Let Me Look At You (film 'Joy of Living')7
Bert Block & His Ball Music. Fox-Trot The Pretty Little Patch- work Quilt; Waltz-The Girl In. The Alice Blue Gown....... Jack Harris & His Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot Once: In A While;
Waltz-Giannina Mia (film 'Fire
Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Silver Sails: On Moonlit
Waters; On The Bridge Of - Sighs.
fly') Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Leopold Sto- kowski.
1.15 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwn 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
A TELL-TALE DISCARD
North-South vulnérable
K 10 8 2 ♡ 3
10 9 6 5
O J 10 7 4
A Q 975
N
A J 4
♡ QJ-6.4.2
-10 9-7-5.
◊ 3
◊ A 9.8 62
KJ 8
7 3
A 6 3
The bidding:
K 8
KQ 5
♣ AQ4 2
South West North
2NT Рада
Pass Pass
3NT
* East Pass
South had only eight sure tricks, and since the club finesse, which would ordinarily be taken for the ninth, was wrong, it appeared 'as though the three notrump contract would be set, But now to the actual
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES, SYSTEM
ACE... 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK...
blank his club King, meanwhile hoping that either his partner would turn up with the Queen or Declarer would take a finesse. However, South had noticed his opponent's predicament, and to him
Ronnie Munro & His Orch. Tango Lonely Troubadour; Fox-Trot
I'd Like To Sée Samoa of Samoa (film 52nd Street')....Mantovaní & His Orchestra.. Fox-Trots Blues In My Heart; Cocktail Swing....Nat Gonella His Georgians.
Swing Step-I'm Gettin' Sentimental
Over You; Quickstep Shy.
Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra.
Fox-Trots Big Chief "Swing It” (film "The Joy Parade'); Goona Goo....Nat Gonella & His Geor- gians.
Tango Fox-Trot-City of a Million. Dreams; Waltz-Viennese Rom- ance. Jack Wilson & His Ver- satile Piano,
p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.-The Gay Nineties Singers.
The One-Horse Shay (Trad.); Hot Codlings (Trad.): Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green *(Trad.)
.1
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7.12 p.m.-Some Old Time Favourites. Lily of Laguna; ~ Waiting at the Church; Barn Dances The Veleta (Morris).. Billy Merrin & His Commanders. The Gay Nineties. Intro: With all her faults I love her still; When you and I were sweet sixteen; The picture that is turned toward the wall; My old New Hampshire home; Silver threads among the gold; My mother was a lady; The pardon that came too late; Hot time in the old town to-night. Frank Luther (Vocal) with Zora Layman & the Century Quartet. Daisy Bell (Dacre); After The Ball (Harris); The Little Girls In Blue (Graham) .The Old-Time Sign- ers with Orchestra. 7.30 p.m. Variety.
Serenade; Bihari Waltzes. (Bihari'
“Scrapbook Of 1900 A B.B.C. Recording
(Ellington & Others); Outside Of Paradise (from the film)....Con- nie Borwell (Vocal) with Orch.
Weather
8 p.m. Local Time Signal,
and Announcements. Repo
6.m-Studio Recital by Eva Turner (Boniano) and A. T. Lay (Piano), TUNA
L(a) To the Sea (Edward MacDow- ell); (b) Nautilus (Edward Mac- Dowell) AT. Lay at the Piano.
2. Five Miniature Ballads-A Song- Cycle (Hurlstone): 1. Bells; 2. Blossoms; 3. Dreams; 4. Dark- ness; 5: Morning....Eva Turner (Soprano) with Piano accomp. by A. T. Lay,
3. (a) Starlight (Edward MacDow- ell); (b) Song (Edward Mac- Dowell). ......A. T. Lay at the Piano.
4. (a) Sweet Suffolk Owl (Elizabeth Poston); (b) Foxgloves (Michael Head), (e) At The Well (Richard Hageman).... Eva Turner (So- prano) with Piano accomp. by A. T. Lay.
5. A.D. MDCXX (Edward MacDow- ell)..........AFT. Lay at the Piano. 9.30 p.m.-Compositions of Coleridge-
Taylor.
Four Characteristic Valses: 1. Valse Bohemienne, 2. Valse Rustique; 8. Valse de la Reine; 4. Valse Mau- resque... New Light Symphony Orchestra.
Onaway! Awake! Beloved ("Hiawa- tha")......Tudor Davies (Tenor) with Orchestra. Intermezzo....New Light Symphony
Orchestra.
Three Dream Dances....London Pal-
ladium Orchestra,
8.58. p.m.-Elgar Concerto For Vio
loncello & Orchestra, Op. 85. Bea- trice Harrison ('Cello) and the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Edward Elgar.
9.15 p.m.-London, P.-v-The News. 9.80 p.m.-London Relay - Food for Thought. Short talks on matters of Magyari Imre & His Hungar-9.45 pm-London Relay--Sports News
topical interest. ian Gypsy Orchestra.
La Vie Qui Va. (French film Je and Market Notes.
chante'); Ah Dis. Ah Dis, Ah. Bon-9.50p.m.-B.BC Recording "Scrap- Jour (from French film 'Je chante')
Charles Trenet (Vocal) with Orchestra.
Harry Rov's Stage Show.....Harry
Roy & His Orchestra.
book for 1900", Presented by Leslie Baily and Charles Brewer.
10.50 p.m.The Band of H.M. Cold- stream Guards Martial Moments (arr. Aubrey Winter).
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 11 p.m. Close down.
What's On At the Cinemas
the discard of the club Jack was a AT THE KING'S "The Three Mus-banks, jr., Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, sure giveaway. He led a club-from keteers." Pinch-hitting for Athos, Por-Sam Jaffe, Edourde Ciannelli, Monta dummy, went right up with the Ace thos and Aramis, Crazy Ritz brothers gue Love and Lumsden Hare. and when the King dropped, suc-assist Don Ameche, the singing d'Ar-
ceeded in making his contract with somthing to spare.
*
*
You
were Howard Schenken's partner yesterday and held:
You were Howard Schenken'a partner yesterday and held; ·
10 x X
The bidding: ›Schenken...... Jacoby
You *20 • Разя Pass (2).
Burnstone Разв
ANSWER: Your correct bid is play that transpired: to pass. Your four trumps are not West opened his much use since you are not short fourth best heart. in any other suit; and while your South won the first partner has a strong hand, he did trick and played the not open with a two-bid. diamond King. After winning with
Score 100% for pass,, 50% for
the Ace, East returned a heart. four spades, 0 for any other bid. South held off once, but his remain- ing stopper fell on the next round.
QUESTION NO. 173
Declarer now cashed three diamond1 David Bruce Burnstone is your tricks, thereby putting poor West | partner and you hold:
in the toils of a deadly squeeze. West's first two discards (a spade and a club) were easy enough, but the last discard-Ouch! If he dia carded a second spade, he was sure: that all the remaining apades would drop; if he let go of one of his two remaining hearts, South could sim- ply give up a spade trick and the defence would win a total of only four tricks
Weat saw (very quickly too) that he would have to take a
David Bruce Burnstone is your partner and you hold:
KJII
by: The
tagnan, to recover the Queen's jewels and outwit the Cardinal by methods
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