Peter Gracey's 4th Talk On Great Composers
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1939
Today's Wireless
12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Mendelssohn-Trio In D Minor, Opi 49. Cortot, Thibaud and Casals.
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Ina Souez (Soprano) and the New Light Symphony Orchestra. Love, I Give You My All (from 'Luana') (Dowdon & Besly)..... Ina.Souez (Soprano) with Orch. Spanish Dance No. 3 (Granados); Triana (Albeniz-orchestrated by Arbos).....New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens, Love Will Find A Way (from "The Maid of the Mountains'); My Hero (from 'The Chocolate Soldier'- Ó. Straus)
Ina Souez (So- prano) with Orchestra. Romance (Tchaikovsky); In A Mon-
astery Garden (Ketelbey).
New Light Symphony Orchestra. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1.46 p.m.-A Scottish Programme with and (Soprano) Moray Macdonald Sidney McEwan (Tenor).. The 79th Farewell To Gibraltar-
March; Monymusk -- Strathspey; Lady Murray-Reel; The Portree Men-March; Because He Was A Bonnie Lad - Strathspey; The Wind That Shook The Barley- Reel... Pipe Band of H.M. and Battalion Scots Guards. Kishmul's Galley ('Songs
of the Hebrides'-arr. Kennedy Fraser); The Boatman....Moray MacDon- ald (Soprano) with Piano (Sung
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
in Gaelic).
·Glasgow Highlanders (arr. Dlack);
Meg Merrilees (arr. Dlack) ............... Scottish Gountry Dance Orches- tra cond. by Michael Diack, Ye Banks And Braes (arf. Murray); The Road To The Isles (MacLeod- Kennedy-Fraser)....Sydney Mac- Ewan (Tenor) with Instrumental Trio.
-Bonnie Scotland Medley (arr. Pether)....New Mayfair Orch. 2.16 p.m.--Close down.
6 p.m.-A Variety Programme.
Orch. Summer Breezes (King); Daddy Long Legs....The Bohe mians.
Vocal-Life Begins At Forty (Yel- len-Shapiro); When A Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South (Op- penheim & Others).......Sophie Tucker with Orchestra and Ted Shapiro at the Piano. Dance Orch.--Favourite Favourites, No. 3. Intro: September in the Rain; Carelessly; Broken-hearted Clown; They can't take that away from me; Where is the Sun; Slap that Bass...The Ballyhooligans. Humorous Monologue
Marksman
Sam (Edgar & Holloway). Stan- ley Holloway with Wolseley Char- les at the Piano.
Orch.-Nobody's Sweetheart (Kahn & Others); Moon Glow (Hudson & Others)....Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots In "Drumnasticks”. Vocal-The Yodelling Working Man
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken. World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
Both sides vulnerable
BADLY MISPLAYED
East, Dealer
AAK J 2
4 OK Q 10 8 8 4 A 6 5
10965
W
3
♡ AKQ9
7 5
◊ 7 6 2 1
♡ J 8 # O AJ & 6 97 1
4 10 8 4
4 9874
10-6 2 ◊ 95
♣ KJ 98
The bidding:
Bast
Pass
Bouth Pass Рабб 14
Pass
West
1♡ Pass PRAS Pass
North Dbl. 44
through, for East won the next dla- mond lead and then led a heart, and Declarer wound up going down two tricks.
This hand should be made easily. After winning the second trick South, completely disregarding trumps, should lead a diamond. It wouldn't matter whether or not East decided to win the first diamond lead, for the diamond suit would be easily established by the simple process of trumping the third round. The fact that East held
would matter four trumps
very
little for after discovering this, dummy's established diamonds could be led, and when' East trumped, De- clarer could simply overruff.
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You were Howard Schenken's part- How would you like to be in ner yesterday and held: South's position, playing a contract of
four spades which, if made, would
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES BYSTEN
FACE ERING
J.X
♡ 10 x
ΟΙ Ι
4K Q J 10 9 xx The bidding:
INT
Pass
give you game and rubber? We are sure you would enjoy it, but if you made the
Schenken Jacoby You Kratom same mistake South
14
Pass 24 did of drawing trumps
PABS (7) too soon, you'd find
ANSWER: Your correct bid is three. QUEEN 1. yourself nicely set. BACK
West opened
the clubs. This is a sign-off bid that an- King of hearts, then nounces that your club suit is not shifted to a club. solid and that you have no re-entry. South now played the Score 100% for three clubs, 40% for Ace and King of spades from dummy; three notrump, 30% for pass or four then, discovering the bad break, re- clubs, 0 for five clubs. entered his hand with a club' and played a diamond, When the dfa- mond King was played from dummy, East very kindly: let it hold the trick. South, now thinking that the diamond Ace must be in West's hand, returned to his hand with the Queen of spades, then played his remaining diamond;
East now went into action; After winning the diamond trick he (not so kindly) played the fourth round:'of trumps. Dummy's chib Ace was then | cashed, but at this point Declarer was Inc)
QUESTION NO. 182
You are still Howard Schenken's partner and hold the same hand as yesterday, but the bidding has gone:
·14- ENT
$NT
(7)
Pain Pass
Dbl. What do you, hid now? (AR- swef tomorrow.) (Released By The Bell Syndicate,
(Van Dusen); It's Party Time Again (Van Dusen).......George Van Dusen with Orchestra. Orch.-Selection. Intro: Summer Night on the Texas Trait, Roll along little doggie; Bulle. Boy, My True Love Has Gone (Robison)....... Carson Robison & His Pioneers. Vocal-He's Tall, Dark and Hand- some (Tobias & Sherman); -Vir- ginia-There's A Blue Ridge In My Heart (Bryan & Others) Sophie Tucker with Ted Shapiro & His Orchestra. Humorous Monologue With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (Weston & Lee)....Stanley Holloway with Wolseley Charles at the Piano. Vocal-A Song Selection. Intro: Ca sent la friture; J'aime tes grands yeux; Qui J'aime; Le bistro du port; Le chaland qui passe, Le moulin qui jase..... Lys Gauty with Orchestra (French).
7 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.02 p.m.-Hawaiian Music.
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Kohala March; Honolulu March..
Frank Ferera & John K. Paaluh (Hawalian Guitars). Maybe It's The Moon (Whiting);} Rock Me In A Cradle Of Kalua (Wending)....Frank Ferera's Ha- wailan Trio.
Rose of Maul-Waltz (King)....Don Barrientos & His Hawaiian Orch. Good-Bye, Hawaii!-Waltz (Borles) ..Norman Clark & His South Sea Islanders.
7.20 p.m.--Turner Layton (Tenor) at
the Plano.
Cool River (Johnstone & Layton). Water Boy (arr. Robinson).
Au Revoir (Gilbert).
Western Cabaret
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From London:
By Harry Pringle
7.80 p.m.-Dance Muslo by Victor Bil- veäter & His Ballroom Orchestra. Quickstep Kisses Are Dewdrops, Slow Fox Trot-Why Stars Come Out At Night (film "Big Broadcast of 1936'); Waltz-Moonlight Val- ley (film 'Secret Service'); Quick- step A Sailboat In The Moon- light, Swing Step You Shofred Me The Way; Slow Fox-Trot- Where Are You? (film 'Top of the Were Town'); Quickstep Girls Made To Löve Arid Kiss (Operet- ta Paganini"); Waltz-Love, Live For Ever (Operetta Paganini'); Slow Fox-Trot Poor Butterfly.
8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Next week's programmes. 8.07 p.m.-Mozart-Concerto In E Flat
449.
Serkin Rudolf Major, K.
Adolf Busch (Piano) and The
by Chamber Players conducted Adolf Busch.
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8.30 p.m.-Studio-Short Biographical Studios of Great Composars by Peter Gracey. No. 4: Haydn. p.m.-Haydn--Symphony No. 104 Is
9
D Major ("London"). Edwin Fis- cher and His Chamber Orchestra. 9.15 p.m-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Mord Food for Thought". Short talks on mat- ters of topical interest. 9.45 p.m.-London Relay
Sports
News and Market Notes. 9.50 p.m.-The Eight Plano Ensemble.
Dinah (Akast).
Lazy Bones (Mercer & Carmichael). Speak Easy (Gensler).
10 p.m.-London Relay-Western Ca- baret. Presented by Harry Pringle. 10.50 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-Words Without Music,
That Moment Of Moments Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra.. Fox-Trot-And Then Some....Paul
Whiteman & His Orchestra,
11 p.m.-Close down, ·
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