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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939
EMPLOYMENT
AGENCY
By BUD FISHER
Hal
Lorenzo
And Toby Gray
From The Studio
Today's Wireless
12.15 p.m.-A Short Service of Inter-
cession.
12.30 p.m.-Tino Rossi (Tenor) and
the Orchestra Mascotte.
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Dance Music by Roy Fox
and His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-What Is Romance (Alm 'No sky so blue'); Quickstep-The Soldier's Chocolate
· Daughter; Waltzes-My First Love Song (film 'Queen of Hearts'); Would You (Alm 'San Francisco');. Con- cert Arrangements-The Japanese Sandman (Egan, Whiting); Alex- ander's Ragtime Band (Berlin); Fox-Trots You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart (film 'Big Broadcast of 1938'); Thanks for the Memory (film 'Big Broadcast of 1938):
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles).
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments..
Men (Plater); Song of the Marines (arr. Mackenzie).....Grand Mass- ed Brass Bands at the Leicester Brass Bands Festival, 1938.
Louis Vocal-Junior (Buzzi-
(film 'St. Blues')....Dorothy Lamour with Orchestra.
1.45 p.m.-Latest Variety Numbers.
Vocal-Povero Pulcinella
by
Albert
Peccia); "Tic-Ti, Tic-Ta (Lama- Feola)....Gino Del Signore (Ten- or) *with Gisella Carmi (So-2.15 p.m.-Close down, prano) and Orchestra.
6 p.m.-Beethoven-Symphony No. 3 Orch.-Little Swiss Whistling Song
In E Flat Major, Op. 55. Symphony Orchestra conducted (Parr. Davies); Cowboy's Home in
Coates. Heaven (Robison)....Carson Ro- bison and His Pioneers. Humorous. Monologue-Old Sam..
1: Beat the Retreat on Thy Drum; 2: One Each a Piece All Round.........、、 Stanley Holloway with Piano. Massed Bands -March of the King's
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
ken
•
A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT
While the three-card minor-suit bid Declarer now led the nine of hearts. serves its purpose on occasion, one East played the Ace, cashed his should never bid it with a part score. Queen-Jack of clubs and now played South's violation of this rule got him a spade. into lots of troubles.
South, Dealer
North-South vulnerable North-South 40 on score
A 4
♡ 3 9 7
We draw a veil over the rest of the hand. Suffice to say Declarer went down 1,100 points — a penalty which we feel was really deserved as a re- sult of his bad bidding and play.
#
*
*
were
Yesterday you Schenken's partner and held:
AK X
♡ III
◊ Q 10 8 3 A 10 = X X
◊ A 8 6 3
AK 10 9 8 4
AKQ 96
V 8 2
Q K J 10
5 4
A 8 7 3
A 6 5 4 3 07. #QJ7 2
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J 10 6 2
14
Pass
The bidding:
You Schenken Jacoby
Dbl. Pase Pass INT
Рабя
The bidding:
K Q 10
9 3
A 5 2
Bouth West
'North
14
IA
24
Рава
20
3
Pans
Раня
4
East Pass BA
Dbl.
Pass
Pass
Pass
WISH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN
FACE 3 KING/2. QUEEN 1 JACKLES
PETRELNIKE WE MAKE NE AYREJAS HAND & TO
West opened the King of spades and then shifted to the eight of hearts. East ducked, signalling with the six-spot. Declarer won with the Queen and now made a play his.
opening bid gven worse than he 1sid.dówn his Ace of clubs and played low club -to dummy. When West showed out, South might still have saved something from the wreck by playing a low club. But instead he went right up with the King.
3
Howard
Buru teng
2da 3NT
РАВЕ Pass
What do you land?
ANSWER: Your correct lead is the King of spades. True, it might turn out that the surprise lead of a dia- But in mond would beat the hand. all probability the best chance for successful defence is to
find your partner with a spade sult that can be set up.
Score 100% for the King of spades, 60% for three of diamonds. 0 for any other lead gra
QUESTION NO. 215 Neither side is vulnerable. You are the dealer and hold:
What do you bidr tomorrow.)
(Released By
Bell Syndicate,
Ino.2
Beethoven's.
Third Symphony
the Mountain; (c) Ride, Tender-
foot, Ride.....Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray.
8.40 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Money
for Nothing". A Sketch. 8.55 p.m.
Orchestra.
Bournemouth Municipal
Three Dances From Nell Gwyn (German); Intermezzo Pizzicato for Strings (Montague Birch); Crocus Time Serenade Strings (T. de la Riviere). 9.10 p.m.--Studio-Comments on Rc.
cant Events.
for
9.15 p.m.-London Relay--The News.
6.46 p.m.-London Relay-News Sup-9.35 p.m.-Violin Solos,
plement. 6.55 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
⚫tions.
6.57 p.m.--Another Recital of Popular Classics Compered from the Studio. 7:35 p.m. - Pater Dawcon (Bass- Baritone) in a Military Band Con. cort.
?
Morning, Noon and Night-Overture The (Suppe, arr. Morelli). Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards cond. by Lieut. R. G. Evans, So It Goes On ('Swing is in the Air' -Noel Gay); Red, White and Blue ('Swing is in the Air')..... Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Or- chestra and Male Quartet.
Great Times-March (Brase); Hes- sian Infantry March (arr. Prof. Hackenberger)....Massed Military
Bands.
Improvisation on a Japanese Tune (Zimbalist); Quruka Kuruka, Japanese Tune (Yamada) Efrem
accomp.
Zimbalist with Piano
Madrigale (Simonetti). .. Yvonne
Curti with Piano accomp. 9.45 p.m.-Musical Comedy Selections: (Stolz- "Wild Violets"-Selection
Dostal).....Eugen Wolff and His Orchestra.
"Crazy Days" —— Selection (Eyton, Carter and Mayerl)....The Shaf- tesbury Theatre Orchestra London. "Wake Up And Dream" - Vocal Gems (Porter); "Mister Cinders" -Vocal Gems (Ellis and Myers) with ....Light Opera Company Orchestra.
"London Rhapsody"--Vocal Selec- tion (Carr and Kennedy)....The London Palladium Orchestra.
p.m.-A Programme of Variety and Dance Music.
Fishin' In The North Sea (Stern-
dale-Bennett); The Two Grena-10.15 diers. (Schumann)....Peter Daw- son (Bass-Baritone) with Orch. La Mattchiche ("Maxixe"--March on a Spanish Air-arr. Bilton.... Regimental Band of H.M. Grena- dier Guards
cond. by George Miller.
Fax-Trots Moon or no Moon (film 'Gangway'); Gangway (from the film).. ...Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. Vocal-I Wished Major
Weather
8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, -Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-8tudio--Variety Concert by Hai Lorenzo (Jazz-Plano), Toby Gray (Plano-Accordeon) and The Harmony Three (Vocal).
1. Blue Rhythm....Hal Lorenzo and
Toby Gray.
2. Sweet Sue.
The Harmony
Three (Vocal) and a Guitar.
3. Harlem....Hal Lorenzo and Toby-
Gray.
The
4. Somebody Loves You.
Harmony Three and a Guitar. 3. Medley: (a) You Changed My Life; (b) Lulu's Back in Town; (c) Nightfall......Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray,
8. The Continental....The Harmony
Three and a Guitar..
7. Hill Billy Medley: (a) Last Round
Goodbye
Moon On The
of (from "The Big Broadcast 1936'); I'm In The Mood for Love (film Every night at eight').......... Lanny Ross with Orchestra.
Say Quickstep-Don't
Waltz-I Hum a Waltz (film “This is my Affair')....Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra. Vocal-Lonesome Love-Sick Blues (Williams); I Love Dancing (Wil- Hams).....Josephine Baker with Two Pianos.
Fox-Trot Selection-On The Ave nue; Fox-Trot-So Rare....Victo Silvester and His Ballroom Orch Fox-Trots-Old Man Moon (fln "Topper'); Foolin' Myself.... Harr Roy and His Orchestra. Vocal and Plano!- Hypnotized (Lewis and Others): A Little Ren dezvous In Honolulu (Lealle an Burke). Turner Layton.
Up; (b) She'll be Coming Round 11 p.m.-Close down.
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