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Music Of Portugal

Press;

Local: Weather Forecast, Time an

1.03 Variety.

1.30-Reuter

Rugby Press,

Announcements.

1.40

Orchestral Music.

2.15 Close down.

5.18 p.m.-European Programme.

5-A Relay of Dance Music from the

Roof Garden of the Hong Kong, Hotel.

A Children's Concert.

6-From the Studio.

6.30 The Music of Liszt

Organ Solo-

7-The London Piano-Accordeon Band,

with. Hildegarde (Vocal).

Band-

Tenor Solo

At the close of a long long day. Vocal-

Carta D'Aldeia (d'Oliveira),

Antonio Menawo. Fado do Anto (Menano),

Goo

Band-

Campus Moon:

Darling, je vous aime beaucoup.

The Cubalero (Cuban Rhythm

Vocal

The scene changes. Band-

Holiday Hits--Medley.

Guy Weitz.

de Bettencourt. Cancao da Beira. Antonio Mensmo. Soprano Solo-

filbo

Quando ro

smen

(Britto Rodrig

Dance).

Tenor Solo-

Fantasia and Fugue on "B.ACH”

Orchestral-

Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2,

Philadelphia Symphony

Orchestra.

Pianoforte Solo

"Arnees de Pelerinage".

Vocal-

The glory of love. Band...........

Log Cabin Lullaby.

7.30- Closing Local Stock Quatations and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report

(a) Sonetto No. 104 Del Petrar- 7.35-A Programme of Portuguese

ca

(b) Gnomenreigen

Orchestral-

Simon Barer.

Simon

Barer.

Liebestraume...De Groot and the

Piccadilly Orchestra.

BRIDGE NOTES

Music

Tenor Solo

Fado Patriotico (Menano),

Antonio Menano. Soprano Solo

Beijos (Guimaraes). Maria Melia.

Marin Alice.

18:55-

Mar Alto (Fade Cancao),

(Fonseca),

Edmundo de Bettencourt. Soprano Solo-

Beijos Venenosos (Dos Anjos),]

Maria do Carmo.

8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 From the Studio.

A Chinese Concert

11 pm-Close down

805-11 pm European Programme from ZEK on a frequency of 640 kilocycles.

$.05 Memories by Carroll Gibbons and

His Boy Friends.

Ain't she the dainty.

iments.

|9:45– FantaRÍA CON

Strauss (Weber), Weber and” His

9:30 Reginald Fourt

Organ

Posti).

TE YÜKI 50.

Blogie

In a Monastery Garden (Ketelbey Second Serenade (Heykens). "New Moon”........-

9.43

Lover, come back to me. One Kiss

(Ramberg)

Excerpás "from" "Please Teacher

10 pm-Landon Big Ben

Dance Music

11 pm-Close down.

By ELY CULBERTSON What's On At the Cinemas

Poor, Downtrodden Dummy

Average players are enormously, round club control was not nearly handicapped by their deeply in-enough to justify South's strong grained habit of regarding the dum-slam-try. [Asking bids, good as they my as a mere auxiliary, often in-are, cannot carry on alone. Their valuable in protecting or building user must have a fair sense of tricks for their own hand, but hard-values.]

AT THE QUEEN'S “Without "Hearts Divided" with Marion Orders", with Sally Eilers, Vinton Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Eains, Haworth, Robert Armstrong and Charles Ruggles, and Edward Everett Walter Miller. The theme revolves Horton. Prince Jerome Bonaparte

around the responsibility of pilots in defies his brother, the Emperor modern air transport companies. Napoleon, for the love of his Baltimore sweetheart --Betty erson. "Coming Ito the King's..

** * *

AT THE ALHAMBRA “Laughing| At Trouble" with Jane Darwell, Sara Haden, Lois Wilson and Margaret Hamilton: A

"Gold Diggers of 1937", with Dick Woham newspaper editor matched against the forces of Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, jealousy, conspiracy and mob-madness Glenda Farrell and Lee Dixon. Com-

ing to the King's Theatre. in a smail towa

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Aside from habit there is no basis whatever for this conception. Dum

AT THE STAR—“The "Iron Duke", “Atlantic Adventure”—with Nancy my's tricks count just as much on

with George Arliss, Gladys Cooper, A Carroll, Floyd Nolan, and Harry Lang is a mistake to think of declarer's

E. Matthews and Lesley Wareing. A don. The exciting Columbia drams the score, as declarer's. In fact, it hand and-dummy as two separate Second diamond honour and a third story, covering a crowded year of which concerns itself with a fast talk- European history and based on the life ing reporter's attempts to solve a half- of the Duke of Wellington

million-dollar jewel robbery in mid- Atlantic. Coming to the Alhambra AT THE KING'S “Down The Theatre.

A thri

entities. The twenty-six cards should be subtly blended in a de- clarer's mind and a plan of opera- tion selected on that basis. To-day's hands will be extremely baffling to every one who is a victim of habit.

North, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

one

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"As You Like It" with Elizabeth Bergner, Laurence Olivier, Sophie AT THE CENTRAL—“A Tale of Two Stewart and Henry Ainley Shakes- Cities", with Ronald Colman. Scar-speare's immortal comedy faithfully further recommenda-reproduced on the screen. Coming to cely needs any

the Queen's.

ly to be looked on as an equally im- But, fortunately for himself and portant unit.

partner, South's play proved im measurably superior to his bidding. He ruffed West's opening spade lead and entered the dummy with a second spade. This process was repeated with the diamond, to ruff a

spade, and then dummy's king of clubs was used as entry for the ruff of the last spade with the ace of trumps South's last trump then Stretch", with Patricia Ellis, Mickey was led and dummy's king-queen- Rooney and Demais Moore Jack were played, declarer discard-ling horse-racing film. ing his losing diamond and club. Now a low club was led from dummy and declarer nonchalantly put on his seven. West won with the nine, but had nothing left but clubs and, therefore, had to lead

AT THE MAJESTIC “No More away from his queen up to South's Ladies”, with Joan Crawford, and tenace. Of course, it was lucky for Robert Montgomery. An uproarious McLaglen, Binnie Barne, Jean Dixon, the declarer that West had held comedy with strong underlying drama only two diamonds, since otherwise of the tactics used by a modern woman

to retain the husband she loves. he would have been able to exit safely. But the fact remains that the hand was played correctly, An Aristocrat",

AT THE ORIENTAL “Murder By with Lyle Talbot, on basis of the bidding, and the one Marguerite Churchill and Claire Dodd. opportunity grasped for fulfilling A mystery masterpiece. the overambitions contract. The crux was the conversion of dum- my's three trumps into the master trump holding.

NORTH

S.-8 742 H-KQJ D.-AK 6 C.- 5'3

WEST S-A K Q 10

EAST S.-J 96 53

H-96 2

DQ 10

C-Q10 9 8

DJ 987 5 C.-2

SOUTH S-None H-A 10 873 D.-13.2 C-AJ764

The biddings:

North East

South West

diamond Pass 1 heart Pass

2 hearts Pass-clubs Double

4 diamonds Double 5 hearts Pass

hearts Pass Pass Double Pass Pass

DUKE LEARNS TO

SKI

The Duke of Windsor has start- ed an intensive course of ski frain- ing which he hopes will make aim a competent ski-zimmer before he Pass

The bidding, as may be seen, was goes to the Tyrol later in the sea- peculiar to say the least! North felt so

that his hand was slightly too weak He has started practising aki- for at opening no trump fin which running and turns on the "nursery”

trump was the slopes under the erefore chose his

e was wrong

rect bid?

South's

right, but

monds to

ould have feare distributi

The mere fact

to the four club showed the diamond a

were

rt tuition of Walter Dellekarth, of the lead- ling amateur skiers in Austria, who has been appointed the Duke's teacher and guide.

Herr Bellekarth was a meat

he offae Austrian Olym

He was chosen as the Du

by the Austrian Skiing

when it

approached by

child, the Duke's host, in the

tion.

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COMING PICTURES

"Magnificent Brute" - with Victor William Hall, Ann Preston, Henry Armetta and Edward Norris.

A battle

of might against right in the love of two blandes for a strong man who had 8 weakness for beauty. Coming to the Alhambra Theatre.

**

"Three Smart Girls,” with Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland and Charles Winninger. The adventures- of three lovely daughters of a rich "Walking Dead", with Boris Karloff, New Yorker who smash their father's Ricardo Cortez and Barton MacLane, romance with a fortune-hunting blonde An unusual mystery thriller and a provide the amusing theme for picture of scientific exploitation: picture coming to the Queen's.

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