1937-02-17 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, FERRUARY 17, 1937.

Tschaikowsky's "Casse Noisette"

Suite-

12.30-2.15 pm-European Prog 12.30 p.m. Dance Music..

1 pm.-Local Time Signal and

ther Report

Today's Wireless

1.03 p.m.In Souez (Soprano) and

Renee Chemet (Violin).

1-30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.

1.40 p.m.- Military Band Music with

Alfred Piccaver (Tenor).

215 p.m.-Close down

4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

7-11 Am-European Programme.

7 p.m.-Tunes of Not-So-Long-Ago.

"Show Boat"--

Ol' Man River, Make Believe

Waltz Medley,

.Henry King &

His Orchestra.

Harry Boy's Tiger-Ragamuffins The Continental,

Jolly Coburn & His Orchestra. "Rose Marie"

Indian Love Call, Rose Marie,

Roy Fox and His Orchestra. Soon..Guy Lombardo & His Royaf -

Canadians.

"Roberta"--Film Selection,

Reginald Dixon (Organ) Alice Blue Gown Waltz, -

Henry Jacques & His Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota

tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m.-The London Palladium Or-

chestra.

BRIDGE NOTES

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's

The Phantom Melody (Ketelbey). Moontime (Collins).

Charm of the Valse (arr. Winter). Wedded Whimsies (arr. Alford),

8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 pm.Hawaiian Music

Beautiful Woman,

William Ewaliko with Royal

Hawaiian Glee Club. Masters' Hawaiians.

Lion Rag

Oh-Rosalita.

Hawaiian Stars are gleaming, Lian Milford and His

Smiling Eyes,

Hawaiian Players.

King's Nawahi's Hawaiians. 8.18 p.m.-The Mills Brothers.

"long about midnight. My headache:

Shoe Shine Boy. Sleepy Head.

8.30 p.m.-"Casse Noisette" Suite

(Tschaikowsky), played by the B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orchestra, Con- ducted by Percy Pitt..

No. 1-Overture Miniature. No. 2-Marche.

No. 3 (a) Danse da la Fee Dragee;

(b) Danse des Mirlitons.

No. 4(a) Danse Chinoise;

(b) Danse Russe, Trepak.

No. 5 Danse Arabe No. 6 Valse des fleurs." 48.55 pm-London

News and An-

By ELY CULBERTSON

Compensation.

ZEK 640 k

nouncements.

9.15 pm-Variety.

Humorous-

Gracie's and Sandy's Party,

Gracie Fields and Sandy Powell

Vocal

Rainbow on the River,

Bobby Breen, (Boy

Orchestra

"Over She Goes"

Sketch-

Saville Theatre Orchestra

with Adele "Dixon.

"Seeing Stars" The German-Com- missionaire Scene... Leslie Hen- son and Fred Emmey.

Vocal M

you

When the Poppies bloom again, I want the whole world to love

Turner Layton. Three Little Pigs,

Silly Symphony. Orchestra-E

"Swing Time" Selection,

Geraldo & His Romance in

Phythm Orchestra.

Humorous

Gracie Fields Sandy Powell

Lestic Henson

At the Cafe Continental An old Hawaiian Guitar. Waltz

When you're in love with Slow Fox-I

Let's sing ag Fox-l

Harlem

Sing, Sing, Sing.

Slow Fox-Trot

Poor Butterfly. Waltz

Vienna, City of my drea Slow Fox Trot-

Me and the moon. Waltz

Dandelion, Daisy and Daffo Fox-Trot

The Mayor of Alaba Your feet's too bigz Breakfast in Harle

I heard a song in a Take my heart. Let it be me. Slow Fox-Trot

It's a sin-to tell a lie. Let's have a tiddley at the Milk Waltz-Music in May.

Bar

Nellie Wallace 11 pmClose dow

What's On At the

At the Cinemas

AT THE KING'S "The Gay Des- "Go West Young Man", with Mae perado" with Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, West, Warren William, Randolph Scott and Leo Carrillo. Something decided-and Alice Brady. The hilarious story ly different in pictures with music. A of a touring movie star who falls for gay and colom.ful romance laid below a shy young country lad, coming to the Rio Grande Martini's glorious the Queen's Theatre. voice causes him to be kidnapped by al Mexican bandit chief who adopts American gangster methods but is "Dimples", with Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan and Helen Westley. With songs, dances and minstrelsy, really a sentimental music lover.

AT THE QUEEN'S "Wives Never Shirley Temple scores her greatest triumph in this picture Coming to Know with Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland and Adolphe Menjou. Ruggles the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. inimitable domestic comedies. and Mary Boland in another of their

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* + Wife with Rosalind "Craig's Rossell and John Boles. The Pulitzer

AT THE ALHAMBRA "The Girl on Prize play. The story of a woman the Front Page" with Edmund Lowe who lived for the strongest love ever Reginald Owen, Gloria Stuart and conceived and makes you hate her as David Oliver A society girl by her you never hated a screen player before. debutante doings crashes the front Coming to the King's Theatre. page of the paper she owns, but fails

Science tells us that nature teenth might be picked up in one strives to offset its not infrequent of two different ways, either by a errors by a policy of compensation club finesse, should West have the Obviously, it cannot achieve a per-king, or a squeeze on East, if he fect balance, hence the survival of should hold it together with the ad- spade suit. This parti the fittest But even in the wilds vertised where the struggle is the fiercest, cular declarer was bothered by no the weakest animals usually man- such esoteric considerations. Since age to get in a few soul satisfying he could neither recognise the op scratches or bites before they are portunity for a squeeze play, nor execute one if told that such op- overpowered. - It is only fair and just, I suppose, portunity existed, he proceeded to to impress the new editor. The quarrel that bridge players should get as dash off eleven of his top tricks and produces amusing situations and grand

dialogue good a "break" as animals; that the then calmly finessed against the

AT THE MAJESTIC — “The Poor weak ones often should be compen-club king. The fact that East had sated by sheer Inck for the superior-done everything in his power in the Little Rich Girls, with Shirley Temple, ity of skill they must face.

line of discarding to make it ap- Alice Faye and Gloria Stuart. At any rate, whether just or not,pear as though he held the club tiny star is supported by a brilliant this happens! To-day's hand is an king was completely wasted on this instance. The dub declarer was declarer, who did not even notice completely untroubled by a "guess" the discards.

on which, in my opinion, most ex- perts would go wrong.

North, dealer.

North-South vulnerable.

S.-672

D.-10 3 2

NORTH

S. 7-5 4.

-A 7 2

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D-K 9 6

C-A QJ5

FAST S-Q J 10 8 3 H-J 10-4

D-5

WEST

H-9 8 6 5 3

C.-K-7 4-

C-10 8 6 2 SOUTH S-AK9

D—AQ J874 C.-9:3

The bidding:

North Bast

1 club

diam

South West Pade 3 diam. Pass no trp Pass 7 no trip Pass

Pass Pass

cast.

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The

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Pennies From Heaven with Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows and Louis Armstrong The gayest fun-show of the new season.

"Yours For The Asking", - with George Raft, Dolores Costello Barry- more, Ida Lupino and Reginald Owen. Fast moving comedy. Coming to the Star Theatre.

AT THE ORIENTAL "Magnificent Obsession", with Irene Dunne, Robert

"The Devil is a Sissy-with Fred- : Personally, I am glad that I did Taylor, Charles Butterworth and Betty not have to play this particular Furness. Universal's million dollar die Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mic- masterpiece from the best selling novel key Rooney and Jan Hunter. The three most famous boy stars of the contract, because I fear that of Lloyd C. Douglas.

screen are in this picture. An English would have placed the club king in

with youngster who learns American ways East's hand along with the spade AT THE STAR —“M’Liss”

in a New York East Side School with The Anne Shirley and John Beal. bid. Therefore I probably would our and lamour of California's-old-the aid of two tough, but young rough- have won the first trick, laid down time mining camps of the famous Bret necks. Coming to the King's Theatre. the king and queen of hearts, en-Harte story. A delightful love story. tered the dummy with a diamond,

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Picture.

COMING PICTURES

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"Love on the Run with Clark Gáble, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone and discarded a club on the heart] AT THE CENTRAL A Chinese

and Reginald Owen Following her triumph as the "The Gorgeous Husky," ace, after which I would have run

Joan Crawford give another outstand- off the entire diamond suit. Com-

ing performance. A series of hectic ing down to three cards, my own

"Gold Diggers of 1937 with Dick and laugh-packed escapades. Coming being the K-9 of spades and one Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor More, to the King's Theatre. club, dummy's being the AQ-J of Glenda Farrell and Lee Dixon.

with Robert Woolsey, clubs, I would have thought it more happy melange The signing of a "Silly Bhes"

and Dorothy Lee. than likely that East in his effort million dollar insurance policy and the Bert Wheeler

medical examination are a sure cure Trouble is the keynote Adventures in to guard the spade suit had blanked for the blues. Coming to the King's the Wild West with Indians and

bandits. Coming to the Star. his club king, and therefore I do not Theatre doubt that I triumphantly would have led a club and gone right up with the ace, to drop that "blank] 's king." What a rude shock I would [have had, and how I would have been reminded of Jose Billings. immortal remark that the trouble people is that they many things that ain't

8 spade overcall was, of wit course, nothing but an attempted know

"nuisance bid but against many players of first rank in declarer

To-day's Question

position it probably would have Question When dealer has shown had a far reaching effect. South's twe suits, for which should partner seven no trump bid was rather ag-show a preference, holding the same gressive, but not bad. Seven dia number of cards in each, but higher monds, however would have been

ranking cards in the second better oice.

suitz

After the opening lead spade sir, East's ten före declarer's high honor tricks could be counte

of the Answer: Partner usually should one of prefer the first bid suit, even though

ve he holds stronger cards in the ser The thirond

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