1937-02-22 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 22, 1937.

Tea Dance Music

From The

Hong Kong Hotel

12.30-2.15

gramme.

p.m.

Today's Wireless

- European Pro-

12.30 Light Orchestral Music.

1 pm Local: Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

1.03-Talkie Tunes.

130-Reuter Press; Local: Weather

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's : ZEK 640 k.c's.

In a Monastery Garden (Ketelbey). Hearts and Flowers Intermezzo

Forecast, Time and Announcements-20-Body 1.40-Songs by Derek Oldham (Tenor)" 1.55 p.m.-Raie da Costa Memories.

2.15 p.m.-Close Down

5-8 p.m.-European Programme.

5 pm A Relay of Dance Music from

the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kon Hotel.

6.30Mary Kay (Contralto) and Frit

Kreisler (Violin).

Liebesfreud (Love's Joy),

Contralto Solos-

(Tobani). Starita and His Xylophone Joey the clown (Myers). The squirrel dance (Smith). Dance of the paper dolls (Tucker,

Schuster and Siras),

1:30 Closing local Stock Quotations and Hong Kong Exchange Market Beport.

Report and Announcem 8.03-A Relay from the Lee

(Chinese).

8.05-11 pm 11 p.m.---Close Down.

from ZEK.

European Program

8.05 pm-Peter Dawson (Bass-Bari- tone) with the L. IL Squire Celeste Octet.

Instrumental

Andante Cantabile- (Tcha Songs

Fox-Trot

Just keepin' on (Phillips). Don't let the river run dry

W (Haines and Harp Instrumental

Ave Maria (Schubert) Spring-Song (Mendelssohn) Songs

Variety

Violin Solos

Nobody's darlin' but mine.

The Hill Billies.

(Kreisler).

Instrumental-

Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow),

Chicken Reel

(Kreisler).

Brian Lawrance and His Lans- downe House Sextet.

Todelling Sozig

Mountain Melodies

George Van Dusen.

Piano Solos Liszt in rhythm Chopinezza

Rawicz and Landauer

Vocal-

Song-

Danny Boy (Weatherley), My air folk (Lemon, Mills).

Violin Solos

Spanish Serenade (Glazounov), Jota (De-Falla).

Contralto Solos-

Love's old sweet song

(Molloy, Bingham),

A Brown Bird singing

(Haydn Wood, Bärrie).

6.58 The New Light Symphony Or-

chestra.

Kamennoi-Ostrow (Reve Angelique), Op. 10, No. 22 (Rubinstein). Liebestraume (Liszt). Romance (Tchaikowsky).

BRIDGE NOTES

1 am

I've got a pain in my sawdust

Mae Questal

Organ Solo

Six Hit Medley (No. 5)

Vocal Yogi-Bogi,

Harry Croudson.

The Four Crotchets.

8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Weather

By ELY CULBERTSON

Things To Think About

Golf enthusiasts of my acquain-¡ contract was brought home. tance delight in recounting the vast West duly opened the jack of number of points that must be re-spades, and declarer's ace took membered simultaneously when the East's queen. A small diamond was beginner "addresses the ball". As led to dummy's ten, West playing the risk of inciting a war between low, and the jack of diamonds was golfers and contract addicts, I must returned: West saw no reason to say that I am not impressed by defer the play of his ace, therefore these figures. The reason is simple. took in the trick and on the reason- much more sympathetic to-ing that his spade suit now was ward the contract neophyte, who dead, made a desperate shift to the has about twice as many things to jack of hearts, hoping to establish bear in mind. “Shall I draw heart tricks in his partner's hand. trumps? Shall I cross-ruff, or set up a suit? Shall I finesse, or try for an end-play?" These are only three of the dozens of questions that lie in wait to baffle and confuse harassed declarer. And, of course, the poor defenders must wrestle with equally abstruse problems.

Consider the simple but delicate point involved in to-day's hand.

South, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

NORTH

WEST

S. 7 64 HA 3 2 DJ 10 6 C-K 7 4 3

EAST

S-J 1098532 S.—K Q

E 410976

J98.

H.-J S

D.-A 32 C-10

D-9·8

SOUTH

A:

IL K 54 D-KQ754 GA-65-2

The bidding South West

1 diamesT

2 no tr

Pass

As may arrived

having

East

Pass

There's a bridle hanging on the wall (Carson Robison).

Song of the grateful heart

strumental

(Ord Hamilton).

Souvenir (Drdia, arr. Willoughby). Phantom-Minuet (Hope).

Empty Saddles (Hill).

8.40 p.m.-Regimental Band of H. M

Grenadier Guards.

The Smithy in the wood (Michaelis). The Turkish Patrol (Michaelis). Acclamations Waltz (Waldteufel). The Grenadiers Waltz (Waldteufel,

arr. Winterbottom). 8.55 pm--London-News and

nouncerients. 9.15 Vocal Gems.

Memories of Lehar.

AR-1

Page:

Plantation Songs

On Records

By Paul Robeson

Light. Opera Company. “On the Wings of Song" Memories..

Told by Frances Clare, sung by Joan Cross and Henry Wendon. Plantation Songs.

Paul Robeson (Bass)

9.40--Piano Memories by Billy Mayeri

"Helen" Selection.

Have you forgotten?

Limehouse Blues.

Orange Blossom.

Billy Mayerl's Sav Натара

Misteltoe

10 p.m.-London-Big Ben

Dance Music

FasTrot

Last

Dream time:

Slow Foxtrot

Memorias

The Hills of old Wyomin'. Fox-Trot

The glory of love

Hold me tight, I'm falling

Slow Waltz

At the close of a

the scal

Bassorado: Fox-Trot

New Orleans Twist. Dancing in a dream Lonely Linden Tree"

Waltz

Tong da

Throw open wide your window. Rose of Maui.

10.45 pm-London "Suggestions for your Book List" 4 A talk by William Plomer. (Electrical Record- ing).

11.p.m

Close Down

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE KING'S "Gold Diggers of AT THE CENTRAL- A Chinese 1937, with Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Picture. Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell and Lee ing of a million dollar insurance policy Dixon. A happy melange. The sign- and the medical examination are a sure cure for the blues.

COMING PICTURES

"Dimples", with Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan and Helen Westley. Young Man"-with Mae West, Warren

AT THE QUEEN'S — “Go West. With songs, dances and minstrelsy, Shirley Temple scores her greatest William, Randolph Scott and Aliceiumph in this picture. Coming to Brady. The hilarious story of a tour- the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. ing movie star who falls for a shy

lad. country *

young

ances.

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“Craig's_______ Wife”—with Rosalind West's reasoning that me spade suit Dixie", with Jane Withers, Shim Sum

AT THE ALHAMBRA "So This Is Russell and John Boles The Pulitzer Prize play The story of a woman was dead was perfectly sound, inmerville, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck who lived for the strongest love ever asmuch as the king still was out-mortgage homestead, travelling show you never hated a screen player before. conceived and makes you hate her as and Sara Haden. A bright story of a standing, and whether declarer or men, horse-racing and "Darkies in a Coming to the King's Theatre. East had that card did not matter.radio amateur programme. а

Even if East had it, it must be blank, since all the others were în

AT THE MAJESTIC--“A Girl of the Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows "Pennies From Heaven with Bing Limberlost", sight, and therefore the

with Louise Dresser suit would Ralph Morgan, Marian Marsh and H. and Louis Armstrong... The gayest be blocked. But is is too bad that B. Walthail. Acclaimed as the most fun-show of the new season West had not taken the trouble to faithful screen version of a popular no- reason out this possibility before Ralph Morgan give excellent perform

vel ever produced. Louise Dresser and it was too late to correct matter Certainly he should have seen that the one chance of running off the spade suit depended on two separate factors: first, that the king was in East's hand and, second, that he be given the opportunity to unblock In only one way could this latter process be accomplished, and the

"Love on the Em” with Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone was if West were to give him an op- AT THE STAR-Ladies in Love" and Reginald Owen Following her portunity to discard. The ex-

with Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, triumph as the The Gorgeous Husgy, tremely simple measure of holding An exciting combination of feminine my performance- A series of hectic

Constance Bennet and Simone Simon Foan Crawford give another outstan up the diamond, aco

ace until the third personalities and a brilliantly unusual and Langh-pa round of the suit would have afford story...

escat ed this very chance, and it certainly would not have required much acu- men on East's part to have prompt- Ly ditched the blocking king of spades.

Since declarer had no play for the contract without clearing the nd South diamond suit, this hold-up would contract, have made the enormous difference per be of three tricks. Two or three hun- tween them and that in the face of dred points in his own columa West's warning ovencall. The blame rather than game and rubber in the was on the shoulder of both opponent's would have repaid West North's immediate raise was highly amply for an ounce of patience. questionable and Sou

trump bid gave a

of a double spade

theless, through an-

tremely for tumate set of circumstances, and the invaluable co-operation of West, the

To-day's Question Question: If dealer opens with TWO THO

and the next hand doubles, is it a penalty or take out double?

Answer: A penalty double.

die Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mic- The Devil is a Sissy-with Fred- key Rooney, and Ian Hunter.

The AT THE ORIENTAL Our Be-screen are in this picture. An English three most famous boy stars of the

members of the famous screen comedy in a New York East Side School with lations", with Laurel and Hardy. Both youngster who learns American ways team have twin brothers in this ex- the aid of two tough, but young rough- ceedingly funny picture. Both play necks. Coming to the King's Theatre. double roles, in fact, and create for tions. themselves a host of amusing situa-

to the King's. The

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