1937-03-04 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1937.

Commentary On

Gold Cup Race

At Cheltenham

Today's Wireless

12.30-215 pm.-European Programme

12.30 p.m.-Pianoforte Recital by Wil-

helm Backhaus.

12.50 p.m.-Three songs by Essie Ack-Vocal

́land (contralto).

1 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and Wea-|

ther Report

1.03 p.m.--Light Orchestral Music. 1.30 pm-Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.

1.40 p.m. Variety.

2 pm-Concert Waltzes.

215 pm-Close down.

5-9 pm--European Programme.

5 p.m.-A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel

6 pm. From the Studio. A Children's Concert.

6.30 p.m.-The London Symphony

chestra.

ZBW 355 M. 845 kc's

The Bobo's Spring Song,

The Hill Billies. The way you look to-night,

Leslie Hutchinson. Piano Solo-

Three dances in syncopation,

Billy Mayerl.

(a) English Dance,

(b) Cricket Dance, (c) Harmonica Dance. Vocal-...

Have you forgotten so soon?

Greta Keller.

7:30 pm-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

Or-7.35 p.m.-- Primo Scala's Accordeon

Band.

Theme and Variations from Suite

No. 3 in G (Tchaikowsky).

Chanson Sans Paroles (Tchaikowsky) 655 pm- Variety Programme.

Organ Solo

Popular Selection......Cor Steyn. Vocal--

Sweet Sue, just you,

Instrumental

Fill-Billy Medley.

In a Gypsy Caravan.

Old Ship-o' mine,

Song of the lift.

"On With The Show" Selection. You can't pull the wool over my eyes. 8 p.m.- Local: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

The Four Crotchets. 8.03 p.m.-From the Studio.

A Chinese Concert. 11 pm-Close down.

Goodnight Vienna

Humorous-~~

Len Fillis.

Gert and Daisy and the tandem,

Elsie & Doris Waters. Instrumental-Leobner March,

Old Styrian "Hackbrett"

BRIDGE NOTES

8.05-11.15 p.m.-European programme.

from ZEK.·

8:05 pm- Elsie Suddaby (soprano) and Evelyn Howard-Jones (piano- forte).

By ELY CULBERTSON

End Of A Torture

"If South, on the hand just play-, If this was his theory I must say ed, had gone down a couple of that it turned out beautifully.

of "North opened the queen thousand points I have no doubt that his partner would have risen hearts, and South correctly un- to the occasion with a few choice blocked by putting up the king. words. But the enormity of 4,000 West allowed this to hold, but won points seemed to have a direct ef-the heart continuation with the fect on his vocal chords. At any rate, although his mouth opened and closed several times nothing intelligible came out.

ace. Count of tricks must have. left West with a hollow feeling, because he certainly could not count past seven. I must say. “While on this subject, chief, I however, that West went about am afraid that I never was cut out snaffling the other two tricks in for this job of contract bridge spy. a workmanlike fashion. He led a I am much too chicken-hearted. Ispade to dummy's ace and pushed don't mind witnessing ordinary the queen of diamonds through punishment, but the torture that South. Evidently West knew that North and South had absorbed in South covered every honour in this rubber would have made Tor-sight, because he did it again this quemada blanch. Fortunately, the time, and West's black ace killed coup de grace came swiftly on the the king. Then West cashed his following hand.

"South, dealer.

"Both sides vulnerable.

• NORTH

·S-10 84.3 H-Q J 10 7 D.-6 5 C-5.43

WEST S.-E. 7 6 2

H. A 6 5 4 DA

C-AK Q 2

· EAST SA 9 H9-82 D-QJ8732

C

SOUTH

S.-Q.3.5 H-K3 DK 10.94 CJ 109:6

"The bidding: South West

North-East”

Pass 1 club Pass 1 diamond Pass 3 no trump Pass Pass

Bouble Redouble [fmal bid]--

king of spades and led the ace, king, and queen of clubs, after which he exited with a spade. South won and cashed his good club, but with nothing left except the 10-9-4 of diamonds, had to re- turn the ten spot. Declarer calm- ly allowed him to win this trick, and South was then forced to con- ceded the last two tricks by lead- ing up to dummy's tenace.

"Obviously, the contract would have been defeated if South had correctly waited to cover the sec- fond diamond honour. There was no point whatever in covering the queen.

This was a fitting finale to an amazing rubber. East and West took the rubber with 400 points below the line for the redoubled contract instead of suffering 1,000 point defeat. On the previously

This time it was West who South should hav

I thought had taken leave of his with a senses. His three no trump bid represen was, an out-and out stab, and his ceeding, redouble on top of it was no less amoui than horrible. Of course, South's points." double was optimistic, but in- finitely scander than West's re- Qu double. The only explanation posthe sible for West's bidding was that hand he correctly figured that South res

was demoralised by the presion

three hands and that he could pick

pened

one spade Next

hat should be my

owing:

up a couple of tricks in the play. Answer: Two spades,

·ZEK 640 k.e's

Pianoforte Solos→→

(a) Prelude and Fugue, No. 11, in

F Major,

(b) Prelude, No. 12, in F Minor

(Bach).

Soprano Solo

Oh, yes, just so ("Phoebus and

Pan" Bach).

Pianoforte Solo-

Prelude and Fugue, No. 17 in A

Flat Major (Bach).

Soprano Solos....

O sleep! why dost thou leave me?!

("Semele" Handel).

Ave Maria ("Cavalleria Rusticana”

-Mascagni).

8.30 p.m.-The BBC. Wireless Military

Band.

(Boïelieu).

The Caliph of Bagdad-Overture

Lynwood-March (Ord Hume), Prairie Flower—March (Ord Hume). Dance of the flowers-Valse

(Delibes), Slavonic Dance No. 5 (Dvorak,

arr. Williams). Vanity Fair-Overture (Fletcher). 8.55 pm-London News and An

nouncements.

Page

Children's Concert From

The Studio

Played by the Walther Straram Or

chestra of Paris. Columbia EX 300/303

9.48 pm-A Recital by Georges Thill

(Tenor). S

Elegie (Massenet), Fortunio (Messager).

Barchetta (Lena & Hahn), Enlevement (Bordese & Levade).

10 p.m.-London-Big Ben.

Dance Music.

Fax-Trot-

My red letter day,

I'm in a dancing mood.

Are you in love with me again?

When you're smiling.

Everybody dance,

My, what a diff'rent night.

Slow Fox-Trot-

The Japanese · Sandman.

Fax-Trot-Drummer goes to Town. Rumba-Spanish Jake.- Waltz-A gift from heaven

The National 10.30 p.- London

Hunt Meeting. A commentary on the race for the Gold Cup. From Cheltenham.

10.55 p.m.-London-Bransby Williams in a selection from his repertoire of character studies. (Electrical Re- cording).

9.15 pm-Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

-Suite (Richard Strauss), Op. 60, 11.15 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

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VOWS.

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"China Clipper"-With Pat O'Brien, Alexander, Beverley Roberts, Ross.

all. Humphreys Bogart and Henry B. Wait- A glamorous romance of the air, in the pictorial marking a milestone history of daring American “aviation, coming to the King's Theatre.

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