1937-03-06 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1937.

Commentary On

Badminton

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Championships

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme.

12.30 p.m.-Marek Weber and His Or-

chestra

1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Wes-

ther Report.

1.03 pm-A Light Concert.

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

1.40 p.m.-Dance Music-Old and New. 2.15 p.m.--Close down.

4-7 pm-Chinese Programme.

7 p.m. - 12.30 am. ----

European

gramme.

Pro-

7 p.m.-Muriel Brunskill (contralto)

with Pablo Casals (Cello).

'Cello Solos--

Toccata in M Major-Adagio

(Bach),

Goyescas-Intermezzo (Granados), Contralto Solos-

"Songs of the Hebrides"—

(Kennedy-Fraser)-Kishmul's

Galley, In Hebrid Seas.

'Cello Solos-

Musette (Bach-Pollain), Mazurka, Op. 11 No. 3 (Popper). Contralto Solos

Sink, red sun

(Coleridge & del Riego), The Banks of Allan Water

(Old Scottish Ballad).

'Cello Solo→→

Apres un reve (Gabriel Faure). 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-1

BRIDGE NOTES

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

tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report

7.33 p.m.-The Bournemouth Municipal

Orchestra.

Pique Dame Overture (Suppe). Fluttering Birds (Gennin), Idylle Bretonne (Gennin). Chanson Triste (Tschaikowsky,

arr. Stewart). Oriental Dance Novelty Duet

(White).

A Fairy Ballet (White).

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

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-A Variety Programme.

Piano Solo-

Popular Hits-No. 2,

Patrical Rossborough Vocal-Down in the valley,

Max Miller (Comedian). Hawaiian-Swanee Moon,"

George. Elliott's Hawaiian

Novelty Quartet.

Vocal-

I found a bit of Paris in the heart

of old New York, It's a thrill all over again,

Lucienne Boyer. Organ Solo-

Musica Proibita (Gastaldon),

Pragmatic Side

"Dear Mr. Culbertson:

"Very truly yours,

Marcel Palotti.

By ELY CULBERTSON

Of Bid

be-double-dummy play!

non-

Richard Tauber.

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Vocal-Simple little melody,

Instrumental

My kingdom for a kiss,

Raymond Baird (Saxophone). Vocal-Alice Delysia Memories,

Alice Delysia (Soprano). Band-

"Queen of hearts" Selection, "It's love again”—Selection,

Sydney Kyte and His

Piccadilly Hotel Band. Vocal

Aloha Oe (Farewell to thee),

Bing Crosby.

Instrumental--

Evergreens of Jazz (No. 1),

Scott Wood and His Six Swingers Vocal-

South Sea Island Magic,

The Street "Singer. I've got you under my skin, Rap tap on wood,

Frances Langford. So do I, One, two, button four shoe,

Bing Crosby, Organ-Six Great Melodies-No. 2,

Harold Ramsay. and 9.15 p.m.-London News

Popular Hits

Of Long Ago

At 9:30 To Night

nouncements.

9.35 p.m.-Popalar Hits of Long Ago.

Twenty-five years of popular song,

Columbia Vocal Gem Company. Songs that everybody should know,

Stuart Robertson (bass-baritone). -Dixieland-Selection,

Debroy Somers Band.

10 p.m.-London-Big Ben

A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong ***Hotel

11 p.m.-London The all England Badminton Championships. A com- mentary on the Finals-from-the Royal Horticultural Hall, London 11.15 p.m. London-Dance Music (Re-

corded);

1145 pm-London--The Royal Navy F. The Army.. A running commen- tary on the second half of the Inter Service Rugby Union Football Match, by Captain B. T. Wakelam 12.30 am-Close down. Additional programme from ZEK. on a frequency of 640 kilocycles.

China "A" y 4.10-5.45 p.m.- South

Club de Recreio. A running com--- mentary on the Soccer football match, by Frank V. Read. Relayed from the Sookunpoo Ground. An- 15.45 p.m.Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

"Craig's

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AT THE KING'S "The Garden of fun-show of the new seasori. Coming Allah," with Marlene Dietrich, Charles to the King's. Boyer and Joseph Schildraut. The im- mortal love story of Domini Bilden who flees to the Algerian desert to be- Russell and John Boles. The Pulitzer The story of a woman gin life anew and there meets a hand- Prize play a Monastery after taking the eternal conceived and makes you hate her as Some Trappist monk who has fied from who lived for the strongest love ever you never hated a screen player before. vows. This time in technicolour.

Coming to the King's, Theatre,

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MAJESTIC THEATRE — “Anthony Adverse", with Frederic March and "China Clipper With Pat O'Brien, Olivia de Havilland. Filmed on a Beverley Roberts, Ross Alexander, hall A glamorous romance of the air, grand scale, from the famous novel by Humphreys Bogart and Henry B. Walt marking a milestone in the pictorial history of daring American “aviation, coming to the King's Theatre.

Hervey Aller.

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Nevertheless, despite the evident "There is nothing remarkable agreement of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. about the hand I am inclosing, but N. that four spades "simply could it was the cause of a mild argu- not be made," we find that it should ment between my wife and myself. have been made by correct

'mild' I can truthfully say

see, no great From the postscript of the letter cause, as you will

from the we learned that West opened the catastrophe resulted four spade contract we reached. Nine diamond jack. East, of course, took

STAR THEATRE-“A Lady Con- tricks were cold and the tenth sim-the king and ace and then undoubt- ply could not be made, so the one edly shifted to a club. Declarer | sents", starring Ann Harding and Her-

"Satan Met A Lady”— with Bette trick penalty was cheerfully con- should have drawn two rounds of bert Marshall. The film has the theme

husband into the arms of another worth, Arthur Treacher and Winifred ceded. The point of the matter is trumps, cashed the other two club of woman who dares to send her Davis, Warren William, Alison Ste

South, tricks, and then attacked the heart woman in order

to that my wife, who was

prove to him that Shaw. A new thriller from the author fe that he loves. of "The Thin Man" which will keep thought I overbid in jumping her suit properly. With the heart situa-it really is his

you-in-laughter from start to finish, tion in dummy, and his own hand opening spade bid to three. Did I?

AT THE ORIENTAL "Bengal coming to the King's.

* what it was, only one line of play

* had a reasonable chance of holding Tiger" with June Travis, Warren Hall

and Joseph King. A melodramatic "Under Your Spell with Lawrence the loss to one heart trick. That thrill packed story of circus life. Tibbett Wendy Barrie, Gregory Ratoff was to play a small heart to the

and Arthur Treacher. A roughhouse face and return one from the dum-

romance that hits the high spots of my on the hope that either defen

comedy, action, rhythm and excitement. der had started with a doubleton

Coming to the Queen's Theatre. honour. This was by no means a remote chance, but, anyway, it was the only chance! As it happened East held a doubleton queen and QUEEN'S THEATRE "Rainbow On would be forced to win the second The River," starring-Bobby Green, who

"Mummy's Boys," with Bert Wheeler heart lead. (It could do West no won world-wide acclaim in "Let's Sing and Robert Woolsey. A pair of ama- Igood to overtake, nor would it mat-Again”, who enacts the part of a boteur-archaeologists defy the curse that tenor with a lonely heart as he pines has already slain ten intruders in the ter if East should unblock the for the Southland while imprisoned in tomb of the Pharaoh Pharatime. Com- queen on the ace. His ten still the unkind atmosphere of an austre ing to the Stat would be a blocking card) East grandmother's New York mansion. could not exit without giving de- clarer a ruff and a discard, and thereby his tenth trick.

"ANN."

"P. S. West opened the diamond jack. Not that it mattered."

South, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

WEST

S--J.5

NORTH

SA Q 83 H-A 8.42 D.6 2 C-9 8-5

H K 975.

D.-J 10:9

C-10 7 4.3

EAST S--10:4 H-Q 10

D-AK 8743

C—J 620

SOUTH

SAK 97 6.2

HJ63

DQ 5 CAK Q

The bidding:"" South

-TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: Please give the correct bidding of the following hands. held by my partner and myself. West started the bidding with one diamond, but that was the last time the opponents entered the auction.

NORTH

SOUTH S-8 6 5 4 3.2 H-J3 D—6 5 4

West-North East 1 spade Pass B spades Pass 4 Spades Pass Pass Pass

It would be difficult to find a hand that could more exactly illue-S-K Q-I 9 trate the pragmatic side of bidding. H-A K 10 5 The Culbertson system of raises D.-None includes this rule: "Raise partner's C—A QJ 6 3 suit bid to three with at least four Answer: Over trumps, to the jack or better, a North should bid two diamonds, doubleton, and at least two and and the bidding should proceed as

one-half honour tricks in the follows. hand. But, as I say in my Gold | NORTH Book, the responding hand must 12 diamonds remember that the double raise is 3 clubs forcing to game, and should find 5 spades

one diamond

SOUTH

spades

3 spades

6 spades

some other response with a weak South's six card suit and club looking, hand, particularly whenking are sufficient for him to bid there is no more than che honour six after North's trick outside of the trump suit. ding

strong bid

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ALHAMBRA THEATRE — “It's Great To Be In College", with Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley and the Yacht Boys. The funniest and fastest football frolic. Lasses and passes, half-backs and wise cracks, and touch-downs.

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~COMING PICTURES

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"The Flying Hostess", with "William Gargan, Judith Barrett and William Hall. A thrilâng romance of the skies. Coming to the Alhambra

“The Man Who Lived Twice” with Ralph Bellamy, Marian Marsh and Isabel Jewell. A blood-chilling, drama "Pennies From Heaven"with Bing of a killer resurrected and transformed Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows into a reputable and eminent surgeon. and Louis Armstrong. The gayest Coming to the King's,

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