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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1937.

Light Hungarian

S

Melodies

By Albert Eddy

A

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 The London Palladium Orches-

tra.

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

ther Report

1.03 p.m.-Dance Music and Variety. 1.30 Reuter Press; Local:- Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements. 1.40 p.m.-Charlie Kunz at the Piano. 2 pm--Vocal Gems.

2.15 p.m. Close Down 5-8-p.m.--European Programme.

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

6.30 pm The BBC. Wireless Sin

gers.

Morning Papers-Vocal Waltz

(Craig and Strauss).

It was a lover and his lass (Shakespeare and Morley, arr. Bridge)

(a) Where the Bee sucks

(Shakespeare and Arne, arr. Shaw) (b) Come let us join the roundelay

(Beale)

6.43 p.m.-Th Boston Promenade Or- * chestra.

BOBBERA

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's :

Op. 20, No. 2). Apres un reve (G Faure-Pablo Casals) Maurice Marechal

Tenor Solos-

Te revoir (Dalleri, d'Angelys and

Parera)..

Les fleurs c'est de l'amour (Mon-

tier and Tillymoon)

Tino Rossi.

Violin Solos

La fille aux cheveux de lin

(Debussy). Hungarian Dance No. 1 (Brahms- Joachim) Grisha Goluboff. Soprano Solo-

When a woman smiles

(Vivian Ellis). Goodbye, little dream, goodbye

(Cole Porter)

Yvonne Printemps.

Duet

Joshua fit de battle ob Jericho

(am. Brown) ....Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown.

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ZEK 640 K

Eddy (Pianoforte).

8 pm Local: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 A Relay from the Po Hing Thea-

tre (Chinese).

11 p.m.-Close Down: 8.05-11 pm.-European Programme

from ZEK.

8.05 pm-Orchestre Raymonde.

A Musical snuff box (liadow). Chanson d'amour (Suk)."

By the sleepy lagoon (Coates). Electric girl (Helmburgh Holmes). A might on the waves (Finnish

Waltz), (Koskimas).

Delibes in Vienna (arr. Walter). Berceuse (Jarnefelt).

8.30 p.m.---Musical Comedy Gemsi

Page

Jack Hylton,

am & D Else Carasie

Did I remember?

Jack Hylton

Orchestra.

Lost my rhythm, fost

music,

Song

lost my man.

Dinah Miller.

Fox-Trots

Darktown Strutters' Ball.

A broken doll.

Darktown Strutters.

Humorous

A surrealist alphabet.

Clapham and Dwyer. Fax-Trats

When the poppies bloom again. Serenade in the night.

Ambrose and His Orchestra. Violin Solo

Melody at dusk

Albert-Sandler.

Fox-Trots--

You

A pretty girl is like a melody.

Roy Fox and H

"Miss Hook of Holland”

Light Opera Company.

"Wild Violets"

Maria Eisner and Martin Kraemer

(Duet).

"Mercenary Mary”,

Song

Columbia Vocal Gem Chorus.

With all my heart:

p.m.-London News and An- nouncements.“

Band

"Xerxes" (Handel)—Largo. "Caucasian Sketches" (Ippolitow-7.30 p.m.--Closing local Stock Quota- Iwanow)--Procession of the Sardar. tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar-18.55

Entry of the Boyards-March

Jealousy-Tango Tzigane

ket Report.

(Halvorsen)-17.35 p.m.-The Hill Billies,

Jump on the wagon Susanna from Alabama. Old Faithful.

(Jacob Gade).

7 pm-Light Concert Items.

'Cello Solos--

Serenade Espagnole (Glazounow,

BRIDGE NOTES

7.45 pm. From the Studio.

Light Hungarian Melodies by Albert

By ELY CULBERTSON

"Only A Trick"

9.15 p.m.-A Recital by Luigi Fort

(Tenor).

The Pearl Fishers (Zanardini

Bizet).

Faust (Lanzieres-Gounod).

Ay, ay, ay (Perez and Freire). "Mignon" (Thomas) Farewell, Mig-

non

9.30 pm-Variety and Dance Music.

Organ Solo-

Medley of serenades:

Al Bollington.

Fox-Trot-`

The Fleet's in Port again.

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. Songs-

Have you forgotten so soon?

Elsie Carlisle.

Ship ahoy march.

Sex songs medley.

Massed Bands

Marines.

Song-

of the Royal

"Show Boat"-Dan't help lovin'

dat man..

Marie Burke and the Mississippi

Sextette...

10 p.m.-London Big Ben. 10.32 --- p.m.-London-Haunting Har- monies by Michael Cole and Bert Marland

10.45 pm London “Suggestions for your Book List”—5. A: Talk by Wil- liam Plomer (Electrical Recording), 11 pm-Clase: Downs Comp

How many players, I wonder, shaded side, but it did have the have troubled to consider the large virtue of advertising the points lost over an appreciable per-spade stopper and balanced distri- iod of time through the occasional |bution. Had East passed on this dropping of just one trick? The ac-round he might have been embar- cumulation, I venture to say, would | rassed later for the correct bid. surprise them! In the long run, South's rebid was inexcusable. each lost trick will be found to cost After North's spade raise South something in the neighbourhood of had excellent defence against a no 250 points. (This is taking into trump contract, and little reason to account that, at times, a trick may think he himself might go game. cost as little as 20 points and, at As a matter of fact had South cor- other times, when a slam is lost rectly passed to two no trump West that should have been won, well would have been sorely pressed to over 1,000 points.) Assuming an find the correct game contract.

rubbers (which Four hearts could have been made, widow," with Maurice Chevalier and Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows

AT THE MAJESTIC—"The Merry average of seven

"Pennies From Heaven"--with Bing average five hands each) to the but it is much more likely that Jeanette MacDonald. The most po- and Louis Armstrong. The gayest session, and further assuming that West would have chosen three nopular operetta of all times.

fun-show of the new season. Coming a player makes only five mistakes trump, which would have been de

to the King's (which puts him in the expert feated easily. The three spade bid AT THE STAR-Mummy's Boys, class), the loss per session is resolved West's difficulty. He sim-with Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool- roughly 1,250 points. Of course, it ply doubled! **

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE KING'S "The Garden of won world-wide acclaim in Let's Sing Allah," with Marlene Dietrich, Charles Again" who enacts the part of a boy Boyer and Joseph Schildrant The im- tenor with a lonely, heart as he pines mortal love story of Domini Efilden for the Southland while imprisoned in gin life anew and there meets a hand-grandmother's New York mansion. who flees to the Algerian desert to be the unkind atmosphere of an austre. some Trappist monk who has filed from

will be a great deal more if the, West opened the diamond king errors occur on "swing hands" and continued with the four. East But let us stick to the 1,250; and won and cashed the third diamond multiply that sum by the number trick, after which he led a fourth of sessions played in a year. The round to let West kill the declarer's result is apt to be a severe head diamond trick with a ruff West ache!

duly ruffed with the nine and the declarer committed the inexcusable (but common) error of overrufing with dummy's king. After that de clarer still had to lose two trump tricks, two hearts, and a club. Had he correctly discarded a heart from the dummy while West ruffed the diamond he would have saved 300 points of his absurd 1,100 point "sacrifice."

In to-day's hand the declarer dropped just one trick"-in the play! His bidding was much worse.

East, dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

NORTH

·S.—K 5′′3

E-984

WEST S.-10.97

D-7·52

C.-K 10 8 5

EAST SQJ 6

H-K Q 6-5 3 H-J 10

D. K 4

DA Q 93

C—AJ74

SOUTH

-4-87 42

A-7 2

D-J

The bidding:

East

South West

2 no trump 3 spades Double

Pass

Pass

1 diamond 1 spade 2 hearts

North

2spades Pass

TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: What are the require- ments for a raise of one no trump to two no trump? :

^ Answer: (a) One and one-half honour tricks in at least two suits,

Or

(b) One plus honour trick when the strength is divided among three suits and the band as a whole con- tains four or more honour cards, or

(c) One plus honour trick in two suits provided the hand contains a five card suit headed by the queen Most of the bids were of ques-for any higher card, or tionable soundness South's first - (d) One honour trick in the hand overcall was none too robust, and with any six card suit if the hon- the same comment applies to our trick is in at least two suits North's free raise. East's free re-and the six card suit is headed by bid of no trump, also, was on the queen or a higher card.

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