1937-04-05 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1937.

The Moana Beach

Boys

From The Studio.

12.30-2.15 p.m. European Progr 12.30-Dance Music.

LINK AK

Today's Wireless

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

ther Report.

1.03-A Recital by Lucienne Boyer

(Soprano).

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

Songs by Jack Hylton and His Or- chestra.

1.16 p.m.-Piano Memories by Ronald 7.40 p.m. From the Studio.

Gourley.

1.30 Reuter Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements. 1.40-Light Orchestral Concert. 2:15 p.m.-Close-Down.

5-8 p.m.-European Programme.

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

6.30 p.m.-Light Opera.

""The Bohemian Girl” Vocal Gems

(Balfe)

Light Opera Company: "Maid of the Mountain" (Fraser-

Simson)-Love will find a way, "Merrie England" (German)Waltz

Song

Helene Esserman (Soprano). 6.55 p.m.-Violin Recital by Fritz

Kreigler.

Love's Sorrow,

Love' Joy (Kreisler).

Jota (De Falla).

Dance of the Marionette

(Winternitz).

7.10 p.m.The Bournemouth Municipal

Orchstera.

Idylle Bretonne (Gennin),

Fluttering Birds (Gennin).

Carlsbad Doll Dance (Pleier),...

Oriental Dance (White).

The Moana Beach Boys In the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. 2. Pidgin English Hula.

1.

3. Mexicali Rose,

4A Syncopated Hula Love Song.

5.

Kamaaina.

6. To you, Sweetheart, Aloha.

8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03-A Relay from

the Po Hing

Theatre (Chinese). 11 p.m.-Close Down. 8,05-11 - p.m.--European Programme

from Z.E.K..

8:05 p.m. Sonate in A Major (Cesar Franck), played by Alfred Cortot (Pianoforte) and Jacques Thibaud (Violin).

1st Movement—Allegretto ben

2nd

3rd

4th

moderato.

Allegro. Recitative-

-Allegretto

Fantasia. poco

m0880.

8:39 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.

Wiener Prater Leben (Translateur), Waldeslust (arr. Schlesinger)

Columbia Salon Orchestra. Tosca (arr. Schwartz)

Russian Novelty Orchestra Jollity on the Mountains, (Fetras) ·

Marek Weber and His Orchestra. His Dreamy Waltz (arr. Schwartz) 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota.

Russian Novelty Orchestra. tions and Hong Kong Exchange 8.55 · p.m.-London-News- and An- Market Report.

nouncements.

Intermezzo Pizzicato (Strings),

(Birch),

Crocus Time (de la Riviere).

7.35 p.m.--- A. Selection of Drinking 9.15 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music..

BRIDGE NOTES

By ELY CULBERTSON

Safeguarding Slams

Such a great majority of Bridge 2D (3) players now, use the Four Five No- 5H (5) trump Convention as an insurance Pass

Pass Pass Pass

3H (4) Pass 6H (6) Pasă (7)

of bidding makable Slams and re-1-An alternative would be a Pre- fusing to bid Slams which cannot be made, that it is comparatively

emptive bid in diamons,

rare to see players reach after a 2-North has a very fine hand. Of Slam without the Aces necessary course, the choice of his Open- to produce it.

ing bid is obvious.

A

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"Raymond"-Overture (Thomas)

New Light Symphony-Orchestra. "Britelodia" Selection of British

Melodies (Humphries)

New Mayfair Orchestra. Petersburg Sleigh-Ride Party

(Eilenberg)

Otto Dobrindt and His Concert

Orchestra.

9.30 p.m. Variety.

Vocal-

Blazin' the Trail

Piano Salo

I was Yocal

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Sonat

In A Main

Moon over

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Eric Coates Med

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'ürzer Layton. Elsie Carlisle,

Párty.

Music, by Dick Denny Ragamuffins.

10.35 p.m.-London

Round" presented

"The

Glendenning, Back trical Recordin

The Hill Billies 11.05 p.m.- Close

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE ALHAMBRA, STAR AND **Hearts: Divided! QUEEN'S—"One In A Million." In-Davies, Dick-Powell Olanda troduces lovely Sonja Henie, Queen of Charles Ruggles, and the Silvery Skates, for the first time Horton, Prince Tere to movie fans. In addition to the fies his brother, the world's champion figure-skater, the film leon, for the love includes Adolphe Menjou.

sweetheart, Betty Pa to the Oriental.

AT THE KING'S—“The Lost

“Craig's Horizon", with Ronald Colman, Jane Russell and John Wyatt, H. B. Warner, Margo and Prize play. Edward Everett Horton. A story of who lived for adventure, romance danger and conceived and standing productions of the year. glamour, acclaimed as one of the out-you never hat

Coming to the

"Banjo on M

AT THE ORIENTAL Tarzan Stanwyck, Joel Escapes", with Johnny Weissmuller ley, Buddy Eh and Maureen O'Sullivan. The latest Katherine de M primeval adventure romance based on tin. A thrill the Edgar Rice Burroughs characters.

music.

tragi-comedy that is the the river bes Coming to the Queen's.

AT THE MAJESTIC "The Gay Desperado", with Nino Martini, Ida | Lupino, and Leo Carrillo. **** Something “Bulldog Drummond-B

decidedly different in pictures, with hours after the famous sleuth lands in

A gay and colourful romance England, he finds himself fighting to laid below the Rio Grandes Martini's the life of a beautiful girl and tracking 'glorious voice causes him to be kid- down a desperate, gaur of swindlers. napped by a Mexican bandit chief who Starring Ray Milland, İsit Guy StanH- adopts American gangster methods but ing, Heather Angel, Forter Hall, Be is really a sentimental music-lover.

ginald Danny and E. E. Clive. Coming next to the Queen ashpray!

COMING PICTURES

stars, érooks and would be divorcees Com-descend on the little Canadian hamlet.

Cast includes Jean Hersholt, Roch Hudson, Halen Vingan, Slim, Summe ville, Robert, Kent, Alan, Dinehart, the Quintuplets. Coming to Queen's.

"Reunion."When Dr. Lake brings his 3,000th baby into the world, his youngsters decide on a reunion with the “Avenging Waters" with Ken May. Quints as centrepiece. Some astonish- nard, Beth Marion and Ward Bond. Aing things happen as governors, play roaring romance of the west packed is a strong temptation with spine-thrilling adventures. for South to take stronger actioning to the Alhambra. with its hand in view of his great freak and fit with his partner's suit. However, he de- cides to await developments. His bid, after an opposing Over- call, practically assures other bid from North. - 4A fully justified Rebid.

The other day, however, watch-3-There ing a Rubber game at Crockford's Club, New York,, I saw a partner- ship reach an unmakable, Slam be cause the partners thought they needed no such crutch as the Four- Five Notrump Convention upon which to lean. They felt that their judgment of card values was too accurate to require any system ex- cept their own common sense. The result convinced them of the con- trary.

South, Dealers Both sides vulnerable.

WEST

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NORTH

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FAST

SOUTH

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gures afte bered

North - East 1H (2) 18

an

"White Hunter”—with Warner Bar- ter and June Lang in a thrilling story of two people amid the menace of savage passions. Coming Queen's..

*

the

"Gold Diggera of v1937, 5 with Dick Powell, doar Blondelly Victory Moore, Glenda Farrell and Lee Dizon. A haj py melange, The signing of a millio

"Mind Your Own Business.” With dollar insurance policy and the medical South's hand is very strong dis- Charles Ruggles, Alice Brady, Lyla examination are 1 sure cure for the tributionally and certainly sug-Talbot, Benny Baker and Frankis blues. Coming to the Oriental... gests a Slam. However, the void Darro. The tale of a nature writer

his column and a wife who gets him Crosby, Madge Evans. Edith who has been in his bonnet as well as "Pennies From. Heaven, into a tangle that it takes a general and Louis Armstrong alarm unravel. Coming to the fun-show” of the new nosBON.

to the King's.

in clubs indicates a probable duplication of values -Even though his partner has invited a Slam, North should not bid it. If South were void. of spades he would have shown that fact rather than bid five hearts. It is almost impos- sible that he holds both the dia- mond, Ace-King and the Ace of spades, and it is out of the ques- tion that he holds all✨ three Aces not in North's hand. The "biduoft, fivel hearts, should be -

passed.

Queen's.

While East on the bidding, aps pears to have a reasonably safe | Penalty Double; it would be rather pointless asp at best,ca provi set of one trick is indicated, and a the gain would be only-, 100 points, whereas there is a slight chance on the bidding that North is, void of spades, and that the contract can be made, in which case, if East doubles, North vill probably redouble.

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