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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1937.

Pianoforte Recital

By Harry Ore

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.10 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m.-Dance Music.

1 pm-Local: Time Signal and Wen-

ther Report

1.03 p.m. Light Opera and Musical

Comedy Excerpts.

1.25 p.m.-Renter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements...!

1.40 p.m-Relay of the Rotary Club Tiffin Speech from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.

Mr. D. L. Strellet on: "The Composer and His Hire," with reference to the work of the Performing Rights So- ciety.

2.10 p.m.-Close down.

4-7-p.m.--Chinese Programme.

7-11 p.m.-European Programme.

7 p.m.Duke Ellington and His Or

chestra.

Fox-Trot-

Cotton.

Three little words,

Ring dem bells.

Jazz convulsions,

Moon over Dixie.

Jolly Wog,

Birmingham Breakdown.

BRIDGE NOTES

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's :

Slow. Fox-Trot-

Black and Tan fantasy, Fox-Trot Black Beauty.

7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m. From the Studio.

Eileen FitzGerald (Violin) and Li- lian Quinn (Soprano).

1. Songs

I did not know. Lovers in the lane,

Geehl,

Liza Lehmann.

2.

Violin Solos-Selected.

3.

Songs-

Chinese Flower

Bowers.

Forster.

I wonder if love is a dream,.

4. Violin Solo--Selected.

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

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.Primo

Band.

Scala's Accordeon

Six Hits of the day. (Series 4). Hill-Billy Medley.

Six Hits of the day (Series 6).

By ELY CULBERTSON

Direct Slam Tries

An opening no trump bid of more)in diamonds. Witness the fact that information than game, like all no trump bids, South had gained no is based on 4-3-3-3-distribution. An|from his partner by the bid (since opening bid of four no trump shows North had merely signed off at four about 'eight ́and one-half ⠀ honour spades), but still had jumped dî- on his next tricks with ten sure winners in high rectly to six spades cards. It is almost impossible that turn. Against other players in the a hand should contain more than South position I would not open a eight and one-half honour tricks, diamond, because I would strongly that but if there are eleven sure, win-suspect a double-cross, i.e., ners the proper bid is five no they

ZEK 640 k.c's.

The Duck Song,

Twenty Miles to Nowhere. Riding the Range in the sky..

Gracie Fields. 8.30 p.m.- Songs by Les Allen and

Les Allen-

Don't kiss me good-night. Gracie Fields-

A feather in her Tyrolean hat. Les Allen-Radio requests, Gracie Fields—

Ring down the curtain.

My lucky day.

Les Allen,

At the close of a long long day, A melody from the sky.

Gracie Fields-Melody. at dawn. 8.55 p.m.- London --- News and·· An-

nouncements.

9.15 p.m.-From the Studio.,

Pianoforte Recital by Harry Ore with Hilda Arnold (Violoncello),

1. Hilda Arnold-

2. Harry Ore

Elegy and Gavotte...Harry Ore.

Four Children's Pieces,

Tschaikowsky.

(a) Morning Prayer, (b) Neapolitan Song, (c) Song of the Lark. (d) In Church.

3. Harry Ore-

Jeux d'eau

Kavel.

9.35 p.m.-Prelude în C Sharp Minor:. (Sergei Rachmaninoff), Op. 8 No. 2. Played by the Victor Concert Orches- tra, directed by Rosario Bourdon 9:40 p.m. From the Studio.

World Affairs"

Talk By Mr. H.

Wickham Steed

Helen Lockhart (Contralto) with Short Talk by E. O'Neil Shaw.

1. Do not go, my lovej -

Richard Hageman.

2. Remembrance Frederick Peel. 3. Nod C. Armstrong Gibbs. 4. Wood Magic

Martin Shaw. 10 p.m-London-Big Ben "World Affairs talk by H. Wickham Steed. 10.17 p.m.-Variety and Dance Music.

Slow Fox-Trot--SorrOW,

Coleman Hawking and the Berries. Slow. Fox-Trot-Love Cries,

Coleman Hawking and the Berries. Humorous-

Bats in the Belfry,

·Piano: Sòlöïíííí

Flotsam and Jetsam.

In the Chapel in the moonlight,

Peter Yorke. Fox-Trot

Head over heels, There's that look in your eyes

again..Ambrose and His

Pantomime

Orchestra.

Sketch—“Cinderella”—(A ́· Burlesque Effie Atherton, Berthe Willmott, Bobbie Comber, Leonard Henry and Company. Fox-Trat

May I have the next Romance?

Ambrose & His Orchestra.

Band

From Monday on,

She's funny that way,

Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins. Fox-Trot-

Sing something in the morning, Waltz-No more,

Roy Fox and His Orchestra.

A Programme of Modern Music by 111 pm--Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE QUEEN'S "Plough and paced, brightly humourous movie story the Star", Sean O'Casey's drama, 'about modern night clubs and race which is the basis of the Barbara Stan-horses at the Sante Anita race track, wyck-Preston Foster film of the same name, is called the greatest drama of

COMING PICTURES one of the leading American play the suspicion that they wright. Deeply dramatic, it is the "White Hunter” with Warner Bax- diamond story of a young Irish girl for whom ter and June Lang-in a thrilling story

the were trying to avoid a

life and love, are twisted and almost of two people amid

menace of Coming to the These bids may be raised once open. Obviously, in these guessing destroyed by the insurrection in Dublin: savage passions.

Queen's. for every queen or higher card. contests you must know your op-

Consider the following]: Any five card (suit, no matter how ponents. weak, should be bid, and over a four hand.

North, dealer. no trump bid the responder may

Both sides vulnerable. jump to six in any six card longer suit.

trump, and with twelve sure win-myre attempting to create in the 20th century by Maxwell Anderson,

ners six no trump.

or

But if the opening bid is six no trump do not bid seven in a worth- less five or six card suit. Partner may have bid six no trump on a hand such as:

WEST

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S—A Q ̈J 10 HAK Qʻ DAK QS—A‍K 4

C-A K Q

If you bid seven-in à suit which D-10.6.2 does not contain the missing king the grand slam may well be lost.

Opening Leads

serve

NORTH

S$ HK 4

D AK 95 3 C—A Q 6:5/2

EAST

AT THE ORIENTAL “Gold Dig- gers of 1937, with Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell "Under Cover of Night" with Ed- and Lee Dixon. A happy melange. mund Lowe, Florence: Rice, Sarah Ha- The, signing of a million dollar insur-den and Nat Pendleton. One of the most ance policy and the medical examin-nique mystery stories to reach the

screen. The story is placed in a great... ation are a sure cure for the blues.

College with a background of science

AT THE KING'S "Son's O' Guns" for the mysterious crimes. This is un- usual and stirs the intereat from the with Joe E. Brown and Joan Blondell start with Lowe, as the sleuth. Com- A pure comedy dealing with the gay ing to the King's. and not the grim side of the World -10-9-7-6-5 32 War. 28.3.2

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C-K 10 9 8

SOUTH S-Q J

A Q 10 9 5 Q.87

4.3

The biding:

East

South

West

Pass Pass

1 heart Pass

A great many correspondents ask me the correct opening lead on such and such a hand against certain bidding. I do my best to them by selecting a lead which is North academically correct, but am tempt. 1 dia.

2 hearts Pass ed to have a rubber stamp made to 2 clubs

3 no t'mp. Pass use on all such inquiries, pointing clubs Pass Pass Pass out that in the department of open-

some It should be quite obvious to any ing leads particularly quaintance with one's opponents player in West's seat that South's bidding tendencies is essential final three no trump is an out and Perhaps I should explain this. Let out stab. His failure to bid two us assume that I sit West when the no trump, after his partner had shown the two minor suits, is in- following bidding takes place:

disputable evidence that he does South West North

not actually like a no trump con- "Pass › -3 apader

tract. He cannot be well fixed In 4 spades

spades, and any opening lead other than the spade king by Weat, shows a pitiful lack of imagination. Ob- viously, on that lead, East should signal with the highest possible card, the ten, and on a spade con- tinuation the Con

la severely [defeated.

1 spade

4 diamonds.Pass

East Pass Pass

6 spades

(North-South do not use asking

bids.)

My hand, from which I must ae lect an opening lend, is

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some platers

as I

that their partici

It out lmost

Bridge

tality had proj mond bid solely as

Tead p

Also, obviously, North and South should have played the band at four hearts. North should have raised the hearts after South's re- id, and six hearts would be made. good breaks, in, trumps,

clubs.

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“Mind Your:. Own Business.”—- With Charles Ruggles, Alice Brady, Lyle AT THE STAR "Steamboat Round Talbot. Benny Baker and Frankie' the Bend", with Will Rogers, Eugene Darro. The tale of a nature writer Pallette, Stepin Fetchit and Irvin S. who has bees in his bonnet as well as Cobb. A love story of a swamp girl his column and a wife who gets him and a river pilot and the comedy feud into a tangle that it takes a general between the late Bill Rogers and Irwin alarm to unravel. Coming to the

3. Cobb who play a pair of rival boat Queen's. captains.

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some of the most delightful music. heard for a long while. The música, background is provided – by Strauss

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