1937-04-19 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1937

Tea-dance Music

From Hotel

Roof Garden

Today's Wireless

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

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m. Light Opera and Musical

Comedy.

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press; Local: Wea- ther Forecast, Time and Announce- ments.

1.40 p.m.-Reginald

Cinema Organ.

Dixon at the

2 p.m.-A Recital by Lucienne, Boyer

(Soprano).

2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

5-8 p.m.-European: Programme.

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

6.30 p.m.-A Light Orchestral Concert.

Orchestral

Falling Leaves (Kennedy-Carr). Piccadilly (Meskill, Harvey and

Carr).

Ambrose and His Orchestra. Soprano Solo-

Pastorale (arr. Lane Wilson),

Elisabeth Schumann.

Orchestral

The Jester at the Wedding

(Coates).

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's :

ZEK 640 k.c's.

tions and Hong Kong Exchange[ 8.58 p.m.--Bing Crosby (Vocal) with

Market Report.

7.35 p.m.--Variety.

Orchestra-

Talking Film Memories.

Salon Orchestra.

Vocal--

When the poppies bloom again.

Turner Layton.

Band-

Rumba Medley.

Cubana Marimba Band.

Vocal Gems—~~

"The King: Steps Out."

Orchestra and Chorus.

Orchestral

My Dream-Waltz. The Bohemians.

Vocal-

He's an Angel

Turner Layton.

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

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-Relay from the Tai

Thestre (Chinese).

11 p.m.-Clogs Down

Eric Coates and Symphony Or-8.05-11 p.m.-European

chestra.

Tenor Solo-

Under the Lilac Bough (Clutsam)

Derek Oldham.

Orchestral

Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin).

Boston Orchestra.

7 p.m.--Scottish Songs.

Mary Morrison (arr. Moffat).

John Edington, (Tenor).

The Auld Scots Sangs (Bethune and

Leeson-arr. Moffat).

Margaret F. Stewart (Soprano).

Star, o' Robbie Burns (Booth).

The Auld Hoose (Nairne).

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

7.13 p.m.-"Review of Revues

broy Somers Band.

by De-

7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

BRIDGE NOTES

Made

From ZEK.

Reginald Foort (Organ). Vocal

Song of the Islands,

Alpha oe (Farewell to thee). Organ Sglo-

Medley of Daly's Favourites. Vocal-

Me and the Moon.

South Sea Island Magic.

Organ Salo

Lover, come back to me.

Vocal-

Robins and Roses.

Transatlantic Rhythm" Medley.

Organ Solo

9.30

p.m.-London

News and

nouncements, .

An-

Violin Recital By

Joseph Szigeti

Fox-Treti

Old Sailor

Nun-Yuff and Sun-Yuff. One, two, button, your shoe. Pennies from heaven, -

10.15 p.m(London-Big Ber

Fox-Trot

No other one.

Tango-

Venetian Moon. Fox-Trot-

I'm one step ahead of my

I'll never let you go...

hadew

Is it true what they say about

Dizie?".

Rhythm saved the world. Dream Time,

Lost

Internationalle..

Slow Fox-Trot-

Black Minnie's got the Blues. One-Step

Madam-Ah! La Marquise-Ah! Quick-Step-

I like Bananas,

9.55 p.m.-"Careless Rapture"-Studio Scene (Ivor Novello), by Dorothy Dickson, Olive Gilbert and Ivor No- vello, ace. by the Drury Lane Thea-Fox-Trot tre Orchestra.

Ping10_p.m.-Dance Music.

Rumba

Programme

8.05 p.m.A Violin Recital by Joseph

Szigeti.

Sonata No. 3 in D (Weber, ar

Szigeti).

Cuban Pete..

What's On

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Take my heart.

Waltz

Stars in my eyes.

111 p.m.-Close Down.

At the Cinemas

P

AT THE KING'S—“The Devil Doll", Prize play. The story of a woman Scherzo Walse (Chabrier, arr. with Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O' who lived for the strongest love ever Sullivan and Frank Lawton. Barry-conceived and makes you hate her as Loeffler). Scene de la Czarda, No. 3 (Hun-more portrays a vengeful man who you never hated a screen player before.

a secret method of shrinking Coming to the King's Theatre. garian Gypsy Fantasy), uses (Hubay).

people to minute size without destroy-

“Under Cover of Night" with-Ed- 8.20 p.m.--Scenes de Ballet, Op. 52 ing life.

(Glazounow), played by the New

mund Lowe, Florence Rice, Sarah Ha- AT THE QUEEN'S... “When Your den and Nat Pendleton: One of the most Symphony Orchestra.

Joe E. Brown Ra-Birthday", with

and unique mystery stories to reach the Marian Marsh. Hilarious, with a no-screen. The story is placed in a great vel background, astrology.

College with a background of science for the mysterious crimes. This is un- AT THE ALHAMBRA "Racing qsual and stirs the interest from the Lady", with Ann Dvorak, Smith Bal- start with Lowe as the sleuth. Com- lew, Harry Carey and Bertoning to the King's. Churchill. A drama of the turf with

8.45

p.m.-Song Memories by mona and Her Grand Piano.......... Happy as the day is long. Raisin' the Rent. Turn Back the Clock. Ah! the Moon is Here!

By ELY CULBERTSON

To Order

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the famous : Santa' Aneta: course as “Mind Your Own Business.”— With the setting and providing a thrilling Charles Ruggles, Alice Brady"- Lyle and exciting story with a warm ro- Talbot, Benny Baker and Frankie mance,

Darro. The tale of a nature writer, who has. bees in his bonnet as well as: AT THE MAJESTIC “Gold Dig- his column and a wife who gets him gers Of 1997”, with Dick Powell, Joan into a tangle that it takes a general The hand shown to-day is, I[play. He then leads the jack of Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell alarm to unravel. Coming to the strongly suspect, a figment of some hearts and, whether or not West and Lee Dixon. A happy melange. The Queen's. bridge wag's imagination. It was covera, the ten dropping from signing of a million dollar, insurance

policy and the medical –– examination "Hearts Divided."

with Marion sent to me anonymously with the East's hand promotes four heart are a sure cure for the blues.

Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, and Edward Everett simple question: "How many tricks tricks in the dummy... 1 should West defeat a three no The last three cards in dummy AT THE ORIENTAL——"Champagne Horton, Prince Jerome Bonaparte de- trump contract played by South if will be one heart and the two-miner Waltz", with Gladys Swarthout, Fred fies his brother, the Emperor Napo- he leads his four kings in order of suit nine spots. Declarer keeps the MacMurray Jack Oakie and Herman leon, for the love of his Baltimore. Bing. Gladys Swarthout's excellent sweetheart, Betty Patterson. Coming rank and is allowed to win with ace-jack of clubs and the jack of singing is a major feature, but a to the Oriental

diamonds. -West, at this stage, has bright film, it includes humour, each ?"

"Banjo on My Knee."With Barbara My unknown correspondent did the queen-ten of clubs and the touch of pathos and some of the most

music heard for a long Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West- not suggest how the North-South queen of diamonds.

On the last delightful

while.. The musical background. is ley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett, hands might arrive at such a re-heart South discards his diamond provided by Strauss Waltzes.

Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar- tin. A thrill musicale, depicting the markable contract and, considering jack and West cannot discard-any- that neither has even an opening thing without scuttling: the ship.

"Wives Never tragi-comedy that is the life story of bid, I must confess that I am un A diamond discard establishes dum- Know" with Charles Ruggles, Mary the river-boat people on the Mississippi. able to supply the bidding: So I my's nine spot, and a club discard Boland and Adolphe Menjou, Ruggles Coming to the Queen's.

and Mary Boland in another of their shall confine myself strictly to the allows South to win both the ace inimitable domestic comedies. question. The answer is that, after and jack. West cashes his four kings, he can- not defeat the contract at all. is quite a remarkable hand.

South, dealer.

Neither side vulnerable.

NORTH

-A 8.3 HA 9 5 4 3

6.5

WEST S.-K Q 10 9 H.-K

CK Q.10

C.

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EAST S.--6 5 2

2

D. -KQ 10

H.-10.6 D-8 4 3 2

SOUTH

-A 3.7

AJS

fter taking the four kings, mentioned, West must play into on

of the combined North tenaces.

does

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AT THE STAR

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COMING PICTURES

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I strongly suspect that whoever It sent me the hand was trying to pull

"White Hunter"--with, Warner Bax- my leg, but, far from vesenting this, |- I feel only gratitude for an inter-ter and June Lang in a thrilling story of two people amid the menace of esting althoughs: obviously home-

savage passions. Coming to the made hand.

Queen's.

Incidentally, in self-protection rif for no other reasons Tshade better point out that the contract can be defeated if West, instead of run- ning down the line of his kings, South never sticks to spade leads. can bring off the Vienna coup un- less West helps him.........

TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question; With neither side vul- nerable, the bidding has been as |follows:

Santh West

North

1 heart East held

2 heart he following:

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matter which Should he have made a bid? he selects. Let us suppose that it Answer: East should have is a spade, The queen is taken inled,. There are thres plus-he dummy and

returned to tricks in the hand, but not South's jack. South now cashes, winners for a takeout double

the level of three, his diamond ace.

"Pennies From Heaven"with Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows and Louis Armstrong. The gayest fun-show of the new season. Coming to the King's...

As the Massed Band Concert in aid of the Cheero Club funds is taking place at 9.30 p.m. to-night, readers are reminded that there will be only three cinema performances at the Queen' Rosalind. Thestre to-day at 2.30, 5.15- and and John Boles. The Pulitzer, p.m.

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