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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1937.

Medley By Ozo

And His

Boy Friends:

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m. Carroll Gibbons and His

Boy Friends.

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

ther Repoŕt.

1.03 p.m. A Concert.

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

1.40 p.m.Variety.

2.15 p.m.--Close down.

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

7-11 p.m.-European Programme. 7 p.m. German Music.

Wagner-

Die Walkure"-Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music.....Rudolf Bockelmann (Bass-Baritone) and the Berlin State Opera Orches- tra. "Tristan

Grace

and Isolde" — Full of

Lauritz Melchior! (Tenor) and the London Sym- phony Orchestra.

Mozart-

"The Magic Flute" → Behold the golden sun. .Berlin Children's Mozart Choir.

Max Bruch ^

Kol Nidrei Op. 47,

Gaspar Cassado ("Cello),

BRIDGE NOTES

ZBW 355 M. 845 k,c's ':

ZEK 640 kcs.

Piano Solo.

... Ensemble Double Pianos.

Page

From

London Show

In Itehearsal

On you

There's small

Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyor

"For-Trot-

Magnolias in the Moonlight,

Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra.

lbert and the 'eadsman

Beethoven “Fidelio"-

Leonora's Aria-Abscheulicher, wo

Blue Heaven

eilst du hin?

(Selected)

!

Frida Leider (Soprano).

6.

Poor Butterfly

Vocal:

Humorous

Komm, O. Hoffnung!

7.

Frida Leider (Soprano).

Organ Grinder's Swing (By Re- Ensemble: quest)

Piano Medley-

chestra. Symphony No. 2 in B Minor

1st Movement--Allegro. 2nd

“On Tour Toes"

Fox Trot

(Borodin)

(Suppe).

3rd

4th

7.30 p.m. Closing local Stock Quota-8.30 p.m.-The London Symphony Or-

tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m.-The B.B.C. Wireless Military

Band.

"The Jolly Robbers"-Overture

"From Foreign Parts"-Hungarian Dance (Moszkowski, arr Sommer). Le Reve Passé (Krier & Helmer). Kirkby Malzeard Sword Dance-

Folk Dance (arr. Sharp). Prairie Flower-March, Lynwood-March (Ord Nume).

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

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-From the Studio.

A Jazz Medley by Ozo and His Boy Friends.

Vocal.

1. Japanese Sandman....Ensemble. 2. I'm an old Cowhand. 3. Lover come back to me,

By ELY CULBERTSON

Two For One

-Scherzo- Prestissimo and Allegretto;

--Andante.”

-Finale Allegro. Overture in D Minor (Handel, arr.

Elgar)

9 p.m.-London--"Shows in Rehearsal,

A programme of extracts from a new London production: before its First Night. Introduced by its producer.

(Electrical Recording). 9.30 p.m.London News and An

nouncements.

9.55 p.m.-A Recital by Richard Tauber

(Tenor).

"Pagliacci" (Leoncavallo, arr. Wea-

therly)-

Such a game.

Serenade.

Sleep Song.

"Heart's Desire"-All hope is ended.

I love the Moon (Rubens).

Melodie (Rubinstein & Bernhoff).

10.15 p.m.-London-Big Ben.

Variety and Dance Music.

Stanley Holloway.

Vivian Ellis.

One, Two, Button your Shoe,

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra.

ocal

Vocal

the

Carson Rebison,

board

Foster

wing.

Baby, whatcha gonna do to-night?

Lilli Palmer. Fox-Trot- Cowboy,

Roy Fox and His Orchestra. Organ Solo-

In the Chapel in the Moonlight,

Reginald Fourt.

Vocal

Impshe Max Miller (Comedian).

Fox-Trot

Doing the Vaom. Voom,.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.

Waltz

Oh, MrMan in the Moon,

Henry Jacques with His Correct

Dance Tempo Orchestra. p.m. -Close down.

West What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE KING'S "Man of the Prize play, The story of a woman People", with Joseph Calleia, Florence who lived for the strongest love ever Rice, Jane Barnes and Ted Healey. A conceived and makes you hate her as novel story depicting the uphill fight of you never hated a screen player before. an attorney.

Coming to the King's Theatre.

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Every player knows the deadly another attempt to finesse, efficiency of a crossruff under the correctly played low to this trick, proper conditions. It should be a Declarer now used dummy's other matter of simple logic, then, for the club honour as an entry for the lead another spade. When East defenders to bend every effort to of ward breaking up this type of play showed out the ace was played, and by leading trumps. As a theory then, probably with the feeling the

AT THE QUEEN'S —“White Hun such defence is well known, but in he would need a good deal of luck

“Under Cover of Night” with Ed- practice it would appear that play-to fulfill the contract, declarer led ter," with Warner Baxter and June

Lang in a thrilling story of two people mund Lowe, Florence Rice, Sarah Ha- ers cannot always bring themselves a heart toward dummy's king.

der and Nat Pendleton. One of the most to part with their trumps, parti- At this point West played as amid the menace of savage passions,

unique mystery stories to reach the cularly when they are on equal badly as he had previously played AT THE ALHAMBRA “Lady from screen. The story is placed in a great He should have jumped up Nowhere", with Mary Astor, and College with a background of science trump terms with declarer himself.well. They seem to feel that each of with the ace and planked down the Charles Quigley, a new-comer to the for the mysterious crimes. This is un- “and stirs the interest from the He screen. Blending comedy, and melo- usual i their trumps is a potential trick, king and another spade.

drama in large porportions this picture start with Lowe as the sleuth. Com- quite disregarding the fact that allowed himself to be misled, how-presents Mary Astor in one of the ing to the- Kir they may be able to drop two of ever, by the superficial reasoning amusing and entertaining screen-plays declarer's trumps (one from his that, if he put up the ace, dummy's in which she has appeared. hand, one from dummy) at the cost long heart might be established. of their own. Trump It should have been apparent that of only one

Two ad- leads at the crucial point would this could not happen. have defeated the game contract in ditional spade lead would take all to-day's hand.

of declarer's and all of dummy's

would trumps and

leave the declarer completely unprotected in the club suit.

South, dealer.

North-South vulnerable.

NORTH

10 7 6 2 H-10 7 6 2 D-9

AK 76

:

EAST

WEST

S.-K 95

S8

D.8

The bidding

HJ 6:5 D-Q J 10 3-2

J 5 4 3

SOUTH

-AQJ 3

10-4-8 LAK 6:3 -10.8

South West North

East

1 spade Pass 3 spades Pass

Pass Pass :

Pass

West opened his middle diamond

As played, the heart king won the trick, and now a club was led and ruffed with declarer's small spade. The diamond king was cash- ed and a heart discarded; then an- other diamond led and ruffed with dummy's low trump. Now, with only the ten of spades, two hearts, and one club left in dummy, and the queen of spades, two hearts, and a diamond in declarer's hand, de- clarer had only one more trick to win in order to fulfill his contract. This was, of course, easy. He led dummy's last club and ruffed with the spade queen, and West was "stuck." If he overraffed, dummy's spade ten would produce the last trick and, if he did not both the queen and ten would be bound to make.

He West put up his heart ace and stopped the crossruff the con- tract inevitably would have bee defeated.

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

Question: Is it good bidding to

and East's ten went to declarer's rebid this suit, A K QJ, regardless Declarer now led a club to of whether partner has supported

dummy's ace and returned a trump, lit?

finessing the jack. In order

Answer: No. A four card suit. keep declarer in the dark as to th however solid, should not be rebid: spade-distribution and induce lunless partner has supported it..

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unravel. - Coming to the Powell, Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Queen a and Edward Everett Horton, Prince Jerome Bonaparte defies his brother, the Emperor Napoleon, for the love

sweetheart, of his Baltimore Patterson.

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“Banjo on My Knee."With Barbara Betty Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West- ley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett, Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar- AT THE STAR “Half Angel", with tin. A thrill musicale, depicting the

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