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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 4, 1987:

Song Recital

By Mrs.

A

Neil Mathieson

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.10 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m.-A Concert.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Len Green Piano Memories. 1.25 p.m.--Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.

1.40 p.m.-A Relay of the Rotary Club Tiffin Speech from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. Speaker: Mr. K. A. Kennedy (Traf- fic Manager, Pan-American Airways). 2.10 p.m.-Close Down.

4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.-European Programme.

p.m.-Light Opera and Musical

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Comedy.

"Merrie England"--Selection

(German).

New Symphony Orchestra. "Twenty-Five Years of

Comedy".

Musical

Geraldo and His Orchestra. "This Year of Theatreland-1936", Janet Lind and Webster Booth. "A Country Girl"--Selection

(Monckton).

London Theatre Orchestra. "Over She Goes"-Selection.

The Saville Theatre Orchestra. "Careless Rapture"-Bridge of

Lovers. Drury

Lane Theatre Orchestra, with. Olive Gilbert. 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

BRIDGE NOTES

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

tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7.35 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trot-

Celebration".

One Rainy Afternoon.

Me and the Moon.

Miracles sometimes happen.

Just zay Aloha,”

I wasn't lying when I said I love

you.

Midnight blue.

You've got dust on your coat. Does your heart beat 2

Waltz

Neapolitan Rights.

p.m.- Local: Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-Double Concerto in A Minor,

Op. 102 (Brahms), Played by Jac ques Thibaud (Violin) and Pablo Casals (Cello) and the Pablo Casals Orchestra, Conducted by Alfred Cor-

tot.

1st Movement---

Allegro.

2nd Movement-

Andante.

3rd Movement-

Vivace non troppo.

8.35 p.m.-A Recital by Peter Dawson (Baus-Baritone) with The London Palladium Orchestra.

By ELY CULBERTSON

Plays For A Drop

The contract was the same in both

When it is probable that the op- ponents' honour is not guarded, you rooms, the bidding as follows:

די.

East South Pass

2 diamonds Pass 4 hearts Pass 4 no trump Pass 5 diamonds

Song-

There's a bridle hanging o

wall (Robison).

Orchestra, per

A birthday serenade (Lincke). The valley of the poppies (An-

cliffe).

Songs-

Where's the.. Sergeant?

staffe).

Tommy Lad (Margetson). Orchestra

Page

Midweek Variety

Programme:

B.B.C Relay

Home And Beauty" Selection.

Patricia Roseborough.

Vocal

Plantation Songs.

Paul Robeson (Bass).

Orchestra'!'

Polka Medley..

Excuse Me Dance,

New Mayfair Orchestra.

10.15 p.m.-London Big Ben,World Affairs: A talk by H. V. Hodson. (Long-10.30 p.m.-London-Sousa Matches.

Marche Symphonique (Savino). Japanese Carnival (de Basque); Song

Mother o'mine (Tours)."

9 p.m.-London Crowning- The King 3. A Talk by Owen E. Morshead, D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C.. (Librarian to 9.15 p.m. From the Studio.

His Majesty King George VI):

1.

2.

A Recital by Mrs. Neil Mathieson (Contralto).

Loveliest of Trees. In Summertime on Bredon.

Graham Peel. 3. Bright is the ring of words. 4, The Roadside Fire.

5. Life and Death.

+

Vaughan Williams. Coleridge Taylor. and An-

9.30 p.m.-London-News

nouncements.

9.55 p.m. Variety.

Pianoforte Solos

"Head Over Heels"-Selection.

(Recorded).

10.40 p.m. London- Mid-Week Var- fety Jim Collier, the Singing Lum- berjack, Courtney Hope in impres- sions from life, Will Gardner, Ar- thur Marshall and Clapham and Dwyer in another spot of bother. Jack Wilson and his Versatile Five will accompany throughout the pro- gramme. Compere Hartyn C. Web- Ister. From the Concert Hall, Bourn- ville (Electrical Recording). 11 p.m.-Close Down, wi 4.30-6 p.m. (approx.). — Additional European programme from Z.E.K. on a frequency of 640 kilocycles, and on Z.B.W. on a frequency of 31.49 metres, 9:52 meracycles,

A running Commentary by Frank V. Read on the Finals of the Open Doubles Championship of the Colony between S. A. and HD. Rumjahn versus E. C. Fincher and W. C. Hung, to be played on the Hong Kong Cric- ket Club court. (By courtesy of the Committee of the Hong Kong Cric- ket Club). MA

What's On At the Cinemas

West Pass with

AT THE QUEEN'S "Crack Up", Peter Lorre, Brian DonLevy, Pass Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan and Pass Thomas Beck. A thrill-packed melo- drama of flying aces, foreign spies and Pass

modern romance. Pass

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AT THE KING'S- "Green Pastures," the most talked about film for several years. Banned in England and then permitted to be shown, it has since passed the Censor in China and Hong Kong.

COMING PICTURES E "Banjo on My Knee. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCren, Helen West- ley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett, Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar- tin. Athrill musicale, depicting the tragi-comedy that is the life story of the river-boat people on the Mississippi. Coming to the: Queen's.

should play for a drop by leading North out as many higher ranking cards [1 spade as you hold.

3 spades Here is a simple method of deter- 4 spades mining whether or not the

5 clubs oppo- nents' honour is likely to be guard- 16 diamonds Pass Рава ed: Divide by two all the cards held The lead also was the same at by the opponents in the suit. Then both tables, namely the jack of clubs, assume that each opponent holds but there was a vast difference in one-half of the missing cards. If the results attained by the two de- the opponents hold an uneven num- clarers. ber of cards in the suit, assume that In room No. 1 declarer won the they are divided as nearly evenly first trick with

the queen and as possible and that the missing promptly launched a crossruff. He

AT THE ALHAMBRA "Hideaway honour is held by the opponent who led a low heart to dummy's king, gay music supplied in the Martha Raye her mother hopes will marry a cultar-

Girl"--An excellent mystery story and cashed the ace and king of clubs, manner, starring Shirley Ross and Ro- The Finesse

discarding a spade and a heart, and bert Cummings. When it is probable that the out-then returned to his heart ace. He standing honour, is guarded the al-ruffed a heart-with dummy's jack of AT THE MAJESTIC "Down The ternative method is to finesse. There diamonds, ruffed a spade, and ruf-Stretch", with Patricia Ellis, Mickey are indirect finesses and direct fed the last heart with the diamond Rooney and Dennis Moore. A thrilling finesses.

horse-racing film. queen. Unfortunately (from declar-

holds the greater number,

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"Pennies From Heaven with Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows and Louis Arm

The gayest fun-show of the new, season. Coming to the King's.

"Mama Steps Out"A girl whom ed foreigner elopes with an American crooner Starring Stanley Morner and Betty Furness. Coming to the King's.

"After The Thin Man," ---- "with

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Myrna Loy as Nora Charles, epitome of the sophisticated modern wife who A finesse is based upon a tenace er's point of view) West had start-

assists her famous husband William position.

Powell in ferreting out erimes against A tenace consists of two ed with four diamonds to the 10-8, Charms", with Henry Hall's famous to the King's.

AT THE STAR "Music Hatha San Francisco background. Coming cards, separated in rank by one in- and now had to make two of them B.B.C. Dance Band, W. H. Berry, Ar- termediate card (A-Q, K-J, Q-10, for the defeat of the contract., thur Margetson and Carol Goodner. A etc.). The object of a finesse is to The other declarer adopted a British picture;

"Johna Meade's. Woman"-a power- something new in ful story starring Edward G. Arnold make the opponent who holds the much more sensible plan.

films in which there are four stories and Francine Larrimore. Quite intermediate card play before you do, properly he did not rely on a 3-2 theme showing

each linked up logically with the main the Queen's.

Coming to If he plays the intermediate honour adverse distribution of the diamond Hall's dance music on different persons.“Mind Your Own Business." With

the effect of Henry. you can capture it. If he plays small suit since it was unnecessary to do you can play the lower card of the 30. After winning the opening lead

Charles Ruggles, Alice Brady, Lyle tenace and he will have no further with the club queen he led a low dia- Princess", with Dorothy Lamour. The who has bees in his bonnet as well as AT THE ORIENTAL "Jungle Darro. The tale of a nature writer Talbot, Benny Baker and Frankie opportunity to capture it.

mond to the jack and discarded his story of a native girl in the heart of his column and a wife who gets him Two Methods Of Play singleton spade on dummy's club with the first white man she had ever alarm to

a Malayan- jungle who falls in love into a tangle that it takes a general A team-of-four match, played re-king. He then led the spade king, seen.

tinravel. Coming to the cently at Crockford's club, New with the intention of letting it ride York, provided an unusual "swing unless East covered. As it happen- hand."

North, dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

WES

H-10 92

$7.6

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NORTH

SK Q 10 5 H K 5

DQ J

CAK 7

C J 10 9 5 4

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-5.8

SOUTH

HA 8 7 32 DAK 965 CQ

ed the ace was held by East and he put it up. Declarer ruffed and returned to dummy with a trump He discarded a heart on the ace of clubs and then ruffed a low spade. South now played out his remain- ing diamonds, discarding low spades. from the dummy, and -East found EAST himself aqueezed to small bits. Hav- SAJ 93 ing to reduce to four cards he had HQJ64 to let go one of his hearts in or der to guard the spade jack.......... De- 86 3 2 clarer now led to dummy's heart king, cashed the spade queen and, returning to the heart ace, found that his remaining low heart was perfectly good for an overtrick on a vulnerable slam contract.

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