1937-05-10 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1937.

Children's Concert

From the Studio

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.

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's

Ballad (Ward-Higgs).

Orchestra

1.03 p.m-Light Orchestral Selection. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press; Local: Wea-

ther Forecast, Time and Announce-7.30

ments.

1.40 p.m-Variety Items. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

5-8 p.m.-European Programme.

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

6 p.m. From the Studio.

6.30

A Children's Concert p.m.-Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends.

Sleepytime down South.

Life is just a bowl of cherries. Now that you're gone..

Can't we talk it over.

The Charm School-Selection.

To beat the Band-Selection.

A couple of April Fools.

If you love me.

6.55 p.m. De Groot and the Piccadilly Orchestra with Raymond Newell (Baritone).

Orchestra

I love you (Grieg).

Romance (Rubinstein).

Baritone Solos-

Here's to Life (Talbot).

Let me love you to-night (Grey).

Orchestra-

Liebestraume (liszt).

On a dreamy Summer night

(Krome).

Chanson Bohemienne. (Boldi).

Baritone Solos-

Mandalay (Willeby),

Follow me 'ome-A Barrack-Room

BRIDGE NOTES

Zinetta (Geehl).

p.m. Closing local Stock: Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7.35 p.m.--New Gramophone Records.

"Pagliacei"---

Prologue (Leoncavallo, arr.

Weatherly).

Richard Tauber (Tenor).

Prelude in A Flat

trans: Stokowski).

(Szostakowicz,

Philadelphia Orchestra, Conducted

by Leopold Stokowski.

"Home and Beauty"

No more.

Sing something in the morning.

Gitta Alpar (Soprano).

Saxo-Rhapsody (Eric Coates).

Sigurd Rascher (Saxophone) with

Symphony Orchestra.

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

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-A Relay from the Ko Shing

Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m.-Close Down."

8.05-11 p.m.

European

programme

640

from ZEK on a frequency of kilocycles.

8:06 p.m. Hawaiian Music.

Liliue.

Lizzie Alohikea with the Royal

Hawaiian Glee Club.

Blue Sparks.

My South Sea Sweetheart.

Masters' Hawaiians.

Sweet Hawaiian · Maid. Hawaiian Paradise.

Andy Iona and His Islanders.

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8.20 p.m.--Concerto in D Major for Violoncello and Orchestra (Haydn), Played by Guilhermina Suggia ('Gel- Io) and Orchestra conducted by John Barbirollie

1st Movement Allegro, 2nd Movement Adagio, 3rd Movement Allegro.. 8.45 p.m. London

Crowning the King' — 4. A talk by Owen F Mors- head, D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C., Librarian to his Majesty King George VI. 9 p.m. Variety.

Vocal

When the swallows nest again.

Kitty Masters.

Piano Solo

"Going Places" Piano Medley:

Vivian Ellis.

Vocal-

Pick yourself up-Fox-Trot.

Fred Astaire.

C'est une Valse Musette.

Mistinguett.

́Organ. Sólos--- 3.

Serenade

The song of songs.

Quentin M. MacLean.

Frankie and Johnny.

Humorous-

Helen Morgan.

Light Opera--

Drury Lane Pantomime Memories.

19.30

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Hadyn's Concerto

In D Maibr.

p.mLondon-News

nouncements.

9.55 p.m.Dance Music."

Fox-Trot-

and S Au-

On the Beach at Bali-Bali. I'll bet you tell that to all the

girls.

Looking around corners for you. May I have the next romance? Yours truly is truly yo

Comedy One-Step

Fancy Meeting You

Waltz

What a night.

Fox-Trot

Life begins when you're in

I feel like a feather in the breeze. Tango-

Moonlight Kisses.

Poema.

Quick-Step

Jazz me Blues.. Slow Fox-Trot

Cheerful Blues. Fox-Trot

Muskrat Ramble. Dixieland Shuffle.

Alone at a table for two. Waltz

Lovely Lady

Fox-Trot

Sing me a swing song.

A little bit later on. Waltz-

The last waltz.

Columbia Light Opera Company. 11 p.m. Close Down

What's On At the Cinemas

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AT THE KING'S "Maytime" lier sings a number of gay Musical Springtime romance, with all tunes especially composed By ELY CULBERTSON its appealing beauty and charm, en-picture.

Not A Toss-Up

When Omar Khayyam sang that "A hair perhaps divides the false and true," he established a very nice point for contract players. In some of the decisions that they must make a hair's weight on either side is decisive.

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chanting scenery and gorgeous oper- atic settings to form a amitable back- ground for the irresistible Jeannette MacDonald, who surpasses herself.

COMING PICTURES

French for the

Nelson Eddy, whose marvellous voice “After The Thin Man," with and attractive personality, finds great Myrna Loy as Nora Charles, epitome scope plays the leading male role, John of the sophisticated-modern, wife who Barrymore heads the long list of not- Fassigts her famous husband William lable names in the supporting cast Powell in ferreting out crimes against which includes Herman Bing and Ra a San Francisco background. "Coming faella Ottiani.

to the King's.

.ver-

faced with a pretty problem.

West opened the queen of spades and declarer found himself in the dummy with only one quick means of entering his own hand, and that means a dangerous one. He would

AT THE ALHAMBRA AND **Smartest Girl In Town," with Gene have to take out his only heart with Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, John erick and Eric Blore. Delightful hu- QUEEN'S—“Wings of the Morning," Raymond, Ann Sothern; Helen Broad- South, in to-day's hand, thought stopper in order to finesse against McCormick and Annabella. that it was an absolute "toss-up" as either the diamond or club king. If British technicolour production, this plot to give the fullest play to the

The first mour is combined with a fast moving- to which of two suits to finesse. He he guessed wrong, or if East held film is an amazing advance on any satile talents of one of the screen's was wrong! There was a distinct both kings', the heart suit then

similar entertainments of the past. It most popular romantic teams, Coming "edge" in favour of one suit over would be completely open. Declarer portrays all the beauty of Ireland to the Oriental. the other. The difficulty was that considered the possibility of drop-Day in vivid fashion. Annabella, a new gypsy life, military pageant and Derby

* it required real thought to perceive ping the diamond king blank on the French "find," is not only beautiful but this "edge.” As in countless other lead of the ace; but abandoned this a superb actress. hands the sole available clue was as remote since he was missing]/ in the bidding.

four diamonds. Praying that he AT THE ORIENTAL-The Plains- would guess right he led to his man," with Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur "John Meade's Woman”, heart ace and after mentally flip and James Ellison, A tensely dramatic ful story starring Edward G. Arnold ping a coin,

and inspiring epic of America in the and Francine Larrimore. pushed the diamond

making.

Coming to Tack through West. He was r

the Queen's. lucky, however. East swooped down

“Banjo on My Knee.”—With Barbara

North, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

C.

NORTH

6

WEST

S.-Q J 93 4 3 2

H K J 9.

D.-9

CK 8

AQ 8 3 2 AQ 943

EAST

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S.-7 6

HQ 10 8 32 D.-K 7.6

C.-6. 5. 2

SOUTH

-K.10.5

HA 5.4

D J10.5.4

C-J 10, 7

The bidding: North East South 1 D

Pass

3 C. Pass Pass Pass

West

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AT THE MAJESTIC "The Devil Is

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"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.

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-a power-

ley Buddy Ebsen, Walter Catlett, Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar- tin. A thrill musicale, depicting the tragi-comedy that is the life story of the river-boat people on the Mississippi. Coming to the Queen's.

with the diamond king and return- A Sissy", with. Freddie Bartholomew, Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West- ed, not a spade, but a heart. At Jack Cooper, Mickey Rooney and Ian this point West had to cooperate Hunter. A startlingly new theme, shrewdly by winning the trick with brilliantly handled. The boys are out

standing. the king instead of the jack. This was not a difficult play, but one that required both courage and im- agination.

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AT THE STAR "The Beloved Vagabond", with Maurice Chevalier)] "Mama Steps Out" A girl whom After West won with the heart Betty Stockfield, Margaret Lockwood, her mother hopes will marry a cultur

and Austin Trevor. king he returned the jack and de-comedy drama based on the famous crooner. Starring Stanley Morner and A continental ed foreigner elopes with an American clear's party was over. East ran novel by W. J. Locke in which Cheva-Betty Furness. Coming to the King's. off the remaining hearts for the de- feat of the contract.

The choice between the diamond and the club fnesses was, it is true,

1 no trump 2 spades

3 no trump Pass an extremely close one but, never- theless, there was one tiny item in South's three no trump bid was favour of clubs. West had made his questionable, to say the least. He vulnerable two spade bid (missing had only one stopper in each ma-the ace, king, and ten and with no jor suit, and no high honour inaces in his hand) after he had either of his partner's bid suits. He heard North's opening bid of a dia- hardly could expect to find both of mond, but before the club suit had the latter solid and, therefore, been mentioned. Therefore, he un- could not mentally count ñine doubtedly would - have attached tricks. His best rebid would have some importance to the possession been four diamonds over "three of the club king, but hardly would clubs, to show substantially better have counted the diamond king, than

preference. Obviously (under North's bid, as an asset. That North could have made a slam was all there was to it, but it against the normal spade opening. should have been enough to guide At no trump South found himself) what was otherwise a 10-50 guess,

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