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THE CHINA MAJU, MAY; 22,- 1937.

* Talk From London

Of Empire: Responsibilities

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.15 p.m--European Programme, 12.30 p.m.-A Light Orchestral. Con-

cert. 12020

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.--Debroy Somers Band. 1.30 p.m.--Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.

1.40 pm Variety and Dance Music.

- 2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

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7

p.m.-12. midnight-European

gramme..

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

8.03 p.m.-A Variety Programme.

Piano Solo

Popular Hits

No. 2.

Patricia Rossborough.

Orchestra

New Mayfair Orchestra.

Gur

(Hiccoughs). Courtneidge

Hawaifar

La Gaz

Royal Hawaiian Bard.

Organ Sold—–

Sigmund Krumgold.

"Balalaika" Selection.

Pro-

Trio

Gipsy Love Song.

of

Looking for you.

Albert Sandler (Violin), Olive

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p.m.Song Memories.

"Cavalcade"

Blues.

Vocal

p.m-London-Responsibilities Empire.-5. A Talk by Sir Zafrulla Khan, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India..

7.15 p.m.-A Pianoforte Recital by Al-

fred Cortot..

"Rigoletto".

Paraphrase de Con-

cert (Verdi, arr. Liszt). Jeux d'Eau (The Fountain),

(Ravel).

7.30 p.m.-Hong Kong Stock Exchange Summary and Exchange Market Re- port.

7.35 p.m.-London Palladium Orchestra. Scenes Pittoresques (Massenet)—

Fetes Boheme, Angelus. The Golden Valse (arr. Winter). Everybody's Songs (arr. Geehl),

8 pm Local: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

BRIDGE NOTES

Groves (Soprano) and Jean Melville at the Piano.

"Soft Lights and sweet music."

Austen Croom-Johnson.

Humorous.--

Albert comes back.

Stanley Holloway.

Cinema Organ--

Night must fall. Free.

Quentin M. MacLean.

Sketch-

Sun Bathing.

Jane Carr (Impressionist).

Band-

Swing Along-Selection. Debroy Somers Band. Humorous———

and Jack

Twentieth Century

Jack Payne and his B.B.C. Dance;

Orchestra.

Cocktails for two-Fox-Trot.

Mémories; Some

Old Songs

Carroll. Gibbons

and the Savoy

Hotel Orpheans.

Drury Lane Pantomime Memories. Columbia Light Opera Company.

9.30 p.m. London-News and An-

nouncements.

9.55. p.m.-Pablo Casals ('Cello) and

Richard Crooks (Tenor).

'Cello Solo-

Toccata in G Major-Adagio

Tenor Solo

I love thee (Grieg)..

Callo Solo-

(Bach).

Vito (Spanish Dance), (Popper). Tenor Solo

~Mother o2 mine (Tours).

'Cello Solo-

Moment Musical (Schubert).

Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Tenor Solo

Hotel Orpheans.

Let's Have a Chorus.

Columbia Vocal Gem Company, I'll string along with you--Fox-Trot.

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.

If you say “Yes” Cherie Waltz.

The green hills of Ireland

(Del Riego).

10.15 pm-London-Big Ben.

A Relay of Dance Music from the Grill-Room of the Hong Kong Hotel.

midnight.—Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM- “Mama Steps Out”—-A" girl whom BRA—“Swing High And Swing Low”, her mother hopes will marry a cultur- A romantic comedy co-starring lovely, ed foreigner elopes with an American By ELY CULBERTSON Carole Lombard, and dashing Fred Mac- crooner. Starring Stanley Morner and Murray a festival of song and music Betty Farness. Coming to the King's. —of mirth and laughter.

Sneaking A Trick

The key to success in many hands, ed and that contract

would have the good At four

AT THE MAJESTIC-The Charge, "Mr. Cinderella", with Jack Haley, Of The Light Brigade", Warner Betty Furness, Arthur Treacher and Brothers' stupendous production sug Raymond Walburn. A barber follows gested by the immortal poem of Lord the movements of: Society is "sneaking through" one vital been a laydown with

Tennyson, with an all-star cast headed through gossip columns, idolises

people trick before the establishment of breaks that were found.

by Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havil Society beauty though he has never the main body of tricks is attempt no trump declarer was highly un-land, and over fifteen thousand extras seen her, and eventually marries her. ed. The time to do this is before comfortable when he saw the dum-

Coming to the Oriental. the defenders have had opportun-my.

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ity to appraise exactly the declar- The opening lead was the diamond er's resources. In to-day's hand, queen, won by the ace.. Count of played in a recent duplicate match, tricks disclosed three in spades (if the declarer first manoeuvred him- the king were on-side), two dia- self into a bad contract" (because he monds, and four hearts if the suit: was aiming at a top score) and then could be brought home with only virtually "laid down" and conceded one loser. Moreover, it would be defeat by weak play of the cards.vital to lose no more than one heart

South, dealer.

Both sides vulnérable.

WEST

SK 9 8 2 HK 9

NORTH

`A`Q J · 3

874 3

S

H

D

4

C

J 9 3 2

EAST

D Q J 10 7 6. C. 10 5

SHAU

S 6 5 4 HQ 10

D 9 8.3.2 CA 8

SOUTH

Η

D

C

- $ 10, 7

AJ 6 5 2 A K 5 K ̈Q 4

The bidding

South

1 H

West

1.S

Pass 2.D

3 no tr'p Pass

North Double

2 H

A H

Anotre Pass Pass

In one sense, South's

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trick, since declarer had only

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diamond stopper after he had won the first lead. The tenth trick, therefore, had to be in clubs and, moreover, it had to be "sneaked |through.”

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AT THE KING'S...“Three Men On A Horse”, with Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell and Guy Kibbee. A hilarious. comedy taken from the successful Broadway play. Ran for two years in New York and a year in London.

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Night, with Robert Young Florence AT THE ORIENTAL “The Longest Rice, Ted. Healy and Julie Haydon. Mystery, with an added element of ro mance and humour, provides the high- following one upon another in bewild- lights of this picture, and incidents

ering succession combine to build great story. *

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"The Lost Horizon", with Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, H. B. Warner, Margo and Edward Everett Horton. A story of adventure, romance danger and

Coming to the Oriental: glamour, acclaimed as one of the out- standing productions of the year.

Myrna Loy as Nora Charles, epitome "After The Thin Man," with

a of the sophisticated modern wife who Fassists her famous husband William Powell in ferreting out crimes against a San Francisco background. to the King's.

Coming

AT THÈ STAR-“Smartest Girl In Town", with Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern; Helen Broaderick and Eric Blore. Delightful humour is combined with a fast moving plot to give the fullest play to the versatile talents of one of the screen's most popular ro

As actually played the declarer laid down the ace and another heart. West won the second with the king and continued with diamonds. De- clarer won and rattled off threemantic teams. more heart tricks, on which West discarded two clubs and one diam- ond. The spade finesse was success-

ful, but now, when a club was led from dummy, East could tell that the diamond suit was established and, therefore, hopped up with his ace and returned a diamond. Two tricks in the latter suit defeated the contract.

Shrewd play would have had quite a different result. Declarer, at the second trick, should have led East a low spade and taken the finesse, Pass then led, dummy's jack of clubs so 3 D' that if East had the ace he would Pass be deluded into thinking declarer Pass was attempting a club finesse. It bidding would take a pretty good player in was not so bad because, with the East's position to put-up the ace on responses, he had had from. hjs the jack and, unless this were partner, he was justified in feeling, done, ten tricks would become a that a slam was. possible. He vis laydown. North-South's score would ualised North's hand to be much as not have been good even if they had it was, except that he expected a made four no trump (630 points), high honour in the heart suit. But because five hearts (650 points) if that were his feeling he should were made at most tables, but at have approached the slam, through least it would have saved them different channels... His four no from a zero score. trump bid was not conventional, UPTO-DAY'S QUESTION." under

circumstances. From Question: My partner opened the North's point of view it showed bidding with one club. Next hand merely a desire to play the hand at passed. What should be my res- no trump, since scoring was on a ponse? I hold: S K J 8

basis. Had South bid D J'8 6 43 C53. Torth would have pass- Answer: One diamond,

five hearts

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