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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1937.

Dance Music

From The

Hong Kong Hotel

Today's Wireless

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

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.--A Pianoforte Recital by

Eileen Joyce.

1.20 p.m. "In a Fairy Realm" Suite (Ketelbey), played by Albert Ketel- bey's Concert Orchestra.

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

1.40 p.m. Variety.

2.15 p.m. Close Down,

5-8 p.m.-European Programme,

5 p.m.-A Relay of Dance Music from 7 the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel..

6.30 p.m.-A Recital by Jascha Heifetz and Beniamino Gigli

(Violin)

(Tenor).

1. Violin, Solo-

Caprice, Op. 1, No. 24 (Paganini).

Tenor Solos-

Night in VeniceTM (Camaiti).

BRIDGE NOTES

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

You are my life (Becce). B. Violin Solo

Scherzo Tarantelle, Op. 16 (Wie-

niawski).

4. Tenor Solos-

Torna a Surriento (de Curtis). Mattinata (Leoncavallo).

5. Violin Solos-

ZEK 640 k.c's.

(Elgar), Played by the B.B.C. Sym-

Pag

Bach's Sonata No:3

In C Major

9.25 p.m.-"The Chocolate Soldier"

Vocal Gems, (0. Straus), Played by the Light Opera Company.

pm.London-News

9.30

nouncements.~-

and An-

phony Orchestra, Conducted by 9.55 p.m.--Pianoforte Medley by Char- Adrian Bonlt.

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

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.--A Relay from the Po Hing

Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m.-Close Down. So-18.05-11 p.m.-European

Minuetto Nos. 1 and 2 (from

nata No. 6-Bach). The little Windmill (Couperin). p.m.-Geraldo and His Orchestra.

A World of. Romance Medley Twenty-Five Years of Musical

Comedy.

Sea Shanties. Tangoland.

7.30 pm Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report. -7.35~p.m.-Enigma Variations, Op. 36

By ELY CULBERTSON

A Series Of Safety Plays

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sible suit. Correct usage of the Four-Five Notrump Convention demands that in responding to a five-notrump bid (as opposed to a four-notrump bid) the ponse should be made in the suit in which the player thinks the the hand should be played. Admittedly, the way the cards lie six or seven spades can also be made, but undoubtedly the best con- tract is six clubs,

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Programme

from ZEK, on a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles. UP

8.05 p.m.-Leslie Hutchinson at the

piano.

If you love me. Where am I?

These foolish things.

Lights out.

Maybe I'm wrong again. Back to those happy days.

8.25 p.m. The B.B.C Wireless Mili-

tary Band: konta

The Black Domino- Overture. (arr.

Winterbottom).

Vanity Fair Overture (Fletcher), The Caliph of Bagdad (Boieldieu)

Overture. 8.45 p.m.-London Empire Exchange.” Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and the Colonies.

lie Kunz.

Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. R1. Charlie. Kunz Piano Medley No. R14 Piano Medley No. R15

Piano Medley No. R19.

10.15 p.m. London Big Ben,

- Dance Music.

9 p.m.--Unaccompanied Sonata No. 3* in C Major (Bach), Played by Yehu-|- di Menuhin (Violin).

1st Movement Adagio. 2nd Movement Fugue. 3rd Movement-Largo.

4th Movement Allegro assai

Fox-Trot

May I have the next Romance 2. Looking around corners for you. Head over heels.

There's that look in your, eyes

agam. Quick-Step in

I wasn't lying when I said I

love you Waltz-C

Oh, Mr. Man in the Moon: Fox-Trot

Let it be me.

Weary.

Waltz

Dancing in the firelight. Fox-Trot-

I found a rosary.

Quick-Step Margie. Fox-Trot

Avalon.

Slow Fox-Trot

In the Chapel in the moonlight: Waltzmei

Golden Heart,,

11 p.m. Close Down:

What's On At the Cinemas

the

In a recent Rubber Bridge game] I watched a well-known expert play:

a contract of six-odd.[] a hand at With the actual division of cards that existed, I doubt if a four-year- old child could have gone down on the hand. Nevertheless, this ex- pert quite correctly made two dis-1} tinct safety plays to increase his" chances of fulfilling the contract

AT THE QUEEN'S "Internes Can't AT THE ORIENTAL- "Sons Of against all possible divisions. Each

Take Money", a story of a young Guns", with Joe E. Brown, Joan Blon- play was designed possibly to give

mother (Barbara Stanwyck), whose dell, Beverly Roberts and Eric Bloro. up one conceivable unnecessary In the play West opened a low child was taken away from her while The comedian's first film musical ro- trick. It so happened that none of diamond, which declarer won with she served a prison sentence, and, who mance depicting his pranks in

was forced to put love for her child Army. these safety plays lost the trick the ace in dummy, discarding ahead of honour. Joel McCrea has the

COMING PICTURES which the declarer was willing to spade from his own hand. With the role of an interne. sacrifice, and as a result, seven-Queen of clubs the only missing.

"Pennies: From Heave odd was made. The declarer thus high trump, South decided that he AT THE MAJESTIC- "Catherine Crosby, Madge received some slight additional re- would try to play the hand for a The Great", with Elizabeth Bergner and Louis Armstrong

and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. A great fun-show of the new seaso ward for his wiseness in adopting cross-ruff by first cashing his top actress in her greatest role in one of to the King's. the safest line of play possible. tricks in spades. hearts and dia-the finest production of United

South, Dealer.

monds and then simply trumping

vhom: back and forth. Accordingly, after AT THE ALHAMBRA “Top. Of her mother hopes will marry a cultur winning the first trick with the dia- The Town", a musical comedy starring ed foreigner elopes with an Ame Doris Nolan, George Murphy, and Mis- crooner. Starring Stanley Morner mond ace, he laid down the ace of cha Auer who has the role of a slightly Betty Furness Coming to the King's spades; and West dropped an hon-insane actor who is impressed that a our: South now decided to employ glamourous night club is the proper "The Lost Horizon" with Ronald-

oration of Colman, Jane Wyatt, H. B. Warner, Safety Play No. 1. He led a low place for the serious

Margo and Edward Everett Hortona, A diamond from dummy, and trumped Hamlet's "Soliloquy"

story of adventure, romance danger and in his own hand, so that the second

AT THE CENTRAL—“Strike Me glamour, acclaimed as one of the out-

North and South vulnerable.

NORTH

WEST

S.-A:K-10 7 5 H.-A D.-A J 9.6 C.-10.9-7-

H. 8 4 3 2:

D.

10,87 5432

EAST

S-8: 6.4 H.-K9-7 6-- D.-K°Q CQ 6.4 3.

SOUTH

S. 9 3 2

H-QJ 10 5.

D.

C.-A K J 8.5 2

The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered explanatory paragraphs.)...

South

10:

20%

West 1D Pass

North... Dbl. 3S..

*

Mama Steps Out

round of spades could be led Pink", with Eddie Cantor a comedy standing productions of th through the possible void in the loaded with youth, laughter and Coming to the Orientakil West hand. Thus if West ruffed in beauty.

"After The Thin Man," on the second spade, the King would still remain in dummy for a possible discard. Incidentally, on the diamond lead East had to drop his second high honour, setting up Dummy's Jack,

The safety play, of course, turned East out not to be necessary as West fol- lowed on the second round of spades Pass

and trick 4 was won in dummy with Pass

the king of that suit. The declarer 45 (1) Pass 5NT(2)

Pass

now had plenty of tricks set up for 6C (3) Pass Pass (4) Pass 1-The only bid available to South discards of his possible losing heart at this point. South has already tricks, and since no previous trick rebid his clubs and does not had been lost, one trump trick could wish to deny spades, despite the be lost and the contract still be

fulfilled. fact that he has not quite ade- quate trump-support-degr South therefore made his second North naturally wants to reach safety play on the hand. He led at least a Small Slam and posthe ten of trumps from dummy, and sibly a Grand Slam; hence the took a first round finesse. Al- conventional five-notrump, bid, though close analysis reveals that showing three Aces and a King this play is not absolutely essential,, of a bid suit.

it avoids future complications, in South naturally. is not interest-case there should be four trumps in ed in a Grand Slam, He hag al- hand., South is willing to give up ready supported spadea, and one club trick, and he wishes to do com- therefore quite correctly decides this while he still holds to rebid his clubs.

plete control of the hand with

-A very fine pass by North, who a high trump still remaining in realises that South's six-club bid dummy. Obviously, the lead of the shows a desire to play the hand ten of clubs held the trick, and the at clubs rather than a blind de- declarer was able to pick up East's sire to sign off in the lowest pos-queen and thus make seven-odd.

with tome

AT THE STAR Winterset, with Myrna Loy as Nora Char Burgess Meredith, Eduardo Ciannelli of the sophisticated modern, w who... and John Carradine. The play for assists her famous husband William which the New York Dramatic Critics Powell in ferreting out crimes against Coming Circle awarded the director a plaque as a San-Francisco backgri the best work of the year. A stirring

to the romance rising out of the grim efforts of a young man to vindicate the name of his father.

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“Banjo on My Knee.” -With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West ley Buddy Ebsen, Walter: Catlett, AT THE KING'S →→ “Cain And Katherine de Mille and Anthony Margin Mabel", starring Marion Davies, as a tin. A thrill musicale, depi beautiful waitress who rises to stardom

on the musical comedy stage, and Clark tragi-comedy that is the Gable, as a daring youth who battles the river-boat people on

g to the QZés his way to fame in, the boxing ring

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