1937-06-08 — Page 4

THE CHINA, MAIL, JUNE 8, 1937.

Rotary Club Address

On The Air

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.10 p.m.-European Programme.

12.30 ́p.m.-London: Palladium Orches-

tra.

Dawn..

Sunset (Matt).

Kiss me again (Herbert).

Echoes from the Puszta (Ferra-

ris).

Classica Selection (arr. Ewing). Through Night to Light (Laukien). Blue Devil's March (Williams, arr.

Lotter).

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

ther Report..

1.03 p.m. Vocal Gems,

"Bitter Sweet" (Noel Coward).'

Columbia Light Opera Company.

(Offenbach,

"Helen"

gold).

arr. Korn-

Columbia Light Opera Company, *Mercenary Mary (Conrad ́ ́ and

Ellis).

-

Columbia Vocal Gem Chorus. 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.

2.10 p.m.-Close Down

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

7 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trot-

You.

You never looked so beautiful. Say I wasn't dreaming.

Quicker than you can say

Robinson.

Basin Street Blues.

Nobody's Sweetheart.

Jack

We'll rest at the end of the Trail.

BRIDGE NOTES.

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Queen of Hearts.

Fox Trot

7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

In a sentimental mood.

tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report

7.35 p.m. Variety.

Vocal

Pour qui tant de folies. Signorina.

Albert Prejean.

Piano Duet-

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Mischa Elman.

Tenor Solo-

L'Attaque du Moulin (Brunean).

Georges Thill:

Pianoforte Solo

Prelude, Aria and Finale (Cesar

Franck).

Alfred Cortot.

Enlevement (Levade).

Tenor Solos

Barchetta (Hahn).'

Elogie (Massenet).

Georges Thill.

Violin Solog

and Reginald

That's (Massenet),

-Meditation.

Sweet Adeline-Selection.

Arthur

Young

Toresythe.

Saxophone Solos- La Precieuse.

Schon Rosmarin,

Marcel Mule.

Vocal-

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Slipping through my fingers.

Got to dance my way to Heaven.

Jessie Matthews.

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

8.03 p.m."Brigg Fair" (Delius), by the London Symphony Orchestra,

* Conducted by Geoffrey Toye. 8.20

p.m-Mark Hambourg at the

Piano.

On the Wings. of Song (Mendels-

sohn).

Rakoczy March (Liszt).

Hark! Hark! the Lark (Schubert-

Liszt)..

Jardins sous la pluie (Debussy). 8.35 p.m.-A Concert Programme.

Violin Solos..

Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (Sarasate).

BY ELY CULBERTSON

Insuring A Finesse

The situation in to-day's handled.

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9.30

Le Coq d'Or (Rimsky-Korsako

Hymn to the Sun. Mischa Elman.

p.m.-London-News and An-

nouncements.

9.55 p.m.-Irish Music.

Instrumental-

The Green Groves of Erin-Irish

Reels.

W. J. Mullaly (Concertina).

What's

Page

World Affai

* Talk By

Wickham Steed

Violin Solo:

Medley of Reels

Sean Nolan,

Songs

The Kerry Dance (Molloy), Green Isle of Erin (Ros

John McCormack, (Tan

Orchestra

Savoy Irish Medley (arr. Somers

New Mayfair Orchest

Instrumental-

Mayo Hornpipe.

Frank Murphy (Accordion).

London-Big, Ben. World,

10.15 pr

Allama A talk by H. Wickh Steed 3 270

10.30 p.m.

New Light Symphony Dubarry, Selection.

Orchestra

Salut d'Amour (Elgar);

Hearts and Flowera - Intermezzo :

(Tobani),

Glow Worm Idyll (Lincke).

Gioconda"

(Ponehielli):

"Dance of the Hours. p.m.-Close. Down.

On. At the Cinemas

"On

AT THE QUEEN'S Avenue-with songs by Irving Berlin Hall,

a sparkling musical production with Pangborn. Coming to the Alhambra. a stellar cast of entertainers, including Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll.

The Auer, Marjorie Gateson, Thurston Virginia Sale and Franklyn

*

*

"Mama Steps, Out”—Ao girl whom AT THE MAJESTIC “Son's

her mother hopes will marry a culture Guns" with Joe E Brown and Joan crooner. Starring Stanley Morner and O'ed foreigner, alopes with an American Blondell. A pure comedy dealing with Betty Furness. Coming to the King's the gay and not the grim: side of the World War."

*

*

“Her Husband Lies" -- Brother-lover AT THE STAR

and big-time gambling characterize "Off To Races, with Slim Summerville, Jed Cortez, Akum Tamiroff, Tóm: Brown, The this film with Gail Patrick, Ricardo Prouty, Spring Byington and Shirley Louis Cathern and June Martel. Com- Deane. A comedy of American family ing to the Queen life, featuring the Jones family.

*

*

*

AT THE ALHAMBRA

“Borderland”, with William Boyd, Courage", starring Ken Maynard, as Morris and Charlene Wyatt,

"Western Jimmy Ellison, George, Héyea, Stephen the hero who rescues a girl under some adventures of Hopalong Ţ Cassidy."

Further Geneva Mitchell is the heroine. extremely hazardous circumstances. Coming to the Alhambra. Thrilling Western.

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"After The Thin Man,' Morocco", starring Jack Holt, who finds assists her famous husband, Willisyn with AT THE KING'S --

Myrna Loy as Nora Charles, epitomei "Trouble. In of the sophisticated moderde wife, who Foreign Legion after being robbed of a San Francisco background. Coming himself shanghaied into the French Powell in ferreting out, crimes against, his clothes by an ex-ganster, serving to the King sta in the Legion, and forced to wear the C. Henry Gordon and Harold Hunter, Barrymore, a grand old man who facen escaped man's uniform. Mae. Clarke, are also in the picture.

“A-Family, Affair / starring Lionel scandal to protect his family honour AT THE ORIENTAL—“One In A tense dræna of modern love behind the

and to save the town he loves, ind Million”, for the first time to movie fans.

Introduces lovely Sonja curtain of law. Coming to the King's Henie, Queen of the Silvery Skates, addition to

In "John Meade's Woman' figure-skater, the film includes Adolphe and

the world's champion ful story starring Edward G. Arnold Menjou.

nciné the On

Finesses may be divided into West opened his fourth best dia- three different categories. First,mond and declarer won with the there is the unavoidable finesse face. Nothing that only a terrible whose fate is in the lap of the gods. break in trumps and spades could Second, there is the finesse which make him lose the contract declarer can and should be avoided by a first tried out the trump situation surer method of play such as the by laying down the king and queen. elimination and throwin, or When East failed to follow to the squeeze. Third, there is the second lead finesse which is actually tantamount switched to a spade. Dummy's ace declarer promptly to a safety play.

won and the eight spot was return- involved one of the last named, but This was the point at which a the declarer did not trouble to finesse amounted to an insurance analyze the various possibilities policy. With both opponents fol- and, probably with the thought that lowing to the first lead of spades "all finesses are risky," refused to and East playing a small card on take one that actually amounted to the eight spot the only catastrophe an insurance policy.

possible was to have the king ruffed away. If the jack were lost to the queen in West's hand, or ruffed by West, no harm would be done. In the first instance the rest of the hand then would be solid! in

Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow in the second, declarer always could

the new version of "The Man in Pos- ruff another spade in dummy for orous romantic musical from the land scored so successfully previously, Com- A gay, glam-session," in which Robert Montgomery the solidification of his suit.

of hula hula, with Bing Crosby, Bob ing to the King's. S-Q 7 5 2 clarer's actual play of the king, George Barbier, Coming to the Queen's Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross and therefore, was inexcusable and de- and Alhambra..

North, dealer.

Neither side vulnerable.

WEST

-9

H-10 4 3 2

NORTH

SA 8

H-A J 98

DQ 8 7 4.- CJ...7 6

D-10 6.5 3:

C-Q 9:3 2

EAST

H-7

were

De-

COMING PICTURES

"Waikiki Wedding.”

D-K J 92 served the horrible fate that folWe Have Our Moments"

-10 8 5 4|lowed.

SOUTHS S-K J 10 6 4 3

H-K-Q 6.5

D-A

CAK

The bidding.

North

Pass

East South

Pass 1 spade

2 no trump Pass 3 hearts

4 hearts

Pass

"Personal Pr

—a power-

Coming to:

Co-starring

"Banjo on My Knee With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Helen West ley, Buddy Ebson, Walter Gallett West ruffed and shrewdly return-drama of gay adventure with a sup- tragi-comedy that is the life story of Eilers and James Dunn in a comedy tin. - A'' thrill" musicale, depicting the Sally Katherine de Mille and Anthony Mar ed his last, trump. Since dummy, porting cast which includes such well- the river best people on, the Mississippię as well as declarer's hand, now was

known names as David Niven, Mischal Coming to the Queen's. reduced to one, trump, and East still had the queen of spades, with aguard, the declarer could not West avoid the loss of the spade ayeen Pass in order to establish his long suit- Pass

It would be difficult to find a Pass, situation easier to analyze than this one. The conclusion must be, therefore, that declarer did not feel

4 no trump 6 no trump Pass...... 6 hearts Pass Pass

Pass

The bidding was good,

with

South, it was worth while to think!

h his enormous hand, was tempt ed to go on to a grand slam after

To-day's Questions. Question: What Is meant by the responses he had received from "free five no trump bid”? "" -North, but properly restrained him Answer" By "free five no trump self by remembering that North bid is meant a bid of five no had passed originally Even though trump which is neither preceded

the four-five no trump convention by the same player's four no trump located the two missing aces in nor is some conventional response": North's hand there still was no to a previous artificial bid such as, assurance that the heart and spade partner's four no trump bid or ask- suits both were solid;

ing-bid.

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