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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1937.

"La Boutique Fantasque By

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The London “Phil”

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 12.30 p.m.-Debroy Somers Band

This England A Coronation Toast. Archibald Joyes Waltzes.

The Fleet's in Port again—Fox-Trot. There's a new world-Fox-Trot.

The Big Broadcast-Selection.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Extracts

Operas.

"Die Walkure”—

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“Geisha' -Selection (Jones),

Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, Piano Medley

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inations of the Trinity llege. Musić“ London.

7.20 p.m.

Variety.

Quentin M. MacLean.

Cinema Organ—

Charlie Künz.

River Reveries,

from Wagner's

Regimental Band Music-

“Belle of New York”—Selection

(Kerker)... Band of H.M.

stream Guards.

Orchestra

Cold-

Moonlight and shadows, How could you?

Vocal-

""The

Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire

Music

Rudolf Bockelmann

(Bass-Baritone) & the Berlin

-State Opera Orchestra. ~

"Lohengrin-Elsas Traum; **Tannhauser”-

Dich, Teure Halle,

Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano).

Blick' Ich Umber, c

Friedrich Schorr (Baritone). "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"-

Morgenlich Leuchtend Im. Rosigen

Schein....Lauritz Melchior

(Tenor).

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

Maid of the

Mountains" (Fraser-Simson)-Love will find

a way:

"Merrie England" (German)—

Waltz Song.

(Soprano).

Helene Esserman

Cinema Organ Music-

Vocal-

Things are looking up,

Cicely Courtneidge (Comedienne). Give me a heart to sing to,

Helen Morgan.

K

Anson Weeks & his Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m. “La Boutique Fantasqué”

(Rossini, arr. Respighi), played

by

the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by Eugene Goossens.*****

8 pmLocal: Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

|8.03¤ p.m.-—A Concert.

"Don Pasquale" (Donizetti) Sog- Pianoforte Soložis

The Children's Corner-Suite

Walter Gieseking.

Princesita (Padilla),

Popular Melodies,

Harold Ramsay.

(Debussy).

Tenor Solos

Violin Solo

David)

Tenor Solo-

Violin Solo

2.15 p.m.- Close down. 4-7. p.m.; Chinese. Programme.

1.40 p.m.—Variety and Light Operatic 7-11 p.m.--European Programme.

Items.

Regimental Band Music-

BRIDGE NOTES

7.

p.m.--From the Studio. Successful Candidates at the recent local Exam-

By ELY CULBERTSON

The Last Laugh

If you had a dangerous criminal[bid suits rather than merely one. locked up in jail you probably The redouble was optimistic but not would be satisfied to let it go at rash.

that. It wouldn't be clever of you to West opened the ten of hearts,

ten his cell just to hit him with and South groaned when dummy's a stick. After all, he might hit you jack elicited only a low club from first and escape before you could East. West grinned proudly while South made & campaign, but his lock the door.

Yet

amoat West's bidding grin was soon to fade.

*

the hand below. He Declarer entered his hand with the low diamond. had an opportunity to sit by and a club and led enjoy North's discomfort with West dared not put up the ace (had an impossible slam in hearts. In- he done so he would have made it stead he opened the door to take easier for South), so dummy's queen a whack at North and, as a result, won. But now the clubs were run well, see for yourself!

South, dealer. North-South vulnerable.

-NORTH

3: -AK J42 D.—Q 4:

AJ 10 4

EAST S-7 5 2 H-Noñe

WEST S.~K J 9 6 H-10 9 8.7.6 D.-A J 5 C.-7

D.-9 8 7 6 3 C-8 6·5 3 2

SOUTH

Q 10

The bidding:

West

South

I no trump Pass

10.2

North

hearts clubs Pass 6 hearts

Granadinas (Barrera),

Sonata in A Major (Vivaldi, arr.

Natan Milstein,

Tito Schips.

George Enesco.

Confession-Tango, .Tito Schipa.

Pianoforte Solo-

Poems (Chausson-Op. 25),

Tenor Solo-

Menuette Scherzando (Stavenha-

gen).

Eileen Joyce.

ax

Studio Recital

By Local

Music Students

The music goes round and around. The broken record.

Quickstep-

I'm feeling happy.

Many happy returns of the day. Waltz. Give me your hand. Tango Marilou.

For-Trot

Swing.

Moon, over„Miami.

Novelty Boris on the Bass.

9.30 p.m.London News and An

nouncements.”

9.55 pm. Organ Music.

Organ Sonata in G (Elgar),

no Soave e Casto...Tito Schipa. G. D. Cunningham.

"Ist Movement. Toccata from Symphony No.

(Widor)

Charles-Marie Widor. Andante from "Sonata No. 6"

(Mendelssohn),

Edouard Commette.

10.15 p.m.-Variety, and Dance Music.

Waltzes

*

8.50 p.m.-Light Orchestral Items.

The Nuremberg Doll Overture

(Adam) Grand Symphony Orch. Love's last word (Cremieux), Le Chaland qui passe (Bizio),

Albert Sandler & his Orch. 9.03 p.m. The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.11

It happened in Vienna,

Castanets. Orchestra. Mascotte. Cinema Organ-

Popular Melodies--No. 3,

Fox-Trots-

Harold Ramsay,

Let's face the music and dance, But where are you?

Tangos-—

Roy Fox and his Orchestra.

Jingle bells, Twilight..

Fox-Trots

Argentine Tango Orch.

Swing that music, Thankful,

· Vocal-

Louis Armstron

All alone in Vienna, Goodnight, my love,

"Fox-Trot---

&his Orch..

Leslie Hutchinson.

I'm just beginning to care, Waltz

I'm still in love with you,

Henry Jacques with his correct

Dance tempo Orchestra. p.m. Close down

What's On At the

Cinemas

AT THE QUEEN'S

"Roberta",

AT THE KING'S-“When You're in Love", with Grace Moore, Gary Grant with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Henry Stephenson and Thomas Mit chell.

One of the most delightful, Irene Dunne. A musical film. heart-warming pictures in which Grace Moore sings at her best." Several operatic masterpieces are rendered by Grace Moore.

AT THE “STAR When Knights Were Bold" with Jack Buchanan and Fay Wray. The story has been adapt." off and West had to find three dis-ed from the famous

atage success cards. Two spades were easy, but Charles Marlowe and the addition on the last club West had to let go musical numbers provides Jack

chanan with excuses to both sing the jack of diamonds.

dance...

AT THE MAJESTIĆ — “20 Million Sweethearts", with Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. An old favourite of Warner Brothers.

AT THE ORIENTAL "Dracula's Daughter", with Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden and Irving Pichel. A hair raising story of a beautiful woman who has hypnotic power and a deadly în- fluence over everybody she draws into her clutches.

A diamond now knocked out the ace and the heart return was taken by the queen. The king of dia- monds then finished poor West. He AT THE ALHAMBRA-“The First had to choose between discarding a | Baby", with Johnny Downs and Shirley heart and blanking the spade king. Deane. A richly human romance of a

AT THE CENTRAL He tried the latter, but South knew young couple who found out that it

does not need twins to have baby trou-wood Non-Stop Revue" only too well what was going on. ble. A story of love, in-laws mud- show, complete - The ace dropped, the spade king,dling things up and the baby helping catchy song hits, and South cashed the spade queen them to find happiness. for his twelfth trick.

South gravely scored up 2,210 points and thought of the 200 points North probably would have lost at six hearts. Then he leaned back East contentedly to listen to what East Pass had to say to his partner. Lase

3 spades Pass

4. hearts

Pass

Pass

Pass

·Double 6 no trump Pass Double *Redouble

*Final bid.

"The Holly-

A great stage gorgeous girls, stepping dancers

and side splitting comed,

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TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: Are psychic bids allow- ed in the Culbertson system? Answer: They don't have

to allowed. If you want to make them North knew his partner had not go ahead. But don't blame me if committed the idiocy of psyching in you land in the soup. If you have no trump against nonvulnerable op- to psych have a parachute handy ponenta, He therefore suspected (in the shape of a safe rescue sult), that a trump trick was lurking be- And remember that even when, a hind West's double. The runout to paychic bid works your partner will. six no✨trump was an attempt to be wondering later on, 'Is this the make the slam depend on all three | McCoy or the bunk?”

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