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Dance Music Fron

The

Hong Kong Hotel

Todays Wireless

2:30-2.15 min. European Programme, 230 p.m.Songs by: Grace Moore and

Denny Dennis, ir ve

Grace Moore Our Song. Denny Dennis To

loveat

Mary,

Grace Moore The whistling boy. Denny Dennis Here's love in your

eyes

2.42 p.m.-Koy Fox and his Orchestra.

Fox Trot

An old Hawaiian Guitar.

On the beach at Bali Bali.

Waltz

My first love song.

Would you?

Fox-Trot

These foolish things.

The touch of your lips.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Russian Music.

Orchestral

(a) Sleep, my baby; (b) Moscow; (c) Ballet from "Koniok Gor- bunick."

Russian Vagabonds, directed by

Theodore Katz.

Song-

Hopak (Moussorgsky).

Alexandre Koubitzky (Tenor).

Orchestral

Cossack Dance from

: (Tschaikowsky);

Sir Hamilton Harty and

Halle Orchestra.

BRIDGE NOTES

the

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c

The Volga Boat

On the Volga

Piano Duet

Waltz from Suite for Two Pianos,

Op. 15 (Arensky). "Vronsky and Babin.

Orchestral

Caucasian

Suite, No.

Scene (Ippolitow, now);

Village

ZEK 640 k.ca

Len Bermon:

Cinema Organ—

Six Great Melodies)

Harold Ramsay.

2.15 p.m~~Close Down.

70

5 p.m.-Relay of Dance Music from the

Roof-Garden

the Hong Kong Hotel

ZEK

cles:

Page

Brahms Violin Concerto

In D Major

on a Frequency of 640 Kilocy-

8p.m.-London Big Ben. Bransby Williams, the famous character actor

in a selection of

with Reginald F

Theatre Organ.

ing)

8.20 p.

iety. Vocal

ular studies

at the B. B. C. ectrical Record-

programme of light var-

FAWX Someone to care for m

art. Iwa-6.30 p.m. Light Orchestral Music.

"Out of the Bottle" Selection

George Boulanger and his Or-

chestra,

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

1,40 p.m.—Variety and Dance Music.

Vocal

Star Gazing.

Conversation for two.

Elsie Carlisle.

Fox-Trots--

Alone.

Beny meeny miney mo.

Joe Venuti and his Orchestra.

Instrumental-

Tony.

Olly Oakley (Banjo).

Piano Solos

Mixed Melodies.

Len Green.

Vocal

Blazin' the trail.

It's no.fun.

By ELY CULBERTSON

Unblocking

A suit is blocked when a player, who has no choice except to win a lead of the suit, has no card of the suit remaining to lead to the next trick. To avoid this contingency, one player unblocks.

SOUTH

S A. J. 8

HQ 9 8 4 3 D 8 CA 963

North

West Pass

As quickly The bidding: as possible he rids himself of his South high cards to avoid being left in the 1 heart lead. When there is danger that 12 hearts Pass a suit will be blocked, both partners 4 hearts Pass should take special care to keep the lead in the hand which most needs an entry.

NORTH

10 9 8 2

WEST

7-

EAST J 6 5

SOUTH

East

(Ellis),

New Mayfair Orchestra. Dicky Bird Hop (Gourley).

New Mayfair Novelty Orchestra. "Tell Her the Truth" Selection

(Tunbridge).

New Mayfair Orchestra, The Clock is playing (Blaaw).

New Mayfair Novelty Orchestra: Petite Suite de Concert. (Coleridges

Taylor).

London Symphony Orchestra.

7 p.m. Children's Records.

7.10 p.m.

Turner Layton (Tenor) and Sam Browne (Baritone). 7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7.35 Pallo-Variety.

Orchestra-

Taking a stroll around; the Park. Turning the Town upside down.

Louis Levy and his Gaumont

British Symphony.

Piano Medley-

No. R. 13.

Charlie Kunz.

Vocal-

I'm an old cow-hand from the Rio

Grande.

Peter's Pop keeps a lollipop shop,

The Rocky Mountaineers.

Hawaiian-

Hawaiian Stars are gleaming, Oh! Rosalita.

Lion Mitford and his Hawaiian

players,

7.57 p.m. Local: Weather Report, An-

nouncements and Time.

Pass 8 p.m.-A Relay from the Ko Shing

Theatre (Chinese); Pass

11 p.m.-Close Down,

The Kiss Dean

Orchestr Spe

Inst

No

Durbin (Soprano

Cuban Dance.

Theatre Orchestra.

litan Folk Song Medley Caroling Mandoline Orchestra.

The night is young and you're so

beautiful

Another perfect night is, ending.

Turner Layton.

Orchestra

Desert Son

Evensong.

De Groot and the Piccadilly Or-

chestra.

Orchestral--

Henry VIIE Dances (German) New Symphony Orchestra.

Fritz

8.54 pm Brahms Violin Concerto in

D Major, Op. 77, played by Kreisler and the London Philhar- monic Orchestra - Conducted by John Barbirolli

Ist Movement-

Allegro non troppo..

2nd Movement-

Adagio.

19

3rd Movement--

9.30

Allegro giocęso, ma non troppo

vivace.

p.m.-London-News

nouncements.

and An-

9.55 p.m. Songs by Alfred Piccaver

(Tenor)..

Beauty's eyes (Tosti).

Love sends a little gift of roses

(Openshaw).

Kashmiri Love Song (Woodferde-

Finden)

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE ORIENTA “Swing-High†ground-for-the irresistible Jeannette” And Swing Low" A romantic comedy MacDonald," who surpasses herself. co-starring lovely Carole Lombard and Nelson Eddy, whose marvellous voice dashing. Fred MacMurrary -a festival and attractive personality, finds great of mirth and scope plays the leading male role. John of song and music

Barrymore heads the long list of not- laughter.

cast able names in the supporting which includes Herman Bing and Ra- faella Ottiani.

2 diamonds

For you alone (Geehl). 3 hearts

10.08 p.m. Dance Music, Pass

Pass 8-11 p.m.-European Progra

amme from 11 pm-Close Down. The less gaid about the bidding South "bid his heart the better. off,” and his only excuse was that he was playing with an ultra-conserva- tive partner. Fortunately, South's play was a great deal sounder than his bidding.

West opened his fourth best spade and declarer took East's king with AK Q 4.3

the ace.

A low heart was led to- When south leads the ace, king and

ward dummy's king and West, with

AT THE STAR Plough And The the blank A-10, saw that it would queen, North throws the ten, nine

Star",-Sean O'Casey's drama, and eight, saving the deuce. South be futile to hold up the ace (declar is the basis of the Barbara Stanwyck-

AT THE ALHAMBRA "As Good now can win the fourth round with er certainly would play dummy's Preston Foster film of the same name,

he As Married”. Offering everything that the four and still be on lead to cash king and then duck a return lead). is called the greatest drama

20th century by Maxwell Anderson, one a good comedy drama should offer, this Care West won with the ace, therefore, of the leading American playwright. flm has a splendid cast assembled his last long suit winner. must be taken to leave the lead with and cashed the spade queen, declar-Deeply dramatic, it is the story of a which includes John Boles, Doris No- West shift-young Irish girl for whom life and love lan, Walter Pidg Tala Birrell, the partner who can beat use it. jer chucking the jack.

ed to a club, dummy played low, are twisted and almost destroyed by Ernest Cossart, Katherine-Alexander,

the insurrection in Dublin.

Alan, Mowbray, and Esther Ralston. and East's king went to the ace.

The dialogue is sparkling, the direc- The fact that East had put up his

AT THE QUEEN'S — 'Under The tion brilliant, and it is one of the sea- heart ace told the declarer that the Red Robe" with Conrad Veidt and An- son's best offerin

There nabella - A stirring adventure of the trumps would not break. was, however, a chance to avoid the days when men dared all for love, tel AT THE KING'S Night Must

ing a tale of

of scarlet intrigue in the AK 954

error oc-loss of another trump trick if, as

days of Bie An especially common curs in this and similar situations, declarer suspected, West were to The first trick should be taken by have to play the jack or ten on dum- the queen, not by the ace or king. my's king, which is just what hap- If South wins the first trick with pened on declarer's next lead to the Now the diamond ace the ace

or king, the suit will be heart king. blocked. North will be on lead at and king were cashed, declarer dis- the second trick and will be unable carding a club, and then the jack of clubs was led. West won with to continue the suit.

the queen, but now was at the de- Regardless of his

WEST 7 32

NORTH

SOUTH

EAST J 10 8

A Message from the Enemy.

A defender's play often informs clarer's mercy. the declarer beyond question of return, the result would have been doubt that a suit will not break. In the same. As it happened, he Dummy won, and a to-day's hand this information led chose a club......... D

diamond was ruffed. Now all de- to a neat trump compsategiya.

clarer had to do was to lead to dum- South, dealeranzon

my's ten of spades and- return diamond. East was down to the J-7 of trump, and declarer's

Q-9 formed a satisfactory tenace for the last tw

tricke

Neither side vulnerable.

NORTH

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Today's Question.

|| Questionɔid Partner opened with two ao trump. Should I raise to three no trump on the following: $763 H96-DQT643 €986? 1 Answer Yes.

AT THE MAJESTIC "Maytime”

Fall.”—An unusual and bizarre picture which brings Robert Montgomery in an entirely different role and the lovely Rosalind Russell. The supporting cast

Musical Springtime romance, with all includes Dame May Whitty, Merle Tot- its appealing beauty and charm, en-tenham, Matthew Bolton and Kathleen chanting scenery and gorgeous oper- Harrison, Alan Marshal, E. E. Clive atic settings to form a suitable back and others complete the cast.

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