1937-08-10 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1937

Vocal Quartette

From The Studio

Today's Wireless

1.03 pm. Cinema Organ and Variety. Naughty Marietta Film Selection

Intro: Ahi Sweet Mystery of Life; I'm falling In Love With Some One, Neath the Southern Moon. Reginald Dixon (Organ). Vilia (From MGM film-

The Merry Widow),

Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano). With Sword And Lance→

March (Starke),

Reginald Dixon (Organ). Mississippi Film Selection

Intro: It's Easy to Remember;

Down by the River.

Reginald Dixon (Organ). The Merry Widow Waltz From M.G. M. film-The Merry Widow) Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano). Blaze Away-March (Holzmann),“

Reginald Dixon (Organ).

Swing Is The Thing

(From The Blackbirds of 1935'}, Long About Midnight (Mills Hill),

The Mills Brothers.

Sweet And Lovely

(Arnheim, Tobias & Lemare),

Raže da Costa (Piano). 130 p.m.-Reuter Press; Bugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast and An- nouncements.

BRIDGE NOTES.

ZBW 355 M. 845 kc's ::

1.40 p.m.- Relay of the Rotary Club Tiffin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel 2:15 pm- Close down. 4-7 p.m.--Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.-European Programme. 7 p.m.--Orchestral Music.

Stradella Overture Parts 1 & 2

(von Flotow & Balfour),"

Bournemouth Municipal Orch. Hungarian Dance No. 1,

Leopold Stokowski & the

Philadelphia Orchestra.

Salut D'Amour, Carissima (Elgar),

New Symphony Orchestra 718 pm-Negro Spirituals.

Negro Spiritual Medley-

Intro: Im a rolling and Sing-a- Hol, Hail de Crown; Joshua. fit de Battle ob Jericho, I got a robe, Qh Lord I done; De Gospel Train, Black Sheep; Heav'n bells are ringin', I'll hear de Trumpet -sound; Swing low, Walk To-

gether, children.

Pani Robeson (Bass) and Jack

Hylton & His Orchestra.

By ELY CULBERTSON

Shrewd Defensive Play

"Dear Mr. Culbertson:

want to put to you is whether this

ZEK 640 k.c's

(a) De Ole Ark's A Movering (Arr

Hall Johnson),

(b) Ezekiel Saw De Wheel (Arr. 1.

Brown),

Paul Robeson (Bass) and

Lawrence Brown (Piano). 7.30 pmClosing local Stock Quotat tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report 7.35 pm Military Band Music.

Review Of The Troops-

the

Part Intro: Scipio, King Cot

ton Galopedes Cock o North; God Save the King, May Blossom

Part I Intro: Royal Artillery Slow March, British Grenadiers; Highland Ladies; St. Patrick's Day, Men of Harlech Money Musk, Wait for the Wagon.

Band of HM Welsh Guards. March Of The Mountain. Gnomes. The Mill In The Black Forest

(B. Eilenberg),

The Regimental Band

Prairie Flower,

Grenadier Guards.

Lynwood (Ord Hume),

The B.B.C Wireless Military Band. Coronation Bells (Partridge), Royal Cavalcade (Ketelbey), _

The Band of ELM. Coldstream

•

Guards. 8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal; Weather!

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Bach Piano Concerto in C Major Played by Artur Schmabel & Karl Ulrich Schnabel & The London Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Adrian Boult

8.30 pm-Studio E O'Neil Shaw and Quartette. The Passing Show" by H. Oliver Eva Tumer Helen Lock- hart, Gaston d'Aquino, Victor Sang- ders, and E O Neil Shaw at Pianof 9 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music

An American In Paris (Gershwin), New Light Symphony Orchestra

with George Gershwin. Handel In The Strand. (Grainger), Mock-Morris Dances (Grainger),

"I am inclosing a hand that came latter declarer's play was correct. up last night in a team-of-four con-

"Yours very truly, 201 test at our local club. Instead of

"N.V, Los Angeles." playing for total points, as is com Fast should be complimented for mon to most of these contests, we his shrewd defensive play of shis play on a board-a-match basis, that king of diamonds. His analysis, is to say, whichever team makes the that the one way to set the con- most points on any given board tract was through a possible dia- scores one match point. This hand,mond ruff, was quite correct. De- which happened to be the last one clarer, however, certainly should} played, actually decided the match, not have fallen for East's ruse. De 9.30 pm-Relay London inasmuch as the two teams were clarer could afford to lose a dia- tied up to that point-

North, dealer.

Neither side vulnerable.

WEST

H97 62

S & 3 2

D Q 8.4 2

CJ 10

NORTH $ 9

E Q 8 4

DA76

CAKQ 5 4 2

EAST

SA 76

HAKJ5 3

DK 5

09 7:3

SOUTH

·S K Q J.10.5 4 H 10

D J 10 9 3 C 8 6

The bidding at both tables was: North East South West 1 club Double 3 spades Pass 3 ao trump Pass 4 spades Pass

Pass

Pass

New Light Symphony Orch. Casino Tanze (Gungi, Op. 237), Gold And Silver, Waltz (behar),

The Bohemia Orchestra. News and

Announcements.

mond trick in addition to the heart 9.55 pm-Yariety. and spade that were certain losers.

Dixon Request Medley- Probably declarer thought that the lead of the diamond king marked the queen also in East's hand and, that being the case, nothing could be lost by winning the trick with the ace.

In

Pag

In Hour Of Variety Dixon At The Organ

do like to be beside the Blaze away, Who Were you with last Night, If you were the only girl in the Worlds Part II Teddy Bears Picnic, Dinah Down at the Old Ball and Bush, Just a Wee Deoch and Doris, She's a Lassie from Lan- ashire do like to be beside

Seaside

Reginald Dixon (The Famous

Blackpool Organist).

(From the Film The Pri- fe of Don Juan),

Quick-Step

(Lockton & Bavini),

John Brownlee (Baritone).

Baggin' The Scale, Canadian Capers,

Vocal Quartet

The Ballyhooligans.

Das Gibt's Nur Einmal, Das Ist Die Liebe Der Matrosen,

The Melody Gents with Orchestra.. Scenes from My Old Dutch

Part 1 Knock'd em in the Old Kent Road Daisy Bell Down at the Old Bull and Bush, Part 2 We'll All Go Riding on a

bow, My Old Dutch.

With Betty Balfour as "LI and Michael Hogan as "Bert & Company.

Charlie Kunz Piano Medley-

Intro: Three o'clock in the morn---- ing Speak to me of Love; When Irish eyes are smiling, Love's old Sweet Song Alice Blue Gown; My Hero.

Charlie, Kunz. (Piano).

Humorous Sketch-

A Surrealist Alphabet, A Spot Of Fishing,

Slot For Trot

Clapham and Dwyer

Dance Of The Gadfly For Trot Intermez Quivering Quave

Otto Dobrindt & Elis Piano

rfect Lady,

Women In Love,

Symphonists.

Doris Palmer With Piano.

Slow For Trot

Blazin The Trail,

Fox Trot

He Was A Gentleman's Gentleman, Billy Cotton & His Band.

Words Without Music,

Eddy Duchin and His Orchest

Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

Murder at

AT THE ALHAMBRA "Taras Bul- AT THE ORIENTAL ba." Harry Baur and Danielle Da- the Vanities, with Victor McLaglen, rieux in a French version by Pierre

In this he was quite wrong. the first place, the king lead did Benoit of Gogol's famous story of the Carl Brisson, Jackie Oakie and Kitty not show the queen and, in the se- great Cossack freebooter. French lan-Carlisle, A sensational musical mys- cond, even if East had had the guage film with English subtitles.

queen, there could be no harm con-

ceding the trick to the king Ifj

tery show with the most beautiful girls in Hollywood

East had four diamonds including AT THE MAJESTIC "It Happened the king and queen, whatever de- One Night with Clark Gable and clarer did, he would be exposed to Claudette Colbert. A Columbia picture at the Olympics" Such a thing could

a third round diamond ruff by West. This would be merely unfor- tunate. But other distributions of the diamond suit could and should]

which won the Gold Medal

AT THE QUEEN'S “Charlie Ch

not happen in Berlin--but it did. And Charlie was called upon ..to solve his most baffling mystery amid the excite- be guarded against. Declarer could Joe E Brown Carol Hughes and Warner, Oland, Katherine de Mille, AT THE KING'S "Polo Joe", with ment of the Olympic Games. With safely assume that East held the Richard "Skeets" Gallagher. The mer- spade ace. His take-out double riest Joe E. Brown show yet, with the Keye Luke, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane

comedian as a polo player.

and C. Henry Gordon.

"The bidding is not the point could not have been justified with- under discussion here, although it out that card. Therefore, West may not have been perfect What could not possibly have an entry Happened was that at one table unless South were to give him one West opened the deuce of diamonds by winning the diamond king with and declarer, by ducking in dum- the ace, and thus establishing th my, held his losses to one, spade, diamond queen in West's hand, one heart, and one diamond. It it were there.

was conceded that after that lead I should say there was no ques- no defense could have defeated the tion that South made a crucial er contract

For on this hand

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

"At the other table West opened the deuce of hearts, Fast won with Question: Is it true that one the jack, and returned the diamond never should signal with an hon- king. Declarer won this trick in our? -

dummy and leday spade. East hop | 7Answer. It certainly

ped up with the ace and returned As a matter od

his five of diamonds,"

won' with the

Westfour cards should be cons after which used sparingly

third round of diamonds was ruded many cases urgency demands tha by East for the setting trick. echoes be started by the play of an

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