1937-09-15 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937.

Elvie Yuen

And

Nura Kanis

Today's Wireless

12.30-2.15 pm.-European Programme.

12:30 pm—Ambrose & His Orchestra.

Fox-Trots

Pm In A Dancing Mood.

My Red Letter Day (film This'll

make you whistle).

We're Tops On Saturday Night

(film "Soft lights & sweet music) She (Kennedy, Carr). Wood And Ivory (Philips). Knock, Knock, Who's There?

(Tyson, Davies, Lopez, Morris). Saving Up My Time To Spend On

You (Pepper, Watt).

12.50 p.m.-Songs by Joseph Hislop

(Tenor).

MacGregor's Gathering

(Lee, arr. Kam).

Bonnie Wee Thing (Fox).

My Mother (Marsden).

1 pm Local: Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report:

103 pin-Sea Shanties.

Sally Brown; Hanging Johnny,

Whisky Johnny.

The Sailor Likes His Bottle-0; Clear] The Track, Let The Ballgine Run. Blow The Man Down; Tom's Gone

BRIDGE NOTES

A

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

To Hilo (Arr. Terry), Lowlands (arr. Taylor Harris).

John Goss (Baritone) & The Ca- thedral Male Voice Quartet.

1.15 pm Harek Weber & His Orches-

The Skaters-Waltz (Gung1).. "Tosca' Selection (Puccimi).

The Hermit (Clemens Schmalstich). 1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press; Rugby Press;

Eocal Weather Forecast nouncements.

140 p.m. Variety.

Orchestral

and An-

Vocal-

ZEK 640 k.c's.

Quinte

I Saw A Ship A-Sailing

(Jerome Byron-Kent). Keep Cailing Me Sweetheart

(Long-Pease-Ida).

Joe Petersen with Charles Smart (Organ)

Vocal Orchestra Melody Trumps:

No.-2

The Four Aces

Orchestral--

Merry-Go-Round-Fox-Trot..

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. [2.15 p.m.-Close down.

Natacha; Marche Tzigane." Les Nuits Moscovites, Waltz

(French film Les nuits Mosco7

Alfred Rode & his rites").

Tziganes Humorous The Stocking.

John Henry & Blossom'. Novelty The Naughty Nineties.

1. London.

2.

Romance....Old Timers Sketch Company with Fred Hartley's

By ELY CULBERTSON

Bad Bid

1 am fulfillment (after the first trick] as "Dear Mr. Culbertson. sending a hand which recently was six hearts would have been. The played in my home. As you will declarer's error was in attempting see, my partner and I, sitting, to return to his own hand with a South, heart. The fact that West had led respectively, North and reached the wrong contract and, that suit should have been a war considering that a slam in a differing. After cashing the spade ace, ent suit would have been a lay-the diamond king should have been

5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. “ 7-11 p.z-European Programme.

p.m.-Harry Roy & His Orchestra. Out Of The Rag Bag-Medley. Fox-Trot-Avalon. Quickstep Margie.

Sky High Honeymoon. Comedy Quickstep-No Words-Nor Anything (film Everything is

Rhythm).

Slow Fox-Trot-

Black Minnie's Gōt The Bizes. Fox-Trot-Internationalle

(film Everything is Rhythm)

Fox-Trots“.

Life Is Empty Without Love. Man Of My Dreams

(film Everything is Rhythm). 7.30 pm-Closing local Stock Quots- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7.35 pm-Cicely Courtneidge (Come-

dienne).

Humpty Dumpty (Bar). The Sunshine Cruise

(McLaren, Hulbert & Ray). The Wind's In The West- My Wild Oat (film ‘Aunt Sally'). 7.47 p.m.-Billy Mayerl at the Piano. Jasmine (A Syncopated Impressio

Mayeri).

Sweet Nothings Bettenberg).

down, I would like you to tell me used as entry card, and the king- Billy Mayerl's Savoy Havana

who was to blame.

North, dealer.

North-South vulnerable.

NORTH

S-4

H-A J 10 9 D.-A J 8 6 4

C.-43

WEST

S-10 8 3

H-2

D-Q 13 5 2

C-K 10 9 8.5

FAST S.-J 7 5 4 H-Q 743 D.-9 7

#6 C.-

SOUTH

S-X Q 9 6 2

HK 86

D.-K 3

C.—A Q 2

The bidding:

North

East

i heart

4 spades

South

1 spade

queen and a low spade led. All declarer had to do was to count the tricks in sight and note that if the spades broke 43 [or if the jack and ten should drop on the first two rounds in case there were a 5-2 split] twelve tricks were clearly in sight, namely, four spades, five hearts, two diamonds, and one club.

Aside from North's bad bidding,}^ the real culprit in this hand was East. He made it extremely simple for declarer when he woodenly played the heart queen to the first

Memories.

8 pin-Local: Time Signall, weather

Report and Announcemen

Elvie 8.03 pm Studio Concert

Tuen (Soprano) and Nura Kanis (Piano).

1. Lascia Ch'io Pianga,

2

Hedge Roses

Handel Schobert

Elvie Yuen

3.

Piano Selection"

Nura Kanis.

4.

Sempre Cosi-from "La Cena

delle Beffe

Giordana.

5.

Ebben? Ne andro lontana-from

"La Wally"

Catalani

bilvie Yuen

Page

Beethoven Sonata

In E Flat Major

8.23 p.m.-The BBC. Symphony

chestra.

Prelude The Dream Of Gerontius',

Op. 28 (Elgar).

Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streicht,

Op. 28 (Richard Strauss).

$48 pm Songs by Stuart Robertson

(Baritone).

The Saucy Arethusa (Traditional). The Bay Of Biscay (Davy).

A Bowl Of Punch. (Mortimer & Allen

Murray)

8.57 pm-Beethoven Sonsta in E Flat Major, Op. 818 Les Adieur"). Played by Artur Schnabel (Piano). 9.14 pm-Heifetz (Violin).

Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 (Saint-Saens).....With the London Philharmonic Orch. con- ducted by John Barbirolli Sevilla. (Albeniz-Heifetz). Ruralia Hungarica, Op. 32

(Dohnanyi).

2.30 pm-London Relay The News &

Âmouncements. »

9.55 pm-Variety.

Vocal Hill Billy Songs.

Carson-Robison & His Pioneers. Jubilee Music Hall Parade 1922-1935. Comedienne

My Lucky Day.

Mary Rose (alm This Week of

Grace')

Gracie Fields. Orchestral Noel Coward Medley.

The BBC. Dance Orchestra, direct- ed by Henry Hall with Vocal Chorus

Impressionist-

:

The Singing Lesson. Sun Bathing..

Piano

Jane Carr

Now That You're Gone

(Kahn & Fiorito) Can't We Talk It Over (Washing- ton & Young). Catentt. Gib- "bons (Piano) & His Boy Friends. Vocal At The Close Of A Long Long Day (Moll & Marvin) Les Allen and His Canadian Bachelors. Orchestral

Vienna In Springtime (Pelosi), Your Heart Called Mine (Edgar- w Lewinnek Hayon). Caiapoli &

his Marimba Tango Orchestra. Vocal

Masquerading In The Name Of Love (Heimar & Goodhart). Over On The Sunny Side

(Egan, Flyun & Nicholls).

Hugh Morton (Baritone). Orchestral Limelight Selection.

Louis Levy & His Gaumont

British Symphony.

11 pm-Close down

trick, thereby establishing dummy's What's On At the Cinemas

entire suit. Without that play de- clarer's problem would have been more difficult.

South

To-day's Question

A Jo-Jotte Pointer

AT THE ORIENTAL "Escadrille."1 AT THE ALHAMB —An intimate picture of a French fly-1-Shirley Temple in a.

ing squadron behind the lies during China and a voyage across the Pacific the World War is presented in this also technicolour pictures of the

as

AT THE KING'S ——“All American Champ", with Stuart Erwin, Robert Armstrong, Betty Furness and Edmund Gwenn-The story of a rural lighting calenlator who is induced to join carmval show and unconsciously defeats the World's Champion bridge player. Events thereafter move rapidly, finish- ing in a great climax

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West Pass Question: The bidding has been thrilling romance, with Paul Muni, Coronation

Mariam Hopkins and Louis Hayward in 2 diamonds Pass 2 no trump Pass las follows:

the leading roles. The cast embraces Pass Pass 4 hearts

West North 3 spades

such Hollywood celebrities

Colim

Pass Pass 5 spades

Clive, Minor. Watson, Elizabeth Risdon, 1 heart Pass- 2.hearts

Paul Guilfoyle, Mady Christians and $ spades Pass Pass Pass 1 East, hold S. A K Q J. 10 H. 6 3

Owen Davis, jun "West opened the two of hearts. D. 87 5 C. 943. Should I bid two East's queen covering dummy's spades? jack was won by declarer's king. Answer: Pass, if vulnerable. Bid The two of spades was fed to two spades if not vulnerable. dummy's ace. The five of hearts to declarer's eight spot was ruffed by West. Later declarer was forced to concede a trump trick to East, going down one on the hand. Could told you, when you have cards in the contract have been made by your hand that will score 40 or normal play? Please comment on more points for you. Selection of the bidding and play.

ja trump suit requires thought. The "Yours truly,

controlling consideration is the "J.M.C., Washington, D. C." jack-nine of trumps. South's rebid of two no trump In any suit which is not trump, was an underbid He had the the ace and ten count, in the play, values for a jump to three no 10 points each; the king and queen, trump. Of course North's three 5 points each; the jack and nine, spades over the actual bid of two as well as the eight and seven, no trump was bad. He had far nothing. But in the trump suit the from adequate spade support. Heljack is transferred from a worth- should have rebid his own suits. less card to the highest trump, } Then, when South raised the hearts worth 20 points: The nine be on the third round, for North to comes the second highest trump, have given another spade raiseworth 15 points.

AT THE STAR-“Gold Diggers of 1937", with Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell and Lee AT THE MAJESTIC “Hot Money”. Dixon. A happy melange. The sign with Ross Aleander and Beverly Ro- Make a bid in Jo-Jotte, as I haraling of a million dollar insurance policyberts. A riotous comedy romance on and the medical examination are a sure the get-rick-quick Wallingford type of

story cure for the blues.

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and, finally, to have taken five In naming a trimp suit look for spades to a slam, was nothing short a suit in which you have jack, nine, of criminal.

or both. Even if you have

Peculiarly enough, however, the other longer suit it is not as good six spade contract actually reached a trump suit for you if it does should have been just as easy of contain the jack or nine.

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