1937-09-16 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1937.

From The Studio: Louis Green

At The Piano

1230-2.15 p.m.-European

12.30 pm--Viennese Waltzes →

Today's Wireless

Wine, Women And Song (Strauss). Moonlight On The Alster (Fetzas). Fremma Bon Bons

#Strauss, arr. Atzler).

Marek Weber & His Orchestra.

Blue Danube...

Vienna Blood (Strauss).:

De Groot & The Piccadilly Orch. 1247 p.m.-Songs by Elisabeth Schu

mama: (Soprano).

Vogel Lied, Op. 41, No. 4.

Weingartner).

Caprice Viennois (Kreisler). Wien, Da Stadt Meiner Traume

(Sieczynski).

BRIDGE NOTES

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's :::: ZEK 640 k.c's,

Lied Aus Wien:

(Willer-Reichert-Schubert).

1 pm Local: Time Signal and Wes

ther Report

1.03 pm Moreton and Kaye on two

pianos.

Quickstep Medley. Fox Trot. Medley.

Dinah, After You've Gone: Nobody's

Sweetheart.

St. Louis Blues; Some Of These Days. 1.15 p.Orchestre Raymonde.

Berceuse (Jarnefelt).

By The Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates).

By ELY CULBERTSON

Leading A Suit Partner Has Bid

When you are making your open- of the hand, but in sober truth it ing lead in a suit your partner has had been an easy guess. True, East bid, lead, as follows:

had opened the bidding, but had At suit contracts, open your taken no action whatsoever after highest card. If you hold three or a that one bid. West had overcalled! doubleton. If you have four or the heart with a spade and from more of your partner's suit, open that fact, and the spades in sight. your highest only if your holding East must be very short of is A XXX K Q ≤ x, or Q J xx; spades. Surely, with shortness in otherwise, lead fourth highest, his partner's suit, the sce-king of even from 10 9 8 2.

diamonds [marked from the open-

At no trump contracts, opening lead] and the club ace, East your highest card only from dou-would have doubled the final four bletons, or from worthless three heart contract. That he had not card suits theaded by no honour, done so was 98 per cent proof that Otherwise, lead your fourth high- he did not have the club ace. est from four or more cards of It is unfortunate that players your partner's suit, and your low-often go wrong on guesses that are est from three cards to an honour just as easy as this one. (A xxx Kx 1, K 10 9, Q.10 x, TODAY'S QUESTION Jx1, KJxx, 109 x, x, etc.). But Question Dealer opened with a when the suit is headed by two or bid of three spades. Next hand, my more honours in sequence, lead the partner, doubled. Third hand pass- highest honour.

ed. Should I respond with hearts, or let the three spade bid stand

TO-DAY'S HAND

Chanson D'Amour (Suk).

Delibes In Vierina (arr. Walter). 1.30 pm-Renter Press, Bugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast andÁD- nouncements:

1.40 pm-Songs-by. Turner Laydon.

Riding The Range In The Sky

(Carlton)

I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze)

(film The charm school) When My Mammy Smiles (Hodges); 1.50 p.m.-Dance Music.. 2:15 pm-Close downs

5-8 p.m.-European Programme 8-11 pm-Chinese Programme.

5 pm-Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel During the intervals re corded dance music from ZBW.

6 p.m.-Studio Children's Concert. 6.45 p.m.-Gilbert & Sullivan Excerpts.

"The Mikade Overture.

The Light Symphony Orch. "The Gondoliers'

See, See, At Last They Come.

S. Gordon, D. Oldham, G. Baker

& Chorus Good Morrow, Pretty Maids.

Chorus & Short Solos. For The Merriest Fellows, Are We

R. Walker & Chorus: 'Iolanthe

Oh, Shameless One, Tremble.

Winifred Lawson, Leste Rands, Derek Oldham, George Baker, Darrell Fancourt & Male Chorts.

Soon As We May.

W. Lawson, N. Briercliffe, B. Lewis, D. Oldham, D. Fan- court, G. Baker & Mixed Chorus.

7.10 p.m.-Gordon String Quartet. Oracion Del Torero (Turins).

7.18 pm Two Songs by Tito Schipa

(Tenor).

La Cumparsita Tanga. Confesion Tango

725 pm Light Symphony Orche

Summer Days-Saite (Eric Coates). Valsette from Wood Ny

(Erk Coates). Rondel Mina.

Shep

7.40

Song

arr. Hayden Wood). Closing local Stock Quots- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

A player need not be even mildly) with the following? S 8 6 H Q J 8745 pm Studio Louis Green (En

Answer: Bid four hearts.

TO-MORROWS HAND South, dealer.

expert to realise that a bid from an 7 5 DA & C 10 8 7 5. opponent identifies him with high! card strength. When both oppon- ents have bid it requires a certain amount of thought to determine their respective high card holdings. Consider to-day's hand-

West, dealer.

East-West vulnerable.

NORTH

S-Q 9:54

H~K Q J 3

D. 8 6 5 C-K 9

:

WEST

EAST S-7

H-82

S K J 8 3 2

D.—A K J 10 3 2

1-7 6-

D.-Q. 9 4

C.-A 8·2

C-Q 7 5 4

SOUTH

S-A 10 6

H.-A 10 954

D.-7

C-J 10 6 3

Both sides vulnerable.

NORTH- SK 543 2

2.96-4

52

WEST SJ 9 8 H-10 ID.-9 8 43

C.

8742

EAST S-Q 10 6 F-33 D-J 10 7

C-K 10 6 5 3

SOUTH

S.-A. 7

H-AK J 7 5

D-A Q 6

C.--J 9

Mr. Culbertson will discuss this hand in to-morrow's article.

tainer at the piano).

1. As Broad as it's Long. 2. Such is fame.

3. I want to be a sailor. 4 Yoi, Yoi, Ship Ahoi!

Mozart Concerto

& Excerpts From Mozart Operas

8 pm Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8:03:11 pm Chinese Proz

Studio Concert.

11 pmClose down

8.03-11 pm - European Programme from 74K on a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles.

18.05 pm- Variety Programme.

Midnight In Mayfair (Chase). Some Of These Days (Brooks- after Bach and Chopin). RA

Patricia Rossborough.

Vocal

Paradise In Waltz Time: Could I Be In Love

(film-"Cham-

pagne Waltz')....... Gladys Swar thout (Mezzo-Soprano).

Orchestral What Are We Conna Do With Baby?....Brian Lawrence & His Orchestra. “

9 p.m. London Relay

Food for Thought. Three short talks on ma

ters of topical interest.

9.20 p.m.-Songs by Richard Crooks

(Tenor).

Songs My Mother Taught Me

(Macfarren-Dvorak).

Mother 0 Mine (Kipling-Tours). Too Late To-morrow (Langenberg). 19.30 London Relay The News &

250 pm Mozart Concerto In E Flat Major Walter Gieseking (Piano) and Members of the State Opera House Orchestra, Berling. Conducted by Hand Roshand.. 10.20 p. Excerpts from Mozart

Operas.

The Marriage of Figaro'

The Letter Duet

Viorica Ursuleac (Soprano) &

Era Berger (Soprano). Don Juan'

Give me thy hand, O'fairest

Erna Berger (Soprano) & Hein rich Schlusius (Baritone).

18.27 m Light Orchestral

Mors Et VitaJudex (Gounod).

New Symphony Orch. cond by

Lawrence Collingwood

Nails Waltz (Delibes, ar Doppler).

Royal Opera Orch., Convent Garden

cond by Lawrence Collingwood. Midnight Rose (DErlanger).

Symphony Orchestry cond. by John

Barbiroll"

Blager Pavillon (Armandola). Traumende Glocken (erome).

Columbis Meister. Orchester. A Tzigane Night At The Hungaria.

Colambo's Tziganes. Where The Woods Are Green ·

Brodszky, arr. Wennger Tell Me To-night (Spoliansky).

Albert Sandler & His Orch.

11 pmClose down...

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE ORIENTAL “Escadrille ” AT THE KING'S “AIL American -An intimate picture of a French fly- Chump”, with Stuart. Erwin, Robert ing squadron behind the lines during Armstrong, Betty Furness and Edmund the World War is presented for this Gwenn-The story of a rural lighting thrilling romance, with Paul Muni, calculator who is induced to join Mariam Hopkins and Louis Hayward in carnival show and unconsciously defeats the leading roles. The cast embraces the World's Champion bridge player. such Hollywood celebrities as Colim Events thereafter move rapidly, finish- Clive, Minor Watson, Elizabeth Risdon, ing in a great climax Paul Guilfoyle, Mady Christians and Owen Davis, jun.

احد

AT THE ALHAMBRA—“Exclusive", with Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer and Charlie Ruggles. With the battle between two zival newspapers as its AT THE MAJESTIC "Libelled background, the story. concerns the Lady, with Jean Harlow, William sacrifice a father is forced to make Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy when he must choose between the strict When your opponent bids a suit A continuous entertainment with each adherence of the newspaper code or the

of the four stars at their cleverest best. betrayal of his own daughter.

JO-JOTTE POINTER

Match point duplicate game. The at Jo-Jotte, the bidding does not bidding:

necessarily end there. You still may double (if you are certain of defeating the contract) or bid no

West North East

South Pass Pass 1 diamond 1 heart 1 spade 3 hearts Páss 4 hearts trump. A suit bid may not be over

called, you remember, with another Pass Pass Pass

Obviously North and South bid suit, but only with no trump. their hands to the limit,North's The no trump overcall is highly jump heart raise being particularly advantageous if you make your con- tract Your opponent's jack and questionable.

West opened the queen of dia-nine of trump are reduced from monds and, after viewing the dam-their position as the highest cards my, promptly shifted to the dence in the deck to a status of almost of clubs. Declarer, without more complete worthlessness. The ab than a second's hesitation, put on sence of a trump suit makes dummy's king, which held the trick easier for you to win tricks with Two rounds of trumps were drawn your aces and tens. But you mus and there then was no difficulty in have those aces and tens because, holding the opponents to one club if you are outscored, you almost and one spade, in addition to the certainly will lose a game, and your opponent might not have scored 80 diamond already conceded.

The club guess been the crux points for game at his trump suit.

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