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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1937.

Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 4

In D Minor

Today's Wireless to our

Service

12-12.20 pm-Relay of Special from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Songs by Elisabeth Schu-

man (Soprano).

Solveig's Song ("Peer Gynt" Grieg) Cradle Song "The Kiss (Smetana)

0 Vienna, my beloved Vienna ("The

Tourist Guide"--Ziehrer).

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

Lost (Ohman, Mercer & Testor).

6.55 p.musical Comedy. VocalCasanova Selection (J. Strauss, 1.30 p.m.--Reuter & Rugby Press; arr. Benatzsky)......New Mayfair

Local Weather Forecast and An- nouncements.

12.40 p.m-Marek Weber and His Or-140 pm

chestra.

Maidens Of Baden-Waltz (Komzik)

Dream Waltz (Millocker)

Suite Orientale (Popy)

1. Les Bayaderes

2 An Bord du Gange

3. Les Almees

4. Patrouille

The Music Comes (0. Straus)

1 pm-Local Time Signal and Wes-

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.

Band

London Piano-Accordeont

Hawaiian Selections. On A Little Street In Honolulu-

Waltz (Lewis & Sherman). All Through The Night Waltz

(York, Clarke & Vallee).

Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra.]

· Liliu E (Kaulia)............... Lizzie Alohikea! Beautiful Woman: (Kahale).

William Ewaliko. With Royal Hawaiian Glee Club. Oh! Rosalita (Ege & Llosses). Hawaiian Stars Are Gleaming (Ege & Rosen)... Linn Milford and His Hawaiian Players.

Maid Of Brazil (Le Roy & Marsden). 2 p.m.- Dance Music. The Whistling Waltz

(film 'Limelight').

215 pm-Close downl

5-8 p.m.-European Programme.

Back In Those Old Kentucky Days 8-11 p.Chinese Programme-Studio

(Al Brown),

Good Evening! Pretty Lady

(Butler, Damerell & Evans).

A Waltz Was Born In Vienna

(Crooker & Loewe)."

Au Revoir (J. G. Gilbert). 1.20 p.m--Turner Layton.

Sophisticated Lady (Ellington & Car-

michael)

Piano Solo.

Solitude (Ellington, de Lange &

Mills)

BRIDGE NOTES

Vocall

Concert

5 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.

6 pm-Studio--Children's Concert. †6.45pm--Peter Dawson (Bass-Bari-

tone)..

There'll Be No South

(film The Music goes 'round'). I See A Tree (Hodges). The Border Ballad (Cowen)..

By ELY CULBERTSON

Brilliance Not Necessary

If I had to choose between a care-and the drop of the heart queen ful good player and a careless ex-marked him with four hearts. He

Orchestra.

Why Is There Ever Good-Bye ("Care- less RaptoreNovello Hassall).

Olive Gilbert (Contralto). This Year Of Theatre Land 1936

Janet Lind & Webster Booth with

Chorus & Orchestra.

7.15 p.m.-London Relay -Can you Beat it? 2 Fifteen Elephants in Sixteen Shots. A talk by Captain G., Palmer-Kerrison.

7-30 pm-Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

1.35 p.m.--Variety.

Vocal-

Taught Me How To Play The Sec- ond Fiddle (Lyndhart, Moder & Dahl).

1..

I'm A Specialist (Charles Chic Sale)....Frank Crumit (Tenor).

Orchestral-

Let Us Dream Serenade (Carl

Robrecht).

For You Only Serenade (Boulan- ger).....George Boulanger and His Orchestra.

Comedienne

My-Wild Oat

The Wind's In The West

(film 'Aunt Sally").

Cicely Courtneidge

Orchestral w. Violin

Gipsy Longing (Kemper).

Black Eyes (Igor).

Programme Of Light Orchestral Music

8.28 pm Songs by Kirsten Flagstad

(Soprano).

Die Ehre Gottes Aus Der Natur

(Gellert Beethoven)

Ich Liebe Dich (Herrosen-Beethoven Lykken Mellem To Hennesker

(Stuckenberg-Ainaes)

8.38 pm-Light Orchestral

Bercense (Jarnefelt),

Orchestre Raymonde. Stephanie Gavotte (Cibulka-arr.

Altendorf)

Regal Virtuosi Gipsy Love-Overture (Franz Lehar) Vivat Hungaria (Kalman). Edith Down The Mother Volga....Russian

Lorand & Her Viennese Orch.

National Balalaika Orchestra. Aragon Fantasia

Puerta De Tierra-Bolero (Albeniz)

Orquesta Sevilla. 9.10 p.m-London Relay - Food for Thought. Three short talks on mate ters of topical interest.

19.30 p.m-London Relay The News & 9.50 pm. H. Squire Celcate Octet.

Announcements.

Memories Of Chopin

(arr. Willoughby).

Spring Song

(Mendelssohn, arr. Willoughby). Phantom Minuet (Hope).

Souvenir (Drdja, arr. Willoughby). Hearts And Flowers

g

(Tobam, arr. Willoughby).

The Wedding Of The Rose

(Jessel, arr. Willoughby).

10.15 pm-London Relay

Big Ben

The Vagabond Lover, with Rae Jen kins and his Bijou Orchestra. Pre- sented by Max Mester.

Maurice Igor & His Nomad Or-110-30 pm-Dance Music.

chestra Viktor Halek (Violin).11 p.m.--Close down

8 pm Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

BERLIN BROADCAST

On stations DJA 31.38 m, DJB 19.74

19.63 m

8.03 p.m.-Chinese Programme Studio, DJE 16.89 m, DJN 31-45 m, DJQ

Concert.

11 pm-Close down. 8.05-11

European Programme from ZEK on a Frequency of 540 Kilocycles.

+

HKT

2.15 pm.--Light music.e 3-pm-News in English.

5.45 pm-1,000 years of German his-

tory (in English).

8 pm-News in English.

pert, I would unhesitantly choose the therefore, could have only three 8.05 pm-Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 4855 p.m.-Greetings to, our listeners in

cards in the black suits.

In D Minor, Op. 31. Played by Hei- Oblivious to this warning, declar-fetz (Violin) and The London Phil 9.15 p.m. Chamber concert.

the Far East. harmonic Orch. conducted by John 10.15 p.m. To-day in Germany. Barbirolli

$10.30 p.m.-Light music.

What's On At the Cinemas

former as a bridge partner...

Of every 100

average hands ninety-five require only intelligent, er started to "investigate" the spade careful treatment. I do not mean suit by laying down the king, and by this that such treatment neces-queen. East ruffed the second and sarily will result in success. There when he returned a high diamond may be bad breaks which would South found that he had "blown the lead to the down-fall of any player. contract." He could neither set up What, I do mean is that in only his club suit nor establish dummy's about 5 per cent of hands is superia-spades for sufficient winners.

AT THE ORIENTAL — "Marked! tive play required. This

AT THE QUEEN'S "Banjo on My should Ordinary care would have dictat- Woman"-With Bette Davis, Hum-Knee With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel prove that care is a much more ed the proper line of play. The ace Ednardo Cianelli and Raymond Hatton. Walter Catlett, Katherine de Mille and phrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Lola Lane, McCrea, Helen Westley, Buddy Ebsen, valuable commodity than brilliance, and king of clubs should have been A powerful drama of pitiless exploits-Anthony Martin A thrill. musicale. The band shown below, which figur- laid down. If East's three blacktion and its nemesis. Opens to-day. ed largely in a recent team of four cards included only one club this

tournament, is a case in point.

North, dealer. :

Both sides vulnerable.

WEST

SJ 10 9 4

HQ

•

NORTH

SAT632

H K 10 3 2

DQ 7 6

C 6

S 8

DJ 8 4 2

EAST

would not hurt declarer a bit, since two spades in his hand would mean

AT THE STAR David Living-

er and scientist.

depicting the tragicomedy that is the life story of the river-boat people on the Mississippi..:

AT THE CENTRAL Dramatic

that dummy's spade suit was solid stone", with Percy Marmont Marian scenes of the "Air Raids in Canton”

Spencer and Henry Hallett. An an With dummy discarding a dia-thentic and dignified reconstruction of mond on the king of clubs and the life of the great missionary explor- AT THE ALHAMBRA “New Faces East being forced to follow, the ten of clubs then should have been- led and, if West properly ducked, dummy's last diamond would go off. East would ruff but would be unable to take another trick. His best de- DAK 109 5 3 fence, despite the fact that both CJ 7

dummy and declarer were out of SOUTH

diamonds, would be another diamond. This declarer would have to ruff in the dummy. Then, returning to his hand with the spade, should ruff an- lother club with the heart king. The

H 8 65 4.

CQ 8 5 3

S K Q 5

HAJ 97

D None

CAK 10 942

At one table the bidding went as clubs now would be established and

follows:

North East

Pass Pass

1)

South

1 club

1 spade 2 diamonds 3 hearts

5 hearts Pass

6 hearts Pass-

all declarer would

have to do would

West be to overtake the ten of hearts, Pass draw East's last trump, and claim Pass the rest of the tricks.

5 no trump Pass Thus instead of depending willy-

Pass

Pass nilly on a spade break (which cer-

The five no trump bid by South tainly should not have been taken for was the grand slam force, directing granted on the proved distribution North to bid seven if he held two of East's hard), a little thought out of the three top trump honours and care would have fulfilled the vul- Since he had only one he properly nerable slam signed off at six

TO-DAY'S QUESTION ~ West opened the deuce of dia- Question: What is the proper monds, dummy ducked, and East's opening bid on the following? nine was ruffed by declarer. The jS KQ 10-HA 10 9 D ́A 10-9 6÷C ace of hearts was laid down, and K 9 8.

when the queen dropped declarer Answer: One no trump. With should have had a splendid picture eight honour cards the honour trick! of the defenders' distributions East requirement may be reduced to three could be counted for six diamonds, and one-half instead of four."

of 1937" A series of musical comedies inaugurated with this picture to bring new talent from the entertainment AT THE KING'S Night, with George Murphy Rita diences.

"London by markets of the world to the screen Au- Johnson and Virginia Field. The story reveals the London of tradition, gloomy AT THE MAJESTIC "Lost Patrol" fog, but gay and dramatic in its lights durance in the days of the World War to outward appearances in its viel ofA gripping tale of courage and en- and night clubs and deals with a mys-with locale in German East Africa, in- tery plot and of a reporter out to solvevolving friends of different nationals of a wealthy man to find her deeply country's sake. The dialogue is in the murder but encounters the daughter and what they had to sacrifice for their involved in the murder.

German with sub-titles in English.

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