1937-10-25 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER

1937

Schubert Pianoforte Quintet

In A Major

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.--Relay of Special Service

from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 p.m.- Sir Harry Lander (Bari-

tone).

It's A Roon Th Toon.

-Always Take Care Of Your Pennies

(Lauder).

12.40 p.m.---Latest Dance Records.

1 pm Local Time Signal & Weather

Beport

1.83 paz-Murgatroyd & Winterbottom

Scientifically, Of Course

(Crick-Frankau-Handley).

If You Pretend You're Blue

(Crick-Franksu-Handley).

1.18 pm-Carrol Gibbons & His Boy

Friends

1.30 p.m.-Renter & Rugby Press;} Local Weather Forecast and An- -nouncements

140 p.Variety.

215 p.m.-Close down.

5-8.03 p.m.-European Programme. 8.08-11 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

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

6.30 p.m.-Children's Records.

Noah's Ark (Zoological Tunes for Children Old and Young-ar. Hen- ry Hall). The EB.C. Dance Or chestra

More Very Young Songs (Poems by A. A. Milne, Music Fraser-Sim- son).

BRIDGE NOTES

ZBW 355 M. 845 ke's:

1. Binker.

2. Shoes and Stocking 3. Forgiven..

George Baker (Baritone). 6.45 p.m.----Ballads.

O Lovely Night (English Song).

Archibald Winter

Sanctuary (Hewitt).

Just For To-day (Seaver).

Essie Ackland (Contralto).

Floral Dance (Moss).

Sally Horner (Inditional).

Brian Lawrence with Fred Hartley

& His Quintet. -Variety.

Orchestral

Coleen Selection.

The Great Ziegfeld "Selection.

Maurice Winnick & His Orch.

الوريد

-Vocal---

Piano

ZEK 640 kc's

Val Rosing. Charlie Kunz Piano Medleyi No. R 11

Charlie Kun

7.30 pm--Closing Local Stock Quota- tions & Hong Kong Exchange Market Report.

735 pm-1. H. Squire Celeste Octet.

Narcissus Nevin).

Valse Bluette Air De Ballet

Drigo)

Hearts And Flowers

(Tobani, az. Willoughby).

Ave Maza

(Schubert, arr. Willoughby). Andante Cantabile

(Tschaikowsky, arz. Willoughby). Operatica (Famous Operatic Melo-

dies arr. J. E. Squire).

8 pm Local Time Signal, Weather

Beport and Announcements. $8.03 pm-Chinese Programme-Relay

from the Lee Theatre.

Did You Mean It? (Dizon, Greer). Hare You Forgotten So Soon?!11 pm-Close down.

(Nicholls, Gilbert)Greta Keller Castanets Solo

La Corrida (Valverde). Serenata (Malats, a Rudd):

La Argentina'

Vocal

A Penny In My Pocket (film Mil-

lions in the Air').

A Little Door, A Little Lock, A

Little Key (Harry Woods).

By ELY CULBERTSON

Forcing The Declarer

It is not only possible, it is easy, Naturally he did not count on pick- to overdo a good thing at bridge. ing up such a "busty from North. Take, for example, the one defen- West opened the king of hearts sive principle known as "forcing and, receiving an encouraging card the declarer. Generally speaking from partner, continued with the. this is a shrewd plan but, like all face. Declarer ruffed the second other rules, it has numerous excep-round, and laid down the ace and tions. Sometimes it is obvious that king of trumps. The queen failing declarer's trump strength is too to drop, he shifted to the king of great to be threatened by forces clubs. East accepted his ace on On these occasions defenders should this trick and, with more dogged- not waste time on a fruitless quest. ness than vision, persisted in fore- There may be other and more suc-ing the declarer by leading culent fish to fry. Continued forces another heart. Declarer ruffed worked out badly in the hand shown (and then led the jack of spades. below:

West had to win and now, due North, dealer.

to the fact that his own partner had robbed him of an exit card inl North-South vulnerable, 30 part-hearts, had the unenviable choice of leading a diamond or a club. Which ever he did, declarer's contract was insured. The diamond would go into the ace-queen. tenace and the club would pick up East's jack en route to the queen-ten.

score.

WEST

S Q 5 4 HAKJ DE 732 C. 9 6 2

NORTH

SI

H 9 8 5 4

D 19 9 6 5

753

SOUTH

EAST

8.05-11 p.m.

European Programme from ZEK on a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles.

8:05 pm Schabert Pianoforte Quintet! In A Major (Trout: Quintet) Play-f ed by Wilhelm Backhaus (Piano) with Mangeot (Violin), Howard (Vio Ia), Withers (Cello) and Hobday

(Double-Bass).

8.38 pm-Schubert Songs.

Lied Ans Wien-

Flisabeth Schumann (Soprano). Aufenthalt

Der Doppelganger.

Alexander Kipnis (Bass). 8.48 pm-Chopin Studies, Op. 10-play-

ed by Backhaus (Piano).

9

No. 8 In F Major.

No. 4 In C Sharp Minor.

No. 5 In G Flat Major.

No. 6 In E Flat Minor. No. 11 In E Flat Major No. 12 C Minor.

p.m.-Albert Sandler & His Orchestra Faust Fantasia (Gounod).

Concert Of Light Music

From Berlin

9.30 pm. London Relay

Announcements.

9.50 p.m. Variety.

Orchestral Entrance Of The Little

Fanns (Pierne, arr. Monton

Jack Payne & His RBC Dance

Orchestra.

ocal-

Liebesleid (Marischka-"reisler)

Humoreske (Lengsfelded Drozak).

Jrchestra w

#Anton and The

Orchestra.

gan).

monists.

edley.

Humorous Sketch-Sandy The Farr

er (Wise). Met

Sandy Powell & Company. Orchestral-Evergreens Of Jaz

Scott Wood & His Six Swingers Humorous

The Lancashire Toreador. The Window Cleaner ING.

(Formby, Gifford & Cliff).

George Formby & His Ukulele. Mandoline Solo

Serenata Medovale (Silvestri). La Java Du Bataka, Giana Mazu

ka (Van Herck).

Vocal

Prof Giuseppe Gargano.

Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup

(Anna Sosento).

For Me, For You (Towers & Ar-

den)

Hildegrade Orchestral

San Fernando Tango (Codevilla Punto Arenas--Tango (Codevilla). Heinz Huppertz & His Orch. Novelty Jack Hylton Throws

Party Tommy Handley, Hilda Mundy and Billy Caryll, Peggy Dell, Tom Webster, Jack Barty, Nelson Keys, Freddie For The Swingtette and Jack Hylton's Boys Orchestral Songs Without Words

Potpourri Marek Weber & His Orchestra de

$11 p Close down**

BERLIN BROADCAST. On statibus DJA 31.38 m, DIE 19.74

Always In My Heart (Turk & Coots). m, ILE 15.29 m, DIN 3145 m, DJQ Isn't It Romantic Theme Song Love 19.63 m.

Me Tonight Rodgers).

110 pm

My Dream Memory (Theme Song 3.30 pm

Street Girl Levant).

4 p

Give Me Back My Heart (from Sym- 6.45 pm

phony in Two Flats Novello).

Rosa Mia (Guizar, Fisher & Potter) 18 n.m The Fairies Gavotte (Kohn). Bien Aimes, Valse (Waldteufel). Amaretten Tanz, Valse (Gung 1).

tene 10:15 pm.

Concert of light music.

Children's hour.

surprise hour

The beautim

records

News in English..

Greetings to Far

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE KING'S-Between Two - AT THE ORIENTAL A Day At WOMEN", with Franchot Tone, Man- The Races, with the Marx Brothers

these three

reen O'Sullivan, and Virginia Bruce Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan. A gripping drama within the walls of Good entertainment a great medical institution amid the mixth-makers.

of sufferings of the daily victims crimes, trafic and accidents. The story of a young physical who marries a woman who does not love him and a pretty young nurse, also married, but in love with hian.

East had played partners with the declarer. On taking the club ace there were three suits from which AT THE MAJESTIC They Gave to choose for an exit. Obviously the Him a Gun-With three great stars club was dangerous. He might (and in the leading roles, Spencer Tracy, S.98. actually would) be going back into drama aflame with intrigue and courage Gladys George and Franchot Tone, this EQ 763 2a tenace. The heart return was bad tells a thrilling story of two men whose DJ 84 in that it allowed South to do some-affection for each other, was turned to CAJ 4 thing he could not do for

bitter hate because they loved the same himself, WOIESTI, namely, strip hearts from the West hand. This left only a diamond as the logical exit for Fast

SAK J 10 6 3 2 H·10

DAQ

CK Q 10

The hidding

North East South

Pass

Pass

Pass

sider

spades Pass

Of course East might have fused to take the first club led, but there was a chance that the king was singleton and, therefore, East's prompt acceptance was correct. It was the emphasis on the "forcing West the declarer”” principle that had be Pass trayed the defenders.

Hand was pretty strong

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

„bid but, com- Question I opened the

and the fact

had passed

one spade Partner

two diamonds

ebid with SK QT741 041082

Two spades.

AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM- BRA His Affair with Robert Tay- lar, Barbara Stanwyck, Baran Donlevy, Victor Machaglen and Alan Dinehart The drama of lives gambled for a age and honour and danger and dis- great stake, of love mushamed, of cour- grace and above all a great roms

Agrand

AT THE STAR Duck Soup" the four Mary Brothers. musical comedy

THE

HONG KONG

FENESZULA HOTEL,

HONG KONG HOTEL, REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

&

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE, PALACK HOTRI

HOTELS,