1937-11-30 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL

MBER 30, 1937.

Pipe Maj

MacLenn

From The Studio.

Today's Wireless

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

from St. John's Cathedral. 12:30 pm-Songs of Kennedy

"Songs of the Hebrides

The Island Hermaid.

An Island Sheiling Song.

Joseph Hislop (Tenor).

In Hebrid Seas

Kishal's Galles.

Muriel Brunskill (Contralto).

12.42 pm. Scottish Music

Savoy Scottish Medley (arr. Debroy

Somers)

New Mayfair Orch. MacGregor's Gathering.

ZBW 355 M. 845 kc's :::: ZEK 640 k.e's

The Regr antal Band of HM

Grenadier Guards.

some Beel Lighland Schottis

Drums of the 2nd Guards.

Royal Cavalcade (Coronation

-Ketelbey).

Ewan (Tenor).

Comin' Thro The Rye (Traditional). The Bome, Bonnie Banks 0 10

Lomon traditional)

bette (Soprano)

Store Boat Song

Malcolm Law.

Sound The P

Coronation Bells March

(Par

JK Lees).

tridge).The Band of HM Co stream Guards.

215 pm-Close down..

Anne Laurie (Traditional. Bat-4-7 pan.

ten)

Quartette!!

Chinese Programme.

Heddle Nash & Male 7 pm.--Dance Music.

Schichallion Eightsome Reel.

Mar

7.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions & Hong Kong Exchang ket Report

Meredith-Kay & His Orchestra: -Local Time Signal and Wes-17.35 p.m.-Scottish Variety

8 punt Local Time Signal,

Report and Announcements.

ther Report.

103 pm Light Orchestral.

1.30 pm-Renter & Rugby Press, Lo-18.03 pm Scottish Ballads.

cal Weather Report and Announce ments.

140 pm-Musical Comedy.

Home And Beauty (C. B. Cochran's Coronation Revue)... Magda Neeld, Janet Lind and Webster Booth. "Bitter Sweet Selection (Coward). Jack Eylton & His Orchestra. 156 pm-Band Music.

Songs Of Scotland (arr. Duthoit).

BRIDGE NOTES

Annie Laurie Murray)

gor (Batitone).

Tradit

330 pm Stadio Pipe Major D. R. MacLean, 1st. Bu The Seaforth Highlanders

13.50 p.m. Orchestral

Norwegian Rhapsody (Lalo) Or chestre Symphonique de Paris.

9 pm-London Relay-Scottish Dance

Music George Davie's Sextet. Weather30 pm London Relay The News

9.50 pm-Variety.

Will Ye No Come Back Again (Ba- roness Marine Art Scott-Wood).

Sydney MacEwan (Tenor). My Ain Folk (Lemon, Mills).

Mary Kay (Contralto). Te Banks And Braes (az Murray). The Road To The Isles (MacLeod

Kennedy-Braser). Sydney Mac-

By

ELY CULBERTSON

A Sound Defensive Play

One of the old maxims which y have come down from the early days of Whist is "Never lead up to strength." This maxim is un- doubtedly very sound. However, there is no rule that should not be broken at some time or other. In

"never Bridge Contract

say

'never"

in to-day's hand the East player found that the only way of defeat ing the opposing game contract was by making what would seem to the casual observer the worst possible lead.

East, Dealer. North and South vulnerable.

NORTH

HQ 6 5 2 D.-K. 8 6 4 C

WEST S-38·5.4

H-93-

D-10 75,3

C-7 6 2

EAST S.-K-10-2

H-74

D-A QJ9

C-AK 5 4

SOUTH

S-7 63

H-A K J 10 8 D-2

0.1 10 8 3

South Bast

West

ID

Pass 1H 20 (2) 2NT (3) Pass Pass Pass

Pass

After all the bad bidding North and South finally do get to the correct final contract. This last bid by North is, of course, cor- rect..

If anything, it is slight- ly conservative after his part- ner's two-notrump bid.

Novelty Top Liners Of Variety

Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. Ein- rence Desmond, Sir Harry Lauder, Gracie Fields, Clarice Mayne, Pant Robeson, Cicely Courtreidge and Roy Fox & His Orch. Compered by, John Watt

Humorous Sketch-Mrs. Montgom-

erie's Wee Shop McCulloch.

Orchestral This I Make

tle Selection... Lomis Le Gaumont British Symph

Piano-Accordeon Bandthe Whish-

Of

ottish MusiC

and Announce-

Lime Signal at

Exchang

f Scots" Songs.

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155 pm- Close down

and Announce- me Signal at

TRANSMISSION:

Frequencie

“GSH 2147 Mc/s (1297 km)

GSG 17.79 Mels (1686

- GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19-82 m).

GST (to 2:30 pm 21.53 Mo

Ben Scots Concer

ing Waltz (him Dinelight? 1100

London Piano Accordeon Band

A Scots 4.15 pat (Soprano)20 am

$0.15 nm-London Relay

Concert Team

and Annie Tait (Contratto

10.45 p.m.-London Relay

fusic

Ch Marshal

Keyboard the Ages 9. Liszt Getting 4.45 pm World Affairs. A talk by

Ready for Christmas. A talk by H. Wickham Steed

Howard Marsha

AULD LANG SYNE

BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY

TRANSMISSION, 1

requencies.

GSE 1779 Mels (1586) GSO 1518 Me/s (19:76 m.); (2 GSD 1175 tic/s (25.53 m.) GSB 951 me/s (31.55 m) v

8.15 -Big Ben Recital by Esther GMT.

Fisher (New Zealand Pian

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Close downS

“BERLIN BROADCAST

-- On-stationis DJA %£38 M., DJB 19.74 m, DJE 16.89 m, DIN 3145 12, DJQ 19.63 m EKT

3.00 pm-News and Economic Review. | 3.30 pm The Beautiful Galathea

5.15 pm-Brass Band.

6.00 nm-Melodies from old and new

moperettas.

8.00 p.m.-News. 1915 pm Gay music

10.00 pm-News and Economic

view

110.15 pm-To-day in Germany.

West opened his fourth-best card of East's first hid suit - the dia jmond & The Declarer went ap with the King in Dummy, forcing East to win with the Ace, in an effort to make it easier for East to continue the suit. Obviously, a diamond continuation is exactly what South wants. East, however quite correctly chose to believe his partner's fourth-best lead and de cided that a second diamond lead would be futile. From the bidding he decided that the Declarer very AT THE KING'S Vogues of 1938", AT THE ALHAMBRA “The Road. probably had four clubs to the with Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett, Back" with Barbara Hand, John King, Helen Vinson, Nicha Aner, Alan Mow-Richard Cromwell, Shim Summerville Jack-Ten. and that these clubs. bray and Polly Rowles. Next year's and Lionel Atwill. Intensely human, after being set up, could be used fashions in fun, gowns, girls, love and powerfully dramatic with for spade discards in Duminy. music dances and technicolour are in-blending of comedy, pardos East, of course, knew that to de-troduced into this gay musical extra-pense the story vivid tel vanganza from the story of Samuel and Germany following the Ar feat the contract, four tricks would. Bella Spewack who wrote the sensa-concerns the efforts of a he needed. He already had one tional stage success, "Boy Meets Girl to adjust themselves to conditions as they find them, after four years of ab- diamond trick and the certainty of

The sequel to being able to win two club tricks.

sence in the trenches

All quiet on the Westem Front" and From the bidding the South player

written in the same outspoken manner. was marked with the Ace and King of hearts, and the only hope of

What's On At the Cinemas

Bengal Lancer."

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good singing.

story of

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"A Star is Comedy

Selznick's

HE MAJESTIC

and Robert DAY

of a woman of

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Tell

Jung Amand

AT THE QUEEN'S "Souls At Sea with Gary Cooper, George Raft and Frances Dee. The greatest adventure romance in the whole exciting history of the seven seas. Courage, and ds- aster, faith and treachery are inter- AT THE STAR The bidding: (Figures after bids finding a fourth trick lay in the spersed in the pictare, directed by The Chorus Gid", with Edward Ever refer to numbered explanatory spade suit. Obviously, a spade Henry Hathaway, the man who theilett Horton, Alan Mowbray, Mary Nash,

trick had to be set up as soon ased the world with the The Lives of a Jane Wyman, and Kenny Baker. paragraphs).

possible, before South could set up North INT (1) his clubs. East saw that to set up 4H (4) spade trick his partner would have to have the Jack of that suit and although the Deederer should 1-A distinct underbid by North have this card from the bidding to Hollywood and scaled

North should have bid three East decided that South had ob- and Janet Gay hearts. Just why he chose one viously overbid so much as it was jou, May Robson,

Stander, he was that he might just as well have notrump I cannot say

Moore. probably a victim of the well-overbid a little more. At Trick 2 therefore East promptly returned known potrump-complex. -Another bad bid. East in this his deuce of spades — right up to Dummy's Ace Queen-for he knew position should pass and hope

that if his partner did not hold the topenalise the opponents. There is no point in showing Jack, the contract could not be de

feated anyway. the four card club suit.

The spade lead Was Won. with 3-A third bad bid. South had

the just about enough strength to Dummy's Queen and make his vulnerable Overcall a trumps were drawn sound one. He should not make in with the King of abid at this point but if he holding equals in the does insist on biddine, he the East player very. should double for a pensity, up a spade trick for bir South, however, was anxious to when he got in w tell partner of the club elabs he was

that set the contract.

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