1937-12-09 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, CEMBER 9, 1937.

Harold Abrahams

On The Empire Games

12-1220 p.m.-Relay of Special Se

Today's Wireless

from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 pm-Leslie Hutchinson (Vocal

& Piano).

Would You? (film 'San Francisco"). I Nearly Let Love Go Shipping Through My Fingers (film It's Love Again').

Empty Saddles (film 'Rhythm On The

Range) an

1240 p.m.-Roy Fox & His Orchestra. 1 pm-Local Time Signal and Weather

Report

LOS pm-Jack Hylton & His Orches-

tri.

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

ley and Eric Starling Duet).

Music In May.

Dorothy Dickson (Soprano). 7.10 p.m.---Variety.

125 pm-Closing local Stock Quota- tions & Hong Kong Exchange Mar- ket Report

p.m.-Songs by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano).

-

Be pramed thou peaceful night ("The

Vagabond-Ziebrer). Ever softer grows my slumber

(Lingg-Brahms Op. 105, No. 2). Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4 (Brahms). 9.10 p.mLondon Relay Food For

Thought

7.30 pm--London Relay Sportsmen

Talking Harold Abrahams on the 13.30 pm London Relay The News. -Empire Games of 1938.

9:50 pm Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)

and Beniamino Gigh" (Tenor)***- Hungarian Dance No. 7 In A Major

(Brahma-Joachim).

130 p.m.-Reuter & Rugby Press; Lo-Piano

cal Weather Forecast & Announce-18 Tents

1.40 p.m. Chopin Compositions. 156 pm The Band Of HM. Cold-|

stream Guards. "Martha Selection (Flotow). Parade Of The Puppets (Kulan). The Changing Of The Guard (Flot

Sam and Jetsam). Sousa Medley (Sousa). 2.15 p.m.--Close down 5-8.85 p.m.-European Programme. 8.05-11. p.m.-Chinese Programme.

pm-Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel During the intervals dance records will be played from ZBW

6 p.m.-Studio-Children's Concert. 6.45 p.m.-Paul Robeson (Bass). Go Down, Moses (Burleigh). Plantation Songs,

6.56 Musical Comedy.

The Love Race Selection (Clarke). 'Charlot's Masquerade' Selection.

New Mayfair Orchestra

7.45 pm-Studio-Doreen Ma at the p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

Studio 8.05 p.m.-Chinese Programm

Concert. W

11 pm-Close down. 8.05-11.00 p.m.-European Programme Broadcast from ZEK on a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles.

$.05 pm-Variety.

London

Orchestral w. Vocalists

Rhapsody Vocal Selection....The London Palladium Orchestra. Vocal

Deep Desert

My Way (film Jericho').

Zapateado, Op. 23 (Sarasate).

Yehudi Mentham accomp by Mar-

cel Gazele (Piano)

Page

Yehudi Menuhin

And Beniamino Gigli

8:50 am.Food for Thought 9.10.2m The Chamber Music

Schubert

9.35 am. The News and Announce-

Greenwich Time Signal at

meats.

9.45 am. 9.55-2.m— Wheels."

10.25 àm

gramme.

Close down.

A feature pro-

TRANSMISSION 2

GST 2159 Mc/s (13.93 m) GSH 2347 Mefs (13-97-m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s. (18:38 m GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m)

10.45 am-Big Ben. The BBC North-

ern Ireland Orchestra:N

R. - Sportsmen. Talking - Har- rahams, on the Empire Games

The BBC Military Band.

At the Black Dog

If My Mother Only Knew (Natile). Night In Venice (Cazzanti Circi) You Are My Life (from the film.

Becce)

Gigh Hungarian Dance No. 6 In B Flat

Major (Brahms-Joachim). Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22 (Sara 1.00 pm. Ballet Music of Dehbes.

sate)....Yehudi Menuhin secomp110 pm-Food for Thought

by Marcel Gazelle (Piano). 10.15 pm-London Relay-Recital of

Music for Two Pianofortes. p.z--Light Orchestral Aida-Ballet Suite (Verdi).

Paul Robeson (Bass)-10.35 Bose Of England ("Crest of the Wave'). Edgar Elmes (Bari-

tone).

Haven Of Your Heart ("Crest of

the Ware')

Olive Gilbert

• (Contralto).

"Cello

Czardas (Adolphe Fischer). Papillon (David Popper).

Rudolf Dietzmann. 11

At The p.m-London Relay Black Dog'

Careless: Rapture (Novello-Hassall).]$30

Love Made The SongSybil Craw

BRIDGE NOTES

By ELY CULBERTSON

A Bidding Play

3

"Dear Mr. Culbertson: Here's South more, but we misplayed the another hand in case you can use hand just the same. My spade re- it as the text for one of your daily turn should have been the jack so sermons. I guess I misbid and mis-East would ruff and return another played it, and my partner mis-heart, As I played the spade ace, played it, and possibly the declar-East should have ruffed my ace to er misbid it, which leaves North return a heart in case I had the to be congratulated on perfect trump queen. bidding

West, dealer.

"Neither side vulnerable.

West

North

S: 10.3.5.4. H-K 9.5 3 D.-7

C 9 8 4 3

Mast S-AKQJ7632 S.-None

HAJ7642 D.-K. 63 2 C-K 10 5

FL-10 D-98 7 6

South

Yours,

"P. E. B., Tampa, Fla.”

Boston Promenade Orchestra Cond:

Arthur Fiedler.

Serenade (Warlock):

The Constant

Lambert String Orchestra Cond

Constant Lambert

Capriol Suite (Warlock)

The Con-

stant Lambert String Orchestra Coad: Constant Lambert pm-Close down.

BROADCAST FROM

DAVENTRY:

TRANSMISSION 1–

Frequencies

GSG 17.79 Me/s (1686 GSO 15.18 Mc/s €19.76 m. GSD 11.75 Mc/s (2558 m) GSB 9.51 mc/s (31.55 m.)

GAMAT.

3.15:23:

his Band

Big Ben Jack Payne

11.45 a.m.

of 1938.

$12.30 putt

130 p.m.-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at 1.45pm

155 pim-Close down.

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies.

"“GSH” 2147-Mc/s (13.97 m) GSG 17.79 "Mc/s (16.86 m.) GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m) GST (to 3:30 pm) 21.53 Me/s

215 pm Big Ben, Recital of Music

for Two Pianofortes.

1235 p.m.-The Goddess Fortune."

drams of back-stage life..

A

| 3.15 p.m.--The Band of His Majesty's

Royal Marines Flymouth Division). 4.00 pm The

ments

4.35 pm

4.20 p.m. As I

the Right Hon IND

Anmotrace-

me Signal at

A talk by sref Bondfield,

4.35 pm –The Bath Punys Por OT-

estra

|5.00 pim. Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

High, Wide And Har and blonde Jean Artirar are the hand-

studder new team of screen lovers A hard-fighting, thril some Walter Wa

nce of America's first oil boom, Leon Carillo,

five and Ivan Le background of lovely songs by Oscar sedeff play

Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern

Ezative customs,

huge cast is headed by Irene Dume,

The principal lesson taught by AT THE KINGS History Is Made AT THE QUEEN'S AND this hand is the value of preemptive At Night Dark-eyed Charles Boyer BEA bidding. The burden of decision was put squarely onto South's shoulders by the opening four spade bid, and I do not think that Scuth can be censared for going astray. The five diamond bid cer- tainly was persuasive and, of AT THE ORIENTAL "Virgins Of Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Akim course, there was no way for South Bai," with an entire native cast. The Tamiroff, Raymond Walburn, Charles to tell that he could successfully story deals of two lovely sisters, the Bickford, Ben Blue, Elisabeth Patter- ambition of both being to become Tem- defend against four spades. ple dancers. The romance of one with Sem and Wilham Frawley-

As to the play, my correspon-a handsome native and the elopement dent's comments are quite in order. and marriage are enacted with all the After winning with the heart ace, East should have indicated a preference for the suit he wanted returned by leading hack a high "L, West, bid four spades; North heart. This would direct partner with Joan Bem passed promptly; East passed slow to return the higher to the two suits romantic

young_modernis ty; South bid five diamonds with- (outside of trumps) not yet touch-

ry of a thous out much hesitation. I passed it ed and, obviously, as between street. to my partner, who doubled. Ispades and clubs, this would have might have opened with a two way directed a spade return. three bid instead of a one way four Although as the cards actually bid: What a difference one little lay it made no difference, slight spade in East's hand would make changes in distribution would have for a three no trump bid! Not that made the suit preference signal South, with his hand, would pas valuable. three no trump

H-Q 8 D-A QJ 10 5.4 C-A Q J 2

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

"I led my singleton heart and partner faithfully returned the suit Question: When players Mov for a ruff. I then pondered which from table to table in progressivt suit to lead. Partner's low heart bridge, how should the partner return was not a suit preference ship of the newcomers at a table b signal, as partner never used such determined?n k. 19 signals, Partner should have re-

Answer: The two new arrivals at turned the heart jack Anyway, each table draw cards first, the one fmally decided to lead a spade. I drawing the higher card becoming think I led the ace instead of the the dealer and the other sits at the king. Why not? Eventually East left of the dealer. The two players | made the two mmor Kings, setting who already were at the table then South

draw, the higher becoming the

artner of the dealer.

could have set

AT THE MAJESTIC “Dodsworth, with Paul Lukas, Mary, Astor,

AT THE STAR-Two In A Crowd", Chatterton, and David Niven. The

Joel McCrea sorbing and dramatic story at

a of two working, easy-going Amerieta' bus the discov-who retired to travel and find dollar bill in the shut instead found out his sel

if avolous wife.

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