1937-12-10 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL DECEMBER 10, 1937.

Rachmaninoff

Concerto In

D Minor

12-12-20 p.m.--Relay of Special Service

from St. John's Cathedral.

Today's Wireless

12:30 pm-Raie Da Costa at the Piano. 12.42 p.m.--Alfred Campoli & His Or

chestra.

An Old World Garden. Mouse In The Clock (Hunt). Teddy Bears Picnic (Bratton). Tango Habanera (Payan, arr. Hart

BRIDGE NOTES

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's:

ley). Obstination- Crook).

(Fontenailles,

I p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wes-

ther Report..”

103 pm-Viennese Waltzes.

A Thousand And One Nights, Waltz

By ELY CULBERTSON

Dummy Reversal

"South, dealer.

defen-

"Dear Mr. Culbertson: The fol-jeffecting this reversal left a great lowing hand was played success-deal to be desired. fully by one of our local experts. It was not only unnecessary but I think it will interest you as an highly dangerous to put on example of tuning dummy into the ders the onus of leading hearts for the declarer to ruff They might leng trump hand.

not have been so accommodating. After West won the club king, h return of a heart was all right. Bu when declarer ruffed this, entered dummy with the spade ten and led another club, East certainly should At this point. have seen the light, the situation was as follows:

"Neither side vulnerable.

WESI

S-9 8

NORTH

SK 10 5

H-A 8 6 2

D-K Q 8 C-875

H-Q J 10 9

D-3763

EAST

S.-6 32

NORTH S-K 5

H-8 6

D.-K Q_8

H-X 754

WEST

D.-9 4

S.

C-K32

C-A 9.6

SOUTH

H-10 9 D. J 7 6 3 G-3

EAST S-5 3 H-K4 D.-94

Q9

S-AQJT4

H-3

D.-A 10 5 2

C-J 10 4

"The bidding:

South

West North 1 spade Pass 2 no trump 3 spades Pass 4 spades Pass

Pass

Fast

SOUTH S-A QJ

H-None

D.-A 19 5 2

C

Now, the low trump lead by East would have cooked declarer's goose. It would be futile to overtake the Pass spade jack with the spade king and Pass ruff a heart. Dummy could be reentered with a diamond and the

"West opened the heart queen, last heart ruffed with the spade

· ZEK 640 k.c's

(Johann Strauss).

Felix Wem-

gartner conducting the British Symphony Orchestra

When The Lemons Bloow Waltz Doctrinen Waltz (Johann Strauss). Johann Strauss and Symphony Or-

chestra.

At The Tchaikovsky Fountain Far

tasia (Urbach).. Marek Weber & His Orchestra

Page

Rev. C. B. R. Sargent

In Studio

Gramophone Recital

BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY

TRANSMISSION I

GSG 17:79 Mc/s (16.86 m.). TWO 1518 Me/s. (1976 m.) GSD 1175 "hc/a: (25.53 m.) GSB 9.51 mc/x^(3155 m.) GMT

mas.

3.15 am-Big Ben. At the Black Dog Danse Espagn (Granados) Edith 8.45 am-betting Ready for Christ-

Lorand & Her Viernese Orch. 1.30 pm Benter & Rugby Press; Lo-18.55 am

car Weather Forecast and Announce-9.35 am.

ments. ments

9.45 am

1.40 p.m.-Gilbert & Salivan Excerpts.

"The Pirates Of Penzance" -Over-18.ve am

tare Light Opera Orchestra. "The Pirates of Penzance

Oh, Better Far To Live And Die

Peter Dawson & Male Chorus. O, False One, You Have Deceived Me..Dorothy Gill and Derek Oldham.

Pour, O Pour, The Pirate Sherry.

Stuart Robertson & Male. Chorus. When Fredric Was A Little Lad.

Dorothy Gill 156 pm-Variety. 215 pm. Close down. 4-7 pmChinese Programme. 7 p.m.-Leopold Stokowski and the

Philadelphia Orchestra.

Overture in D Minor (Handel, trans.

Stokowski).

A talk by Howard Marshall The Old Folks at Home The News and Announce- Greenwich Time Signal st

Short Recital by Mary Crawshaw. 10.10 am2 As I See It6. A talk by the Right Hon. Margaret Bordfield,

D.

Close down 10.25 a.m.

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- Harp Quintet.

1145 am God's Admiral Robert

Blake, General-at-Sex

12.30 pm Henry Hall and his Dance

Orchestra.

The

For Bussian Folk Dances (Liados).110 pm-English Folk-songs 7.14 pm Walter Gieseking at the Northern Counties.

Pizzo

1.30 pm The News and Announce- ZMENÍS: Greenwich Time Signal at

7.30 pm-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions & Hong Kong Exchange Mar-145 p.m. ket Report.

7.35 pm-Variety.

18 pm Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-Violin Soles by Joseph Szi

geti

8.20 p.m. Beethoven Quartet In

Major, Op. 135. Played by the Lene String Quartet.

845 pm-Stridio Rey C

gent: 23rd series of oper Male Voices of the Past 9.30 p.m.-London Relay 9.50 pm-Rachmaninoff

The News.

încert

3 in D Minor, Op. 38. Played Vladimir Horowitz (Piano) and London Symphony Orchestra 10.27 p.m.-Richard Tauber (Tenor). 10.37 pmLight Variety. 11 p.m.--Close down.

1.55 pm-Close down.

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies-

GŠH 21.47 Mc/s (13.971) GSG 1779 Me/s (16.88 m.) GSB 1544 Mc/s (1932 m.):

Goosse

4.09

(to 3.30 p.m.) 21.53 Mc/s

Big Ben The EBC Empire

At the Black Dog

Harp. Recital

Marie

ents. Greenwich Time Signal at 4.15

Musical Interlude.

Sprites and Goblins. Con- the mysterious Elfinland and appens there. ·

Close down.

which North won with sceace,

the ace ace, but this would result in dom What's On At the Cinemas

Nine tricks were visible, but the my's five of trumps being the only tenth seemed hidden If, however, North-South trump while East re-

AT THE KING'S "History Is Made ley's fetish is the letter of the law un- three hearts could be trumped by tained the six spot. And if South At Night Dark-eyed Charles Boyer til the object lesson of three wre

to win East's spade and blonde Jean Arthur are the hand-lives as the result of declarer, and North left with the failed

new team of screen lovers intion of traffic re

bit on thi long trump, and the trumps were lead in dummy, the same situation some

Walter Wanger's new film romance new an would develop. He never would be Leon Carillo, Colin Chy and Ivan Le A great divided 3-2, 2s seemed likely,

East Side New interesting play would developable to draw trumps without loss bedeff play important

THE MAJES Predicated on this idea, and that and, at the same time, ruff out all

WAT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAT

Grim mystery among three clubs would have to be lost of dummy's hearts.

gathered round a tabl Sonth's technique went astray at BRA-"High, Wite And Handsome anyway, a elab was led, which the

and solution of a bafun king won. To the third trick the the second trick. After winning the A hard-fighting, thrill-studded dama

Ider by the use of a second sean background of lovely songs by Oscar the murder weapons's location heart jack was led, and declarer heart ace, a heart should have been of America's first oil boom, with trumped. A spade to the ten put retumed and ruffed, then a low Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern. The only to the audience are but a few of the lead with North, for a second spade led to the ten spot. A second huge cast is headed by Irene Dunne, the exciting elements of this film. The heart ruff should be followed by the Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Akim cast includes, Dame May Whitty, club, which the queen won.

Tamiroff, Raymond Walburn, Charles Madge Evans, Thomas Beck, Lewis "Bast could see no better way of cashing of the spade ace, which Bickford Ben Blue, Elisabeth Patter-Stone Elissa Landi and Ralph Forbes. getting declarer's trumps out of the would reduce dummy to the spade sen and William Frawley. way than by a third heart lead. The king, East to the six and South to A diamond to the last club was won by the ace, and the the last heart returned. Declarer queen, the ruffing of dunny's last with the spade queen, trumped. Declarer led his last heart

diamond to the king, trump, threw the lead into dummy another with a diamond, led dummy's king and the cashing of dummy's high of spades, and the last two tricks trump, while declarer discarded « club, would complete the correct were won by high diamonds,

“Declarer frankly admitted after idummy reversal process without the play that study of the Red Book having depended on the enemy for provoked the idea of making dummy the trump hand, and his interesting play was well rewarded with

game.

**Yours truly,

queen.

assistance.

TODAY'S QUESTION

Question: South opened the bid-

"W. G. P., Champaign, IIL” ding with one no trump. Opponents

I am highly gratified that one of did not bid, North responded with 4 my books proved valuable in poin- three no trump. What should South- ting out the correct way of playing do now with

hands of the type, and it is with deep regret that I must observe:

that the declarer learned the les

son only superficially.

reversal undoubt

the

echnique

3-A 84

H-A 83

DA Q.7-3 -C-K Q

Azsver

-out.

not

enough

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AT THE STAR Two In A Crowd", AT THE ORIENTAL"The Great with Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea

two. romantic comedy drama of O'Malley."Pat O'Brien, Humphrey A Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Frieda Inescort. young moderns following the discov Sybil Jason, Donald Crisp, and Henry ery of a thousand dollar bill in the O'Neill are cast in this picture. O'Mal-street.

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