1937-12-18 — Page 3

THE CHINA MATE, DECK BER 18 1937

Light Orchestr 31

Nelson Eddy

12-12229

Today's Wireless

Relay of Special Service

from St. John's Cathedral. -

12.30 p.m.-A Ballad & Pianoforte Con-

cert.

ZBW 955 M. 85kc's ZEK 640 kes

Song Without Words F Major cal Weather Forecast &

ments. (Mendelssohn). Benno Moisei-

130 peta vitch (Piano),

Turkish March (from The Rums of

Athens--Beethoven; a. Kabin-1 pm-Local Time Signal and Wea-215 pm-

stein).

ther Report

Espenaub (Concert Etude No. 6103 pmusical Comedy Selections. 7 pm

Fail von Please Teacher Selection (Waller 7.20

Op.

Érd von Sauer)..

Saner (Piano).

Full Sail (Graves-Buck).

Sea Winds (Askew-Harrison).

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

Danse Creole (Chaminade).

Pierrette (Chaminade).

Una Bourne (Piano).

Without The Moon.

-Keith

San Diego Betty (film Mayfair Me-

lody Dyrenforth-Smith).. Falkner (Baritone) Emating Song (Mendelssohn).

BRIDGE NOTES

& Tunbridge). Tulip Time Selection (Sievier &17.30 pa

Wark)....New Mayfair Orchestra. Noctu Lido Lady-Selechon (Rodgers).

128 pm-Walties.

Savoy Orpheans.

Nocturne

17.40 pm

tions & He

Acclamation Waltz (Waldtenfel). The Grenadiers Waltz (Waldtenfel ket Report

Regimental 7.45 pm- arr Winterbottom). Band of HM Grenadier Guards Cond by Capt. George Miller p.m.-Reuter & Rugby Press; Lo-

1.30

By ELY CULBERTSON

Use Of Asking Bids

WEST

CA

of

NORTH

very bad

EAST S-Q9xxx

HKI

D-A 10 xxx

-SOUTH

The more I use Asking Bids, me as an example of the less I use Asking. Bids. By luck for Asking Bids which remark I do not intend to imply that I have lost one whit of my faith in Asking Bids as a sound SA K J x x and vainable slar device. It mere-HA Q X X X ly records a stage in bridge self-DQx education.

strongest opponents The Asking Bids do not deny that their use can occasionally produce brilliant results. When the critics add that at times Asking Bids tie their users one trick. How, my correspondent into hopeless tangles, and that they asks, could West tell that often fail to yield the desired in-announced second-round control of formation, it is not the bids that are Clubs was not the King, on which indicted but the players.

West: 2 S 4D ? 5H? 7S East:

60 3 S 5 D The Grand Slam was defeated by

Fast's

West's losing Diamond could be dis What it boils down to is this: In carded, but the valueless singleton? using Asking Bids you must look be It is, of course, highly unusual for fore you leap. That is, you must both hands to have singletons of the But the mistake lay in plan the whole course of the bidding same suit. according to the various alternative "asking" first in an aceless suit, and responses you may receive, and only causing the bidding to mount to when you have made up your mind rapidly. that the responses cannot be gerous and may be fruitful should Two, the rule is that the responder, you embark upon the first Asking with a fair biddable suit of his own Bid

For example.

NORTH

WEST

EAST

SOUTH

S—A Q 9 x HQ XX D-A Jxxx

dan

S-K J 10 8 7 H-AKX

D None

Also, after an opening Forcing

and good support for his partner's suit, should show his own suit and support his partner's later, I think the bidding should go:

West: 2 S3H4C? 4H ? 5C ? 6 S East: 3 D 3 S4D 4NT 5 NT:

18 pm Loca Signa

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m-Negro Spirituals.

Ise Been Buked, Gwina Lay Down

My Life:

Go Down, Moses (arr. Edna Thomas)

Edna Thomas. (Soprano).

I'm Goin' To Tell Good All 0 My

Troubles (arr. Brown) Deep River (Burleigh),

L

Musical Comedy.

Ballad

And Pianoforte

London Log. sh Dance Music.

Taking': W. W.

Maclean, at the Or-

Cinema, El

Ben.

& Announcem

As I See It. Girbert Murray.

“Scrapbook for

12 noon Dancing Time

| 12.15 pm=London Log.

12.25 pm Dancing Time,

| 12:40 pm— For the Colonial Service,

Talks on matters of interest to Go- ernment servants in the "Colonial"

Service **London

Pan Robeson (Bass). 8.15 pm London Relay

Log

8.25 pm

Orchestral

Eddy (Baritone).

Scenes Fittores

Angelus

Fetes Boheme

* Fandomne

Cond: Richard Cream

Orchestr

Through The Years (Heyman-You-

mans).

Dusty Road (L. & 0. Rene).~

For the Children- "The White

ents.

The News & Ann Rh Time Signal at L45 pa

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Nelson Eddy215 pm-Big Ben The BBC MiR

Band Puszta (Mihaly).. ...Barnabas Von 3 Pianoforte Interinde. Forget It, And Smile (Bolmelt).

Geczy & His Orch.

Charm Of The Valse (arz. Winter).

The London Palladium Orch. Cond:

Richard Grezn.

8.40

pm London Relay For the Co- lonial Service

(Tenor) and Backhaus (Piano), 9 PA concert by John McCor 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News 9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches- tra from the Grill Room of the Hang Kong Hotel 12 midnight Close dow

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Third Test Match Fro eld Eugby Ground.

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Jack Hill and his, Music.

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Week-end Concer

News & Economic Zevie

Dance Music.

Diet in the Tropic. Concert of Light Music

Yews.

Peasant Songs & Dances. News & Economic Review. 18.15 p.m.-To-day in Germany.

East need not bid Four Spades What's On At the Cinemas

the

AT THE ORIENTAL

"Saratoga law until the object lesson of three with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow wrecked lives as the result of a minor Langhs and tears, thrills and romance, infraction of traffic regulations gives mingle in this picture. A vivid story him a new slant on things. That and of the racetrack, with paddock intrigue, the girl. A great human interest story West a great race, unusual characters, infwith East Side New York as its setting

(which a delicate romance is woven, the or

play is an ideal one for these stars.

five

They hate, fight, and love through an AT THE ALHAMBRA “A. Saccess- action-packed drama in which much ful Calamity With George Arliss, whimsical comedy leavens the heavier Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant, Mit | moments.

chell, David Torrence and Eandolph. Scott The tale of a millionaire who faked

ure in order to win back his from pursuits that were herr

over the Hearts, since, after CAK 10 9x Forcing Two, Three Spades is not These cards were held by twoja mere preference bid, but announces partners who were experts at Asking good support, if it is preceded by Bids. West opened with One Dia-first showing another suit. mond, and East responded. quietly thus knows that East has four

four or with One Spade. Although he had five Diamonds and the values for a Two-Spade response, Spades. East could see no object in foreign, "Asking" In The Right Suit

the and wished to discover what West's He is now compelled to make

AT THE QUEENS "Morocco.”- reaction would be a simple One over first Asking Bad in the right suit,

cture, featuring One. West replied to One Spade Clubs. The response of Four Dia-Revival of three sta

Dietrich and with Two Spades.

monds gives him the pleasing news Gary Cooper, Marle

Adolphe Menjou. Now if East starts using Asking that East has second round control Bids to find out if West has third of Clubs and the Ace of Diamonds. AT THE MAJESTIC round control of Hearts or Clubs, Au Asking Bid in Hearts elicits the O'Malley Pat with a view to bidding the Grand facts that East has second-round Bogart, Ann Sherida Sybil Jason, Donald Slam, the bidding will mount too control of Hearts as well, but has O'Neill are cast in high for him to be able to elicit sub- not the King of Diamonds, for if he O'Malley's fetish is the sequently the much more y le in had he would have responded to formation 23 to West's hold of Four Hearts with Five Diamonds: trump honours. Those honours are all he is really ested in. Wat's raise in Spades, be ing a natural, unforced re-bid, clear ly shows that he has good values,

pected

eith

the

Seren

the three

Six only obediently

hich

produce some sort

Clubs

Spades Fast the

Slam fore

lay

Now West makes a Repeat Asking Bid in Clubs, inquiring whether East has third-round control. This is a case where a player hopes for a negative response to an Asking Bid,

East denies third-round con- second-round control must ded King. His response he has third-round con- erefore he must have leton or the King Queen. favourable,

should, of course, be presum

now knows that the

discarding

therefore bids

Small Slam in Spades.

The Great

and

AT THE KING'S “Public Enémy's with Pat O'Brien, Robert Arm-

and Margaret Lindsay

The show what happens when the erate mates of the mobsters try to

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of the under-

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