1937-12-27 — Page 3

CHINA MAIL, DECEMBE

Carols Quartette

The Studio

1200-1220 p.m-Relay of Special

vice from St. John's Cathedral 12.30 pm The Mills Brothers.

Today's Wireless

Rhythm Saved The World (Calm,

Chaplin).

Shoe Shine Boy (Cahn, Chaplin). My Headache (Razat, Johnson). Miss Otis Regrets (Cole Porter). 12:42 pm Billy Mayerl (Piano) and).

Frances Langford (Vocal). ̧ ̈

Nimble Fingered Gentleman. (May-

Mistletoe (Mayer]).

Billy Mayerl

Is It True What They Say About Dixie (Caesar, Lerner, Marks). Melody From The Sky (from "The

trail of the Lonesome Pine'). Frances Langford

Orange Blossom (Mayerl). Limehouse Blues (Braham-tra

Mayerl)

Billy Mayeri

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's ::

Bavarian Dance. Op. 21, No. 1.

(Eigar)......... Bavarian Dance, Op. 27, No. 2

(Elgar).

ersian Dances

Khowantchins”

(Moussorgsky, arr. Rimsky- Korsakov).

130 p.m. Reater and Rugby Press

Local Weather Forecast and An- nouncements.

(1.40 p.m.-Variety.

Orchestra

"This'll Make You Whistle" Selec-

tion

Louis Levy and His Gaumont

British Symphony.

Vocal

One Of The Little Orphans

The Storm

•ZEK 640 k.co

John Henry and Blossom"

Vocal

Dere's A Man Goin Roun

Names (Brown).

وید

Work All De Summer,

Lord Deliver Danie Paul Robeson (Bass); Orchestra =

L'ultima Parola-

ris).

Sweetheart Czardas Marie

Don Rico and His Gyp

Orchestra

2.15 p.m.-Close down- 5.00-8.05 pm bubper 8.85-11.00 pm Chinese

5.00 pm-Relay of the Dance Orches Oftra from the Roof Garden of the

* Hong Kong Hotel 16.30 pra-Children's Records.

Children's Overture (Quilter).

Wes-i

Queen of Hearts (both from

"Queen of Hearts”). Gracie Fields.

fim

Piano

1.00 pm-Local Time Signal and We

ther Report.

1:03 p.m.--London Symphony Orches-

tra

A

A Night At The Proms (Bizet, Schubert, Rossini, Mendels- solm, Bach and Nicolai).

BRIDGE NOTES

Accordeon Band-Wine Song (film

“Caravan”).

London Piano-Accordeon - Band. Humorous

The Stocking (Henry and Reeve).

By ELY CULBERTSON

FINESSES

“Yours very truly,

“E. 0. T, Boston.

"Dear Mr. Culbertson: I follow, the king and finessing back to the with great interest your repeated jack. Please tell me whether this statements that average players was hard luck, or whether I should take entirely too many fnesses. As take up tiddledy-winks as an avoca- one of the most average of all tion. average players in the country, I am strongly inclined to agree with your point of view, but without The answer is that definitely it what remedy to apply. For the last was not hard luck that caused two months I have kept careful R 0. T's defeat, but who can say count of every finesse I have taken, that he would be any better at and to date the score stands as tiddledywinks? follows:

Finesses taken

Finesses won

Finesses lost

248 116 132

The crux of this hand was that Jabsurdly simple but frightfully neglected part of bridge known as #counting the opponents' distribu- Either I am a darned poor finesser, tion." Declarer could be sure, for or am not a favourite of the god-two separate reasons, that East had dess of chance.

Ino fewer than five clubs. His over-

New Light Symphony Orchestra. Uncle Peter's Children's Part

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). 6.48 pm Organ Music. Choral (Bach). Andante from Sonata No.

(Mendelssohn).

6.

the

Edouard Commette (Organ). Cantilene Nuptiale (Dubois). Imperial March Mgar).

Stanley Roper playing on

Organ of St Margar Church, Westmunster, w 7.03 p.m.-Light Orchestral and Vocal

Concert:

Haffner Serenade Rondo

Edith Lorand and Her Viennese

Orchestra

Cie Czardasfurstân

(Kalman).-

Potpourri

Edith Lorand and Her Viennese

Orchestra.

Si Vous Voyez Celle Que Aime

(Bos-Billaut).

(Bos-

Toujours Content De Moi

Albert Enjean (Vocal). Natach Marche Angan (Ka

and Jurmann):

Les Nuits Moscovites, Waltz (f

the £)

Alfred Fode et ses Old Visa Mela

Good Old Tone This ear

Edith Lorand and 7.30 p.m.

tions and

Page

Jack Payne's Party From London

ket Report

735 pm-Studio

Eva Turner (Sopram hart (Contracto)- 6. Victor Sanders snied by R. O'Neil

ocal Time Sig

18 pm-

(Soprano).

Love's Melody (from

•Voices Or Spring

(Joh. Strauss-

The Blue marath (Joh Strauss-)

8.30 pm-London Relay

change

Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and Colonies

8.45 p.m. Rachmaninof-Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini For Piano * And Orchestra: Op. 43.

Played by Bachmaninoff (Piano) and Leopold Stokowski and the Philadel phia Orchestra: 9.10

Baritone 9:30 p

Rose Bampton Ito) and Peter Dawson (Bass-

London Relay The News. 250 pm. Hawaiizu Music. 10:15 pm. London Relay Jack

Payne's Party. Jack Payne is hav ing a party in the studio to which he has invited several world-famous stage, film, and radio stars. Listen in and join in the fun. 11.15 pm-Close down:

BERLIN BROADCAST

On stations-DJA 31:38 m2 DIB 19,7€ m, DIE 16.89 m. DIN 3145 m, DİQ

oncert of Light Music. ews and Economić. Review.

the week's pro-

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What's On At the Cinemas

“I am submitting a hand that is call at the two level strongly sug- fairly typical. Misguessing the locagested this, and his partner's lead tion of the diamond queen cost me of the queen confirmed the count.

AT THE STAR "Seventh Heaven" AT THE QUEEN'S "Varsity a two-game rubber. What I would It was quite all right to take the

-Famous as a silent picture, this most Show-Reading, rioting and rhyth- like to know is wether an expert heart finesse but, after it lost, the glamorous of all romances rises to new matics to the time of toe tickling melo- would have played the hand in succeeding play should have been heights as a talkie. It stars Simone dies. More songs, more laughs, more such a way as to avoid the finesse? a lead pipe cinch. After Fuffing the Son, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, girls, more new ideas than any show

North, dealer:

third club in dummy and drawing-Edward Bromberg and John Qinalen.

Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaand, J. since. “42nd St. 2- Starring Dick Powell

Fred Wasing and his Pansylvanians four rounds of trumps, declarer 1

Ted Healy, Walter Catlett," Pris apparently remained stone blind to AT THE KING'S “AH Baba

John - D2 the fact that East had shown four To Towa", with Eddie Canton,

Eanes and Buci and Bubbles. spades in addition to five clubs. Martin, Roland Young, June Hang This left only four cards in his Louise Hovick The long awaited

isical comedy with several song hits. hand to be accounted for, and cor- rect play would have accounted for them precisely!

North-South vulnerable.

WEST S--5

NORTH

S.-K Q 7 E-A Q-6 D.—K 10 973 C-J 2

H-J 10 7 32

D-Q 842

C -Q 5 4

EAST S. 6432 H-X 8 4. D5

C-AK 10 9 7.

SOUTH

S-A J 10 9 8

H-9 5

D.-A.J 6

AT THE MAJESTIC—“Vogues" 1938, with Wamer Baxter and With one trump left, declarer Bennett, Helen Vinson, Nicha Aner, should have led to the heart ace Next year's fasmons in fun,

Alan Mowbray and Polly and ruffed dummy's remaining girls, love and music dances heart. The purpose of this play micolour are introduced into would be to find out whether East musical extravaganza from had started with as many as three wrote the sensational of Samnel and Bet

stage thearts, With East actually follow-Boy Meets Gick

ing to both heart leads, the last three tricks would have been auto- matic. East had been proved to hold West

five clubs, four spedes, and at least Pass three hearts. Therefore, he could Pas

have no more than one diamond. The diamond ace would reveal that *West opened the queen of clubs it was not the queen, and a finesse and, wher Fast signaled with the (against West, far from being a dence, shifted to the heart jack. I guess, would become absolutely could well afford the heart finesse established.

C.-6 3.2

The bidding-

Bast South

North

1 diamond 2 clubs 2 spades 3 spades Pass 4 spades Pass Pass

!

and saw no reason for going up The answer, therefore, must be with the ace, hence played the that an expert would not have queen which lost to Fast's king, avoided the diamond finesse, but East cashed the club king, and fed most certainly would have "guess the club ace, which I ruffed in 'ed it” dummy. I cashed the spade king,

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

overtook the queen, and drew Question: Dealer opened trumps West discarded one dia- jone heart. What is ser

and and two hearts.

correct bid with

G.—E J. 107

"Having lost three tricks, it now S. KQ 64 E

was all up to the diamond gue and I guessed wrong, leading to

Answer: Double.

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