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Talk On Tonkin By M. Montargis: French And English

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1938.

Today's Wireless

12 noon. Relay of service of Interces-

sion from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.~—Mozart-Violin Concerto in G. Major No.-3. Yehudi Menuhin and the Paris Symphony Orchestra cond. by Georges Enesco. 12.55 p.m.-Mozart "Now your days of philandering are Over" (from ..Peter! "The Marriage of Figaro"). Dawson.

1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather

Report.

1.03 p.m.-Webster Booth and Alfredo

Campoli's Orchestra.

Orchestra-

Love in Idleness (MacBeth).

Tenor

I'll Wait For You.

I'm All Alone (Feiner).

Orchestra-

Your Heart Called Mine (Hayon).

1.15 p.m.-Light Opera.

Selections from "Les Cloches de Cor- neville" played by De Groot & His Orchestra.

BRIDGE NOTES

Trump

ZBW 356 M. 845 k.c's

Selections from "The Gipsy Princess'

played by De Groot and the New Victoria Orchestra.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.40 p.m.Variety & Dance Music. 2.15 p.m.-Close, down." 6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Variety Programme.

Old Song Memories. .....

Westminster Ballad Singers. Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D 9.. * Charlie Kunz. Sandy's Happy Home...Sandy Powell. It's Party Time. Again. The Yodelling Working Man.

George van Dusen. The Best of Friends. I'm a Little Prairie Flower.

Billy Cotton & His Band.

By ELY CULBERTSON

Squeeze

"Dear Mr. Culbertson: I am not it then was!

This, of course,

is

writing this letter for sympathy, the five card position I should have but rather as a penance. I suppose reached:

a

all of us, at one time or another, have launched dream ships on sea of glory, and imagined oursel- ves the heroes of the hour, receiv➡ admiring ing the plaudits of an

WEST of S.-None

throng. But seldom does the op- portunity occur to bring one

these dream ships home to port. My H.-5- chance came in the hand below:

South, dealer.

Both sides' vulnerable.

WEST S.-J 5 4 H. A 5 2

NORTH

3.-8

H. 10 9 7 4

D.-A 10 76 C-A 10 5 3

D. —Q J 5 4 3 C-6 4

D.-Q J 5 C.-6

NORTH

-None

H-107 D.-A 10 C-A

SOUTH S.—2- H-None

D-K 2

C.-9 8

EAST S-None H. Q-8 D.-None C-K QJ

"And the worst of it was, one of the women made six spades and EAST

knew no more about a trump 8.-9 6...

about the than she did H-QJ 8 6

fourth dimenson. This was no

9-by-1 D.-9 8 C.-KQJ 7 2 means the only blunder of the

ing. I had my wife for a partner. If there had been a booby prize we would not

home have gone

SOUTH S. A K Q 10 7 3 2. H.-K 3

D.-K 2

C.-9 8

West

North

The bidding:

South

Pass

empty handed.

"Yours very truly,

even-

; ZEK 640 k.c'a

7.33 p.m.-Joseph Hislop (Tenor).

Herding Song (from "Songs of the

North").

An Eriskay Love Lilt (from "Songs

of the Hebrides"). An Island Sheiling Song.

The Island Herdmaid (from

of the Hebrides").

7.45 p.m.-Studio-C. Harper (Piano). 8 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather

Report.

8.03 p.m.-Studio-A Talk in French on ""Tonkin” by Mon, Montargis follow- ed by a translation in English. 8.25 p.m.-A French Programme.

Coppelia Ballet (Delibes) Dance of the Automatons and Waltz....San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Lakme (Delibes)

Oriental Prayer. Bell Song.

Miliza Korjus (Soprano). Thais (Massenet) Meditation.

Mischa Elman (Violin): Mignon (Thomas) Gavotte. Debussy-"Danses".

Avshalamoff Concerto

Upon Chinese Themes And Rhythms

BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY TRANSMISSION 1

Frequencies...

GBG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.) GSD 11.75" Mc/s :(25,53 m. G8B. 9,51 (me/s (31.55 m.) -G.M.T..

8.15 a.m-Big Ben. Music Hall. 9.15 am. Empire Exchange". 9.30 a.m. The Luton Band. 10.00 a.m.-The News, and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at 10.15 a.m. 10.25 a.m.-Close Down.-

TRANSMISSION ↑

Frequencies---

GSJ 21.58 Mc/s (15.93 m GSH 2147 Mc/s (13,87 m.) GSG 17.79 Me/s. (16.86 m.)

GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.) ..

10.45 a.m.-Big Ben Beethoven Sym- phony No. 3 in E flat (Eroica), Op. 55

11.30 a.m.-Pianoforte Music.

11.40 a.m.—Tom Jenkins, at the Organ

of the Plaza Cinema, Swansea.

Philadelphia Orchestra under 12.00 pm.Rehearsal. A glimpse of

Stokowski.

Massenet Elegie. Messager-La Maison Grise from "Fortunio". ... George Thill (Tenor). Saint-Saens-Marche Heroique..

.as.

preparations for a Variety perform- ance of the Palace Theatre, Burnley, Lancashire.

12.15 p.m. The Real Robinson Crusoe.. 12.55 p.m.-Recital by David Martin

(Canadian Violinist).

Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-Robb Wilton Mr. Muddlecombe J.P. in the "Court of Not-so-common, Please!" written by Robb Wilton on an origin-1.30 pm The News and Announc

ments. Greenwich Time Signal al idea by Barry Bernard. Presented

1.45 p.m. by Man Kester.

1.15 p.m.-Robb Wilton as Mr. Mud-

dlecombe, J.P., in The Court "Not-so-Common, Please!""

9.30 p.m.-London Relay--The News. 9.30 p.m.-Light Opera Selections.

Merrie England (Edward German).' New Symphony Orchestra cond. by

Dr. Malcolm Sargeant, Monsieur Beaucaire (Messager) Vo- cal Gems Light Opera Company. 10.06. p.m. Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards.

Youth & Vigour (Lautenschlager). Pas des Cymbales. Air de Ballet. Callirhoe

(Chaminade).

10.18 p.m.-Amelita Galli-Curci.

Bolero from "The Maids of Cadiz

(Delibes).

Song of India from "Sadko"

(Rimsky-Konsakoff).

1.55 p.m.-Close Down.

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies

of

·GŠH 21,47 Mc/a (18.97 m.). GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.). GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.). GSJ (to 3.30 p.m.) 21.53 Idc/n 155 p.m. Opening Announcements. 2.00 p.m.—Big Ben. Take your Choice.": 2.30 p.m.—'A Theme and a Song":

'Food' Songs.

2.40 p.m.-Early English Pianoforte

Music.

2.45 p.m.-Catharine Parr, or “Alex-

ander's Horse.'

2.55 pm Early English Pianoforte

Music (cont'd.),

3.00 p.m.—The Torquay Municipal Or-

chestra.

4.00 p.m.-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at 4.15 p.m.

10.24 p.m.-Avshalamoff-Concerto in

Gupon Chinese Themes and Rhythms. Played by the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra with G. Singer 4.20 p.m.-Violin Recital by Bratza. at the Piano and conducted by the 4.40 p.m.—'Do we Understand En- Composer. 11 p.m.-Close down.

glish?'

*5.00 p.m.--Close Down,

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE KING'S “Elephant Boy." AT THE ORIENTAL—“Night Must which unusual picture Produced by Alexander Korda this Fall".An film is based on “Toomai of the Ele- brings Robert Montgomery in an en- phants" by Rudyard Kipling.

tirely different role and the lovely Ro salind Russell. The supporting cast in-

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- AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM- cludes Dame May Whitty, Merle Tot- BRA-The Singing Marine".Dick tenham, Matthew Bolton and Kathleen Powell, Lee Dixon, Doris Weston, Harrison. Hugh Herbert, Doc Rockwell, Jane

"J. H. V., Boissevain, Man.” J. H. V. need feel no shame over East muffing a trump squeeze. This is, S spades Pass

3 no trump Pass by all odds, the aristocrat of the 4 clubs Pass 4 no trump Pass squeeze family and there is only

Pass 6 spades Pass

a handful of players in the United ""The scene was ideal. It

was States that can execute one în ac- the last hand in a duplicate game.tual play. The others all had finished and The crux of the play was; of were standing around watching the

opening lead and Darwell and Allen Jenkins in a rollick- AT THE MAJESTIC "Call it a play Our worst enemy would not continuation, which virtually locating

course, in th

musical romance, built round Day" Most hilarious story of a goofy have accused us of underbidding ed East with an original holding America's most famous fighting corps. family ever transferred from stage

screen, with a six star cast including the hand. It was decisive, if not that included the Q-of-hearts-

AT THE STAR—““Mountain Music", Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita scientific. When the final contract Also, presumably, East for his with Bob Burns and Martha Raye. A Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young. was reached Mrs. B., on my left, double had the high clubs. The grand comedy filled with grand music Frieda Innescort, Peggy Wood and remarked: I have nothing in my difficulty lies in discarding properly of the mountain type.

.

hand on which to double. Her from the dummy on the six rounds husband, sitting on my right, evid of spades that should be played. ently thought he had, so he doubl-Dummy's two hearts must be kept ed. They did their best to give me intact as a threat against East. It the contract by leading the ace of does no good to discard three dia- hearts and continuing a heart. One monds from dummy, because South trick already had been played and holds no long card in the suit I counted 11 winners. Something over the top tricks actually held. seemed to whisper a trump squeeze, Thus, the discard of three clubs and but beyond knowing I should bare two diamonds from dummy becomes the ace of clubs, I could not figure fairly automatic.

in

eart

out the exact technique. Just_at_The play from the five card posl- this point one of the women said: tion given is easy. South leads two "I do not see what he is waiting rounds of diamonds, end ng for. So I plunged ahead and tried dummy. East cannot let go for an ordinary squeeze, playing If he does, declarer merely ruf out six rounds of trumps, going a heart to establish dummy's ten. over to dummy with the ace of East must, therefore, let go two clubs and trumping a heart, hoping clubs, and now declarer cashes the to set up the ten. Result, down club ace and returns to his hand one. As soon as I got home I play by ruffing, to cash the club-nine for ed the hand over and how simple the final trick

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