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Elvie Yuen (Soprano)

From The Studio

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1988.

Today's Wireless

12 noon-Relay of Service of Interees-

sion from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 p.m. Scottish Music.

Melodies of Robert Burns.

Light Opera Company, Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland (Ken-

nedy-Fraser). Tam Glen (arr. Stephen & Burnett).

Jean Day (Soprano). Hieland Laddie.

New Mayfair Orchestra. The Auld Hoose (Nairne). Star o'. Robbie Burns (Booth).

Bonnie Scotland.

Peter Dawson.

New Mayfair Orchestra.

1 p.m.-Local Time Signal & Weather

Report.

1.03 p.m.-Musical Comedy Selections.

"Bow Bells”—Selection..

New Mayfair Orchestra.

"Over She Goes"-Selection.

The Saville Theatre Orch, with

Adele Dixon.

1.19 p.m.-Military Band Music.

"Vanity Fair"-Overture.

B.B.C. Military Band.

BRIDGE NOTES

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

Sambré et Meuse March. Entry of the Gladiators

Massed Bands of

Command.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast & Announcementa. 1,40 p.m.-Relay of the Speech from

the Rotary Club Tifin.

Speaker Mrs. L. Dunbar. Subject"The International Womens'

Club.”

2.15 p.m-Close down.

6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

7 p.m.-Dance Music.

Tango Caramba.

Slow Foxtrot Gypsy Violin.

Mantovani & His Tipica Orch.

Quickstep

On the Isle of Kitchymiboko, Tango My Lost Love.

Henry Jacques with his Orch.

By ELY CULBERTSON

A Stupid Play

Foxtrots-

Ridin' Up The River Road. The Simple Things in Life.

Mario Lorenzi & his Rhythmics. Foxtrot-Love Please Stay. Waltz-One Kiss in a Million.

Henry Jacques & His Orch.

I Give My Heart. The Last Waltz. 7.30 p.m.—Variety.

The Cavaliers.

Wrap Me up in my Tarpaulin Jacket. The Lancashire Poacher............. Harold Williams & the B.B.C. Male Chorus, Fourth Form at St. Michaels.

Will Hay & His Scholars. Darling, Je Vous aime Beaucoup. For Me, For You....Hildegarde with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends. At The Close of a long long Day. A Melody from the Sky.... Les-Allen

& His Canadian Bachelors. The Phantom of a Song (Henry Hall) Radio Times-Foxtrot

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra,

8. p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

8.03 p.m.-Studio Elvie Yuen (So- prano) & The Very Rev. Fr. Riganti.

1. (a) Impatience (Schubert).

(b) The Quail Cry (Schubert). (c) All Souls' Day (Strauss).

Elvie Yuen.

"Carmen

Special Burns Nicht Programme

March of the Smugglers.

Soldiers changing the Guard. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt). 8.42 p.m.-Mozart Quartet in F Ha- jor-played by the Budapest · String Quartet.

9.07 p.m.-Light Opera.

"Paganini”—Vocal Gems.

Light Opera Company, The Maid of the Mountains.

London Palladium: Orchestra. "The Arcadians”-

The Pipes of Pan. Arcady is Ever Young-

Winnie Melville. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News. 9.50 p.m.-Scottish Music.

O Sing to Me The Old Scotch Songs. Joseph Hislop (Tenor) Always Take Care of Your Pennies. It's A Roon the Toon.

Sir Harry Lauder. My Ain Folk.

Mary Kay (Contralto), MacGregor's Gathering. Bonnie Wee Thing.

Joseph Hislop (Tenor). 10.10 p.m. - Burn's Night Dinner Speech. Sir Atholl MacGregor intro-

duces.

10.15 p.m.-His Excellency The Gover-

nor, Sir Geoffrey Northcote.

2. (a) Melody from Chants du Voya-10.40 p.m.--London Relay-A

geur (Paderewski),

(b)

3. (a)

Tarantella in A Minor (Plec- zonka)

Fr. Riganti.

Non la Sospiri (Tosca).. Vissi d'Arte, Vissi d'Amore (Tosca)

Elvie Yuen. -Philadelphia Symphony Or-

"Dear Mr. Culbertson: Do expert much on the order of Gov. Murphy players, such as you and I, always of Michigan. That is to say, I was

the automobile industry and myse arrive at the best possible contract partner was the C.1.0. He observ- Did you ed that my four no trump bid was on every bridge hand? ever hold a cold, laydown, ironclad bad; that instead I should have grand slam in no trump, with 150 called five no trump to show four aces. I replied (I always reply) aces, and play the hand at

that my four no trump bid without hearts? Well, I did, and here is the the king of hearts positively did

hand:

"South, dealer.

"Neither side vulnerable.

WEST

6.-9 5 3

H.-6 4 2

D.-10 9 6

NORTH

S.-K 10 8 6 H.-K 10 8 D.-Q 5 4 C-6 4 2

C.-K. Q 10 7

SOUTH

six

EAST

S.-J 4 2 H. 5 3 D.-J. 8 3 2 C.

8 5

S.—A Q. 7 H-A Q J 97

C-A-3

stupid

correspon-

show three aces and, that the sub-

8.25 p.m

chest

of Burns' Songs.

Ye Banks and Brass.

John Anderson, My Joe. Braw Braw Lads.

Recital

Whistle and I'll Come to You. My Heart is Sair.

Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes. A Rosebud by my Early Walk. 11 p.m.-Close down.

sequent five no trump showed the What's On At the Cinemás

fourth ace, and that with three or four possible losers in my hand I didn't feel like going into the slam hell-bent for election.

AT THE QUEEN'S—“Ebb Tide”, AT THE ORIENTAL with Oscar Homolka, Frances Farmer, PleaseRomance in a super-cinema, "This Way

Ray Milland and Lloyd Nolan, The with lots of fun, a whole series of most successful colour film that has snappy variety numbers, not to men- "Give us your sincere and studied ever reached the screen, and tells the tion the latest redhot songhits, to story of four strangely assorted lives round out the show. Gilt-edged cast in- opinion on the problem, Mr. Cul- that are entangled on a little South cludes Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Betty bertson, and all four of us, as well Sea island as a result of a death out- Grable, Ned Sparks, Fibber McGee as the wise kibitzers, then will deside the group, and are separated at and Molly, Porter Hall and Radio's cide whether you really know your saken trading post run by a sadistic

last by violence and murder in a for-and only Mary Livingstone.

stuff or not.

madman.

"Yours very truly,

"M.P.C., Starkweather, N.D

Why is it that bridge players get into such hectic arguments over con tracts they "should have reached,' when, as a matter of fact, the con- tract they were actually in was the correct one?

"

one

AT THE KING'S “Life Begins In AT THE STAR-New Faces of College", 1937. A series of musical comedies Brothers, Joan Davis, Tony Martin and with the comedy mad Ritz inaugurated with this picture to bring Gloria Staart is the funniest, fastest markets of the world to the screen several song hits. new talent from

entertainment hit of the year and is augmented bỳ audiences.

the

AT THE

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HAMBRA

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THE MAJESTIC—“Just- Ima- Blondes Are Dangerous”... with Noah On a double-dummy basis, which gine, with Maureen O'Sullivan and El Berry, Jr., Dorothea Kent, Williaza is to say if North and South could-Brendel. An old favourite which is Gargan and Roland Drew. A tale of "South, your

shadow boxing to blonde fighting. look at each other's hand, they sure to please. would have to fear a grand slam. dent, dealt the hand and opened the The chance of running the spade bidding with two hearts. North re-suit without loss (that the jack sponded with three hearts. I then would drop, or a sure finessing posi-. bid four no trump. North called tion be revealed) which was vital to the success of a grand slam con- five hearts; South, five no trump; tract, is slightly less than two to North, six hearts, nd then

East, one.

This is a good chance, but West, North, and I, and three kibi- not quite good enough. When a tzers, all seven of us, passed. The small slam is cold and a grand slam spade suit broke favourably, so you in question, there should be fully see, by extremely careful and clever three to one odds in favour of the play, I took 13 tricks.

higher contract.

"Of course the inevitable argu-- There was nothing wrong with ment followed. My little

Partner the bidding of either player, and "looked me over with an accusing it followed as the night the day eye. I replied to this obvious (al- that there was nothing wrong with though unvoiced) criticism by some the final contract. I can, of course, A1 glaring of my own. One of our understand that the kibitzera were mutual opponents, who holds a mas- éontemptuous, because it is a well ter's degree in the silly pastime, known fact that kibitzers are the "assumed the part conciliator, greedlest breed on earth.

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