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Casse Noisette. Suite By Philadelphia Orch.

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938

Today's Wireless

12-12-20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. Patricia Rossborough

12.30 p.m.

(Piano).

Queen Of Hearts-Selection.

Broadway Hostess-Selection.

If I Love Again (Oakland-Murray). Jill DarlingSelection.

12.43 p.m.-Two Songs by Tino Rossi

(Tenor).

Reviens Cherie (Cyrloroy, Cardoni &

Patruno).

Le Chaland Qui Passe-Valse Chan-

tee (de Badet-Bixio). 12.50 p.m.-The Ballyhooligans.

Temptation Rag-Fox-Trot (Lodge). Somebody Stole My Gal-Fox-Trot

(Wood).

The Ballyhooligans Make Whoopee--

Medley Fox-Trot.

ZBW 355 M. 845 k.c's

(from Give Me Back My Heart

Symphony in. Two Flats"—Novel-

My Dream Memory (Theme Song

'Street Girl-Levant). 'Adoree (West).

Love Everlasting (Friml).

Song Of The Nightingale (Hudson

& Ailbout).

The Second Serenade (Jonny Hey-

kens).

Song berg)

: ZEK 640 k.c's.

Harlem (Eddie Carroll). Roy Club Rag (Harry Roy).

Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins. Vocal-

The Touch Of Your Lips (Noble). The Glory Of Love (Billy Hill).

Hildegarde. Piano-Accordion Song Of Songs (Moya) ....George Scott-Wood.

You Will Remember Vienna (Theme 2.15 p.m.-Close down.

Viennese Nights - Rom-6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.

7 p.m.-Dance Music, Orchestra.

7.12 p.m.Closing local Stock Quota- Rugby Press;

tions. Announce-

1.30 p.m.-Reuter

Weather Forecast ments.

1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-1,40

ther Report.

1.03 p.m. Leslie Hutchinson (Voval & & His Piano) and Albert Sandler Orchestra.

May I Have The Next Romance With

You (film 'Head Over Heels'). Watching The Stars (film (Splinters In The Air')...Leslie Hutchinson.

BRIDGE NOTES

and

and

p.m. Variety.

of Dance Orch, Evergreens Jazz Scott Wood & His Six.

(No. 1)

Swingers.

Comedian-

The Old Oak Tree (Miller). Put It Down (Miller).

Max Miller. Dance Orch.-

By ELY CULBERTSON

Nothing To Lose

jack

In almost all hands the logical face, to discard a heart on the dia- Then, with only one and winning line of defence becomes mond queen. apparent from analysis of the bid-heart left, declarer had nothing to ding. the implications of the open-lose by playing the diamond ing lead, and a study of the posed dummy. Occasionally, how ever, it cannot be denied that the defenders find themselves in a blind alley. When this happens, it is the duty of the declarer to take full advantage of the situation. Today's hand, culled from a recent duplicate game, illustrates how easy it is to pick up an extra trick.

ex- and chucking his heart. True, he realized that one of the defenders had to be out of diamonds and could ruff.

North, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable. Match point duplicate.

WEST.

S.-A

NORTH

S.-K 8 5

H.-K 9 6 4

D.-Q J 8 5

C.-A 4

H. Q J3 2

D.-10 6 4

C-J 3 7 5 2

SOUTH

EAST S.-7 6 2 H.-A 8 5

D.-9 7 3 2 C-K 6 3

S-Q J 10 9 4.3

H-10 7

D.-A K.

C.-。109་

The bidding:

North

East

Pass

Pass

2 no trump Pass

South

West

But there was the chance, however remote, that this ruff would require the sacrifice of the ace of Remote as it was, that is trumps.

what happened.

West was the one who did not have to follow to the fourth dia- mond but, to his misfortune, also was the one who had the blank ace of trumps. Whether he used it at this point or not was immaterial.

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7.15 p.m.-London Relay-"Take Your

Choice'.

7.45 p.m.-London Relay A Theme And A Song'. This week: Songs Bernard about Hats. Janet Lind, Clifton, The Three Graces, and The Band. Presented by William Mać- Lurg.

London Relay Navy v. Army At Hockey

at the Organ of Queen's Hall, Lon- don...

Organ Sonata In G (Elgar).....G. D. Cunningham at the Organ of Ale- xandra Palace, London.

(89-

9.06 p.m.-Elisabeth Schumann

prano) & Yehudi Menuhin (Violin). Fisher-Ways, Op. 96, No. 4 (Schiech-

ta-Schubert).

Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, Op.

2. (Goethe-Schubert),

Des Fischers Liebesgluck (Leitner-- Schubert)....Elisabeth Schumann. Allegro (Fiocco).

La Capricciosa (Ries).

'Tzar's

Yehudi Menuhin- Campanella, Op. 7 Bis (Paganini).

Bride Song of the Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Franko).

Yehudi Menuhin.

9.30 p.m.--London Relay-The News. 9.50 p.m.-Raie Da Costa (Piano).

Waltz Romantique (Da Costa), Jazz Goblins (Da Costa). I'll String Along With You (film

"Twenty Million Sweethearts"). What Are Your Intentions (film.

"Twenty Million Sweethearts").

7.55 p.m.-Emil Telmanyi (Violin).

Romance, Op. 73, No. 2; Danse

Champetre, Op. 106, No. 2 (Sibe-10.03 p.m.Variety. lius).

Weather

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal,

Report and Announcements, 8.03 p.m. Studio Stephen Burns, Scottish Lyric· Tenor, in a pro- gramme of International Melodies. Accompanied by A. T. Lay.

1. Italian - 'Rigoletto" Questa o

quella.

2. German--Ich sing'mein Lied heut' nur fur. Dich! Wulzerlied (Stolz).

gas

3. Russian-Gypsy Song-Ogoin Po- Tenor.

Piano.

Piano Romance (Rachmaninoff).

4. English-The Crown of the Year

(Easthope Martin).

5. Irish-Oft in the Stilly Night →

Irish Air. 6. Scottish-Auld Lang Syne.

Cinema Organ-Medley Of Seren-

ades

Al Bollington Humorous Monologue-Albert Comes

Back (Marriott Edgar).

Hawaiian Music--

Stanley Holloway.

· Sundown In Old Waikiki (Carlton

& Ritz).

All My Life (Mitchell & Stept).

George Elliott's Hawaiian No- velty Quartet.

Vocal-

Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong

(Whiting, Schwartz, Johnson). Why Don't You Practice What You

Preach (Sigler, Goodhart, Hoff- ̈ man)....

The Boswell Sisters. Dance Orch.-Händel In Harlem→→

Fox-Trot......Scott Wood' & · His Six Swingers.

10.30 p.m.-Dance Music.

Tenor.11 p.m.-London RelayHockey: The Royal Navy v. The Army. A run- 8.25 p.m.--Leopold Stokowski and the

Philadelphia Orchestra. Nutcracker ning commentary on the second half Suite, Op. 71A (Tchaikovsky),

of the Inter-Service. match by 8.50 p.m.-Organ Music.

Thomas Woodrooffe from the Off- Prelude And Fugue In E Minori cers' Recreation Grand, Aldershot.

(Bach) ..Dr. Albert Schweitzer 11,40 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

Declarer already had gotten rid of AT THE ORIENTAL **Super- AT THE KING'S~"Criminals of his two losing hearts, and needed Sleuth,' with Jack Oakie, and Ann The Air."-This is a story of desper- to concede only the spade ace for a Sothern. Murder, mystery, farcial ate aeroplane smuggling by x-band of comedy and brisk, romance are com- well organized crooks who are Tun- total of five-odd...

bined in this fast-paced film. The story |ning contraband across the interna- There was nothing difficult about concerns a series of murders in Hol-tional line from Mexico into the Unit- this hand and it is presented only |lywood secretly executed by a profes-ed States. The cast includes Rosalind to illustrate the theme of playing sor of criminology Oakie is cast as a Keith and Charles Quigley supported cenceited film detective who sets out by Rita Hayworth, John Gaullaudet, in súch a way as to lose nothing and to trace the killer without police aid Mare Lawrence and Patricia Farr.

and get into a number of amusing si- possibly gain something.

tuations.

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

Question: In the following bid- ding: South West ·North

spade Double Redouble Double

East 2 clubs

Is South's double for a take-out

1 spade Pass or for penalties?

Answer: North's redouble is the 3 spades Pass

J.

no

4 spades · Pass Pass Pass equivalent of a bid, hence South's

West opened his fourth highest double is for penalties. club, dummy played low, and East's

JO-JOTTE POINTER . king-won. Looking at all four hands, In valuing the hand for a it is easy to see that a spade re-trump contract, a player must look turn by East, followed by a heart for two types of values in his hand :1 switch on West's part, would have Pay cards and stoppers. Pay gained the defenders four tricks. cards include aces, tens, and: some But from East's point of view a times kings or queens, exactly as spade return was unthinkable. The in trump bids. Three card combina normal defence was to try for ations, however, have more value at diamond trick, since it was quite no trump than at trump contracts, likely that declarer had something where the third card is almost sure like the ace and one or two small to be ruffed. The matter of stop- diamonds.” He also might hold pers is of the utmost importance at heart honours and, unless West's no trump. A stopper is a card which diamond king (presumably speak-will win a trick in its auit: if the ing) were established before East's opponent leads. Every now and then at no trump and his adversary, will As it happened, the diamond re have, some long suit. If declarer turn was "right up declarer's al- cannot win a trick in that suit, ley." He cashed the ace and king, the entire suit will be run before then entered dummy with the club he can take the lead.

heart ace were. knocked out, the a player will take the contiLz4

diamond trick might evaporate.

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AT THE MAJESTIC—“Caravan,' with Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker and Phillips Holmes. * *

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