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Musical Variety I

London Relay

THE CHINA MAIL MARCH 12,

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 pm.--Songs by Paul Robeson

(Bass).

2

12.40 pm The BBC. Dance Orches-

trx.

1 pm Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Latest Variety Records.

Theatre Orchestra- Venus In Silk-

Selection (Stolz)"

Banjo Band-

Theatre Orchestra.

Whistling Rufus (Mills). Temptation Rag (E. Lodge).

Raymonde & His Band 0 Banjos. Orchestra-

Remember? (Carroll Gibbons

Looks Back). Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and His Boy Friends. Dance The Moonlight Waltz With

ZBW 355 M. 845 kds::ZEK 640 kc's

Metods

Orchestra.

ello) and

cello & Orches

The New Orchestra cond. by Sir

Serenade (Hassan" Delius).

Piano accomp. Harrison.

Margaret

Elegie (Delus) (Arranged and * conducted by Eric Fenby). 7.25 pm Closing local Stock Quota-

tions.

7:30 pm-London Relay Musical

John Goss and Cathedral Male Voice Quartet.

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Suite) and other compositions by Strauss.

International Rugger

At Swansea

BROADCAST FROM DAVENTRY

TRANSMISSION

Frequencies

GSG 1779- Mc/s (16.86 II) GSO 18.18 Mc/s (19.76 GSD 1175 Mc/a (25.53

GSB 3.51 me/s: (31.55

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Suite (GMT.

*for Orchestra Richard Strauss:17.00 am.-Big Ben Over the Fam

Op60) Walther Straram Or- Gate' chestra of Paris.

Life of Offenbach.

Morgen Op. 27. No. 4. Elisabeth 18:20 am. London Log

Schumann (Soprano) Violin Obbli-8.30 am-Irish Concert. gato by Isolde Menges.

8.50 am-The News and Announce- Der Rosenkavalier' (Waltz move- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at

ments from Act 3)....The Berlin

9.90 a.m. State Opera Orchestra cond. by 9.15 am Close Down. Alois Melichar.

Me-Waltz (Green & Grund- Variety. Including The Three 850 pm-London Relay *London

land). Old Pal Of Mine Slow Fox-Trot

(Box. Cox & Roberts)....Msm tovani and His Orchestra with Vocal Choras.

Lonely Troubadour-Tango (Hil-

ler & Bory)..... Mantovani and His Orchestra with Vocal Cho-

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

meats

140 pm-Haydn Quartet in B Ma- jor, Op. 76, No. 4 (Prisca Quartet). Played by Walter Prises (1st Vio- lin); Will Smith (2nd Violin); Eugen Kommer (Viola); Hans Murch-Hol- land ('Cello).

BRIDGE NOTES

Graces. Songs in Harifozy 7.45 pm. Ses Shanties and Choruses.

Log

Three For Jack (Weatherly & 9 pm Concert by Gigli (Tenor)

Squire arr Pointer).

Four Jolly Sailormen (from A Princess of Kensington Hood & German). Quartette: Francis Russel, Parry Jones, Raymond Newell and Harry Dearth with Piano...

Nous Irons A Valparaiso (Pares & Sta van: Parys); Scincaidani Lampa (Ar Favara). Storm Along; "Boll The Wood-Pile

Down (Am. S. Taylor Haizis).

John Goss and: Cathedral Male Voice Quartet.

Ten Thousand Miles Away (Willan),

By ELY CULBERTSON

Reaching A Slam

and Ignaz Friedman (Piano). Invitation To The Dance (Rondo

Briliant)-(Weber Op. 65).

Ignaz Friedman.

TRANSMISSION 2

Frequencies--

GŠJ. 21.53 Mc/s (13.93 m} GSH 20.47 Mc/s (1397 m.) GSG 1779 Mc/s. (16.86 m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.) · 10.45 am-Big Ben Music of George,

Gershwin.

|11.30 am-Musical Variety.-

Il Fior Di Loto (Schumann). Un Reve (Grieg)...Beniamino Gigli 11.45 am-Sydney Gustard, at the Or-

and the Berlin State Opera Or- gan.

12.50 p.m.—London. Log."

William

chestra cond. by Bruno Seidler-12.15 p.m.-Scenes from The Mery Winkler.

Wires of Windsor by Serenata (Moszkowski Op. 15).

"Shakespeare Humoreske (Dvorak-Op. 101 No. Ignaz Friedman Mille Cherubini In Coro (From Lon

don film Lullaby Sensirs Schu-|1.30 p.m.-The News and Announce-- bert-Melichar)

Greenwich Time Signal at-

Non Ti Scordar Di Me (From film

Lullaby-Furode Curtis) Beniamino Gigli and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra cond Alois Melichar...

Minuetto From Suite (J. Sak--Op.

21)

Ignaz Friedman.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News 9.50 pm-Relay of the Dance Orches

tra from the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel

"Dear Mr. Culbertson: There is a "Yours truly, E. P. C., Leadville, nasty dispute brewing concerning Colo."

national It is an indisputable fact that if the bidding of the following slam) hand, and I wish that you would South's holding had been slightly settle the argument once and for all. different, though equally consistent

The band:

South, dealer.

Neither side vulnerable.

NORTH

S-A 10.7 62 H-AQ 7 9 4 3 D.-4 C.---None

WEST S-8.4 3

H-7 5 2.

D-9 8 3 2

C-A 10 T

EAST S.-Q.J

D-K Q7 6: C.-9 6.4.2

SOUTH

S.-K 9 5

F-8

D.-A J 10

C-KQJ8.5 3

with his bidding, the slam would have been impossible. From North's point of view one of the vital cards to locate was the diamond ace. Club strength hardly could be of value. The bidding between North and South should go as follows:

South 1 club 3 clubs

5 diamonds. Pass

North

2 hearts 4-spades

6 hearts

11 pm Loadon Relay Wales v. Ire-

land'. A commentary on the Inter Rugby Union Football Match by H. B. T. Wakelam from St. Helen's Ground, Swansea (By, cour sesy of the Welsh Bugby Union). 12.30 am.Close down.

1.00 pm The New Coventry Hippo--

drome Orchestra.

ments.

1.15 p.m

155 pm-Close Down

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies-

GSH 2147 Mc/ɛ (13.97 xi.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 XL) GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.) GSJ (to 3.30 p.m.) 21.53 Hc/ 1.55 p.m. Opening Announcements. 200 p.m.-Big Ben The Wynford Rey-

nolds Octet.

230 p.m. At the Black Dog." 300 pm Sports Commentaries. Pug-

by Football: Wales v. Ireland. 5.00 p.m.-The News, Saturday Sport, aad Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 5.15 pm 5.30 pmClose Donn

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE ORIENTAL-Fit For A AT THE ALHAMBRA The Per King', with Joe E. Brown, Helen fect Specimen." When a go-getting Mack, Paul Kelly and Donald Briggs.girl sets out in pursuit of grandma's Joe is cast as a chump newspaper man story, a six-footer brought up in seciu- who is always behind when a story i sion who doesn't know his own breaks. This provides a number of strength, almost anything may happen comic situations in which Joe is able to give another excellent performance.

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and does. A whirlwind of fun, and thrills starring Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell. Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, Beverley Roberts, May Robson and Allen Jenkins.

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difference The outstanding

be- tween this bidding series and the ons actually used in North's second bid. In the first series North's

AT THE KING'S The foremost spade bid showed a suit, in the sug-musical picture of the present rear, Eve Marion Davies, Robert Mont- gested series the spade bid is an "The Firefly," starring Jeannett Mar- "As played the bidding went as asking bid. North has made an un- Donald and Allan Jones and Warren gomery, Patsy Kelly, Frank McHugh,

necessary jump to the four level a personal triumph as the colourful smart comedy-romance.

follows:

South 1 dub

West Pess 3 dabs Pass

North

2 hearts 3 spades

East His first jump guaranteed that game Pass would be reached. Therefore, there Pass would be no pomt in jumping again, 4 spades Pass 6 heart Pass from three clubs to four spedes, Pass

-

"Since East held the Q-J of spades, seven hearts

Williams Jernnette MacDonald scores.

dancing girl of Madrid.

*

AT THE QUEEN'S "Ever Since

Louise Fazenda and Carol Hughes in.

*

AT THE STAR King's Vacation -with George Arliss Majore Gateson, Dudley Digges, Dick Powell and Pa- tricia Ellis. George Arliss is at his THE MAJESTIC_"It's All best in a role excelling in humour,

Jan- except to make an asking bid True, AT

Yours, with Madeleine Carrol, Fran-Imanity and suave charm, and plays doubleton this asking bid would, technically is Lederer, Mischa Auer, and Grace the part of a man who has kingship were set the club suit as trump, but this Bradley. A delirious battle of love in thrust upon him while despising all the made. North claims that her bid should not worry North because gay Paris versus love on the Gay pomp and ceremony and determined to

give them all up for love in a cola ding was the only possible method his heart suit is so beautifully solid White Way. of reaching the alam without the that he can return to it as the high- danger of South returning to the er ranking suit. If North. after spades and placing the slam in jeo-hearing about second round spade pardy. South, on the other hand, control and first round diamond con- says that the bidding was not scien- trot were to bid merely five hearts tific, and that there are several pos-over five diamonds, he would be sible combinations of honour hold-making another asking bid. His ing which would have resulted in the actual jump to six hearts is a de same bidding without the hands finite choice of suits, a choice that containing the slam, that is, if South asks partner to stand ashig. had not held the ace of diamonds

and the king of spades, the slam

TO-DAY'S QUESTION

East

was impossible. Asking bids seem Question: The bidding has been to be the most likely method of as follows:- reaching the slam with greater cer- South tainty of its being made, but we 1 heart are uncertain of how these bids

could have been circumstances...

used under the

"Will you please advise the cor rect method of reaching the slam,

West

North Pass 2 hearts What should East bid with. SAKT, H-§ 58, D-K

J1052 C-13 Answer: East should bid the diamonds.

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