1938-04-05 — Page 22

Gracie Fields-

And

Sandy Powell

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1938.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 pin-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m. Joseph Hislop (Tenor) with

De Groot & His Orchestra.

1. p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wes-

ther Report

1.03 pm Debroy Somers Band. 1.80 p.m.--Be-ter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.40 pm-Botary Tillin Speech relayed from the Roof Garden of the Hour Kong Hotel. Speaker: Izmes Smith Esq., Sabject. "Locomotive improve- ments."

15 p.m.-Close down.

6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. -7 pm.--Dance Music.

7.31 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.33 p.m.--Variety.

Orchestra-Home And Beauty Se

lection. Adelphi Theatre Orches- tra, conducted by Francis Collinson. Orchestra Summer Breezes (R. King); Daddy Long Legs (K A Wright)

The Bohemians. Organ Solo-When I Heard The Or-

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ZBW 356 M. 845 k.en : : : : ZDK 640 k.c's

Local Time

Report and

feather) prano).

8.03 pm-Songs by Richard Tauber

Once There Lised A Lady Fair (From

Lov

Ever More From

(Denza

Song (EL Mever Hel

8.15 pm--London Relay Empire Ga- zette-1. A topical review of events! overseas. Edited by James Gilroy assisted by Kenneth Baily Present- ed by Pascoe Thornton.

8.45 p.m.-Studio-A Recital by Nura Kanis (Piano) Russian Programme

Fairy Tale Op. 3-Medtner).

2. Pastorale (Ladow).

3. Prelude No. 12 (Rachmaninoff). 4. Valse (Arenak).

5. Fairy Tale Up. 26 (Medtner). 6. Prelude (Arensky). 9.05 p.m.-J. H. Squire Celeste Octet.

Phantom Minnet (Hope).

Souvenir (Droia, am. Willoughby). The Weading Of The Rose (Jessel,

Br. Willoughby).

p.m.-Studio-A talk by Sir Henry Pollock on the Work of The Salva-

gan Play (J. G. Gilbert); Don't Forget The Old Folks (Noel & Pelosi)... Quertin M. Maclean (Organ) vocalists: Les Allen and Quartette. Orchestra-Double Or Nothing-19.15

Film Selection; Mr. Dodd Takes The Air-Film Selection........ Carroll. tion Army. Gibbons (Piano) and His Boy 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News,

19.50 pm-Songs by Eva Turner (Se-

By ELY CULBERTSON

Friends.

BRIDGE NOTES

The New Laws Of Duplicate

such a bid, and any player so using any such bid is liable to disqualification.

Both the British Bridge LeaguéĮ and the Duplicate Control Board decided last year to adopt, the} American laws of duplicate bridge. Except for an opening forcing The Control Board has now pro-bid, then, a player may disobey his mulgated the code in official form announced system to any extent he ("The Laws of Duplicate Contract chooses. He will probably, incur the Bridge," published by the "British wrath of his partner, but he in- Bridge World,” price 3s. 6d), but fringes no right of his opponents. the British Bridge League has to That, so far as the Control Board: wait on the International Bridge has jurisdiction, is now the position. League, to which it is affiliated, and in this country. It will be interest- which is preparing a simplified ver-ing to see how the forthcoming in- sion of the American code.

ternational code handles the matter. SCORING RULES The scoring rules laid down the Anglo-American laws are:

This international version is ex-l pected to be promulgated shortly, and then practical uniformity, it is hoped, will have been achieved., In the meantime, while contest organis- ed by bodies under the Control Board throughout the British Isles are being played under the Anglo- American laws, the British Bridge League contests are still governed by the League's own code.

Com-

A POINT OF ETHICS The new laws, which are prehensive and the fruit of much labour and long experience in the United States, are quite definite on the point raised in the protest dur- ing the Anglo-Austrian match in London. One of the Austrians, . it will be remembered, passed his part- ner's opening forcing conventional bid of One Club, and a protest was made on the ground that this was unethical. The referee's ruling,

in

0 Lovely Night (Sir Landon Ronald), Good Bye (F. Pačilo Tosti).

G.MT.S

Recital by Nurs

Kanis From The Studio

6.00 a.m.-Big Ben Palace of Varie-

ties."

7.00 am-Empire Exchange.' Points

of view by travellers from the Do". minions and the Colonies.

8.00 a..

10 pm London Belay All Kinds of

People'-7. Milestones in an Air..15 am.-Recital of Traditional Scot- man's Life. A talk by Wing-Com-

tish Songs. mander S. L. G. Pope, D.F.C., A.F.C. 1-30 am-Scottish Dance Music. |10.15 p.m.-Gracie Fields & Sandy 7-50 a.m.-The News and Announce-

Powel

ments. Greenwich Time Signal at What The Stars Foretell (Humorous

Sketch)

Sandy Powell. Gracie's And Sandy's Party

Gracie Fields & Sandy Powell-en- tertain: Charlie Kunz, Reginald Dixon, Larry Adler, Joe Petary sen, Jay Wibur, Primo Scale. The Photograph Of Mother's Wed-

&

8.15 am Close Downy

TRANSMISSION

Frequencies~-~~-

GSJ 2358 Mc/s (13.38 m.) GSH 2147 Mc/s (13.97 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s. (16.86 m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m).

Orchestra.

ding Group (Hargreaves & Dame-10.45 am-Big Ben The BBC Welsh rell)

Gracie Fields. 10.30 p.m.-Half An Hour Of Dance 11.15 am-Henry Irving:

[II

Music

Fox-Trots

Lambeth Walk (Bose, Farber &

Gay).

Me And My Girl (Furber & Gay).

Ronnie Munro & His Orchestra with vocal refrais. You've Gotta Take Your Pick And

Swing (From "Let's make night of it).

When My Heart Says Sing (rom

Let's make a night of it).

Ronnie Munro & Efis Orchestra with vocal refrain. Tango Fox Troti City Of A Million Dreams (Halmes-Harper-Forres- ter-Nicholls). ·· Waltz-Viennese Romance (May-De Rance).....Jack Wilson And His Versatile Five:

Fox-Trot Glamour Giri (Strauss

Dale). One-Step Amazon Goes A-Wooing (Sid Phillips)...Jack Harris And His Orchestra, Fox-Trots-True Confession (Brom the film); Please Remember (Den by & Watson).. Carroli Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. p.m.-Close down BROADCAST FROM

DAVENTRY TRANSMISSION I

Frequencies

GBG 17.79 Me/s (1686 m GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76

GSD 1175 Mc/s (25.53 m.) GSB 9.51 mc/s (3155)

Man and Player.' A feature programmans in commemoration of the great actor's centenary.

1145 am-The Cedric Sharpe Sex-

tet.

12.15 p.m.-Empire Gazette-1 A to-

pical review of events overseas. |1245 pm--Orchestral Music.

12.55 pm. Phyllis Scott and John

Borke in Old Time Songs.* 1:30 pm-The News and Announce- 115 pm-Orchestral Music.

Greenwich Time Signal at

ments.

1:45. pan

155 pm-Close Down.

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies

GSH ZLAT Mc/s (18.97 m.) GSG 1779 Mc/s (16.86 m) GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.) 155 p.m.-Opening Announcements.

GSJ (to 3.30 p.) 21:53 He/s 200 p.m.Big Ben All Kinds of People lestones in an Aiman's Life A talk by Wing Commander S. LG-Pope, D.F.C., AE.C. Dawson, from St. Margaret's, West- 215 p.m Organ Recital by Herbert

minster.

245 p.m.-Courtney Hope, in Charac-

ter Studies from Life.

3.00 pm The Torquay Municipal Or-

chestra

4.00 pm-The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at

4.15 p.za.

120 p.m.-Round and -About.” The Music of the Karens, by San Po Thin (Burmese Tenor).

4.30 p.m.-The Melody is There' 5:00 pm-Close Down,

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE ORIENTAL "Broadway

Part-score bonus for both aggre- gate and match-point scoring is- 50 points (the British Bridge. League doubles part-scores).

AT THE STAR “ELL Tide." Penalties in less-than-slam con-well and Bobert Taylor co-starred and South Seas romance in glorious tech-

Melody of 1938 With Deanor Po- Robert Louis Stevenson's greates tracts are limited in aggregate with its giant cast including such cele colour Three men and a woman, scoring. for pairs contests to 600 brities of the stage, screen and radio caught in the ebb-tide of hope and

world as when the defenders are not vulner-Barnes, Buddy Ebsen, Sophie Tacker drama ever filmed. With Oscar Ho- George Murphy, Binnie pride, live through the most amazing able and to 900 when they are and Judy Garland, Roy Del Ruth who molica, Frances Farmer, Ray Millánd vulnerable (B.B.L Code 600 and was behind the making of such earlier and Lloyd Nolan. 800.

musical films hits as "Broadway Me

Born To Dance," directed the film. Jody of 1936,

6. "Gold-diggers

and

*

"AT THE ALHAMBRA “Kid Gala- -With Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humprey Bogart, Wayne

*

When a less-than-siam contract is made the winners

may not score more than 800 if they are AT THE QUEEN'S The Go-Get non-vulnerable or 1,000 valmerter Cappy Ricks is back again, more Morris and Jane Bryan A gripping able (B.B.L. Code: the same).

cantankerous and efficient than ever drama that has as its theme that every until he meets a lad who defies him woman has the right to make a fool-of- Honours are counted in aggre-with George Brent, Anita Louise, herself over a man once. gate scoring, but not in match-Charles Winninger, John Eldredge, point scoring (B.B.L. Code: hon-Henry O'Neill, Joseph Crehan, Gordon

Oliver and Eddie Acuk.

AT THE MAJESTIC "Shave Ship." ours always scored).

-Warner Baxter, * *

Wallace Beefy, Elizabeth Allen, Mickey Booney, AT THE KING'S "The Awful George Sanders, Jane Darwell and which aroused much controversy, laws of duplicate and the laws of Lene Duse and Cary Grant Joseph Schildkraut in a tense, thrill- was that a convention was 20 201

give the best displays of their career. packed drama of the last slaver to sail nounced arrangement between part-rubber bridge is in regard to con- Must not be missed

the seas: ners, and not an undertaking to left-hand opponent of the offender. donation of an improper call by the opponents that the convention This he does by accepting it as 2

would invariably be adhered to.

says:

CONDONATION PROCEDURE The main difference between the

In the "General Regulations" go-can be no condonation after atten- proper call. In rubber bridge there erning conventions, the American tion has been called to the irregular- ity. In duplicate the left-hand op- A player is at liberty to make ponent may decide to condone even any legal call or play he chooses,if attention has been called. despite any announcement of If immediately after making an practice employed by his partner-insufficient bid or a misnomer (a ship, provided that no departure slip of the tongue) a player tries from the announced practice de to correct his call, the left-hand op pands upon a private understand ponent may condone the correction. ing between the partners.

If he does not condone, but announ- This law is modified by the forces his intention to penalise, the lowing addition made by the Con-offender may now make any proper

bid he chooses, and is bound ather by his first call nor by its

trol Board

It shall be illegal to make convencional ope

on a holding which does not justify cedure.

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