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Monologues in

Melody

Florence Oldham

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1988

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m. Danny Malone (Tenor) In

An Irish Programme. Sweetheart Darlin' (From 'Peg o' my

Heart').

Love's Roses (Broodles).

Danny Malone. The Green Groves Of Erin-Irish Reels. Intro:-The Ivy Leaf'.... William J. Mullaly (Concertina with piano accomp. by Edward Lee). Medley Of Reels. Intro:-"Teddy O'Neale' and "The Pretty Girl milk- ing her cow'..... Sean Nolan (Du- blin) (Violin with Piano).

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Noel Coward in Musical

Comedy.

Scene From "Red Peppers". Intro:-

Has anybody seen our ship ("To- night at 8.30"); Men about Town ("To-night at 8.30").....Gertrude Lawrence & Noel Coward acc. by The Phoenix Theatre Orch., Lon- Green- don. Conductor: Clifford wood. "Cavalcade"

Suite. Prologue Tunes of 1899 to 1910; Tunes of 1912 to 1930-Epilogue......Noel Coward and New Mayfair Orch. Parisian Pierrot...... Noel Coward acc. by The Phoenix Theatre Or- chestra, London. Conductor: Clif- ford Greenwood.

Scene From **Family Album"

("Here's a Toast"-"To-night 8.30" "The Musical Box."

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. (9.52 megacycles)

2.5 p.m.-Close down.

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6 p.m.-Schubert-Symphony No. 7 In]

the London C Major. Played by Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Leo Blech. 6.46 p.m.-Schubert Songs.

Aufenthalt.

Der Doppelganger

Alexander

Kipnis (Bass) Frank Bibb at the Piano.

Der Einsame, Op. 41......Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) piano accomp. by Gerald Moore.

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Sung ("Operette"-Noel Coward); Dearest Love ("Operette”—Nocl Coward). Orchestra-Gershwin Medley.

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tro: The Man I Love; Lady Be Good; Do, Do, Do; Someone to watch over me; Swance; That cer- tain feeling; Tell me more; Fas- cinating Rhythm.

Selection.

Relay from London of 2nd Cricket Test

tow.

Match:

Hotel Orchestra

The B.B.C. Theatre Chorus and the B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra

Gilder); (leader, Tate

Stanford Robinson.

6.40 a.m.-'London Log,'

6.50 a.m.-The News and

ments.

7 a.m.

7.15

•

a.m.

conductor,

Announce-

Greenwich Time Signal at

-Close down. TRANSMISSION 2

Frequencies

GSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.97 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.). GSF 15444 Mc/s (19.82 m.) 10.45 a.m.-Big Ben. "Take your Choice.' A weekly entertainment feature, presented by William Mac- Lurg.

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-New Mayfair Orchestra.

Milestones Of Melody. 7 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotations. "Venus In Silk"-Vocal 7.02 p.m.-A Variety Programme.

Intro:-A little Rendezvous; Eyes | Hawaiian Guitar Solo -- Bebe of Blue; Gypsy Violin; My Lover; D'Amour (Shelton and Brooks)... I'll hire a skiff; Queen of Creation; Serge Krotkoff with Guitar.

Just hello-then Goodbye......Or- Hawaiian Instrumental-Tango Delle chestra (Vocalists: Hella Toros &

Rose (Schreier & Bottero)...Serge Jan Van Der Gucht).. Krotkoff and His Hawaiians.

Dicky Bird Hop (Gourley). Piano Solo Charlie Kunz

Match: Piano 8.20 p.m.-London Relay-The Second Medley No. D.12.....Rhythm Ac-

Cricket Test Match England v. Aus- companiment.'

tralia.

Organ Solo-Teddy Bears'

The Beggar's Opera-Selection (Gay

-Austin).

Picnic 8.35 p.m.--Band Of H.M. Grenadier (Bratton); The Whistler and His

Guards: Dog (Pryor)......Reginald Foort at the B.B.C. Theatre Organ. Vocal-You're An Education (Dubin & Warren); Somebody's Thinking Of You To-night (Schuster, Symes & Powell).. .Elsie Carlisle with Orchestra.

The Smithy In The Wood (Michaelis). Winterbot- Villanelle (Dell'Acqua -

tom), Marche Militaire (Schubert-God-

frey).

Dance Orchestra-To-Night-Tango;

Zigeuner, You Have, Stolen My 8.55 p.m.-Studio-A Heart Tango.

talk on local "Lawn Bowls" by Claude Hosking.

Relay 'London

Vocal-Operette ("Operette"-Noel 9.05 p.m.-London

Coward); Countess Mitzi ("Operet- te"--Noel Coward)

at

In-

tro: Hearts & Flowers:-To- night at 8.30").

Massary acc. by His Majesty's

Theatre Orchestra, London, ducted by Ben Frankel.

con-

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

1.40 p.m.-Creatore's Band and Peter

Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

Mefistofele - Prologue (Bolto-arr.

Creatore).

Selections from Mefistofele (Bolto--| arr. Creatore)....Creatore's Band Director, Giuseppe Creatore.

Log'.

..Fritzi 9.15 p.m.-London Relay The Second Cricket Test Match England v. Aus- tralia.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News.

Male Quartet The Stately Homes 9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches- Of England ("Operette--N. Co- tra from the Grill Room of the Hong ward)....Hugh French, Ross Lan-!

Kong Hotel.

don, John Gatrell, Kenneth Garten 12 midnight.-Close down. acc. by His Majesty's Theatre Or- chestra, London, conducted by Ben Frankel.

Vocal-Where Are The Songs We

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces).

David Burnstine, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard. Schenken

BROADCAST FROM - DAVENTRY

TRANSMISSION 1

Frequencies

GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.) GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.) GSD 11.75 Mc/a (25.53 m:) GSB 9.51 Mc/s (31.55 m.) G.M.T.

11.30 a.m.-The Second Cricket Test

Match: England v. Australia. 11.40 a.m.-The Gershom Parkington

Quintet,

12.20 p.m.-The Second Cricket Test England v. Australia. A commentary on the closing overs be-

of fore lunch and a summary

the morning's play, by Howard Marshall. From Lord's Cricket Ground, London. 12.35 p.m.-The B.B.C. Theatre Organ. 1.05 p.m.-London Log.'

1.15 p.m.-The Second Cricket Test

Match: England v. Australia. 1.30 p.m.--The News and Announce- ments. Greenwich Time Signal at

1.45 p.m. 1.50 p.m.-End of Transmission 2.

TRANSMISSION 3

Frequencies

GSJ 21.53 Mc/s (13.93 m.) GSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.97 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.)

2

GSO 15.18 Mc/s (19.76 m.) p.m.-Big Ben. Monologues in Me- lody,' with Florence Oldham at the Pianoforte.

Mr.

2.15 p.m.-'At the Black Dog.'

Wilkes at home in his own bar-par- lour.

2.45 p.m.--Polo: The Champion-Cup. A.

commentary on the last three chuk- kas, by Major G. Phipps-Hornby. From Hurlingham.

3.15 p.m.-Banjo Music.

3.25 p.m.-Fred Hartley and his Sex-

tet, with Billy Scott-Coomber.

4 p.m.-The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 4.15 p.m. 4.30 p.m.-The Second Cricket Test

Match: England v. Australia. 4.40 p.m.-Dance Music. Billy Ternent and his Sweet Rhythm Orchestra. p.m.-Montague Brearley and his Orchestra.

5 a.m.-Big Ben. At the Black Dog."

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-15 parlour.

5.30 a.m.-Trumpet Solos.

5.25 p.m.--The Second Cricket

Match: England v. Australia. tha,' an opera by Friedrich von Flo-15.40 p.m.-Close down.

5.40 a.m.-An hour's music from 'Mar-

Test

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has What's On At the Cinemas

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACKS SYSTEM

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beaten every other system in existence.

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THE THREE OF CLUBS

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AT THE ORIENTAL-"Gold Is AT THE QUEEN'S "Tip Off Girls", Where You Find It."-Sweeping spec-1 with Lloyd Nolan and Mary Carlisle. tacle, boisterous comedy and epic The sensational exposure of America's George Lerner of New, and the two black aces were availa-thrills in a mighty drama of early latest woman racket, Rochelle, a correspondent to whom ble, so unless West held the spade technicolour.

California, filmed entirely in the new

With George Brent, AT THE ALHAMBRA—“Sinners In we are very grateful for some very King, the hand was cold. Not Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Paradise", with John Boles, Madge interesting hands, only could East see this but also Margaret Lindsay, Barton MacLane, Evans and Bruce Cabot Seven people presents us with an-that dummy's .club deuce John Litel and Tim Holt.

aboard a trans-pacific liner and includ other. Mr. Lerner would squeeze West out of either

ing a dissatified wife, a nurse, a gang- writes: "I am enclos-his guard to the spade King or the AT THE KING'S "Dreaming Lips", ster, munitions magnates and a politi- manner they forced to ACE...

ing a rather peculiar Club Queen." Fortunately for-Elizabeth Bergner starred in a Tra- can and the

the KING..2 hand wherein the West, Declarer would have to dis- Raymond Massey, Romney Brent and picture worth seeing. There are kill-

falgar Films production, supported by live together on a island, makes QUEEN 1 'three of clubs perse card before him on dummy's, long Donald Calthorpe.

ings, and a sea fight together with the JACK...· in arrant Yar- suits.

usual romance in the end. Therefore, if Declarer

*: * borough was worth threw all his clubs, West would do all of 2,840 points: likewise.

AT THE MAJESTIC "Farewell AT THE STAR "Parnell”, with So to make a long tale Again", with Leslie Banks and Flora Clark Cable and Myrna Loy. The ac- short, East feebly signalled with Robson. A true story based on newspa- count of a courageous man who sur- the club. four, promptly discarded per accounts. A picture rich in human renders fame and fortune and power low spades, and at the eleventh

interest and woven round a home-com-for, the woman he loves. Primarily a ing battalion who are ordered abroad narrative of Ireland, it is let interna- trick West was able to discard the again a short while after their arrival. tional in scope. Queen of clubs after Declarer had thrown the club Jack, and South was through."

AVERAGE HAND & FİL

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South, Dealer North and South vulnerable

▲ 10

AKJ 10 9 Ó K Q J 7 2 ♣ A 2

K 6 5

9 8 4 3

♡ 8 7 0 9.8

KQ 98

7 6

A Q

7.2

Ở A 10.6

♣ J 10. 6.

The bidding:

Bouth West North East

Pase Pass 40

Pass

· Paso,

Pass Pa88 Pass 7NT

Pass Page Pass

While the double was unwise and seven diamonds a much safer con- tract, West opened, the King of clubs and East saved the day. Ob viously ten tricks in the red suits

West was certainly lucky! In the first place, North was inex- cusably wrong for not bidding the grand slam in diamonds and West was fortunate indeed to have a par- tner so alert that he realised from the opening going that a squeeze would duvelop. Just suppose East, had carelessly discarded. the "useless" three of clubs. Declarer would have wound up by either dropping the King of spades or winning the needed extra trick with the deuce of clubs.: Finally, if dummy's holding had been the Ace, four of clubs and East had held the two lowest cards in the suit, there would have been no escape.

(Copyright, By The Four Aces)

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