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Dancing Down The Agul: Studio Item

18-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 18, 1988,

Today's Wireless

tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 18.80 p.m.-New Light Symphony Or

chestra and John McCormack (Tenor)."

Poet And Peasant-Overture (Sup- po)....Now Light Symphony Orch. Green Isle Of Erin (Bingham-Roec-

kel)....John McCormick with Or- chestra cond. by Lawrance Col- lingwood.

Irish Rhapsody (Herbert)..

.New

Light Symphony Orchestra. In Sweet Content (Macülermaid-San- derson)..........John - McCormack with Piano accomp. by Percy Kahn. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (Foster)....‚John McCormack with Piano accomp. by Edwin Schneider. Irish Washerwoman (arr. Sowerby)

New Light Symphony Orch.

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

ther Report.

p.m.-Reginald Dixon at

1.03

Organ.

the

Naughty Marietta-Film Selection}

(V. Herbert). Mississippi- Filmi

Rodgers).

Selection

(R.

Dixon Hits No. 2. Intro: Call me. Sweetheart; When I grow too old to Dream; Rehearsing a Lullaby; In a little Gypsy Tea Room; Me and the Old Folks at home; The Oregon Trail....with Vocal Chorus. 1.15 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,

Weather Forecast and

Announce- ments.

++

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

| 1:30, p.m.--Dance Music.

Fox-Trota—Tho Skeleton In The Cupboard (film Penhles from Heaven'); Pennies From Heaven! (from the film).......... .Teddy Foster

"Top Hat'-Selection (Irving Berlin) .....Georgo Scott-Wood (Piano-Ac- cordion) asst. by Guitar, Bass & Drums,

tes; (b) Mocking Bird; (c) Hillbilly for 10th Avenue; (d) Big Chief 'Swing It'.

& His Kings Of Swing with vocal 6,44 p.m.--(a) Modley of Old Favour refrald by Teddy Foster. Waltz Follow Your Heart (from the film); Fox-Trpt Magnolias In The Moonlight (from Follow Your Heart)......Ted Flo Rito & His Orchestra with vocal chorus by Stanley Hickman.

1.40 p.m. Relay of the Rotary Timlin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. Speaker: Father G. Byrne, 8.J. Subject: "The Sur- geons Growing Pains. 2.15 p.m.-Close down,

p.m.Belay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.

(a) Who are we to say; (b) Smarty; (c) Serenade to the Stars; (d) After

you.

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations.

7.02 p.m.-Military Band Selections.

May-Day Revels (from Suite: 'Rural Scenes in Days of Old-Cope).. Massed Bands cond. by Samuel Cope.

'Champion' March Medley (Ord

London Relays: Compositions

Of Mendelssohn

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal; Weather

Report and Announcements.

8:03 p.m.---Songs by Grance Moore

(Soprano).

Musetta's Waltz Song ("La Boheme" -Puccini); Funiculi, Cunicula (Denza); The Dubarry (from the Operetta) (Rowland Leigh-Millo ker, arr. Mackeben); I Give My Heart (from the Operetta "Tho Dubarry'). with Oriental ne- companiment,

8.15 p.m.-London_Relay-Behind_The Door' by J. S. N, Sowell and J. R. Maguean. Characters: Horace Un- derwood, Patrick O'Neill, Donald Craig, Peter Martin. Scene: Tho unoccupied home of the Forresters, Production by Howard Rose.

8.40 p.m.-Dancing Down the Ages'. Dances of different perioda and na- tions. Compered from the Studio.

Hume). Massed Bands cond. by 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. J. Henry Hes.

Aldershot Command Searchlight Tat-9.50 p.m.-Compositions of Mendelssohn

too, 1935....Massed Bands of the Aldershot Command.

6.14 p.m.-Record: Sylvia Ballet-Fan-17.25

tasy (Delibes); *Musica Proibita (Gastaldon).....Marcel Palotti (Or-

gan).

6.21 p.m.-(a) Gone with the wind; (b) Caravan; (c) Penthouse on 3rd Avenue; (d) Runnin' Wild.

6.35 p.m-Records: To-morrow Is An- other Day (film A Day at the Races'); I Was Anything But Senti- mental (film "Take My Tip') ..... Car- roll Gibbons (Piano), & His Boy 'Friends.

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

“David · Burnstine, Merwin D: Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has

beaten every other system in existence..

TOP SCORE OR ZERO

This year the hands in thei

Of the sixty pairs in the event, Masters' Pair Championship seem- ed to contain a great many Slams, approximately one-third arrived at As usual there was a mad scramble seven spades, which was of course

to play these Slam

per

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

TOTAL VALUE OF PACKLES

AVERAGE HAND 81%

!

p.m.-Gitta Alpar (Soprano) and Joseph Schmidt (Tenor). L'Ariatella-Neapolitan Song (Bis-

cardi); La Danza (Rossini) Joseph Schmidt with Orchestra. Twilight Sonata (from 'Home And Beauty'); Play It Again (Hun- garian Song from 'Home and Beau- ty).......Gitta Alvar accomp. by two pianos and violin.

Gynay Love (Lehar-Willner-Bodan- zky)....Joseph Schmidt with Orch. Vienna Bonbons Waltz Song

(Strauss-Bodenstedt).

7.44-p.mConcert Waltzes.

April Smiles Waltz (Depret); Spring Waltz (Lincke),. Vienna Boheme Orchestra, Gypsy Waltz (Composer Unknown)

.Russian Novelty. Orchestra. Hydropathen Waltz (Gung!); Wolga, Wolga! (Russian Waltz Potpourri -Walter Noack). Vienria Bo- hème Orchestra.

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including Trio in D Minor".

Fingal's Cave-Overture

by Rudolph Ganz.

St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra cond.

O Woodlands Far..

Richard Tay-

ber (Tenor) with Orchestra. ⠀ Trio In D Minor, Op. 49....Cortot,

Thibaud and Casals.

On Wings of Song....

.Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) with Orches- tra cond. by L. Rosenek. Spring Song....Columbia Symphony

Orchestra,

A May Breeze (from 'Songs without words')....Fritz Kreisler (Violin) with Plano accomp. by Arpad Sandor.

A Midsummer Night's Dream-Not- turne...... Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philhar monic Orchestra.

10.45 p.m.-London Relay-The_Mi- crophone At Large with S. P. §. Mais. Bridgnorth, Shropshire. A programme arrranged by · David Grotton.

11.15 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE MAJESTIC—“Marie, Wa AT THE MAJESTIC "The Devil lewska". Starring the Incomparable Dol," with Lionel Barrymore," Maureen Greta Garbo as Countess Walewska O'Sullivan and Frank Lawton. Barry- (Polish), and Charles Boyer as Nano-more portrays a vengeful man wha leon Bonaparte in a brilliantly glamor uses a secret method of shrinking ous drama of a woman who played a people to minute size without destroy pivotal role in the life of one of his- ing life.* tory's most famous figures.

* **

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AT THE ORIENTAL—Thorough- AT THE KING'S "Live, Love and breds Don't Cry" Drama storms The Learn." A gay bantering tale of love straight from the screen to your heart brings Robert Montgomery and Rosa-m the exciting story of two lind Russell to the screen again. kids one from a castle, and one Robert Benchley, adda, his special brand from the gutterwho come fighting of humour to the amusing plot and through. With Judy Garland, Mickey Helen Vinson is cast in another of her Rooney, Sophie Tucker, C. Aubrey highly-applauded "other woman" por-Smith, and Ronald Sinclair. trayals.

HIGH CARD VALUES hands for the great-down one. Only about ten est possible score, cent. arrived at the proper ACE 3 For example, a lay- "KING....2: down Slam in clubs tract of a seven clubs: QUEEN 1might be played in JACK.....' spades with no more

majority of players realised that than a fifty per cent. while they were pretty certain to chance of success merely because the make a Grand Slam in clubs, there latter suit would produce 60 addi- was at least a fair chance to do the tional points if the Slam were made. This happens so frequently same thing in spades, and they and we consider it such a weakness

were out after the higher score. of Duplicate that we should like to offer a suggest on: All Slam con- Oddly enough, the maximum tracts, regardless of rank of suit, receive the same score.

We feel score of seven notrump was bid that this should induce players to and made by at least six pairs. search for the right contract rather

than the maximum' score. Here is North was invariably Declarer, and a Slam that was frequently played in heart opening would immediately

at the wrong contract:

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable"

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The bidding:

Bouth-

7:4 ✅ 109,76

58 10988

3:10

AKJ 32

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North East

PAR Pass

give him his thirteenth trick

With any other opening West

would wind up in “.

器 squeeze.

North would run off nine tricks in

the minor suits and West would find it impossible to protect both his Queen of spades and King of

hearts,

Nevertheless, we still insist, that the proper dual contract is seven ¿lába.

(Copyright, 1988, By The Four

The Wax Museum Reissue of one of - AT THE ALHAMBRATM “Mystery Off

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