1938-11-22 — Page 26

Contralto, Violoncello & Piano From Studio

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 22, 1938.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of a Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Turner Layton (Vocal). at

the Piano.

Was It Rain? (Handman). Sophisticated Lady (Carmichael). Solitude (de Lange & Mills). 12.40 p.m.--Harry Roy & His Orches

tra.

Harry Roy Stage Show.

Six-Eight Medley-Intro: Valencia; Ca C'est Paris; Picador; Barce lona; Rio de Janeiro; Casabianca.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Tangos.

El Que A Hierro Mata (Pelay). Siempre Unidos (Romero).

Orquesta Tipica Francisco Ca- naro with vocal refrain.

Monika (Kotscher).

Cara Mari (Zalden).

Barnabas Von Geczy & His Orchestra.

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

6m-Relay of the Dance Orchestray from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel,

(a) Kalda' Heaven of the Seven (c) After Seas; (b) Bob White;

You've gono; (d) Let that be a los- son to you.

6.14 p.m. Record: La Java Du Rataka Mazurka (Van Herck); Serenata Mediobale (Silvestri).....Prof. Giu- seppe Gargano (Mandoline) with Plano.

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Good Morrow, Pretty Maids....Cho-

rus and Short Solos.

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For The Morrlest Fellows Are We

..R. Walker and Chorus.

See, See, At Last They Come

S. Gordon, D. Oldham, G. Baker and Chorus,

We're Cabled Gondolieri...

Derek

Oldham, George Baker and Chorus. Are You Peeping?....S. Gordon, B. Elburg, D. Oldham, G. Baker, W. Lawson, A. Davis and Chorus.

6.21 p.m-(a) Sweet as a song; (b)[7-27 p.m.-Barnabas von Geczy & His

Don't be that way; (c) Star-Dust; (d) Oh! Boom.

6.35, p.m.-Records: On The Beach Of Waikiki (Kailimai); Hilo Hanakahi (Haiekalea) ............ Waikiki Stone-Wall Boys.

Many Happy Returns Of The Day Eddie Peabody playing (Burke)... Announce-

1.15 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,

Weather Forecast and

ments.

1.30 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots Twelfth Street Rag; Aw- ful Sad....Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.

Cuban Dance--La Comparsa. Rumba Bellita.....Don Barreto &

His Cuban Orchestra. 1.40 p.m.-Relay of the Rotary Tiffin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. Speaker: Prof. Subject: M.A. R. K. Simpson, "Chesterfield”. 2.15 p.m.-Close down.

his Banjo, Guitar, Mandoline & Man- do-Cello with own vocal refrain and Piano.

6.44 p.m.-(a) Music Maestro please; (b) Sweet Sue; (c) Moments like this; (d) Twilight in Turkey.

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7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.-Excerpts from Gilbert and

Sullivan's "The Gondoliera”.

The Light Opera Or. Overture...

chestra under the direction of R. D'Oyly Carte.

List and Learn....Sybil Gordon and

Chorus.

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Orchestra. Adua-March (Olivieri); Black Or-

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Ragamuffin (Richartz); (Rixner); Pony (Rixner); Puszta (Mihaly); Forget It, And Smile (film 'Ich war Jack Mortimer').- 7.48 p.m.-Raie Da Costa (Piano).

"Four Aces" Suite (Billy Mayerl)

1. Ace of Clubs,

2. Ace of Diamonds.

3. Ace of Hearts..

4. Ace of Spades...

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03. p.m.-London Relay~'Arry And,

Liza' in Cockney campos. 8.15 p.m.-London Relay The Eliza. A programme bethan At Home'. dedicated to the man in the street in Shakespeare's time. Written and arranged by Desmond Hawkins. Produced by John Richmond. 8.40 p.m. ---- Studio Mollie Mennie (Contralto), Ettore Pellegatti ('Cel- lo) and E. O'Neil Shaw (Piano). 1. Softly awakes my heart (from 'Samson & Delilah'Saint-Saens). Mollie Mennie (Contralto)

at the with E. O'Neil Shaw Piano and Cello obligato by Et- tore Pellegatti.

2. Two 'Cello Solos by Ettore Pelle-

gatti.

3. (a) June (Quilter); (b) Now] Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Quil- ter)...

Mollie Mennie (Contral- to) with E. O'Neil Shaw at the Plano.

- Hugh The Drove Romantic Ballad Relay

4. Mattmisata (Tosti)

Mollie

Mennie (Contralto) with Cello obligato by Ettore Pellegatti and E. O'Neil Shaw at the Piano. 9.10 p.m.London Symphony Orches

tra:

Potite Suito De Concert (Coleridge- Taylor)...conducted by Dr. Mal- colm Sargent.

Woodland Interlude (from "Caracta- cus' Op. 35- Elgar); Dream Children, Op. 48, No. 1 (Edgar)............ conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News, 9.50 p.m.--Cortot at the Piang

"Rigoletto"-Paraphrase. De Concert

(Verdi-Liszt).

"Hugh the Drover" or 'Love In The Stocks', A . romantic ballad opera in two acts. Libretto by Harold Child. Music by R. Vaughan Williams,

10 p.m.-London · Relay

Act 2

Cast: The Constable, Samuel Wor- thington; Mary (his daughter), Rose Alpar; Aunt Jane (his sis ter), Gladys Palmer; John the Butcher (betrothed to Mary), Redvers Llewellyn; Hugh the Dro- ver, Webster Booth; Turnkey, Powell Lloyd; Sergeant, John Har- greaves; Chormis of inhabitants of the town and soldiers; The B.B.C. Chorus; The B.B.C. Theatre Or- chestra; Leader, Tate Gilder; Con- ductor, Stanford Robinson. Place: A small town in the Cotswolds

about 1812.

Scene: A street in the town, 4 a.m.

on Tuesday, May 1.- Narration written by Wilfrid Rooke Ley. Spoken by Kaye Seeley. Production by Stanford Robinson In collaboration with Gordon McCon- Charles nel, Rex Haworth, and Groves.

10.50 p.m.-Orchestral.

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A Trumpet Voluntary for Brass and Organ (Purcell-arr. Sir H. J. Wood); Solemn Melody for Organ and Orchestra (Sir Walford Da- vies)....Sir Hamilton Harty con- ducting the Halle Orchestra with Clyde Twelvetrees ('Cello) and Harold Dawber (Organ). p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

"Prison AT THE ALHAMBRA Farm", with Shirley Ross and Lloyd behind Nolan-The shocking truth America's most hated institution.

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AT THE KING'S "Rich Man, Poor Girl”, wit' Robert Young Lew Ayres and Ruth Hussey. The season's gay- est romance from the great Broadway hit.

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David F. Brinegar of Phoenix, Jed by the Ace of clubs were the Arizona, sends us the following next two plays, and when West letter: "Here is an interesting showed out, Declarer realised that at it would be necessary to execute a Bridge hand

AT THE ORIENTAL "Goldwyn It coup in order to capture East's least I think so.

AT THE QUEEN'S “Professor Be and ware with: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Lionel was played by Joseph guarded ten. Dummy's Ace

the stage, screen, radio dance H. Little, postmaster King of diamonds were next cash-Follies." The greatest entertainers of at Glendale, Ariz., ed and a small diamond ruffed by grand opera put on the greatest show Welch, Raymond Walburn, Mrs. Brinegar, Mrs. Declarer. At the ninth trick De-the screen has ever shown, in Samuel Stander and Sterling Holloway. One Little and myself, clarer led a spade to dummy, Dum Goldwyn's glorious technicolour screen of the rare appearances of the horned-

the my's two remaining diamonds were musicale. The cast includes Adolphe rimmed bespectacled comedian.

Menjou, the Ritz Bros., Zorina. Kenny comedy with a laugh every minute. copyreader on

Ella Logan, Robby Clark,

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"Swing Your forced to trump, Declarer of course Jerome Cowan, the American Ballets,

AT THE STAR overtrumping and winning all the Edgar Bergen and "Charlie McCarthy

Lady". The highly hilarious romance of a black-smith belle and the dumbest tricks.

"I think Declarer's strategy já

AT THE MAJESTIC “My Dear wrestler that ever grunted on sew- and sound. When the Miss Aldrich.” obvious

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