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"Christmas Picture Book" Relayed From London

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER, 24, 1988.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Rolay of a Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Albert Sändler & His Or

chestra and Richard Taubor (Tenor). Halfway To Heaven (Alm "The Street Singer'); If You Only Knew (from 'Crest of the Wave')... Albert Sandler & His Orchestra. I Know Of Two Bright Eyes (Clut- sam).....Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Orchestra cond. by G. Walter.] · Waltzes From Theatre-Land.......Albert

Sandler & His Orchestra. Foar Nothing (Operetta "Pagani- ni"); The Old Tree (Napier-Tau- ber)............Richard Tauber with Or- chestra cond. by G. Walter. Roumanian Gipsy Darice (de Mau- rizi); Around The Danube (Para- phrase on "Waves of the Danube” Charrosin)........Albert Sandler & His Orchestra.

p.m.-Local Time Signal und Wea- ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-The Mills Brothers and Billy

Mayerl.

Have You Forgotten? (Suesse)...

Billy Mayer! (Piano). London Rhythm (Williams, Addi-

Solitude son);

(Ellington, De Lange, Mills).. The Mills Bro-. thers (Four Boys and a Guitar). Limehouse Blues (Braham-trans. Mayeri); Orange Blossoms (Ma- yerl)....Billy Mayerl (Piano).

Sleepy Head (film 'Operator 13'); Put On Your Old. Grey Bonnet (Murphy-Wenrich). The Mills Brothers (Four Boys and a Gui- tar).

Jasmine (Mayeri); Sweet Nothings (Rettenberg)... Billy Mayerl (Piano).

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

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

1.40 p.m.-Selections from "The Bohe- mian Girl", "Duchess of Dantzig" etc.

"The Bohemian Girl"-Vocal Gemis (Balfe)....Light Opera Company. "The Damask Rose"-Selection (Cho-

pin themes adapted Clutsam). Court Symphony Orchestra. "Dutchess of Dantzig"-Vocal Gems|

(Caryll)....Light Opera Company. "The Maid Of The Mountains (Fra- ser-Simson)....Light Opera Com-

pany.

12.15 p.m.—Close down.

6 p.m-Studio-Special

ren's Hour.

Xmas Child-

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.-Charlie Kunz (Piano) and

The Street Singer.

When The Poppies Bloom Again

(Pelosi)

The Street Singer with Instrumental Accomp

Piano Medley No. R. 19. Intro: Lost;: The Glory of Love; Is It True What They Say About Dixie?; Sweetheart lot's

to- grow old gether; Lovely Lady; At the close of a long, long day...

Charlie

Accordion and Celeste Accomp. Piano Medley No. R. 16. Intro: Rose Mario; Indian Love Call; The Girl Friend; Tea for Two; Why do I Love You?; I Want to be Happy ...Charlie Kunz with Rhythm

accomp.

The

Old Sailor (Kennedy); Serenade In

The Night. (Cherubini) Street Singer with Instrumental Accomp.

Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 18.. Intro: Please be kind; The] down and out blues; Cry, Baby, Cry; The sweetest

the song in World; The First Quarrel; Little Lady Make Believe

Charlie Kunz with Rhythm Accomp. 7.30 p.m. - London Relay

Yule Log'.

A

'London

7.40 p.m.--London Relay Tom Baw- cock's Eve'. A forgotten festival recalled at The Ship Inn, Mousehole. Tom Bawcock was a legendary char- acter who lived. at Mousehole and who, one year on the day before: Christmas Eve went to sea alone and made a fabulous catch. This

was made the.occasion of feast and the subject of a song. Though the cele- bration has died out, Mousehole re- mains a fishing billage, and -to- night you will hear songs and stories; of yesterday and to-day. Introduced by Bernard Fishwick. The pro- gramme produced by Pat Beech.

Kunz (Piano) with Rhythm 8, p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Accomp.

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-J. H. Squire Celeste Octet.

Lovely To Look At (film 'Roberta') The Street Singer with Violin,

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Burnstine, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken World's leading Team-of-Four; Inventors of the system that has

beaten every other system in existence.

INGENIOUS SLAM BIDDING

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACILS SYSTEM

Memories of Chopin (arr. Willough- by); Valse Bluette Air De Ballet (Drigo); Operatica (Famous Operatic Melodies

- arr. J. H.. Squire).

8.20 p.m.-London Relay-Paul Tem-

Xmas Children's Hour: "London Yule Log"

ham Forbes, Inspector Reid, Inspec- tor Hunter, Gerald Mitchell, Paul Temple, Tryce, and Steve. Produc- tion by Martyn C. Webster, 8,45 p.m.-A Programme of Latest

Variety Numbers.

Dance Orch.-I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart-Fox-Trot; The Meanest Thing You Ever Did Was Kiss Me Fox-Trot....Harry Roy & His Orchestra with vocal refrain,- Vocal-Quand On A Mal Aux Dents

(Mireille); C'Est Le Debut D'Une Aventure (Mireille)......Pila Et Tabet with Piano accomp. Dance Orch. Joseph! Joseph!-Fox-

Trot; Who'll Buy My Bublitchki'?~- -Fox-Trot.....Emery Deutsch & His Orchestra with vocal by Nan Wynn.

Piano-Rumba Acrobatique : (Azaro- la); Clownerie Swing (Azarola) ....Azarola.

Dance Orch.-A. Love Letter--Tan- go; A Farewell Letter-Tango..... Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra. Vocal-Cafe-Chantant (Wal-Berg); C'Est Dans Un Caboulot (Mare Lanjean).. Damia accomp. by Wal-Berg & His Orchestra. Dance Orch.-A Mug Of Ale-Fox- Trot; Four String Joe Quickstep ....Joe Venuti's Blue Four.

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

9.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches- tra from the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel.

:

10.15 p.m.-London_Relay-Christmas Picture Book'. Memories of Pan- tomime. Written and Produced by William Maclurg. Chorus and Or-. chestra under the "direction of Jack' Clarke.....

ple And The Front-Page Men'. A11 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orchestra serial thriller, by Francis Durbridge. from the Grill Room of the Hong Episode 8: The Front Page Men'. Characters: Mr. Goldie; a Clerk, The

Kong Hotel. Rev. Charles Hargreaves, Sir Gran-12 midnight.-Close down.

What's On At the

Cinemas

AT THE KING'S "Swiss Miss", ..... AT THE ALHAMBRA—“Non-Stop with Stan Laurel, Oliver. Hardy and New York." A swiftly paced tale of Della Lind. The two comedians at love and villainy 10,000 feet in air, their funniest. The background is that is packed with more hair-raising Switzerland where the pair get into thrills than any picture for months. dancing. trouble while skiing, yoddelling and With Anna Lee, John Loder, Desmond Tester, Frank Cellier and Francis Sul. livan.

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No method has so far been de- and Mr. Schenken felt quite proud vised to cover all Slam situations. of themselves for having bid it. Of

* * In particular, those course, if either East or West had

AT THE STAR-"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife."

* When a high spirited, but ro- been kind enough to stick in a dia- in which one player

mond overcall, they would

mantic young French girl discovers holds a

AT THE ORIENTAL—"The Crowd tremendous

have that her millionaire American hubby Roars". Robert Taylor and Maureen made things easier. But East and has tossed freak hand,

aside seven which

previous O'Sullivan together again in a fast West happened to stay out of the spouses, she sets out to show him a moving story of the prize-fighting ring. fits perfectly with bidding.

side of marriage he had not bargained Even better than "A Yank at Oxford." his partner's, re-

for. An Ernst Lubitsch production Let us consider the bidding, as a with Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper,

* *** quire ingenuity whole, The first three bids were David Niven, Edward Everett Horton,

ACE KING:.2 QUEEN 1 JACK...

TOTAL SELOR OFTACK SE AVERAGE HAND 5.7%

Contract.

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more than anything normal. Then when Mr. Jacoby bid Elizabeth Patterson and Herman Bing. ners".

AT THE QUEEN'S-"White Ban else in getting to the right final two clubs, Mr. Schenken was quite

Another powerful down-to- earth drama by the author of “Maggi- puzzled as to what to do, since he Poor Girl", with Robert Young, Lew With a brilliant cast headed by Claude AT THE MAJESTIC "Rich Man, ficent Obsession" and "Green Light", feared that perhaps his partner was Ayres and Ruth Hussey. The season's Rains,. Bonita Granville, Jackie Cooper making a fancy bid without clubs. gayest romance from the great Broad- and Fay Bainter in a role that puts hor His jump to four clubs, which was way hit.

"in line for the Academy Award of 1938..

Both sides vulnerable

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Oswald Jacoby

The bidding:

South West North

26.

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Pass

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Bince the opening lead could not

ruffed, boven was of course laydown. Nevertheless Mr. Jacoby

a forcing bid, at the same time al- lowed Mr. Jacoby to go out of clubs at the four-level. However, Mr. Jacoby surprised him by jumping to six clubs-a bid fully warranted by his fine hand. Now Mr. Schen- ken revalued his hand and said to himself: "Obviously my partner has a fine hand, as is shown by his jump to six. And yet he almost surely doesn't have the Ace of diamonds because if he had, he would pro- bably have shown it by bidding four diamonds over four clubs. There fore, if he hasn't the Ace of dia- monds, he ought to have both the other Aces and the King of clubs, which should be enough for seven." Hence Mr. Schenken contracted for the Grand Stamps

(Copyright, 1988, By The Four

Aces)

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