1939-01-05 — Page 26

Third Act Of Puccini's "La Tosca”

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 5, 1989..

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of a Service of In. tercession from St. John's Cathedral, 12.30 p.m.-Zarah Leander (Vocal) and Barnabas Von Geczy & His Orchest tra..

Adua--March (Olivieri)...........Barnabag

Von Goczy & His Orchestra.

Yes, Sir! (from German film 'To New Shores'); Longing (from German film 'To New Shores')......Zarah Leander with Orchestra (Sung in German),

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The Wind Has Told Me Story (Bruhne); Kiss-Sorenade (De Micheli).... Barnabas Von Geczy & His Orchestra. You are just like the others (Beck- mann); I am a voice (Schuwenn) Zarah Leander with Orchestra (Sung in German).

Monika Tango (Kotscher);

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Cara

Mari-Tango (Zalden).... Barna- bas Von Geczy & His Orchestra.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m. The Music of Ravel inclúd-

ing his "Bolaro".

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

Lansdowns Orchestra and Frances Day (Sop.).

"You're Looking For Romance I'm Looking For Love-Fox-Trot; Sun- set In Vienna-Fox-Trot (from "Vienna Sunset')......Brian Law- rance & His Lansdowne Orchestra with Vocal Chorus by Brian Law-

rance.

I Don't Want To Make History (film Palm Springs'); A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (film "The Great Ziegfeld'), .Frances Day (So- prano) with Orchestra.

Throwing Peanuts To The Moon-

Fox-Trot; Toodle-Oo Fox-Trot ....Brian Lawrance & His Lans- downe Orchestra with Vocal Cho- rus by Brian Lawrence.

2.05 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots Swingitis; Swing As It Comes..... Bert Firman's "Quintu- plets of Swing.

Frankie

Fox-Trot-Trumbology

Trumbauer & His Orchestra.

Alborada Del Gracioso (Extrait des

'Miroirs').....Orchestre Des Con-2.15 p.m.-Close down. certs Straram under the direction of Walther Strarum, Ondine ('Gaspard de la Nuit'-No.

1).....Walter Gieseking (Piano).

Bolero....The Lamoureux Orchestra of Paris cond, by Maurice Ravel.

and Rugby Press. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter

Weather Forecast

Announce- and ments.

6 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour.

1.45

p.m.-Brian

Lawrance & His

When I Learn French (Thomson)....

Greta Kellor with 'Orchestral ac- comp.

The Laugh Was On Me (Carter).......

Greta Keller with Fred Hartley & His Quintet and dialogue by Ar- chie Campbell.

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Medley Of Marches. Intro: Tin Can Fusiliers; Toy Town Parade; Toy

Z.B.W. Orchestra

In Concert

From Studio

1

Neapolitan Nights (A Medley of Italian Songs)...........Light Opera Company with Orch.

6. Ballet for Orchestra

(Francis

Popy): (a) Mazurka; (b) Piz- zicati; (c) Valac Lento; (d) Largo; (e) Galop.

At The 8.30 p.m.-London Relay

Black Dog'. Mr. Wilkes at home in- his own bar-parlour. Presented by S. E. Reynolds and Pascoe Thornton.

Drum Major; Toy Town Artillery:9 Colonel Bogey....Raie Da Costa (Piano) with effects.

Swance Moon (Towers & Pelosi).

Hawaiian Guitar Solo by Len FH- lis with Scott Wood at the Piano. So Many Memories (Harry Woods); Everything You Said Came True Turner (Friend & Franklin).

p.m.-The B.B.C. Wireless Military

Band.

Vanity Fair-Overture (Fletcher); Prairie Flower, March (Ord Hume); Lynwood, March (Ord Hume); Dance Of The Flowers- Valse (from 'Le Corsaire Ballet's Delibes) ...cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell.

Layton (Vocal), at the Piano. The Winter Waltz (Ager); Rosetta 9.15 p.m.-London Relay World Af-

(Woode).... Len Fillis & His Orch.

fairs'. A talk by A. P. Newton, D. Round A Gipsy Camp (Traditional-

Litt. arr. Mantovani) His Tipica Orch.

Mantovani &

9.30 p.m.-London Relay-Tho News. 7.40 p.m.-Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra. 9.50 p.m.-Fritz, Kreisler (Violin).

1. Overture "Raymond" (Ambroise. Caprice Viennois (Kreisler);

bourin Chinois (Kreisler)....with Piano accomp. by Franz Rupp.

Thomas).

Interval

Pretty Mocking Bird (Bishop).

Tam-

Mavis Bennett (Soprano) with 10 p.m.-Schubert-Moments Musicaux Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore: Played by Ethel Leginska (Piano). and Flute..

2. Mattinata Inutile (Bonelli).. 3. Intermezzo (Siede).

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations.

7.02 p.m.-Variety with Raie da Costa,

Len Fillis, Greta Keller, Turner Lay-]- ton & Mantovani's Tipica Orchestra. 8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Midnight In Paris-Quick Step (film 'Here's To Romance'); Here's To Romance-Slow Fox-Trot (from 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra.

the film)..

....Mantovani & His Ti- pica Orch, with Vocal Chorus.

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.

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Report and Announcements.

4. Valse "Yrelise" (Militello). 5. Casanova Suite (Becce).

Interval

10.23 p.m.-Puccini's "La Tosca" Act III. Sung by Giuseppe Bottini (Boy Soprano), Carmen Melis (Soprano), Piero Pauli (Tenor), Nello Palai Giovanni Assimonti (Tenor) and (Bass) with Chorus and - Orchestra of La Scala, Milan conducted by Carlo Sabajno,

11 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

The

AT THE MAJESTIC "Lancer Spy”. AT THE QUEEN'S "The Rat"- Now at last it has been told, the, With Rene Ray, Mary Clare, Beatrix greatest and most thrilling spy Lehmann and Felix Aylmer. romance of the Great War and the central character is an elusive jewel most extraordinary venture man ever crook who charms his feminine victims embarked on. With Dolores de Rio. and is thus able to keep out of prison. George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Virginia His exploits are dramatically portray- Field, Sig Rumann, Joseph Schildkraut and Lionel Atwill.

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ed, with the story's climax a sensation- al murder trail in which the "Rat," following his own code of honour, he did not pleads guilty to a crime commit.

AT THE KING'S "Sally, Irene and Mary". Stars enough, laughs, tunes and gags enough for any six ordinary

AT THE STAR "Wells Fargo".. musicales, plus a screenful of romance. and that extra zing and sparkle that The cavalcade of America's breathless We should like to have our rea- trumps were then drawn. A small always distinguisha Karyl Zanuck years winning the Golden West: Never- The cast includes to-be-forgotten scenes of thrilling ders put themselves in the position spade was then led and Declarer, super-musicale. of South to-day playing a contract with an uneasy feeling, put

Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Jimmy Du-action and burning romance. Starring Joan Davis, Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dec, rante, Gregory Ratoff, of six diamonds. dummy's Queen. East of course Marjorie Weaver, Louise Hovick, J. Lloyd Nolan, Henry O'Neill, Proter Then, since a single won with the Ace and now there Edward Bromberg and Fred Allen. Hall, Robert Cummings, Ralph Morgan: glance at the East was no way to escape losing another and West hands will spade trick. show clearly how to

HIGH CARD VALUES

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KING QUEEN 1 JACK...

make

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North, Dealer Neither side vulnerable

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and Mary Nash,

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"Woman

"Painted this contract, The salient point is East's two- AT THE ALHAMBRA cover them up so that club overcall of the opening spade Desert". With George O'Brien, Laraine AT THE ORIENTAL

A hilarious comedy Johnson, Ray Whitley, Stanley Fields, Chases Man.” will play the bid. Please note that West had Fred Kohler, Lee Shumway, William which casts. Miriam Hopkins as a girl hand without pre opened the Queen of clubs and V. Mong, Maude Allen, Lloyd Ingra-architect who chases a wealthy young judice. The bidding, which is of therefore East's club holding could ham, Max Wagner and Harry Cording, man to the ends of the earth to make vital importance, was evidently be no

better than King-Jack-ten. Aflame with the colour of the Western him sign a contract and finally man- frontier, George O'Brien's new starring ages to get his name on the contract overlooked by the South player who There were no high honours missing picture brings to the screen a gripping and a marriage licence,

With Joel actually played the hand. He was in either hearts or diamonds, and story of romance and treachery revol McCrea-playing opposite her, Ella Lo- set because he refused to take what thus the only high card that could ving around an immensely valuable gan, Leona Maricle, Erik Rhodes and

Broderick Crawford. seems to us the only play to make possibly justify East's overcall was tungsten mine. the contract.

the spade Ace. In our opinion the odds were at least 20 to 1 that East held this important card. Nowa- days very few players would make a two-club overcall on a suit headed by the King-Jack-ten with absolute- fly no other high cards." Thus there was only one chance for South to West make his contract—namely, would have to hold both the Jack and ten of spades, Declarer's only hope was to lead a small spade from his hand and finesse dummy's eigth- apot. If by some chance West made the mistake of splitting” hig, honodra, it would be a dead giveaway! and the other honour could be pick- ed up by a second finesse.

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10 9 7 2

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"The bidding:

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KJ 10 8

64

North

14 ENT

+

Bast South

West 20

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Pass Pass Pass

West opened the Queon of clubs. Dalam Ace won the trick and1

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