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Studio Piano

Recital By Doreen Ma

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1939,-

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In-

tercession from St. John's Cathedral.j 12.30 p.m.-Mendelssohn-Octet In E

Flat Major, Op. 20. International String Octet.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Sydney Kyte & His Picca-

dilly

and Elsie Hotel Orchestra

Carlisle. Queen Of Hearts-March (from the) film); We'll Rest At The End Of The Trail-Fox-Trot Sydney

(Hueston,

Kyte & His Piccadilly Hotel Band with Vocal Chorus. Conversation For Two

Emmerich); Star Gazing (Nei- burg, Levinson).....Elsie Carlisle (Vocal) with Orchestra. Rise And Shine-Selection; Stars Over Broadway-Selection.....Syd- ney Kyte & His Piccadilly Hotel Band with Vocal Chorus,

Little Old Lady (Adams & Carmi- chael)......Elsie Carlisle (Vocal)

with Orchestra.

Espana Waltz (Waldteufel); Throw Open Wide Your Window-Waltz (J. Strauss, May, Stanley).... Syd- ney Kyte & His Piccadilly Band.

Hotel

1.30 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)

1.40 p.m.--Now- Variety.

Military Bands Great Times

March (Brose); Hessian Infantry March (arr. Prof, Hackenbergor)

Massed Military Bands. Vocal-Love's Longing (film "The world belongs to the young'); The World Belongs To The Young!~ Waltz Song (from the film).

Joseph Schmidt (Tenor) with Orch. (Sung in German).

Dance Orch.-I'm Gonna Lock My Heart Quick-Step; There Goes My Affection-Quick-Step....Max- well Stewart's Ballroom Melody. Vocal-Heinie's Sing-Song (Kirsten, Richartz); Woodcutter's Song (Knorr, Becce)......Comedy Har- monists with Piano. Dance Orch.--Sixty Seconds Got To- gether-Fox-Trot; Goodbye To Summer-Fox-Trot

Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Or- pheans, with vocal chorus. Vocal-Change Partners (film ‘Care-]

free'); I Used To Be Colour Blind (film 'Carefree')....Fred Astaire with Ray Nobie & His Orchestra. 2.15 p.m.-Close down.

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son Titania" (Thomas)....with the Milan Symphony Orch. cond. by Ugo Tansini. (Sung in Italian). 6.58 p.m.-Richard Tauber (Tenor) in

a Lehar Programme,

Gypsy Love Waltz Melodies ...

Orchestra Mascotte. Beautiful Italy (Operetta Pagani- ni'); Girls Were Made To Love And Kiss (Operetta Paganini')

Richard Tauber with Lyceum Theatre Orchestra cond. by Frank Collinson.

Fear Nothing (Operetta 'Paganini') ....Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Orchestra cond. by G. Walter. My Lips Are Made ror Kissing

Drums.

Fourth Act

of "Faust"

B.B.C. Choir

Puszta (Mihaly); The Wind Has Told Me A Story-Tango Habanera (Bruhne),

8.30 p.m.-London Relay-Empire Ex--

change. Points of view by travel- lers from the Dominions & Colonies. 8.45 p.m.-London Relay-Inside In- formation-Happy Feet. A pro- gramme devised by F. W. Hillyard. and recorded under the direction of Leo Hunter.

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p.m.-Gounod's "Faust" Act IV.

Sung by Miriam Licette, Doris Vane,. Muriel Brunskill, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, Heddle Nash and- the B.B.C. Choir with Orchestra and Organ conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham,

("Giuditta"); Stay With Me For 9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News. Ever ("Giuditta")..... Marek Wc-9.50 p.m.-Request Programme. ber & His Orchestra.

The Land Of Smiles-Selection..

London Theatre Orchestra cond. by Ernest Irving.

Serenade from "Frasquita".

Emil.

Roosz & His Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-Calling The Tune' with George Bolton paying the piper but De Haven and Page calling the tunes. The pipers are Frank Lane, The Cavendish Three and Harry Gordon. Presented by F. H. C. Piffard.

6 p.m-Beethoven-Concerto in D Ma-

jor, Op. 61. Fritz Kreisler (Violin). and The London Philharmonic Or- chestra conducted by John Barbirolli. 6.46 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-8

tions.

p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

6.48 p.m.-Two Songs by Lina Pagliu- 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Piano Recital by

ghi (Soprano).

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"Rigoletto"Gilda's Aria: "Caro "Mignon"-"Io

nome"

(Verdi);

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.

POOR EAST

Doreen Ma.

1. Stop beatin' around the Mulberry

Bush.

2. You're as pretty as a picture.

3. The Donkey Serenade.

4. Music Maestro Please.

5. Remember Me.

6. Sweet and Lovely.

8.20 p.m. Reginald Foort at

Organ.

the

The A.B.C. March (Foort & Fer-

ring),.....with Brass Quartet & 11

Trio No. 1 In B Flat (Schubert)...... Cortot, Thibaud And Casals (In- strumental Trio).

"Die

Bauberflote"-Overture (Mo. zart)..... Berlin Philharmonic Or- chestra cond. by Sir Thomas Bee-- cham.

Fantasia In D Minor, K. 397 (Mo- zart)...Wanda Landowska (Piano). Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach, arr. Sir Hugh Allen) ....Choir Of The Temple Church, London cond. by G. Thalben-Ball with Oboe ob- bligato by Leon Goossens and Piano,

Ave Maria (Bach)

Herbert E. Groh (Tenor) with Choir & Or- chestra (Sung in Latin).

Aria (From Suite In D-Bach)

Pablo Casals ('Cello) with Piano accomp. by Otto Schulhof. Hark! Hark! The Lark (Shakespeare- Schubert)... Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) with Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore.

Tone-Poem "Finlandia", Op. 26, No.

7 (Sibelius)....Leopold Stokowski: and the Philadelphia Orchestra. p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

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AT THE ORIENTAL "I Cover The AT THE STAR-"Treasure Island". War." Starring John Wayne and hav- with Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper and ing as its background the revolt of Lionel Barrymore. The most widely Arab tribes against British rule in read pirate story ever written brought Mesopotamia, the picture tells of a lit- to the screen with vivid reality.

* * tle known episode in history. Wayne portrays a daredevil American camera- AT THE KING'S—“Algiers", with man who is assigned to the dangerous Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy task of photographing a-mysterious Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, and sinister native chieftain. The cast Gene Lockhart and Nina Koshetz. The When a player realises that hand would be cold. Declarer play includes Gwen Gaze, Don Barclay, Pat setting of this picture is in the native every time. it is his turn to lead he led dummy's King and East prompt-Somerset and Major Sam Harris. quarter of Algiers, a refuge for crim- The will have some sort of problem, hely signalled with the Jack of hearts.

inals from all parts of Europe. should endeavour to A diamond was led from dummy AT THE MAJESTIC "You Only story is of the adventures of a devil When Judges Hardy may care international jewel thief let his partner get and the ten-spot finessed, West Young Once." into the lead if pos-winning with the Queen and con- goes on his overdue vacation, fishing, (Charles Boyer) for whose love glam- he finds himself' launched on a sea of orous Sigrid Gurie and alluring Hedy sible, the theory be-tinuing with the four of hearts. troubles that threaten to submerge his Lamarr are rivals.

** * ACE..... 3. ing that although he Now East carefully played the nine, entire family until he hits on the ap- KING....2

With Lewis Stone, has to

AT THE QUEEN'S-Give Me A guess, his forcing Declarer's Ace and clearly propriate remedy. QUEEN.1

Fay Sailor", with Martha Raye, Bob Hope, partner may

know marking East with the ten-spot. De-Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney, JACK...

what to do. We re-clarer's next play was the Jack of Holden, Frank Craven and Ann Ru-Betty Gable, Jack Whiting and J. C. Nugent. The story concerns a con- therford. Reviewed elsewhere. cently saw a hand diamonds. West won with the Ace

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tract, made in childhood, by which two chucked to a Declar- and now had no excuse for not play- AT THE ALHAMBRA~"Spy Ring", brothers promise to marry two sisters, er because the West player failed ing the six of hearts, which would with William Hall and Jane Wyman. and the efforts of one of the young to take advantage of this principle. have put his partner in the lead. The story concerns the efforts of a men to evade its terms.

HISH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACKS SYSTEM

TOTAL, VALUE OF PACK DE AVERAGE RAM + th

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable North-South 40 on score

▲ J 10 7 5 4.

♡ K 8 3

◊ 4 2

8 62.

K 9 6

4 2

9 8

N W E

BCAA

A 2 -VA 7 5

Q 8 3 J 10 9 ◇ 7 6 5 3

7 43

The bidding: South West North

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As the plot However, for some reason or other group of clever international spies, unrolls, Miss Raye, the ugly duckling headed by Jane Carleton and Leon of the family, turns into a beauty with West elected to play the Queen of Ames to steal from the United States a nation-wide reputation and the win- The ner of a coast-to-coast legs contest, hearts, which held the trick.

army a valuable new invention. di-story was written by George Waggner while her sister, loses out on the field and produced by the Trem Carr unit of of love when she turns out to be a

dunce in the kitchen.

Now West played a third amond. Declarer discarded a spade Universal. from dummy, won in his own hand with the King and played the nine of clubs. West played low and De- clarer continued with the ten of clubs. West won with the Ace and once more was back in the lead. At. this point the fine player would have counted Declarer's hand and realised the only hope was a shift to a spade. But, as may be seen from the preceding, West was not a fine player.. He led a fourth diamond. Declarer ruffed in dum- my, discarded the losing spade from Many players would have reach- his own hand and made his contract, ed a final contract of two spades Of course there are any number or two notrump with the North and of ways in which West might have South hands. However, whatever saved himself, but the simple way the final contract, the right defence would have been to let his partner would beat it. Against three clubs get in with the ten of hearts. West opened the deuce of hearts, (Copyright, 1988, by The Four Incidentally, on any other lead the 'Aces)

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