1939-01-25 — Page 26

Relay of Burns Night Dinner

Speech

·THE_CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1989.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In-[ tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.Mendelssohn-Trio in

Minor, Op. 49.

D

Played by Cortot,

Thibaud and Casals.

1 p.m.-Local Time Signal & Weather

Report.

1.03 p.m.-Dance Music,

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- monts.

1.40 p.m.-Gracie Fields, Sandy Powell, Sam Browne and Jack Harris & His Orchestra.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

6 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trota-Twilight In Turkey; The .Nat Gonella &

Toy Trumpet...

His Georgians." Swing Step-Stop! You're Breakin' My Heart (film 'Artists and Mo- dels'); Slow Fox-Trot-Everything You Said Came True........... Jack White & His Collegians with Vo- cal Refrain. Fox-Trots-I'm Feelin' Like A Mil- of lion (film 'Broadway Melody 1938); Caravan....Nat Gonella & His Georgians with Vocal Refrain by Nat Gonella. Tangos-Cabecita; La Ultima Can- cion. ...Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra,

7

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

Tough- Fox-Trots-Oh, They're

Mighty Tough In The West; Ton Pretty Girls......Nat Gonella & His Georgians with Vocal Refrain. Fox-Trots Wasn't Lying When I Said I Love You; Midnight Blue

Sciucamunni Sta Lampa (arr. Fas vara); One More Day; On The Banks Of Sacramento (arr. Har- ris); A Dollar And A Half A Day; The Hog's Eye Man (arr. Terry) ....John Goss (Baritone) & Ca. thedral Male Voice Quartet with Piano,

.Roy Smeck & His Hawalian Serenaders with Vocal Chorus. Tangos-Jingle Bells; Twilight....E.7.15 p.m.-Quentin

Bohr's Argentine Tango Orchestra. Fox-Trots To Mary, With Lové; To You, Sweetheart. Henry King & His Orchestra with Vocal Cho-

rus.

Maclean at the

Organ. Edward Gerinan Selection; With Eric Knights- Coates Thro' London

River bridge to London Bridge; Reveries.-

"Seven Days

Sunshine! B.B.C. Show

Annie Laurie (Trad.-arr, Batten); MacGregor's Gathering (Trad.—- arr. Batten)

Heddle Nash (Tenor) & Male Quartette with Piano.

Roy's Wife O' Alldivalloch (arr. Gray); The Keel Row (arr, Gross) ....Duet: Marie Thomson and Ca- therine Mentiplay with Piano. Talisker, Strathspey; The Devil And The Dirk, Reel; Forbes Morrison, Strathspey; The Bride's Reel (Scott Skinner); The Strathspey King (Scott Skinner, arr. Hart- ley).. .Florence MacBride (Vio- lin) with Piano. Comin' Thro' The Rye (Traditional); The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks O' Loch Dora Lomon' (Traditional) Labbette (Soprano) with Piano. (Fetras); Viennese Singing Birds · -Waltz (Translateur)..... Marck 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. Weber & His Orchestra.

9.50 p.m.-Scottish Programme Con-

tinued. The Gentle Maiden (arr. Somervell); Passing By (Herrick & Purcell) .Dennis Noble (Baritone) with Orchestra.

p.m.-Dennis Noble (Baritone) & Marek Weber & His Orchestra. Jollity On The Mountains

Six-Eight Andalusia; Comedy 7.30

Waltz-I'm Popeye, The Sailorman (film 'Popeye, the Sailor')....Syd- ney Kyte & His Piccadilly Hotel Band with Vocal Chorus. Fox-Trots Talking Through My' Heart (film 'Big Broadcast of 1937'); You Came To My Rescuel (film 'Big Broadcast of 1937')

Henry King & His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus,

p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.-Sea Shanties and Choruses, Storm Along; Roll The Wood-Pile Down (arr. Harris); Nous Irons A Valparaiso (Pares & van Parys);

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.

HIGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACER SYSTEM

ACE... 3 KING: 2: QUEEN 14 JACK...K

TETAL VALISE OF PACK DO

AVERAGE HAND 61%

ONE SPADE

IS CORRECT

Yesterday you

dealt and held:

K Q J x

A Q 10 I I

I I

Ι Ι

What was your bid?

ANSWER:

Your correct bid is

one spade. This allows you to bid

L

or

two hearts in the event that your partner responds in diamonds or clubs. Incidentally, if you do open this hand with one 'heart and your partner responds in diamonds clubs, you should merely bid hearts on the second round, since your hand is too weak to show spades at the two level,

two

TO-DAY'S HAND South, Dealer North-South vulnerable.

Harold Colvin

A 5

J 9 7 6 3

0 9 8 4 2

J 7

Q 7 6 2

A 10 8 4

♡ 10

◊ Q 6 4Q985

3 2

♡ Q 5 EAKJ 10

AKJ 93

7 3 104

VAK 3 4 2

◇ 5

AK 6

Waldemar von Zedtwits

The bidding:

South West North East

-

Waltz

(J. Roses From The South-Waltz

Strauss)..... Marek Weber & His Orchestra.

She Shall Have Music (Brandon & Murray); Just Me An' Mary (Parr & Murray).

Dennis Noble (Baritone) with Orchestra. Child, You Can Dance Like My Wife -Waltz ("Die Geschiedene Frau" Fall); "Dollar Princess"-Waltz (Fall).

Marek Weber & His

Orchestra.

8 pm. Local Time Signal, Weather'

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "Seven

Days Sunshine". A Musical Cruise With book and lyrics by Henrik Ege. Music by Norman Hackforth. Cast: Floyd Penrhyn; Sydney Keith; Claude Hulbert & Enid Trevor; Doris Gilmore; Renee Mayer; Davy Burna- by; Gordon Little; Wynne Ajello; Teddy Williams; Gilbert Bailey; The Carlyle Cousins; The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra conducted by Stanford Robinson,

9 p.m.-Scottish_Programme.

My Ain Folk (Lemon, Mills)........ Mary

Kay (Contralto) with Piano.

Vocal Sir Harry Lauder Songs

Gems....The Border Singers with Orchestra.

Medley Of Scottish Airs.....Pipers of the 2nd Batt. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (under the direction of Pipe-Major T. K. Mar- shall) and H. Dawson (Organ). 10.05. p.m. - Burns Night Dinner Speech. Mr. W. Kay introduces The ..Honourable The Colonial Secretary,

Mr. N. L. Smith.

10.30 p.m.-Melodies of Robert Burns. Light Opera Company with. Orches- tra. *

10.40 p.m-Dance Music.

+

Slow Fox-Trot-Taint Good; Quick- step I Can't Lose That Longing For You; Gerry Moore (Piano) in Strict Dance Tempo. Waltz-Lovely Lady (film 'King of Burlesque'); Fox-Trot-Alone At A Table For Two.....The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra directed by Hen- ry Hall with Vocal Chorus. Slow Fox-Trot-I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers (Film It's Love Again)......Billy

with Cotton & His Band Chorus.

11 p.m.-Close down.

Vocal

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE STAR--"Things To Come",, Givot, E. E. Clive, Tom Rutherford, with Raymond Maisey, and Cedric Cora Witherspoon, Reginald Denny, Hardwicke. H. G. Wells prophetic film Vladimir Sokolog and Harlen Briggs. spectacle typical of to-day's events.

** * *

Little

This story has for its central figure a lovable fakir, who gets himself into cha- trouble when he has to supply teau on the Riviera for the wedding of AT THE MAJESTIC "The Tough Guy", with Helen Parrish, Jac- his daughter who believes him wealthy. Surrounded by his crook friends, he kie Searl and Robert Wilcox. The story is a simple powerful narrative manages to supply the chateau and get into plenty of trouble with it before about what happens to one family when tragedy strikes. It begins when his daughter shows she is a chip off the father is sent to jail on a murder the old block and marries the wrong charge, and follows the mother,

son

and daughter after they move to cheap}`· quarters in a sordid section of the city,

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man.

*

*.

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AT THE QUEEN'S "Touch Down Army", with John Howard, and Mary Carlisle. The story deals with Cum-

*. **

10 Pass 20 30

Pa69 3A

5♡

Pass SV Pass Pass Pass We would like our

readers to look just at the North hand and the bidding. Their first reaction AT THE ORIENTAL “You're Only mings, a cocky football coach who gets will be: What a crazy bid Mr. Young Once". When Judge Hardy goes into the Military Academy through the he political influence of his guardian. His Colvin's jump to five. hearts was. on his overdue vacation, fishing,

finds himself launched on a sea of self confidence has an unexpected ef- On second glance, however, they troubles that threaten to submerge his fect on the West Pointers and on Miss may see the reasoning in back of entire family until he hits on the ap-Carlisle who turns a deaf car to his this really brilliant bid. In the propriate remedy. With Lewis Stone, advances, first place, Mr. Colvin's two-heart Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney, Fay

AT THE ALHAMBRA "White raise was just about normal. Then Holden, Frank Craven and Ann Ruther-

ford.

Banners." Another powerful; down-to- came the three-diamond bid by an

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earth drama, by the author of "Magni- opponent and South's bid of three

AT THE KING'S "Beg, Borrow Or ficent Obsession" and "Green Light". spades. Now Mr. Colvin looked Steal", with Frank Morgan, Florence With Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, over his hand and said to himself: Rice, John Beal, Janet Beecher, George Jackie Cooper and Fay Bainter. "First, the Ace of spades must be a terrifically important card. Secondly, my partner ought to be very short in diamonds, and hence is likely to have at least three Your partner, Merwin. Maier, clubs. My doubleton club accord- deals, and you hold:

1

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Score 100% for one spade, 80% for one heart, 0 for any other bid.

:

QUESTION NO. 12

The bidding goes:

Maler Burnatone

You Jacoby Pass

(۲)

ingly is likely to be of value, particularly as there will be a chance to discard a club on my partner's spades. If I merely bid four hearts, my partner. will pro- bably drop the hand. I must try for the Slam.”

As will be noted, Mr. von Zedtwitz contracted for the Slam. which was a laydown. But if Mr. Colvin had bid merely four hearts; the band would have played

What do yoù bid? (Answer game only,

Monday).

(Copyright, 1938, By The Four 'Aces).

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