1939-02-09 — Page 26

Y.M.C.A. Debate On Z. B. W.

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Val Rosing (Tenor) and Victor Silvester & His Orchestra.. We're Friends Again--Quickstop; What A' Night-Waltz... Victor Silvester & His Bällroom Orch. A Penny In My Pocket (film 'Mil- lions in the Àir'); A Little Door, A Little Lock, A Little Key (Har-1 ry Woods)....Val Rosing (Tenor) with Orchestra.

The Girl You Used To Be Waltz (film 'Mr. Dodd takes the air')..... Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra.

Louisiana Fairy Tale (Gillespie & Copts); In A Little Gypsy Tea Room (Leslie & Burke). Rosing (Tenor) with Orchestra.

Val

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

To-f

There's Honey On The Moon

night Quickstep; This Is My Night To Dream-Slow Fox-Trot (film 'Doctor Rhythm').....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orch, p.Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report. !

1.03 p.m.-Film Selections.

"Big Broadcast of 1988"-Selection (Robin-Rainger), Anton & the Paramount Theatro Orchestra, London, with Al Bollington at the Organ.

"Anything Goes"--Selection (Cole Porter). Patricia Rossborough (Piano).

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

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

beaten every other systèm in existence.

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOURAČER KÖVETEK

ACETN 3 KING..2 QUEEN 1 JACKINA

PRERUMANI on počas dá

SERANG HAND 45%

PASS IS CORRECT

BID

Saturday, as Mer-

win Maier's partner,

you held:

AK xxx

X

◊ A Q**

I I

Neither side was vulnerable, and the bidding went:

Major Schenken Του Burastone

I♡

2♡ 5♡

"Double Or Nothing"-Selection....... Louis" Levy & His Gaumont-British Symphony with Vocal Refrain, "Broadway Melody of 1936"-Selec-

tion; "Curly Top”—Selection Reginald Dixon (Organ). "The Great Ziegfeld"-Selection.

Louis Levy & His Gaumont-British Symphony with Vocal Refrain.

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

ments.

1.40 p.m.-Stravinsky-The Fire-Bird Suite. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra,

2.15 p.m.--Close down.

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

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 17.02

p.m.-Reginald Foort at the

Organ. Lover, Come Back To Me ('New Moon' Romberg); One Kiss (New Moon' Romberg); "The King Steps Out"-Medley (Kreis- ler); Song Of Paradise (King); Serenade (Moussorgsky) with Alfredo Campoli (Violin). |7.20 p.m.-Eileen Joyce at the Piano,

Etude. De Concert In F Minor (Liszt); Etude De Concert In A Flat Major (Paul De Schlozer); Sij Oiseau J'Etnis, A Toi Je Volerais (Bird Study Henselt); En Route (Concert Study-Selim. Palmgren); La Danse D'Ólaf (Mangiagalli); Prelude In A Flat Major, Op. 23, No. 8 (Rachmaninoff); Prelude In A Minor, Op. 32, No. 8 (Rach- maninoff).

The ten of 7.40 p.m.-Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra.

1. Orpheus in the Underworld-Over- and Declarer ture (Offenbach).

The hand was played at the in-] ·

correct contract of seven spades

(doubled by East).

hearts was opened

was forced to lose both the heart trick and the Ace of clubs, going

down 500 points. In concluding the article, we pointed out that the same opening would have beaten six spades, "but that no opening could have upset six notrump.”

This statement was not very clear owing to lack of space, and we can well understand many rea- ders' objection to it. What we really meant was that if North knew the location of the cards, he could make six notrump against|

2. La Crinoline-Gavotte (Willy_Or-

tleb).

Interval

Because (Teschemacher & d'Har- delot).. .The Maestro Singers with Piano.

3. Ballet in White (Hanns Loht). 8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather 8.03 p.m. Studio Z.B.W. Orchestra.

Report and Announcements.

4. Invocation (Marino).

Interval

1

Old Song. Memories.

minster Ballad Singers.

West-

5. Selections from "The Mikado"

(Sullivan).

1989,

Dance Music And Variety

8.30 p.m. — Relay

The Opening

Speeches of the Y.M.C.A, Debate on Z.B.W.'s Programme,

19 pm--Concert Waltzes.

Tales From The Vienna Woods (Strauss); Viennese Singing Birds (Translateur); Jollity On The Mountains (Fetras); Morning

Papers (Strauss). Marek-Weber & His Orchestra.

9.15 p.m.-London Relay World Af- fairs'. A talk by The Lord Hailey, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay The News.

9.50 p.m.-Orchestra.

A Night At The Proms. Intro: Car- men-Preludo to Act 1 (Bizet); Symphony No. 8 in B minor "The Unfinished" (Schubert); William Tell-Overture (Rossini); Fingal's Cave-Overture; Spring Song (Mendelssohn); Brandenburgh Con- certo No. 3 in 'G (Bach), Merry Wives of Windsor Overture (Ni- colai)....Sir Henry J. Wood Con- ducting.

10 p.m.-Relay The Summing Up of the Y.M.C.A. Debate on Z.B.W.'s Programmes.

10.20 p.m.-Dance Music & Variety.

Dance Orch-Swing, Brothers, Swing --Fox-Trot....Willie Lewis & His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus by Willie Lewis. Piano-Variations On "Tipperary” (Williams & Judge); Miracles Sometimes Happen (Ray Noble)

.Renara.

Dance Orch.-Condena-Tango; Vie- jos Tiempos-Tangy... Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro with Vo- cal Refrain. Vocal-Did-Your Mother Come From

Ireland? (Kennedy-Carr); A Fea ther In Her Tyrolean Hat (Mills)

Gracie Fields with Orch. Dance Orch-Swing And Sway- Fox-Trot; You're An Education— Quickstep......The Six Swingers directed by George Scott Wood with Vocal Chorus,

Vocal & Piano Riding The Range In The Sky (Carlton); Alone At A Table For Two (Richman & Fio- rite)........Turner Layton,

Dance Orch.-Sunday In The Park-~~- Fox-Trot (from "Happy Returns'); Shadows On The Moon-Fox-Trot (film. 'Girl of the Golden West')

.Roy Fox & His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain by Denny Dennis. 11 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

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(?) ANSWER: Your correct bid is to pass. Your raise has been Bound and, while you are quite certain that you will be able to de- feat the five-heart contract, you đo not wish to stop your partner from contracting for five spades if he

AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM- AT THE STAR-“Moonlight Sona-- make it. Further any defence. Say, for example, BRA-"Youth Takes A Fling". thinks he can

The ta". Charm is the keynote when that East would make the safe simple wistful, yet powerfully human, Paderewski is the chief charmer.. more, if he doesn't think he can

opening of his singleton spade, love story of a Kangas farmbay gho Lathir, Mendes, who made a special make five spades. he can always North would win with the Ace and dreams of going to sea and the roun- journey to Paris to persuade Paderew- double himself.

Score 100% for pass, 70% for play the King of clubs. After tak-tic salesgirl who falls in love with film, ski to appear in the film and who bril- With Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, liantly produced and directed it deser- double, 30% for five spades (there ing the club King East would re- Frank Jenks, Dorothea Kent, Isable yes warmest congratulations. The

turn a club and Declarer would Jeans and Virginie, Grey. is no guarantee that your partner cash his two top clubs, discarding can make five spades and you may be taking a loss on a hand where a diamond and a heart from dummy. North would now play the Ace of you should have a profit).

hearts and then run off all of dum- You and your partner (Howard my's spades, whereupon this situa- Schenken) have partial score of 80, tion would develop: neither side, vulnérable.

Question No. 19.

third hand and hold:

X X X X

A Q x x

You are

Mater

4504

6

4504

K 10

film has been skilfully built round Paderewski and his music. It opens * * **

with the pianist giving a recital în a AT THE MAJESTIC—“Bluebeard's crowded concert hall. He tells the Eighth Wife. When a high spirited, story of a young couple's romance, how but romantic young French girl dis- it was nearly broken and how his music covers that her millionaire. American brought them together again. In the hubby has. tossed aside seven previous cast are Marie Tempest, Charles Far- spouses, she sets out to show him afrel and Barhara Greene. side of marriage ho had not bargained ja for. An Ernist Lubitsch production AT THE ORIENTAL-“Divorce of with Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Lady X". What happens when a beau- David Niven, Edward Everett Horton, tiful girl walks into a strange man's Elizabeth Patterson and Herman Bing, hotel suite, steals his bed, pyjamas, book and incidently his heart, and then

***

*

**

AT THE KING'S "The_Shopworn leads him a merry chase by vanishing Angel", with Margaret Sullavan and without leaving her name. The cast James Stewart and Walter Pidgeon-includes Merle Oberon, Laurence Oli- ʼn story of a girl who gave up a million ver, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson to be a soldier's dream girl.

and Morton Selten.

The bidding goes:

sohenken Jacoby Tou

Pass (1)

What do you bid? (Answer to- morrow).

TO-DAY'S HAND

Now the last spade would be A etatement concerning the played, North would throw the hand in our December 1 Column heart Queen and East obviously has elicited so many letters from could not retain the high heart with- readers that we are reprinting the out unguarding the diamond King, hand herewith.

North, Doalor

Both sides, vulnerable,

10 3 10 0

8 7 6 4 2

9.82;

$4

J 7 G

10

We did state that no opening could have defeated six notrump)| and, we trust that this explanation prove that that is the case. How over, we will admit that North would have had to play the hand on the basis that. East hold both red Kings, which he might not have

been able to visualises: While the statement in our article was inade. quate space did not permit of this long explanation.

(Copyright, 1988, By The Four

*Aces)

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