1939-02-17 — Page 26

Robert McLeod In Studio

Violin Recital

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1939

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Belay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Turner Layton (Vocal) at

the Piano.

Lot Me Whisper (Rosell & Heyman). You Belong To Dreamland (Gilroy). Alone (film 'A Night At The Opera'). 1210 p.m-Jimmy Dorsey & His Or-

chestra.

If Ain't Right-Fox-Trot. The Boston Tea Party-Fox-Trot, Washington Grays (Grafulla). Tap Dancers' Nightmare:

One, Two, Button Your Shoe-Fox- Trot (fim Pennies from Heaven'). So Do I-Fox-Trot.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Grieg--Peer Gynt-Suite No. 1, Op. 46. London Philharmonic Or- chestra conducted by Eugene Goos-

sena.

1-18 p.m.—Songs by Richard Crooks

(Tenor)s

If I Should Send A Rose (Shayon- Shilkret); Open. Your Window To The Morn, Op. 58, No. 3 (Royden- Phillips). with Orchestra:

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

(9.52 megacycles)

I Bring A Love Song (film 'Viennese Nights"). assisted by Edna Kel- logg with Orchestra. You Will Remember Vienna · (film)

"Viennese Nights'). .with Orch. 1.30 p.m. Reuter and Rugby Press,:

Weather Forecast and Announce- ments,

..

1

1.40 p.m.-Variety with Vivian Ellis, Sandy Powell, and Nat Gonella & His Georgians.

Dance Oroh.-Who Stole The Jam?

Composer introduces fifteen of his best known tunes)........Vivian E'lia. Comedian-Yandy Goes To The Scä:

Part 1-The Stowaway; Part 28 The Shipwreck...Sandy Powell. Dance Orch-Swing, Swing, Swing, Daughter Swing Fox-Trot; Ive Got A Wonderful Feeling--Fox Trot....Nat Gonella & His Geor- gians.

Vocal-The Dicky Bird Hop (Gour-

ly); An Old Violin (Fisher). Gracie, Fields with Orchestra.

Quickstep (film Sally, Irene and Mary'); Swingin' In The Corn 2.15 p.m-Close down. Quickstep (film 'Radio City Re-10 vels')...Nat Gonella & His Geor- gians with Vocal Refrain `by Nat Gonella,

Comedy Sketch-Three Loose Screws (Farrell & Pola)....The Three Loose Screws: Chick Endor, Char- lie Farrell and Eddie Pola. Piano w. Vocal Chorus-Let Me Play By Vivian Ellis (In which The

Winning

1

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Burnetine, 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

SHOULD LET

OF THE PARTNER RESCUE

FOUR-ACKS #YETEN"

ACE...

KING. 2

QUEEN:1

HIMSELF

Yesterday you were JACK....... Oswald Jacoby's part- TOTALUE POSTER Ter and held:

SNERALE HÄNEN 62%

10

♡ 9 x x

Ó J. IT I

J x x

Both aides were rulnerable,

and the bidding went:

Schenken Jacoby

show

..

Burnstone.

You

Let's suppose you are defending against a suit contract. There are several trumps in dummy and De-

:

clarer leads the singleton of an off- suit in which you hold the Ace. Would you automatically jump in would you con- with the Ace, or sider playing a low card? There are

p.m.-Relay, of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel."

(a) A little Kiss at Twilight; (b) It don't make sense; (c) I have eyes; (d) Joobalai,

6.14 p.m.-Record: Bell Ringer-Fox- ..Maurice Trot; Sedibal-One-Step. Alexander (Accordeon) with Orch. 6.21 p.m. (a) What will I tell my heart; (b) Chango Partners; (c) Mo- ments like this; (d) Every-tub. 6.35 p.m.-Records: Melody From The Sky (film "The trail of the Lonesome Pine'); Is It True What, They Say About Dixie? (Marks)..... .Frances Langford (Vocal) with Orch. Old Fashioned Love (Mack-Johnson) "Buck" Washington (Piano). 6.44 p.m.—(a) Tears in my heart; (b) Stop! Beatin' round the Mulberry Bush; (c) Meet the beat of my heart; (d) Lullaby in Rhythm.

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.-Songs by Cecily."ourtneidge, Why Has A Cow Go! Four Legs

(Furber & Ellis); ne South Is The Place For Me (Ellis & Bra- ham); The Wind's In The West

First Act

Of Wagner's

"Die Walkure"

Carnation (Traditional) Tahiti Beachcombers. Delilah-Waltz; FoumeWaltz.

The

Gino Bordin & His Hawaiians, On A Little Street In Honolulu-

Waltz.....Hilo Hawaiian Orches tra with Vocal Refrain. p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03. p.m.--Webster Booth (Tenor) and

Light Symphony Orchestra. Shepherd's Song (Elgar, arr. Hayda Wood); Rondol; Mina (Elgar, arr. Haydn Wood)...Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by Haydn Wood. Sweet Melody Of Night (film 'Give us this Night'); My Love And I (film 'Give us this Night')....Web. ster Booth (Tenor) with Orch. Mon Reve (Waldteufel) ...Light

Symphony Orchestra.

.

Serenade In The Night (Bixio, Che- rubini & Kennedy); The Way You Look To-night (film 'Swing Time') Webster Booth (Tenor).. with Orchestra.

Like To The Damask Rose (Elgar, arr. Haydn Wood)....Light Sym- phony Orchestra cond, by Haydn Wood.

8.30 p.m.-Studio-Violin Recital by Robert McLeod with Piano accom- paniment by Harry Boughton." 1. Intrada (Moffat).

2. Salut D'Amour (Elgar).

3. Serenade Espagnole (Chaminade-

Kreisler).

4. Frasquita (Lehar-Kreisler). 5. Souvenir (Drdia). 6. Thais (Massenet). 7. Danse Espagnole

Kreisler).

(Granados-

8.55 p.m.-London Philharmonic Or

chestra. Gaite Parisienne Ballet Music (Offenbach arr: Rosenthal).

(film Aunt Sally'); My Wild Oat 9 p.m.-London Relay "Food for Thought Three short talks on (film 'Aunt Sally'). 7.15 p.m.-London Relay 'Between matters of topical interest.

You And Me And The Mike'. An in- 9.20 p.m-Next week's programme. timate revue with Hugh Morton: 9.30 p.m.London Relay The News. Dorothy Summers; Denis Folwell: 9.50 p.m.-Wagner's "Die Walkure" Act L Lottee Lehmann (Soprano), Marjorie Westbury; Hal Bryant:

Lauritz Melchior (Tenor) and Eman- Mary Pollock; Harry Engleman and Pro- Leila Brittain at two planos,

uel List (Bass) and the Vienna Phil- by harmonia Orchestra conducted duced and compered by Martyn C.

Bruno Walter with F. Buxbaum Webster.

('Cello).

7.45 pm. Hawaiian Music.

Palikiko Blues (Traditional); Pun111 p.m-Close down.

many hands in which the winning What's On At the Cinemas

play is to play low when a singleton

b

is led from dummy, to-day's hand AT THE MAJESTIC-A completely Rice, F R. Smith and Louis Hickus..

who new Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy The story deals with a ranger comedy programme together with turns thief in order to trap the out- being an example.

comèdies, shorts and cartoons not laws and almost gets caught in his own Against six diamonds West open-shown in previous comedy programme. trap.

14 -ры. Redbl. ANSWER: Pass. A bid in this position should be made only with a five-rard suit to rescue your part- ner (Mr. Jacoby) from an embar- rassing situation. A pass does not ed a heart, dummy's Ace won and a desire to play the singleton spade was promptly against one spade redoubled, but requests your

part-led. If East had played the Ace, all ner to rescue himself in some suit.

would have been lost, for West Score 100% for pass, 60% for diamonds, 0 for any other bid, would then have been unable to Both sides are vulnerable. You win a trick with his King. East was are Howard Schenken's partner and practically certain that Declarer hold:

would have no losing tricks out side of spades, and thus he decided it was far better to take a chance on losing the Ace than a jump right automatically present De- clarer with his contract.

QUESTION NO: 26-

K

I X

K I A Q 10 x

J

The bidding:

του

Jacoby

Bahenken

Rédɓl. Pass

Maldr

ры. 14 Pass (1)

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow) (2

TODAY'S 'HAND

· Duplicate Bridge

Fast, Doalor

Both sides vulnerable

18

1. 10...

8:

› ́A⋅ 9, 8 5 4

K 10 3 K.8.7 5

bidding: South

West

North

Pass

Pass

Pass

Para

Peda

in an

ཎྜ、-་་ ་

When East played low and West won with the spade King, there was still some work left for the defence. If West had returned any off-sult, Declarer could have ruffed three spades in dummy, eventually drop- ping East's Ace, and the contract would still have been made. How- ever, West made the proper to a diamond and now, with only two trumps left in dummy, East was bound to win

a second trick

with his twice-protected Ace.

(Copyright," 1989, By The Four

Aces)

**

*

*

AT THE ORIENTAL "Beau AT THE QUEEN'S “A Slight Case Hunks". Revival of a great comedy-Of Murder." Damon Runyon takes film- when Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy land's toughest "gangsters" for the join the Foreign Legion, the war is as most hilarous ride of their chequered good as over, there is still time, how-careers in the best burlesque on gang- ever to some of the funniest slapstickster films ever conceived by an ace bumorist. With Edward G. Robinson, ever screened.·

Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Don- "Battle of helly, John Litel, Edward Brophy, AT THE CATHAY Broadway". It's. Flagg and Quirt Harold Huber, Eric Stanley and that again! Buddies between, battles, these "Dead End" kid Bobby Jordan.... two Legionnaires on holiday forget all about that 20-year old armistice when AT THE KING'S—'I'll Give a Mil- a girl gives the "glad eye" to both of lion". The sad, sad story of a disillu-

millionaire who promises. them. Victor McLaglen and his new sioned side-kick, Brian Donlevy, Louise Ho-$1,000,000 to the first person who loves vick, Raymond Walburn, Lynn Bari, him for himself and starts a riot that Jane Darwell and Robert Kellard. disrupts the Riviera. With Warner Baxter. Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre, "Border Jean Hersholt, John Carradine, Lynn AT THE ALHAMBRA

Fritz Law", with Buck Jones, Lupita Tovar, Bari, J. Edward Bromberg an James Mason, Don Chapman, Frank Feld.

!

THE

*-

HONG KONG

か

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONG KONG BOTEI.: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

&

SHANGHAI

HOUSE; FALACE HOTEL

HOTELS.

LIMITED

Wagons Lits, Peiging,