1939-03-21 — Page 26

Melody Bee From The Studio "Flats v. Sharps"

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1989

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.--Relays of Service of In- tercession from St. John's' Cathedral.

1230 p.m.-Plana Lemnitz · (Soprano), The Marriage of Figaro"Vanished aro Ya."

You.

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

Ambrose & His Orch.

...Maurice Winnick & His Orch. p.m.-Relay of Rotary Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. Professor L. Foster- "America-Some Impressions."

12.34 p.m.--Mozart Concerto in E1.40

Flat Major. Arthur and Karl Schna- bel with the London Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Aldershot Command Search-

light Tattoo 1935. Massed Bands) of the Aldershot- Command.

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

1.30 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-

A Fine Romance.

The Way You look To-night.

2.16 p.m.-Close down.

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

(a) There's a Far away look in your Eye; (b) When the Heather is in Bloom; (c). Star Dust; (d) Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Record: Some of These Days; After] You've Gono....Coleman Hawkins) (Tenor Saxophone).

(B) Believe Mo; (b) Liza; (e) It's

Wonderful; (d) Caravan.

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.

Cast, Dealer

HE DIDN'T MEAN TO BID

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North-South 40 on acoro

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PANS

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HIGH CARD JALUES

OR THE FOUR-ACES UVETEN

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34 46 Redbl.

showed out on the second heart lead, and made five-odd and redoubled at four!

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Records: Hay White Blues; Gerry Building....Gerry Moore (Piano). Popular Selection. Intro: After. the Ball, Swanee; Forgot Me Not,] Daisy... Cor Steyn (Organ).

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Sir Nigel Playfair At The Lyric Theatre

8.30 p.m.-Tchaikowsky-Casse Noiset- te Suite. Philadelphia Orchestrą con- ducted by Leopold Stokowsky.

8.53 p.m.-Richard Crooks (Tenor). Songs My Mother Taught

(Dvorak).

Mother O' Mine (Kipling-Tours). {9.p.m.-Studio—“Melody "Bee".

Mo

Flats

v. Sharps-compered by "Eeyore".

(af Smoke Dreams; (b) You can't, Stop from Dreaming; (c)] Goodnight My Love; (d) Row Row 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, your Boat.

9.50 p.m.-Dance Music,

For-Trots-

Tap Your Tootsies. Celebratin'....The Krakajax with

Vocal Trio.

7 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotations.

7.05 p.m.-London Relay Sir Nigel Playfair at the Lyric, Hammersmith. An illustrated History of La Comedie Anglaise from Make Believe to Der-[ by Day compiled and written by Giles Playfair. Production by Gordon 10 p.m.-London Relay-"The City of McConnell and Gwen Williams, The B.B.C. Theatre Chorus & Orchestra conducted by Alfred Reynolds.

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

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8.03 p.m.-Offenbach-Gaite Parisienne Ballet Music, London Philharmonic

Me and the Moon.....Joc Reich-

man & his Orchestra.

London". "The Bank of England", by the Right Hon. Montaguo Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England.

10.20 p.m.-London Relay-Music Hall including Murray & Mooncy, Ted Ray, and the B.B.C. Variety Orches- tra.

Orchestra conducted by Efrem Kurtz.11.20 p.m.-London Relay State Visit

8.20 p.m.-Tales of Hoffman-Potpour-

ri (Offenbach). Marek Weber and his Orchestra.

What's

of the President, of the French Re- public. A description of the arrival at Victoria Station of Mon. et Mme. Lebrun, broadcast from Victoria Sta- tion, London,

11.40 p.m.-Close down.

On At the

AT THE KING'S—“Holiday".

A

the Cinemas

wealth and family position, confused and Barry Fitzgerald. A striking cross- story of a young debutante, stiffed by with Victor McLaglen, Wendie Barry, AT THE QUEEN'S—“Pacific Liner", by the crowded and meaningless ac-section of life on board an ‘ocean steam- tivity of a socialite's life, who falls in er returning from the Orient is dram- love with a young man with a senseatically woven in this story 'wheel, re- of humour and a sense of proportion. veals a unique contrast between the so- phisticated passengers and the grimy, hard-driven crew toiling in the gloomy AT THE STAR-“Four Men And Ademic of a dread malady starts a reign depths of the ship's hold where an epi- Prayer." Impressive drama, starring lof terror. Loretta Young, supported by Richard Greene, George Sondors, David Niven,

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In yesterday's question you were C. Aubrey. Smith and John Carradine. Declarer at a notrump

contract

and held A-x-x- of diamonds, Dummy held K-J-x-x. You needed three tricks in diamonds to make your contract and there was no danger in any other suit. You also had plenty of entries in both hands. How should you have play- ed the diamonds?

ANSWER: The correct play is the King of diamonds followed by the Ace of diamonds and a low

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AT THE MAJESTIC "Penrod's Double Trouble”. Thrills and spills once

AT THE CATHAY-"Passport Hus-more for Penrod Schofield, when ho band.". Involved by rival gangs in a gets Shanghaied in a captive balloon nefarious scheme to save a gangster's and presents his parents with his dou- moll deportation, Stuart Erwin sudden-ble. Starring the Mauch Twins, Dick thirsty lawbreakers to an unexpected and the gang. ly develops qualities that bring blood- Purcel, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart and hilarious downfall. With him are Pauline Moore, Douglas Fowley, Joan Lowery. Woodbury, Harold Huber and Robert

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"Young

AT THE ALHAMBRA Fugitives", with Dorethea Kent, Ro- bert Wilcox, Clem Bevans, Henry Ro-

diamond to the Jack. This play AT THE ORIENTAL—"If I Were quemore Larry Blake, Mira McKinney ensures three diamond tricks in King". Superb presentation of Justin and Tom Ricketts. A happy blend of the event that the Queen of dia McCarthy's dramatic and colourful tale conicdy, tense drama, and young ro- The bidding

as monds is held to your left, or if of the poet who had his wish and rul-mance, filmed in an enticing country given is what actual- the auit breaks 3-8, or if the Queen ly exciting, raily romantic week, with Davenport protrays the role of a lov ed medieval France for one breathless-village setting is found in this picture. took place. It of diamonds drops on the first or Ronald Colman, Frances Deo, Basil able old Civil War Veneran who inher- seems that South's second lead. It gives no play for Rathbong, Ellen Drewm, C. V. France, lits $50,000, which he proceeds to spend two-club bid was not four diamond tricks, but by de-

Henry Wilcoxon.

in a most unusual manner. really a psychic. He finition you don't need four. looked at his hand Score 100% for correct play, and said to himself, 70% for Ace of diamonds and "Hmm, I have no second-round finesse of the Jack, clubs," and at the 50% for fipesse of the Jack on the same time found that he had ac-first round.

KING

QUEEN 1 BACK A

THOM VALUE GP JACH SA

cidently opened his mouth and said, "Two clubs." The result was

QUESTION NO. 53. David Bruce Burnstone is the You

a good example of falling into the dealer and your partner.

river and coming out with a fish! hold:

VAK

Q x

The

Jacoby Pass Pass

West opened his singleton spade. Declarer won with dummy's King and led a trump. A club was now played. South trumped, discarded. one of dummy's clubs on his Ace of spades and now led -another trump. When the high honours fell together, he still had one trump left to ruff dummy's remain- ing club, finessed successfully for the Jack of hearts, since East Aces.) -

What do you bes

tomorrow.

Schenken

Pass

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