1939-04-24 — Page 26

St. George's Day Programme From London

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1939.

Today's Wireless

12.00-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe-

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12.30 p.m.-Excerts from Gilbert and

Sullivan.

"Iolanthe"-Overture.

Symphony Orchestra cond. by

Dr. Malcolm Sargent. "The Pirates Of Penzance."

Pour, O Pour, The Pirate Sherry. Stuart Robertson & Male Chorus, When Fred'ric Was A-Little Lad.

Dorothy Gill.

Oh, Better Far To Live And Dio..

Peter Dawson & Male Chorus. O, False One, You Have Deceived

Mic.

Dorothy Gill and Derek Oldham, "The Gondoliers".

From The Sunny Spanish Shore. In Enterprise Of Martial Kind.

Henry A. Lytton, Bertha Low- is, Mavis, Bennett and Ar- thur Hosking.

O Rapture When Alone Together, There Was A Time.

Mavia

Bennett and Arthur Hosking,

"Patience".

If Saphir I Choose to Marry.

D. Oldham, M. Green, D. Fan- court, M. Eyre, N. Brier- cliffe with. Orch.

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

under the direction of Scott Wood.

Bird On The Wing (Konnody, and

Grosz).

With All My Heart (film 'Hor

Master's Voice').

Robert Ashley (Vocal) with Or-

chestra.

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All Ashore (Billy Hill).

London Piano Accordeon Band

directed by Scott Wood.. Thanks A Million (from the film). Moon For Sale (Henderson and

losen),

Robert Ashley (Vocal) with Ox-

chestra.

Happy, I'm Happy (film' 'Cara-

van').

Wine Song (film 'Caravan').

London, Piano Accordeon Band directed by Scott Wood.

1.30 p.m.-Router and Rugby Press, Weather Eprecast and Announce- ments.

1.40 p.m.Mozart-Concerto In D Ma-

jor. K.537 ("Coronation").

Wanda Landowska (Piano) with Chamber Orchestra lead by Jean Poug- 1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and net and conducted by Walter Goehr.

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-Robert Ashley (Vocal) and the London Piano Accordeon Band:

Where The Mountains Meet The

Sea (Butler and Tilsley). Remembrance (Allen, Green and

Melf).

London Piano-Accordeon Band

2.15 p.m.-Close Down, 6.00 p.m. "For The Children"

Nursery Rhymes.

Intro: Ding Dong Dell; I saw

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Jill; A little cock sparrow; There was a little woman; etc.

Uncle George's Party with

Orchestra.

Gee-Up-Polka (Josef Rixner).

Barnabas Von Geczy and Or.

chestra.

Studio Serial Story. "More Very Young" Songs (A. A.

Milne-Fraser-Simson).

Us Two; Knights and Ladies: In the dark.

George Baker.(Baritone) with

Pinno.

At, Mother's Knee (Some favour-

ite Lullabies).

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Essie Ackland (Contralto) with

Orchestra and Chorus. 6.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.32 p.m.-Reginald. Dixon at the Or-

gan.

Bells Across The Meadow (Kotel-

bey).

Down The Mall (Belton). Dixon Hits No. 16.

Music Hall:

In Town To-night: Message To Scouts

(Sousa).

Under The Double Eagle-March

(Wagner).

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.05 p.m.-London Relay-A Message

to Scouts..

By The Lord Somers, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., Deputy Chief Scout of the British Empire.

8.10 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "West

From Bristol".

A Programme devised and produced by Francis Dillon. 8.40 p.m.-Songs of the Sea (arr.

Terry).

Intro: Whisky Johnny; Sally Brown; Let the Bulgine Run; Blow My Bully Boys; Billy Boy; Johnny Come Down to Hilo; Blow the Man, Down; Rio Grande.

Royal Naval Singers (Ports- mouth) conducted by C. T. Lee, R.N.

8.50 p.m.-Marek Weber and` Hìs· Or-

chestra,

Intro: It looks like rain in Char-9.15 ry Blossom Lane; The great-9.30 est mistake of my life; Wake up and Live; You're here, you're thero; Ten pretty girls; Love is good; for anything that ails you. p.m.-London Relay-Music-Hall.~ Haver and Lee (The Fun Racket cers); Lily Morris (Comedienne); Car- son Robison and His Pioneers with The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Presented by John Sharman.

three ships; Hickory, Dick- ory Dock; Polly put the ket-6.45 tle on; Curly Locks; Beu, Bea, Black Sheep; Jack and

FROPS CONTRACT Minning

(By the Four Aces)

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

beaten every other system in existence.

West, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

A B D T

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4 9 10.6

A.Q 10 9

7 6 3 2

♡ 5

W

-J 10 G

1084

A BAD DOUBLE

AKJ

♡ A 8 3 ◊ 49 64 3 A G 2

0. A 8 7 2

♣ K J 9 B 78

The

bidding:

West

North

Bast

South

Pans

Ране

10

44

64

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24 Pass

Pass

Pass

West opened the Ace of spades. Declarer raffed and led a trump.

201300 LAND VALUES OF THE

FOUR ACKE SYSTEM

ACE

the correct bid with East's hand, but if he wanted to compromise, he could have passed, whereupon. West would surely have gone to five spades anyway. Furthermore, when East doubled, West was entitled to assume that his partner would be short in spades. Hence, he opened the spade Ace, hoping to give his partner a ruff on the second round of the suit.

"Tosca"-Selection (Puccini).

Leo Fall-Potpourri (arr. Dostal). Songs Without Words-Potpourri. p.mLondon Relay-Tho Nows. p.m.-The Bohemians. Daddy Long Legs (Wright). Moss Rose, Waltz (Bosc). My Dream, Waltz (Waldteufel).

With Vocal Effects,

9.45 p.m.-London Relay-Sports News

and Market Notes.

9,50 p.m.-Songs by Jack Buchanan and

Elsie Randolph.

Mr. Whittington-Selection.

With Carroll Gibbons and John' W. Green at the Pianos ac- comp. by Their Boy Friends.

7.45 p.m.-The Band of H. M. Cold-1.10,00 p.m.-London Relay-In Town

stream Guards.

To-night'.

"Les Cloches De Corneville"--Sc-| 10.30 p.m.--London Relay--St. George's

Day Programme.

lection (Planquette).

Hands Across Tho Sen-March 11.30 p.m.--Close Down.

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What's On At the Cinemas

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AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM-loves of a great composer, blent with BRA-"Cafe Society", with Madeleine the pomp and pageantry of Europe's Carroll. Fred MacMurray and Shirley gayest court and the brilliancy of its Ross in starring roles Taking Manhat- people in the drama of the life of the tan's most glittering circles as its Waltz King. background, "Cafe Society" tells a high-stepping story of a beautiful but bored society girl's whirlwind romance with a reporter who shows her how the rest of the world fights its battles, In the supporting cast are Claude Gilling-Such Fools".. Smart and snappy water, Jessie Ralph, Allyn Joslyn and, comedy with a great cast headed by making his motion picture debut, Lu- Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Hum-- cius Beobe, famed Manhattan bon vi-phrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert, Penny

Singleton. vant and boulevardier.

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AT THE ORIENTAL—“Men Are

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AT THE MAJESTIC—“Holiday". A AT THE STAR-"Three Loves Has laugh-laden star-studded comedy rom- Nancy." The vivacious story of a ance, built round a girl who buys her small-town girl who goes to New York sweethearts as she does her bonbons in search of the man who left her at and a boy who picks 'em for himself. the alter, and finds herself involved as With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, the romantic pivot between two other Doris Nolan, Lew; Ayres, Edward Neither side was vulnerable in

men., With Robert Montgomery, Janet Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie yesterday's question. You were Gaynor, Franchot Tone, Guy Kibbee, Barnes, Jean Dixon and Henry Daniell.. Howard Schenken's partner and Claire Dodd and Reginald Owen. [held::

A Q 9 7 5 4 3 ♡ Q 8 6

07 2

10,4

The bidding:

Jacoby You Burnstone. Bchenken

Pass Pass 10

BNT. Dbl. (?)

East won with the Ace and led a dia- mond, whereupon De- clarer played one more round of ANSWER: Your correct bid is trumps and then to pass. If your partner had knocked out the heart wanted you to bid spades, he could Ace, thereby leaving have doubled the one-diamond the Queen of clubs opening. as an entry for the Score 100% for pass, 50% for heart sult in dummy, and made his four spades.! contract:

KING, QUEEN 1 JACK AN

Strangely enough, East blamed his partner first for the jump to four spades, which crowded the

· bidding, and secondly for not open- ing a heart, which would have set. "the ⠀ contract, «Actually, sin - our opinion West was entirely blame- loss. His Jump to four spades should have given his very good ploture of East had no excuse five clubs. We consider

partner a hand, and

QUESTION NO. 81 You open the bidding with one spade, holding:

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AT THE KING'S "The Sisters"... Myron brings down-to-earth, tensely." human tale of three sisters, and the" AT THE CATHAY "The Great widely-different-fates they encountered Waltz", with Luise Rainér, Fernand on the stormy seas of marriage. The Gravet, Miliza Korjus, Romantic Vien- cast included Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, na of the days of Franz Josef, the Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald haunting Waltzes af Johann Strauss, Crisp, Beulah Bondi, Jane Bryan, · the poignant romance of the life and Alan Hale and Dick Foran. ;

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