1939-05-15 — Page 26

"The Club Of Queer Trades"

From London

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1989

Today's Wireless

12.00-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of

Intercession from St. John's Cathe dral.

12.30 p.m.-Patricia

Rossboroug]

(Piano) and Robinson Cleaver (Or. gan).

Dizzy Fingers (Confrey). Manhattan Music Box-Selection. Patricia Rossborough (Piano).

Magyar Melody-Selection. Paris Honeymoon-Selection.

H. Robinson Cleaver (Organ) and Patricia Rossborough

(Piano).

Snow White And

The Seven

Dwarfs Selection (Morey and Churchill).

Sailing Along-Selection.

Patricia Rossborough (Piano). Carefree-Selection.

H. Robinson Cleaver (Organ) Rossborough and Patricia (Piano).

Musical Sweethearts.

Intro: Polly; Dinah; Nola; Dain-

ty Miss; Miss Annabelle Lee; Somebody stole my Gal.

H. Robinson Cleaver (Organ). 1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report. 1.03 p.m. Variety with Vine. More and Nevard. Sophie Tucker and Harry Roy and His Orchestra.

Conversational Man (Lermer and

Shapiro). Sophie Tucker (Comedienne)

with Ted Shapiro and Orchestra. Broken-Hearted Clown-Slow Fox-

Trot.

His

Why Can't We Make Love-Fox-

Trot.

Harry Roy and His Orchestra. Away Down South In Heaven

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

(9.52 megacycles)

(Green and Warren).

Is He The Boy Friend? (Yellen

and Ager).

Sophie Tuckór (Comedienne) with Ted Shapiro and His Orchestra.

The Sheep Were In The Meadow -Fox-Trot (from 'Going Greek').

Harry Roy and His Orchestra. A Little Bit Of Madeira (Alg

More).

Vino, More and Nevard (Come-

dians' with Piano).

A Little Co-Operation From You -Fox-Trot (from 'Going Greck').

Harry Roy and His Orchestral. Underneath A Leafy Oak (Aly

More).

Vine, More and Nevard (Come

dians with Piano). 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.40 p.m.-Dvorak-Symphony No.

In D Minor, Op. 70.

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra con- ducted by Vaclav Talich. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down. 6.00 p.m.-"For The Children”.

Children's Overture (Quilter).

New Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by. Dr. Ealcolm Sar- gent. Studio Serial Story.

"More Very Young" Songs (A. A.

Milne-Fraser-Simson).

Intro: Nursery Chairs; Waiting at the Window; Spring Morning; The End.

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

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

beaten every other system in existence.

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

A Q 10 3

Q 10 9 7

6 2

4 3

THE RIGHT CONTRACT

Mr. Wainwright

AQ J 9 6 3 2

KJ 5 4 2

O J.

.

A

W

N

▲ K 10 7 4

E

♡ 9 6

A 8 5 4 876.

A 8

8 7

OK 8

♣ KQ J 10 8 5.2

The bidding:

South

Weat

1 JA

10

3dp

Pass

North IA 3V

3NT Pass

Dbl. Pass

· Redbl.

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE

FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE... 3

East 20 Pass Pass

tract. In spite of Mr. Wainwright's freak distribution, a game contract in any suit could have been de- feated.

* *

You

were Howard Schenken's partner yesterday and held:

Q 9 7 6 4 3

09864

♣ A. Q.2

The opponents were vulner- able, you were nqt. The bidding:

Mater

Pass Pasa

Schenken

Jacoby

You

Рава

2NT

10 Pass

Dbl. (7)

C.

George Baker (Baritone) with

Piano..

A

6.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions.

Wireless Military 6.32 p.m.-B.B.C.

Band.

The Black Domino-Overture (Au-

ber-arr. Winterbottom). Slavonic Dance No. 5 (Dvorak-

arr. Williams).

Dance

Of The

Flowers-Valse (from 'Le Corsaire Ballet'- Delibes).

Conducted by B. Walton O'Don-

nell.

Howard Marshall

On M.C.C.

v. West Indies

biamo ne' lieti calici

It's Raining Sunbeams (Coslow.

Hollander).

Deanna Durbin (Vocal) with

Orchestra.

Springtime Serenade (Heykens). Musical Box (Heykens).

Marek Weber and His Orchestra. 8.50 p.m.-London Relay-The Club of Queer Trades' by C. K. Chesterton.

Episode 5: "The Noticeable Con- duct of Professor Chadd'. Adapted for broadcasting by Don-

glas Cleverdon.

Characters: Basil Grant; Gilbert Swinburne; Professor Chadd; Doctor Colman; Mr. Bing- ham.

Production by Michael Goodwin.

6.45 p.m.--London Relay-Music Hall.

Randolph Sutton (Britain's Premier Light Comedian); at the Piano, Ste-9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. wart McBean; Ted Ray (Fiddling and Fooling); The BBC Variety Orchestra 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-Ronald Gour- conducted by Charles Shadwell, sented by John Sharman. 7.45 p.m.-Carrol_Gibbons (Piano) and

His Boy Friends.

Pre-

Let's, Fall In Love (from the film). Love Is Love, Anywhere (film

'Let's fall in love').

You Never looked So Beautiful

(film 'The Great Ziegfeld').

ley in songs at the Piano,

9.45 p.m.-London Relay-Sports News

and Market Notes.

9.50 p.m.—The Gay Nineties Singers.

Botany Bay (Traditional).

The One-Horse Shay (Traditional). Hot Codlings (Traditional). 10.00 p.m.-London Relay-In Town

To-night,'

Mine Alone-Fox-Trot (from Mag-10.30 p.m.-Dance Music.

yar Melody').

My Own-Fox-Trot (from "That

Certain Age').

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-Songs by Luigi Fort and

Ruth Etting.

8.15

It's Swell Of You (from 'Wake Up

And Live').

There's A Lull In My Life (from

'Wake Up and Live').

Ruth Etting.

Ideale (Tosti).

Si Vous L'Aviez Compris Melodie

(Denza).

Luigi Fort (Tenor) with. Orch. p.m.--London Relay Cricket→→

M.C.C. v. West Indies.

A commentary during the second day's play by Howard Marshall from Lord's Cricket Ground, London, 8.30 p.m.-Deanna Durbin (Vocal) and Marek Weber and His Orchestra.

Still As The Night (Bohm, arr.

Benedict),

None But The Weary Heart (Tchai-

kovskv. arr. Benedict).

Marek Weber and His Orchestra.

Fox-Trots--

Everybody Dance (film same). When The Poppies Bloom Again.

Jack Payne and His Band. Quickstep-

Hunkadola (from George White's

"Scandals").

Fox-Trot-

According To The Moonlight (from

George White's "Scandals"). Harry Rosenthal and His Orch. Fox-Trots-

When April Comes Again. With All My Heart (film 'Her

Master's Voice').

Jack Payne and His Band. Fox-Trots-—

Weary (from 'Broadway Hostess'). Let It Be Me (from "Broadway

Hostess').

Joe Sander and His Orchestra. Fox-Trots

La Traviata (Verdi)-Libiamo, li- '11.00

Pennies From Heaven (from the

film).

The Skeleton In The Cupboard

(film 'Pennies from Heaven'). Teddy Foster and His Kings of

Swing: p.m.-Close Down.

What's On At the Cinemas

AT THE ORIENTAL

"Algiers", AT THE ALHAMBRA & QUEEN'S with Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy-The story of Irene and Vernam Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, Castle", with Ginger Rogers and Fred Gene. Lockhart and Nina Koshetz. The Astaire. The life story and career of setting of this picture is in the native the Castles, the greatest dancing pair, quarter of Algiers, a refuge for crim-during the years immediately preced-

The ing and following the war. inals from all parts of Europe. story is of the adventures of a devil thief may care international jewel (Charles Boyer) for whose love glam- orous Sigrid Gurie and alluring Hedy Lamarr are rivals.

With AT THE STAR—“Holiday". Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Doris Everett Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes Jean Dixon and Henry Daniell.

*

AT THE MAJESTIC "You Can't Take It With You". With Lionel Bar rymore, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Edward Arnold and Mischa Auer.

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ANSWER: Of course the correct

AT THE KING'S—“Topper Takes 1 answer is that you shouldn't have

Trip”. The disembodied dame who doubled in the first place. How-

caused so much. hilarity. in. "Topper, ever, having doubled and thereby AT THE CATHAY—“Sky Giants", returned to earth once more to land Any time a player has 6-5 dis- conveyed, misinformation, you must An exciting story woven around the luckless Roland Young in a great deal tribution and a good hand, he is now pass. Your partner's two training lives and loves of the men who more trouble before finally restoring guide transport planes in their daily him to the arms of Mrs. Topper. With likely to bid his suits notrump bid should indicate enough | jab of carrying the world's air passen- Constance Bennett, Roland Young, forever, when his strength so that the opponents can gers. With Richard Dix, Chester: Mor-Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree partner opens the bid-make no game. By passing you ris, Joan Fontaine and Harry Carey. Teasdale and Flanklin Pangborn, ding. However, when show you have made an unsound West doubled three bid, and if your partner is doubled notrump, Stuyvesant at two notrump you can now run Wainwright, sitting to three spades. North, reviewed the bidding and said to himself: "West is doubling so as to drive me into a auit. My partner has been able to bid up to three clubs without the - Ace.

I am going to gamble this out at notrump." Hence, the re- double.

KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK':

AVERAGE HAND 67%

West opened his fourth-best dia- mond. East won with the Ace and returned the suit. Declarer won with the King, led over to dummy's Ace of clubs, returned to his hand with the Ace of spades, He did

wbut

Score 100% for pass, 50% for three spades, 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 99

4

You are Oswald Jacoby's part- uor and hold:

AKI

Q 10 x I I ◇ 10 xx AKI

The bidding: You Maiør -- 17 Pass (7)

Jacoby

What do you bidt tomorro

Borasione

Pass

(Answer

THE

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