1939-05-20 — Page 22

Mrs. Mathieson In Studio Song Recital

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1939.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In-

tercession from St. John's Cathedral.] 12.30 p.m.-Frank Titterton (Tenor)

and the New Light Symphony Or- chestra.

Incidental Music To "Mary Rose" (O'Neill)...New Light Symphony Cond, by Orchestra and Chorus. Norman O'Neill. In An Old Fashioned Town. (Squire); My Dear Soul (Sanderson)....Frank

Titterton (Tenor) with Piano. Policeman's Holiday (Ewing); Par- ade Of The Tin Soldiers (Jessel) .New Light Symphony Orch.

.Frank Oh! No John (arr. Sharp)

Titterton (Tenor) with Piano ac- comp. by Claude Ivy.

A Life On The Ocean (Nautical Se- New Light lection-Binding)...........

Symphony Orchestra,

1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather

Report.

1.03 p.m.-A Scottish Programme with

Sydney McEwan (Tenor). 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press

Weather Forecast ments.

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

Night Time In Cairo-Fox-Trat;}

Georgianna-Fox-trot

The Six

Swingers. Melodies Of The Month, No. 20. In- tro: Take my heart; South Sea Island Magic; There isn't any limit to my love....Len Green (Piario)} with Drums.

All To Specification (Wilcock & Ru- therford)...Arthur Askey (Vocal); with small Orchestra.

Hot Pie. Intro: Sailing on the Ro- bert E. Lee; Alabamy Bound; Cali- fornia, Here I Come; Japanese Sandman; Ain't Got Nobody; Birth of the Blues

George Scott Wood & His Six Swingers.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

to).

Haydn's Farewell Symphony

8.45 p.m.-Haydn-Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell") In F Sharp Minor. Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the Lon- don Symphony Orchestra,

Joye; Elisabeth Welch; Edward 9.10 p.m.-Local Sport Results.

'London Cooper & Ray Noble & His Orch.9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News.

Log "Rose Marie" Selection (Friml).... 9.30 pm. — London Relay

New Mayfair Orchestra. 6.30 p.m.-Quentin M. Maclean at the 9.45 p.m.-London Relay Stock Ex-

change Report & Sports News. Organ.

9.50 p.m.Military Band Selections.

Tidworth Tattoo, 1985. Intro: Fan-

Night Must Fall (film The Tenth Man'); It Was So Beautiful (Freed & Barris) ...with Vocal Chorus by Dan Donovan.

King Of Jazz-Selection (Wayne, De Costa, Yellen & Others).....with Regal Cinema Orchestra. 6.45 p.m.-London Relay Lucky Dip"

Presented by Seventeenth Edition. William MacLurg. The music play- ed by Rae Jenkins' Lucky Dip Or chestra.

7.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6 p.m.-Musical Comedy Selections.

Musical Comedy Marches. Intro: Riff

Song (Desert Song); The Moun-7.32 p.m.-Danny Malone (Tenor) in

ties (Rose-Marie); Song of the and Announce-

1.40 p.m.-Variety with Arthur Askey, Len Green, Dinah Miller and George Scott Wood's Six Swingers.

The Snoop-Quickstep; So You Left Me For The Leader Of A Swing

The Six! Band-Quickstep

Swingers.

I'm 'Mr.

River Man (Simon-Mysels); Pixilated Over You (film

Dinah Deeds Goes To Town'). Miller (The Personality Girl) with Orchestra.

Melodies Of The Month, No. 2. In- tro: My dance; Marie Louise; It's ...Len Green easy to remember; (Piano) with String Bass Drums.

and

Drum (from some); The Three Tokay Musketeers (from same);

Sweet); The Robbers' (Bitter March (Chu Chin Chow); Love's Sentry (Madame Pompadour); Goodbye (The White Horse Inn) with Light Opera Company Orchestra. "No, No, Nanette"-Selection (You- mans)....New Mayfair Orchestra with Edward O'Henry (Organ). C. B. Cochran Medley-Intro. mem- "Af- bers from "As you were";

"On gar"; "League of Notions"; with the Dance"; "Black Birds": "One dam thing after "This Year of Grace", chran (Compere) assisted by Janet

Winning

another";

.C. B. Co-

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 wurtam in existence. COSTLY CARELESSNESS

A. Cyril Daldy of St. Louis, Mo., he overtrumped, West's eight of sends us another interesting hand. spades was good for the setting He writes:

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE

FOUR-AČÉS SYSTEM

ACE 3 KING..

QUEEN 1 JACK.....':

TOTAL MALLI GETACLES EVERAGE HUM 16

"Recently I watched a

hand which seems

trick.

"After taking the

first club

an Irish Programme. ^ Double Jigs... .Frank O'Higgins

(Traditional Fiddler) Gray at the Piano.

fare (Cavalry Trumpeters); Beat- ing Tattoo; I passed by your win- dow; Gommercourt; Despatch Rid- ers; Entry of Massed Bands; Pro- bajenski; Entry of Massed Bands; 56th Brigade; Physical Training; After the Ball is over; Bonnie Dundee: Musical Ride; St. Pa- trick's Day; Charge; The Road to the Isles; Entry of Massed Bands; Come back to Rule Britannia; Erin; Men of Harlech; Highland Laddie; Cock o' the North Massed Bands of the Command.

with Julia

10

p.m.-London Relay

The Bard Of Armagh (arr. Herbert Hughes); The Hills Of Donegal (Sanderson). Danny Malone (Tenor) with Orchestra, Mason's Apron-Reel;

Clonmell Jig.

+

Rakes Of Frank Murphy

(Accordion) with Piano. Love's Roses (Broones); Sweetheart Darlin' (film 'Peg o' my Heart')... Danny Malone (Tenor) with Orch. Irish Medley. Intro: Rakes of Mor- row; Mother Machree; When Irish A little bit of eyes are smiling; heaven; Garry Owen; Irish Wash- erwoman; Peggy O'Neil; Rose of Tralee; Killarney; St. Patrick's Day......Reginald Dixon (Organ).

York World's Fair'.

Southern

"The New

A talk by John

The AI- Stories

Gloag (from America). 10.20 p.m.-London Relay

chemists', by Dan Aitken. and legends of the men who bave sought to change base metals into gold. Production by Leslie Stokes. 10.50 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Orches- tra from the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel.

Record: Rumbas On Toast. Intro: La Cucuracha; Mama Inez;.The Carioca; Siboney; Tony's Wife; Side walks of Cuba; Green eyes; When Yuba plays the Rumba on the Tuba.....Arthur Young & Reginald Foresythe (Piano Duet) with String Bass & Drums. 11 p.m.-(a) You and You; (b) 1001 Nights; (c) Broken Life; (d) Dark Eyes.

Carmen Sylva-

Internationał

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Break-11.15 p.m.--Record:

A talk by

Waltz (Ivanovici)..... ing Athletic Records".

Concert Orchestra. Harold Abrahams. 8.20 p.m.-Studio Concert by Mrs. 11.20 p.m.-(a) Sixty Seconds got to- gether; (b) When Pa courts Ma; (c) Neil Mathieson (Contralto) with E.

Garden of the Moon; (d) Pied Piper O'Neil Shaw at the Piano,

of Hamelin Town.

1. Three songs by Edward Elgar:

(a) In Haven; (b) Where Cor-11.35 p.m.-Records: Speak To Me Of

als Lie; (c) Like To The Dam- ask Rose.

My

2. (a) Nod (Armstrong Gibbs); (b) Sweet Chance, That Led Steps Abroad (Michael Head)........ Mrs. Mathieson (Contralto).

3. First Arabesque (Debussy) .....

E. O'Neil Shaw at the Piano.

Love (Lenoir); Lulu's Back In Town (film Broadway Gondolier'); In A (Leslie & Little Gipsy Tea Room Burke)

George Scott-Wood (Piano-Accordion) assisted by Gui- tar, Bass & Drums. 11.45 p.m.-(a)

Love is Where you Find It; (b) Jeepers Greepers; (c) My Reverie; (c) Black Eyes.

4. Life And Death (Coleridge-Tay-

lor).... Mrs. Mathieson (Contral-'12 Midnight.-Close down.

interesting by rea-trick, Declarer could just as easily What's On At the Cinemas

son of its apparent have played a heart to dummy's simplicity. Actually, Ace and taken the simple safety

AT THE STAR-“A Family Affair." Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, Wil- of leading towards his it was not quite so measure

instead of away A heart-warming drama of life in the liam Henry, William Frawley, Ernest simple as it seemed trump sequence

Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric and it left me with an from it. Against this slightly bet-average small town. The cast includes Truex and Broderick Crawford. uncomfortable feeling ter play no defence would have set Linden and Mickey Rooney. that I, also, would the hand."

have lost the contract by playing in the same careless way, as the actual Declarer."

South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable

8 63 2

K 9 6 6

0 9

KQ10 8

5

A 7 3 2 A.Q10 7

$942

W E

A 9 QJ84

0 85.42 4J78

KQ.J 10.7 4 10

◊ K J 3

♣ A 6 5

The bidding:

South Wost

North

14

Pass

20

34

Pass

3NT

Pass

Pass

East Pass Pass Pass

·

Yesterday you were David Bruce Burnstone's partner and held:

K XIX

KII x

X X X

Neither side was vulnerable. You had a part score of 60. The bidding:

Burnstons Maler

2

You

(?)

Jacoby

ANSWER: Your correct bid is to pass, since your partner has a chance to bid again and a'free'bid' at this point might encourage him to go too high later.

Score 100% for pass, 70% for two spades, O for any other -bid.

Question No. 104

Merwin Maier is your partner.

"South won the opening club You hold: lead" Mr. Daldy says, “and noted. that if the trumps were divided no worse than 4-2, he had but one apparent 'loser in spades and two in clubs. Confidently he led the spade ten, on which East played the Ace. But after the defenders had cashed two club tricks, West led the thirteenth card of that suit. East ruffed with his other wise useless nine of spades and Deolarer was down one, for when

I. X X X

10

(2)

The bidding: You • Schenken.

Maler Pass 2.0.

What do you bid? tomorrow.)

(Answer

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