1939-05-26 — Page 26

Barbara Gilmar

And Father Riganti In Studio Recital

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1939.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Raie da Costa (Piano),

"Stand Up And Sing" Medley

(Charig).

"King Of Jazz"-Medley.

12.43 p.m.-Bob Crosby and His Or-

chestra,

Cross Patch-Fox-Trot.

Big Chief De Soto Novelty Fox-

Trot.

Dixieland Shuffle--Fox-Trot. You're Lovely Madame Fox-Trot

(film 'Artists & Models Abroad'). What Have You Got That Gets Me- Fox-Trot (film 'Artists & Models Abroad').

I p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Richard Tauber (Tenor) and

Vienna Boheme Orchestra. Spring Waltz (Lincke); April Smiles, Waltz (Depret)....Vienna Boheme Orchestra.

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

I

Casals.

Vienna, City Of My Dreams (film] 1.40 p.m.-Mendelssohn-Trio In D 'Heart's Desire'); Let Me Awaken Minor, Op. 49. Cortot, Thibaud and Your Heart (film 'Heart's Desire') . Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Orchestra.

Liebesfreud

(Old Vienna Waltz Kreisler)....Vienna Boheme Orch. My Every Thought, My One Desire (from 'Giuditta-Lehar); Love- liest Of Women (from 'Giuditta Lehar).... Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Orchestra.

Valse Romantique (Max Heinecke); Die Hochzeit Der Winde, Waltz (John T. Hall)....Vienna Boheme Orchestra.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter

Weather Forecast ments.

and Rugby Press,

and Announce-

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,

TO DUCK OR NOT TO DUCK

East. Dealer North-South vulnerable North-South 60 on score

K 6.5 2 10 9 5 4 3

06.

K 75

Q 10 4 3

V.A 8

0 Q10 9 7 W

5 2

6.

4 9

East

AJ 87 ♡ 2 EOKJ 3

QJ 10

3.2

♡ K Q J 7 6

ly trumped in dummy and discard- ed the remaining losing club from his own hand.

The mistakes were rather unusual.. West could have beaten the hand by playing his Ace on the first trump lead! East could have beaten the hand by not playing his Ace on the first spade lend!

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You were Declarer on Saturday

2.15 p.m.-Close_down.

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

(a) Thanks for everything; (b) Could be; (c) Sailing at Midnight; (d) Swingtime in Honolulu.

6.14 p.m.-Record: If You Love Me (Noble); A Couple Of April Fools (Kennedy & Carr).....Carroll Gib- bona (Piano) & His Boy Friends. 6.21 p.m.-(a) Rose Room; (b) Black Eyes; (c) Only when you're in my arms; (d) When you're smiling. 6.35 pm-Records: Jan Kiepura Film Melodies....Marcel Palotti (Organ). A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (film "The Great Ziegfeld').. .Frances

Day (Soprano) with Orchestra. 6.44 p.m.-(a) Heart and Soul; (b) Miss Annabella Brown; (c) Love is where you find it; (d) When Pa is Courtin' Ma.

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 p.m.-Elsie & Doris Waters, Leslie Hutchinson, Frances Day and The Mills Brothers & Others. The Pretty Little Patchwork Quilt- Fox-Trot; Too Lovely To Be True -Fox-Trot (film 'The Sky's The Limit')....Jack Wilson & His Ver- satile Five with Vocal Refrain,

8

Handel's Messiah: H.K. Singers

Three Brass Bells-Novelty Quick- step; Eccentric-Novelty Quick- step....Henry Hall & His Orch. Sleepy, Head (film 'Spy 18'); Jungle Fever (film 'Spy 19')....The Mills Brothers (Four Boys & a Guitar), Pickin' My Way (Lang-Kress); Feel- ing My Way (Lang-Kress)...Eddie Lang (Guitar) with Guitar accomp. by Carl Kress. Hiccups (E. & D. Waters); The Tale

Of A Hat (E. & D. Waters). Elsie & Doris Waters with Piano. Take Me In Your Arms (Roneproni); There's Rain In My Eyes (Ager- McCarthy-Schwartz)

Leslie

Hutchinson (Vocal) at the Piano. p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Philadelphia Symphony Or-

cliestra.

Song Without Words (in A minor, Op. 40, No. 6-Tchaikowsky); Ya- blochko Russian Sailors' Dance (from The Red Poppy Ballet'); Hungarian Dance No. 1; Gavotte ("Mignon-Thomas). cond. by Leopold Stokowski.

8.15 p.m.-Relay of a Recital by Bar. bara Gilmar (Soprano) and The Very Rev. Father R. Riganti (Organ) from St. Joseph's Church, 8.45 p.m.--Beethoven -- Sonata In A Major, Op. 69. Emanuel Feuermann (Cello) and Myra Hess (Piano). 9.05 p.m.-Schubert Songs.

The Erl. King, Op. 1; Hedge Rose, Op. 3, No. 3; Impatience, Op. 25, No. 7....Alexander Kipnis (Bass) with Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore.

I Feel A Song Coming On (film 'Every Night At Eight'); When- ever I Think Of You (Harry 19.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. Woods)....Leslie Hutchinson (Vo-19.30 p.m.-Handel's *The Messiah". cal) at The Piano.

Oh, Isabella-Waltz (Teich); Moun-

tain Life-Waltz (Stucki) Tessin Band. A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Fitzgerald & Feldman); Music, Maestro, Please (from These Foolish Things').. Frances Day (Vocal) with Orch.

(Relayed, from St. John's Cathedral). The Hong Kong Singers. Soloists: Eva Turner (Soprano); Helen Lock- hart (Contralto); Gaston d'Aquino (Tenor) and L. T. Ride (Baritone) with E. O'Neil Shaw at the Organ. Conducted by Rupert Baldwin. 111 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas,

AT THE KING'S — “Garden of the story of a dancing star who attempts romance, snappy comedy and delightful through marriage with Moon". Jam-packed with excitement, to escape from her surroundings melodies, it's Busby Berkeley's biggest farmer. The resulting family entangle a Kansas musicale. A great cast includes Pat action. The production was brought to O'Brien, John Payne, Margaret Lind the sreen

by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. say, Johnnie Davis, Jerry Colonna, Joe Frank Borzage directed. Venuti and his Swing Cats and Jimmie Fidler.

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the

AT THE ORIENTAL—“The Sisters”. Myron Brining's down-to-earth, tensely AT THE CATHAY "Kentucky human tale of three sisters and at six clubs in a Rubber Bridge Tony Martin, Marjorie Weaver, Slim on the stormy seas of Marriage. The Moonshine". Starring the Ritz Brothers, widely different fates they encountered game. Dummy held:

Summerville, John Carradine, Wally cast includes Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Vernon, Berton Churchill and Eddie Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Collins. Just one big riot of mirth and Beulah Bondi, Jane. Bryan, Alan Hale melody, in which Public Maniacs turn and Dick Foran. hill-billies to scoop a radio contact and

◊ A 8 4

A 9 8 4

The bidding:

South

West

North

1

1♡

20

2,♡

KQ B

30

3♡

Рава

Рава

3A

4♡

44

Pasa

Pass

5♡

Dbl.

PADD

♡ Q 2 OA QJ 4 J 4 3 2

find that there's romance in

Равн

PABO

You held:

3 B

A K

◊ K 6 5

A Q 6 B

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

3

ACE... KING..2 QUEEN 1 JACK......!

TOTIKK WALINE OF DONK TE

"them

to camp

there hills" and a spot of feuding as with Anne Shirley and Roger Daniel. AT THE QUEEN'S "Boy: Slaves”, well.

The story of "Boy Slavea" centres on a group of juvenile outlaws whose way- AT THE STAR-"Rascals". Princess ward activities finally lead them Jane of the Gypsies rescues a runaway being paroled to a turpentine rich girl who has lost her memory and owner. Anne Shirley is cast as a young leads her into all sorts of hilarious housekeeper for the latter, and her ef adventures before she finds it again, forts to help the boys escape bring With Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, about tense dramatic complications. Barrah Minevitch and his gang.

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East's and West's spirited defensive bidding finally got South to a contract at which he should

How do you play the trumps? have been set. But

ANSWER: You can the defence slipped a lose

afford to one trump little and he made not two.

trick but

AT THE ALHAMBRA—"The Wild- the hand.

The correct play is to AT THE MAJESTIC lay down the Ace of trumps and Sullivan, Melvyn Douglas and Robert story of tough men and women in the "Shining catter", with Scott Colton, Jean Ro- Hour", with Joan Crawford, Margaret gers, Jack Small and Russell Hicks. A The singleton club was opened. then play a low club towards the Young Declarer won with the Ace and Jack. There is no play to make

"The Shining Hour", is the oil, rush days. laid down the Queen of hearts, the hand if either opponent holds whereupon West made mistake No. four trumps to the King. This 1-he held off with the Ace. Now play guards agains a 4-1 split Declarer played the Ace and an-with the King being a singleton. other diamond, trumping in dum Score 100% for correct my, and led a small spade. East O for any other play. made mistake No. 2. Fearing De- clarer held the singleton Queen

Question No. 109

play,

Oswald Jacoby is your partner. of spades, he went right up with the You are the dealer and hold:.

Ace and played the Queen of clubs. West discarded, Declarer won in dummy with the King, led the King of spades, discarded a clubyfrom: his own hand, ruffed a spade, ruffed a diamond in dummy," ruffed the last spade and led a low heart.

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The bidding:

INT Pass .(7)

K.Q

Jababy.

ichankan

What do you bid?. (AHIWAT tomorrow.);

West was now in the lead with the Ace and had to play another diamond, whereupon Declarer almp-| Aces),

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