1939-06-08 — Page 22

"Backstage In Hong Kong" From

The Studio

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 8, 1939 -

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Mozart Quartet In F Major, K. 590. The Budapest String Quartet (Roismann Quartet).

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-De Groot (Violin) and His

Orchestras.

Only For You (String)....De Groot

& Piccadilly Orchestra. Serenade (Schubert). .De Groot

(Violin), A. Gibrilaro (Piano) and Samehtini ('Cello). Destiny (Baynes); La Paloma (Yra- dier)....De Groot & His Orchestra. The Gypsy Princess-Selection (Kal-

man); Other Days (Selection of Popular Melodies-arr. Finck)... De Groot & The New Victoria Or- chestra.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,

Weather Forecast and Announce-! ments.

1.45 p.m.-Dick Foran, The Rocky Mountainers, and Primo Scala's Ac- cordion Band.

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31,49 M. 9.52 megacycles)

There's A Gold Mine In The Ský (Kenny); Whistling Gipsy (from 'Command Performance').... Primo Scala's Accordion Band..

Whisper While You're Waltzing (Scholl-Jerome); The Prairie Is My Home (from 'Guns of the Pecos').......Dick Foran (Vocal) with Orchestra..

Oh Susannah; We'll Rest At The End Of The Trail (Poulton); It Ain't Nobody's Biz'ness What I Do (Browne & Others)....The Rocky Mountainers (Vocal) accomp. by The Bunk House Boys.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

6 p.m.-Children's Hour.

A Cafe In The Moonlight (Connel-17 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations.

ly); The Whispering Waltz (Damerell-Evans)...Primo Scala's |7.02 p.m.-Saxophone Solos by Marcel

Accordion Band.

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Poor Dinah (Morton Morrow)....The

Rocky Mountainers (Vocal) comp. by the Bunk House Boys. Hill-Billy Medley. Intro: The Last Round Up; Will the Angels play their Harps for me; Home on the Range; Wagon Wheels; Ole Faith- ful; Roll along, Covered Wagon.... Primo Scala's Accordion Band."

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Burnetine, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that "kas

beaten every other system in existence.

North, Dealer

North-South vulnerable

♡ 6 3

AA 9 6.3

♡AQ 8 752 0 6

AJ 872

SIGNING OFF

AQ 10 4 ♡ K J 9 ◇ AJ 73 4398

♣ 10·4

K &

◊ Q 10 9 8 4 2

W

$

♣K 7 2

♡ 10 4

ОКБ

AQ 6 5 3

The bidding:

North

East South

1♡

Pass 2

2♡

Pass

2NT

West

Pass PASS

3♡

Pass

3NT

Pass

Рада

Dbl. Pass

Pass

Pass

sign-off bid, which is

in

HIGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

The effect a piteous plea from one part- ner to the other asking him please to stop bidding, will ever be a mystery to players. North's first rebid of two hearts over his partner's two-club response was not in itself a sign-off, but it did

ACE ... 3 KING..2 QUEEN.1 JACK..."

outside trick. That's a total of seven tricks, and if I can get my opponents to lead up to my King of diamonds, that will be the eighth trick. and my Ace will prove to be the ninth."

On this somewhat peculiar rea- soning South bid for game in not- rump, and when East doubled (largely on suspicion), both part- ners were well content: Sure enough, South made ́ ́his King of diamonds and also one trick in each of the other suits so that the entire penalty anounted to only 1,400 points.

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You were. Howard Schenken's partner yesterday and held:

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AK XIX

♡ x

◇ K J I

♬ x x x x were

vulnerable

Both sides and the bidding went: Jacoby You Burnstone Schenken

Pass 14 Pass

3♡ Разв (?)

ANSWER:

Your correct bid is three spades. Some players erron-

Mule.

Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade: Philadelphia Orch.

Edith

Vivat' Hungaria (Kalman).

Lorand & Her. Viennese Orchestra,

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

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Sche- 8.03 p.m.-Rimsky-Korsakov

herazade, Op. 35. Leopold Stokow- ski & the Philadelphia Orchestra. 8.50 p.m.-Studio-"Backstage in Hong

Kong"-3.

9 p.m.-Piano Solos by Patricia Ross-

borough.

Please Teacher!-Selection. Broadway Melody of 1936-Selection. Fidgety Digits (Haines).

Darts And Doubles (Rossborough). 9.15 p.m.-London Relay The News. (arr. Combelle) 9.30 p.m.--London_Relay-World Af-

fairs'. ..with Piano accomp. by Marcel Gaveau.

Le Cygne (Saint-Saens); Variations |

Sur Malborough

Schon Rosmarin (Kreisler); La Pre- cieuse (Couperin, arr. Kreisler).... with Piano.

7.15 p.m.-Edith Lorand & Her Orches- tra. Gitta Alpar (Soprano) and Keith Falkner (Baritone).

Haffner Serenade-Rondo (Mozart) ...Edith Lorand & Her Viennese Orchestra.

The Dubarry (film 'I Give My Heart'); I Give My Heart (from the film)....Gitta Alpar (Soprano) with Orchestra.

Die Czardasfurstin-Potpourri (Kal- man).......Edith Lorand & Her Viennese Orchestra.

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Wings (film 'Mayfair Melody');

Song Doesn't Care (film Mayfair | Melody') ...Keith Falkner (Bari- tone) with Orchestra.

Without The Moon (film 'Mayfair Melody')....Keith Falkner (Bari- tone) with Orchestra. The Countess Maritza Potpourri (Kalman)....Edith Lorand & Her

Viennese Orchestra.

No More. (Cochran's Revue 'Home & Beauty'); Sing. Something In The Morning (Cochran's Revue Home & Beauty').... .Gitta Alpar (So- prano) with Orchestra.

9.45 p.m.-London Relay-Sports News

and Market Notes. 9.50 p.m.-Light Opera.

Chu Chin Chow-Selection (Norton) Gaumont British Orchestra cond. by Louis Levy. Ruddigore Vocal Gems (Gilbert & Sullivan)....Columbia Light Opera Company with Orchestra. Merrie England-Selection (Edward German). .New Symphony Or- chestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sar- gent.

10.15 p.m.-Dance Music.

Quickstep-Could Be; Slow Fox-Trot -Kinda Lonesome (film 'St. Louis Blues')....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Ten Little

Miles From Town; Slow Fox-Trot-They Say .Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans.

The Great Waltz-Selection....Piano

Duet by Rawicz & Landauer. Fox-Trots-Shut-Eye; Cuckoo In The

Clock....Kay Kyser & His Orch. Waltz-St. Bernard Waltz: Veleta-

The Veleta.....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Between A Kiss And A Sigh Hurry Home....Kay Kyser - & His Orchestra.. Tangos--Nada Mas; Frio...Orquesta

Tipica Francisco Canaro. 11 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas`

AT THE KING'S "Secrets of an] Actress".

AT THE MAJESTIC—“Give Me A A glamorous drama of the Sailor", with Martha Raye, Bob Hope, stage, featuring a love tangle. It is Betty Grable, Jack Whiting and J. C. announced as Kay Francis' farewell to Nugent. The story concerns В con- the screen and co-stars with her George tract, made in childhood, by which two Brent and Ian Hunter. There is a flin brothers promise to marry two sisters, supporting cast headed by Isabel Jeans, and the efforts of one of the young Penny Singleton, Dennie Moore and men to evade its terms. As the plot Herbert Rawlinson.

unrolls, Miss Raye, the ugly duckling of the family, turns into a beauty with a nation-wide reputation and the win- ner of a coast-to-coast legs contest, AT THE ALHAMBRA~"The Frón-while. her sister, loses out on the field tiersmen", with George Hayes, Russell of love when she turns out to be a Hayden, Evelyn Venable, Clara Kimball dunce in the kitchen. Young and Robert Mitchell and his St. Brendan Boys. A great Western.

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AT THE QUEEN'S "The Saints Strikes Back"; with George Sanders, AT THE ORIENTAL "Return of Wendy Barrie, Johnathan Hale, Jerome the Scarlet Pimpernel". Back again in Cowan, Neil Hamilton and Barry Fitz- France after the daring escapade in gerald. The adroit methods by which the original "Scarlet Pimpernel". With a modern Robin Hood aids a beautiful Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Mar- young woman, establishes her dead garetta Scott and James Mason.

father's innocence of a crime, and how his mission uncovers the identity of a AT THE STAR—“Roberta”, with mysterious underworld figure, form the show that he held no eously bid three notrump regard- Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene dual themes of this new dramatic mys- rock-crusher, clse he would have less of distribution merely to show Dunne. A musical film. made a strong bid. At this point that their opening bid was a mini- South, who held a fair hand, was mum. The bid of three spades more or less justified in making one shows length in spades but does more attempt to get to game, which not imply additional strength. he did by bidding two notrump.

Score 100% for three spades, 50% for three notrump, O for any other bid.

Question No. 120 To-day David Bruce Burnstone is

You hold:

Now North simply bid three hearts. For the third time he had rebid his suit. To anybody with a grain of sense North's bidding should have indicated the follow-your partner ing: "Partner, I have a long heart suit but it is not solid and I have few outside tricks. M yhand is not strong enough either to raise you in notrump or to bid for game in hearts, Therefore please quit be- fore we get doubled unless you have an exceptionally fine hand."

KJ I

AK JI

Jacoby Раза

The bidding: Halor Рава

(2)

Burustone Pass What do you bid?: ...(Answer Monday,)

South, however, said to himself: "My partner has bid hearts three times. He must have at least - solid six-card suit and surely one Aces).

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