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"Round Britain"

And Other London Relays

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1999.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 p.m.-Primo Scala's Accordeon

Band and Sam Browne (Baritone).

When They Played The Polka (Hol

zer-Andre); The Highland Swing (Grant-Johnston)... Primo Scala's Accordeon Band.

Alone (film ‘A Night at the Opera') Sam Browne (Baritone) with Orchestra.

Six Dance Hits. Intro: Vieni Vieni, Whispers in the Dark; Sympathy, Remember Me, Afraid to Dream, Gangway....Primo Scala's Accor- deon Band.

A Little Bit Independent (Leslie & Burke); Gypsy Violin (O'Flynn & Betzner) Sam Browne (Bari-

tone) with Orchestra.

You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes (Ager & Others); When The Swallows Nest Again (Stevens- Edmund)....Primo Seala's Accor- deon Band.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m. Haydn-Symphony No. 102

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

In B Flat Major, Serge Koussovit- zky and the. Boston Symphony Or chestra.

1.25 p.m.-Song by Gerhard Husch

(Baritone).

Die Ehre Gottes Aus Der Natur (Beethoven, Op. 48, No. 4)....with Organ accomp. by Paul Mania.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments,

1.40 p.m.-Variety_Programme.

Military Band-Passing Of The Re- giments (arr. Winter)....The Band. of H.M. Coldstream Guards.

Vocal-Botany Bay (Trad.); The .The One-Horse Shay (Trad.), Gay Nineties Singers with Orch.

Organ-Londonderry Air; Traumerei (Schumann, arr. Woodhouse)..... Sandy Macpherson at the B.B.C. Theatre Organ.

vath); Spanish Dance (Don Rico) ....Don Rico & His Gypsy Girls Orchestra.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

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

(a) Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride; (b) Ya Got Me; (c) Junior; (d) Huggin' and Muggin'.

6.14 p.m.-Record: Piano Hits-Fox- Trot Medley; Waltz Medley.. Bur- ton Brown at the Piano.

|6.21 p.m.-(a) Lambingan; (b) Cali- seed; (c) Let Me Whisper; (d) Chi- quita, La Cubaine.

6.35 p.m.-Records: "The King Steps Out"-Waltz Medley; "It's Love Again" Fox-Trot Medley

The Keyboarders (Two Pianos & Drums).

tions.

Vocal-Magyar Melody-Music For 6.43 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

Romance (Maschwitz & Sherwin); Mine Alone (Maschwitz & Pos- ford). .Binnie Hale with Organ. Orch.-Gypsy Dream (Sandor Hor-

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwn D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken . . .

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

"GRAND SLAM OR DOWN FOUR!

ath, Dealer Both sides vulnerable

Mr. Lightner

64

♡ 10 9 8 7

6 2

◇ J 10 8

5 3

K Q 3

J4

A KQ I

K 8 6 5

10 8 5 ♡ E◊ 9 7 6

QJ97

4 8 2

AJ 9 7 2 ♡ A K Q 5 3 0 4

A 10

The bidding:

South West North Baat 14

Second Act

Of Mozart's "Don Giovanni”

Harmonists (Vocal) with Piano. Bells Across The Meadows; Sanc- tuary Of The Heart....Albert W. Ketolbey conducting His Concert Orchestra (with Choral Effects).

8.30 p.m.

Songs by Nelson Eddy (Baritone).

The

Trees (Kilmer-Rasbach); By

Waters Of Minnetonka (Cavanass- Lieurance); Dusty Road (Leon Rene & Otis Rene).

8.40 p.m.--Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragn-

muffins.

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Sweet Georgia Brown Fox-Trot; Wabash Blues-Quickstep; Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Fri- day On Saturday Night (Lewis & Others); You Made Me Love You (McCarthy - Monaco); Cheerful Blues-Slow Fox-Trot; Jazz Me Blues Quickstep.

9 p.m.-London Relay - 'Empire Ex- change. Points of view by travel- Iers from the Dominions & Colonies.

6.45 p.m.-London Relay-'Round Bri- tain', with H.-V.-Morton and The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra. Arranged 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. by Owen Williams and George Les- trange.

7.30 p.m.-London Relay 'At The Black Dog. Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour.

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.Compositions of Ketelby.

Royal Cavalcade (Coronation March) The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards cond. by Lieut, J. C. Win- dram.

The Phantom Melody; Algerian Scene.. Albert Sandler (Violin) with Composer at the Piano.

In A Monastery Garden....Reginald

Foort at the Organ.

9.30 p.m.-Edwin Fischer at the Piano,

Fantasia In C Minor, K. 396 (Mo

zart); Fantaisie In C Major, Op. 15 ("Wanderer") (Schubert).

9,45 p.m.-London Relay---Sports News

and Market Notes.

9.50 p.m.-Mozart's "Don Giovanni” Act II. Singers in order of appear. ance: Brownlee; Baccaloni; Hellets. gruber; Henderson; Mildmay; Souez; Franklin and Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company conducted by Fritz Busch.

In A Persian Market........The Comedy'11 p.m.-Close down.

What's On At the Cinemas

AT

"My partner said that he would have doubled to get me to make an unusual opening except that he was afraid the opponents would

THE MAJESTIC "Always and first romances of a group of young run out to seven notrump. He was Goodbye", Barbara Stanwyck, Her-girls, that might be a page from the right, for South said later that if bert Marshall and Ian Hunter in a life of every woman. With Anne Shir- vivid and gripping drama of conflict-ley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Doris he had been doubled, he would

ing loves, superbly staged and power-Kenyon, Noah Berry jr.. Gloria Hold- have sensed that something was fully portrayed. A fine supporting en and Kenneth Howell. wrong and bid seven notrump, cast includes Cesar_Romero, Lynn which would have been made.”

**

* * You were Oswald Jacoby's part- ner yesterday and held:

I I

10 9 8 XXX

Bari, Binnie Barnes, Franklyn Peng- born, Ben Welden and Hollywood's lat est child star, little Johnny Russell.

*

*

*

AT THE QUEEN'S-"You Can't Cheat An Honest Man.” Hilarious but intensely human tale of a four-flushing |fast-talking_faker and his feud with AT THE ORIENTAL—“Arrest Of Charlie McCarthy, who heaps coals of Bulldog Drummond", with John Ho-fire on the old fraud's head by saving ward and Heather Angel. A thrill his circus for him. With Edgar Ber- packed story of the efforts of interna-gen, Charlie vulnerable

McCarthy, Mortimer tional spies to capture an amazing mi- nerd, W. C. Fields, Constance Moore, litary secret and to murder any one Mary Forbes, Thurston, Hall, Princess who knows too much.

Baba and John Arledge.

Pass

30

Pass

J 10 X X X

Pass

3A

Pass

Pass

Pass

Pasa

Pase Pass

3♡

Both sides were and the bidding was: Burmstone Xoa Schenken Jacoby

Pass 30 Pass Pass

Pass 3A

4d%

Pass 6A 74

Pass Pass What do you lead?

Pass

Pass

To-day's hand, which prompted Question No. 130, undoubtedly wins the palm for the prize hard-luck

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

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

hand of the year. It was played in a Rub- ber Bridge game at the Regency Club in New York City, with Theodore A. Light- ner, who sat West, guessing the correct, opening lead of a heart. Mr. Lightner took no credit for this since he had a choice of only two suits, the trump lead being definitely ruled out.

TOTAL WALANE OF FACE TO

"If Declarer held five hearts à not unreasonable. assumption," Mr. Lightner explained, "dummy would have to have only two for my partner to be void. For me it was one of the luckiest hands I have

ANSWER: Lead a heart. Since the Declarer (Mr. Burnstone)-bid hearts at one stage and may easily have five of the suit, there is a chance that your partner is void.

Score 100% for a heart, 60% for a diamond, 0 for a trump.

QUESTION NO. 131

Howard Schenken is your part-

You hold:

ner.

The bidding: Schenken ·Maier.

14

Dbl.

Redbl.

10 x x x x

Burnstone Pasz

(?)

Pass ever seen. After trumping the heart, my partner naturally returned a club and we cross-ruff- ed the first four tricks, ting the contract 400 points,

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)

(Released, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.).

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