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"Puzzle Corner" And Other

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London Relays

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 2, 1939.

Today's Wireless

12-12.20 p.m.-Relay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral. 12.30 p.m.-Rose Bampton (Contralto) and Leslie Jeffries & His Orchestra. Ravini's (Chaminade); Autompe

Leslie Jef-

Serenade (Raviní)... fries & His Orchestra. Swans (Kramer).....Rose Bampton (Contralto) with Wilfred Pelletier at the Piano.

Springtime

Serenade

(Heykens); The Balkan Princess-Valse' (Ru- bens)....

Leslie Jeffries & His

Orchestra. When I Bring To You Colour'd Toys (from 'Gitanjali'); Light My Light (from Gitanjali')....Rose Bamp- ton (Contralto) with Wilfred Pel- letier at the Piano.

Dance Of The Icicles (from Suite "The Wooing of the Snow-flakes- Kennedy Russell); The Frolicsome Hare (Hope)....Leslie Jeffries & His Orchestra.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Latest Variety Numbers.

Orch. Budapest

Waltz

(Lanner- arr. Hohne); Acceleration-Waltz (Joh. Strauss arr. Hohne)

Orchestra Mascotte.

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

Organ-Magic: Chimes-Intermezzo

(Bust); Whispering Of The Flow

Marcel Palotti with era (Blon). Hawaiian Guitar. Vocal Deep Purple. (Parish) ......

Bebe Daniels with Orchestra. Piano Duet-Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tschaikowsky); Valse Des Eleurs

Noisette Suite' (from 'Casse Tschaikowsky)....Rawicz & Lan-

deuer.

Polka Duet Barrel Harmonica

(Brown & Others); Muziky, Muzi- ky.....The Plehal Brothers with Guitar and Bass Accomp.

and Rugby Press, 1.30 p.m.--Reuter

and Weather Forecast

Announce-

ments.

Compositions of Richard 1.45 pm.

Strauss. "Don Juan" (Tone Poem), Op. 20.... London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Fritz Busch. Morgen ...Nan Maryska (Vocal)

with Piano accomp. by Moore.

W

Gerald

Salome's Dance (from 'Salome')..... The Berlin Philharmonic Orches-

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwn D. Maier. Oswald Jacoby, Howard World's leading Tea m-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

Schenken.

ODDS FAVOUR SLAM CONTRACT

North, Dealer Both sides vulnerable

10

Q 10 9 7

62

010984

3

♡ A O A7 3

96.4

Q J 6 ♣AQJ 2

-K 6.1

K 10 31

K 9 8 6 3

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♡

The bidding:

North

East

-South

10

Pass

West Pass

2NT

Paso

3A

Pass Рад

Pass

When a possible Slam offers an exactly even chance for success, such as a finesse, expert players consider it strictly a toss-up whether or not to contract for

THIGH CARE VALUCE OF THE FOUR ACES SYSTEM

ACE KING..2 QUEEN 1 JÄCK.......!:

POTAL VALARE OF PACK BA

this occurred after North returned to three spades. If South had sim- North for game, ply contracted would have had to pass. South's bid of five spades-a strong Slam invitation-encouraged North to go

to six.

tra cond. by Richard Strauss. 2.15 p.m.-Close down.

6 p.m.-An hour of New Dance Music. Fox-Trot-Watching The Stars (film 'Splinters in the Air')....Ambrose & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Desert Star: Plain Jane

..Jack Harris & His Orchestra, Tangos Quebranto; Sangre De Su- burbio. ..Orquesta Tipica Fran- cisco Canaro. Fox-Trot--Gypsy Tears; Quickstep--- Chopsticks,...Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.

Rossini's "La Boutique Fantasque"

Rodeo March (Ramsay). St. Louis Blues (Handy). Popular Melodies No. 3. Intro: Pen- mes from Heaven; In the Chapel in the Moonlight; Another perfect night is ending; I'll sing you a

There's thousand love songs;

small hotel; Did your Mother come from Ireland?

8.15 pm-London Relay--You're The Girl. A musical comedy. Book and Music lyrics by Harold Plumptre.

by Geoffrey Henman with The Aug- mented B.B.C. Variety Orchestra Pro- conducted by Percy Mackey. duction by Francis Worsley. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay The News.

Trio In G. Major, Gerry 9.30 p.m.-Haydn

Cortot, Thibaud and Casals.

Slow Fox-Trots-I'm Building___ A Sailboat Of Dreams; What Do You Know About Love? Moore (Piano). Waltz-I Paid For The Lie That I Told You; Fox-Trot-Small Town

........... Gerald & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots The Spider And The Fly; "Taint What You Do... "Fats" Waller & His Rhythm.

Angels Never Leave Quickstep

Waltz-Waltz Of My Heaven; Heart (from "The Dancing Years') Victor Silvester & His Ball- room Orchestra. Fox-Trots Wings Over The Navy (from the film); The Old Tin Hel- met.......The Organ, The Dance Band and Me. With Male Voice Quartet,

A

Tangos A Song Without Words: Venetian Night.....Emil Roosz & His Orchestra.

7 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations. Etudes Sym- 7.02 p.m.-Schumann

phoniques, Op. 13 and Op. Posth. Alfred Cortot (Piano).

7.26 p.m. Schubert Songs.

Spring will Come; To Sylvia.... Hein-

rich Schlusnus (Baritone) 'with Piano accomp. by Franz Rupp (Sung in German).

7.33 p.m. Rossini La Boutique Fan- tasque. London Philharmonic Or- chestra cond. by Eugene Goossens.

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.. 8.03 p.m. Harold Ramsay at the

Organ.

9.45 p.m.-London Relay Sports News

and Market Notes.

9.50 p.m.-Songs by Stuart Robertson

(Baritone)

10

There's A Tavern In The Town; John Peel; Little Brown Jug; The Three Crows (Eastburn); The Mermaid; Polly Wolly Doodle (arr. W.H.M.) ....with Piano and Chorus.

Devised p.m.-London Relay-Puzzle Corner presented by Neil Munro.

by Harry 8. Pepper. Chief Puzzler. Lionel Gamlin. Produced by Ronald Waldman.

10.30 p.m.-Dance Music.

Dajos

Tangos-Do You Like Dancing?

Night Of Love Divine.... Bela Dance Orchestra. Fox-Trots Outside

Of Paradise

(from the film); Lost And Found Jack Harris & His Orchestra. But Fox-Trots-Love Ain't Nothin'

The Big

The Blues; Cherry.. Chocolate Dandies. Fox-TrotsMeet Me Down In Sun- set Valley; Sunday In The Park Mantovani & His Orchestra. Waltzes-Tales Of Hoffmann-Waltz ·

Selection; Tango Nostalgia Del Deserto....Barnabas Von Geezy & His Orchestra.

II p.m.-Close down,

What's On At the Cinemas

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AT THE KING'S “Romance Of AT THE MAJESTIC "The Lady The Redwoods." Spectacular produc- Objects" Conflict of careers between Everything worked out according tion of Jack London's thrilling and husband and wife and dramatic to the odds. The diamond finesse dramatic tale of love, treachery and counts of a woman lawyer who defend- in the great north ed her own husband against charges was wrong, but the club finesse desperate perily

With Charles Bickford, Jean of murder. With Gloria Stuart, Lanny was right; and although East held woods. four trumps, he was unable to win Parker, Alan Bridge, Gordon Oliver, Ross, Joan Marsh and Robert Page. Ann Shoemaker and Lloyd Hughes. a trump trick.

You and your partner, Howard Schenken, ⚫ere vulnerable yester- day. You ld:

KII

A Q XXX

♣ KI

You

The bidding:

Jacoby Schenken 10 Pass 14 (?)

Burnstons

QUESTION NO. 168

it. However, in order ANSWER: Your correct bid is to to be successful at pass. You have an absolutely mini- Contract, it is of par-mum bid and hence have no right Remember, amount importance to give a free raise. to bid the great maj-you are vulnerable, and your part- ority of Slams that her may have a weak hand. If he offer better than an has a strong hand, he will show it. Score 100% for pass, 60% for even chance. For example, in to- day's hand there were two finesses two spades, 40% for two hearts, to be taken. If either proved suc-0 for any other bid," cessful, the Slam would be made provided that no trump trick would have to be lost. As far as the two finesses were concerned, the mathe- matical odds are three to one in favour of one of them being right; and as for losing a trump trick with this particular holding, it will hap pen about once in four times in other words, the Slam offered con- siderably better than an even chance for success.

However, in order to arrive at any Slam contract, one of the players at some stage has to make an aggressive bid. In this instance

David Bruce Burnstone is youí partner, y bold:

The bidding

(Released

Ind.)

The Bell Syndi

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"Peck's Bad AT THE ALHAMBRA...“Up The Boy With The Circus," with Tommy "A hilarious comedy of the Kelly Ann Gillis, Edgar Kennedy, River!

With Preston Foster, Billy Gilbert, Benita Hume, Spanky Big House. Slim Summerville, Tony Martin, Ar-MacFarland and Louise Beavers: The thur Treacher and Phyllis Brooks. picture depicts the adventure of Bill Feck, typical American boy whose AT THE QUEEN'S. "Ben Hur," pranks conceived in innocence always The greatest picture of Silent Days at boomerang into misadventures. last in Sound.

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AT THE STAR-"Bordertown." The AT THE ORIENTAL—“The Duke gripping and colourful romance of s of West Point." Fast-moving. kus-young foreign-born American who penseful story of love and self-sacrifice satisfles his lust for power in a sordid at America's famed military academy, town on the Mexican border and for staged on a big scale and with a huge the woman who does not stick at mur- cast of capable performers. With der to link her fate with his. With Louis Hayward, Tom Brown, Richard Paul Mani, Bette Davis, Margaret Carison, Alan Curtis and Joan Fon-Lindsay, Eugene Pallette and: · Gavin

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