1939-08-26 — Page 22

"Lucky Dip" And other London Relays

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 25, 1030.

Today's Wireless

12-1220 p.m.—Rejay of Service of In- tercession from St. John's Cathedral,

12.30 p.m.-A Spanish Programme...

Suite Iberia (Albeniz)......... ..Madrid Symphony Orchestra cond. by En- rique Fernandez Arbos.

Granada (Albeniz and Cuenca).

Conchita Supervia (Mezzo-So- prano) with E. 'Marshall- at the Piano.

The Lover and the Nightingale

(Granados)

Elleen Joyce

(Piano).

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Tessie O'Shea (Vocal) and

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.

Show

Boat Shuffle Fox-Trot; Echoes Of Harlem-Fox-Trot........... - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. No Wonder She's A Blushing Bride

(Dublin & Others); Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! What A Silly Place To Kiss A Girl (Gilbert)........ Tessie O'Shea (Vocal) with her banjulele and orchestra.

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

9.52 megacycles)

Merry-Go-Round-Fox-Trot

'Alexander's Ragtime Band') Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. Ray Noble &. His Orchestra:

2.16 p.m.-Close down.

I'm Satisfied--Fox-Trot; Sump'n 'Bout Rhythm-Fox-Trot.....Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.

He Said "Kiss Me" (Waite); You're At Blackpool By The Sea. (Waite) .Tessie O'Shea (Vocal) with her banjulele & Orchestra:

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

1.45 p.m. Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-You. Started Something: If This Is Only The Beginning.... Billy Ternent's Rhythm. Quickstep-Nellie Dean; Slow Fox- Trot-Ida Sweet As Apple Cider ....The Six Swingers.

Fox-Trots-There's A Grand New Picture In My Picture Frame; Be- wildered....Horace Heidt & His Alemite Brigadiers.

Fox-Trot-Lillian; Waltz-Ferdin- and The Bull, Horace Heidt & His Brigadiers.

Fox-Trots Now It Can Be Told (film 'Alexander's Ragtime

Gripps

Dance Orchestra

Hooper?" Book by Fred Thompson and Lyrics by Clifford Grey. Music by Howard Talbot and Ivor Novello. Adapted for The Microphone by Henrik Edge. Production by George Barker,

6 p.m-Bach--Brandenburg Concerto

No. 3 In G Major, Ecole Normale (9.02. p.m.-Eric Coates — Springtime Chamber Orchestra, Paris, conduct- Suite. Light Symphony Orchestra ed by Alfred Cortot.

conducted by The ComposET. 6.13 p.m.-A Piano Recital by Percy 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The Newa

Grainger. Fantasia and. Fugue In

G Minor for Organ (Bach-Trans-9.30 p.m. London Relay London cribed for Piano by Liszt).

Log.

6.27 p.m.-Bach-Bonata No. 3 in E. Isolde Menges (Violin) and Harold Samuel (Piano).

'Lucky

6.45 p.m.-London Relay

Dip. Thirty-First Edition. 7.30 p.m.-Orchestral_Selections.

The Nuremberg Doll

(Adam) Grand Symphony Or- chestra.

Band'); My Walking Stick (film 8

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken. World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

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North, Dealer North-South vulnerable

A GOOD RECOVERY

AAK 7

A 10 8 4 9

O Q J 9 28 6

4 9 9 4

10 6 3

✓ K J 9 0874 2.TW A Q 7 6

◊ AK 10 6

3 4 J 10 9 3

2

AJ 8 5 2

♡ Q 7 6 5 3

◊ 5

4 AK 4

Mr. Loo

The bidding: North Bast South

West

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1NT 20 *♡

2♡

Pass

Разв

Pass

Pass

"Another interesting hand appeared

- last night," writes William D. Lee of

Evanston, III.,

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE

J

one of our favourite corres- FOUR-ACES SYSTEM --- pondents, "North, my

ACE3

partner, opened the KING 2

festivities with one no- QUEEN 1 trump!

He obviously JACK was not using the Four Ace System. East put in а two- diamond, overcall, I bid two hearts and North ended the bidding with his jump to four hearts.

“TOTAL SPAJAK OF PACKSS

Overture

Love In Idleness--Serenata (Mac- Beth); The Knave Of Diamonds (Steele)... Alfredo Campoli & His Salon Orchestra.

Old And New (A Potpourri of Po- pular Melodies — arr. Herman

9.45 p.m. London Relay Sports

News and Market Notes. |9.50 p.m.--Local Sports Results.

9.53 p.m.-Two Scottish Songs.

Sound The Pibroch (Traditional, arr. Lees); Skye Boat Song (Tra- ditional, arr. Lowson).

Alexan- der Macgregor (Baritone) with Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore. 10 p.m.-London Relay Lochaber Highland Games. Description of the scene and intervigews with of- ficials and competitors at one of Scotland's most famous Highland Games from Lochaber.

Finck).....Herman Finck & His 10.30 p.m.-Relay of the Dance Or-

Orchestra.

p.m-Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

chestra from the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel. With recorded intervals from Z.B.W..

8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording 'Who's '12 midnight-Close down.

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What's On At the Cinemas

"The Firefly."

AT THE KING'S—“Zenobia", with AT THE STAR Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, June Jeanette MacDonald has a new sing- Lang, Bille Burke, Alice Brady, ing sweetheart in the person of Allan 'Jones in this filmization of the cele- James Ellison and Harry Langdon. brated Otto Harbach-Rudolf Friml Oliver Hardy plays the role of Dr. Operetta. Allan Jones plays his most Tibbitt, a genial, easy-going doctor. important screen role as the dashing His life, however, becomes deeply in-Don Diego who pursues the elusive volved with intrigue and publicity, "Firefly" throughout a series of tur- however, when the town's society ar-bulent romantic adventures biters learn that doctor has treated an new musical hit. The supporting cast elephant, Zenobia, who is bullyhooingbert and Douglas Dumbrille.

includes Warren William, Billy Gil- a medicine show, Further complica- tions follow when Zenobia, to show

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trumped dummy's remaining diamond.her gratitude, breaks her chains and I then threw West in with a trump. hunts out Dr. Tibbitt at his home. West cashed his two trumps but he evidently had lost count (I had no trumps left) and was afraid that if he led another diamond, I would ruff in my hand and discard the losing spade from dummy. He led from his Queen of spades and I then made my con

Had I played safely on the first heart lead, I would have had no work to do. But then there would have been no letter to write."

tract.

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You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner yesterday and held:

A 108 = = 0 4 3.9

The blading: Hon Jacoby 1♡ Pasu

Barnstone

3V

Maler Pass

ANSWER: Your correct bid is four clubs. This cue-bid is a Slam Invita tion below the game level which is justified in view of youd partner's double raise.

Score 100% for four clubs. 70% for four hearts or three notrump, 20% for five hearts (a dangerous bid that re- ceives no bonus).

QUESTION NO. 189 Oswald Jacoby is your partner,

You hold:

A K

♡ K 9 x I

10 x x The bidding: Jacoby Schenken- You

10

Pass

"West opened the deuce of diamonds. 'I covered with dummy's Jack and East's King won the first trick. I won the club return, then led a small. trump, and when West played the nine, I admit that I should have played the ten, as I could afford to loss one trymp trick. But I got a little hoggish at this point and went up with the Ace, hop- ing to drop the singleton, King.... When East showed out, things looked bad, but I saw just one chance provided-I could induce West, a rather poor player, to make an error. I trumped a diamond, then led a club, ruffing the third

round in

dummy, and next, Inc.)..

3♡ Pass (?)

Pass What do you bid? ́ ́ ́(Answer tomorrow.)

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AT THE ORIENTAL—“Gracie Allen Murder Case,” with Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew and Kent Taylor-The year's most maddening and mirthful mystery.

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AT THE QUEEN'S — “Five Came Back", is hailed as year's most sensa- tional picture, with Chester Morris, plot deals with the forced landing in The Corner." Lucille Ball and Wendy Barrie. The AT THE MAJESTIC-“Just Round A delightful as ever, Brazilian jungle plane carrying eleven persons,

transport but this time a bundle of mischief as andwell The industry's top-ranking star with the drama that surrounds their has been given a fine, well-knit story efforts to escape. A trick of fate puts and the best supporting cast she's ever forward a confessed murderer as the had, to put it over; With Shirley sole arbiter of the destinies of the Temple, Charles Farrell, Joan Davis, little party, thus contriving one of the Amand Duff, Bill Robinson, Bert Lahr strongest climaxes the screen has and Franklin Pangborn. ever revealed.

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AT THE CATHAY "Idiot's De- light." Film version of the famous

AT THE ALHAMBRA—“East Side Pulitzer Prize, play which takes one of Heaven." Mirth, melody and two from the conclusion of one World War appealing romances, figure in this de- to the beginning of another and high- lightful story of a million-dollar baby lighting its effects upon the various and the five and ten-cent pair who characters concerned. With Norma find him. With Bing Crosby, Joan Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Harvey, Joseph Schildkraut, Charles Coburn C, Aubrey Smith and Jerome Cowan, and Burgess Meredith.

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