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Great Composers

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.

Today's Wireless

12 noon-12.20 p.m.-RELAY-Service

of Intercession from St. John's

Cathedral.:

12.30 p.m.-Elsie Carlisle (Vocal) and

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. September In the Rain-Fox-Trot

(Warren); A Melody For Two- Fox-Trot (Warren) ...Jack Hyl- ton & His Orchestra. With All My Heart - From "His Master's Voice" (McHugh); He's An Angel (Hodges)....Elsie Car- lisle.

Jan

Fox-Trot

Swing Is In The Air

(Hoffman)....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra,

Deep In A Dream (Van Heusen); Grandma Said (Wrubel)..... Elsie Carlisle.

Lord and Lady Whoozis-Fox-Trot ("Gangway"-Hoffman); When You Gotta Sing, You Gotta Sing-Fox- Trot (Hoffman).....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m. Larry Adler (Mouth Or- gan) and Henry King and His Or- chestra:

ΟΙ Man River-Fox-Trot (From "Show Boat"-Kern); Make Be- lieve-Fox-Trot (From "Show Boat"-Kern).....Henry King & His Orchestra.

Easter Parade-Fox-Trot (Berlin); Say It With Music-Fox-Trot (Berlin)......Henry King & His

Orchestra,

You Can't Run Away from Love To- night. Intro: 'Cause My Baby Says It's So (Film: Singing Mar- ine Warren).

Night Over Shanghai (Film: Sing- ing Marine-Warren). Larry

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

9.52 megacycles)

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Adler (Mouth Organ). Tu Sais-Tango (Ervande)....Henry

King & His Orchestra. You Came to My Rescue-Fox-Trot (Rainger); Talking Through My Heart-Fox-Trot (Rainger) Henry King & His Orchestra. ; 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby:Press. Weather Forecast and -Announce- ments.

from 'Puccini'a

1.45 p.m.-Excerpta

Operas. Musetta's Waltz Song-“La Boheme"

...Grace Moore (Soprano). Strange Harmony-"La Tosca".

Jussi Bjorling (Tenor), Intermezzo--"Manon Lescaut"

Milan Symphony Orchestra. They Call Me Mimi "La Bo- heme". ....Claudia Muzio (So-

prano). Farewell, O Happy Home-"Madam Butterfly".... Alessandro Valente (Tenor).

"Madam The Love Duet, Act I...

Butterfly". .Margaret Sheridan. (Soprano), Aureliane Pertile (Tenor), with La Scala Orchestra, Milan.

2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN

6 p.m.-An Hour of Variety and

Dance Music.

Quickstep Medley, including:-Sum- mer Sweetheart, Wishing, My First Goodnight....Billy Thorburn (Piano).

Don't Worry About Me-("Cotton Club-Bloom); Life Is Nothing Without Music (Hartley).... Leslie Hutchinson at the Piano. One- Sunday Afternoon-Fox-Trot

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

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

ken.

North, Dealer

A GREAT MANY DISCARDS

North-South vulnerable

A Q 5

AK

OA 98

4 K J 9 3 2

J 10

K

10 7 6 4

N

3

W

9 8 6 2

◊ 3 2

4 A 9 8 5

0 6 4

10 7 4

8 6 4 3 2

K QJ 10 7 5 G

North

East

14:

10.

South 14

3♡

Pass

40.

West. 20 Pass

44

Рава

60

Pass

B0 Puss

Pass Pass

The bidding:

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(West).... Billy Thorburn & His Music...

Tidings of Spring-Waltz (Eberle); Valse Basque (Wittman).....Or- chestra Mascotte.

Come and Stay, Sweet Fortune (Film: Into The Blue-Dehmel); Life Is Lovely (Film: Into The Blue Dehmel).. Lilian Harvey (Sopraho).

Sing My Heart-Quickstep (Arlen) ....Victor Silvester & His Ball- room Orchestra.

Song Of My Heart (Wismar); My Heart Belongs to You Alono (Marische)............. Herbert Groh (Tenor). Boomos-A-Daisy (Mills) A New Novelty Dance.. Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra, Shut-Eye" (Donaldson)...:Harry Roy

& His Orchestra. We've Come A. Long. Way Together --Slow Fox-Trot (Stept): A New Moon and an Old Serenade Slow Fox-Trot (Coslow)....Harry Roy & His Orchestra, I.Cried For You (Lvman): I Can't Believe That It's You (Silver)..... Connie Boswell (Vocal),

Variety And Dance Music: London Relays

You Were Unfaithful To Me; You Left Me, Don't Come Back; Far Goes The Crane; Down It Pours in the Puszta...........Magyari Imre & his Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. 7.40 p.m.-"Band Waggon".

Produced by Harry Pepper & Gor- don Crier. Recorded from. an Actual B.B.C. Broadcast, with Ar- thur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Sydney Walker, and Company. 8 p.m.-Local Time Signal, - Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Next Week's Programmes. 8.06 p.m.--Selected Tangos.

Milonguita (Lining); Cari 10 Gaucho (Paiva); Madrecita de Pompeya (Laino)

Orquesta, Tipoca

Francisco Canaro.

8.15 p.m.-LONDON — "Hitting The High Spots". A. Cabaret Programmo in Three Moods. Devised by Archie Campbell..

8.45 p.m.STUDIO-Short Biographl- cal Studies of Great Composers, by Peter Gracey, No. 5-Beethoven.. 9.15 p.m.~LONDON—The News. 9.30 p.m.-LONDON-“More Food For Thought". Short Talks on Matters of Topical Interest. 9.46.p.m.-LONDON

and Market Notes.

(Bass-Baritone).

Sports Newo

The Shabby Old Cabby Waltz (Still-

man)....Billy Cotton & his Band.9.50 p.m.-Songs by Peter Dawsom Little Swiss Whistling Song. (ParT- Davies).....Rebe Daniels & Ben Jon with Orch: directed by Jay Wilbur.

7 n.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.09 n.m.-The Aldershot Command

Rearchlight. Tattoo 1935. The Music of the Massed Bands of the Aldershot Command recorded at the Tattoo,

£7.21 n.m.-Light Orchestral Relections. Guney Dro¬m-Czardas · (Horvath \: Srianish Dance-(Don Rion)....Don Rico & his Gynev Girls Orchestra, Mavicon Serenade (Kaeshpher). Novallatte Serenade (Henceit) Frederic Hippmann & his Or-

chestra.

Sea Winds (Harrison). Full Sail (Buck).

Waltzing Mathilda (Cowan) An

Australian Bush Song.

As Ned

10 p.m.-LONDON—“Came

Kelly". The Story of the Kelly Gang, Bushrangers of Australia. 10.45 p.m.-The Light Symphony Or-

chestra.

Like To The Damask Rose (Elgar, arr: Haydn Wood); Queen Mary's Song (Elgar, arr: Havdn Wood); Two Interlinked French Folk Me- lodies (Ethel Smyth); Minuet (From "Fete Galante") (Ethel Smyth).

11 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

What's On At the

AT THE KING'S—“Confessions of à Nazi Spy," with Edward G. Robin- son, Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas. The story of "G- Men" who shattered the Nazi Spy ring that spread its tentacles across the United States.

finesse was now unnecessary, for after drawing trumps South found that he was actually able to discard... five of his six spades. Three small spades went on dummy's club guit;:{ the other two on the Ace-King of hearts.

Of course West could have defeated the contract by leading any other suit after cashing the club Ace. But the fact remains that with the same opening there would have been no play for the Slam in spades.

...

Yesterday, with neither sidé, vul- nerable, you were Howard Schenken's partner and held:

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AT THE CATHAY-"Love Affair.” The poignant romance of an interna- tional casanova and a luxury-loving lady who try to best love at its own game and run into a situation adds a tear to a show that is mostly laughter. With Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskava, Lee Bow- man. Astrid Allwyn and Maurice Mos- covich.

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AT THE MAJESTIC—“The Great "Waltz."Superb presentation of the warmly human and dramatic life story of Johann Strauss and of the two AT THE STAR--“Ben Hur." noble women those fate was bound up greatest picture of Silent Days at last with his glorious melodies, With in Sound. Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet, Miliza Korgus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill and Curt Bois.

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HISH CARD VALUES

OF THK

FOUR-ACER EYSTEM

South exercised a good deal of ira- gination in his bidding, Although his partner had indicated strong spade support, South still showed his distinct preference for dia- monds. He felt that with diamonds trump, his partner's hand might furnish a great many discards for his small spades.

FACE 3 KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK 14

- VITAL MALAJE DE PLEK SO

OVERAGE KURIED 6.7%.

Against the six- dia- mond contract West made a fine opening-the club Ace (this lead would automatically have defeated a six-spade contract). West's second play was not ing lead....

his

nepal to his open-

the forlorn could trump

that.. the second round of clubs, West continued the suit, whereupon Declarer finessed dummy's Jack, which of course held the trick. South now trumped a club and, when both opponents followed, dummy's two re- maining clubs were now established for the additional discards. The spade

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YI 10 x X

♡ AQ JI

♫ X X X

The bidding: Barnstone". You Jacoby Selzenken PREJ Pass 40 Dbl. Pass (7)

ANSWER: Bid four spades. While your partner's double is theoretically for business, it is actually optional, and it looks as though you should have a fine play for four spades.

Score 100% for four spades, 50% fór pass."

QUESTION NO. 194 You and your partner, David Bruce Burnstone, are vulnerable. You hold:

AQ 10 = X

Ó A XI ¿AJX

The bidding: Barnstove - Maler

Pass

You (7)

Jucaby

(Answer

What do you bid? tomorrow.)

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AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM- BRA-"Persons In Hiding." The tale

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AT THE ORIENTAL—“O#f The Re-"of a deadly, calculating charmer with cord." The tale of two newshound a taste for expensive perfumes who newly-weds who set a "Dead End" made killer out of a small time kid as a wedding present, together crook-taken from the No. 1 G-man's with the hilarious and thrilling scrapes notes of his famous cases. With Lynne they run into trying to reform him. With Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Allan Baxter and Wil liam Davidson.

Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Car roll Naish, Helen Twelvetrees and William Frawley.

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