1939-09-15 — Page 26

THE CHINA-MAIL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939

-BUD FISHER

ANY EXPERIENCE?

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VERY BORRY, BUT WE

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THAT?

JUST OUT

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ARE YOU SEEKING?

MUCH CHANCE FO

TAKE

PRIVATE

Peter Gracey's Fifth Talk

On Great Composers

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-A Short Service of Inter-

cession.

12.30 p.m.

Operas.

Excerpts from Verdi's

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.Music by "The Organ, the

Dance Band, and Me'.

Sweet As A Song-Fox-Trot (film

'Sally, Irene and Mary'). Cry, Baby Cry-Fox-Trot. Never Break A Promise-Waltz. Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride-Fox-Trot (film 'Romance and Rhythm'). 1.15 p.m.-Maxwell Stewart's Ballroom

Melody.

Quick-

There Goes My Affection -

step; I'm Gonna Lock My Heart- Quickstep; The First Quarrel- Waltz; Joseph! Joseph!-Quick- step; So Blue the Skies-Tango..

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

9.52 megacycles)

ments. 1.45 p.m.-Latest Variety Numbere.

Fox-Trots-You Set Me On Fire; Shoemaker's Holiday Jimmy Lunceford & His Orchestra. Vocal-De Temps. En Temps (Mis- raki); Sur Deux Notes (Misraki) ...Josephine Baker with Orch. Orch.--The West Ain't What It Used to Be (Robison); South Of The Border (Kennedy, Carr).... Carson Robison & His Pioneers. Vocal-D'Une Prison (Hahn); Pay- sage (Hahn)....Tino Rossi (Ten- or) with Plano. Tangos-Suplicio; Yo Sere Como Tu Quieras....Orquesta Típica Fran- cisco Canaro,

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, 2.15 p.m.-Close down.

Weather Forecast and Announce-16. p.m.-Rachmaninoff—Rhapsody

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

On

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

THE BIGNS WEREN'T RIGHT

There are a great many hands which | final contract of three notrump was with a reasonably good break will pro- not a bad one since, if Declarer could duce a notrump game, but which with get away with the loss of but one club a bad break will go down several trick, the hand would be a laydown. tricks. With such hands the

after proper However,

the double technique, if doubled, is to run to your think South should suit.

A

East, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

A 9 5 4

A A 6

K 10 8 6 O J AA J 10 876

6. Q J 10

7.3

♡ J 4 2

AQ 9 3

W

OQ 10 2-

S

2

K 8 2

087.5 4

♡ 7 G OAK 9 6 3

North

18

6 43.

The bidding:

East

South

West

Pass

Pass

Pass

P088

10

16

Рааз

2NT

Pass

INT

Pass Pass

20 34

Dbl.

Pass

Pass

'Pass Pass

TIGH PARS VALUES OF THE SOUDAÇER SYSTKIN

BACK SY

KING

QUEEN 1 WACKE

The Queen of spades' was opened, The way the cards lay, the best Declarer could do was to go down 500.. Ac- tually he misplay the hand slightly and went down 800,,. At

i this point the partner got into a row hs to who had partner got into a row as to who had overbid the hand, and finally appealed to us.

we

have run out to four clubs, since it should have been obvious to him that the double meant but one thing-club strength in back of his partner.

*

*

*

Yesterday, with both sides vulner- able, you were the dealer and held:

A A K Q 6 5 4

♡ 3 2

0 3 2

Q * $

What was your correct bid?

ANSWER: Your correct bid is one spade. With a good six-card suit and a hand above average in high cards, it is safer to bid on the first round than at a later stage.*

Score 100% for one spade, 40% for three spades ((since your suit is not solid, this bid is dangerous vulner- able), 40% for pass.

QUESTION NO. 206

Neither side is vulnerable. You are Howard Schenken's partner and hold:

AKG 5 4

A 8 6.

The bidding:

Schonken Pass

OA 3 2

874

/ Jacoby

Burastane Yon Poss

Pass (7) (Answer What do you bid? tomorrow.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate,

The answer is that both... overbid their hands slightly. However, the Inc.)

A Theme Of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 43. Sergei Rach- maninoff with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 6.23 p.m.---Songs by Theodore Challa-

pine (Bass).

Song of the Flea (Moussorgsky);

Slander is a Whispering Zephyr ("The Barber of Seville'-Rossini). 6.32 p.m.-Closing. Local Stock Quota-

tions,

6.35 p.m.-Magyarl Imre & His Hun-

garian Gypsy Orchestra. Passing The Church; Lilac Flowers Mourn for Me (Zoltan); Pale Yel- low Rose; I Love You Beautiful Lady (Sandor); My Sweetie Is Roaming About; How I Could La- ment!; You Can't Forbid A Flow- er; The Sleeves of My Jacket Arg Tied Up.

6.48 p.m.-Viennese Waltz Songs-

O Vienna, my beloved Vienna ("The Tourist Guide-Ziehre).....Elisa- beth Schumann (Soprano) Orchestra.

with

Vienna, City of My Dreams (Siec- zynski)....Webster Booth (Tenor) with Orchestra.

I Give My Heart ("The Dubarry'- Millocker).....Grace. Moore (So- prano) with Orchestra. Without Your Love ("The Dubarry'

-Millocker)

Grace Moore (Soprano) and Richard Crooks (Tenor) with Orchestra.

Beethoven's Choral Symphony

Actual Performance at the Hol- born Empire, London)......Max Miller. Vocal--Lilac Domino-Waltz Song (film The Lilac Domino')....June Knight (Soprano) with Orchestra and Male Quartet. Piano-Accordeon Band-The White Cliffs of Dover (Towers); Log Cabin Lullaby (Schuster)....Lon- don Piano-Accordeon Band.

(Conrad & Vocal Good-Night

Others).....The Hill Billies with their Own Novelty Accomp.

Weather

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal,

Report and Announcements. 8.08 p.m/Studio-Short Blographical Studies of Great Composers by Peter Gracey, No. 6: Beethoven. 8.45 p.m.Beethoven-Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"). The Vienna Philhar- monic Orchestra conducted by Felix Weingartner,

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9.15 p.m.-London Relay The News. 9.50 p.m.Next. week's programme. 9.55 p.m.-A Programme of Variety

and Dance Music..

Sans -Vocal-Vous Qui 'Passez

Me Voir Slow Fox-Trot; Ces Petites Choses (Strachez)....Jean Sablon with Orchestra.

Slow Fox-Trots-A New Moon And An Old Serenade; We've Come A Long Way Together....Harry Roy & His Orchestra. -Humorous Sketch The Lodger (Newman). The Fol-De-Rols. Gypsy Orch.-Spanish Dance (Don Rico); Gypsy Dream (Horvath).... Don Rico & His Gypsy Girls Orch. Vocal

Melody Magyar

Mine Alone (Maschwitz); Magyar Me- lody Music for Romance (Mas- chwitz)....Binnie Hale with Or- gan Accomp.

7 p.m.An hour of Variety with The Hill Billies, Max Miller, Florence Desmond and Others. Vocal-I'm Still Dreaming (from

"When Knights were bold'). Jack Buchanan with Orchestra. Vocal-Headin'. Home (film Here Comes the Band'); Thar's Gold In Dem Thar Hills....The Hill Bil- lies with Their Own Novelty Accomp. Comedienne-In Love Again (from 'Seeing Stars') (With Impressions of Bing Crosby and Elizabeth Bergner); Public Sweetheart No. -1 (from 'Seeing Stars')....Flor-

ence Desmond with Orchestra. Piano Accordeon Band-Six Hit Medley No. 2. Intro: In a Little Gypsy Tea Room; Rehearsing a Lullaby; Kiss Me Goodnight; Lul- laby of Broadway; Little Golden Locket; Call Me Sweetheart London Piano-Accordeon Band. Vocal-The Sunset Trail (Kennedy & Carr); Yodelling Hobo (Ted & Ezra).......The Hill Billies with Their Own Novelty Accomp. Talking & Singing-Max Miller In

The Theatre (Recorded during an 11 p.m.--Close down...

Orch. Novellette Serenade. (Hen- selt); Mexican Serenade (Kaschu- bec)....Frederic Hippmann & His Orchestra.

Orch. Cowboy's Home In Heaven (Robison); Little Swiss Whistling Song (Davies)....Carson Robison & His Pioneers.

Piano Quickstep Medley. Intro: If I didn't care; A new moon and an old serenade; The Pretty Little Quaker Girl; Summer Sweetheart; Wishing My First Goodnight. Billy Thorburn. Comediennes-Park Yourself Close To Me (Butler); In The Parlour When The

Gone Company's (Western).. Elsie & Doris Wa- ters with Piano.

Vocal-Honey Chile (Dale); Good- night, Little Skipper (Ida & Others).. ..Denny Dennis with Instrumental Accomp.

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