1939-12-26 — Page 16

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1-16

Schubert's Unfinished

Symphony

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-

sion.

12.30 p.m.--New Mayfair Dance Or.

chestra.

12.50 p.m.-Songs by Peter

(Bass Baritone).

Dawson

1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-Luclenne

Boyer

(Vocal)

with the Orchestra Mascotte, 1.30 p.m.--Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.45 p.m.-Dance Music.

2.16 p.m.-Close Down.

6.00 p.m.-An Instrumental Concert

with The Walter String Players and

Lionel Tertia (Viola).

6.32 p.m.--Folk Music.

Scandinavian Dances.

Shoemaker; Hornfffin.

Norwegian Mazurka; Mangling.

Today's Wireless

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

9.52 Megacycles

Mallebrok; Lot Is Dead. Varsovienne; Feder Mikkel.

Folk Dance Orchestra cond, by

Victor Olof.

6.45 p.m.-Compositions Of Schubert.

Moment Musicale In F Minor. Impromptu In B Flat, Op. 142,

No. 5.

Wilhelm Backhau (Piano). Laughing and Weeping (Op. 59, No. 1); My Love Is Green (Op. 83).

The Trout (Op. 32). Kirsten Flagstad

(Soprano)

with Plano accomp. by Ed- win McArthur.

Symphony No. 8 In B Minor ("Un-

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken...

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

GALLANTRY

was terrible.

However, his bidding While the North player was theore- tically blameless for what happened In the first place he should not have to him and South in to-day's hand, bid two hearts over the opening no- actually he took full blame, saying, trump, and in the second place, when bid two spades, South. "I should have known that the idiot I his partner

have passed then was playing with would automatically should definitely have bid three hearts if I bid two and there. spades, and hence should not have bid at all."

North, Dealer

North-South vulnerable

4904

* Q 9

**

*

Saturday you were Merwin Maler's vulnerable partner. Your side was and you held:

AKQ 10 9 8 2 09

AK 6 5 2

A Q 10 8 6

♡

0 Q 8 6 5

J 10 8 3

9 7 3 2

A K J 4

The bidding:

9 8 7

♡ AQ 10 2

You

Burnatone

10 7 3 2

W

S

034

AK 72

2♡

5

(1)

KJ 6 5 48

OAK 9

4.8 5 4

The bidding:

North East

Bouth

West

Pass

INT

2♡

Pasi

2A

PABE

3♡

Pass

Pass Dbl.

Pass

Pass

Pase

SUBH CARE VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

West opened the Queen of Clubs and continued the sult, East cashing the Act and King and leading the fourth. South ruffed with the

Jack of hearts, played a spade to dummy's Ace, ruffed a spiade. Tor his third trick, led a diamond to dummy's Queen, trumpad an other spade for his fifth trick, laid down the Ace of diamonds for the sixth, and later on made the King of hearts, so he was set-but-two tricks.

ALE.. KING QUEEN 1 JACK.....',

Maler

Pass

Dbl.

Schenken 30 Pass

ANSWER: Your correct bid is five hearts. While normally you do not take out your partner's business doubles, in this case your hand la a tremendous freak and you expect to make five hearts.

Score 100% for five hearts, 80% for six hearts (optimistic), 20% for pai

QUESTION NO. 292;

With neither side vulnerable, are Howard Schenken's partner and hald:

L

AJ 6 3 ♡ 10 8 OK 1094

K 6 8

The bidding: Hurnstona Teu Jabebr Schenke

Pass

Pass

Pass 10

Dbl.

(7)

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)

* (Released" by The Bell Syndicale, Ins.)

finished").

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Bruno Walter. Impromptu In E. Flat Major, Op.

00, No. 2.

Andante In A.

Elleen Joyce (Piano). Serenade (Schubert).

De Groot (Violin), Gibrilaro (Piano) und Samchtini ('Cello).

Vocal-

Dance Music And Variety

Programme

Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye with string bass and drums.

(from

Kiss Me Goodnight (Greer, Green). A Little Dash Of Dublin

'Peg of Old Drury'. Anna Neagle with Orchestra. Fox-Trots-

There's Something Wrong With

The Weather.

You Grow Sweeter As The Years

Go By.

Band

The Organ, The Dance

and Me. 9.05 p.m.-8tudio-Comments on Re-

cent Events.

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Wea-9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

ther Report and Announcements.

mary.

8.03 p.m.--An hour of Dance Music 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Cards on

and Varlety.

Fox-Trots

Our Love.

You Grow Sweeter As The Years

Go By.

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. Vocal-

All Because Of You (Starr and

Others).

Let's Go Ballyhoo (Starr

and

Others). Browning and Starr with Piano.

Rumba-

Tendre Bolero.

Lecuona Cuban Boys.

Vocal-

Medley.

the Table."

9.45 p.m.-Grleg-Peer Gynt Suite No.

1, Op. 48.

London Philharmonic Orchestra con- ducted by Eugene Goossens.

10.00 p.m.--Songs by John McCormack

(Tenor).

10.10

Intro: You're here, you're there Oh they're tough mighty tough in the West; Sally, Sing-|-· -- - as we go; Un peu d'Amour;. Can you hear me Mother.

famous artists. Introducing

Compered by Gracie Field: and Sandy Powell.

Vocal-

Me and The Old Folks at Home

(Leon and Others). Jump On The Wagon (Connor).

The Hill Billies with Their No-

velty Accomp.

Tangos-

I Dream Of The Puszta.

Emil Roosz and His Orchestra. Do You See The Stars?

Emil Roosz and His Orchestra. Comediennes----

At The Court Of Good Queen Bess. Darts, With Gert And Daisy (E.

and D. Waters).

Elsie and Doris Waters. Two Pianos-

Tin Pan Alley Medley No. 18.

Intro: And the angels sing; What goes up must come down: What shall I say?: Don't worry about me: Our love; You grow sweeter as the vears go by.

Q Gathering Clouds (arr. Bain), Love's Secret (Blake-Bantock),

With Plano accomp. by Edwin

Schneider.

Ever In My Mind (Taylor-Rus-

sell).

With plano accomp. by Percy

Kahn.

p.m.-De Groot and His Orch. Erstes Waltzer-Potpourri

brecht).

(Ro-

Other Days-(Selection of Popular

Melodies arr. Finck). 10.25 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-

Tears On My Pillow. My First Goodnight.

Harry Leader and His Band. Waltz-

Easy Street.

Quickstep-

Fall In And Fly (Official R.A.F.

Recuiting Song).

Billy Cotton and His Band. Fox-Trots--

The Blackpool Walk.

The Girl In The Upstairs Flat.

Felix Rendelssohn and His Orch. Quickstep-

Could Be.

Slow Fox-Trot-

Hurry Home.

Mantovani and His Orchestra,

Rumbas-

Moon Of Monte Carlo. Rumba Colora.

Lecuona Cuban Boys.

Fox-Trot-

Let's Stop The Clock.

Geraldo and His Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-Close Down.

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