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Variety Programme : Dance Music

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Inter-

cession.

12.30 p.m. Mozart — Concerto In E

Flat Major, Artur Schnabel and Karl Ulrich Schnabel (Two Planos) and The London Symphony Orches- tra conducted by Adrian Boult 12.55 p.m.-A Mozart Song.

Vanish'd Are Ye (The Dove Song from

Tiana "The Marriage of Figaro") Lemnitz (Soprano) with The Berlin Phil- harmonic Orchestra. 1.00 p.m. Local

Time

Signal and

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

9.5 Megacycles

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.--Royal Naval Bingera in Ben

Bhanties and Bonge.

Sca Shanties. Intro: Billy Boy: Johnny Come Down to Hilo; I'll Go No More A- Roving: Rio Grande.

Sea Songs. Intro: Jolly Roger; Sallora

Chorus.

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces).

David Bruce Burnatone, 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 cristency.

A BQUEEZEROO.

1,13 p.m. New Light Symphony

Orchestra.

"The Dubarry”—Selection, Intermezzo (Coleridge-Taylor). "Princess Ida"-Selection (Sullivan).

1.30 p.m.-Router and Rugby Press,

Weather Forecast ments.

and

1.45 p.m.-Dance Music.

Announce-

The Tonoff

Trio From

The Studio

8.11 p.m.-Respight-'The Birds" — A Suite for Small Orchestra. Brussels Royal Conservatoire Orchestra cond. by Desire Defauw.

8.30 p.m.--Studio - The Tonoff Trio playing Enrico Bosal Trio, Op. 107, in D Minor.

Allegro moderato. Scherzo Vivace, - Dialogo Larghetto. Finale Festoso.

9.00 p.m.- Two Songs by Amellta

Galli-Curel (Soprano).

Chanson Indoue ("Badko"

Korsakov).

-

Les Filles De Cadiz (Delibes),

cent Events.

Rimsky-

9.15 p.m.London Relay-News Bum-

mary.

3/4 Quick Step-Cuban Lady: Fox-Trot | 9.05 p.m/Stúdió--Comments on Ro-

Gypsy Tears....Mantovani & His Orch. Waltz-Love In Your Eyes: Tango-This Is The Kiss Of Romance....Eugene Pini His Tango Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Good-bye; There's Something Wrong With The Weather....Billy Cotton & His Band.

Waltz Medley, Intro: Roses are blooming in loveland; There's danger in the Waltz; The Little Golden Ring. Fox-Trot Medley. Intro: Stairway to the Stars; I never knew heaven could Speak: If I were sure of You....Billy Thorburn

at the Plano with Drums. Fox-Trots-The Big Dipper....Larry Clin ton & His Orchestra; Dipsy Doodle.... Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra,

2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

6.00 p.m.-Old English Music.

Suite for Strings (Purcell) .... Philhar- monte-Symphony Orchestra of New York cond. by John Barbirolli.

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (Words:" Ben Jenson; Music: Anon.); Passing By (Herrick & Purcell)....Hu- bert Eisdell, Heddie Nash, Dennis Noble and Norman Allin with String Quartette. Chaconne (Purcell);----Galliard-—(William- Byrd)....Society of Ancient Instruments.

not blank his In technical terms the case where squeeze. He could Declarer in running off some long suit | King of hearts. Hence he discarded a squeezes himself is known as the "suf-club. Observing this, West also threw cide" squeeze. However, a friend of a heart, which left him with one heart ours recently, dubbed this play the and the King and another club. Now dummy. "squeczeroo," and we like the name so Declarer led a heart from much we

have decided to adopt it. East jumped in with the Ace and play-6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota- Here is an example of this play: ed his club, whereupon West won the

last two tricks.

South, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

A QJ 2

8 2

♡ 9 8 7 4 2

Q 10 &

087:6

OK J9 G

A 2

K 7 5 4 A 63 0.4.3 2 AJ 76

W

K 5 4 3

A 10 9 8

♡ K J

O AQ 10

Q10 9 8

The bidding:

South West

INT

Pass

North 2♡

East Pass

2NT

Pase

INT

Pass

Pass

Pass

Hoping to

HIGH LARD VALJUJES

OF THE BIGR-ACES SYEYİNİ

ACE. KING QUEEN 1 JACK

#

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

AKXX

Ι Ι Ι

♣ A XX

The bidding:

Malor

Burnstone

Jacoby

Pass

Pai

Pass

Pass. Pass

10

Pass

2 d

Pass

20

Pass

30

Pass (1)

Your correct opening bid was one spade--not one club,

that

Score 100% for pass, 60% for four diamonds, 30% for three notrump.

QUESTION NO. 315 You are Oswald Jacoby's partner. The opponents are vulnerable, are not. You hold::

you

ANSWER: Your correct bid is to pass. From the bidding it is obvious:

your partner has nothing in find his partner's long hearts. Hence, three notrump should sult, West opened the Queen of be hopeless. Furthermore, with your spades. South Won, and returned the balanced distribution Ave diamonds ten. East and West now coashed two looks very unlikely.

spade tricks and De- clarer then won the fourth round. Now he played the Ace and another club, fnessing the nine-spot in his hånd. An alert player, West decided that his partner's Jack of clubs would drop on the next round. Hence, he allowed South to win the trick.

Declarer could 'now have made his contract either by laying down the club Queen or by playing a diamond to dummy and then making the cor- rect guess in hearts. However, in- stead of making either of these plays, South proceeded to run off four, dia- tricks.". On - the last diamond arded a heart, and now South was in the

The bidding:

Maler

Dbl. 71NT Pass Past

Pass

Dbl. Past

tions.

6.32 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording--“D” Yo Ken John Peel?" A Programme in Honour of the Famous Cumberland Huntsman. Writter and Produced

by William MacLurg. 7.03 p.m.-Dance Muslo by Harry Roy

and His Orchestra.

Fax-Trot-Nice People; Deep In A Dream. Fox-Trot-There's A Little Irish Collean on Broadway..........Harry Roy & His Orch. Puppet On A String (Stanley Black); One Foot In The Gutter (Stanley Black)...... Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins. Fox-Trot-Run, Rabbit, Run! (from 'The Little Dog Laughed'); The Man With The Mandoline.... Harry Roy & His Orch. Fox-Trot--Avalon; Quickatęp--Margie .........?

Harry Roy & His Orch. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.mLocal Timė Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.08 p.m.Songs by Lawrence Tibbett

(Baritone).

De Glory Road (film 'Metropolitan').

· Edward (Op. 1, No. 1-Karl Loewe).

9.30 p.m. London Relay "Cards on

the Table".

9.45 p.m.-A Variety Programme with Max Miller, Phil Regan, Frances Day, Connie Boswell and Others. Vocal-At The Bathing Parade (film *Everything happens to Me'); Everything Happens To Me (from the film)....Max Miller with Orchestra, Instrumental-Many Happy Returns of the" Day (Dubin & Burke)....Eddie Peabody playing his Banjo, Guitar. Mandoline & Mando-'Cello with Own Vocal Refrain and Piano. Vocal-You Took Me Out Of This World (Vallee & Others); The Man I Love (Gershwin) Dorothy Lamour with

Orchestra.

Banio--Joy Dance (Kirby); La Vivandiere (Kirby)....Ernest Jones with Leslie Bartlett at the Piano.

Vocal-A Sweet Irish Sweetheart of Mine (film 'Outside of Paradise'); Outside of Paradise (from the film)....Phil Regan with Orchestra. Vocal-Love'a Melody (Alm "Dreams come

true'); So Must Our Love Remain (film

Day 'Dreams come true')............. Frances (Soprano) with Orchestra. Comedian-How The So-And-So Can I Be Happy (Max Miller)...Max Miller with Orchestra.

Two Pianos-Tin Pan Alley Medley No. 19. Intro: Undecided: F. D. R. Jones; The Lady's in love with you; That Sly old gentleman; Sing a song of Sunbeams: A blue canoe for two....Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye with string bass and drums.

Vocal-On The Beach At Balk-Ball-Fox- Trot; I Met My Waterloo-Fox-Trot... ... .... Connie Boswell with Bob Crosby & His Orchestra.

10.35 .m-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots Flip: Flop........Joe Venuti & His

Orchestra.

Tangos-By The Black Sea; My Dream Tango....George Boulanger & His Orch. Frankie Fox-Trots-Romping: Who?....

Newton & His Orchestra. Quickstep Chopsticks .... Jack Hylton &

His Orchestra.

Waltz-Vienna -Se Gay (from 'Maritza”). Tango-Play Gypsy (from 'Maritza').... Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orch. 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN,

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