MUTT AND JEFF
GOSH, HERE'S AN OLD PHOTO OF ME AND MY POD! GEE, I WAGA CUTE KID! ANYBODY!
COULD TELL THAT WAS ME!
JEFF, TAKE A PEEK AT THIS PHOTO I FOUND IN
{MY DRAWERĮ
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SKOPS STUDIO S
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939.
NHƠN THỊ
A VENTRILOQUISTP.
By
BUD FISHER
ENGUENTRILAQUIET!
/ FATHER AND THAT IMMYON HIS ADATS ME!!
DUMMY?
I STILL CLAIM I'M
RIGHT!
Recital By Nura Kanis
From The Studio
12.16 p.m.---Short Service of Interces-
sion.
12.30 p.m.-A Variety programme with George Formby, Frances Langford and Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins, 1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and
Weather Report.. 1.03 p.m.-W. Brownlow (Baritone) in
Ballads of Yesterday.
1.18 p.m.-New Mayfair Orchestra.
Jubilee Dance Memories.
Love Tales (Selection of celebrated
Love Songs).
Today's Wireless
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)
1.30 p.m-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1.45 p.m. The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra 2.15 p.m.-Close down. 6.00 p.m.-Dance Music.
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
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.
·
North, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
404
JIKK
4 A 10 64 ♡ K 785 ◊ A 8 AA10 4
A COMPROMISE BID
AK Q 5 ♡ 4
W
◊ J 10 5
8 2
99 € 6
J-8 3
964
2
A 9.7 32 ♡ AQ 10 9 2 0 7 4378
The bidding:
after cashing two spade tricks, East was forced to lead a club, thereby al- lowing South to get away with the loss of but one trick in that suit.
*
You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner yesterday and held:
8 8 5 2 AKO 7 G
North East
1 A 40
Pass Pass
South 20 Рабо
Weat Роза Рода
The bidding:
Mater Barnstone Jacoby Xom
Pass
19. -Pass 14 14
(1) Poss
Pays
ANSWER: Your correct bid is two spades. Your hand is almost strong enough for a jump, but since the im- mediate raise of partner's second suit is always taken as an encouraging bid, it is better to be a little cautious with
The bidding is rather interesting, South felt his hand was a little too strong to simply raise his partner from one spade to two. At the same time he knew he was. not strong this hand. enough for a jump..
HIGH CARD VALUKS OF THE FOUR-ACES BYETEN
FACE
İKİNCİE QUEEN
JACK
TOTAL MILLE DE DAGARNA......
Score 100% for two spades, 80% for Hence, the two-heart, three spades, 30% for four spades, 0 response. Then, when for any other bid.
North jumped immedi-
ately to four hearts, South decided against going back to spades since he was afraid that might be construed as a Slam Invitation.
While actually four spades is a better contract than four hearts, due to the fact that with spades as trump De- clarer eventually can. discard a club on the long heart, nevertheless South made four hearts as follows:
QUESTION NO. 218
To-day you are Oswald Jacoby's partner and hold:
I I
LII I II
The bidding: Jacoby
BohenkenTM You Mater
Pass (2) What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
The King of diamonds was opened and won by dummy's Ace. Three younds of trumps were how-taken and South ruffed dummy's eight of dia- monds in his own hand. The Ace and another spado were played and, Inc.).
(Released By The Bell Syndicate,
A
Fox-Trots-I'm Singing A Song For The Old Folks; Smile And Sing Your Cares Away....The Organ, The Dance Band and Me. Quickstep-Summer's End; Slow Fox-Trot-Two Sleepy People (film "Thank for the Memory')... Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra. Waltz-Never Break Promise; Slow Fox-Trot-Penny Serenade .:..Geraldo and His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Daydreaming (film "The Gay Impostors'); I Wanna Go Back To Ball (film The Gay Im- postors)....Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees. Fox-Trots-The Dance Of The Blue Danube; Let Me Whisper....Ho-. race Heidt and His Alemite Bri- gadiers.
Waltzes That Night In Avalon; Co- lorado Sunset...Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra. **
Fox-Trots-If It Rains-Who Cares!;
A Garden In Granada.....Barrie Stanton Quintet.
6.45 p.m.-London Relay-News Sup.
plement. 6.50 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.62 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "Break- fast With The Bullfinches", by Ur- sula Branston. Music by various composers.Production by William
Maclurg.
7.21 p.m.Folk Music of the Nations.. 7.47 p.m.The Angelus Octet.
Spring Song (Mendelssohn); Noc- turne In E Flat Major (Chopin, Op. 9, No. 2); Serenade (Schu- bert); Cradle Song"(Brahms). « 8.00.p.m.Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements, 8.08 p.m.Next week's programmes. 8.07`p.m.-Orchestral Selections.
La Muta Di Porticf-Overture (Au- ber)...Milan Symphony Orches- tra cond. by Lorenzo Molajoli. 8.15 p.m.-Studio-Plano - Recital by Nura Kanis. Schumann's "Carna- val", Op. 2.
Quartet In A 8.45 p.m. Haydn
Pro Arte Major, Op. 55, No..1. Quartet..
9,01 p.m. Haydn →→ Menuet by Pau Casala (Cello). Piano accompani- ment by Blas-Net.
9.05 p.m.-Studio-Comments on Re-
cent Events.
B.B.C. Recording: Breakfast With The Bullfinches
9.30 p.m.-Excerpts from Gilbert and
Sullivan.
"Patience"
Recit Still Brooding On Their Mad Infatuation; I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be....W. Lawson, N. Briercliffe, M. Eyre and Chorus of Girls.
In a Doleful Train; Now, is Not This Ridiculous....N. Briercliffe, G. Baker, M. Eyre and Chorus of Girls and Dragoons. When I First Put This Uniform On....Darrell Fancourt and Chorus of Dragoons. "The Gondoliers”—
Bridegroom and Bride!..... Chorus. When A Merry Maiden Marries....
Aileen Davies and Chorus. Kind Sir, You Cannot Have The
Heart... Winifred Lawson.
Do Not Give Way....L. Sheffield, W. Lawson, A. Davies, D. Old- ham, G. Baker,
Now, Pray, What Is The Cause....
Chorus.
Oldham,
Replying, Wé Sing..D.
G. Baker and Chorus. 10.00 p.m.A Variety and Dance Pro-
gramme. Accordeon Woodland Flowers *(Burns); Black And White (Bots-
ford) ....Viliq Vesterinen. Quickstep I Got Love; Fox-Trot-
The Trek Song (film We're going to be rich).The Band Wag- goners. Fox-Trots-Ol' Man Mose; 'Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
.Eddy Duchin arid: His Orch. Banjo Tony (Oakley); White Rose (Oakley). Ar. Olly Oakley with Piano accomp. Fox-Trot-Love Makes The World Go Round (from These Foolish Things'); Quickstep - Teacher's Pet...Henry Hall and His Orch. Duet Tricky Little Tune (McGill)
....Major and Minor with Orch. Fox-Trots Minuet for a Modern Miss: Plastered In Paris.... .The Six Swingers..... Waltz-The Humming Waltz; Fox- Trot-Penny Serenade....Manto- vani and His Orchestra. Vocal-One Of The Little Orphans of the Storm... (film 'Queen of Gracie Fields with 'Hearts') ...
Orchestra. Fox-Trots-I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams from 'Sine. you Sin- ners'): Good-Night. Little: Skloper ...Brian Lawrance and His Orch. Brass Quintette-Mighty Lak' A Rose (Novrin)....... Frank Biffo and His Brass Quintette.
9.16 p.m.-London Rölgy-The News,11.00 p.m.Close down.
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