MUTT AND JEFF
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 3, 1939
By BUD FISHER
I CAN MAKE THE "OF PERFECY BUT THE REST
OF THE LETTERS. ARE A CITTLE: HARDER!
TROSE GUYS MUST GET DİG DOUGH FOR THAT, STUPE!
MUTT I MADE UP MY MIND! I'M GONNA BE A SKYWRITER/
A SKYWRITERP THAT'S AN ART IN ITBELT! NOT EVERYBODY CAN
DO THAT!
IT TAKES PLENTY OF | MEN@YYAND PRACTICE „TES BELÁNEKY-WRITER!
WHERE ARE
MY CIGARSP
Mozart's
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Paris Symphony
12.15 p.m.--Short Service of Interces-
sion.
12.30 p.m.-Etale Carlisle (Vocal) and
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra.
1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Compositions of Rudolph
Frimi.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1.45_pim.-Renara at the Plano.
"Two For To-night" Plano Medley
(Gordon and Reve!).
Today's Wireless
"Sweet Adeline" Plano Medley
(Hammerstein and Kern).
1.58 p.m.-Dance Numbers by Henry
Hall and His Orchestra.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
Quickstep-Good Evenin', Good, 6.56 p.m. Excerpts from Puccini's Looking; Novelty Quicksteps-Ec-
centric; Three Brass Bells.
2.16 p.m.--Close down.
6 p.m.-Beethoven-Sonata in G Ma- jor, Op. 30, Ne. 3. Sergei Rách maninoff (Piano) and Fritz Kreisler (Violin).
6.17 p.m.--Mozart-Symphony
in D
Major ("Paris") K.-297. Sir Thomas Beetham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
6.36 p.m.-Mozart-Adagio and Fugue in C Minor. The Adolf Busch Chamber Players.
Novelty Fox-Trot-One Man Went To Blow;. Slow Fox-Trot-Blue Skies Are Round the Corner; Rum- | 6.45 p:m.-London Relay-News Sup. be This Is The Kiss Of Romance; |
plement.
Winning
CONTRACT
(By the Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken..
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
AN EASY SLAM
While the argument as to which of four notrump. This bid conveys valuation method is better point the message: "Pärtner, I have heard count or, honour tricks will con- your opening two-notrump bid and tinue as long as people play Bridge, my hand is such that four, notrump. there is no question is safe; and if your two notrump that for notrump pur-happens to be a maximum, we can poses the point_count | make a Slam.” stands by itself. For example, here is a hand bid on Long Island by two students of The Four Aces Sys- tem. True, the Slam is a laydown and they
HIGH GARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE KING 2 QUEEN
TOTAL MALLIS ve 20th 26
AVERAGE WAPO 47b
South had the maximum hence his jump to six. The Slam was of course a laydown since the only trick the opponents could make Ace of Spades.
*
**
was the
You were the dealer yesterday. might easily have bid What was your correct opening bid
it without our point count. Never-holding: theless, the point count made the bidding automatic,
Bouth, Dealer....
A 9 6 8
А 7Б 2 ♡ 8 6 3 0974
10 9 6
♡ Q 10 2 OK Q 3·3 & KQ 4.
W
A.K.Q8
10 4
34
A J 10
A J B
The bidding:
South Wost
2NT
6NT
Pass Раба
North INT Раба
East
Pass
A.
OAK Q
A JI I I
ANSWER: The correct opening bid is one club. In spite of your fine hand, if your partner cannot respond to one club, the chance that you are missing a game is slight.
Score 100% for one club, 80% for two clubs, 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 221
You are Howard Schenken's part- ner to-day and hold:
J $ 3
♡ 10 x x x
O JIX
J
You Narasions
2NT Past
The bidding: Schenken Jacoby
14 Pass
Pasa
INT 3NT
Under The Four Aces System the opening bid of two notrump repre- sents a High Card Value of 141⁄21⁄2 to 16. In this instance South's : High Card Values was 1512, but with "ben honour cards, his hand represented a maximum. North, with a High Card Value of 7, then made his correct bid Inc.)
- What do you3ÍEnd? tomorrow,)
(Released By The Bell Syndicate,
Operas.
"La Boheme”—Ah Mimi, False One. ::Benjamino Gigli (Tenor) and Giuseppe De Luca (Baritone), "Manon Lescaut"-Intermezzo Milan. Symphony Orchestra. "La Fanciulla, del West": My father. dled just six months ago; Let her 'believe that I have gained my freedom....... Alessandro Valente (Tenor) with Members of La Scala Orchestra, Milan.
"Madam Butterfly": Child from
whose eyes; See, I have caught- you......Sheridan (Soprano), and.. Pertile. (Tenor) with La Scala Orchestra.
"Tosca"--Selection .... Marek We-
ber and His Orchestra. 7.26 p.m.- Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.28 p.m.-Compositions of Sir Edward
German.
Coronation March and Hymn... Re- gimental Band of HM. Grenadier Guards,
"Merris England"-Vocal Gems..
Miriam. Licette, Clara Serena, | Francis Russell, Dennis Noble, Robert Carr and: Chorus with Or-, chestra.
"Tom Jones"-Selection
.Regi- mental Band of HM. Grenadier Guards.
Four Jolly Sailormen (from “A Princess of Kensington')..........Quar- tette: Francis Russell, Parry Jones; Raymond Newell and Harry Dearth with Piano.
--
"Nell.. Gwyn. Dances": 1, Country Dance; 2, Fastoral Dance; 3. Mer- rymakers' Dance.... Jack Hylton and His Orchestra.
8 p.m.-Local Time' Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
8.03 p.m.-A® Programme of Dance
Music and Variety. Fox-Trots-I've Got A Wonderful Feeling; Swing, Swing, Swing, Daughter Swing... .Nat Gonella. and His Georgians. Vocal Solitude :(Ellington and Others); London Rhythm (Wil- liams, Addison). .The Mills Brothers (Four Boys and a Gul- tar). Fox-Trots-Blue Strings; Keep Goin' |
Bert Firman's' Quintuplets of Swing.
Excerpts From
Puccini's
Operas
(Alm 'Sally, Irene and Mary'); Sweet As A Song (film 'Sally Iréne and Mary')....Roy Fox and His Orchestra.
Vocal Rosalie (from the film); London Is Saying Goodnight (Campbell-Hunter and Others) ...Gracle Fields with Orchestra. Hawaiian Fox-Trots-A Little Ren- dezvous in Honolulu Honolulu Stars and Hawaiian Guitars.... Roy Smeck and His Hawalian 'Serenaders.. Fox-Trots-The Martins and the Coys; When A Lady Meets a Gen- tleman: Down South...Ted Weems and His Orchestra. Tangos-Song of the Sea; Cham- pagne Bubbles.....Jose M. Luc- chesi and His Orchestra. Fox-Trots There's Something In The Wind: The Old Oaken Bucket Riley-Farley and Their Onyx Club Boys.
Cinema Organ--Three Great Melo- dies. Intro: Londonderry Air; Cherry Ripe, Annie Laurie, Harald Ramsay."···
Fox-Trot Pross Chai... Artie Shaw
and His Orchestra.
9.05 pm.--Studio-Comments on Re-
cent Events.
9.16. p.m.-London Relay The News. 9.30. e.m8ongs by. Lawrence Tibbett
(Baritone)..
Wanting You (film 'New Moon'
Romberg); Lover, Come Back To Me (alm New Moon Romberg); De Glory Road" (film "Metropoli- tan'); Edward (Loewe, Op. 1, No. 1) with Plano accompaniment. by Stewart Willie.
9.45 pm-Light Orchestral.
La Violetera (Alm 'Cify Lights'); The
Song of Songs (Moya)..
.... De Gropt and His Orchestra, Waldteufel Memories (arr. Finck)
...De Groot and His Orchestra. The Whirl Of The Waltz Intro: Des- tiny Waltz Naughty Waltz; Valse Vanite; Missouri Waltz.
Ragging The Rags. Intro: Grizzly Bear Rag; Haunting Rag; Mysterl- ous Rag; Temptation Rag: Red Pepper Rag...New Mayfair Or- chestra.
Furlant ("Schwanda'-Weinberger'; Polka ('Schwanda-Weinberger)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra. Evensong (Easthope Martin); So❤ lemn Melody (Walford Davies).... New Symphony Orchestra. 10,20 p.m.Brahms Quintet In F Minor, Opa (34. Rudolf Serkin (Piano) and Busch Quartet. ·
Fox-Trots-I Could Use A Dream 11 p.m.-Close down.
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