MUTT AND JEFF
BUT, MUTT EVER SINCE THE ESKIMOS!
ARE WITH UG I HAVEN'T HAD ANYTHING TO EAT!
GO AWAY! I GOT ALL I CAN DO TO BUY FISH AND GUM-DROPS FOR OUR PROMISING-
ESKIMO, FIGHTER
HERE!
I'M SO UNHAPPY! I'M HUNGRY AND THAT PENGUIN - HE
DON'T ADD ANY BOY TO MY LIFE EITHER!
C'MERE, USELESS! I'M HUNGRY AND WHEN I'M HUNGRY I'M DESPERATE!
9-15
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 24, 1939
By BUD FISHER
O.X. PALI
Recital By Liya Gurevitch
From The Studio
6.00 p.m.-Dance Music.
Today's Wireless
Tangos Jingle Bells: Twilight....E. Bohr's
Argentine Tango Orchestra.
(from 'One Waltz-Secret Rendezvous
Fox-Trot--The One Rainy Afternoon"); Rose....Victor Young: & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Chase The Blues Away: I May Be Wrong....Victor Webb & His Orch, Fox-Trots--Anything Goes (from the film): I Get A Kick Out Of You (film 'Any- thing Goes')....Ambrose & His Orch. Fox-Trot-Sing Something In The Morning Review 'Home and (C. B. Cochran's Beauty'); Waltz-No More (C. B. Coch- ran's Review 'Home and Beauty')..... Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Waltz-A Garden Of Illusion: Tango-The Tango of the "Mula"....Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro.
Comedy One-Step--Fancy Meeting You; Fox-Trot-Yours Truly Is Truly Yours ....Jack Hylton's Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Pagan Love Song: It Happened Down In Dixieland.....Teddy Foster & His Kings of Swing.
Quickstep You Couldn't Be Cuter (Film "The Waltz-(Film 'Joy of Living');
of Manakoora Hurricane')The Moon
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
...Henry Jacques & His Strict Dance | 7.43 p.m.-Variety with Ruth Etting, Tempo Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Goodnight To You All....Jack
Harris & His Orchestra. 7.00 p.m.-London Relay
"On the
Dot" A Variety Programme. 7.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.32 p.m. - Reginald Dixon
Organ.
at the
Dixon Hits No. 2. Intro: Call me Sweet- heart: When I grow too old to Dream; Rehearsing a Lullaby; In a little Gypsy Tea Room: Me and the Old Folks at Home: The Oregon Trail:
Dixon Hits No. 24. Intro: How'dja like to love me: Love walked in; Meet me down in Sunset Valley; I won't tell a soul; The sweetest song in the world; The Choco- late Soldiers Daughter.
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.
A CROSS RUFF
While sometimes the player who ¡mond, ruffing with dummy's Jack this
He
another now trumped refuses to draw trumps is likely to time. lose several trump tricks, here is a spade to get back to his own hand, hand in which failure to draw trumps led a fourth diamond, trumping with resulted in Declarer losing no tricks dummy's King_and-now led dummy's
remaining spade. at all in that suit!
Bouth, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
J 7 5 3 ♡ KJ-86
0. 8 a AAKS
East, who had been forced to under-
two ruff with
low trumps, now with the nine. Declarer trumped over-ruffed and made the last trick with the Ace.
You were Merwin Maler's partner yesterday and held:
Billy Mayer and Turner Layton. Vocal-There's A Lull In My Life (from 'Wake Up and Live')....Ruth Etting. Plano-Billy Mayerl's Own Selection....
Billy Mayerl,
Vocal & Plano-I Have Eyes (film 'Paris Honeymoon'); Day After Day (Green & Himber)....Turner Layton.
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-Haydn-Symphony No. 96 In D Major. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.
8.30 p.m.-8tudio-Plano Recital by
Liya Gurevitch.
1. Prelude and Fugue in C Minor (Bach). 2. Sonata in D Major, Op. 10 (Beethoven). 9,00 p.m.-Orchestral.
Egmont Overture, Op. 84 (Beethoven).... The B.B.C., Symphony Orchestra cond. by Adrian Boult.
9.06 p.m.-8tudio-Comments..on. Re-
cent Events.
vitsky.
Haydn Symphony No. 96
10.00 p.m.-Violin
Menuhin.
Solos by Yehudi Minstrels (Debussy); Flight Of The Burn-
ble-Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov). Danse Espagnole ('La Vida Breve'-Dc
Falla-Kreisler).
Notturno, Op. 28, No. 1 (Szymanowski). Tarantella, Op. 28, No. 2 (Szymanowski). Caprice In G Minor, Op. 1, No. 6 (Pa-
ganini-Enesco).
10.20 p.m.-A Light Orchestral Concert with Mavis Bennett (Soprano) and Derek Oldham (Tenor). Because (Gade): Why? (Gade)....Alfredo
Campoli & His Orchestra.
The Doll's Song ("Tales of Hoffmann'----
and Song Offenbach); Wine, Women (Strauss)....Mavis Bennett (Soprano) with Orchestra.
Moya, Lovely Moya (O'Brien & Peter): Come To The Ball (film The Quaker Orchestre Louise Girl'-Monckton)...... with G. Fitzgerald (Vocal). Love, I Give You My. All ('Luana'-Besly): Waltz Dream'-0. Waltz Bong ('A Straus).....Derek Oldham (Tenor) with Orchestra. 2...
Grinzing (Benatzky)....Jack Hylton & His
Orchestra.
A Little Love; A Little Kiss (Sliesu); Noc. turne (Curran)....Derek Oldham (Ten- or) with Orchestra.
9.15 p.m-London Relay-The News. 9.80 p.m.-Moussorgsky Pictures At An Exhibition. Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. by Serge Kousse-11.00 p.m.-Close down.
Sweet Sue (Young)....Jack Hylton & His
Orchestra.
LA LINDA WINS
The following were the results in the second race of the Ladies' First Series held by the Royal Hong Kong, Yacht Club yesterday over a distance of 7.6 miles:
La Linda
PETTY OFFICERS
SUCCESS
A match between the Petty Officers and Gunroom of HM.S. Kent played at the Hong Kong Bowling Alleys in the Petty yesterday resulted Officers winning by 152 points. Finished Pos. Pts.
Petty Officers ... 130
16.08.22 1 12
(Mrs. M. I. Johnstone)
16.09.25 2 True Blue
(Miss H. Crawhall-Wilson)
16.10.08 3. 8 Guri
(Miss L. A. Heiberg) Isobel
W. Hambrook W. Bird'
159
289
137
91
228
A. Flint
110
112
222
10
W. Godden
121
100
221
C. Denny
112
96 208.
R. H. Holness
88.
89
177
10.11.00.
4
6
Total
1,845
(Mrs. M. A. Neve)
Gunroom
Gull
18.11.29 5 (Mrs. K. Trenchard-Davis) Jean
G. C. Clarabut ... 180
150
280
P. M. Milligan
67
154
221
A. Carew Hunt
BO
99
189
16.12.59-6
(Mrs. V. Gowlland) Maureen
(Mrs. R. B. Phillip) Redshank
C. C. Dunlop
78
108
182
C. D. Brownrigg
63
100
163
16.16.08
R. M. Yorke
*74.2
84
138
D.N.F
1,193
AK 10 8
4 2
9 6
Q 9 6 3
W
8
◊ K10 9.6
◊ Q 6 2
Q J 10 8
A-10 7 4
AJ74
The bidding:
South West North Bast
..10
4♡
1A B♡
Pass -Pass Pass Pass......... Dummy's King, won the opening lead of the Queen of clubs. Declarer cashed the Ace, and play the nine- spot, East discarding low spade, while West won with the led the
ALL KING QUEER JACK
A KII
The bidding: Burnstone Maler
1A
Schenken You (7)
2. Pass
ANSWER: Your correct bid is two hearts. With your fine distribution, there is a distinct possibility of game in hearts. Furthermore, if your part- ner doesn't like hearts, you can raise clubs later. Finally, your heart bid shows a lead
Score 100% for two hearts, 60% for three clubs, 40%. for three hearts or four clubs, 0 for pass.
QUESTION NO.:289
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