MÜTT AND JEFF
4-30-
WHAT'S WRONG, PAL?
'MY GIRL'S FATHER WON'T LET US SEE EACH OTHER! HE THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE
AGAIN!
WELL, HER FATHER DRIVES TO TOWN EVERY DAY - WHY DON'T YOU PRETEND THAT HE'S HIT YOU WITH HIS CAR, THEN HE'LL HAVE TO CARRY YOU INTO HIS HOUSE;
STOP! BELLBEE!
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 8, 1939
NO, PUT HIM.
By BUD FISHER
O. K., BELLBEE
SHALL I: CARRY:11M
INTO THE HOUSE,
Boss?
IN THE CAR,
BELLBEE!
{HOME, BELLBEE!)
Eva Turner (Soprano) in a
Farewell Recital
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
Today's Wireless
6.00 g.m.-A Variety programme with
Max Miller, Moreton & Kaye, Hilde- garde, the Hill Billes & Others. Vocal-Susanna From Alabama; The Hilly Billy Band....The Hill Billies with No- velty Accompaniment.
Two Pianos-Quickstep Medley. Intro: After I say I'm Sorry: At Sundown: Fate; Exactly like you: On the sunny side of the Street; Happy Days and Lonely Nights....Ivor Moreton & Dave Kaye with string bass and drums. Vocal-Fritz (Intro: "The Village Band')
....Hildegarde at the Plano,
Comedian-Julietta (Harrington & Others): The Love Bug Will Bite You (Tomlin) ....Max Miller.
Vocal-BUly Williams' Songs. Intro: Here we are Again: Why can't we have the sea in London?...........Lupino Lane & His Lambeth Walkers with Orchestra. Two Pianos-Tin Pan Alley Medley No. 4. Intro: You're looking for Romance: Keep Calling me Sweetheart: The You
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
and Me that used to be; So Rare; Home | Town: Smile when you say Goodbye.... Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye with string bass and drums.
Organ & Plano-The Wedding Of The Painted Doll: Nola....H. Robinson (Clea- ver (Organ) and Patricia Rossborough
(Plano). Vocal-The_Man On The Flying Trapeze
(Walter O'Keefe)
Walter O'Keefe Orchestra, Vocal-Darling, Je Vous Alme Beaucoup (Sosenko); For Me, For You (Towers & Arden)....Hildegarde with Carroll Gib- bons (Piano) and His Boy Friends. Vocal-Daddy's Old Guitar (The HII Bil- lles): Cross-Eyed Sue (The Hill Billies)
The Hill Billies with Their Own No- velty Accompaniment.
6.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
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 BOLD BID
Johnny Crawford, 25-year-old | spades is seven. If he has one side Philadelphian, is already one of the trick, I can make two notrump; if he best Bridge-players in the country, has two side tricks, I can make three. He is noted for his boldness in bid-Of course my opponent has bid clubs ding. For instance:
and I have no stopper in that suit. But clubs have never been rebid and my partner can probably take care of it somehow. Anyway, I expect a spade opening."
West, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
♡ A Q 2 ◇ 9 6
AJ 10
♡ 5 3
0 A 8 7 6 48
AK 4
K Q 7 6
W
E
Q10 5 3
49543
KJ4
J98
A 8 8
10 9 8 7
◇ K Q J
✔ 7 2
Mr. Crawford
The bidding:
Weat North East
tions.
7.00 p.m.-London
Relay "For the Troops". A Concert Party Enter- tainment.
7.20 p.m.--Dance Music. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Wea-
ther Report and Announcements. 8.01 p.m.-London Relay -Talk by
Viscount Halifax. 8.15 p.m.-Studio
Farewell Recital by Eva Turner (Soprano), with A. T. Lay at the Plano.
1. (a) O Yés Just So (Bach); (b) Over the Mountains (arr. Roger Quiller): (c) Standchen (Richard Strauss); (d) Young love lies sleeping (Somervell); (e) The Plague of love (Arne).....Eva Turner.
2. Piano Interlude.....A. T. Lay.
3. (a) A Brown Bird Singing (Haydn Wood); (b) One morning Oh so early (Djack); (c) Miniature Suite (Hurl- stone): (1) Bells. (i) Blossoms, (HI) Dreams, (iv) Darkness, (v) Morning.
Talk by Lord Halifax Relayed
From London
....Eva Turner.
8.45 p.m.-Compositions of Sir Edward
German.
Merrie England-Dances....Orchestre Ray-
monde cond. by G. Walter.
Four Jolly Sailormen (from "The Princess of Kensington')...... Quartette: Francis Russell, Parry Jones; Raymond Newell and Harry Dearth with Piano. O Peaceful England (from 'Merrie Eng- land')....Essle Ackland (Contralto) with Orchestra.
A Princess of Kensington-Selection....The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards 'cond. by Capt. George Miller. 9.05 p.m.-Studio-Comments on Cur.
rent Events.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-Beethoven-Sonata In F Sharp Major, Op. 78. Egon Petri (Piano).
9.40 p.m.-Schumann Songs. 9.55 p.m.---Beethoven-Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125 ("Choral"). Felix Weingartner and Vienna Phil- harmonic Orchestra.
11.00 p.m.-London Relay "Matters 11.15 p.m.-Close down.
of Moment".
TO-DAY'S RUGBY
Two of the Club first fifteen are turning out for the "A" team in their game against Royal Engineers on the Club ground at 5 p.m. to-day. If the list sent in is in correct order, Walk- den, Club skipper, is to play at full- back-he is normally a front row for- ward-and Needham, second row for- ward will be at centre threequarter. Sappers have a useful side and an even me should result.
and
Henderson (Club); Walkden (Club), Salter (Club) and Wheeler (Police); Peers (Club) and Needham (Club); Taylor (Club), Morrison (Police) and Godfrey (Club).
The Army "A" team is likely to prove a little too good for what is left of the Navy team after the Services have taken seven players, but the game should provide a pointer as to Kay's worth to a losing team. evening:-A. F.
The following is the Club team this
NAVY "A TEAM Leeuwen, D. H. Hamilton, M. G. Car-Army "A" on Saturday, at 3.15 p.m.-Mr. Walkden, H. van Following will represent Navy "A" V ruthers, C. F. Needham, A. H. R. But- Pascoe ("Lowestoft"); Surg-Licut. Corcoran cher. (Captain), .R.
Rutherford, | ("Tamar").. Flying Officer Wright (R.A.F.), J. Moodie, F. Burford, R. E. Heasman, Ldg. Wtr. Barlow ("Tamar") and Sub- J. Roscoe, E. W. Stout, B. O'.M. Deane.
Lieut. Kennedy (M.T.B.'s); A. B. Kay (C.-in-C.'s Office) and Tel. Hall (M.T.B.'s); P. F. Wanklyn and R. G. Castleton. Ldg.
(E) Sig. Ingles. ("Tamar"), Lieut Combined Services, who beat. Club Brown (M.T.B.'s). A. B. Palmer ("Thra- 63 last Saturday, are making one clan"), L. S. A. Yendall ("Lowestoft''), Ldg. change this Saturday in their side-Wtr. Ferris (""Tamar"), Lieut. Bayley Yesterday you were Oswald Jaco- Pinkerton will replace Burrell in the |("Cicala"), by's partner and held:
That is the reasoning; the result, already mentioned.
*
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A II
South
KQ XXX The bidding: Jacoby Mater You Schenken
1
Pass **
Pass 24 Рава (7)
1
1A
10 20
Pass
3NT
Pars 24 Рабо
10 2NT Pass
Pass
The King of spades was opened. Mr. Crawford promptly won with the Ace, and cashed six diamonds and two clubs, thereby making his con tract.
ANSWER: Your correct bid is pass. Since your partner has made not continue further. only a minimum rebid you should
Score 100% for pass, 60% for two notrump (optimistic), 0 for three spades.
QUESTION NO. 252 To-day you are Merwin Maler's
While the hand was of course a laydown, Mr. Crawford was the only partner and hold: player to get to game with the North-
HIGH GARB VALLNES POUR ACES SYSTEM
South cards. How- aver, he reasoned as follows: "My partner hag not only overcall- ed with a minor suit, but has promptly re- bid it without holding the King, Queen "or Jack. According, he has at least a six- card suit, which gives us six diamond tricks. My Ace of
ACE. KING QUEEN T JACK
The bidding: Maier
.8 5
What do you ̧śbid? Monday.)
nawer.
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second row of the pack--and it should make all the difference in the loose, Pinkerton being one of the best for- wards in the Colony.
(C.-in-C.'s Re-
Pay-Lieut. Charles Omce) and P. O. King ("Tamar"); serves-E. R. A. Wilson ("Redstart"). L. S. Spirit (M.T.B.'s); and Mne. Marvin ("Tam-
ar"),
The combined Club and Police team
A. E. P. Guest and S. A. Gray (-30.3) is not yet to hand, but, if they are all
entered the final of the Kowloon
Cricket available, the following are likely to Club men's doubles tennis handicap yester- be on view: Wall (Police); Taylor day when they beat N. A. E. 'Mackay and (Police), Fay (Police), Bidwell (Club) |T. A, Madar (3/6). by. 6-3, 6-3 In the and Stewart (Club); Cessford (Club), semi-final,
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