10-7
MUTT AND JEFF
UM - NO USE TALKIN' - I AM
HANDSOME!
AND I AIN'T THE ONLY ONE
WHO THINKS 50·
AND I'LL PROVE
IT!
HELLO, GLEANOR! DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS
16?
SURE!
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 15, 1939
IT'S
By BUD FISHER
WHO?
"ANGEL
FACE!"
Beethoven's "Emperor"
Concerto
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.02 p.m.-Variety with Valaida, Major and Minor, Elizabeth Welch, Turner Layton and Others.
Vocal-Sing Before Breakfast (filmm
'Broadway Melody of 1936'); A Beautiful Lady In Blue....Turner Layton with Piano.
Organ & Piano-The Bells Of St.
Life's Mary's (Adams); Sunset (Adams)
Great Robinson
Cleaver & Patricia Rossborough
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)
with vocal refrain, Comedienne - The Girl I Knew (from 'Glamorous Night'-Novell); Far Away In Shanty Town (from Glamorous Night')..... Elizabeth Welch with Orchestra. Hawaiian Guitar Duets-O Sole Mio (De Capua); Cielito Lindo (Ponce)
Ferera and Paaluhi.
Vocal Duets-Tricky Little Tune
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
ken.
TWICE RESCUED
West was still not con- To-day's hand brings up the much | However, discussed question of whether or not vinced that his partner's hand could
for business, whereupon North glee- fully redoubled.
a player should bid when partner has be as bad as it was. He now doubled doubled an opening sult bid and the other opponent has redoubled. We are of the opinion that this hand clearly gives the answer:
South, Dealer
East-West vulnerablé
AAQ JD 32
A 10 9 8
4
ОБ 4
K Q 5 2 ♡ K J 6 ◊ AJ 10
N
W
10 74
4
♡ 10 9 8 T Б3
0 7 6 3 2
8 6
J 7 6 3 ♡ A 2
KQ 9 8
The bidding:
K 5
South
West
North East
10
Dbl.
Redbl. 10
Pass
1NT
Dbl.
2♡
2NT
Puss
BNT
Pass
Pass
Dbl.
Paso
Pass
HIGH CARE VALUES
FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
was
Redbl. Pass
West's double of South's opening diamond bid was sound although not
and North's overstrong,
redouble fully justified. Now let's glance at East's worthless hand. East reasoned that if he passed, his part- ner would be sure to .bid spades. Thus, solely to relieve him from an embarrassing situation, East quite /properly did one heart. For some pećtullar reason West-de- cided that this / bid zahowed ssome strength, #forthe
ACE.. KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACE
Where North:
· dasparately
second time..
had been sigl therefore bid partner naturally
for a Lad "he
He ind, his
East was through. Being vulner- able, he didn't dare go to four hearts. Hence he passed and despairingly three watched his opponents make notrump redoubled with two over- tricks.
was While West's bidding quite stupid, we believe this hand clearly illustrates that a bid over a redouble simply indicates a five-card suit and probably extreme weakness.
* * You were Merwin Maier's partner yesterday and held:
**
AK Q J 10 x x . ♡ A 10 x x
◊ xx
* X
The bidding: Burnstone Maler Sebraken You Pass Pass (7) 10
Your correct bid is two ANSWER: spades. Responder has shown weak- ness and this bid, while not forcing, shows you have a very strong spade suit and good distribution.
Score 100% for two spades, 70% for one spade, 80% for double (you don't want a double left in), 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 258
You are Howard Schenken's part- ner, neither side is vulnerable, and you hold:
Q XXX
X X X X
The bidding: Barnatcom
Baljenkon
What do you bid? Monday,
*--(Released
(to mama. |Inc.)
Maler 20
(2) (Answer
Syndicat
(McGill); A More Or Less Volga Major & Boat Song (McGill)... Minor.
Real
Thing Trumpet-Until The
Comes Along (Cahn & Others); High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm (Valaida).....Valaida (Queen of the Trumpet) with Swing Accom- paniment. Piano-Gershwin
Intro:
Medley. Rhapsody in Blue; Lady be Good; That certain feeling; Looking for a boy; Wait a bit, Susie; I'll build a stairway to Paradise; The man I love; I got Rhythm....Renara.
At The Gate Vocal Duets-Waitin'
For Katy (film 'Bottoms Up!'): Arlene (Seymour & Pollack). Layton & Johnstone with Piano. Organ-Blaze Away--March (Holz-
mann)....Reginald Dixon.
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording - "Over
The Garden Wall". A Sketch. 8.18 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Gaston
D'Aquino (Tenor) with Plano companiment by E. O'Nell Shaw, 1. (a) Donna Non Vidi Mai ("Manon
(b) Lescaut" Puccini);
Nel Verde Maggio ("Loreley”-Ca- talani).
Recorded Interlude
ac-
2. (a) Perdutamente (Tosti); (b) La Mia Canzone (Tosti); (c) La Serenata (Tosti).
(h)
Orchestral Music: Variety
10.30 p.m.-Songs by Elisabeth Schu-
mann (Boprano). Alleluia (Mozart); Vedrai, Carino, Se Sei Buonino ("Don Giovanni" -Mozart); Das Heimweh; Hin Und Wieder Fliegen Pfeile (Schu- bert); Liebe Schwarmt Auf Allen Wegen (Schubert). 10.40 p.m.Compositions of Wagner.
Daughters Song
The Rhine ("Gotterdammerung") Henry J. Wood conducting New Queen's Hall Orchestra.
Die Meister Nicht Verachtet Mir
(Finale of Opera "Die Meister- singer"); Was Deutsch Und Echt (Finale of Opera "Die Meister- Friedrich Schorr singer")
and the Berlin State
of
(Baritone) Opera Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-London
of Moment".
Sir the
Relay "Matters
11.16 p.m.-Close down.
STONECUTTERS HOCKEY WIN
An interesting 10-a-side hockey match was witnessed on the Marina Ground when Stonecut- yesterday afternoon ters overwhelmed 8th Heavy ment (Headquarters) winning sively by three clear goals.
Regi- deci-
All the goals were scored during the first half through Nk. M. Singh, L/Nk. B. Singh and Gunner P. Singh.
Although at one period the win- 3. (a) La Partida (Alvarez):
ners were kept on the defensive, valu- Granadina (Alvarez): (c) Ayable work by L/Bdr. Giddins, left Ay, Ay (Freire).
back, and Gunner Meehan, goalie, who 8.45 p.m.Orchestral Music.
Overture "The Barber of Baghdad" kept out the Heavy Regiment,
(Cornelius) .The Berlin Phil-launched many determined attacks.
Both sides were even in attack but harmonic Orchestra conducted by
| Stonecutters were superior in de- Dr. Leo Blech. Valse De Concert, Op. 47 (Glazou-fence.
now)....San Francisco Symphony Alfred Orchestra conducted by Hertz.
March
Pomp And Circumstance
8th Heavy Rtg.:-L/Bdr. Devlin: Bdr. Os- borne and L/Sgt. Shirlan; Sgt. Barnsley, L/Bdr, Dunn and Sgt. Reakes; Gunner Bur-
Purdue.
(No. 3 in C Minor-Elgar)....Lon-ess, Bdr. James. Bdr. Bennett and L/Bdr. Meehan: Gunner Stonecutters:-Gunner don Symphony Orchestra conduct- ed by Sir Edward Elgar.
Marsden and L/Bdr. Giddins; Gunner K. 9.06 p.m.-Studio-Comments on
Singh, Nk. M. Singh and Sgt. Macinery: cent Events.
L/Nk. B. Singh, L/Bdr. Goodenough, Gun- ner P. Singh and Spr. Smith.
Re-
9.16 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay "The, Kit- chen Comedy" A Play by James Brydle.
9.50 p.m.-Beethoven-Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Malor. Op. 73 ("Emperor") Denno Moiseiwitsch (Piano) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Szell.
Two games in the preliminary round of the Junior Soccer Shield, will be played on Signals will meet Tuesday at. Sookunpoo. R.A.S.C. at 4.15 p.m.. (referee, Glover) and 8th R.A. will play Royal Scots at 2.45 p.m.. (Foster referec).
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