MUTT AND JEFF
YOU SEE, JUDGE, I LOVE TWO WOMEN' AND I WANT TO GET MARRIED! SO I FIGURE I'LL MARRY BOTH OF THEM AND MAKE
THEM BOTH HAPPY!
YOU WANT TO MARRY TWO WOMEN? WHY,
THAT'S BIGAMY!
NO, THAT'S BIG OF
ME!
YOU CAN'T DO THAT! DON'T YOU KNOW YOU CAN BE SENT TOJAIL FOR HAVING MORE THAN ONE WIFE?
AND FURTHERMORE, HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO SUPPORT TWO WOMEN AT ONE TIME? I'M A JUDGE, AND YET I COULDN'T SUPPORT TWO WIVES ON MY GALARY!
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 5, 1939
AN, THAT MAY BE
TRUE, BUT DON'T FORGET, ?
YOU DON'T COLLECT
ANY TIPS!---
By BUD FISHER
~~~ OR Do You?
CENTRA 10-27
Lady Northcote Speaks
On B.W.O.F.
Today's Wireless
7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.02 p.m.-EXCERPTS from Gilbert &
"The Yeomen of the
Sullivan's Guard". Were I Thy Bride....Nellie Brier- cliffe (Contralto); Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True?.... Peter Daw- son (Bass-Baritone) and Chorus; Forbear, My Friends .... Derek Oldham, Nellle Briercliffe, Leo Sheffield and Male Chorus; Aye,
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
& -Male Chorus: The Pris'ner Comes To Meet His Doom....Full Company; My Lord! My Lord! I Know Not How to Tell .... Full Company; Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More....Dorothy Gill and Chorus.
RELAY The
Hug Him, Girl!...Leo Sheffield, 7.30 p.m.-LONDON Derek Oldham, Nellie Briercliffe
News.
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.
CLEVER DECEPTION
we consider one
the best we have ever seen.
South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
on
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-STUDIO-Recital by Bar- bara Gilmar (Soprano) with A. T. Lay at the Plano.
1. Two Arias from Puccini's "Turan-
dot"....Barbara Gilmar. 2. First Arabesque (Debussy)
A. T. Lay at the Plano. 3. Two Waltz Songs
Gilmar.
Barbara
4. Second Arabesque (Debussy) A. T. Lay at the Piano.
5. (a) Les Filles des Cadiz (Delibes); (b) Ay, Ay, Ay (Freire); (c) Waltz Dream from "The Dan- cing Years" (Novello)....Bar bara Gilmar.
8.40 p.m.-LISZT — Hungarian Rhap- Body No. 1 in F. London Symphony by Albert Orchestra conducted Coates.
Barbara Gilmar To Give
Studio Recital
Northcote on "The British War Or.. ganization Fund", from Government House.
9.00 p.m.-Orchestral Interlude.
Woodland Interlude (from 'Caracta- tacus', Op. 35) (Elgar); Dream Children, Op. 43, No. 1 (Elgar).... London Symphony Orchestra cond. by Lawrance Collingwood.
9.05 p.m.-STUDIO Recent Events.
Comments on
9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY
Summary.
- NewB
9.30 p.m.-LONDON' RELAY-"Cards
on the Table".
9.45 p.m.-VARIETY
with Elsic
Doris Waters, Reginald Foort, Gerry Moore, Oliver Wakefield and Norah Blaney & Gwen Farrar. 10.25 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC. 11.00 p.m.-LONDON RELAY -
England Now".
"In
11.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-"Band Waggon" with Arthur Askey and Others.
8.50 p.m.-RELAY of Talk by Lady! 12.00 midnight.-CLOSE DOWN.
ANNUAL BOWLS MATCH
The annual bowls match between St. An- drew's Society and St. George's Society will take place at Kowloon Bowling Green Club on Saturday, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
The following teams, which will play in the order given, have been selected.
St. Andrew's St. George's
A. S. Russell V. C. Labrum
H.E. The Governor J. Deakin
the club Ace, then played Harpo Marx, an enthusiastic Bridge |my,
for which I discarded my only spade. us a hand which, player, sends
of "The rest should be obvious. I led sheer deception,
the King of spades. East covered with Dummy's the Ace and I trumped. Queen-Jack of spades then provided 1. K. Bousfield discards for my two remaining-hearts."--(Skip)
Mr. Marx's deceptive play was real-❘ J. S. Howell
T. E. Robson ly clever and we do not blame West for falling for it. His mistake was perfectly natural.
A K Q J 4
♡ Q 5 3
O J 10 2
♣ A 7 6
8 6 2
▲ A 10 9 7
♡ AKJ 10
Б
073
W
♡ 9 6 2
J.10 9 4
0 4
2 9 8 5 3.
▲ 3
♡ 8 4
◊ AKQ9865
♣ K 2
Mr. Mart
The bidding:
South West. North
10
10
30
Pass
IA Pass $0 Pass
East
20 Разв
Mr. Marx writes: "When
West opened the King of hearts, I managed to hide my chagrin for, while my op-
KISH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN
ACE... 3 KING. QUEEN 1 JACK
*
*
*
Yesterday, with neither side vul- nerable, you were David Bruce Burn- stone's partner and held:
x x
X X
• A Q10 rrr
X X
The bidding:
J. C. Gill
B. W. Bradbury
(Skip)
G. T. Padgett
Sir Atholl MacGregor W. McFarlane
v Dr. G. D. R. Black
(Skip)
R. Main
A. C. Milne
J. Fraser
v R. C. Wallace
G. E. F. Thompson S. Eccleshall
A. W. Grimmitt
(Skip)
R. P. Phillips
V. Walker
S. Randle
F. Goodwin
(Skip)
P. S. Cassidy
You
(7)
Jacoby Burnstone Binter
Pass
..2 A 1A ANSWER: Your correct bid is three diamonds. The worst that can hap- pen is that you will be doubled and go down three tricks dess 100 honours. ponents could obvious-As against that, you are showing your ly take three tricks partner, the correct lead in the likely against me, my part- event that:Mr. Maier becomes the - ner could easily have final Declarer.
made
Score 100% for no- game in trump. East, afraid 50% for pass. that his partner held
three
diamonds,
QUESTION NO. 275
a long heart suit, play-
You are Oswald Jacoby's partner
ed the discouraging to-day and hold: deuce, whereupon West made the natur-
al shift to the Jack of clubs. I played low from dummy, East played an en- couraging card and I them had an in- spiration. I saw a possibility of mak- Ing my contract if West could be in- duced to lead another club. I there- fore quickly dropped the club deuce, and West fell into the trap! He led another club, which I won with my King. I now played a trump to dum- |Inc.}
1♡
Q JX X X
♡ x
Mater
The Bidding: Jaceby Sabankan You INT (7) What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndicate,
Hon. Mr. S.H.
Dodwell
(Skip)
W. Melrose
C. B. Robertson J. Kempton
v 3. C. Chalmers
(Skip)
V
J. S. Logan
M. Ferguson
D. Munro
S. Gray
(Skip)
A. M. Calman
R. P. Shaw
S. M. White J. G. Meyer
(Skip)
T. Armstrong Hon. Mr. Justice
Lindaell
T. F. Stainton J. Hollidge (Skip)
B. E. Maughan Hon. Mr. N. L.
Smith
D. W. Waterton W. S. Drake
(Skip)
W. A. Cornell L. de Rome
E. V. Searle A. E. Carey
(Skip) Reserves.
J. Watson
B. D. Evans
R. S. Meadows,
H. Overy
W. S. Dall
v J. C. Brown
(Sidp)
W. McLeod
J. Russell A. McFarlane
v A. M. Holland
(Skip)
W. L. Walker
W. Houston 'R. G. Craig VR. Duncan
(Skip)
W. Glendinning J. Riddell W. Mair
v J. C. S. Fender
(Skip)
A. W. Brown
J. J. Whyte
J. 8. Dinnen,
C. S. M. Thom Any player who is unable to take part should-inform Mr. W. Macfarlane, (St. An- drew's Society) or Mr. B. E. Maughan, (St. George's Society) at their earliest oppor- tunity.
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