MUTT AND JEFF
I THINK
WE'RE LOST!
I WONDER
WHERE WE
ARE?
LOOK
OUT, JEFF!
OH ER-EXCUSE {ME,MAM! WE'RE LOST! CAN YOU TELL US THE SHORTEST WAY TO TOWN?
YEH, WHY DON'T YOU GO STRAIGHT DOWN THE HALL TO THE LIVING ROOM AND WHEN YOU COME TO THE
PIANO TURN LEFT THROUGH THE SOUTH
WALL?
'THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9,
1939
By BUD FISHER
THANKS, MAM!
A B.B.C. Recording
Of "The Fol-De-Rols"
Today's Wireless
12.15 p.m. - Short Service of Inter-
cession.
12,30 p.m.--SONGS by Turner Layton
at the Plano,
The Village That Nobody Knows (5lmpson
& Haydn Wood).
Let Me Whisper (Rosell & Heyman). You Belong To Dreamland (Gilroy). 12.40 p.m.-Primo Scala's Accordeon
Band.
1.00 p.m.-Local
Weather Report.
Time Signal and
1.03 p.m.-George Scott Wood and His
Six Swingers.
Quickstep-Hot Pie.
Slow Fox-Trot-Hot Pie.
Fox-Trots-Handel In Harlen: My Sweetie
Weht Away,
Evergreens Of Jazz-Intro: Hot Time in the Old Town To-night: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree; Dinah; Avalon: I
but Can't Give You Anything Baby: Nagasaki.
Love,
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Fox-Trots-Hot Pie Medley-Intro: I Got Rhythm: China Boy; Alicè Blue Gown: Hot Lips; Aunt Hagar's Blues: Am 1 Blue,
Slow Fox-Trot-Nightfall.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce. ments.
(Fraser-Simson)
London Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean. "The Merry Widow"-Villa; The Merry Widow Waltz.....Jeannette MarDonald (Soprano) with Orchestra.
""The Damask Rose"--Selection (Chopin themes, adapted G. H C.lutsam)....Court Symphony Orchestra.
2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
1.45 p.m.-SELECTIONS from Light 6.00 p.m.-Compositions of Bach.
Opera.
Gems
"Wake Up And Dream" - Vocal
(Porter); "Mister Cinders"-Vocal Gems (Ellis & Myers).....Light Opera Com- pany with Orchestra.
"The Maid Of The Mountains"-Selection
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.
KEEP TRYING Unwillingness to give up.
even though there appears to be no play for the contract, is the real test of a player's ability. For instance, here is a hand that Howard Schenken made.
West, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
AK 3 4
K 10 9
A 6 5 3
4 8 6 5
A A 76
8 6 8 2
N
A 6 4
W
◊ Q J 9 8
7 4
4
A Q J 10
K 10 2
Q J 3 2
J 8 7 8 2
AK 10 9 7
The bidding:
Mr. Schenken
West
1
North
East Pass 10
South
Pass
20
Раве
30
26 Dbl.
2♡ Pasa 4♡ Pa88
Рава
Puss
The explanation of Mr. Schenken's bidding lay in the fact that West was one of those fancy club bidders.
HIGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE... 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK....
OVERLLE MADm 57%
At that he might well have dropped the bid- ding at three hearts, instead of going on to
four.
Queen of spades. West won with the Mr. Ace and shifted to a diamond. Schenken won that in dummy with the Ace, discarding a low club from his own hand, and played a second club.
Now East made the horrible mis- take of trumping with the Queen of was all over. hearts, and the hand
Mr. Schen-
East played a diamond.
Ace of ken trumped, cashed his clubs, trumped a club in dummy and trick to West's conceded one trump Ace.
* *
*
Yesterday you were the dealer and held:
A Q 7 4 VAK 96
04 ФАКС 3
ANSWER: Your correct opening is not bid is one club. This hand strong enough for an opening forcing bid.
Score 100% for 1 club, 70% for two clubs, 0 for one spade or one heart. (With this hand the club is definitely the suit to be bid first as it makes
it easier for partner respond).
to
QUESTION NO. 279 To-day you are David Bruce Burn- stone's partner. Neither side le vulnerable and you hold:
West opened the four of hearts, which Mr. Schenken was sure marked East with Accord- the Queen. ingly, it looked "w"m
FREERT as if he would have to lose two heart tricks, one club and one spade. How- ever, he saw one ray of hope and went right up with dummy's King. He then led a small blah, won with the King" tri his own hand and played the "Ime:)--
$7.4 A65 8
◇ 8.7.8
642
Mater
The bidding: Burnstone Jacoby Tou
10
Pass (7) What do you bld? (Answer tomorrow.)
(Releweed by The Bell Syndicate,
Two Minuets (from Sonata No. 6 in E Major for Solo Violin')....Henry Merckel (Violin) Unaccompanied,
Partita In B Flat...Harold Samuel (Piano), My Spirit Was In Heaviness (from the
Cantata
Trouble, 'Sighing, Weeping. Want'); The Heart I Ask From Thee. Love.....Lotte Leonard (Soprano) with Organ, Violin & Harpsichord. Aria (from Suite In D}; Andante....Pablo
Casals ('Cello) with Plano, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 In F Malor ....Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. 6.46 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota -
tions.
6.47 p.m.-8ONGS by Richard Crooks
(Tenor).
(Falconer- Balfel; I Love You So (from 'The Merry Widow'-Lehar).....with Orchestral ac-
Good-Bye (Tosti); Killarney
companiment.
7.00 p.m.-MILITARY Band Concert with Malcolm McEachern (Bass). Castaldo-March (Novacek-arr. Hewitt); L'Entente Cordiale-March Anglo-Fran- caise (Allier).....The B.B.C. Military Band cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell, The Bell Ringer (Oxenford-Wallace); Out On The Deep (Cowan & Lohr)....Mal- colm McEachern (Bass) with Orchestra. Tidworth Tattoo..Tidworth March; Coburg March: Sambre Et Meuse-March (Plan- quette)....Massed Bands of the Southern Command.
March Lorraine (Ganne); La Marseillaise ....La Garde Republicaine Band con- ducted by M. G. Balay. Anchors Aweigh--March....United States
cond. Navy Band
by Lieut. Charles Bonter.
7.30 p.m.-LONDON RELAY
News.
C
The
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Bignal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
"Fly- 8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. RECORDING
Written and ar- Ing High" Part II. ranged by Alan Russell and Charles Brewer.
8.30 p.m.-LONDON RELAY — "Birds of a Feather", Comedy of Welsh Rural Life.
9.00 p.m.-Winnie Malville and Derek Oldham with Marek Weber and His Orchestra.
Dainty Little Maiden (Besley); I've Found
A Whole World In You (Leslie)....Win
nie
"London Log"
And
More Dance Music
Melville & Derek Oldham (Vocal Duets) with Orchestra.
"The Beggar Student-'Selection (Milloc- ker)....Marek Weber & His Orchestra. 9.05 p.m.- STUDIO—Comments
Recent Events.
9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY
Summary.
on
News
9.30 p.m.-Local Sports Results. 9.32 p.m.-REGINALD FOORT at the
Organ.
Medley Of Daly's Favourites.
Intro: A bachelor gay (The Maid of the Mountains): Villa (The Merry Widow): Bohemia (The Happy Day); Leander (Katcha the Dancer): Under the Deo- dar (A Country Girl); You're in love (Gipsy Love).
Reminiscences Of Friml.
Intro: Indian Love Call: The Mounties; Chanson; The door of my dreams; Rose Marie: March of the Vagabonds; Only Rose: L'Amour Toujours L'Amour: Serenade.
9.45 p.m.-B.B.C. RECORDING—"The Fol-De-Rois". Variety show written and produced by Greatrex Newman with Music by Wolseley Charles. 10.25 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC.
Quickstep-Joseph Joseph! Tango So Blue the Skies....Maxwell Ste-
wart's Ballroom Melody.
Slow Fax-Trot Magyar Melody (from
His 'Pabrika').....Victor Silvester & Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Night Over Shanghai (Alm "The Singing Marine'); 'Cause Mv Baby Says It's So (Alm "The Singing Marine')..... Billy Thorburn & His Music. Waltzes-Say That You Will Not Forget (flm Lullaby'); Sweet Mary Rose..... Bernhard Ette & His Dance Orchestra. Fox-Trots-How Cold You?: Don't Play With Fire....Eddie Carroll & The Casani Club Orchestra. Tangos-Poema;
Moonlight Kisses..... Geraldo & His Gaucho Tango Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.--LONDON RELAY—“Lon-
don Log",
11.16 p.m.-More Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-It's Been So Long: Every Time, I Look At You....Chick Bullock & His Orchestra.
Quickstep I Wasn't Lying When I Sald "I Love You"; Waltz-Oh, Mr. Man In The Moon....Henry Jacques with his Dance Tempo Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Drummer Goes To Town: Slow Fox-Trot-The Japanese Sandman.... Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots in "Drum- nasticks"..
Tangos-Lamento!; Land Of Magic.....
Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots - Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party: Oh, You Rogue....Ted Flo Rito & His Orchestra. Quicksteps-Clarinet Marmalade; Maple Leaf Rag...Harry Roy & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Do The Runarqund (film 'She shall have Muelo): She Shall Have Mu- Hylton's sic (from the film).....Jack Orchestra. Waltz-A Beautiful Lady In Blue....Mario
"Harp" Lorenzi & His Rhythmics. 12.00 midnight.-CLOSE DOWN.
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