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TAXI!
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SIR?
ER
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EXTRA TIMES!
TAXI
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY:15, 1940.
By BUD FISHER
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Rachmaninoff And Philadelphia
Orchestra
6.00 p.m.-"For the Children".
Today's Wireless
The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse Part 1; Peter's Pop Keeps A Lollipop Shop.....The Rocky Mountaineers (Vocal).
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Rachmaninoff (Piano) with Leopold the Philadelphia
Stokowski and Orchestra.
Schorr (Baritone) and Ljungberg (Soprano) and the London Sym- phony Orchestra,
STUDIO-Story by Aunt Susan. Roll Along, Covered Wagon (Ken-
nedy)....Walsh and Barker (Duet-6.55 p.m.-EXCERPTS from Wagner's 7.07 p.m.-GRIEG-Holberg Suite, Op.
tists) with Piano and Gullar. 6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.32 p.m.-RACHMANINOFF-Rhap- Body On A Theme Of Paganini For Piano and Orchestra, Op. 43. Sergei
40. London String Orchestra con- ducted by Walter Goehr.
"Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg". Cobbling Song-Jerum! Jerum!...
Rudolf Bockelmann (Bass-Barl-7.24 p.m-GRIEG-Elegiac Melodies, tone) and Berlin State Opera Orch. Sachs and Eva's Duets: Good Even-
ing, Master! I See Why "Twas...
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 cxistence.
PROTECTION NEEDED
a АБ
Op. 34.
No. 1 Heart Wounds; No. 2 Spring.... London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens.
The 7.30 p.m.- LONDON RELAY -
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8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-This Week's Programmes. 8.07 p.m.-An hour of Variety.
Piano-Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D..30. Intro: Don't worry 'bout me; Our Love; And the an- gels sing; Especially for you; An- gels never leave Heaven; Good- night, my darling, goodnight..... Charlie Kunz with rhythm accomp. Humorous-No News;. The Three Frank Trees (McNaughton) Crumit with Orchestra. Instrumental-Hawaiian Love; Ha- walian Rose-Medley .... Kane's Hawaiiang.
An Hour Of Variety : Dance Music
lisle with Orchestra.
Tango This Is The Kiss Of Rom- ance; Waltz-Love In Your Eyes Eugene Pini & His Tango Or- chestra with Vocal Refrain. Vocal-I Never Realised (Gideon); For Love Alone (Slevier, Thayer)
Bing Crosby with Orchestra. Two Planos Passepied (Delibes-
arr. Alleyne-Leonhardt); Destiny -Waltz (Baynes)...... Alleyne & Leonhardt.
Cinema Organ-Whispering of the Flowers (Blon); Magic Chimes- Intermezzo (Rust)....Marcel Pa- lotti with Hawalian Gullar. Vocal-The Old Covered Bridge (Billy Hill); Night On The Water (Lombardo & Others).....Layton & Johnstone with Piano. Gipsy Band-Hungarian Gipsy Party (Csardas Selection); The Magic of The the Hungarian Puszta Hungaria Gipsy Band. 9.05 p.m.-STUDIO
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Summary.
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9.30 p.m. - B. B. C. RECORDING
"Who's Hooper?” Book by Fred Thompson and Lyrics by Clifford Grey. Music by Howard Talbot and Ivor Novello. Production by George Barker.
Vocal--The Shabby Old Cabby 10.30 p.m.--DANCE MUSIC.
(Simon-Stillman) Elsie Car- 11.00 p.m.CLOSE DOWN.
LADIES' DOUBLES SEMI-FINAL · RESULTS
2
NEW POLICE FORWARD
"(BY "SCRUM=HALF")
To-day's hond involves a question bound to "kill" his partner's tricks in of bidding tactics. North and South that suit. East therefore should have | TENNIS CHAMPION have the more powerful hands and taken out the double to three spades should record some proft.
purely as a rescue bid. Had he done' matter of fact, they can make a so, we doubt that South would have Small Slam in clubs, but it is very had the temerity to show his club difficult to arrive at in view of West's suit. It would then be up to North opening bid.
and he might well have doubled the The Semi-Finals of the Colony's
On Saturday next the Club Inter- spades
by - in fact we think that he Women's Doubles Championships were
decided at the United Services Recrea-port Rugby team will be tested should.
On proper defence three spades tion Club yesterday. Miss M. Grif- Army at Sookunpgo, while Police will would be set three tricks for a net fiths and Mrs. Chiù Chun-chlu beat meet Club "A",
and Mrs. W. Knight penalty of 400 points, but this would Mrs. Sweeney be better than the doubled heart 6-2, 6-3, and Mrs. Hyde and Mrs. game the opponents made and cer- Litton beat Mrs. Lade and Mrs. tainly a huge saving as compared Churchill 6—1, 6—2. with the club Slam which they never even approached.
West, Dealer
Neither side vulnerablo
A KJ 101 ♡ Q J 10 4 0 9 6 2
K Q
▲ Q 6 6 3 ♡ 2
OAK 7
4
98742
J 844 8
N
W
♡ 8 6 5 ◊ QJ 10 8 ♣ 10
AK 971 0804
♣ A 9 7 5 2
The bidding:
West
North East
+
South
14
Pass 24
Döl
PASS
Pass
B♡ PAM
Let's analyse the bidding.. West's opening spade bid was very sound, and North was too weak, to overcall.
HIGH BARO VALLES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE 3 KING QUEEN I JACK
as
Saturday
*
**
Merwin you were Maier's partner, your side was vulner- able and you held:
7 4
A Q 6 3
ÓK 8 6 2
K 10 3
Maler
The bidding:
Schenken Barnstone. You
Pass
1♡ 14 ᎠᏏ . Pass (1)
ANSWER: You should pass. The penalty should be at least 500 points, and a Slam is unlikely.
Score-100% for pass, 70% for two notrump, 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 308
While East's hand was worthless as far high cards were con- cerned, his distribu- tion warranted a raise. And of course South, with @ good two- You are Howard Schenken's part- suiter, had to risk aner, neither side is vulnerable and bid even at the range you hold: of, three. West then doubled three hearts, thinking he had caught South for a substantial set. However, all be could win were two heart tricks, a diamond and a club, and his oppon- ents scored a game.
8.6 3
The bidding:
Jacoby
(1)
What do you bid? tomorrow.)
East's pass to the three-heart double was cowardly. He had nothing to aid his partner defensively except the diamond Queen, and at the same time had so many spades that he was Inc.)
Police will probably have Wright- North, a wing forward, on view. He has just come out to the Colony and has played County Rugger. A product of Hendon Police College, he has also played for Metropolitan Police. NAVY “A”: XV
Riddell is looking for a scrum-half Following will represent Navy "A" in the event of Luscombe being in- I understand Luscombe against R.A.M.C. to-morrow at Cause- Jured, and way Bay at 4.15 p.m.
will be playing at forward on Satur- Midshipman Roe; Mne. Jeffries, Mid-day, and Morrison will be given a trial shipman Teare, A. N. Other and Sub. at scrum-half, Lieutenant Kennedy; Stoker Gallagher
and Midshipman O'Riordan; L. S. A. Pay Sub. Lieutenant Sumner.
Reserves-A. B. Dixon, S. B. A Palmer, Ldg. Wtr. Barlow, Ldg. Sig.
Inglis; A. B. Jeffrey, A. B. Longmuir; | Davis, Tel. Bowden and 8. B. A. Ades A. N. Other, Chief Writer King and dis.
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