MUTT AND JEFF
JEFF, WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THE NEW
UMBRELLA Į BOUGHT?
I DON'T KNOW! LET'S SEE IT!
12-7
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 19404
BANG!
BANG!
By
BUD FISHER
IT'S ALL
RIGHT FOR
WATER BUT NOTHING
ELSE!
?
Rachmaninoff
Symphony
No. 2 in E Minor
Today's Wireless
12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-
cession.
12.30 p.m. VARIETY with Harold Ramsay, Sam Browne, The Hill Blilles and Harry Roy's Tiger-Raga- muffins.
1.00 p.m.--Local Time Signal and
Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Musical Comedy Selections. "Careless Rapture"-Music In May (Ivor Novello).....Dorothy Dickson (Soprano) with Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra. "The Gold Diggers of 1933"-Selection.... The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall.
"Hit The Deck"-Vocal Gems (Youmans) ....Light Opera Company with Orch. "On Your Toes"-Slaughter On
Tenth
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
•
Avenue (Hart & Rodgers)....Paul White- man & His Concert Orchestra, 1.30 p.m.-Router and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1.45 p.m.-Gracie Fields and Arthur Askey In 2 Programme of Latest Dance Music.
Fox-Trot-You're The Only Star. Waltz-Ain't Cha Comin' Out....Dick Ro
bertson & His Orchestra. Vocal-Wish Me Luck {from 'Shipyard Sally')....Gracie Flelds with Choir and
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
Orchestra.
In
Fox-Troi-On The Outside Looking
(from 'The little dog laughed') ........ Billy Cotton & His Band, Vocal-The Washing On The Siegfried Line
Kennedy & Carr); Adolf (Mills)....Ar- thur Askey with Orchestra. Quickstep-The-Girl Who Loves A Soldier (from The little dog laughed')....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.
Fox-Trols-1 Poured My Heart Into A Song (Alm 'Second Fiddle'); An Old-Fashioned Tune Always Is New (film 'Second Fid- dle')....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. 2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN. 6.00 p.m.-Robinson Cleaver at the
Organ.
Medley. Intro: Co c'est Paris: Harbour Lights: Massed Bands of the Guards; Boo-Hoo: Little old Lady of Poverty Street: Red, White and Blue. Musical Sweethearts. Intro: Polly: Dinah; Nola; Dainty Miss; Miss Annabelle Lee; Somebody sole my Gal.
6.13 p.m.--Light 8ymphony Orchestra.
Homage March (Haydn Wood). Concert Waltz-Joyousness (Haydn Wood). Mon Reve (Waldteufel).
Bal Masque (Fletcher).
6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has 6.32 p.m. Harold Williams (Baritone) beaten every other system in existence.
UNFORESEEN DEVELOPMENTS
Al Sobel, the well-known tourna- had to lead into the spade tenace. ment director, mournfully approached "However, if I had not trumped De- us to describe a hand which he ad- clarer's high diamond, he would have mitted cost him top score in a recent | been set. He would have discarded- Duplicate game. "While the oppon- all three of dummy's clubs and then cuts bid optimistically," said
and the London Palladium Orchestra, The Merry-Go-Round (Lockton & Tate); When The Harvest's In (Standale Ben- nett)....Harold Williams (Baritone) with
Plano.
Bella Across The Meadow (Ketelbey); The Phantom Melody (Ketelbey).... The Lon- don Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean.
therly Mr. trumped his losing club in dummy. Sobel, "I could have defeated the hand | The heart Queen would then be led. by a peculiar defensive play."
Duplicate Bridge
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
Mr. Bobel
A KJ 74
Q 10 8 6 3
Q 10 2
◊ 4
AJ 75
A 9 5
♡ K 4 3 E10 10 9 8 7
6 2 S
+86
♡ J 6
6 3
W
♣ K Q 10
93
A 2
♡ A
8 7 8
O AKQ J
43
The bidding:
Bouth West North East
10
Pass 14
Paan
80
•♡
Pass
80
Pase
Pass 54 Pass
Pass
Рава
Pass
"I opened the King of clubs," Mr. Sobel explained. "Dummy's Ace won and Declarer then played three top diamonds. I trumped the third
round with the heart six and dummy over- trumped with
the
HIGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN
ACE... KING....2 QUEEN 1 JACK
ten.
The heart Queen was then led and my partner's King ánd my Jack fell simultaneously. De- clarer then ran off all his high trumps and his remaining "dtantund, thereby squeezing me completely. held on to the club Queen and the King Jack of spades and of course was thrown in with the club and then
My partner would cover and I would then win a trick with the heart Jack and exit by playing my top club. Thus I would not have been squeezed and would have eventually won trick with the spade King. In my own defence," Mr. Sobel concluded, "I must claim that it was difficult foresee how the hand would develop."
*
*
•
a
to
You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner yesterday. Neither side was vulnerable and you held:
J 9 5 4
K 10 9
0954 ♣Q J 2
The bidding: · Burnstone
Maler Yod Jacoby
20 (7)
This
ANSWER: You should pass. hand is not quite strong enough for a free bid of two spades.
Score 100% for pass, 70% for two spades, 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 810
1
You are Oswald
and hold:
I
Jacoby's partner
A Q XXX
◊ XXX
I
♣ KQxx The bidding: Jaroby Schenken
1
Pass
20 · Pass Pass
(1) ***What "do" Tou· bid?···tAnswer
tomorrow.)
(Released by The
You
Maler
Bell Syndicate,
Inc.)
(Noel
Orchestra
In An Old Fashioned Town (Harris & Squire); If I Might Come To You (Wen-
&c
Williams Squire)....Harold (Baritone) with Plano. These Foolish Things-Selection
Gay).....London Palladium cond. by Clifford Greenwood. 7.00 p.m.-Dance Music by Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra with Young and Forsythe on Two-Planos. Fox-Trots-Did I Remember?; A Star Fell Out Of Heaven....Maurice Winnick & His Orchestra. Rumbas On Toast. Intro: La Cucuracha;
Mama Inez: The Carioca; Siboney... Arthur Young and Reginald Forexythe on Two Pianos with String Bass and Drums.
Fox-Trots-You (Alm The Great Zieg- feld'); A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (film "The Great Ziegfeld').............Maurice Winnick & His Orchestra.
More Rumbas On Toast, Intro: Tony's Wife: Side walks of Cuba: Green eyes; When Yuba plays the Rumba on the
and Tuba....Arthur Young
Reginald Forerythe on Two Pianos with String Bass and Drums.
Robinson Cleaver At The Organ
Fox-Trots-Some Other Time; On Treasure
Island....Maurice Winnick & His Orch. Fox-Trot-Take My Heart........Maurice Win-
nick & His Orchestra.
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News.
| 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Piano Solos.
Prelude In G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 (Rach-
maninoff)....Mischa Levitzki.
Prelude In D Flat (Rachmaninoff). Polichinelle (Rachmaninoff).
....Left Pouishnoff.
8.16 p.m.-Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 27. Eugene Ormandy and the Minneapolis Sym- phony Orchestra,
9.05 p.m.-Studio-Comments on Re-
cent Events.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.30 p.m.-An Hour of the Latest
Dance Music.
Fox-Trot-There's Something Wrong With
The Weather....Billy Cotton & His Band, Quickstep-In The Middle Of A Dream. Waltz-Love Never Grows Old.....Victor
Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra, Rumba Fox-Trot-Lady, Play Your Man-
dolin....Havana Novelty Orchestra. Slow FoxTrot-I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (Alm 'Rose of Washington Square'),
Waltz-There's Danger In The Waltz (from "The little dog laughed')....Victor Sil- vester & Ills Ballroom Orchestra, March-The Daughter of Mademoiselle
From Armenteres.... Harry Roy & His Orchestra.
Fox-Trots--Boom; I Get Along Without You Very Well....Jay Wilbur & His Band. Beer Barrel Polka....Harry Roy & His
Orchestra.......... Waltz-Roses Are Blooming In Loveland .The Organ, The Dance Band and Me, Fox-Trots-Tears From My Inkwell; You Grow Sweeter As The Years Go By.... Jay Wilbur & His Band. Tango-Summer evening in Santa Cruz. Slow Fox-Trot-The Moon remembered but you Forgot (from 'Let's be Famous").... Maxwell Stewart's Ballroom Melody. Fox-Trot Intermezzo-Merry and Bright. Polka-Keep Young!....George Boulanger
& His Orchestra. A Fax-Trots-F. D. R. Jones: Stairway To The Stars....Carroll Gibbons & the Sa- voy Hotel Orpheans. 10.30 p.m.
Opera.
Selections from Light
"H.M.S. Pinafore”—Selection (Sullivan).... The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. "Monsieur Beaucaire"-Vocal Gems (Mes- aager)....Light Opera Company with Orchestra,
"Lilac Time"-Selection
(Schubert, arr.
by
Berte & Clutsam)....Organ Solo Harry Davidson. "The Miracle"-Selection (Humperdinck)
...London Symphony Orchestra.
Relay Phillip 11.00 p.m.-London
Baker/on "Matters of Moment". 11.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
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