THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 27, 1940
By BUD FISHER
[NOT A BAD IDEA AT THAT!
AND JEFF
I COULD GET VI HEARD WE'RE GONNA ALONG BETTER PULL A SURPRISE ATTACK WITHOUT THESE | ON SOME DANGEROUS CLUMSY THINGS RUSSIANS TONIGHT!
ON MY FEET!
SAY! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO WEAR SKIS YET?" DO YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT THEM ON BACKWARDS?
YESSIR!
WHATS
THE MEA
OFSTA
IT MEANS, SIR, IF THOSE RUSSIANS START CHARGING US I AIN'T WASTING NO TIME TURNING
AROUND!
Marek Weber And His Orchestra
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m-Rossini-Overture "Samira. mide". Philharmonic - Symphony
Orchestra of New York conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
6.14 p.m.-Songs by Oscar Natzke
(Bass),
The Song of Hybrias The Cretan
(Elliott)....with Orchestra.. Hear Me Ye Winds and Waves (Han-
del)....with Organ accomp. The Village Blacksmith (Longfel low-Welss)..., with Orchestra. 6:80 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota.
tions.
6:32 p.m.-Compositions of. Schubert.
Sonata In A Minor for 'Cello and
Plano
Emanuel Feuermann ('Cello) & Gerald Moore (Piano). Schubert Waltzes....Symphony Or- chestra cond. by Walter Goehr. 7,00 p:m.--Millza : Korjus, (Soprano) and Marek Weber & His Orchestra. Serenade (Moszkowsky) The Mal- Miliza dens of Cadiz (Delibes): Korjus (Soprano) with Orchestra.
ZBW 355 M. (845.k.c.'s) and '31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
An Evening With Liszt (Urbach)
.Marek Weber & His Orch." Tales From The Vierma Woods (Featured in the film The Great Waltz') (Strauss)....Miliza Kor-- jus (Soprano) with Orchestra." FaustSelection (Gounod, arr. We- ber)....Marek Weber & His Orch. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Loca! Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-An English Programma.
Tom Jones Selection (German)..
Regimental Band of H.M. Grena- dier Guards cond: by Capt, George Miller.
One Kind Word (Charles-Dean); ·
'Still Love Mary (Siever-Ramsay) Brownlow W. The Hon.. (Baritone) with Orchestra.
Winning
London Bridge March (Eric Coates)
... New Light Symphony Or chestra cond. by Joseph Lewis. The Children's Home (Weatherly & Cowen).... Catherine Stewart (Contralto) with. Berkeley Mason at the Organ...
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies (Eric) Coates): (1) I Pitch My Lonely Caravan; (2) Bird Songs at Even- tide I Heard You Singing....New Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by Joseph Lewis.
Music of the Night (Black-Eric McCormack Coates). -John (Tenor) with Plano accomp. by Edwin Schneider." "The Rose" (Selection of English Melodies arr. Myddleton)....The London Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean.
8.45. p.m.-Studio-"Some Great Au- thors 6: Macaulay. The fifth of a series of talks by Father Ryan, S.J.
E. ZIMMERN
CONTRACT STILL LEADS
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnston, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has healen every other system in cælaterice.
ken..
UNLOOKED FOR SQUEEZE
The expert player is always on the spades and the diamond Queen, lookout for a possible squeeze play, and sometimes one seems to material- ise out of thin air. In to-day's hand South's five-heart bid was purely defensive. Then, to his surprise, he found himself making his contract.
Fast, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
10 8:2
♡:Q 10 6
◊ 9 6 3
▲ AKJ9.
7.8 5
E '8
OK J4
3.2.
A.J
8
8 7 6 3W-
K 8 7.6
The bidding
Pass:
South 20
5.V Pase
KJ976 3
10.9
North
West opened the Queen of spades, East vertook and played a second round, which South
bed South heart West
hifted to a. diariot
HIGH CARA VALLIKS
ACE..
KING
JACK
∙led sa
club,
Now Declarer played a club, finessed the Jack and followed with the Ace. East had to hold the high spade and hence had to let go of the diamond Jack. The diamond, Queen was then played. East's King fell and South's. ten won the last trick.
*
Yesterday, as Merwin Maier's part- ner, you held:
X..X
ÖJ-987 I
The bidding:
Maler
Burnstonu -
Pass
You
Schenken
~*^ ANSWER: While the safest and best bid is to pass, two diamonds is excusable.
Score 100% for pass, 80% for two diamonds, 20% for one notrump (Very unsound.)
LQUESTION NO, 358
Both sides are vulnerable and the opponents have 40 on score, › You are Howard Schenken's partner and hold.
The biddingt
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Bell
Following: are, the latest results in the Colony Chess Championship:-
B. S. Litvin beat L Blair.
A. Kurrik beat V. V. Kalatchoff.
`K. Weiss drew with D. E. de Carvalho. :
The positions of players are as follow:
E. Zimmern
B6. Litvin-
K. Welas
K. M. A. Barnett
Sir H. Pollock
D. E. de Carvalho A. Kurrik A. Biriúkoff
Le Blak
V. V. Kalatchoff
-P; W; D. L.:Pts..
87-01 7. 9 8.0 3.0
9 6 13.5%
6 6 0 -1-5
8 41 2 2 5
8 3 14 31⁄2 8.3 1.4 32 7.1 2.4 2 7.10 61 8 0 17. Vz
"Y" LADIES BEAT C.B.A.
་
" The`.
Voice Of The
Nazi
9.05 rp.m.-Songs by Donnie
(Baritone).
Noble
The Devout Lover (Pollock & White)....with Piano accomp. The Shade of the Palm. (from Flo- radora-Stuart); Star of My Soul *(from The Geisha-Jones)
with Orchestral accomp. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay News Bum-
mary."
9.30, pim-Talk on "The Voice of the Nazi recorded by Professor W. A. Sinclair.
9.48 p.m-Reginald Foort at the Organ.
Toy Land Medley. Intro; Teddy, Bears' Picnic; Wedding of the Painted Doll; Parade of the Tin Soldiers; Punch and Judy Show; The Toy Train....with Anton & The Paramount Theatre Orches- trá, London. Reminiscences of Friml. Intro: In- dian Love Call; The Mounties; Chanson; The door of my Dreams; Rose Marie March of the Vaga- bonds; Only a Rose; L'amour tou- jours l'amour; Serenade. 10.00 p.m.→→An hour of Dance Music. 11.00 pm-CLOSE DOWN.
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The girl chum says it's no won- der a girl has a hard time keeping & anything up her sleeve what with the evening clothes designed these days.
-In a friendly hockey match at King's Park yesterday, "Y" Ladies, Caer Clark Cup champions, beat Cen- tral British Association by 32.
Goals were scored by Miss D. Mc- Quick, for C. B. A. Miss Parsons, Caw (2) and Miss I. Buchanan, for normally a full-back, played a good "y" and Miss B. Parsons and Mrs. I game at: inside-right yesterday.
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