MUTT AND JEFF
I WOULDN'T STAY AT THE FRONT ANOTHER NIGHT FOR A MILLION BUCKS! THEY'RE KILLING MEN LIKE RATS!
MY HORSE DROPPED DEAD! I KNOW I'LL BE SHOT IF IN CAUGHT DESERTING, BUT IT'S SUICIDE AT THE FRONT!
HALT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK HERE, YOU COWARD? YOU BELONE UP AT THE
FRONT!
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1940
By BUD FISHER
I'M THE WHY? WHO ARE GENERAL
You?
GOOD GOSH!
AM I THAT -FAR BEHIND
THE LINES?
TO THE
REAR
Gilbert And
Sullivan
Selections
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.--Selections from Gilbert and
Sullivan's "The Mikado”.
Braid the Raven Hair....Beatrice Elburn
(Soprano) and Chorus of Girls.
The Sun, Whose Rays are all Ablaze............. Elsie Grin (Soprano) with Orchestra. Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day.....E. Griffin. D. Hemingway, D Oldham and G. Baker.
Here's A How-De-Do!.....Elsie Griffin, Derek 'Oldham and Henry A. Lytton. Mi-Ya, Sa-Ma.....Bertha Lewis, D. Fan.
court and Chorus.
A More Humane Mikado....Darrell Fan-
court and Chorus of Man.
The Criminal Cried....A. Davies, H. A.
Lytton, L. Sheffield and Chorus.
See How The Fates.....D. Fancourt, B. Lewis, A. Davies, H. A. Lytton, L. Shef field.
The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
ken
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
...D. Oldham and H. A. Lytton. 6.28 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.30 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.
Fox-Trots With A Twinkle In Your Eye (film "The Gang Show); That Song In My Heart (flin The Gang Show'). . . . . Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. Quickstep-Jazz Me Blues; Slow Fox-Trot -Cheerful Blues....Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins. Rumba-Buscando Millonaria; Tango-El Del Boyero....Orquesta Tipica Roberto Firpo. Fox-Trot-Until, To-morrow; Quickstep- Around and Round the Old Bandstand
Adios
Vinning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
we
THINK AHEAD
The Principle of Anticipation, which trouble would have been avoided.
formulated some years ago, is However, things would still have well illustrated in to-day's hand. Put turned out all right if South had pass- concisely, this principle means simplyed three spades. But now he thought: that before making any bid it is "I've placed my partner in a terrible well to consider whether your part-contract which he obviously cannot· ner's most likely response will make make and must therefore rebid my your future bidding problem simple or put you in an embarrassing prédica~ ment. Let's consider South's bidding:
North, Dealer North-South vulnerable
AKJ65 J∙ 10 7 2
10 8.4
Q.8 8
◊ K J 8
48 K
A Q7 3
AKI 6 4 010-6-8
Q 10 8 7843.
club suit and hope that everything turns out for the best." South's bid of four clubs received its just reward: West doubled, and when the smoke of battle lifted, it was found that the contract was defeated 800 points!
* *
*
....Sydney Lipton & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-A Melody For Two (front the film); September in the Rain (film 'A Melody for Two')....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.
Waltzes-Would You (film 'San Francis- co'): My First Love Song (film 'Queen of Hearts')....Roy Fox & His Orchestia, Fox-Trots-Who Loves You; Foolish Heart
....Ronnie Munro & His Dance Orch. Slow Fox-Trots-Who Loves You; Foolish & His Dance Heart....Ronnie Munro
Orchestra.
Slow Fox-Trot-There's A Star In The Sky....Harry Saville & His Orchestra. Tango The Tango of the "Mula";: Waltz -A Garden of Illusion....Orquesta Ti- pica Francisco Canaro. Fox-Trots-Where Are You? im Top of the Town'); Carelessly....Roy Fox & His Orchestra,
7.30 p.m.--London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.--Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
in 8.02 p.m.-Tartini Concerto D Minor. Joseph Szigeti (Violin) with Orchestra.
Till's Strauss 8.16 p.m. Richard
Merry Pranks, Op. 28. The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Busch.
8.31 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Gaston and E. O'Noll D'Aquino (Tenor) Shaw (Piano).
1. (a) Una fuřtuva lagrima (from 'Elisire
d'amore'-Donizetti).
(b). Nel verde maggio (from 'Loreley'
Catalani),
2. A Granada (Alvarez).
..Gaston D'Aquino with
accomp.
Piano
3. Quand 11 Pleut (Poushnoff).
....E. O'Neil Shaw at the Piano.
Feld-
TO-DAY'S TENNIS
Following is to-day's tennis programme. Match between Fincher and Hung, and Hyde
An Hour Of Dance Music
4. Two Neapolitan Songs
(a) Chi se nne scorda cchiu (Ba
thelemy)...
(b) Nnapulltanata (Mario Costa). 5. Primavera (Tirindelli).
....Gaston D'Aquino with Plac
accomp.
for Flut
8.57 p.m-D'Indy-Suite
Violin, Viola, Violoncello and Har Op. 91. Quintette Instrumental Paris.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum
Relay
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London
Affairs"
"Worl
9.45 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-Please Remember; On Linge
Longer Island....Jack Harris Orchestra.
& H
Waltz The Whistling Waltz....Billy Rel
& His Accordeon Band. One-Step-Amazon Goes A-Wooing. Fox-Trot-Glamour Girl....Jack Harris
His Orchestra.
10.00 p.m.-London Relay--Commen tary on The Grand National, 194 from Aintree.
10.25 p.m. Variety with Todd Duncan
Elisabeth Welch, Max Miller The Hill Billies.
an
Vocal Little Mountain Cabin (Kennedy
Carr); Pop-Eyed Pete.....The H Billies.
Comedian-Confessions of a Cheeky Chay
py (Miller)....Max Miller. Vocal-River God (from "The, Sun Neve Sets'-Cole Porter); Drums (from "IN Sun Never Sets Carter & Leslie Smith ....Todd Dundan with Thu Drury Lan Theatre Orchestra..
Comedienne Harlem. In My Heart (flr 'Big Fella"); Che Kiss (Alm "Big Fella ....Elisabeth Welch with Orchestra. Vocal The Hilly Billy Band (Al & Bo
Harvey)....The Hill Billies.
Comedian-Ophella; Down In The Valle
....Max Miller,
"Y" HOCKEY
WIN
Y.M.C.A. seniors won a very scrappy ho key encounter 'at King's Park yesterda when they beat University by the only goa scored by Pennington in the first half.
“Y” LADIES
and Ferguson has been postponed as Hung TEAM FOR TO-MORROW
Yesterday, as Merwin Maier's part-is ill ner, you held:
X I X
A I
◊ K J x ♣AKQ 10 x
The bidding:
3 9 5 2
A 2
ОБ
◊ A 9 7 B
Maler
Page
1
The bidding: North
5
East 20
South West
Рада Равз
34 44 Pask
Pass Dbl.
Paus If East had passed over North's opening spade bid, South's, problem would have been simple, two clubs
100H CARE VALUES
OF THE C PRORFACES SYSTEM
ACE... 3 KING..2 QUIEN 1 JACKIN
You Schenkan
1 24
Pass
Рава
(7)
Burnstone Pass 1A Pass ANSWER: Bid six clubs. Your partner's triple raise was a Stani ih-. vitation. His hand should contain, in addition to à good heart suit, at least four trumps, a side Ace and not more than ohe spade loser (probably a being the only possible singleton.) response. But East's Score 100% for six clubs, 40% for two-heart ovèrè'h111 pàss, should altered mat- ters, for now ́even if South passed, his part- ner would be given the opportunity to make another bid if he desired. Therefore, South's three-cllib?bid
was freely volunteered, and “at "tirik her high level should have showed ubstantia alues, especially as
would now
called upon to
*196uth-was
QUESTION NO. 876
Both sides are vulnérable and the opponents have 60 on score. You are Howard Schenken's par
and bold:
The bidding:
vhenken
l'ass
I
You
sta
Barnstone Dbl.. *Pass
Pass (?)
OPEN DOUBLES Wong Fook-nam and, Lam Kwan v. J. Gonsalves and A. V, Remedios (8)....
HANDICAP SINGLES
G. C. Burnett (-15) v. A. K. Mackenzie (2/6) or E. Zulauf (-15) (7).
HANDICAP DOUBLES
A. Lade and a.' W. Sowell -(-5.6) or W.
Following will represent Ladles the Brawn Cup game against Argonauts o C.B.A. grund at 3.00p.m.:
Miss Bruce; Mrs. Trimmer, and Mis Kenniston; Miss, Dunne, Miss Stokes an Mrs. Ashman; Mrs. Bickhell; Mrs. Mos Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. Macklin and Mrs. Peters
G. Harvey and A. R. Barwell (scr.) v. T.].(—3/6)⋅ (3), ·
A. Pearoe and F. D♪ Hunter (-3/6) or C.
HANDICAP MIXED DOUBLES
N. D. Walker and E. L. Taverner (scr.) (2). D. G. G. Allen and Miss J. Purkis (spr.
V. R. Gordon and H. J. Armstrong (18) or C. B. and Mrs. Nicholson '(-3/8) v. J. § v. R. K. Valentine and L. M. S. Lloyd Theobald and Mrs, Churchill (~15/2) (4).
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