MUTT AND JEFF
WE WANT TO BATHE!
NO
E YOU SURE THERE CROCODILES, ARE NO CROCODILES SENDRI
IN THIE
RIVER
“ÖK, BOY!
THAT RIVER SURE LOOKS
GOOD TO
ME!
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1940.
NO CROCODILES, SENOR! THEY'RE AFRAID OF THE SHARKS!
BY BUD FISHER
WHREEE! THIS PEELS GREAT!!
HEY! ARE YOU
HOT DOG
WHAT WAS THAT
WHAT
SURE THERE ARE NO CROCODILES
IN THIS
RIVER?
Dvorak Concerto Played By Menuhin
Today's Wireless
12.15 p.m. - Short Service of Inter-
cession.
12.30 p.m.-Artie Shaw & His Orches-
tra and The Andrew Sister's.
1.00 p.m.-Local
Signal Time
and
Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Alfredo
Campoti
&
His
Orchestra.
On
The Fiddler's At The Forge (Ives); Penny In The Slot (Ashworth- Hope); The Knave of Diamonds (Steele); Love In Idleness-Ser-
Later (MacBeth); enata (Grimshaw). 1.18 p.m. Charlie Kunz at the Piano.
Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 4. Intro: I Need You; What will I tell my Heart; The Love Bug will Bite You; With Plenty of Money and
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
With
You; Let's put out heads together; Moonlight and Shadows; plenty of Money and You. Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 2. Intro: One, two, button your shoe; On your toes; Goodnight my love; Harbour lights; There's something in the air; May I have the next ⚫romance?
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1.45 p.m.-Dance Music by Billy Cot-
ton and His Band.
Minning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Acés)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D, Matèr, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-. ken
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
A SIMPLE CROSS-RUFF
From the Declarer's viewpoint there up. He cashed dummy's Ace of clubs are three general types of hands at and King of spades, then played two suit contracts. The first is the estab-more rounds of trumps, landing in lishment by Déclarer of some side dummy. Next South trumped a club, was very much flabbergasted suit in his hand; the second, the set-and
ting up of some long sult in dummy; when the King, failed to drop from the third is the ruffing type, wherein West's hand. The final result was Declarer either trumps his losers in that South could win only his nine dummy or establishes a cross-ruff so top tricks.
Fox-Trots-Don't forget the
Old
Folks at Home; The House with the Little Green Tiles; I Can't Dance.
the Comedy Waltz-The Man on
Flying Trapeze. Fox-Trot-Madam Ah! La Marquise
Ah!
Quickstep I Like Bananas. Fox-Trots-The Masquerade is over; The Birthday of the Little Princess. Waltz-The Shabby, old Cabby. Fox-Trot--A New Moon and an Old
Serenade.
2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
- Concerto 6.00 p.m.-Dvorak
In A Yehudi Menuhin Minor, Op. 53. (Violin) and Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire con- ducted by Georges Enesco.
6.32 p.m.-Beethoven-Variations in E Flat Major ("Eroica"), Op. 35. Lili Kraus (Piano).
6.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
Tibbett (Bari. tone), Nan Maryska (Soprano) and Light Orchestră,
Overture "Caliph of... Bagdad"
(Boieldieu)....Berlin State Opera
7.00 p.m.-Lawrence
Orchestra.
Even Bravest Heart ("Faust".
Gounod) Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone) with Orchestra. Minuet (Boccherini, arr. Goehr); New Madrigale (Simonetti) Mayfair String Orchestra. My Lovely Celia (Monro, arr. Lane Wilson); The Lass With the Deli- cafe Air (Michael Arne)....Nan Maryska (Soprano) with Plano. Stephanie Gavotte (Czibulka); The Gavotte Way To The Heart (Lincke)....Willy Steiner & His Saloon Orchestra.
as to make each trump separately, We should like to point out what Sometimes there is a choice open to an absurdly simple hand this is to Declarer, and it is then that he should play. South should win the first trick 17.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. determine which type of play offers with the diamond Ace. Next the the best chance for success.
North, Dealer
K
◊ A
AQ 10 9 3.
h
10
6:2
5:4
♡ 6, 3
2
S
K87 E
DOC
The bidding:
A 9 7 5 3 K J 10 2
J 10 $
North
Fast
South
Pass
1
INT
Pass
3V
Pass
Pass
West Pass Pass Pass
club Ace and the two top spattes should be cashed, followed by a cross-ruft of all seven trumps. This method would produce eleven tricks with no risk involved.
✡
You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner yesterday and held:
K 10 x 1
◊ Qxxx AKJI
The bidding: Xo's
Maior Pass Pass (4)
Barnstone Jacoby
2
Rass
ANSWER: Bid three notrump. This bid shows at least a "trick" but denies a good sulf or support for spades.
Score 100% for three-notrump, 50% West opened a diamond. Dummy for two- notrump (artificial "bust" played low and East won with the response). Queen. A trump was returned. South
won with the ten,
QUESTION NO. 282
Both sides are vulnerable. You are then decided to estab-Oswald Jacoby's partner and hold.
VERIT CARE VALUES:
Ish clubs. He led his
singleton club and
finessed
dummy's
Queen, whereupon East, determine on
desperate manoeuvre,
Knowing that once lite King was gone, all of dummy's clubs would East innocently allowed the
WAX Uk Rick.
clarer now got himself all tangled
A 10 TI AKI I I
K. Q 10 x
The bidding:
Schankom
P696
What
tomor
Pass
Answer
Released By - The Ch
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
Reginald Foort at the 8.03 p.m.
Organ.. Medley of Daly's Favourites. Intro: A bachelor gay; Vilia; Bohemia; Leander; Under the Deodar; You're in love. Keep Smiling! (Reginald Foort's The A.B.C. Signature Tune): March (Foort & Ferring). 8.15 p.m.-London Relay "Things
have done for Radlo". By C. Dennis Warren.
8.30 p.m.-Schubert Duo for Piano
and Violin in A Major, Op. 162
Vernon Bartlett
On
"World Affairs"
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano) and Fritz Kreisler (Violin).
8.50 p.m. Schubert Songs.
Aufenthalt
Alexander Kipni (Bass) with Frank Bibb at th Piano. Fisher-Ways, Op. 96, No. 4; Gretche at the Spinning Wheel, Op. 2... Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano with Gérald Moore at the Piano. 9.00 p.m.-J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. Souvenir (Drdla, arr. Willoughby)
Phantom Minuet (Hope); Narcis sus (Nevin); Valse Bluette-Al de Ballet (Drigo); Silver Thread Among the Gold (Danks, arr. Wil loughby).
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum
mary. 9.30 p.m. London Relay "Worl
Affairs" by Vernon Bartlett. 9.45 p.m.-New Variety.
an
Vocal All Through A Glass
Champagne (Cochran's Shov "Lights Up"); Please Leave M Butter. Alone (Mills-Nicholls).... Arthur Askey with Orchestra. Fox-Trots--If A Grey-Haired Lad Says "How's Yer Father?"; We'l Meet Again....Jay Wilbur His Band. Vocal Dear Old Southland (Cream er-Layton); Nothin'. (Carpenter Paul Robeson (Bass) with Orch. Orch. & Organ-In The Shadow (Herman Finck); Valse Septembe (Godin, arr. Lotter)....Anton The Paramount Theatre Orchestra London, with Al Bollington at th
Organ.
Vocal-The Only One Who's Diff cult Is You (film 'Band Wagon') Heaven Will Be Heavenly (fl 'Band Wagón').... Pat Kirkwoo with Orchestra... 10.15 pim-Latest Dance Music.
Quickstep Nursie! Nursiel Fox-Tr
-Somewhere at Sea
Ne Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Fox-Trot They Can't Black Ou The Moon; Waltz Roses an Blooming in Loveland.....Ne Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot - Melody Make Quickstep Roadhouse Revel Fox-Trots Where or When (fil "Babes in Arms'); Good Mornin ..Jack Hylton & His Orchestra Swing Fox-Trots Night Glov
Stamp It Off. Tommy Dorsey ́ His Orchestra. Quickstep-Oh, Johnny; Fox-Trot- Scatterbrain, Midway Rhythn Quickstep Darktown Strutter Ball; Fox-Trot-My Melanchol Baby....Jack Hylton & His Orch 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
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