MUTT. AND JEFF
BOY, IT FEELS GREAT
YEH, I'M GOIN' RIGHT HOME TO SEE THE ; SWEET WOMAN! BOY,
TO BE HOME
AFTER GOIN'
THROUGH THAT
AWFUL WAR!
SAY, I KNOW MY WIFE! ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER- MAKES | SHE'LL WELCOME ME
YOU THINK
WHAT
WILL SHE BE GLAD TO SEE ME!
SO?
_WITH_OPEN ARMS!
YOO-HOO! WELL, HERE
SWEETHEART!
I AM!
WHERE?
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1940
HOMEJ WHERE EVERY
HUSBAND
-BELONGS!
By BUD FISHER
BET YOUR LIFE I WILL!” › WELCOME HOME!
AIN'T YOU GONNA WELCOME ME HOME?
London
Relays
6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.
Today's Wireless
7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tlons.
7.02 p.m.-The
Comedy
Harmonists
(Vocal) and Rawicz and Landauer (Two Planos).
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
8.03. p.m.-New Symphony Orchestra
with Miliza Korjus (9oprano). 8.80 p.m.-Musical Comedy Belections. Vocal Duets by Norah 9.03 p.m.
Blaney and Gwen Farrar, Another One Gone (Beverley Nicholls): Maybe I'm Wrong Again (Trent & Ben- nett)....with Piano and "Cello accomp. Old Favourites. Intro: Running wild: I
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
ain't nobody's darling: 'Beautiful faces; Second Hand Rose: It ain't gonna rain no more; Fonso; What'll I do; Our Lit- tle Garden Subbub; Ukulele Lady; Who tied the can on the old dog's tall....with Piano accomp.
1
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Bum.
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay--"Cards on
the Table".
9.45 p.m.-Music of Debussy, and Ravel. The Fountain (Ravel).....Alfred Cortot
(Piano),
Noctures (Debussy)...........Orchestre
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
de la
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.
score.
SUPERBLY PLAYED-
:
Dance
Music
Debussy); Ondine ('Gaspard de la Nuit No. 1-Ravel); La Vales de Cloches
Le
Gibat ('Miroirs-No. 8-Ravel); ('Gaspard de la. Nult-No. 2'-Ravel)
...Walter Gieseking' (Piano),
Excerpta from Grand
Bodfete des Concerts du Conservatoire 10.30 p.m. ----- cond. by 'Piero Coppola. Polssons D'Or ('Images'-Set 2, No. 311.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
MR. AND MRS.Į
DUNCANS'
SUCCESS
Mr. and Mrs.. L. A. R. Duncan won the Mixed Foursomes competition at Fanling when they beat Mr. and Mrs. E, J. R. Mitchell three and one.
ADAMSON CUP
scores
At Happy Valley, W. Stoker return- ed a card of 82-17-65 to qualify for the April qualifying competition of
Other the Adamson Cup. (handicaps have been reduced by one stroke owing to the course having been shortened) were H. H. Mundy 74--7-67, E. Tuck 81-13-68; F. Buckle 80-11-69 and T. J. Price 78-8=70.
RECORDS BROKEN -““Tarzan-Finds A Son" has establish- ed an all-time Box Office record in Hongkong.
Opera.
SOCCER PROGRAMME
The following is the Soccer programme for the week:
TO-DAY, APRIL 16, 1940 First Division
V.
South China "B"
Royal Navy
(Caroline Hill, 5.00 p.m.) Referee:-Beard. Linesmen:-Ient and Wilson.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940
First Division.
Kwong Wah”
V.
South China "A"
(Boundary Road, 5.00 p.m.) Referee:Glover.
Linesmen :-Carley and. Dove. Second Division Runner-up. Play Off (2nd game) Royal Engineers
V. 30th R.A. (Caroline Hill, 3.00 p.m.)*** Referee:Hinchliffe:***!
R. A, 5. C.
Third Division,
v. Electric (Caroline Hu, 5.00 p.m.) Referee:-Banham.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1040 First Division
Royal Scots
(Club, 2.45 pm:)
Referee:-Ford:"
St. Joseph'
Linesmen: Salter and Edwards. Middlesex
(Club, 4.45 p.m.)
Referee:-Kossick.
South China ·"B"
*Linesmen-Baker and" Banham,
Kwong Wah, ..V..
Kowloon
(Boundary Road, 4,45. p.m.). Referee:Mitchell. Liricsmen:Smith "and" Copay." South China "A" - xv, Club.
Judge A. Demorest Del Mar of for his play was actually superb. On Hackensack, New Jersey, sends us the other hand, the defence was weak. that on the to-day's hand, concerning which he Suppose, for example,
"While I deserve no great first trick East had had the courage Declarer says: credit, I think you will agree that to play the diamond ten. making four notrump was pretty good would then have had no way of knowing that East still had the dia- moking and thus might very well nave nased the Queen With East winnnig, two-tricks in" diamonds, the
Its release in Hong Kong has run situatfun would be changed and we would not be at all surprised if, in- true to form, for it has already creat-Electric stead of making four notrump, Southed records in Shanghai, Singapore, would wind up by being set at three. Malaya, and Japan,
North, Dealer Neither side vke Therable
AK
♡ J 6.3**
AJ 10 A
8 2.
◇ J.8.7 6 4 48 52
W
*
*
Q1075 Yesterday you were Howard Schen-
ken's partner and held:
◇ K 10
0.7 48
A-10 x
♡ K J X I
◇ A 10 x x AAJI
K 8 2
◊ 9 5
AK 04
Judge Del Mar
The bidding:"
North East
South
West
1A
Dbl. 3A
Pass
2NT
Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass
10 BNT
"West opened the six of diamonds.
HAGN BÁRD MÄLUKS FOUGAKKE SYSTEM -
ACL KING QUEEN 1 JACK
The bidding:
Jacoby
You Barnstone
Schenken
Pass F188 Pass · 4A
Pusa What was your correct" load?
QUESTION. NO, 385
ANSWER: Lead a trump. This 18 I played low from-dummy, East won
Furthermore with the King and shifted to the Jack your only safe lead.
you wi of spades. I ducked, by leading trumps twice, West won with the reduce dummy's, ruffing power.
Score 100% for a trump, 50% for King, cashed the Ace and then played a diamond Ace, 80% for a low heart, second diamond. Win-0 for a club. ning, with dumfny's Queen, I also cashed the diamond Ace and discarded a heart, then four club
· off. tricks, landing in my hand. I next-cushed the Queen of spades, forcing West to let go of a heart, and then threw the last dia mond from dummy.
ran
"East had also been squeezed as he had to keep two spades and therefore could hold but two hearts, The, re- maining hearts then all dropind. I had actually executed two ducking plays and a double squente in the same, hand.”.
unduly modest,.
Judie Del Mar
You are Dávid Bruce Burristone's partner. Nelther side is vulnerable
hold: and you
10x
The bidding: "
You
Malar
÷Pasa Pass-RanS
Pass 20
Pass 80
Pas
Pass
What do you bid? tomorrow.
(Released By The Bell Syndiente
Its success has been so' overwhel- ming that it is being shown for two more days at the Queen's and Alham- bra theatres.
CHINESE ATTACKS IN EAST HUPEI
Chungking, To-day, Chinese troops intensified. opera- tions along the Yangtze River below Hankow last week-end, according to reports from east. Hupeh.
A Chinese dolom has recaptured Lushengkang other force passed over the hills regions of Kwangtst and is pushing toward Wusuch and Tien- chiachen-Central News.
assoolation
(Carolina Hill, 4.45. p.m.). Referee:-Omar,
Linesmen: Taylor and Barretto.
Thith Division' A
M. International (Caroline Hill,* 3.45. p.m.).. Referee:-Demme,
H.K.E.R.C. LAWN BOWLS TEAM
Following will represent. Hong Kong Elec tric Recreation Club in a friendly, lawn bowls match against Indian Recreation Club at. Seokunpoo on Saturday:-
W. E. Baker, W. E Macfarlane, H. S. McKay and A. F. Paul (skip); Ä‚``P. Tar- buck, R. A. Owens, C. E. Gahagan and W. B. Muskett (skip); R. C. Butler, V. Sorby, G. G. S. Thomson and G. T. Padgett (skip). Practice will start at Hong Kong. Electric on Saturday::April ~37:::
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