MUTT AND JEFF
YOUR HONOR, HE ATTEMPTED
TO PUSH ME
OUT THE WINDOW!
JUDGE SHE
KELL OUT ALL BY HERSELF!
MUTT, DID YOU OR
DID YOU NOTH ATTEMPT TO PUSH YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW OUT OF THE SECOND- STORY WINDOW?
WELL, ER-I PID KINDA
HER A LITTLE!
"MUTT, DON'T YOU REALIZE HOW DANGEROUS A THING LIKE THAT 15, DO YOU KNOW WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1940
GOSH, YEH! MAYBE“
SHE WOULD HAVE E-HIT-SOMEBODY
PASSIN' BY!
By
ZALUD FISHER
POLICE
FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE,
CALL OUT {THE MILITIA!}}
3-7
Relay Of Musical Comedy "1066 And
12.15 p.m.
cession.
All That"
Today's Wireless
- Short Service of Inter-
12.30 p.m.-Delius-Brigg Fair. Lon- don Symphony Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Toye.
12.48 p.m.-J. H. Squire Celeste Octet.
Soul- Andantino (Song of the
Lemare).
Andante In G (Batisto).
Ave Maria (Schubert, arr. Willough-
by).
Spring Song (Mendelssohn,
Willoughby).
arr.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and
Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Patricia Rossborough (Pla- no) and Robinson Cleaver (Organ). Magyar Melody-Selection. Trees (Rasbach)..
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
Parlez-Moi D'Amour (Lenoir), 1.13 p.m.-New Light Symphony Or-
chestra.
Poet and
(Suppe).
Peasant
―
Overture
A Life On The Ocean-Nautical
Selection (Binding).
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,
Weather Forecast and Announce-2.16 ments.
1.45 p.m.-Verdi's "Aida" Act III.
Characters and Soloists in order of appearance: Maria Capuana (Mez- zo-Soprano) Armneris, Pha-
Vinning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken.
.. World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence.
NOT ALL LUCK
In the play of the hand every one, making his contract.
The play of this hand was actually
his
at some time or other will be faced with an apparently hopeless contract. easy. Knowing that he would have However, not infrequently these hands to be lucky, South proceeded on that
rewarded for was can be made, especially if Declarer basis and happens to be an imaginative player. optimism and boldness. He should say to himself: "Assuming that the cards are properly placed and all breaks are in my favour, can I then make this hand?" For example:
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
J 10
J 10 6
·J 10 4 3
QJ 10 9
AK 84
- 9 7 2
◊ Q.9 7-6
A 5 3
W
A G 3
*
*
You were Merwin Maier's partner yesterday and held:
AK III
♡ I
OK 10 9x x ♣ AX
The bidding:
A Q9762 AK 8
You
14
Borastons Maler
Pass 2♡
Schenken
Pass
(2)
0.8 5 $842
♡ Q 8 6 4
◊ AK:2
The bidding:
K 7 6
South West North East Pasa 2NT Pa'ss Рава 'Pass Pass
INT INT
ANSWER: Bid three diamonds. Your hand is the same as the previous day's except for the addition of the Ace of clubs, which justifies a three- diamond bid.
Score 100% for three diamonds, 60% for two spades, 20% for two notrump,
West opened the Queen of clubs. 0 for any other bid. South' could count only eight tricks
even if the diamond suit were evenly
SEGNI CARE VALUES
PHORLAGER SYSTEM
ACE. KING QUEEN 1
M
divided. The pros
pect of winning a trick
QUESTION NO. 388
Howard Schenken is your partner.
in hearts, in which and you hold:
But,
♡ AKTI
◇ Q 10 x
A XL
You
10
The bidding:
Jacoby ... – Schönkon
Pass
Barnstona Pass
(7):
What do yon bidt tomorrow.)
(Answer
he held only the Queen, seemed rather remote.
since there was no other hope, Declarer won the club lead in dum- my and played a heart, Refusing to give away the fact that he held both top hearts, East properly ducked, whereupon. South courageously went up with his Queen Déclarer then returned heart and now had no difficulty in Inc.)
(Released By The Bell Syndicate,
roah's daughter; Trancredi Pasero Priest; (Bass)....Ramis, High Arangi-Lombardi (Soprano) Aida; Armando Borgioli (Bari- tone)
Amonasro, King of Ethiopa; Arnoldo Lindi (Tenor) ....Rhadames, a young warrior; with Orchestra.
p.m.--CLOSE DOWN.
Bruckner Symphony:
And
"World Affairs"
Selection.
8.15 p.m.-London Relay-"1066 and
All That". A Musical Comedy. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.30 p.m.--London Relay
Affairs".
"World
Inter-
9.45 p.m.-Elgar "Woodland
lude" (from 'Caractacus', Op. 35); and "Dream Children" Op. 43, Nos. 1 & 2. London Symphony Orches- tra cond. by Lawrance Collingwood. 9.64. p.m. Two Songs by Alexander
Kipnis (Bass).
Or-
"Faust" Mephisto Serenade · (Gou-
nod); Golden Calf.....with chestral accompaniment. 10.00 p.m.-Anton Bruckner
Sym-
6.00 p.m.-Lehmann —"In A Persian. Garden" (from "The Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam-Fitzgerald). Sung by Dora Labbette (Soprano); Muriel
phony No, 4 In E Flat Major. Sach- Brunskill (Contralto); Hubert Eis-
by: sische Staatskapelle conducted dell (Tenor) and Harold. Williams
Karl Bohm. (Baritone) with Piano accompani-11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
ment.
6.35 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota -
tions.
6,37 p.m. The London Theatre Or-
chestra.
"Revudeville"
Memories-Windmill;
Theatre Selection....with Vocal
Chorus.
“A Country Girl”—Selection (Lionel
Monckton).
6.55 p.m.Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-Ev'ntide; Lyin' To My- self....Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra..
Waltz-It's A Sin to Tell A Lie....
George Hall & His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-A Rendezvous with a Dream. (Alm 'Poppy'):. ..Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra.
Slow Fox-Trot These Foolish Things (from 'Spread it Abroad'); Fox-Trot-I'm Building Up To An Awful Let Down.. Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Or- pheans. Fox-Trot-Life Begins When You're In Love (Alm "The Music Goes Round'); Comedy Waltz - The Feller That Played the Planner
Casani Club Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Goody-Goody
Roy & His Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot-Did I 'Remember? (film 'Suzy'); Waltz-The Dance Goes On (film 'Over she goes').......... Mantovani & His Tipica Orch. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Plano Selections by Billy
Mayerl
Harry
Helen Sélection (Offenbach - arr.
Korngold).
Have You Forgotten? (Suesse).
· Six-Miniatures-Billy. Mayerl's Own
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