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MUTT AND JEFF
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OW-W-HOW'D LAST NIGHT WE ALL I GET HERE? | SLEPT IN KLING'S PENTHOUSE AND. WHAT HAPPENED? DURING THE NIGHT
YOU GOT UP AND
WALKED IN YOUR
SLEEP!
WE WATCHED YOU WALK ALL AROUND THE EDGE OF THE ROOF, THEN SUDDENLY
YOU FELL OFF!
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1940
WHAT?
WHY DIDN'T. YOU TRY TO STOP ME?
OH, I COULDN'T/ I BET KLING TWO BITS YOU'D FALL OFF --- AND I WON!
By BUD FISHER
Rachmaninoff
Symphony
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.-"For the Children". Studio-"The Story of Vic the Scamp"
by Aunt Susan.
Studio-Srd instalment of "The Circus came to Tea" by Aunt Susan. 6.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota
tlons.
*
6.32 p.m.-Hungarian Folk Music by Magyar Imre and His Hungarlan Gypsy Orchestra. 6.42 p.m.-Light Orchestra Selections. Serenade-Valse Espagnole (Metra); De Picpus Au Palais D'Angkor
(Marceau) Fox-Intermezzo Orchestre Ruby Goldstein. March of the Caucasian Chlef (from Ippolitov- 'Caucasian Sketches' Ivanov, arr. Finck); The Juggler (Grotzsch)....Joseph Muscant & His Concert Orchestra. Neapolitan Nights (Zamecník); The Midnight Waltz (Amodio)....Lon- don Novelty Orchestra.
7.00 p.m.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Studio "Contemporary Ballet at the Vic-Wells School". A talk, illustrated by records. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
· Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-This week's programmes. 8.07 p.m.-Debroy Somers Bahd in a Review of Revuea". With vocal re- frain by Dan Donovan. 8.24 p.m.-Lucienne
Boyer
(Vocal)
Dis Pas Toujours (Lenoir)..........Lu- cienne Boyer (Vocal) with Orch. Waltzes---Caresses (Lanner,
arr.
Or-
Hohne); Blue Like A Cornflower (Jussenhoven-Schlosser)
chestre Mascotte.
་ ་་་
Dans La Fumee (Bos); Parlez-Moi Lucienne D'Amour (Lemoir) Boyer (Vocal) -with Orchestra. 8.50 p.m.Dance Musle by Geraldo
and His Orchestra.
mary.
Rule".
and Waltzes by the Orchestre Mas-9.15 p.m.—London Relay-News Sum- cotte. Waltzes-Evening on the Rhine 9.30 p.m.-London Relay “Under Nazi
(Richartz); In Dream Night (from The Vagabond'-Ziehrer).... Or- chestre Mascotte.
La Barque D'Yves (Tranchant); Ne
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
FOUR TEAMS TO VISIT MACAO
Hong
Under the auspices of the Kong Softball League four teams are visiting Macao on May 12 to play a series of exhibition games there.
In the men's section Portugal will meet the Rest, while China v Rest will be the attraction in the Ladies' sec-
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has.tion. beaten every other system in existerice.
ken.
BAD DEFENCE
The excuse for the way North bid the finish. Nevertheless, four hearts to-day's hand lay in the fact that he bid and made represented in absolute was trying for top in a Howell game. top. The excuse for East's defence has not been found as yet.
Duplicate Bridge North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
€904
8 6
♡ K Q
OQJ-10 9
A 10 8 6 2
4 3
4.3 2
N WE
A AQ10 2
♡ 9 6 5 2
J 9 7.4
7 5
A 10 4 3. OAK 74 KQ3
Bouth
Pass
Pass
1♡
West
Pass
3d
Разв 8
Рава
80
Pass 40 Pass
Page
'Pase
• Ребя
The bidding:
North Bast
T
At a meeting of the selection com~ mittee comprising Dr. Molthen, Mr. Roy Lau and Mr. Emil Porter, held on Saturday night the following teams were selected:—an
MEN'S
All East had to do to beat the hand
Portugal-Henrique Barros, Johnny Al- was to keep on with spades: On the
vares, Kelly Silva-Netto, "Jackle Noronha, third spade lead Declarer could Charlie Figuerledo, Mike Mendonca, Nick trump in either hand, but whichever Beltrao, Tony Alves, George Souza, A. V. one he elected would be no good for Gosano, Spotty Pereira, Caco Marques, Ger- Gosano. him. Incidentally the only game con-ry Gosand, Zinho Gosano, Eddle tract North and South can fulfill Johnny Fonseca, J. Remedios.
defence 1s five against correct diamonds; and, strangely enough, that contract was arrived at at only two tables.
** * Saturday you
were Oswald coby's partner and held:
A AKQ Xxx
X
Malar
Jacoby
Jaw
The bidding:
You Bahankan
10. (1) ANSWER: Your correct bid is to double. Subsequent bidding, which Actually South's bidding was quite of course is based on your partner's good. In the first place, he steered response to the double, will be the
clear of three notrump, basis of future questions.
80% for which could not be Score 100% for double, made, and in the two spades, 0 for one spade (inade- 'second place he elect-quate), or four spades. (unsound.)
QUESTION, NO. 896) ed to let the hand
1660 CARD VALUES:
OF THE FOUR-ACLE SVITER
ACE... 3 KING..2
QUEEN 1 JACK...
play at four hearts You are Merwin Mater's partner and because he was cer- again you hold:
tath that his partner
held three trumps for him
The four of spades was opened. Last won with the Ace and shifted to his singleton diamond. De- clarer won in dummy, cashed the King Queen of hearts, entered his own hand with a club, played ti of trumps, dropping.
whereupon th
trump. Since
Declarer End" to
OK X
The bidding:
Dbl.
What do you bid? ·(Answer Monday.)
(Released by
Bell Syndicate,
The Best: Herbie Quon, Tuffy Chinn, Nip Lum, Ernie Hearther, Dick Venezia, Dave H. Ali, Richard Leonard, Wally Ching, Chung, Stan Leonard, A. R. Kitchell, K Nazarin, Harold Winglee, Luke Bunn, Hans Waggoner, A. K. Omar, S. Bux.
GIRL'S
Children's
Programme
9.45 p.m.-A Short Concert by Pablo Casals (Cello) and Ignaz Friedman (Plano).
Menuet (Haydn, arr, Platti); Re- quiebros (Cassado)....Pablo Ca- sals (Cello) with Plano accomp. by Blas-Net. Mazurka, Op. 33 No. 4 (Chopin); Mazurka, Op. 24 No. 4 (Chopin) .Ignaz Friedman (Plano), Apres Un Reve (Faure); Chanson Villageoise, Op. 62, No. 2 (Pop- per)....Pablo Casals ('Cello) with Piano.
10.12 pim-Rachmaninoff-Symphony No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 27. Eugene Ormandy and the Minneapolis Sym- phony Orchestra.
11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
RECREIO STILL UNBEATEN
Recrein, winners, of the Men's Soft- ball League, and the Hong Kong Ball Club, runners-up, drew a very dis- appointing crowd at the Kowloon F.C. ground yesterday morning in their Ex- hibition-game. Recreio won by the odd run in seven after mediocre play this being mainly attributable to a strong crosswind.
The proceeds were in aid of the Bri-
for fish War Organisation Fund. Ball Club in the second inning.
Abbas and Gonsales scored George Souza put his team further in the lead in the fifth.
Coming to the last half of the sixth will three tallies behind, B. T. Gosano doubled and scored off Wing Lee's wild throw over second base. Beltrão singled and A. V. Gosano was given safe on Gonsalés error,'
"Spotty" Pereira was safe on the Belder's choice with Beltfac scoring. sacrificed and A. V. Tony Alves. Gosano came home Pereira scored when Hussain threw to third base with
The Ball. China: Mary Loute, Dot Loule, Rene, nobody covering the bag. Yuen, Ulian Khoo, Jean Lee, May Chung, Club went to bat in the first half of Mabel Louie, Elvie Yuen, Rose Loule, Alice the 7th frame only to disappoint their Ma, Jessie Wong, Paula Chan, Bella Ma: supporters.
The Rest:-Therese Noronha, Thelma Collaco, Cynthia Motta, Irene Pereira, Vera The score by innings was as follows: Búrson, Celeste Marques, Jackie Anderson, Ball-Clubi Margaret Oliveira, Irena Castilho, Yvonne Yolle, Lena · Luongo, Iris Stone, Maudle Reoralo: |Read, ~-~-
THE
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