MUTT AND JEFF
INOT THE
WHERE YOU:
GOIN'?
REY WHAT'S
YOUR HURRY?)
LOOK AT THE LITTLE FOOL! NOW HE'S RUNNING AROUND
IN CIRCLES!
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1940.
By BUD FISHER
SAY, WHAT'S
WRONG WITH
YOU, ANYWAY?
I WAS TRYIN' TO LOSE MY SHADOW, BUT I GUESS IT CAN'T
BE DONE!
SURE IT CAN! WATCH!
(PUFF
PUFF
"Madam.
Butterfly
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m. An hour of Dance Music.
Fox-Trots Two Little Flies On A Lump Of Sugar: Just A-Wearyin' For You.... Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Swing Fox-Trots-That
Da Da Strain: Someday, Sweetheart....Muggsy Spanter & His Ragtime Band. Waltz-Love Never Grows Old; "Quickstep -In The Middle of a Dream....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra, Fox-Trots-Something Tells Me; Skronteli "...."Fats" Waller, His Rhythm & Orch. Eye Let's Go; Fox-Trots-Stomp off,
Opener....Bob Crosby & His Orchestra. Tangos-Quiero Verte Una Ves Mas; Mas Alla....Orquesta Tipica Francisco Cana-
TO.
Fox-Trots-The Gentleman Awaits; Sing. My Heart (from 'Love Affair')....Will Osborne & His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Let's Make Memories To-Night
(from 'All Clear'); Waltz-Lonely Sweet, heart....New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.
1
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
Fox-Trots-Over The Rainbow (lm "The Wizard of Oz'); Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Mlm "The Wizard of Oz")..... Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Fox-Trot-Them There Eyes....Bob Cros-
by & His Orchestra.
7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota.
tions.
7.02 p.m.-Selections from Gilbert and
Sullivan's "lolanthe",
Iolanthe From Thy Dark Exile....Bertha Lewis. Nellie Briercliffe & Chorus of Girls,
Good Morrow, Good Mother.....Leslie
Rands & Chorus of Girls..
inning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-. ken..
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence,
AVOIDING SEVEN.
To-day's hand was submitted by trump, thereby leaving the choice of Earle R. Williams of Alexander, N. Y., the final contract with South.
In actuality the best final contract and is one of those hands where the
be six notrump played by correct final contract can be arrived would
players with the at in any number of ways. Neverthe-North, and many
six less a lot of partnerships might go North hand might continue on to that
after South's bid of bidding contract
wrong. shown:
*
We suggest the
East. Dealer
AK 9.3
J 8 7.2
10 8 5
♡ J 10
◊ A Q 4
KJ 10 7 2
A 10 6 4
hearts.
*
*4
**
Yesterday, as Oswald Jacoby's part- ner, you held:
AKQ XXX A XXX
◊ K x
E
♡ 8
◊ J9732
Q 6 3
J 9 8 5
The bidding: Schenken
10
♡ A K OK.
A 4
7 6 5 3 2
Pass Разя
You Maler Dhi. Pass 2A Pass (7)
Jacoby 20
3
The bidding:
East South West.
Pass
Pass
1♡
Pass Paša
Pass Pasa Pass
North
3 5NT Pass
POUR ACER SYSTEN
3
ALE KING..2 QUFFN 1 JACK.
+
The opening bid of two hearts with the South hand is slightly preferable to one heart since, even though the High Card Value is HIGH CARD VALUES. but 11, the hand re- presents practically a sure game by itself. However, an opening bid of four hearts would be very bad since South's hand shows distinct Slam possibilities and there is no point in crowding the bidding. North's three-club response is ob- viously best with his hand, and then South's Jump to four hearts would show that his opening two-bid was based more on a tremendous heart suit than on a plethora of high cards. North Would then jump to five no-
ANSWER: Your correct bid is five hearts. This bid strongly invites six, but at the same time will allow your partner to pass if he has no first- round control.
Score 100% for five hearts, 60% for six hearts (a gambling overbid), 0 for three or four hearts ( a distinct un- derbid). Note: If you are playing convention, four-notrump. artificial that is the correct bid and should be scored as 100%.
QUESTION NO. 400 You are Merwin Maler's partner and hold:
K Q∙ 10 A 10 4:3
09 7
♣ Q.9 7 4
The bidding:
Mafer Bernstona You
1
Schenken
Pass (?)
What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
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Fare Thee Well, Attractive Stranger.............
Bertha Lewis & Chorus of Girls, Good Morrow, Good Lover!: None Shall Part Us....Winifred Lawson & Leslie Rands.
Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray!....Chorus
of Men.
London
Relays
10.15 p.m.-Puccini's "Madam Butter
fly" Act 2. Soloists and Characters in order of appear ance: Sheridan (Soprana)....Cho Cho San; Mannarini (Mezzo-Soprano)....Su zuki, her servant; Weinberg (Baritone
Sharpless, U.S. Consul; Palai (Ten or)....Goro, the marriage broker; Cell (Bass)....Prince Yamadori: with Mem bers of La Scala Orchestra & Chorus Milan.
When All Night Long....Sydney Granville 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN..
(Bass).
Strephon's A Member of Parliament.....
Mixed Chorus,
When Britain Really Ruled The Waves....
Darrell Fancourt & Mixed Chorus.
In Vain To Us You Plead....Nellie Walker, Alice Moxon, Derek Oldham, Darrell Fancourt and Chorus of Girls. Soon As We May....Winifred
Lawson,
Nellie Briarcliffe, Bertha Lewis, Derek Oldham, Darrell Fancourt, George Baker & Mixed Chorus.
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News.
TURKISH-RUMANIAN TRADE TALKS
Istanbul, To-day.
A Turkish economic mission is leay- ing on Saturday for Bucharest to be- gin trade negotiations with the Ru-
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weathermanian Government.-Reuter.
Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-Light Orchestral.
Valse Septembre (Godin, arr. Lotter); In The Shadows (Herman Finck)....Anton & The Paramount Theatre Orchestra, London, with Al Bollington (Organ). Madrigale (Simonetti); Minuet (Boccherini, arr. Goehr)....New Mayfair Orchestra cond, by George Walter,
Hong be
The annual meeting of the Kong Philharmonic Society will held on May 8, Wednesday next, at the Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong
9.15 p.m.-Studio-Our Weekly Calen - Hotel.
dar. The first of a series of inter- esting anniversaries.
8.20 p.m.-Alfredo and His Orchestra and William Brownlow (Baritone). With A Russian Gypsy Orchestra (Meyer- Helmund); Two Guitars (Trad.).....Al- fredo & His Orchestra,
This Lovely Rose (Sievier & Ramsay); When I Think Of You (Lockton & Tate) ....William Brownlow (Baritone).
8.32 pm-Elgar-Cockaigne Concert Overture, Op. 40. The B.B.C. Sym- phony Orchestra conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. 8.45 p.m.-Studio-Two Plano Recital by Harry Ore and J. R. N. Smith. 1. Duettino in the style of Mozart (Bu-
son!).
2.
(a) Andante from Sonata in G (Mo-
zart).
(b) Gavotte in G (Mozart).
3. The Sowergirl (Moussorgski).
4. Musette in A Flat (Sibellus)!
5. Russian Easter Church-bells from Fan-
tasy, Op. 5 (Rachmaninoff).
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"World Af-
fairs".
9.45 p.m. Concert Waltzes.
Spring in Japan (Tadasuke Chno); Blossom Dreams (Kojo Ho Tauki).....Orchestra Immortal Strauss-A Medley of Strauss
Waltzes....Viennese Waltz Orchestra. 10.00 p.m.-London Relay-War Com-
mentary.
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HUM
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