MUTT AND JEFF
GET OUT AND STAY OUT, YOU SHIFTLESS BOOB/
ONE HOUR LATER
-YES, YOU SEE WE FOUND THESE CLOTHES: ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER BUT NO BODY!
HIS CARD WAS IN
HIS POCKET!
YES, THEY'RE
MUTT'S CLOTHES!
OH---
OH, WHY DID HE DOIT? I ONLY HAD A LITTLE QUARREL WITH HIM-- I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!
OH, MY POOR MUTT!
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1940.
MUTT!
OH, HELLO, M'LOVE! I JUST SWAM THE RIVER!
..
By BUD FISHER
YOU WORM! WHAT
DO YOU MEAN BY HANDING ME SUCH A FRIGHT?
Variety
Programme
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Intercession.
Today's Wireless
12.30 p.m.-Frank Titterton (Tenor) and the
New Light Symphony Orchestra.
Zampa-Overture (Harold)....New Light
Symphony Orchestra. Beauty's Eyes
(Tosti,
Weatherley)....
Frank Titterton (Tenor) with Fred Hart- ley & His Quintet.
Spanish Dance No. 1-Oriental (Granados) ....New Light Symphony Orchestra,
In An Old Fashioned Town (Squire); My Dear Doul (Sanderson)....Frank Titter- ton (Tenor) with Piano accomp. "Princess Ida"-Selection (Sullivan).....
New Light Symphony Orchestra.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather
Report.
1.03 p.m.-Variety with Len Green, Dinah
Miller and the Mills Brothers, Vocal-'Long About Midnight (Mills, Hill); Swing Is The Thing (from 'Blackbirds of 1938)....The Mills Brothers Boys and a Guitar).
(Four
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
A
Plano-Medley. Intro: My dance; Marle Louise; It's easy to remember; Vienna in Springtime; The Bridal Waltz; Street in old Seville....Len Green with String Bass and Drums. Vocal-Lost My Rhythm, Lost My Music, Lost My Man (film 'Soft lights & Sweet Music'); I'm A Fool For Loving You (Wendling-Lewis)....Dinah Miller (The Personality Girl) with Orchestra, Plano-Medley. Intro: We were so young; Paris in the Spring: Fare the well, An- nabelle....Len Green with Drums. Vocal-Miss Otis Regrets (from 'HI-Diddle- Diddle'); My Headache (Razal, John- son)....The Mills Brothers.
1.30 p.m.-Router and Rugby Press, Weather
Forecast and Announcements.
Winning
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 existence.
SACRIFICE IN VAIN
Too much defending against op- ponents with a partial score is bad policy, since, even though you save game, the partial score still remains to annoy you. This is particularly true when you are vulnerable and the opponents are not.
West, Dealer
North-South vulnerable East-West 60 on score
KQ J
♡ A 9 8 5
A 10 6 5 4
♡ 10 7 4 3
◊ 4
AA 9 3
AKQ 9
N
♡ K Q 8
◊ A 6 5 3 #J 10
W
E
OQ 10 9 7 8 6 8
A 873
♡ J 2
OK J 8 2
7542
Wost
North East
1♡
Рава 2♡
Pass
Dbl.
Pass
Pass
Pass
34
The bidding:
Dbl.
South Pass Рава 24
30 ·Pasa Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
We are not sure about the signifi- cance of North's double of two hearts except that it was primarily for take-
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HIGH CARE VALUES
OF THE NET FOUR-ACES SYSTEM"
ACE
KING QUEEN 1 JACK
out. Not knowing what to do, South de- cided to bid spades. three-card suit. When East went to South three hearts, was only too glad to pass. Now, if North had been content to leave well enough alone, he would al-
three spades, and struck!
then lightning
West opened the King of spades and continued the suit, East winning the of third lead, cashing the King-Queen hearts and then playing the ten of dla- monds. South's Jack forced West's Ace, and now West led a club, thereby freezing the unfortunate Declarer in dummy. He cashed four club tricks and the thirteenth trump, but now had to lead a heart up to the Ace-nine in West's hand, going down four tricks.
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*
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As Merwin Maier's partner yester- day you held:
A K Q 10
A 10 4 8 097
K 974
The bidding: Mater
1
You Schenken Burnstone
Pass (?)
ANSWER: Your correct response is one heart. This bid should lead the way towards the right final contract.
Score 100% for one heart, 70% for three clubs (crowds the bidding little), 0 for any other bid.
a
QUESTION NO. 401 Howard Schenken is your partner and again you hold:
K Q 10
A 10.4.8 0.97
KO 74
The bidding: Schenken Barnstone
INT
Pass Pass What do you bid?": (Answer tomorrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndicate,
most surely have defeated the three- heart contract. However, he raised to / Inc.)
1,45 p.m.-Latest Dance Music.
Fox-Trot-They Would Wind Him Up and Slow Fox-Trot-You he would whistle:
The Old Faces....Jack Never Miss Payne & His Band. Fox-Trot-Rosita;
His
Rumba Fox-Trot--The Gaucho Serenade.....Ambrose & Orchestra.
Swing Fox-Trots-Oh! Johnny, Ohi Johnny, Ohi; Lying In The Hay....Arthur Young and Hatchett's Swingtette featuring Ste- phane Grappelly and Beryl Davis. Slow Fox-Trot-Careless; Fox-Trot-Seven- teen Candles....Ambrose & His Orch,
On The Fox-Trots The Lady
right, Chatterbox (from 'That's wrong')....Ambrose & His Orch.
2.16 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
Cameo: I'm
6.00 p.m.-Compositions of Brahms.
Waltzes, Op. 30 Nos. 7 to 12....Anatole
Kitain (Piano).
Dance
Music
7. Intro: In a little Gypsy Tea Room: Old Mammy Mine; Anything Goes; the Wagon: Haunting Me; Jump on When Day is Done....Charlle Kunz. Vocal-Billy Williams' Songs. Intro: When Father Papered the Parlous; I wish it were Sunday night to-night..........Lupino Lane & His Lambeth Walkers with Orch. New Banjo-A Musical Journey From
York to California. Intro: Give my re- gards to Broadway; Bye, Bye, Blues; St. Louis Blues; California, here I come. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (Seltz)....Ken Harvey with Instrumental Quartet.
Comedienne-They All Make Love But Me (Evans); Life's Desire (Hargreaves)...... Gracie Fields with Orchestra.
8.45 p.m.-London Relay "At the Black Dog". Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Summary. 9.80 p.m.-Local sport results.
from
9.32 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "West
Bristol". A Programme devised and pro- duced by Francis Dillon.
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80....10.02 p.m.-Latest Varlaty.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conduct- ed by Bruno Walter,
Ever softer grows my slumber, Op. 105. No. 2; Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4....Elisa- beth Schumann (Soprano) with Orch. Sonata In F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1.... Lionel Tertls (Viola) and Harriet Cohen (Piano).
Intermezzo-Op. 117, No. 2....Elleen Joyce
(Piano).
6.50 p.m.-Orchestral Selections,
Overture "Masaniello" (Auber)..... The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult.
Le Prophete-Coronation March (Meyer- beer)....Bournemouth Municipal Orches- tra cond. by Sir Dan Godfrey. 7.03 p.m.-Verdi's "Il Trovatore" Act 1. With Corrado Zambelli, Bianca Scacciati, Ida Mannarini, Francesco Merl,, Enrico Molinari and Chorus of La Scala, Milan, with the Milan Symphony Orchestra, 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Ro
port and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.Harry Roy'a Stage Show. Harry Roy & His Orchestra (recorded at the actual performance at The Garrick Thea- tre, Southport).
8.17 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.
My Darling Waltz (from "The Gipsy Baron' -Strauss)....Berlin State Opera Orches- tra cond. by Dr. Leo Blech. Acceleration Waltz (Joh. Strauss, arr.
Hohne)....Orchestra Mascotte. 8.30 p.m.--Variety with Ken Harvey, Lupine
Lane, Gracle. Fields, Charlie Kunz 'and Derickson & Brown.
Vocal & Plano-One Morning In May -(Par
ish&Carmichael); You Oughta Be In Pictures (Heyman & Suesse)....Derick son & Brown.
Comedienne The Girl In The Alice Blue Gown (Parker); In Me 'Oroscope (Har-: per-Haines).... Gracie Fields accomp. by Fred Hartley & His Orchestra. Vocal-Billy Williama'. Songs. Intro: Why can't we have the sea, in London?; Here we go Again..........Lupino Lane & His Lam- beth Walkers with Orchestra. Plano-Charlle Kunz Piano Medley No. R.
&
Humorous Vocal--In The Quartermaster's Stores (Reed & Others); We're All To- gether. Now (alm 'Gulliver's Travels") Winterbottom with ....Murgatroyd Orchestra. Swing Music-Give Out (Miller & Others); Yodel In Swing (Hughle Prince--Don Raye).....Sid Phillips Trio with The Greene Sisters.
Short Sketches-The Super-Het (Clayton); A Record Broadcast (Clayton)....Parlo- phone Sketch Company.
Vocal & Piano-It's A Lovely Day To- morrow (Berlin); A Small Cafe By Notre Dame (Mills)....Leslie Hutchinson. Fox-Trat-When You Come To The End Of A Journey....The Organ, The Dance Band & Me With Vocal Refrain, 10.30 p.m.-London Relay-"The Revenge". Ballad of the fleet. Words by Tennyson. 11.00 p.m.-London Relay-"London Log". 11.16 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-I'm Happy When You're Happy (from "Hide & Seek'); The First Time I Saw You (from "Toast of New York') .....Jay Wilbur & His Band. Fox-Trot-The Way You Look To-night (film 'Swing Time'); Waltz-The Waltz In Swing Time (film 'Swing Time').......... Johnny Green & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Blossoms on Broadway (from the film); I Still Love To Kiss You Goodnight (Alm 52nd Street')....Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. Tangos-El Que A Hierro Mata; Siempre Unidos.....Orquesta Tipica Francisco
Canaro.
Fox-Trots When April Comes Again; With All My Heart (film 'Her Master's Voice') ....Jack Payne & His Band, Swing Step-Stop! You're Breakin' My Heart (Alm 'Artists and Models'); Slow Fox-Trot-Everything You Said Came True....Jack White & His Collegians... Waltz-Dancing In The Firelight....Henry Jacques with His Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra.
Slow Fox Trot-Sleepy Time Gal; Quick- step Marle....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra,
12.00 midnight-CLOSE DOWN.
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