MUTT AND JEFF
YOU SAY YOUR WIFE
GOT A PART
YER AND I GOT TWO TICKETS!
HEY, MUTT, LOOK!
YOU BOOB
IN A SHOW
THAT GUY WANTS,
TO HIT YOUR WIFE WITH A STICK!
HE DON'T WANT TO
HIT HER!
AHIL
SAH
THEN WHAT'S
SHE SCREAMING
FOR?
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1940.
By BUD FISHER
Popular
Variety
6.00 p.m.-Dance Music.
6.68 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
Today's Wireless
7.00 p.m.-Studio-Talk on Tchaikow«
aky with musical illustrations. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Popular Varlety.
Vocal-I'm Falling In Love With Someone (film "The Life of Victor with Jones Herbert').....Allan
Orchestra.
Hawaiian Orch-Strange Enchant- We'll Meet ment (Hollander);
Again (Parker-Charles).... Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serena- ders with Vocal refrain. Vocal-I'll Remember (Rich-Con- nelly); I'm Sending a Letter to
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
Santa
9.52 Megacycles
Claus (Rogers-Williams) ..Arthur Askey with Jack Hyl- ton & Some of His Boys.
Rainbow (film Vocal-Over The
&
Kunz with Rhythm
..Charlie accomp.
(Hunter-Trenet); Comedian-Boom
If A Grey-Haired Lady Says "How's Yer Father" (Waite). Jack Warner with Sonny & Orch. Vocal & Piano-Let's Make Memor- ies To-night (film 'All Clear').... Leslie Hutchinson.
member", 8.44 p.m.-B.B.C, Recording "| Ro- A Programme of Musical Entertainment of 40 or 50 years ago.
"The Wizard of Oz'); Scatter Brain (Masters & Others).... Phyllis Robins with Orchestra. Orch. Choo-Choo (Waller
Others); Bouncing the Black-Out -Fox-Trot.... Barney Gilbraith & His Coconut Grove Quartet. Piano-Charlie Kunz Piano Medley
No. D. 34. Intro: In an 18th cen- 18.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum- tury drawing room; Faithful for-
mary.
ever; It's a hap-hap-happy day 9.80 p.m.-London Relay "Cards on
Winning
the Table".
9.45 p.m.-A Special Programme of Tchaikowsky's Music in honour of his Centenary.
Dance
Music
Orchestra, Berlin, with the Ural
Cossacks' Choir conducted
Alexander Kitschin,
Pilgrim's Song
by
Oscar Natzke
(Bass) with Piano accomp. by Hu- bert Greenslade. Concerto No. 1 in B. Flat Minor, Op. 23....Arthur Rubinstein (Piano) and the London Symphony Or- chestra cond. by John Barbirolli. from Pique Chauve-Souris-Duet
Dame....Eugenie Safonova and Finaida Erchova with the Cam- bridge Theatre Orchestra conduct- ed by Archangelsky, Troika En Traineaux, Op. 37, No. 11
..Sergi Rachmaninoff (Piano). Eugen Onegin-Waltz; Eugen Onegin .Berlin State Opera -Polonaise. Orchestra cond, by Robert Heger. Paroles....Londor Sans Chanson
Symphony Orchestra cond. by Sir Landon Ronald.
1812 Overture....The Philharmonic | 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
H.K.F.C.
CONTRACT LAWN BOWLS
(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 existence.
-
EXCELLENT DEFENCE®
the club Good players are prone to defend | At this point East cashed
then played another club, vigorously against a part score, and Queen, will often take desperate chances in forcing Declarer's last trump.
In order to make his contract, South an effort to push their opponents be- yond their depth. But they do have
now had to risk a spade finesse, but captured dummy's to have some reasonable values to bid. East gleefully Otherwise they might incur a penalty Queen and then won still another club far out of proportion to the value of trick to set the contract two tricks. game. In to-day's hand East and West did not dare venture a bid. Instead, they combined on some excellent de- fensive play.
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable North-South 40 on score
A Q.6 2
♡ 4 8 8
◊ 10 7 6 4 AK J
▲ 10 8 7 4
N
AK J
♡ K 6 2.
J 9 3
W
E
A 65
AJ 10
♡ 9 7 6 0.08 2
Q 10 9
4 3
9 58
◊ AK 6. .8 7.2
The bidding:.
South
West
North
10
Pasa
1NT
Pass
2♡
Fast Pass Pass
Pass
Pass
lead a low
West chose a daring
HIGH CARS WELLIES
*
David Bruce Yesterday you were Burnstone's partrier and held:
You
K 10 x x x
♡ A.JI
◊ x x
KQx
The bidding:"
14 -(7)
·Baior.' Раве
Burristone 20
Рабо
TEAMS
BUTTER RATIONING
WARNING
London, To-day.
The Minister. of Food yesterday warned the public of the possibility of reducing. the butter ration at an ear- ly date.
"I have
no
Lord Woolton said: Following teams have been selected to represent Hong Kong Football doubt we shall have adequate supplies Club in League lawn bowls matches drawn from within the Empire for the to be played on Saturday:-
rest of the year. The important thing for us to consider was not how much of any particular article there was in this country at any moment but how much there would be in the event of all sorts of disadvantageous circum- stances arising in the future."
First Division (v Cralgengower C.C. at C.C.C.)-A; Watson, G. E. Stephens, L. E. Lammert and N. J. Bebbington (skip); J. H. Gelling, J. Watson, K. S. Robertson and A. Brooksbank (skip); J. S. Howell, A. W. Hodges, G. Duncan and W. Gill (skip).
Third Division (v Craigengower C.C. at
It will be recalled the original ra- home)-A, B. Didsbury, B. I. Bickford, C.
tion of butter was doubled shortly P. Anslow, C. G. Sollis, B. A. Mansell and after its introduction.-British Wire- F. Needham and G. S. Graver (skip); F. H.. G. Wallington (skip); H. H. Beddow, T.
less. A. Rowell, J. I. Barnes and S. H. Strange (skip).
CAPT. BALFOUR'S FLYING VISIT
London, To-day.
ITALY'S 35,000-TON BATTLESHIP
the squadrons.
Genoa, To-day.
Italy's new 35,000-ton 15-Inch gun Captain Balfour, Parliamentary Air battleship Littorio was handed over to Under-Secretary, on Sunday toured the Italian Navy here yesterday.— R.A.F. Bomber Command units that | Router. have been heavily engaged in recent Jacoby
operations.
Captain Balfour, piloting a three- visited several seater monoplane, stations where he had an opportunity of conveying the appreciation of the Air Council for the achievements of
ANSWER: Your correct bid is two spades. In spite of your strength, in hearts and clubs, your hand is too near a minimum, to warrant any other, re- bid.
Score 100% for two spades, 40% for two notrump.
QUESTION: NO. 403
With neither side vulnerable, you partner and are Oswald Jacoby's
club away from his Ace. Declarer hold: made the natural mistake of playing the Jack from dummy, whereupon East won with the Queen and return- ed a trump. Winning with the King, West second PORN-ACKS SYSTEM A played
trump, and when De-- another: clarer led club, West won with the Acarand
ALL KING QUEEN 1 JALK..
a
played
a third trump. Now South played three rounds of diamonds,
KII
The bidding: Schenken
14 Pass
Pass 11
(1) What do you¬-bld? tomorrow.)
In the
At one station he was introduced to four N.C.O.'s who, as members of the crews of different bombers had all been decorated for outstanding gal- lantry British Wireless,
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