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I WANT MY MONEY. BACK! WHAT KIND OF A PLACE IS THIS
ANYWAY?
WHAT'S THE TROUBLE?
I BOUGHT THESE - CANARY SEEDS HERE SOME TIME AGO, AND
THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY
NO GOOD!
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I BEG YOUR PARDON, OUR CANARY SEEDS ARE THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY!
THAT'S NOT
TRUE AND YOU KNOW
IT-
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1940
I PLANTED THOSE CANARY SEEDS LAST. SPRING AND NOT ONE CANARY
CAME UP!
By BUD FISHER
HELLO, RELLO -- I'M CALLING THE ENUT HOUSE!
Enu
Berlioz
Symphony
6.00 p.m.-"For the Children."
Today's Wireless
6.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations.
6.32 p.m.-Jubilee Music Hall Parade 1910-
1935.
6.62 p.m.-Ketelboy-in A Fairy Roalm→→→
Sulte.
7.05
Albert W. Ketelbey's Concert Orchestra
conducted by The Composer.
with Frank Cruncit, p.m.-Variety Hildegarde and Sydney Torch.
Vocal-There's No One With Endurance
(Crumit, Curtis).
Whoa, Josephine (Crumit, Burt). Frank Crumit with Orchestra. Organ-In The Still Of The Night (film
'Rosalie").
You're A Sweetheart (from the film).
Sydney Torch.
Vocal-Yours and Mine (film 'Broadway
Melody of 1933′).
I'm Feelin' Like A Million (film 'Broad-
way Melody of 1938'), Hildegarde with Orchestra.
Organ-There'll Always Be An England
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
(Parker and Charles).
Lords of the Air (North and Burnaby).
Sydney Torch at the Organ,
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather
Réport.
8.03 p.m. This week's programmes. 8.07 p.m.-Music of Coleridge-Taylor.
Unmindful of the Roses....Arthur Reck-
less (Baritone) with Orchestra. Spring Had Come ('Hiawatha')..... Elsic
Suddaby (Soprano) with Orchestra. Four Characteristic Valses: 1. Valse Bo- hemienne;- 2. Valse Rustique; 3. Valsc de la Reine; 4. Valse Mauresque....New Light Symphony Orchestra.
Life and Death....Peter Dawson (Bass-
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-
Icen.
•
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
ONE CRUCIAL PLAY
To-day's hand, taken from a Dupli-
cate game, illustrates the vast differ- ence in defensive play between the expert and the average player. At most tables the final contract was three notrump, the opening lead being the fourth-best club by West. It was the
second lead by West that was crucial
and spelled the difference between success and defeat.
Duplicate Bridge North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
Q 8
A 87-2
▲ 6 5
♡ QJ 10
OKQJ 74 8:3 ♣ A.
Baritone) with Orchestra.
8.30 p.m.-A Dance Programme.
Fax-Trots-The Martins and the Coyn; When A Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South....Ted Weems & His Orchestra.
Quickstep- Blues-The Scene Changes;
Got To Dance My Way To Heaven (film 'It's love again')....Joe Loss & His Orchestra., Fox-Trots-There's Something In The
Wind: The Old Oaken Bucket....Riley Farley & Their Onyx Club Boys. Waltz-A Waltz Was Born In Vienna; Slow Fox-Trot-Would You.....The Music
Makers (from The B,B,C. Dance Orch.). Fox-Trots--Sammy Saxophone: Meet the Boys....Scott Wood & His Six Swingers. Tango Caramba; Slow. Fox-Trot-Gypsy
JAPANESE CENSUS IN OCTOBER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL")
Tokyo, Yesterday.
A national census will be The experts, however, played the taken throughout Japan be- Jack of clubs, thereby denying theginning on October : 1, ac- Queen. Now in each instance when cording to the National Cen- East won with the King, he realised. the only hope of beating the contract sus Law, which requires lay in making three spade tricks, and such statistics to be com- accordingly underled his Ace-King of that suit. West won with the queen piled every ten years.
and returned the three-pot, where- upon the contract was set.
*
Saturday you were David Bruce Burnstone's partner. Both sides were vulnerable and you held:
AKQxxx
♡ x
◊. X X
AA XII
The bidding:
♡ B 4 8
You
Maler Burnstone
Раве 2♣
Jacoby Разв
10 76 5
K 84
J 10 9 7:4
◊ 10 9
The bidding:
West *Pass
North East
South
10
Pass 1A
20
Pass
2NT
Pass
3NT
PRSS
Pass
Pass
ACE
At all tables East gave a come-on signal with the eight of clubs. South played a low diamond to his singleton Ace and led the five HIGH BABE VALUERS of hearts, and West POURACILE SYSTEN promptly went · up with the Ace of hearts and played a second club. But here is where the difference came in: The average- players led d the five of of clubs. East won with the King and now laid down the Ace and King of spades, dropping his partner's Queen, where-
KING QUEEN 1 JACK
14 (7) ANSWER: Your correct rebid is three spades. In spite of your. fine club support, you wish to suggest playing the hand in spades, where ten tricks give you game, rather than in clubs, where eleven tricks are necessary.
Score 100% for three spades, 60% for four clubs, 40% for four spades (your spades are not solid after all). QUESTION NO. 414. ·
You are Oswald Jacoby's partner, and again you hold:
The bidding:
Tou
Haler
Schankan
Pass
Pas
Pasu Pass
(7)
What do you bid? Monday.)
-(Answer-
(Released By
Bell Syndicate,
It will tabulate many statistics not covered in previous censuses which were largely confined to a mere count of population. The number of people residing in the country, their oc- cupations and the nature of their business are among the subjects to be covered.
The coming census will also cover. Japanese living in areas in China oc- cupied by the Japanese forces. Spe- cial, attention will be devoted to the of people in occupational capacity which the Welfare Ministry is vital- ly interested in connection with its investigations into the changes in various occupations since the China
In the
A Dance
Programme
Violin....Mantovani & His Tipica Orch. Slow. FoxProt-Rouge Et Noir; Fox-Trot Intermezzo-Will O' The Wisp....Otto Dobrindt & His Plano Symphonista, 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Summary, 9.30 p.m.-London Relay! Believe in De. mocracy"; A talk by Dr. A. D. Lindsay. 9.46 p.m.--Selected Piano Solos.
Valses Nobles, Op. 77, Nos. 1-12 (Schu-
bert)....Lili Kraus:
Minuet and Trio (from Fantasia Sonata in G Major, Op. 78-Schubert); Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (Rachmani- noff)....Arthur Rubinstein.
10.02 p.m.-Two Songs by Georges Thill
(Tenor).
of Grace "Werther"-0 Nature, Full
(Massenet); "The Damnation of Faunt" O Vast Nature (Berlioz).....Sung in French with Orchestra, 10.10 p.m.-Berlioz~Symphonia Fantastique, Op. 14. Orchestre De La Scolete Des Con- certs Du Conservatoire cond. by Bruno Walter.
11.00 p.m.-Close down.
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If the world could always be viewed as it is through the eyes of young lovers it would be a rosy spot
war.
It is expected the new census sys- tem will reveal conditions and im- portant data which will enable Japan to perfect the national organisation for the mobilisation of all resources.
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