MUTT AND JEFF
LISTEN,SMART GUY,
I SUPPOSE YOU THINK YOU'RE JUST AS GREAT,
AS EINSTEIN!
GREATER!
ค
DO YOU KNOW WHO THE GREAT ||
PROFESSOR EINSTEIN IS?
OH, I'VE HEARD OF HIM BUT I DON'T THINK
HE'S SO GREAT!
LISTEN, DOPE, DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWELVE MEN IN THIS WORLD WHO COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND EINSTEIN?
SO THERE! I'M GREATER!
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1940.
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS)
ME!
By BUD FISHER
Correct
absolutely
4-22
Misha
Kentucky
Minstrels
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.-Compositions of Dvorak.
Humoreske, Op. 101, No. 7....Ignaz Fried-
man (Piano).
Slavonic Dance No. 10 in E Minor; Sla- vonic Dance No. 12 in D Flat Major.... Czech Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Vaclav Talich.
Songs my mother taught me....Dino Bor- gloli (Tenor) with Ivor Newton at the Plano and Violin Obbligato by Antonio Brosa.
Slavonic Rhapsody, Op. 45, No. 3....Sir Thomas Beccham' conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra,
6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-/]
tions.
6.32 p.m.-Selections from Gilbert and
Sullivan's "The Mikado".
As
Overture....The Light Opera Orchestra. Behold The Lord High Executioner;
Some Day It May Happen....Henry A.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Lytton & Chorus of Men. Comes a Train of Little Ladies....Chorus
of Girls,
Three Little Maids .... Elsie Griffin, D. Hemingway, B. Elburn and Chorus of Girls.
With Aspect Stern....L. Sheffield, H. Lyt- ton, D. Oldham, E. Griffin, A. Davies. B. Elburn, G. Baker and Chorus. Your Revels Cease....B. Lewis, D. Old- ham, A. Davies, B. Elburn and Chorus, Oh, Faithless One....Bertha Lewis, Derek Oldham and Elsie Griffin with Chorus. 7:00 p.m.-Roy Fox and His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Shadows on the. Moon (film
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
ken.
A SIX SAVES SLAM
'Girl of the Golden West'); Sunday in the Park (from 'Happy Returns'); The Night Is Young, and You're so Beautiful, "That (Alm Waltz-Seal It With A Kiss
Girl from Paris').
Fox-Trots-Please Belleve Me: Saddle
Your Blues to A Wild Mustang, Quickstep The Chocolate Soldier's Daugh-
ter.
Slow Fox-Trot-What, Is Romance (from
'No sky so blue').
Fox-Trot-The First Time I Saw You
(Alim. Toast of New York").
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The. News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and, Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Variety with The Western Brothers, Jack. Warner, Florence Desmond, Billy Mayerl and Others. Humorous Bunger Up of Rat Oles (Warner)....Jack Warner, with Orches tra; Are you Havin'. Any Fun (from "The Little Dog Laughed')....Jack Warner with Sonny and Orchestra, Piano In My Garden....Billy Mayerl. Comedienne Public Sweetheart No.
1
(from "Seeing Stars'); In Love Again (from 'Seeing Stars')....Florence Des mond with Orchestra. Fox-Trots-When You Wish Upon A Star
MASS PRODUCTION OF AERO-ENGINES
Washington, To-day, The Secretary of Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, revealed yester-
on
It is remarkable how many hands spade and to give himself an infinite-day that a series of conferences be- can be made by some slight extra pre-simally better chance trumped with tween Government representatives and caution. It almost seems as though dummy's six. This slight safety play officials-of-the-Ford, Chrysler, Gener- al Motors, Packard and Studebaker the gods favour the player who is al-proved decisive, for while East was ways on guard against some possible out of spades, his three trumps by companies have been held here unfavourable distribution. Here is a some freak of fate happened to be five, "the question of the practicability of Slam hand that was made by a care- four and three. When dummy's six of mass production of aeroplane engines ful player.
A careless player would hearts held the trick, South spread his in existing motorcar factories."-Reu- have, lost the contract,
hand, for the remaining five trickster. could be cross-ruffed by all top trumps.
Neither side vulnerable South, Dealer
A 6
VA QE 2
◇ K Q 8 4 AJ 3 9
5 8
◊ J 10 6
W
♣ 10 9 7
S
AJ 973 9 8
5 4 8
9 6 8 2 KQ84
A KQ 10 8 4
The bidding: South West
10 7
A 8 5
North Elast Pass 20
Pass Pass •♡ Paga
Pass Pass West chose the most embarrassing opening-a club. After winning with dummy's
fe, South had to risk play-
ing three rounds of diamonds for he could
ACE..
KING QUEEN 1 JACK
1
✡
✡
❤
Yesterday, you were David Bruce Burnstone's partner and held:
Q JI
♡ K. X
◊ AJ 9 X X
♣ Q 10 x
The pidding:
Burnstone
Jacoby
. You
Schenken
Рава
20
Pass
Pass
34
Pass
Pass
Pass
BA
Pass · (7)
ANSWER: Your correct bid is six spades. In spite of your signing off, your partner has gone over game and your holding of King and one heart. should indicate no losers in that suit, and the Slam should depend at worst on a finesse.
Score six spades 100%, pass 40%.
QUESTION NO. 427
Oswald Jacoby is your partner and
not afford to draw you hold:.
trumps. After getting
rid of his losing club,
dummy's spade was South's played and
Queen was won by the Ace. West led a second. club South trumped,
then cashed, his King of spades, discarding dummy's last dia- gond. South now had three spades to but only tive of y dummy's were"tops." He would finge aping the first spade with
The bidding:
Búrmitone 34
Pass Pass
Maler · You BNT Pass 8NT PABL ENT (7)
What do you bid? ́(Answer: tomorrow.)
(Released By The Bell Syndicate,
He therefore led a Inc.),
.
MOTOR ACCIDENT
It was disclosed this morning that the Europeans involved in Sunday's motor accident in the New Territories, when a car crashed into a tree, were Mr. and Mrs. McMaster, of Kowloon Docks, and their two children,
Harbour Mr. Kilpatrick, of Hotel.
and View
45,000 NEW PILOTS
Washington, To-day,
The civil aeronautics authority an nounces it will immediately expand
Beethoven
Symphony
(from 'Pinocchio'); Give a Little Whistle (from 'Pinocchio')....Billy Cotton & His Band.
Humorous-Lord Haw Haw
(Western Bros.); (Western
Brothers.
Bros.)
of Bad Show Chaps The Western
Zeesen
Organ-Finch Favourites. Intro: In the quartermaster's stores; Bluebirds in the Horace Good-morning ............. moonlight; Finch,
8.38 p.m.-Sea Shanties by John Goss (Baritone) and the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet.
A Dollar And A Half A Day; The Hog's Eye Man; Sally Brown; Hanging John- ny; Whisky Johnny (arr. Terry). 8.45 p.m.-8tudio-The "Toast" Serles on Naval Occasions No. 2: "The Naval Reservlats".
8.57 p.m.-More Variety,
mary.
9.15 p.m.London Relay-News Sum- 9.30 p.m.-London Relay — "Cards on
the Table".
The 9.45 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording
Kentucky Minstrels, Devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper. 10.13 p.m. Selected Plano Solos. 10.27 p.m-Beethoven-Symphony No. The 4 In B Flat Major, Op. 60. B.B.G Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Arturo Toscani, 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
Liteleased by The. Bell Byndiening me.. The mentally sketchy-girl-frland says that while most girls want a man with a future, she'll just take a future with a man,
the primary civilian training pro- by July 1, 1941, to form a reservoir gramme to provide 45,000 new pilots of prospective fighting pilots. Reuter,
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