MUTT AND JEFF
FRIEND, THIS IS A REAL AUSTRALIAN LYRE DOG! BY THE ACTION OF HIS TAIL HE ADVISES YOU TO DO A THING OR NOT TO
DO IT!
YOU MEAN IF.I WANNA INVEST
·MONEY OR GET MARRIED HE CAN TELL MEIF I SHOULD DOIT OR I SHOULDN'T
DO IT?
"EXACTLY!
IF HE POINTS HISTAIL UP THAT MEANS YES! WAND IF HE
DROPS HIS TAIL. THAT MEANS NO!
YOU CAN MAKE A FORTUNE ONLY FIVE WITH THAT LYRE DOG:--,
I WOULDN'T SELL HIM BUT DOLLARS? I BADLY NEED FIVE
DOLLARS!
4-23
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1940.
By BUD FISHER
THANKS
JOHBOY, AM I LÚCKY
FRIEND!
TO GET A LYRE DOG
I'LL BUY HIM!
FOR ONLY FIVE -BUCKS!--DID I
GET-A BARGAIN!
Popular
Variety
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m. Excerpts from Wagner's
"Lohengrin".
"Lohengrin"-Overture..:.The State Opera Orchestra, Berlin; In Dis- tant Lands....Franz Volker (Ten-
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
or) with Orchestra & Chorus; Bri-803 p.m. Marek Weber, and His
dal Chorus....Chorus & Orches- tra; Duet....Maria Muller (So- prano) & Franz Volker (Tenor). 6.30 p.m.--Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.32 p.m.-Beethoven-Sonata
In
Flat Major, Op. 26. Wilhelm Kempff (Piano).
6.56 p.m.-Compositions of Schumann. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The NewB. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcemens.
· Orchestra
("Mignon' Entr'acte Gavotte
Thomas); Indra Waltz (Lincke); Love's Dream After the Ball (Czi- bulka); Springtime Serenade (Heykens); Musical Box (Hey- kens); The Coolies of Sumatra (Jessel); The Caravan (Bayer, arr. ...Leopold); Chinese Street Serenade (Siede); Japanese Lantern Dance (Yoshitomo).
8.33 p.m. Songs by
(Baritone).
Dennis Noble
Winning
(By
CONTRACT
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.
DECEPTION IN DUMMY PLAY
Nearly all good players agree that I then continued the suit, and the de- deception, when it takes the form of fence ran off enough club tricks to set fancy or psychic bids, does not pay. the contract......... Experience has shown them that, while South had played the hand with a psychic will often fool the oppon-perfect naivete. He should have won with dummy's heart ents, the partner will be equally mis- the first tricks led. In the play of the dummy, how- Ace; led a spade and played the Jack ever, it is up to the Declarer to try from his hand. This would have left every legitimate means at his disposal West in some doubt as to who held to deceive his opponents. Deception the Kings of both spades and hearts. sometimes consists of making a bluff True, West might still have guessed of strength in a suit where none exists. I correctly and shifted to the club but At other times it is wisest to conceal your strength. For example:
Both sides vulnerablo North, Dealer
Q J 7.3.
:Q.6 2
♡ A 8.4
the situation would not have been quite so obvious, and after all, it is human to "err.
ĐỘ
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*
Yesterday Oswald Jacoby was your partner and you held:
Kxxx
OAK QJ B
4 3
♡ K XX
O KII
A 10 5
8.7 4
-X X X
10 6 5 8
97 6
W
02.
AQ 6
S
A KJ 7 5
K. J 8
♡ KI
The bidding:
Yon Maler INT Рава Pass &NT ENT (7)
Barnstone
-6
Jacoby Pass Разв
10.8 5.4
10 9.8 2
North Bast
10
POBB
80
Pasa
South 20 SNT
Pass
Pass
West opened the
The bidding:
HIGH CARD VALUES
POUR-ACES BYRTEM-4
ALE KING QUEEN 1 JACK
ANSWER: Your correct bid is to pass. Although you expect to beat the West hand if you pass, if you double De-
clarer may mark Pass
you for all three. Рава kings and play the hand in some ab-
normal manner to make his contract.
Score Pass 100%, double · 0;·
deuce of hearts
• «QUESTION NO. 428. Merwin Maler is your partner and you hold:
which was ducked in dummy and won by South's King. A spade was played to dummy's Queen and the suit returned, South playing the West King and winning it with the Ace. At this point it was ⠀⠀ completely ob- vious to West that South held the spade Jack and thus had nine tricks in platn There was only one possibility. West played the club Ace and Inc.)
KIX K.IX
ÓK XX
The bidding: Schenken
ANT Pas- 3NT Pase 6NT
Pass Pass What do you lead? #tomorrow.
(Released
(Answer:
The Bell yndicat
Even Bravest Heart ("Faust"--Gou
nod)....with Orchestral accomp.
Fleets Phantom
(Brandon-Alan Murray); There'll Always Be An England (Parker & Charles).... with Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore.
Bolos by Fritz
8.45 p.m.-Studio-"Roets" - 2: Pope. The second of a new series of talks by Father Ryan, S.J. 9.05 p.m.-Violin
Kreisler). Tambourin Chinois, Op. (Kreisler);
Thais Meditation (Massenet). with Piano accomp. by Carl Lam-
son,
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.30 p.m.
Magazine Feature Pro- gramme No. 5. Two talks recorded in London, dealing with two phases .of the war. The first is by an official in the Ministry of Labour (Mr. God- frey Ince, who will be remembered in Australia for his investigation into unemployment insurance), who des- cribes the organisation of man-
Dance
Music
heart)....Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. Tangos-Se Lo Llevaron; La Puna- lada....Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro.
Fox-Trots Who Knows (Alm 'Ro- salle'); Too Lovely to be True (film "The Sky's the Limit') . . . . Billy Ternent & His Sweet Rhythm Orchestra.
Waltz-On the Sunny Side of the Rockies; Fox-Trot-Sweet Gene- vieve...Ronnie Munro & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Farewell Blues; Margie.
..
:
....Ronnie: Munro & His Orch. 11.00 p.m.-London Relay-"Matters
of Moment".
11.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
STEEL COULSON
WIND-UP
The annual presentation of power in Britain, and the second is prizes of the Steel Coulson by a distinguished Naval Officer,
who will talk about the utilisation Billiard and Snooker League, of sea power, and in particular and H. B. Darts League will
about the sinking of a submarine.
He will be known to many as "Taf- take place to-morrow at 9
p.m. at St. Patrick's Club.
frail", the author.
9,45 p.m.Half an hour. of Popular
Variety. Comedienne Things Might Have Been so Diff'rent (Coots & Lewis); I Haven't been the same girl since (Harper & Haines)..... Gracie Fields with Orchestra. Vocal-The Family Song Album..
Hughie Green & His Gang with Piano.
The champions of the various, com- petitions will meet teams from the Rest of the League and some good games should be witnessed.
The prizes will be distributed by Mr. D. Ruttonjee.
The following are the results- of the Competitions--
Club;
Billards Champions, Civil Service B. Runners-up-H. Cricket Club.
Snooker: Champlons, Hong Kong Police; "Runners-up:-Civil Service Cricket Club.
Ser-
Darts Champions Garrison geants' Mess; Runners-up: Chief and Petty Officers' -Mess.
Vocal & Piano Where or When (film 'Babes in Arms'); Serenade in Blue (Gilbert)....Turner Lay- ton. Three Pianos Boogie Woogie Pray- er (Ammons & Others)....Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson and Al- bert Ammons. Comedian Sandy's Own Broadcast
ing Station....Sandy Powell, 10.16 p.m. Dance Music.
The following will represent the Fox-Trot Silvery Moon and ́Gold-
en Sands; Quickstep-You Can't Rest of the League Starting at 7 p.m.- Billiards: (200 up):-Gowlands, (P.O.C.), Stop Me From Dreaming... Henry Jacques & His Correct Dance Low (H.B.), Lewis (D.R.C.). Reserve:-
Pope (H.K.P.). Tempo Orchestra. Rumba Say "Si, Si": Fox-Trot-
"REST"! TEAMS
Snooker (two frames aggregate score):- It's The Natural Thing To Do Brennon (RE.), Morgan (C.P.O.), Marvin (film Double or Nothing').......... (P.O.C.). Reserve:-V. J. Smith (D.R.C.). Harry Roy & His Orchestra.
Darts:-(501);-Taylor (H.K.P.), Otway Kelland (R.N.P.). Reserve:-- Slow Fox-Trots-You're A Sweet- (C.P.O.).
heart (from the film); Tears in my Goodyear (D.R.C.).
In the
HONG KONG
HOTEL
DINNER DANCE
*Band
With Nick Korin & His Swing B NIGHTLY 9PM. TILL 1 AM,
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