MUTT AND JEFF
WHAT'RE YOU LISTENING TO?
LISTENING TO:: POPPY SEEDS;
·GROWING?
5. DON'T HEAR ÁNYTHING!
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1940
By BUD FISHER
MAYBE A LITTLE
WATER WILL WAKE THEM
UPAMA
AINT IT DISCOURAGIN'? IT'S BEEN LIKE THAT ALL DAY!
POPPY SEEDS
I PLANTED
THIS MORNING!
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"News From Scotland" and Other
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Today's Wireless
12.16 p.m. Short Service of Inter.
ccasion.
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12.30 p.m.-Debroy Somers Band.
Swing Going Greek Selection;
Along-Selection; Lucky Break- Selection; Me and My Girl-Selec- tion....with Vocal Chorus.
1.00 p.m.-Local
Time
Weather Report.
Bignal and
1.03 p.m.-Gerry Moore, Val Rosing
and Rina Ketty in Variety. L'Auberge Au Crepuscule (Viaud & Others); Un Tout Petit Nid (Vais- sade & Charty)....Rina Ketty
(Vocal) with Orchestra. Quickstep-Jammin' (film "Turn off the Moon'); Slow Fox-Trot-- Sweet Heartache (film "The
Hit
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Parade')....Gerry Moore (Piano). Vocal-Louisiana Fairy Tale (Coots & Others); In A Little Gypsy Tea Room (Leslie & Burke) .... Val Rosing with Orchestra. Quickstep
Wabash Blues; Slow Gerry Fox-Trot Rosetta Moore (Piano). Chasing Shadows (Davis & Silver) ....Val Rosing (Vocal) with. Orch. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,
Weather Forecast and ments.
Winning
Announce-
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.
SMART OR STUPID?
Accordingly I have a I'll let West hold this cinch play. trick and he will then have to lead away from his King into my tenace."
After being set one at his four-in order to lead clubs, he undoubted- spade contract, South admitted rue-ly has nothing in the suit and there- fully: "I guess I played the hand in fore the King-Jack-nine must be in about the only way to lose it. But I West's hand. must admit that I was completely fooled when East deliberately allowed himself to be caught in an end-play which he could have avoided.'
Certainly on this hand East was
smart either very
very stupid. What do you think?
South, Dealer ·
or
Neither side vulnerable
3 4 A9765
◊ J 10 9 2 4J 3
0 7 6
This was South's reasoning and cer- tainly there was more than a grain of logic to it. When the club was returned, Declarer confidently played low from dummy. To his amazement and chagrin, East won the setting trick with the King.
✡
窈
Yesterday you were
David Bruce
Burnstone's partner and held:
AVRIX
AK Qxx
AK 10 5
♡ Q J 3
A 764 2
A Q 7 2
♡ 10.8
W
E
Q 8543 K9 8
OK x
J; AJ-X
The bidding:
A. 9 8 6 3
♡ K 4 2
You
OAK
♣ Q 10 5
The bidding:
South
North. West
East
Pass
24
Pass
Pass
Рабб
Pass
Schenken Barnstone Jacoby
Pass
20
Pasa Pass
Pass
1♡ 3♡
·(?) ANSWER: Bid five diamonds. Your King-small is sufficient, support for partner's rebid diamond suit. You should not rebid your five-card heart West opened the Jack of diamonds.sult again in the face of partner's South won, then laid down the King second denial.
of hearts. West took the heart Ace
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE
FOUR-ACES SYSTEM.
2
ACE... KING QUEEN 1 JACK.........',
Score 100% for five diamonds, 50% and led another dia- for four notrump (better than four mond: Declarer play-hearts), 20% for four hearts.
ed two high trumps,
QUESTION NO. 485
Oswald Jacoby is your partner and
then followed with dummy's Queen-Jack you hold:
of hearts. To his sur- prise, East (although. he could have discard- ed) trumped the second heart, thus put- ting himself in the position of having to lead clubs. East returned the club eight, South played the ten and West covered with the Jack
The Jacoby
♡ 10 x
Ó, A Q ̧J I I X AK QIL bidding:
Maler You 10. Равв 20
Pass Pass
Barnstope
Рава :40: Pass
(Answer
What do you bid? tomorrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndicate,
At this point South thought: "Since East deliberately trumped the heart Inc.)
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1.45 p.m.-The Royal Command Con. cert Held at The "Albert Hall, Lon- don.
To Heart-Easing Mirth (Purcell- Davies).... Isobel Baillie, Elsie Suddaby, Astra Desmond & Chorus; (Ste- The Cloud-Cap't Towers vens)....Massed Choirs; Y Bore Glas-Welsh Folk Song... :Mar- Welsh Chorus; garet Rees & Twankydillo-English Folk Song .Robert Easton & English Cho- rus; England (Parry).... Mary Jarred & Massed Choirs; Jerusa- lem (Parry)....Massed Choirs; National Antham-Final verse.... Massed.
2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN. 6.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-A Programme of
Musle.
Dance
Fox-Trots-True Confession (from the film); Please remember.... Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Ho- tel Orpheans. Swing Fox-Trots-Ain't Misbehav- in'; Hot Lips....Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Tangos I'd Bring the Heavens to You; Hear My Song, Violetta... Emil Roosz & His Orchestra, slow Fox-Trots After All These Years; Silver Sails on Moonlit Waters....Jack Wilson & His Versatile Five. Fox-Trots You're A Sweetheart (from the film); Don't Ever Change (film 'Rhythm in the
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Over You; Quickstep-Shy Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra.
7.30
p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
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Light Opera Company with Orch. Gaite Parisienne Ballet Music.... London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Efrem 'Kurtz.
"Tho 8.30. p.m.-B.B.C. Recording
Vicar's Garden Party. A Sketch, 8.45 p.mLondon. Relay-News From
Scotland.
9.00 p.m.-London Relay-Speech by Ernest Bevan at the American Chamber of Commerce, London. 9.20 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.80 p.m.-London Relay
Vive la
In the
France".
The Children's Hour
9.45 p.m.-A Concert of Vocal Items
and Band Music.
La Marseillaise; March Lorraine (Ganne)....La Garde Republi- caine Band.
O Peaceful England ('Merrie Eng- land'-German)....Essle Ackland (Contralto) with Orchestra............ Royal Air Force March Past. (Wal- ford Davies, arr. Amers); Milanol- March Coldstream. lo- The (Hamm, arr. Mackenzie-Rogan) -
.The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
(Anon, arr. Batten); Passing By (Herrick & Purcell)....Hubert Eisdell, Heddle Nash, Dennis No- ble and Norman Allin with String Quartette.
Sing With The Guards. Intro: Marching, along together; Angels Never Leave Heaven; The Hand- some Territorial; The Siegfried Line; Beer Barrel Polka; South of the Border; There's Something About a Soldier; Changing of the Guard Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards!!!
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Intro: Sitting on the Ice; Do de oh Doh; Chinese Laundry Blues; Ma- dame Moscovitch; My Ukulele; George Form- Fanlight Fanny..
by with His Ukulele & Orch. Vocal-Let's Sing Again (from the film); It's A Sin to Tell A Lie (Mayhew)... Bobby Breen. Instrumental-The Great Ziegfeld"
InMedley: Intro: You never look- ed so beautiful;. You gotta pull strings; You....The Keyboarders (Two Pianos) & Drums. Hawaiian Guitars My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua (Noble & Others); Hilo Hanakahi (Haleka- lea)....Kanui & Lula with Vocal Effects. Instru."The Great Ziegfeld"
Medley. Intro: March of the. Mus- keteers; Look for the silver lining; A pretty girl is. like a melody.... The Keyboarders (Two Pianos & Drums).
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Vocal-Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man ('Show Boat' Hammerstein & Kern); Bill ('Show Boat' Ham- merstein & Kern)... Marie Burke (Soprano) and the Mississippi Sextette with Orchestra. Harmonica Duet-Krontjong Suc- The (arr. Hodlars)
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