MUTT AND JEFF
YOU LOOK
GREAT, JEFF!
BUT WHAT'S THE IDEA I WANTING ME TO DRESS UP LIKE A BUTLER?
I'LL EXPLAIN, JEFF! MY TWO SISTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE HAVING DINNER WITH US AND WE WANT. TO PUT ON A LOTTA DOG! YOU'LL
BE OUR BUTLER JUST FOR
TODAY, YES?
SURE: I'LL HELP YOU TOSS
·A-816 BLUFF I'LL MEETA
· THEM AT THE DOOR AND
ALL THAT, BUT LISTEN- DO YOU STRETCH OR DO I SHUFFLE?
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1940
;DO WE WHAT?
By BUD FISHER
''DO YOU PUT ALL THE FOOD ON THÉ TABLE AND STRETCH FOR IT- OR WILL I HAVE TO SHUFFLE IT
AROUND?
"London Log" & Other London Relays
12.15 p.m. -Short Service of Inter-
coesion.
Today's Wireless
12.30 p.m.-Kalmar Pal (Vocal) and
Magyar Imre & His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra.
12.47 p.m.-Harry Roy's Tiger-Raga-
muffins.
I'm A Ding Dong Daddy (Baxter); Hot Lips (Lange & Others); Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider (Léonard); Sonny Boy (Henderson & Others). Signal and
1.00 p.m.-Local Time
Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.-Songs by Richard Tauber
(Tenor).
All-Hope Is. Ended (film 'Heart's
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
chestral accompaniment.
1.12 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.
9.52 Megacycles
My Darling Waltz ("The Gipsy Ba- ron-Strauss) Berlin State
Opera Orchestra.
Under The Rainbow (Waldteufel);
North Sea Waves (Krannig). Orchestra Mascotte,
Voices of Spring (Strauss). .Ferdy
Kauffman & His Orchestra.
Desire'); My World Is Gold Be-1.30 p.m.-Router and Rugby Press,
cause You Love Me (film 'Heart's Desire'); Night and Day (film
Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1. Sulte played by Rale Da
(Plano).
Costa
1.57 p.m.-Dance Music.
Quickstep-Turn off the Moon (from the film); Fox-Trot-Star Dust on the Moon....Len Newbery & His Cascades of Rhythm. Swing Fox-Trots Miss Annabelle Lee; Runnin, Wild....Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Waltz-I Shall Always Remember You Smiling; Slow Fox-Trot-
Cotton Lonely...Billy
& His
Band.
The Gay Divorce').... with Or-1.45 p.m.-Billy Mayerl's "Four Aces" 2.16 p.m. CLOSE DOWN.
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
6.00 p.m.-W.
Vincent Wallace's "Maritana". Singers and Characters in order of appearance: Miriam Li- cette (Soprano).. Maritana; Den- nis Noble (Baritone)....Don Jose De Santarem; Clara Serena (Con- tralto)....Lazarillo; Heddle Nash (Tenor).....Don Caesar de Bazan; and Grand Opera Company with Orchestra.
6.40 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota
tions.
6.42 p.m.-Erlo Coates-Cinderella-A Phantasy.. Eric Coates and Sym- phony Orchestra.
p.m.-Songs, by Hubert Eisdell (Tenor).
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-7.02 ken.
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
PRO AND CON
Come, Sing to Me (Thompson); Sing Me to Sleep. (Bingham & Greene); Love's Garden of Roses (Haydn Wood)....with Orchestral accom- paniment."
7,12
Command p.m. Aldershot Searchlight Tattoo, 1985. Massed Bands of the Aldershot Command. 7.30 p.m-Londen 'Relay The Nows. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather ... Report and Announcements.
The hand below, played in a recent | held a sure diamond trick, but that team-of-four match, has caused an ex- he was long in the suit. Therefore, tremely hot controversy in expert they reasoned, if East held a sure circles. The argument concerns East's diamond trick, there was no point in play to the first trick and the proper West trying to get him on lead for a lead by West to the second trick. Here single ruff would do no good. And are the arguments presented:
if a diamond ruff by West would be useless, then East was telling his part-8.08 p.m.-Norman Allin. (Bass) and ner not to lead spades.
South, Dealer East-West vulnerable
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We are inclined to agree with. East, and feel that West should have play- ed safe by leading a trump.
Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's partner. Both sides are vulnerable, you had 90 on score and held;
The bidding:
South
10
West 14
North 3♡
Cast
1
Pass
20 Pass
2♡
Рана
8. Pass West opened the diamond Ace, upon which East played the Queen. West then shifted to a spade, thereby giving South, his contract, as
HISH CARD VALUES...”.
FOUR-ACES SYSTEN
ACE.. KING QUEEN 1 JACK'
· dummy's ́ ́ Queen won the trick,
Some experts in- cluding West, main- tained that by playing the diamond. Queen, East was signalling for a spade shift. They contended that, East's play was in accordance with the suit-directing convention which called for a shift to the higher of the two remaining suits (spades and clubs).
Those who backed East in the argu- ment (including East) claimed that Bart's play showed not only that he
A A QIX ♡ J X
Ó KJ 10 x X
I
The bidding: Major Burnatene You Schenker
Pass 10 Pass Paos T: (T).
ANSWER: "Your correct bid is two spades. You are greatly interested in a Slam.
Score 100% for two spades, 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 448
Howard Schenken is your partner. Both sides are vulnerable you have 90 on score and again you hold;
The bidding:----
1
INT
PLE Ра
Won, Pass 10 Pass Pass (7) What do you, Bid? (Answer,
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New
the New Light Symphony Orchestra. "Monsieur Beaucaire" Selection
(Rosse, arr. Bucalossi) Light Symphony Orchestra. True Till--Death (LL.B. & Scott' Gatty); The King's Own (Crofts Bonheur)....Norman Allin (Bass). with Plano, "Jewels of the. Madonna" Inter- Mezzo Introduction to Act 2........... New Light Symphony Orchestra. A Light On The Ocean Nautical Selection (Binding)....New Light Symphony Orchestra.
8.32 p.m.-B.6.C. Recording “Lon- don". A somewhat misconducted tour of the Capital of the British Empire. Written and produced by H. L. MorrÓW.
In the
Variety
Programme
9.00 p.m.-London Relay
Log".
"London
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay Topical
Talk.
9.45 p.m.-Puccini's "La Boheme" Act 1. Singers in order of appearance: Luigi Marini, Gino Vanelli, Tan- credi Pasero, Aristide Baracchi, Sal- vatore Baccaloni and Rosetta Pam- panini with Orchestra.
wedd
10.20 p.m.-Local sport results. 10.23 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording"Poor
Old Snell". A Sketch. 10.36 p.m-Light-Variety -
Vocal-A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (film "The Great Zieg- feld'); I Don't Want To Make His- tory (film "Palm Springs'). Frances Day (Soprano) with Orch. Guitar Duets Chiquita Waltz (Wayne); Drifting and Dreaming (Gillespie)....Ferera. & Paaluhi. Vocal Alexander's Ragtime Band (from the film); Dinah. (Akst & Others)....The Boswell Sisters with Guitar accomp. & Orch. Vocal-Blazin'. The Trail (Powell & Others); It's No Fun (Ager & Others)....Len Bermon with Orch. 11.00 p.m. An hour of Dance Music.
Fox-Trots The Popcorn Man; Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner....Ray Ventura & Collegians.
Slow Fox-Trot The Moon remem- bered, but you forgot (from 'Let's be famous'); Tango --- Summer evening in Santa Cruz Max- well Stwart's Ballroom Melody. Fox-Trot-Two Dreams Got To- gether; Comedy Fox-Trot Oooooo-Oh Boom!....Billy Cotton - His Band.
Fox-Trots Gone (film 'Love on the run'); When Is A Kiss Not Kiss (film 'Champagne Waltz')....Roy Fox & His Orchestra,
Waltzes Ferdinand the Bull (from the film); The Umbrella Man (from These-Foolish Things').... Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots--Blossoms on Broadway (from the film); Sailing Home.... Jack Harris & His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-How Many Rhymes Can You Get; Rumba-Say “Si, Si” ..Jack Harris & His Orchestra. Swingsteps-Swingitis; Swing As It Comes.... Bert Firman's Quintu- plets of Swing. Tango Por Que?. Geraldo & His
Gaucho Tango Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot-It's A Sin to Tell a Lie; Waltz Music in May (from "Careless Rapture"). The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.
12.00 midnight.-CLOSE DOWN,
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