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CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
Notice To Consumers
BRIDGE NOTES
Easy Guesswork By The Four Aces
Guresing the location of the missing high cards is often easy if you recall not only what ne- tually happened during the bid- ding
what happen!
but also
South. Dealer
North-South vulnerable
32
17 AJ 7
fulled to
6 K 10 9 8 5 2
AQ
4176
N A
KJ 10 9
Q #6 2
AAB
IW
24 3
♣ 1974 3
$
心
(2 4
K # 6
AAQ 4
K 10 &
◊ J 7 3
AJ 86 2
The bidding:
South West
2 анм
L'ASS
North
LO
INT
Pass
23
INT
l'axs
INT
Fast
Pasn Pass Pass
J'ass
L'ass
Five diamonds would have been a safer contract, but South was a fine player whose partner was not particularly skillful, SO avoided encourag- ing a diamond con- tract.
HIGH LAND VALUKS
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN
ACE... KING..2 QUEEN.1 JACKI
TOTAL MANE ON PREDA
he
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1941.
RADIO
12.10 p.m.--Short Service of Interces.
sion.
12.30 p.m.Ambrose and His Orchestra.
Fox Trot-Seventeen Candles. Siow Fox-Trot-Careless,
Rumbas-Creole Lady: Two Hearts
in Cuba.
Fox-Trots-Plain Jane; Hullabaloo. Waltzes Serenade of Napoli; When
Our Dreams Grow Old. Fox-Trot-The Lady on the Cameo 1.00 p.m.-Ldcal Time Signal, 1.01 p.m.-Vivian Ella at the Piano.
RUBBED
HAM INTO
HER FACE
The Divorce Court Pre- sident, granting a wife a. judicial separation re-
Let Me Play By Vivian Ellis counted her story of how
which the
Composer introduces
Afteen of his best known Tunes)... Soloist: Vivian Ellis, himself.
her husband, a managing
1.11 p.m.-The Merry Mac and Etale director, picked up 31b.
& Daria Waters.
Ma (Conrad, Clare): Breezin' Along of ham from the dinner with the Breeze The Merry Macs table and rubbed it in her
Elsie hair and face.
(Vocal) with Instrumental acce.
A Party at Gert and Daisy's.
& Duris Waters (Comediennes) and Company
IG Rhythm (from Girl Crazy')
The Merry Maes (Vocal) with Orch. Wedding Bells Else B Doris
Waters (Coinuciennes) with Plano
A 1.30 pm. - Reuter Rugle. Press and
Announcements
145 p.m.-Borodin--Quartet No. 2 in D
Major.
1st May Allegro inoderato. 201 Mov
3rd Sghet zui
Muv Notturno-Alt
Fanale (Andante- Pro Arte Quartet
dante.
Vichse)
4th Mov.
2.16 p.m. -Close down,
6.45 p.m. Indien Programme.
6.30 p.m. Clung Local Stock Quota.
11.
6.32 p.m.--Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) and
Enrico Caruso (Tenor).
La Capricciosa Ries), Allegro (Fine- co) Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
The husband is Mr. Gilbert Harry Carr, an American, of Fitz- James Avenue, Croydon, and the wife Mrs. Rose Honor Carr, of Queen's-gate, S.W.
They were married at Cruy- and don Register Office in 1931 lived at the husband's present address. Before the marriage and until she left him on December 28, 1939 the wife was his private secretary,
The President. Sir Boyd Merri- the man, giving judgment, said case against Mr. Carr was one of course of conduct calculated to break his wife's spirit and that it her Lend Me Your Aid (La Reine De had been continued until
Saba Gounod). La Procession health broke down or was, likely
Cesar Franck) Enrico Caruso to do so.
with Piano Rec
Tenor with Symphony Orchestra
Caprice In G Minor, Op. 1, No. 0 The Judge said the ham in- Yehudi Menutin (Veldent occurred on the evening of
December 27, 1939. There was hot and ham for
(Paganini Had with Plano acc Like A Dream (Marta' Flotow)
Enrico Caruso (Tenor) with Syn soup, cold turkey
dinner. phony Orchestra Sarabande and Tambourin (Sarasate)
with
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Plants ave 7.00 p.m.-London Relay--The News. 7.16 p.m.-London Relay-Talk: Work
ing Together'.
West opened the eight <f spades, Elast played the King, And South 7.30 p.m.-Mozart-Concerto in F Major. played low. Frust
1st Mov Allegro 2nd Mov Allegret returned
Artu to. 3rd Mov Allegro ussal Schnabel (Piano) and the London of spades, and South won with
Symphony Orchestra cond. by D› the Queen. At this point South
Malcolm Sargent. knew which opponent held the Ace of diamonds!
the Jack
Since West had led the top of a worthless suit, East was marked with five or six spades headed by King-Jack-ten. Surely East would have bid one spade over North's one-diamond opening if East held the diamond Ace as well as such strong spades. But since
East had actually passed, it was evi- dent that West held the Ace of diamonds.
therefore,
That held
third trick. At the South led the Jack of diamonds; and when West played low, he put up dummy's King, the trick, and the diamond re- turn cleared the suit, giving South more than enough tricks for his contract.
*
✡
Saturday you
were David Bruce Burnstone's partner and, non-vulnerable against vulnerable | opponents, you held:
AK 6 4 2
♡ 7 6 3
O QJ D 3 2 of B The bidding:
Burnstone 1 A 10
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Hong Kong, 8th March, 1941.
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ANSWER: Bid five spades. The bidding indicates that your part- ner is short in hearts, and your shortness in clubs further limits the loss. The high spade contract should therefore be a painless sacrifice and may even be fulfill- ed if your partner has a good fit for your diamonds..
Score 100% for five spades, 30% for pass..
Question No. 684
To-day you are . Merwin Maier's partner and, non-vulner- able against vulnerable opponents, you hold;
A & QJ 10 9 8
A 10 5 4 704.
8.00 p.m.Local Time Signal and An.
nouncements
8.02 p.m.-This week's programmes 8.05 p.m.-Banjo Solos by Kan Harvey.
Doll Dance (Brown).
On A Southern Plantation-Medley. Melodies of Yesterday-Medicy 815 p.m.-London RelayHi, Gang!' 9.00p.m.-London Relay The News. 9.16 p.m.-London RelayQuestions of
the Hour'.
9.30 p.m.-London Palladium Orchestra
with Frances Day (Vocal). Palladium Memories-Medley... Lon-
don Palladlum Orchestra. Affelal
Flowers Floodlight"
Frances Nichols) (Sopran) with Orchestra,
verley
In bringing in the soup, the maid tripped and the soup went all over the floor,
Real Set-To
they
The wite suggested that might do without soup, the Judge suid, but the husband replied not a bit of it, and so more had to be | made.
the Then he asked why sauce was not on the table.
"The thing brewed up into a frst class row, which ended by the husband pleking up 3 lb. of his ham and rubbing it into wife's hair and on to her neck and dress.
The wife, considerably shaken by this business, went out to i Beinemu and after she had return- Dayed her husband asked her in the gruffest possible way how long she had been back. She did not answer, but eventually said it was her business what time she came
A Little White Room (Floodlight
Beverley Nichols) Frances
Day
& John Mills with Orchestra. Love Makes the World Go Round
from "These Foolish Things Noel | in,
Gay). When You Dream About Ha- wall (from These Foolish Things')
The result was that he swung
Lundon Palladium Orchestra.his arm round and smacked her Soluist Gerry Fitzgeraid.
face hard several times. She and My Dog tilin Public Nut-macked him back and they had sance No. 1) Frances Day (So a real set-to.
Mc
prano) with Orchestra.
Charm of the Valse Medley. The
London Palladium Orchestra.
0.45 p.m.--News in French
Wave only).
(on Short
10.00 p.m.-London Relay-News from SPITFIRE
Home By Howard Marshall,
10.15 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fux-Trots I Travel Alone; Most Of
Ev'ry Day... Jack Jackson & Orchestra.
Rumba-Let Me Whisper. I Love You: La Conga-La Conga Blicoti
.. Don Marino Barreto & His Cu ban Orchestra.
Swing Fux-Trots-I'm in the Mood for Swing: Ring Dem Bells. .. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra.
SKIMS
THE WAVES
To be 60 miles out to sea with a companion Quicksteps-I'm Just Wild About Har whose aircraft was liable
ry: Falk
Me... Harry Roy's
Tiger-Ragamuffins.
Tangos-Do You See The Stars?: I
to fall into the water at
Dream of the Puszta. Emil Roos, any moment was the re-
& His Orchestra
Fox-Trot-1 Go For That (film st cent predicament of a Louis Blues"); Quickstep-Shut-Eye Sergeant pilot after his ...Jack Hylton & His Orchestra Fox-Trots--Let's Give Three Cheers first
for Love (Alm 'College Rhythm');
engagement
Stay As Sweet As You Are (alm enemy aircraft.
'College Rhythm')....Jolly Coburn & His Orchestra. Waltz-Charmaine....Josephine Brad
ley & Her Ballroom Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-Close down,
HE TOURS BRITAIN
with
Flying Spitfires, the sergeant and his fellow pilot had chased. a Ju 88 in and out of the cloud from the Gornish coast, firing at it whenever it came within range and view. When the enemy bom- 'ber' finally disappeared in a thick bank of cloud and the fighters were obliged to turn for home, the sergeant-pilot's companionTM found that ice formation. was Private Joseph Leeking, of making his engine misfire and had Toronto, Canada, has almost
almost totally obscured the view completed a one-man tour of through his windscreen, Britain. And it has not cost him a penny.
FREE
•
to
ns-
The engine continued to splut He said good-bye to Suffolk reter badly, and as the aircraft drop- cently and stepped out on
and nearer to sea the ped nearer road to Norwich,
level the sergeant-pilot throttling Private Leeking, a Great War back to keep station with his limp-
prepared veteran, went to France with the ing companion,
and send out a wireless call for first Canadian contingent, was evacuated from Dunkirk, sistance. Then, when the Spit- 'Since then He Has used his leave fire was almost skimming the for a lightning hitch-hike visit to waves, the engine suddenly pick- ̧· places new to him. He gets his od up again and two much-rc- '(Relensed by The Bell Syndi-autograph album signed wherever Heved pilots regained Height and cate, Inc.)
flew safely back to their baso,
THE PAPER THAT GETS
INTO THE HOME
"Earllest with the Latest”
Tho' bidding:
You Jacoby
1 1♡ 4.
What do you bid? To-morrow.)
Bebenken
Malor
2.4
2A
5
(Angwor
`he goes.