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MUTT AND JEEE.

YOU'RE GOHNA WRITE A

| COMPLETE MURDER MYSTÉRY?

A WHOLE BOOK IN A

WEEKP

SURE, I CAN WRITE

ONE IN TWO DAYS: 1F I HAVE TO!

HOW CAN YOU WRITE A STORY THAT FAST?

(OH,IT'S A CINCH! FIRST THERO‘HAS: TO BE A MURDER!

SO, IN MY MIND I HAVE SOMEBODY; MURDERED!

BUT: 1 'DON'T TELL

MYSELF WHO [COMMITTED *THE MURDER!

THEN I GET CURIOUS AND I BEGIN TO WONDER WHO

DID IT!

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

SO I BAHB) AWAY,

AT THE TYPEWRITER: UNTIL I REACH THE LAST CHAPTER TOE

FIND OUT WHO

DID IT!

A

'Casse Noisette' Suite of Tschaikowsky

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-A Short Service of Inter-

cession.

12.30 p.m.-The: Boswell Bistars.

Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong (Johnson); Rock and Roll (Whit- ing); Dinah (Akst).

12.40 p.m.-Marle "Harp” Lorenz &

His Rhythmics. Fox-Trots-The Simple Things of Life (Henderson); Ridin' Up The River Road (Woods); Little Hea- ven of the Seven Seas (Jerome); On Linger. Longer Island (Carr); Fox-Trot Medley We've Got Rhythm.

1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M,

9.52 megacycles)

1.03 p.m.-Pau Gasala. ('Cello).

The Adagio from Toccata in G Ma- jor J. S. Bach (Piano accom- paniment by N. Mednikoff). ・・

1.07 p.m.-Haydn-Symphony No. 93 In D Major played by London Phil- harmonic Orchestra cond: by Sir Thomas Beecham.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.45 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"The Fol

Finning

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.

BIDDING A FREAK HAND

West, Dealer.

Neither side vulnerablo.

♡ J 10 4.

OJ 9 5.3 AQ J 108·7 2

9

AK 8-7

2

W

A 8 6 4

A A 5 3

04

Q9 6·69 OK Q 10 7

a

-K-9 4.

AK QI 10:8 7

A i

The bidding:

6 5.4 8 2

a manner that he would create the impression that he was desperately defending. It goes without saying that if Mr. Wood had not hid his hand so deceptively, his opponents. would have continued to their Grand Slam;" whereupon he would have been forced to defend, at seven spades: T

M

***

You were Oswald-Jacoby's partner yesterday and held:!

1 Mr. Wood.

f

West North Bast

South

10

Paus 8♡

80

40

Pass V 4A

Paso

64

Pass 4376♡.

Dbl..

HIGH CARD KELUES

OF THE

Pesa 30 - Pass

FOVAL SELLINE DE PACK IN VA

AVERÁNI MASTO STE

GA Pase.

x x

Kxxx x

Q x x

A XI X

The bidding: Jacoby. 8NT

Alaleri

Schenken You Pass (?) ANSWER:-: Your correct bid is three notrump. Conceivably a final con- tract of four hearts will be better than three notrump. On the other hand, a three-heart bid might encourage your partner and get you too.high; }

Score 100% for three notrump, 80% for three hearts, 0 for pass (with a King and a Queen you must get; to game, after an opening two notrump- bid),

QUESTION NO. 200

Merwin Maier is your partner. You

*hold:".

While we continually receive reports of terrific freak hands of eleven and twelve-card suits, for the first time in our lives one of us has seen a twelve-card FOUR-ACES EVETEN VAsuit-held in actual _play. The place: In- ACE KING

dianapolis; the holder: QUEEN:1

Edson Wood; the hand' JJACK

as follows: ! It will be noted that r the opponents; would,~ of course have madeir seven hearts, with no.7 difficulty whatsonyar” and we wish to| commend Mr. Wood's bidding highly,, Certainly a great many players would hava been unable to resist an imma- diate fump to six spadas. However Mr. Wood recognized the unpleasant fact that his hand contained no samo ra 'blance of defence. He therefore rea---“ (Released: soned that it was vital to bid in such Ino.).

PASE Pard What do you bid↑ 'tomorrow.")

Pass' p

(Answer ita

Bell Syndicater

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Classical Music: Request Programme

8.03 p.m.-"In A Persian Garden”-- Lehmann with Dora Labbette (So- prano); Murfel Brunskill: (Contral- to); Hubert Eisdell (Tenor); Harold Williams (Baritone):

de Rola". Written and produced by Greatrex Newman. Music by Wol-8.38 seley Charles...

2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

6 p.m.-Vaughan Williams-Serenade To Music. Specially composed and delicated to Sir Henry Wood on the Occasion of his Jubilee.

6.17 p.m.-Rubinstein at the Plano.

Andante Spianato, Op. 22 (Chopin). Polonaise. Fantaisie. No. 7 in A Flat

Major, Op. 681 (Choplu).

6.35 p.m.-Tchaikowsky — The Nut-

cracker Bulte, Op. 71.

...Philadelphia -Symphony: Or- chestra cond: by Leopold: Stolcow- ski.

6.58 p.m.-Salactions from Light Opera Vocal Gems-"Chu Chin Chow" (Norton)......Light Opera. Com-

pany.

Selection-"Les Cloches de Corne- ville" .De Groot and His Orch.

Vocal, Gems-"The Student Prince" Light Opera Company.

Vocal Gems "The Chocolate Sol-

dier' !...........Columbia: Light · Opera- Company.

7.30 p.m.-Dance.Music...

↑

Fox-Trots-Poor Little Angeline (Grosz); Please Believe Me (Ja- cobs)....Mantovani & His Tipica Orchestra.

Waltz-It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (Mayhew); Fox-Trot-A Rende- vous With A Dream (Rainger).... The Rippling Rhythro Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-Crazy With Love (Hoff- man): Saving Un My Time. To Spend On You (Watt); .Am- brose and His Orchestra.

Tangos-San-Fernando (Codevilla):

Punto Arenas~(Codevilla).....Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-It's Easy To Remember

(Hart)! Soon (Hart)....Guy Lom-. bardo & His Orchestra, gooal-Time Signali Weather

Reports, and Announcements:

p.m.-Marcel Palotti at the Organ, Feramors-Dance of the Brides of

Kashmir (Rubinstein); Fantasy- Sylvia Ballet. (Delibes); Magic Chimes (Rust); Whispering of the Flowers (Blon).

8.50 pm-Military. Band Music..

Coronation Processional - Music.....

Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards.

The Aldershot Tattoo-1939: Quick March-The Beacon (Young); Quick March-The Clarion Cali (Hughes): Band & Buglé March- Drake's Drum...... (Adams): Slow March-Britannia: (arr. Adams),

Review of the Troops......Band of

H.M. Welsh Guards. ⠀

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9.15, p.m.-LONDON-The. News. 9.45 p.m.-A Request Programme of

Classical Music. - "Rienzi” Overture-Wagner

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra cond: by Leopold Stokowski,

"Die Walkure”--Watan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music ‹ (Wager) Rudolph Bockelmann (Bass Baritone). and The Berlin State Opera Orchestra.

Sonata in B Flat Minor ·(Chopin) Op. 35....Percy Grainger (Piano- forte).

"La Traviata"-Prelude to Act I (Verdi)....Milan Symphony Or- chestra cond: by Lorenzo Molajoli. "Othello”—The Love Duet from Act I (Verdi)....Tlana Lemnitz :(So- prano): Torsten Ralf (Tenor) with the Berlin State Opera Orchestra:

"La Boheme"--Chẹ, Gelida Manina ...Puccini).. Giali (Tenor) with Orchestra cond; by Eugene Goo-

sens..

Perpetuum Mobite (Johann Strauяs) Willem Mengelberg - and His Concert Orchestra..........”

"L'Arlesiana!"—Românz di Federicox (Marènco-Cilea)!::: Gl@]}";(Tenor) with the Berlin State Opéra Orch, 11 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

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