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MUTT AND JEFF

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WHAT'S

THE CHARGE?

SPEEDING,

YOUR HONOR!

'T'Édd’To- DIFFER WITH THE OFFICER, YOUR HOHOR! |

I WAS HOT SPEEDING!

-AND-WHAT PROOF. CAN YOU GIVE TO SUPPORT YOUR CONTENTION THAT YOU WERE NOT SPEEDINGP

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

I WAS ON MY

WAY TO VISIT MY MOTHER-IN-LAW!

HOWED CHA MAKE OUT,

POPP

CASE

DISMISSED COURT.

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Programme of Variety And Dance Music

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

cession.

12.30 p.m.--Les

Allen

Today's Wireless

of

(Vocal) and Teddy Foster and Hla Kings Swing.

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Peter Dawson (Bass-Bari. tone) and The B.B.C. Wireless Mit- tary Band.

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

1.45 p.m.—Dance Music by Jay Wit.

but & Hie Band.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)

6 p.m.-Mozart-Concerto in C Minor. 18 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Edwin Fischer (Piano) and The Report and Announcements. London Philharmonic Orch. con- ducted by Lawrence Collingwood.

6.30 p.m.Violin Sòlos by Fritz Kreis-

ler.

6.43 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.45 p.m.--London Relay

“Lucky

Dip". Thirty-Fourth Edition. 7.30 p.m.-Excerpts from Gilbert. and

Sullivan,

mning CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence.

ken.

East. Dealer

North-South vulnerable East-Wet 60, on score

J 10 9 7 4 O J 10 8 AJ 10 9 8 7

A A

AK 6 5

3 2 W OAK Q 4 K # 4

The bidding:

THE LAST LAUGH

A J 1008

48 ♡ Q 8 ◇ 4

A Q 5 3 K Q 7 6 5 2

9 7 6 5 3 2 A 2

Bast

South

Weat

North

Разв

Pass

1♡

Pass

10

Pass

30.

Pass

Pass

80

Dbl.

Pass

Pane

Paus

This hand is noteworthy for several reasons.

First, when

HIGH CARD VALUES OF "THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

PACES

KING 2 QUEEN L JACK

OVERLAGE MANN 61%

care

י

lay down his Ace of trumps, but by this time he had thrown the hand out the window. Declarer had only: one losing spade left in his hand and had a trump left in dummy for it, with the result that he actually made his three diamonds doubled to win the game and rubber.

Declarer, who was annoyed at the way West had doubled, decided to give vent to a small gloat. Turning to dummy, he said jokingly: "Don't you know how sound my bidding is? With three trumps how could you possibly fail to redouble?

*

Neither side was vulnerable yester- day. You were Howard Schenken's partner and held:

AKG 84

♡ A 8 6

◊ A 3 2

874

The bidding:

Jacoby

Score 100% for pass, 70% for one spade, 30% for one club (we don't like a three-card suit bid with a hand' as weak as this.)

he doubled,

Yau Burstens! Schenlion West quite improperly made a little

Pass

(7) Pass

Pass -speech,... implying, 'that

he was really going to ANSWER: Your correct bid is pass. take

of that while your hand is undoubtedly the three - diamond con- best at the table in high cards," your tract. We will say distribution is very poor and an open- one thing: If he had ing bid with this holding is more like→ deferried the hand ly to result in an eventual loss than' property, his speech a profit. would have been jus- Hifted. But his defence was just about the worst we have ever seen. First off, instead of leading a trump, he opened his singleton Ace of spades. Inciden- tally if West had started out by cashing three trumps and then shift- ed to a heart, Declarer would have been down either four or five tricks.

Declarer trumped the spade lead in dummy, ruffed a heart to get back to his own hand and led a low spade. West promptly – trumpai thất,d sand | 4-1 Maiar might still have, beaten the hand, two tricks by drawing truunan. However, for some reason best known to him- self, he played a low heart. Declarar trumpad and led another small spade. Again West ruffed high, and now did i Inc,)

QUESTION NO. 207. David Bruce Burnstone is four parts ner. Neither side is vulnerable and you' hold::

6 2

A 10 $ € 7 48

The bidding:

14

Jacely Pass

(7)

What do you bid?... (Answer - tomorrow.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate,

Bulte "Jeux

Phil D'Enfants" Op. 22. London harmonic Orchestra conducted. by Antal Dorati.

8.03 p.m.Bizet Ballet

8.21 pim-Excerpts from Bizet's "Car.

men".

Pro- John McCormack

8.98 p.m.—A Light Orchestral

gramme with (Tenor). Nights At The Ballet. Intro: Carni- val (Schumann); Preamble-Les Sylphides (Chopin); Valse-Swan Lake Tchaikowsky); Dance the Swans; Boutique Fantasque (Rossini)-Taranetlla; Casse Not- sette (Tchaikowsky)-Danse de la Fee Dragee; Bolero (Ravel) Symphony Orchestra cond. by ..Walter Goehr.

+ *

of

In Sweet Content (Sanderson); Ever

In My Mind (Taylor-Russell).......... John McCormack (Tenor) with Piano.

Dearest Love ('Operette'-Noel Co- ward); Hey Gypsy, Play Gypsy ('Countess Maritza-Kalman) Leslie Jeffries & His Orchestra.. 9.13 p.m.-Local sport results. 9.15. p.m.-London Relay--The News. 9.30 p.m.-A Programme of Variety

and Dance Music.

Slow Fox-Trot Here's To Romance (from the film); Quickstep-Mid- night In Paris (film 'Here's to Ro- 'mance').....Mantoveni & His Ti- pica Orchestra with Vocal. Rumbas-Farewell, Sweet Senorita;

You've Got The Wrong Rumba (from "This'll make you whistle') ....Don Miguel & His - Cuban Music. Fox-Trots-She Shall Have Music (film'same); From One Minute To Another (film 'Come out of the Pantry')......Louis Levy & His Gaumont British Symphony. Vocal Swing Is The Thing (Bloom); (Mills, 'Long About Midnight Hill).. .The Mills Brothers (Four Boys and a Guitar). Fox-Trots-Every Minute Of The Hour: All My Life (film 'Laugh- ing Irish Eyes')....Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra.

Old Waltz-Sympathy; Fox-Trot

Ship O' Mine.......Casani Club Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Meet The Boys; Sammy

Saxophone....Scott Wood & His} Six Swinger.

www.

Vocal-Lover, Come Back To Me

Mozart Piano

Concerto

(from same)....Charles Kullman

(Tenor) with Orchestra.

Fox-Trots Sweet Dreams

Sweet-

heart; Page Miss Glory (from the film)... .Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans.

Waltz-Viennese Hearts

Roosz & His Salon Orchestra. Polka The Hobgoblins

Porschmann Orchestra.

Emil

Walter (Accordion) with

Fox-Trots-Thanks A Million (from the film); I'm Sittin' High On A Hill Top (film "Thanks a Million')

.Paul Pendarvis &. His Orch. Vocal-Alice. Delysia Memories. In- tro: If You Could Care for Me; Ninon; I Like a Man; Please Do it Again; Sometimes when I am Far Away... Alice Delysia (Soprano) with Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Big Ship (film 'Music Hath Charms'); Waltz-In My Heart of Hearts (film 'Music Hath Charms?) The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. Tangos Hear My Song, Violetta; I'd

Bring The Heavens To You Emil Roosz & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-I'm In Love' All Over Again (film' 'Hooray for Love'); That's What You Think (film 'King Solomon of Broadway')..... Will Osborne & His Orchestra. Vocal Duets-You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes (Newman & Others); Cheer Up (from the film) Curtis and Ames at the Piano.

In Fox-Trots-I'm

the Mood for Swing; Ring Dem Bells....Lionel Hampton & Orchestra. Waltz-Kisses In The Dark;

Trot-Now It Can Be Told (film 'Alexander's Ragtime Band') Alex Moore presents Mantovanl's Orchestra for Dancing. Fox-Trots-Hear All, See All, Say Now't (from 'I've got a horse'); I'm Singing A Song For The Old Folks....Billy Cotton & His Band, Comedian-Down In The Valley;

Ophelia ....Max Miller. Slow Fox-Trot-Tears On My Pil- low.. Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra. Tangos-Pura Milonga; Mal De Au- .sencia.....Orquesta Tipica Fran-

cisco Candro.

Fox-

(from

Fox-Trots-I Miss You In The

Morning; Park Parade 'Black and Blue')....Jack Harris & His Orchestra.

Doodle-Day Vocal-Tzinga

'Beloved Vagabond'); You Look So Sweet, Madame (film 'Beloved Vagabond').....Maurice Chevalier with Orchestra.

(from 'New Moon'); Rose Marie' 12 midnight-Close down:

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