1939-09-20 — Page 16

MUTT AND JEFF

GOCH, JUST WHEN I'M LATE FOR THE PICNIC I HAVE TO BE TIED UP

IN TRAFFIC!

BEEP!

BEEP!

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

HEY, MURPH,

I'M LATE! HOW ABOUT

DIRECTING TRAFFICY,

HONK Нанк

HE CAN'T! HE JUST SWALLOWED

HIS WHISTLE!

THAT'S THE THIRD' WHISTLE THAT COP SWALLOWED THIS

YEAR!

HERE, MURPH!

Beethoven's Third Concerto

Today's Wireless

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

cession.

12.30 p.m.-Jesale Matthews (Vocal) and Henry King and His Orchestra. 1 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.--Compositions of Liext. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter

and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.45 p.m.-Dance Music and Variety.

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

9.52 megacycles)

2.16 p.m.-Close down.

6 p.m.-Beethoven-Concerto No. 3 in

Artur C Minor, Op. 37.

Schnabel (Piano) and the London Philhar- monic Orchestra conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.

Winning

CONTRACT

(By the Four Aces)

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

ken.

UNNECESSARY FALSE-CARDING

South. Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

KQJ9 8

4 7 6 5

♡ 4

9 7 6 3

10 4 3

W

A AJ 982

J 10 9 7 ◊ 8 47 52

6 5

KQ 10 2

4 A 10 S

The bidding:

South

West

North

East

1♡

Pass

21

Равв

2NT

Pass

34

Pass

3NT

Dbl.

PRES

Pass

Path

To-day's hand represent a success- ful, but in our opinion entirely unne- cessary, false-card play by Declarer.

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE

West's double was bas-

'ed on the fact that he

hand.

tricks, letting go a small diamond as the last discard from his own West's last six cards were now the | King-Queen-deuce of hearts, the Ace- Jack of diamonds 'and the ten of spades, and when South let go of a small diamond, he was certain that the King was now singleton. Hence [ he threw away his deuce of hearts. Now Declarer cashed the Queen of spades, threw West in with a heart and made the last trick with his King of diamonds.

*

Yesterday, as Merwin Maier's part- ner, you held:

VAS

AKQJ 76 B

4 KG 54

The bidding:

Maler

14

Echanker

Barnstone Yen Pass (1)

ANSWER: Your correct bid is three

had obtained the im-diamonds. Since your own suit is FOUS ACER TVITEL .pression that North solid, there is no need to have any of did not like any part your partner's suit for this jump bid. of the hand. He open-

Score 100% for three diamonds, 40%

other

EKING

QUEEN RACK.

ged the "four of dla-for two diamonds, 0 for any

monds. A low card bid.

was played from dum-

TOMA, MAKAN MENYRJE my and East played

Question No. 210

The opponents are vulnerable and the eight. In our opin-have part score of 40. You are Ho- ion at this point the simple play was ward Schenken's partner, not vulner- for Declarer to win with the ten and able, and hold:

lead the King,right back. Now, un-

less West bad the Inspiration to shift immediately to a heart, Declarer would

make his contract, 195

However, Declarer decided that if he adopted that line of play, West would think of the heart shift. Hence,

he false-garded by winning with the

1. biddly-* ***

Queen of "diamonds instead of the ten form "What do you BIRT

He now laid down the King of spades †·~ “Mobany`)

East won with the Ace and returned

the Jack of hearts. Declarer played • (Released' by The Bell Syndicate, the “Ate-and- how-run off five club Inc.)

6.37 p.m.-Haydn-Quartet in E Ma- jor, Op. 54, No. 3. Pro Arte Quartet. 6.55 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.57 p.m.-Anatole Kitain at the Plano.

Scherzo No. 1 in E Minor (Chopin-

Op. 20); Brahms' Waltzes, Op. 39; Etude, Op. 2, No. 1; Prelude, Op. 11, No. 2 (Scriabin).

7.18 p.m. A Light Orchestral Concert with Webster Booth (Tenor) and Elalo Buddaby (Soprano).

8 p.m.-Local Time Signal;

Report and Announcements.

Weather

8.03 p.m.-Excerpts from. Gilbert and

Sullivan.

"The Gondollers"

We're Called Gondolieri....Derek Oldham, George Baker & Cho-

rus.

Are You Peeping?....S. Gordon, B. Elburn, D. Oldham, G. Baker, W. Lawson, A. Davies & Chorus. From The Sunny Spanish Shore; In Enterprise Of Martial Kind ....Henry A. Lytton; Bertha Lewis, Mavis Bennett and Ar- thur Hosking.

O Rapture When Alone Together; There Was A Time......Mavis Bennett & Arthur Hosking. Here We Are, At The Risk Of Our Lives....W. Lawson, A. Davies, S. Gordon, B. Elburn, G. Baker, D. Oldham & Chorus. Dance A Cachucha.....Chorus. There Lived A King....Leo Shef-

field.

In A Contemplative Fashion

Derek Oldham, George Baker, Winifred Lawson, Aileen Davies. I Am A Courtier Crave And Serl- ous....H. A. Lyttòn, B. Lewis, M. Bennett, D. Oldham and G. Baker.

Here Is A Case....D. Oldham, G. Baker, M. Bennett, W. Lawson, A. Davies and Chorus. 8.32 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music.

Russian Potpourri introducing "The Nightingale" ( Michallowsky ); Caucasia (Iwanoff)

Russian Balalaika Orchestra. Kiss Serenade (de Micheli); Kisses In The Dark-Serenade (de Mi- chell)....Frederic Hippmann and His Orchestra;

K

8.45 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "The English Character”. A Talk by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P.

Light Music And Variety

9.02 p.m.-Ballado,

When I Bring to You Colour'd Toys (from 'Gitanjali')....Rose Bamp- ton (Contralto) with Piano. On The Road to Mandalay' (Speaks) ..Peter Dawson (Bass-Bari- tone) with Piano.

9.10 p.m.-Studio-Comments on Re-:

cent Events.

9.16 p.m.-London Relay The News. 9.30 p.m.-Violin Bolos by Yehudi

Menuhin. "Tzar's Bride"-Song of the Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov); Campanella, Op. 7 Bis (Paganini); Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvorak); La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (De- bussy), 9.45 p.m.-Scene from "The Impor. tance of Being Earnest" (Oscar Wilde) with Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell and John Gielgud as John Worthing.

9.52 p.m.-The Four Crotchets, The Andrews Slatero and Judy Garland In a Variety Programme. Vocal Swing, Mister Charlie (Ro- ginson & Others); Stompin' At The Savoy (Goodman & Others) with ....Judy Garland (Vocal) Orchestra.

Vocal Yogi-Bogi (Holmes & Reed); Sweet Sue, Just You (Harris & Young)

.The Four Crotchets with Guitar.

Vocal-Begin The Beguine (from Jubilee'); Long Time No See (Altman, Cavanaugh)....The An- drews Sisters with Bob Crosby's Bob Cats.

Vacal-I Heard (Don Redman); St. Louis Blues (Handy).... The Four Crotchets with Guitar.

10.17 p.m.-Dance, Music.

Fox-Trots--Goodbye to Summer;

Sixty Seconds Got Together. Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Ho- tel Orpheans.

Fox-Trot-A Mug of Ale; Quickstep -Four String Joe....Joe Venuti's. Blue Four.

Tangos-A Farewell Letter; A Love Letter....Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-Out Of Nowhere; Lulla- by In Rhythm....Harry James & His Orchestra,

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Fox-Trot-Sibonoy; Rumba Fox- Trot-Adios....Madriguera & His

Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-Georgianna; Night Time

In Cairo....The Six Swingers. Tango Fox-Trot-By An Old Pago- da; Quickstep-You're An Educa- tion....Joe Loss & His Band,

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