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MUTT AND JEFF

IF ALL THE COLONISTE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HAD, BEEN LITTLE DUMBBELLS LIKE YOU WE WOULDN'T HAVE A UNITED STATES NOW!

WB WOULD} *YDO! AND

I'M HO DUMBSELL- I'M SMART,

I AM!

YOU SMARI? LATE SUE HOW SMART YOU ARE -- to SUPPOSE I WAS PAUL REVERE AND YOU WAS ONE OF THEM COLONISTS! I COME RACINA

UP TO YOUR HOUSE ON

MY HORSE-av

-- AND I SHOUT, "THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THÊS BRITEÊM ARE-COMING!

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939.

By

BUD FISHER

JEFFS

TEA

SHOPPE

The Fourth

Act Of

Verdi's "Aida"

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-

sion.

12.30 p.m.-Lesila Hutchinson (Vocal)

at the Plano.

My Heaven On Earth (film 'Start Cheering'); So Little Time (Hill- De Rose); May I Have The Next Romance With You (film 'Head Over Heels'); Watching The Stars (film 'Splinters in the Air'). 12:43 p.m.-Jan Garber and His Or

chestra.

Fox-Trots--Moonlight In Waikiki; It's The Little Things That Count; Daddy's Boy: In A Little Dutch Kindergarten; The Girl In The Garden.

and 31.49 M.

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

9.52 megacycles)

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

ther Report.

1.03 p.m.-Reginald

Foort (Organ)

and Rale da Costa (Plano). The Lost Chord (Sullivan); Cloister

Shadows (Hope)

Reginald Foort at the B.B.C. Theatre Õrgan. "Viktoria And Her Hussar"-Med- ley (Abraham)....Raie Da Costa (Plano).

Winning

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 existence.

ren.

AN UNUSUAL LEAD

Mr.

and

In accordance with our policy of [monds, finessing dummy's ten. never printing the names of victims, Jacoby won with the Queen we withhold the name of the Declar-promptly returned the seven of er on to-day's hand. Suffice to say trumps.

that Charles Auchincloss, president of It never occurred to Declarer for a the Regency Club in New York, dug moment that Mr. Auchincloss would a lead out of his hat which became lead a spade from Queen and one. responsible for defeating the un-Hence, South figured, Mr. Jacoby ori- sound contract, which at the same ginally held the Q-10-7. time would normally have been made the way the cards lay.

North, Dealer.

Neither side vulnerable

AJ 084

K 4.

OK 10 6

Mr. Auchineloss

4 Q 6

.Q.10 0 3

K08

Oswald Jacobs

N

A 10 7 3

♡ J. 5 2

E

O AQ S AJ7#2

094.2 W

48.

AAK 62

The bidding:

North

Elast

10:5

South Wast Pass 16

Past Pass

Pers 34

Pans Pass Pass

As regards the bidding, North's jump to three spades was slightly optimistic, and South had almost 'an absolute

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN

KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK: 13

According-

ly, Declarer played the deuce. Mr. Auchincloss won with the Queen and, since he and his partner subsequently..| inade both their Aces, the hand down one trick.

E

***

*

was

Yesterday you were vulnerable and had 40 on score. You were the deal- er and held:

AK 96

♡ AK Q J 58 ◊ A

6 K $4

What do you bidr

ANSWER: Your correct opening bid is two hearts in view of the part score. With a partial score of 40, to partner is not absolutely forced respond to an opening two-bid, and his response of two notrump should show at least two Queens.

Score 100% for two hearts, 70% for one heart, 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 217

minimum. However, You are David Bruce Burnstone's as mentioned above, partner to-day and hold:

the way the cards lay, the contract would have .been made, but.'

Mr.

Auchincloss opaned the six of spades since he did not like to lead from his holding in any of the other threo sults. The eight was play- ved from dummy, Mr. Jacoby played

the ten and Declarer won with «King and played the seven of "dia- 1 Inc.)

the

8 8.6 2 ♡AK? 8 010-5

-8

The bidding:

Burnstons Jacky You Malpr

Pasa

Pass 10 Pass .(1)

What do you bid? - (Answer tomorrow.)

(Helensed By The Ball Syndicate,

Hit Parade, No. 3. Intro: Goodnight Angel; My heaven on earth; Have you ever been in Heaven; Why talk about love; Serenade to the stars: So long, sweetheart....Re- ginald Foort at the B.B.C. Theatre Organ.

"Say It With Music"-Medley (Ray Noble)....Rafe da Costa (Piano). In The Chapel In The Moonlight (Hill). Reginald Foort at the B.B.C. Theatre Organ.

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

1.46 p.m.-Chopin-Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21. Arthur Rubinstein (Piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

6 p.m. Studio — Children's Pro-

gramme.

6.46 p.m.-London Relay-News Sup-

plement..

Gustard at the

6.50 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions. 6.52 p.m.-Sydney

Organ. Musical Comedy Medley. Intro: Waltz "The lilac domino"; If you were the only girl - "The Bing Boys are here"; Waltz-"The Maid of the Mountains"; I'm on the staff-"Arlette"; Song of the Va- gabonds-"The Vagabond King"; Waltz-"Chocolate Soldier": Please don't flirt with me-To-night's ; the night"; Waltz-"Gipsy Love": Waltz "Count of Luxembourg”. The Love Nest-"Mary": Walt and Finale-"The Merry Widow". 7.02 p.m.-Songs by Benjamino Gigli

(Tenor).

La Serenata (Cesareo-Tosti); Mat-

tinata Veneziana (de Mari-Cin- | que); If I Could Forget Your Eves (Sandoval-Albeniz); It Is You (Sandoval).

7.15 p.m.-Alfredo and His Orchestra. Tell Me Again (Grosz); . Russian Gipsy Sketch (Ferraris); Yiddis- che Wedding Fantasia (arr. Mi- chaeloff); Wedding Dance Weltz (Lincke); Magyar Melodies (VII- mos, arr. Piercy); Old Rohemian Town (Marsden and Kennedy); Cara Mia (Slevier and Prisker). 7.40 p.m.--Studio-—Another "Musical Cocktail" by Erloh Porges (Piano) ́(from Jimmy's Kitchen).

Talk From Studio

On Britain's

Air Arm

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

ther Report.

| 8,03 · pim--Variety Programmé with Sophie Tusker, The Vagabond Lover and The Mills Brothers.

· Vocal-Life Begins At Forty (Yel- len-Shapiro); When A Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South (Op- penheim and Others).....Sophie Tucker with Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Lovelight In The Star-

leht (film 'Her Jungle Love'); An ~~s Old Straw Hat (Alm Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm') ...... Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra. Vocal Long About Midnight (Mills, Hill): Swing Is The Thing (from 'Blackbirds of 1936'). .The Mills Brothers (Four boys and a quitar). Fox-Trots-Jam Session: Chloe.... Benny Goodman and His Orch. Vocal-Tarcia (Lisbona, Bixio); Little Village Green (Hackforth, Strecker)....The Vagabond Lover (Tenor). Fox-Trot-The Maidens Of Tyrol.

„Jay Wilbur, and His Band. Vocal-Aren't - Women :Wonderful? (Shapiro and Scott): Sophle Tucker with Orchestra, Vocal-Put On Your Old Grey Bon-

net (Murphy and Wenrich); Sleenv Hand (Alm "Operator 13') The Mills Brothers (four boys and a Guitar).

8.45 pm-Studio The Development of Britain's Alr’Arm”. A talk by E. J. Wynne-Jonos.

9.15 p.m-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-Schumann Songs.

Mondnacht: Der Nussbaum....Karl Erb (Tenor) with Plano accomp. by Bruno Seidler-Winkler. Gyusy Life..... Chorus of Berlin

State Opera.

In D 9.45. p.m.-Schumann-Sonata

Minor, Op. 121-2nd, 3rd and 4th Movements. Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin (Piano and Violin). 10.06 b.m.—8lzat-The Fair Maid of Perth Bulte. Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

10.23 p.m.-Verdi's "Aida" Act IV.

Characters and Soloists in order of

appearance; Marla Canuang (Mez- zo-Soprano)........Amneris. Pharoah's daughter: Arnoldo Lindi (Tenor)

Rhadames, à voung warrior: Tanored Pasero (Bass)....Ram- fls. High Priest: G. Arang-Lom- bardi (Soprano).... Alda;

with

Full Chorus of La Scala, Milan and Orchestra.

11 p.m.-Close down.

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