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MUTT AND JEFF

SAY, WHAT GOES ON HERE?

THAT CRAZY PENGUIN

DON'T LEAVE ME

ALOME FOR ONE MINUTE! SKE

FOLLOWS ME ALL OVER!

HERE! SOME NICE SARDINES FOR YOU! MAYBE THAT WILL KEEP YOUR MIND

OFF ME FOR A WHILE!

MAYBE HOW I

CAN GET A LITTLE

REST!

PENELOPE

D

EGG

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 2, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

DA DA

CLUCK! CLUCK!

1.

Elgar Concerto: Menuhin

Today's Wireless

5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.47 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-In. A Moment Of Weak- ness (film 'Naughty But Nice'); I (Alm Signs In Believe Don't 'Naughty But Nicol)....Ray Noble & His Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot-South Of The Bor- der; Waltz-I Paid For The Lie That I Told You....Henry Hall & His Orchestra.

7.00 p.m.-London Relay-"Brief in- terlude", with Ida Shepley & Elisa- beth

The B.B.C. Variety Welch. Orchestra conducted by Mark H. Lubback.

of

7.30 p.m.-The Regimental. Band

H.M. Coldstream Guards. Selection of Wilfred Sanderson's Songs: Intro: Drake Goes West; My dear Soul; Captain Mac; The Company Sergeant Major; Friend

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

9.52 megacycles)

o' mine; Up from Somerset; Until. Martial Moments (arr. Aubrey Win-

ter).

7.47 p.m.-The Gay Nineties Singers.

Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington

Green (Traditional).

Hot Codlings (Traditional).

The One-Horse Shay (Traditional). Botany Bay (Traditional). 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.Ivor Novello in "The Dan-

cing Years"

Waltz Of My Heart.....Mary. Ellis with Ivor Novello (at the Piano) and Drury Lane Theatre Orch.

I Can Give You The Starlight....

Drury Mary Ellis (Vocal) with Lane Theatre Orchestra.

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.

LUCKY!

To-day's Slam hand we consider extremely lucky for good breaks were necessary to fulfill the contract. Fur- thermore, if either opponent had held four trumps, the contract might well and set several have been doubled tricks.

South, Dealer Both sides vulnerable

K Q J 10 10.9 8 7 6 3 0764

9 6 6 ОКБ 4 2

A 74

0 KJ5 2

S ♣ KQ JD 3

A-854 2

10.0 3

W

10 8 7

A A 8 8 2

·O AQ 8

Mr. Balfe

The bidding:

South

West

North.

Bast

1

Pass

10

PAUS

IA

Pass

34

Pass

Pass

Pass Pass *

As I was, West opened the ten of diamonds (Break No. 1, the King is in the right place). After winning,

South laid down

spade Ace, then his remaining trump to dummy. Now the ten of hearts was led from dummy, South discard ing and West winning his only trick with the King.

Finding the trumps divided 3-2 was worth exactly three tricks to Declarer. Dummy's three remaining hearts were now all good for tricks. But if East, for example, had held four trumps, the hearts in dummy would have been completely worthle

*

My Dearest Dear, Mary Ellis & Ivor Novello (Vocal & Talking) with Orchestra.

My Life Belongs To You....Dunstan Hart & Mary Ellis (Vocal) with Ivor Novello (at the Piano) and Orchestra.

The Wings of Sleep....Mary Ellis & Olive. Gilbert (Vocal) with Ivor Novello (at the Piano) and Orch. Primrose....Roma Beaumont (Vo- (at the cal) with Ivor Novello Piano) and Orchestra.

Lionel Country Girl"-Selection. Theatre Orchestra.

8.22 p.m.

-

Monckton

"A London

8.33 p.m.-Plano Selections by Raic

Da Costa,

SOFTBALL

PROMISE OF THE PANTHERS

Pounding 12 blows off the easy benders of Vivienne Churn, whose mates also bob. bled on 18 occasions, the Panther Kittena walloped the Cubs on Tuesday, 15-5, in a friendly pre-League tlit.

Although it is gratifying news to the Bruins that the Chang sisters, Peewee and Gabby. are returning shortly from Honolulu, their absence from the line-up was sadly missed. That's not all: captain Grandma Hutchinson will be laid up all season with water on the knee, and cutfielder June Hall is hospitalised with dysentry.

The Panthers played heads-up ball all the way, and only errored three times. Flinger Irene Tavares displayed her usual steadi- ness on the rubber, fanning five but walking and passed three. nine, while Vivienne Churn whiffed only two

Ivor Novello

In "The

Dancing Years

"Stand Up and Sing" Medley

(Charig).

"King of Jazz"--Medley. 8.45 p.m.-Studio

Talk On "Bome Early Recollections" by P. Witham. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-Saint-Saens Carnival of Leopold Stokowski the Animals, and the Philadelphia Orchestra,

Peter Dawson 9.52 p.m.-Songs by (Bass-Baritone).

There's A Bridle Hanging On The

Wall (Carson Robison). Song of the Grateful Heart

Hamilton).

A Sea Call (Ramon).

(Ord

Life and Death (Coleridge-Taylor). Concerto In B 10.06 p.m.-Elgar

Minor, Op. 61.

Yehudi

Menuhin

(Violin) and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Edward

Elgar.

11.00 p.m.-Close down.

LOCAL FOOTBALL

POPPY DAY CHARITY TEAM

The following have been chosen to represent the Rest of the Colony in the Annual Poppy Day Charity Football match against the United Services on the Club ground at 4 p.m. on Novem- ber 12.

(South China Cheung Wing-choi

Lee "A"), Blackburn (Police) and Ting-sang (South China "A"): Leung Wing-chul (South China "A"), Wil- liamson (Kowloon) and Hsu King- seng (Eastern): Fowler (Club), Fung King-cheong (South China "A") Lee Wai-tong (South China "A"). (capt.) A. V. Gosano (St. Joseph's) and Hau Ching-to (Eastern).

Reserves: Lee Kwok-wai (Kwong- CUBS' POOR PLAY Opening the session with three markers wah), Yeung Shui-yick (South China Forrow (Club), and Lai Shui- on two bingles, the Cubs tailed the rest of

Manager: the tilt when the Jungle Kittens came backing (South China "A")

Mr W. E. Hollands. with a count of five in the first, and kept

scoring iri every frame.

To further stress the low calibre of play Players and reserves are requested. dished up by the Bruins, only three of the to report to the manager at 3.30 p.m. Panther runs were carned off the pitcher in the Club pavalion. while the luckless Cubs were running around In circles as the Kittens pilfered hassocks Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's at will. It's a far cry from the brand of ball the Bruins played last season, and partner and held:

coach Papa Bear Scoop Smith will have to put them through their paces considerably more than he has before if they are to be any kind of a threat to the champion: wild- cate.

Panther

was oaptain

J X

♡ Q * * * OK X X X

The bidding: Jacoby 10

#chenken

2

You

Malor

(7)

pass. ANSWER: Your bid is to Unless Mr. Jacoby can rebid, there is no future in the hand.

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

QUESTION NO. 247 To-day -- you are Merwin Majer's partner and hold:

Outstanding

Celeste Marques, whose covering of the windy alley was a sight to behold, and an Inspiration to her, mates. Mentor Cesar (Quack! Quack!) Xavier has, a' promising bunch of girls in the Panthers. and should have a worthy team with a little more training..

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