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MUTT AND JEFF

WHY NOU LITTLE BOOB, DorfT YOU ́EVER READ A HEWSPAPER?

CH, YOU'RE NOT SO SMART YOURSELF! I'LL BET YOU DON'T

KNOW WHO THE KING OF

POLAND IS!

FOLAND HAS

NO KING, YOU FOOL!

ER----

I KNOW IT!- I JUST SAID THAT TO SEE IF YOU KNEW IT!

9-26

30 1922 NARUTOWNICZ BECAME THE POLES PREF

PRESIDENT-

(WHOP

NARUTOWICZ!

HOW DO You SPELL, IT?

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 3, 1939*

By BUD FISHER-

WELL, ER, THEY ASSASSINATED NIM AND THEN WOJCIECHOWEKI

BECAME HIS

SUCCESSOR!

WAS HE A

POLE?

HOREM OR SOUTH?

Luba Shaftain From The Studio

6.00 p.m.-A Dance Programme.

Fox-Trot-A Rendezvous With

Today's Wireless

A

Dream (film 'Poppy'); Waltz-It's A Sin To Tell A Lie......George Hall & His Orchestra.

Tangos-Le Tue Carezze;

ners

Broken-

Hearted Clown.....Victor Silves- ter & His Ballroom Orchestra.

Around Cor- Fox-Trots-Looking

for You (from 'Head over Heels'); May I Have The Next

'Head (from

over Romance? Heels')....Ambrose & His Orch. Slow Fox-Trot-The Hills Of Old

Wyomin'; Waltz-Stars In

My

Eyes (film 'The King steps out')

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

....Jack Harris & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Breakin' In A Pair of

Shoes; Swing Mister Charlie..... The Krakajax.

Tango Majaniah!; Waltz-The Dawn of Love....Dajos Bela Dance Orch. Fox-Trots-It's Easy to Remember (Alm 'Mississippi'); Soon (film 'Mississippi).... Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians. Quickstep Diddle-Dum-Dee;

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

Harry

Trot-Goody-Goody Roy & His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Saving Up My Time To Spend On You....Ambrose & His Orchestra.

6.55 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.57 p.m.-Respighi-The Birds-Sulte. Or- Brussels Royal Conservatoire chestra conducted by Desire Defauw. Natzke Fox-7.10 p.m.-Songs by Oscar

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- Icen

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence.

TOO SMART

One of the worst things a Bridge-, Mr. Jacoby saw the chance for a player can do is to start a lot of de- big set and doubled. fensive bidding against non-vulner- able opponents when he is vulnérable. However, believe it or not, the follow- ing hand is taken from the finals of the Men's Pair Championship at As- bury Park, N. J.,

West, Dealer North-Bonth vulnerable

Oswald Jacoby

10 9 788 OJEK

KJ88

Q987

J

John Ornwised

AKJ 10 84 2

▲ 10 ↑

#3

KT4

A 10 5

Mr. Jacoby opened the Ace of clubs and continued the suit, Mr. Crawford trumping the second lead and putting his partner back in with a diamond. A third club was now ruffed

diamonds and the King of cashed, whereupon Declarer was down 800. Furthermore, East and West had no Slam. It was necessary for them to lose both a heart and a diamond trick.

*

*

#

Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's partner and held:

J 10 ,,、 8.2

The bidding:

Jacoby

You

Bahenken

Mater

The bidding:

West

10

North Bast $4 PRES

Bouth 8

INT 3NT

Pass

BNT

PASS

PASS

Pass

Pass

+

Dbl.

-

Pass PASS Pass Pass

Redbl. B♡ Dbl. Pass The only excuse for North's over- able call was the heat. South was fully tenace. justifled in his three-heart bid. Then,

HIGH CARD VALUET OF THE PSUANCES #VETEN

ALL KING

QUEEN JACK

ANSWER: Your correct lead is the Jack of spades. This lead will cer- tainly not cost a trick and is prefer- to leading from your heart

Score 100% for Jack of spades; when Mr. Crawford 50% for Jack of hearts, 0 for other bid four clubs, sug- leads. (There is no point to a short gesting Slam possibi- suit opening on this hand).

litles, South doubled.

to tell his partner

QUESTION NO. 248

Howard Schenken is your partner,

that he had a lot of neither side is vulnerable and you clubs. Now Mr. Jaco-hold:

by, knowing that Mr. Crawford might be making a fake cue- bid, redoubled to show Convinced that Blam, North lant" "bid. of Ave hearts: Mr. Crawford, however, was

he had the

had a Slam, and benice passed five hearts, knowing Mr. Now,

not convinced

Jacoby would

since his opponents were vuln

bidding:

Pass

You ((7)

Bell Syndicate

·

(Bass). Pilgrim's Song (Tchaikowsky); My- self When Young (from 'In a Per-

· sian Garden'--Lehmann); The Village Blacksmith (Longfellow- Weiss).'

7.24 p.m.-Violin and Piano Solos.

Romance In F (Beethoven, Op. 50)

Songs From The Shows: London Relay

Triumph (Traditional)

Scotch Country Dance Orchestra cond. by J. Michael Diack.

Always Take Care of Your Pennies (Lauder); It's A' Roon Th' Toon (Lauder)........ ..Sir Harry Lauder (Baritone) with Orchestra. Medley of Reels (arr. Diack); Med- ley of Strathspeys (arr. Dlack).... Scottish Country Dance Orchestra cond. by J. Michael Diack. Kirconnel Lea (arr. Moffat); Johnnie Cope.. Philip Malcolm (Bari- tone) with Piano.

10.00 p.m.--Cinema Organ Solos by

Reginald Dixon.

Mississippi-Film Selection (Rod-

gers); Naughty Marietta - Film Selection (Herbert); Curly Top- Film Selection; Broadway Melody of 1936-Film Selection.

10.15 p.m.-London Relay "Song# from the Shows", with Jessie Mat- thews and Sonnie Hale. Compered by John Watt. 11.15 p.m.-Close down.

Ignaz HOCKEY MEETING

.Paul Kaul (Violin) with God- frey Andolf at the Plano. Viennese Dance No. 2 (Friedman

Gaertner); Viennese Dance No. 6 (Friedman Gaertner) Friedman (Piano). Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. (Saint-Saens, Op. 28)... Alfredo Campoli (Violin) and the London Symphony Orchestra cond, by Walter Goehr.

CHARITY

GAME

ARRANGED FOR WAR FUND

Rondo Brilliant--La Gaite (Weber); Three Ecossaises (Chopin, Op. 72) .....Ania Dorfmann (Piano). 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Next week's programme. 8.07 p.m.-Schumann → Concerto in D At the meeting of the Council of the Minor. Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) Hong Kong Hockey Association yes- and The Philharmonic-Symphony terday it was decided to stage a char- Orchestra of New York conducted ity hockey game between the Ser- by John Barbirolli, 8.36 p.m.-Studio-Piano

Luba Shaftain.

1. Rondo (Hummel).

Recital by

2. (a) Andante (Mendelssohn).

(b) Capriccio (Mendelssohn).

3. Moment Musicale (Schubert).

4. Impromptu (Scriabin).

vices and the Civilians on December 3, in hid of British War Organisation Fund.

It was also agreed that the Hong Kong Ladies' Association be invited to provide the curtain-raiser by arrang-

5. Prelude in G Minor (Rachmani-ing for a Ladies game to be played

noff).

6. Castilla (Albeniz).

7. Rush Hour in Hong Kong (Cha-

sins).

0.05 p.m.--Studio--Commenta on Re-

cents Events.

between the Mainland and the Island. The application of the Kalsa Silkh Divani Hockey Club for affiliation was granted but the meeting again refused to grant affiliation to the Chantecler Club, unless they changed their name. 9.15 p.m./London Relay-The News. It was stated by the Hon. Secretary 9.30 p.m./A Scottish Programme.

that though he had written to Macao Wee Willie Winkie (Robertson);

There's Nae Luck Aboot The inviting them to visit the Colony for Hoose (arr. Macpherson & Pent-the annual Interport game in Fe- lend)....Boyd Steven (Soprano)bruary no reply had yet been (Soprano) with Plano.

ceived.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

[HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR;

KOK HOTEL,

HOTEL

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