MUTT AND JEFF
JEFF'S THE NEW TREASURER OF THE LION TAMERS'CLUB - AND THEY SAY HE'S GONNA STOP THE CHARGE ACCOUNTS OF POOR PAYERS LIKE ME. A LITTLE BRIBE WILL PUT ME IN RIGHT
'WITH HIM!
A FIVE-DOLLAR BOX OF CIGARS FOR THE NEW TREASURER! YOU KNOW - FROM ONE OLD PAL TO ANOTH....... AHEM!
NIX, MUTT, NIX!
THAT LOOKS LIKE A FORM OF BRIBE! I CAN'T TAKE 'EM!
DON'T BE SILLY TREASURER!
IF YOU HAVE ANY CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLES YOU CAN PAY ME A
QUARTER FOR THE CIGARS!
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 7, 1939
By BUD FISHER
THASS DIFFERENT! HERE'S A BUCK,
I'LL TAKE
FOUR
BOXES!
9-29
Studio Recital By
Victor Sanders
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-Let's Give Three Cheers for
Love (flin 'College Rhythm'); Stay As
As Sweet
You Arc (film 'College Rhythm')...Jolly Coburn & His Orch,
Missouri Waltz; Waltzes-That Naughty
Waltz...Victor Young & His, Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Most of Ev'ry Day: 1 Travel Alone....Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Tangos-Desprecio: Clertos Amores....or-
questa Tipica Francisco Canaro.
Boy Blue; Fox-Trots-Who Made Little
Have A Little Dream On Me...... Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Waltz-Someday I'll Find You (film 'Pri- vate Lives'); Fox-Trot-Delishious (film
'Delicious')....Nat Shilkret & His Orch.
Tangos-A Love Letter: A Farewell Letter
Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Just A-Wearyin' For You: Two Little Flies On A Lump Of Sugar.... Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Fox-Trols-Sing Brothers (from "Tell her the Truth'); Hoch Caroline (from Tell
Len.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
her the Truth').... Ambrose & His Orch. Waltz The Last Drops....Orchestra Mas-
cotte.
7.00 p.m.-London Relay "Music in
the Morning".
A Variety Programme.
7.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.32 p.m.—An Irish Programme. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Recital by
Sanders (Baritone) and E. O'Neil Shaw (Plano).
Victor
1. Four Songs of the Fair (Easthope Mar- tin): (a) Fairings; (b) Langley Fair: (c) Jock the Fiddler; (d) The Ballad- Monger)....Victor Sanders (Baritone).
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 bewien every other system in existence.
he
TRUMP OPENING INDICATED The Ace of partner's suit is usually own six trump tricks, one ruff in > pretty good lead, particularly dummy and his own fifth heart, which against a game contract which he has
set up eventually. was able to doubled. However, there are times Result: he was down two. However, when the bidding should warn you
if West had made the mistake of lead- against it.
ing the Ace of hearts, he would have South would set up South's King. then have had time to ruff two hearts in dummy and, instead of being down two, would have made his contract.
West, Dealer
North-South vulnerable
6 4 ▲ 76
A K J 8
♡ J 7
053
♣ Q 10 8 6 4 3
A Q 10 9 6 5
*K
*
*
You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner yesterday and held:
X X X
A XX
◇ A XXX
♣ X X X
7 8
A 4 2
Q 10 8 2
AQ 10 8
E
◊ K J 9
S
K J 9 2
The bidding:
Jacoby 14
Bornstone
20
ANSWER: Your
♡
9 5 4 8
7 2
The bidding:
West North
Best Pass" 10 Pass
10
20
40 Pass
4A Pass
South
Рабо
30 Dbl.
34
Ранв
West's first impulse was to lead the Ace of hearts, but upon thinking things over he said to himself, "South didn't bid a spade right over my part-
3
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK
2. Piano Solo-Selected....E. O'Nell Shaw. 3. Two Songs by Frederick Keel: (a) Full Fathom Five; (b) My Sweet Sweeting
.Victor Sanders (Baritone).
4. (a) A Sergeant of the Line (Squire): (b) The Deathless Army (Tretere).... Victor Sanders (Baritone).
8.30 p.m.-Coleridge-Taylor
Dream Dances.
Three
London Palladium Orchestra conducted by
Clifford Greenwood.
8.40 p.m.-Mozart-Quartet In E Flat
Major.
Pro Art Quartet.
9.05 p.m.-Studio-Comments on Re-
cent Events.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-The Kentucky Minstrels,
Love, Could I Only Tell Thee (Bingham- Capel)....with Organ &ccomp. by Her- bert Dawson.
Homing (Del Riego)....with Herbert Daw- son (Organ) and Soloist: John Duncan. Carry Me Back To Green Pastures (Pep- per).....with Herbert Dawson (Organ) and Soloist: George James. 9.45 p.m.-Selections
Comedy.
from
Musical
"Princess Charming-Selection. (Sirmay, Ruby & Waller)....Palace Theatre Or- chestra cond. by Percy E. Fletcher.
FOOTBALL MEETING
Mozart's Quartette in E Flat
Fold Orchestra; Ellis & Trefor Jones accomp, by the Drury Lane Thea- tre Orchestra.
"Glamorous Night" (Hassall & Novello): Shine Through My Dreams....Prefor Jones (Tenor) with Your Wings....Mary
"The Gold Diggers of Broadway"-Selec- tion (Burke)....Regal Cinema Orchestra cond. by Emanuel Starkey with Quentin M. MacLean at the Organ. "Home and Beauty"-Sing Something In "On Your The Morning (Cochran); Toes"-There's A Small Hotel (Rodgers & Hart)....Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon with Orchestra.
10.15 p.m.Dance Music.
Of Quickstep Sing A Song
Sunbeams (flm 'Eastside of Heaven'); Slow Fox- Trot-Heaven Can Wait....Victor Silves. ter & His Ballroom Orchestra, Novelty Fox-Trots--Speedboat 'Bill:
Haunted House.....New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.
The
Waltz-I Pald for the Lie that I told You; Slow Fox-Trot-What Shall I Say?..... Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orch. Fox-Trots When April Comes Again; With All My Heart....Jack Payne & His Band. Fox-Trots-At The Cafe Continental; On the Beach at Bali-Ball....Maurice Win- ick & His Orchestra. Waltz--Music In May (from 'Careless Rap- ture'): Novelty Fox-Trot-Peter's Pop Keeps a Lollipop Shop....Ambrose & His Orchestra.
Comedy One-Step-Eleven More Months & Ten More Days....Ambrose & His Orch. 11.00 p.m.-Close down.
INTERPORTS DISCUSSED
It was decided at the meeting of Scots,
-
"
and "B",
Signals
R.A.M.C.,
South China. “A” and "B". Club and Royal the H.K.F.A. Council yesterday that Kowloon Football two teams of schoolboys, one repre- Navy.
Junior Division Kowloon F.C., senting Hong Kong and the other
Police, Kwong Kowloon, should meet before the H.K. Football Club,
"A" South China the United | Wah,
Eastern, Scots, charity match between Services and the Rest of the Colony on Royal
R.A.S.C., R.A.F., R.E., the Club ground on Sunday.
Following is the team selected to International, Electric, 5th R.A., 8th
Kowloon Schoolboys: R.A., 24th R.A. and 30th R.A. represent
(C.B.S.); C. Wilfield
were 19 entries for the As there Greenwood (D.B.S., Capt.) and M. Xavier (La Junior Division there was a draw for Salle), Peter Kwok (Wah Yan) and the preliminary round and this resulted as follows -- Signals v. R.A.S.C.; 8th (D.B.S.); Leung Ping-
5th R.A. v. E. Randall hong (Wah Yan), J. Roza Pereira (La | R.A. v. Royal Scots: Salle), G. Santos (La Salle), Wong | Electric.
H. Mat- Siu-hang (Wah Yan) and
Chan thews (La Salle). Reserves - Wai-yip (Wah Yan), A. Gonsalves (C.B.S.) (L.S.C.), T. G. Fergussen
L.
#
and F. Langley (C.B.S.).
Maler
You
SHIELD ENTRIES
20
(7)
correct
bld is received:-
three diamonds. Since one opponent
MANILA INTERPORT Owing to the difficulty of arranging for players to go to Manila in Febru- ary. this year, the Secretary of the H.K.F.A. was requested to write to could Manila to ask them if they
Fe- to Hong Kong in
The following entries for the Foot-send a team ball Shield Competition have
been bruary.
The Secretary informed the meet- Senior Division H.K. Football ing that no reply had as yet been has opened the bidding and his part-Club, Police, Middlesex Regiment, St. received from Shanghai regarding ner has now made a free hid in a Joseph's, Kwong Wah, Eastern, Royal this year's Interport: fixture. new suit, it should be obvious your partner's diamond bid is based on a freak hand of some sort. Your raise enable him to make a cheap may sacrifice against a major sult game:
Score
diamonds, 100% for three
ner's heart bid, but 50% for two notrump (a bluff), 20% wher. I rebld my for pass.
diamonds.
and
my
partner, raised them,
QUESTION NO. 281
Oswald Jacoby's
XX
To-day you are he was encouraged to partner and hold: Back; in at the three- level. He unifoubted-- ly has a spade-heært two-suiter and the best thing for me to do is to leave hearts strictly ̈adaires"-",
Accordingly, West üpered the three of trumps. Declarer won in dummy, led a low heart and played the King from his hand. West won with the Ace and played another trump. Now, all Declarer could make were his
The bidd
IA
Nakon kou
Pass
(Answer
What do you bid? tomorrow.) (Released By The Bell Syndicate, Ino.)
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