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MUTT AND JEFF

UM - NO USE TALKIN' - I AM

HANDSOME!

AND I AIN'T THE ONLY ONE

WHO THINKS 50·

AND I'LL PROVE

IT!

HELLO, GLEANOR! DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS

16?

SURE!

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 15, 1939

IT'S

By BUD FISHER

WHO?

"ANGEL

FACE!"

Beethoven's "Emperor"

Concerto

Today's Wireless

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.02 p.m.-Variety with Valaida, Major and Minor, Elizabeth Welch, Turner Layton and Others.

Vocal-Sing Before Breakfast (filmm

'Broadway Melody of 1936'); A Beautiful Lady In Blue....Turner Layton with Piano.

Organ & Piano-The Bells Of St.

Life's Mary's (Adams); Sunset (Adams)

Great Robinson

Cleaver & Patricia Rossborough

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

with vocal refrain, Comedienne - The Girl I Knew (from 'Glamorous Night'-Novell); Far Away In Shanty Town (from Glamorous Night')..... Elizabeth Welch with Orchestra. Hawaiian Guitar Duets-O Sole Mio (De Capua); Cielito Lindo (Ponce)

Ferera and Paaluhi.

Vocal Duets-Tricky Little Tune

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.

TWICE RESCUED

West was still not con- To-day's hand brings up the much | However, discussed question of whether or not vinced that his partner's hand could

for business, whereupon North glee- fully redoubled.

a player should bid when partner has be as bad as it was. He now doubled doubled an opening sult bid and the other opponent has redoubled. We are of the opinion that this hand clearly gives the answer:

South, Dealer

East-West vulnerablé

AAQ JD 32

A 10 9 8

4

ОБ 4

K Q 5 2 ♡ K J 6 ◊ AJ 10

N

W

10 74

4

♡ 10 9 8 T Б3

0 7 6 3 2

8 6

J 7 6 3 ♡ A 2

KQ 9 8

The bidding:

K 5

South

West

North East

10

Dbl.

Redbl. 10

Pass

1NT

Dbl.

2♡

2NT

Puss

BNT

Pass

Pass

Dbl.

Paso

Pass

HIGH CARE VALUES

FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

was

Redbl. Pass

West's double of South's opening diamond bid was sound although not

and North's overstrong,

redouble fully justified. Now let's glance at East's worthless hand. East reasoned that if he passed, his part- ner would be sure to .bid spades. Thus, solely to relieve him from an embarrassing situation, East quite /properly did one heart. For some pećtullar reason West-de- cided that this / bid zahowed ssome strength, #forthe

ACE.. KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACE

Where North:

· dasparately

second time..

had been sigl therefore bid partner naturally

for a Lad "he

He ind, his

East was through. Being vulner- able, he didn't dare go to four hearts. Hence he passed and despairingly three watched his opponents make notrump redoubled with two over- tricks.

was While West's bidding quite stupid, we believe this hand clearly illustrates that a bid over a redouble simply indicates a five-card suit and probably extreme weakness.

* * You were Merwin Maier's partner yesterday and held:

**

AK Q J 10 x x . ♡ A 10 x x

◊ xx

* X

The bidding: Burnstone Maler Sebraken You Pass Pass (7) 10

Your correct bid is two ANSWER: spades. Responder has‍ shown weak- ness and this bid, while not forcing, shows you have a very strong spade suit and good distribution.

Score 100% for two spades, 70% for one spade, 80% for double (you don't want a double left in), 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 258

You are Howard Schenken's part- ner, neither side is vulnerable, and you hold:

Q XXX

X X X X

The bidding: Barnatcom

Baljenkon

What do you bid? Monday,

*--(Released

(to mama. |Inc.)

Maler 20

(2) (Answer

Syndicat

(McGill); A More Or Less Volga Major & Boat Song (McGill)... Minor.

Real

Thing Trumpet-Until The

Comes Along (Cahn & Others); High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm (Valaida).....Valaida (Queen of the Trumpet) with Swing Accom- paniment. Piano-Gershwin

Intro:

Medley. Rhapsody in Blue; Lady be Good; That certain feeling; Looking for a boy; Wait a bit, Susie; I'll build a stairway to Paradise; The man I love; I got Rhythm....Renara.

At The Gate Vocal Duets-Waitin'

For Katy (film 'Bottoms Up!'): Arlene (Seymour & Pollack). Layton & Johnstone with Piano. Organ-Blaze Away--March (Holz-

mann)....Reginald Dixon.

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording - "Over

The Garden Wall". A Sketch. 8.18 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Gaston

D'Aquino (Tenor) with Plano companiment by E. O'Nell Shaw, 1. (a) Donna Non Vidi Mai ("Manon

(b) Lescaut" Puccini);

Nel Verde Maggio ("Loreley”-Ca- talani).

Recorded Interlude

ac-

2. (a) Perdutamente (Tosti); (b) La Mia Canzone (Tosti); (c) La Serenata (Tosti).

(h)

Orchestral Music: Variety

10.30 p.m.-Songs by Elisabeth Schu-

mann (Boprano). Alleluia (Mozart); Vedrai, Carino, Se Sei Buonino ("Don Giovanni" -Mozart); Das Heimweh; Hin Und Wieder Fliegen Pfeile (Schu- bert); Liebe Schwarmt Auf Allen Wegen (Schubert). 10.40 p.m.Compositions of Wagner.

Daughters Song

The Rhine ("Gotterdammerung") Henry J. Wood conducting New Queen's Hall Orchestra.

Die Meister Nicht Verachtet Mir

(Finale of Opera "Die Meister- singer"); Was Deutsch Und Echt (Finale of Opera "Die Meister- Friedrich Schorr singer")

and the Berlin State

of

(Baritone) Opera Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-London

of Moment".

Sir the

Relay "Matters

11.16 p.m.-Close down.

STONECUTTERS HOCKEY WIN

An interesting 10-a-side hockey match was witnessed on the Marina Ground when Stonecut- yesterday afternoon ters overwhelmed 8th Heavy ment (Headquarters) winning sively by three clear goals.

Regi- deci-

All the goals were scored during the first half through Nk. M. Singh, L/Nk. B. Singh and Gunner P. Singh.

Although at one period the win- 3. (a) La Partida (Alvarez):

ners were kept on the defensive, valu- Granadina (Alvarez): (c) Ayable work by L/Bdr. Giddins, left Ay, Ay (Freire).

back, and Gunner Meehan, goalie, who 8.45 p.m.Orchestral Music.

Overture "The Barber of Baghdad" kept out the Heavy Regiment,

(Cornelius) .The Berlin Phil-launched many determined attacks.

Both sides were even in attack but harmonic Orchestra conducted by

| Stonecutters were superior in de- Dr. Leo Blech. Valse De Concert, Op. 47 (Glazou-fence.

now)....San Francisco Symphony Alfred Orchestra conducted by Hertz.

March

Pomp And Circumstance

8th Heavy Rtg.:-L/Bdr. Devlin: Bdr. Os- borne and L/Sgt. Shirlan; Sgt. Barnsley, L/Bdr, Dunn and Sgt. Reakes; Gunner Bur-

Purdue.

(No. 3 in C Minor-Elgar)....Lon-ess, Bdr. James. Bdr. Bennett and L/Bdr. Meehan: Gunner Stonecutters:-Gunner don Symphony Orchestra conduct- ed by Sir Edward Elgar.

Marsden and L/Bdr. Giddins; Gunner K. 9.06 p.m.-Studio-Comments on

Singh, Nk. M. Singh and Sgt. Macinery: cent Events.

L/Nk. B. Singh, L/Bdr. Goodenough, Gun- ner P. Singh and Spr. Smith.

Re-

9.16 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay "The, Kit- chen Comedy" A Play by James Brydle.

9.50 p.m.-Beethoven-Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Malor. Op. 73 ("Emperor") Denno Moiseiwitsch (Piano) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Szell.

Two games in the preliminary round of the Junior Soccer Shield, will be played on Signals will meet Tuesday at. Sookunpoo. R.A.S.C. at 4.15 p.m.. (referee, Glover) and 8th R.A. will play Royal Scots at 2.45 p.m.. (Foster referec).

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