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MUTT AND JEFF

SIZE THREE AND A HALF! SAME SIZE AS

THE LAST PAIR Į BOUGHT HERE!

REMEMBER?

YES, BUT YOU'RE BUYING THIS PAIR FOR YOURSELF ARE YOU NOT?

NOW HERE'S A. VERY POPULAR

NUMBER, MADAME!

OH, NO! THEY WOULD MAKE MY FEET LOOK

LARGE!

10-11

HOW ABOUT

THIS PAIR?

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 18, 1939.

By BUD FISHER

NO, I DON'T CARE.FOR

THAT STYLE! THEY

·HAVE A TENDENCY

TO SPREAD OUT AND SET WIDER

· AB THEY GET OLDER!

WELL, MADAME,

DIDN'T YOU?

STYLE SHOES

Variety And Dance Music Request Items

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of intercession. 12.30 p.m.-Haydn-Trio in G Major and

Other Compositions.

Variations In F Minor....Ignace Jan Pa-

derewski (Piano).

My Mother Bids Me Blind My Hair.... Elsic

Suddaby (Soprano) with Plano.

Trio in G Major....Cortot, Thibaud and

Casals.

Minuet and Finale from Divertimento.... Eero Selin (Viola d'amore), Grete Ewe- ler (Violin) and Gregory Pecker ('Cello). 1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather

Report.

1.03 p.m.-Alfredo and His Orchestra with

Lillian Harvey (Soprano). Serenade In The Night (Kennedy & Others); I Once Had A Heart, Margarita (Schmitz & Others)...... Alfredo & His Orchestra.

Leben Chne Liebe. Waltz (from the film. 'Nie wieder Liebe')......Lillian Harvey (Soprano) with Orchestra.

Tell Me Again (Grosz): Russian Gipsy Sketch (Ferraris)....Alfredo & His Orch. Life Is Lovely (Grothe-Dehmel);

Come

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

9.52 megacycles)

and Stay, Sweet Fortune (Grothe-Deh-| mel).....Lillian Harvey (Soprano) with Orchestra.

Gipsy Caprice (Ferraris); Wanderlust--- -Waitz (Smith)....Alfredo & His Orch. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather

Forecast and Announcements.

1.45 p.m.-Variety.

Comedienne-Life's Desire (Hargreaves); They, All Make Love But Me (Evans).... Gracie Fields with Orchestra. Talking-Crazy Commentaries-Red Rid- ing Hood v. The Wolf; Pancake Tuesday Throughout The Empire....Max Kester & John de Grey.

Vocal Duets-Old Favourites. Intro: Run- ning wild; I ain't nobody's darling:" Beautiful faces; Second Hand Rose; It ain't gonna rain no more; Fonso; What'll I do; Our Little Garden Subbub;

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The

Four Aces)

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

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

OPTIMISM SOMETIMES PAY6

While correct bidding pays in the long run, the most favourable results are obtained when an overbidder finds his opponents' cards are divided in a particularly favourable manner.

East. Dealer North-South vulnerable

4

10 9 8 7 4.2

A J 73

N 10 785

♡ K Q 9 2

96

▲ A 10 9 8

2

J 10 8

W

◇ A

E◊ KQ 10 8

4 3

S

瀑

J 6 6 3

A K Q 6 5

♡ A 84

Ó J752

AK

The bidding:

East

South

West

Pass

14

Pass

30

2NT

Pasa

Pass

3NT

Dbl.

Pass

Puss

North

2 34 Рава

South's three-notrump bid repre

sented

considerable optimism since his second-round bid of two-notrump over East's two dia-

HISM (SSD VALUES OR THE

PROSACER SYSTEM.

ACE. KING 2 QUEEN 1 JALK

notrump. West opened the Ace of diamonds and then shifted to the ten of spades. South won with the King, played the Ace-King of clubs, then over to dummy with the Queen of hearts and led the ten of clubs. West won with the Jack and now, since he saw there was no further hope, simply cashed his Ace of spades and held Declarer to four-odd.

*

*

Yesterday, as Oswald Jacoby's part- ner, you held:

AK XXXX

♡ Qxx

O AI

Maler

You

The bidding: Schenken

Jacoby 10

1♡ Pass (?) ANSWER: Your correct bid is two spades. This bid is forcing to game, and eventually will offer your partner a choice between spades and hearts.

Score 100% for two spades, 40% for one spade or for three hearts, 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 261 To-day you are Merwin

monds had already partner and hold:

shown great strength.

Nevertheless his part-

ner signed of at three clubs.

[^; When West doubled, North, with his hor- rible hand,

was

♡ A QIX

◇ K 10 x

♣ AIX

The bidding:

Mater. Schenkum

1. Pass

Maier's

Barnstone

(1)

(Answer

What do you bid? tomorrow.)

to four clubs, but de- cided: "After all, my partner, dug this grave. Let him work his way out.” However, the way the cards lay, there was no defence against four Ind.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate.

Ukulele Lady; Who tied the can on the old dog's tail....Norah Blaney & Gwen Farrar with Plano. Comedian-The Empire Party Song (Sa- rony): Fat Flat Fish (Sarony)....Leslie Sarony with Orchestra, Vocal-Whispering (Schonberger); Tea For Two ('No, No. Nanette')....Comedy Harmonists with Plano.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

In B Flat 6.00 p.m.-Brahms-Concerto

Major, Op. 83. Artur Schnabel (Plano) and the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Adrian Boult.

6.48 p.m.-Brahms' Gypsy Songs, Op. 103. The Madrigal Singers conducted by Lch- man Engel.

6.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotations. 7.00 p.m.-London Relay-Rehearsing "The Cart before The Horsa". Variety Pro- gramme.

7.30 p.m.-Two Songs by Richard Tauber

(Tenor).

Beautiful Italy (Operetta "Paganini!"). Girls were made ta Love and Kiss

(Operetta "Paganini").

7.37 p.m.-Schaikowsky — Nutcracker Suite, and the Leopold Stokowski Op. 71A.

Philadelphia Orchestra.

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-Request Programme of Light

Variety...

Waltz-A Thousand and One Nights (J. Strauss, arr. Frost)......Dresden State Opera Orchestra. Humorous-Ye B.B.C.

Flanagan and Allen with Dick Elgin and His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (Film "Romance and Rhythm")....The Organ, The Dance Band & Me. Humorous-Would a Manx Cat Wag Its Tail (Haines); That's What Puts the Sweet in "Home, Sweet Home" (New- man)....Gracie Fields with Orchestra. Selection-Lilac Time (Schubert).....The

New Mayfair Orchestra. Humorous Monologue Reading to the Children: The Botany GlassArthur Marshall.

(Fum

Fox-Trot--Goodnight, My Love

"Stowaway")......Jack Hylton & Hic

Orchestra,

Vocal-My Old Kentucky Home (Foster); Or Man River ("Showboat”—Kern).... Paul Robeson (Bass) with Orchestra. Sketch-TWO Minds without Д Single Thought (Furber); The Girl in the Post Office (Ronald Jeans)...Cicely Court- neldge & Company.

Tango Hear My Song, Violetta (Klose, Lukesch); I'd Bring the Heavens to You ....Emil Roosz & His Orchestra. Selection-Crest of the Wave (Ivòr Novello arr. Prentice)....The Drury Lane Thea- tre Orchestra,

9.05 p.m.--Studio Comments on Rècont

Events. 8.15 p.m.-LONDON-The News.

Brahms

Concerto

In B Flat

9.30 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording

boddy's Outing." A Sketch.

"The

Og-

9.45 p.m.-Musicnt Comedy-"Please Teach- ort (Weston, Lee, Waller and Tunbridge) ...Bobby Howes & Others with The Lon- don Hippodrome Chorus & Orchestra,

of Light 10.02 p.m.-Request Programme

Variety continued.

Veils Entertainer - Seven

(De Sylva, Brown & Henderson); Dear Old Fashion- ed Thing (Harrington & Hobson).. Norman Long with Piano. Waltzes-Ferdinand the Bull (From the Waltz Disney Production of Same); The Umbrella Man (Film "These Foolish Things")....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra Comedy-The Parson Talks About Mar- ringe.....Vivian Foster, the Vicar of Mirth. Selection-White Horse Inn (Stolz &

Benatzsky)....New Mayfair Orchestra. Comedy Duet-Income Tax; Holidays....

Naughton & Gold.

Fox-Trots The Donkey's' Serenade (Friml, Stothart & Others) (From "The Fire- fly").Jay Wilbur & his Band with Vocal Chorus by the Cavendish Three: The Down and Out Blues (Mayo) (From "Happy Returns")....Jay Wilbur & his Band with Vocal Dust. Waltzes-Tales from the Vienna Woods (Strauss)....Marek Weber & his Orch. Vocal-Return of the Gay Caballero; Frankie & Johnnie (Crumit)......Frank Crumit with Plano.. Guitar & Clarinet. Fox-Trots-I'm an Old Cowhand (Mercer): Empty Saddles (From "Rhythm on the Range")....Ambrose & his Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-LONDON-"London Log." 11.15 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC.

Fox-Trots-On the Bridge of Sighs (Freed & Royal); Silver Sails on Moonlit Waters (Gilbert, Grundland & Nicholls)....Ron. nie Munro & his Orchestra. Tangos-MI'

Musa Campera (Demare, Graciani & Ellas): Madrecita de Pom- peya (Martinez & Liano)..............Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro. Fox-Trots-Hawallan Hospitality (Owens

& Kinney) (From "Rhythm in the Clouds"); Little Heaven of the Seven Seas (Scholl & Jerome)...........Ronnie Mun- ro & his Orchestra. Waltzes-Would You (Film "San Francis- co); My First Love Song (Film "Queen of Hearts")....Roy Fox & his Orchestra with Vocal Refrain by Denny Dennis. Fox-Trots-The Moon got in my Eyes (Burke & Johnston) (Film "Double or Nothing"); It's the Natural Thing to Do ....Roy Fox & his Orchestra with Vocal Refrain by Denny. Dennis. Fox-Trots-Can I Forget You: The Folks who Live on the Hill (Hammerstein & 'Kern) (Film "High, Wide & Hand-

some')....Roy Fox & his Orchestra.

- Rumba Fox-Trot-Cuban Pete (Jose Nor- man); Slow Waltz-At the Close of a Long, Long Day (Moll & Marvin)........Joe Loss & his Orchestra with Vocal Refrain. Fox-Trots-All Through the Night; You're the Top (Cole Porter) (From "Anything Goes")....Ambrose & his Orchestra. 12.00 midnight.-CLOSE DOWN.

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