1939-12-11 — Page 16

MUTT AND JEFF

WELL, I'LL BE --- * LOOKED ALL OVER! I CAN'T FIND MY

WINTER OVERCOAT ANYWHERE!

I KNOW I PUT IT

AWAY LAST YEAR,

BUT WHERE?

HELLO, MUTT!

NOTICE I FOUND MY

'paG?

¡YEH! HE DISAPPEARED ABOUT A MONTH AGO! HOW CHA EVER

FIND

HIM?

EASY! I SAT DOWN) AND FIGURED OUT WHERE I'D 60 IF I WAS A DO6-

SO I WENT THERE, AND SURE ENOUGH, THERE HE WAS!

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1939

WHERE WOULD

·AN OVERCOAT GO?

By BUD FISHER

PAWN SHOP

11-2

Chaliapine In Russian

Programme

6.00 p.m.-"For the Children."

"The Adventures of Careless Carrie

Today's Wireless

The

and Wilful William": (a) Boohams Party; (b) Topsy Turvy Town....Uncle Charlie & Com- pany with Orchestra and Effects. Uncle Peter's Children's Party. In- tro: Girls and Boys come out to Old play: Oranges and lemons: King Cole; Pop goes the Wessel; Boa, baa, black sheep; Hickory, Dickory Dock; A Frog he would a-wooing

go.....Peter Dawson (Vocal) with Orchestra. Studio-Story by Aunt Susan Polly Wolly Doodle: Big Rock Can- dý Mountain....The Rocky Moun-

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

conducted by Adrian Boult.

taineers accomp. by the Bunk House Boys. Slumberland (Lambert & Others)...

Les Allen (Baritone) with Orch. 6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota

tions.

6.32 p.m-Feodor Challapine (Bass)

In a Russian Programme. 7.15 p.m.-Sibelius-Symphonie Poem "Night-Ride and Sunrise". Op. 55. B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra

The

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 Beuten every other system in cxistence.

South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable

Mr. Fincke

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The Nows. 8.00 p.m-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Talk on "Magnetic

Mines".

8.25 p.m.--Varlety with Gracle Fields,

The Gay Nineties Singers, Max Mil- lor and The Rockey Mountaineers. Comedienne-The Clockwork Court- ship (Rayners); Pass, Shoot, Goal! (Hargreaves & Others)....Gracle Fields with Orchestra. Vocal-Botany Bay (Traditional); The One-Horse Shay (Tradition- al)....The Gay Nineties Singers with Orchestra. Comedien-Maria Fell For Me (Mil- ler); No, No, No (Miller)....Max Miller with Orchestra. Vocal-It Ain't Nobody's Biz'ness

What I Do; Oh Susannah; Rest At The End Of The Trail.... The Rocky Mountaineers accom- panied by the Bunk House Boys. Orch. Harry Roy's New Stage Show....Harry Roy & His Orch.

COLONY

We'll

SNAP!

Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph: Musical Comedy

9.05 p.m.-8tudio-Comments on Re-

cent Events.

9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

9.30 p.m.-Patricia Rossborough and Robinson Cleaver (Plano and Or. gan).

Elsle

&

The Bells of St. Mary's (Adams); By The Waters of Minnetonka (Lieu- rance); Bird Songs at Eventide (Eric Coates); Parlez-Mol D'Amour (Lenoir); Trees (Rasbach). 9.45 p.m.-Jack Buchanan.. and

Randolph in Musical Comedy. "That's a good girl" (Braham

Furber); Now That I've Found You; Fancy Our Meeting....Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph (Vo- cal) with Orchestra. "Music In The Air”

(Hammerstein 2nd & Kern) New Mayfair Orchestra. "Mr. Whittington"-Selection

Selection

Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph with Carroll Gibbons & John W. Green at two pianos accompanied by Their Boy Friends.

"The Dancing Years"-The Leap Year Waltz....The Drury Thea- tre Orchestra.

10.12 p.m.-Dance Musfä 11.00 p.m.--CLOSE DOWN.

LADIES' TENNIS

of Round, this pair having beaten Misses

Harker and Stokes 8-4 and 6-2.

Engineers Win

The position of play in the be played on Tuesday 12th inst. and

and Singles A RESOURCEFUL BID

Dou-the Winners of this match meet Mrs. Colony Ladies Reginald C. Fincke of New York diamonds and won with dummy's Ace.bles Lawn Tennis Tournaments which Lade and. Mrs. Churchill in the 2nd recently made one of the finest bids He trumped a diamond with the Queen are being run under the auspices we have ever seen to cover a most of hearts, led the King of hearts, over- |U.S.R.C. is now as stated:--

taking with dummy's Ace trumped extraordinary bidding situation.

(a) Ladles Singles Tournament another diamond, played the Ace and No matches have yet been played. another club, trumping with the four-The following matches will be played spot, trumped a third diamond, got on dates as stated, as extensions have back to dummy by ruffing another club

been granted in these cases. and then the rest of the cards in dum- Miss J. Reeve

Mrs. F. C. Tracey Will be played Before Thursday, 14.12.39. my were good.

Mrs. Marriott

Mrs, N. W. Smeby - Will be played on Thursday, 14.12.39: Miss M. Griffiths Mrs. E. Litton

Will be played on Tuesday, 12.12.39. Mrs. Hutchison v Miss Rumjahn. Will be played Sunday 10th.

AJ 9 7 4 OAK J968

10 2

4

1.85 2

Q 10 8

5 4

A KQJ10

9 6 5

♡ 3

W

0 7

S

# K J 98

Q 5 4 3

A 8 7.3 2

Q 10 8

A 7 8

The bidding:

Bouth West North East

14

5A Pasa

Pass Pass

་

*

David Bruce Saturday you were Burnstone's partner. Neither side

was vulnerable and you held:

A 6 5 2

AD 7 4

0 87 8

# 5 4 2

You (1)

Muler

The bidding: Burnstone Jacoby

Pans 10

ANSWER: Your correct bid is to 6♡

Pass

pass. The

one trick you have, plus your partner's opening bid, should Following the opening spade bid,

op. West decided to make a most unusual prove sufficient defence against bid and pre-empt in a sult bid by his ponents' possible game contract and

opponent.

His bid anyway if they have a game a bid Mr.will not stop them. If you do bid you certainly left Fincke on the spot. Of are likely to get into trouble.. FOUR-ACES SYSTEs, course he could dou

HISS BARS VALUES OF THE

ACE

KING

QUEEN 1 JACK.

ble four spades and

set it, but on the other

hand it looked as if

Score 100% for a pass, 40% for one heart or one nötrump.

QUESTION NO. 280 You are Oswald Jacoby's partner, and you his side could make Both sides are vulnerable

hold:

a Slam in the right

suit. How to get to this suit was the pro- 'blem," and hence the brilliant bld. óf five spades. If South had bid, six clubs, Mr. Fincke of :cotireo intended to bid six diamonds. But

he wanted.

Seven was made as, follows: The clarer King of spades was opened. “

won with the As discarding à low club from dummy, played the 'dauce of

The bidding? Setiankan

You

What do you bidt

by The Bell Syndicate,

b) Ladies Doubles Tournament -

tries. into the 2nd Round are 'as

13. Greig and Miss Marr v Mrs. Sweeney

and Mrs. Knight.

"On the University ground. Royal En- gineers beat Field Ambulance (Volun- teers) by 43 runs in a friendly cricket game.

:

Royal Engineers:~175 M. Waite 50 ret.

N. Goss 37.

Field Ambulance:--133 L. T. Ride 54 F. Weller 29 and J. Shorthouse 22 Denyer 9 for 51, *

South China Beat Navy

At Causeway Bay, South-Chiila "B" beat

Mrs. Burnett and Miss Bradbury v Miss Royal Navy by 3 goals to 1 in the First Di- Grimtha and Mrs. Chiu,

vision of the Football Leagys. “

The match between Mrs. Whitham

Chan Tak-fai, Tam" Chun Kun and Yeung and Mrs. Marriott versus Mrs. Smeby .Shui-yick scored for the Chinese and Phil- and Mrs. Kevan in the 1st Round will "lipens scored for the Navy.i'

THE

HỒNG KÔNG

PENINSULA HOTELI MA

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE, BAW HOTEL;

SHANGHAI

RHOUSE

HOTELS

LIMITED

association with the Grand Hotel den W