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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1939

By BUD FISHER

MUTT AND JEFF

ONLY SIX WEEKS AGO I BOUGHT THIS HAT AND LATELY

IT DON'T SEEM TO FIT ME

ANY MORE!

COULD BE THAT MAYBE BY NOW YOU NEED A LITTLE HAIRCUT, YES?

FOR TWO-BITS I'LL DO IT FOR YOU,MUTT! I'VE BEEN STUDYING

AT THE BARBER SCHOOL, YOU KNOW!

ARE YOU SURE YOU CAN DO IT?

DIDN'T I TRIM' HEDGES FOR THE NEIGHBORS

LAST YEAR?

NOT BAD! SOME BARBERS COULDN'T DO BETTER! NOW TRY ON YOUR HAT, MUTT!

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Recital By

Luba Shaftain

From The Studio

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Inter-

cession.

12.30 p.m.-SONGS by Connie Boswell. Heart and Soul (from 'A Song is born'); Outside of Paradise (from the film); I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Ellington & Others). 12.40 p.m.-HAWAIIAN NUMBERS by

Roy Smeck and His Serenaders. Waltz-Song of the Islands. Fox-Trot-Moon Over Miami. Fox-Trots-Honolulu Stars and Ha- waiian Guitars; A Little Rendez- vous In Honolulu.

Swing Is In The Air (from the film), Goodnight My Love (film 'Stow-

away).

1.00 p.m.- Local Time Signal and

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

9.52 Megacycles

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-Compositions of Coleridge

Taylor.

Christmas Overture

Sym-

phony Orchestra cond, by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.

Songs of the Sea....Peter Dawson

(Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra. "Otello"-Suite....New Symphony

Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.

Spring Had Come (from 'Hiawatha') ....Elsie Suddaby (Soprano) with

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

ken

A TRIFLE CARELESS

Here is a hand in which Declarer | Accordingly, he cashed the Ace-King lost a chance for a very brilliant end- of hearts and then played the eight of play due to careless discarding

low cards from dummy.

North, Dealer North-South vulnerable

♣ Q 8

AK Q 8 4

AKJ97

◇ 8 2

♣ 8 4

A 10 6 3 2

495

2

1

KJ 10 9 W

E

7 6

S

♡ Q 10 8 4 0 48 ♣AK 9 5 2

AJ 7

♡ 8 6 3

ОЛОБ

♣ J 10 7 3

The bidding:

North

East South West

10 3NT

2 Раве

2NT Pa56

Pass *Pass

of diamonds from dummy and the five from his own hand. Unfortunately for his purposes, West had carefully retained the seven of diamonds, which he now played, leaving Declarer stuck in dummy and forced to concede the last two tricks to East.

-West opened the Queen of clubs, and when it held the trick, continued the suit. East now cashed the Ace and King of clubs and, in spite of a frantic diamond signal

HIEN KARD VALUES.

FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

י

It South had either failed to dis- card a diamond at all from dummy or thrown the eight instead of the two, he could have made his contract.

Yesterday

*

✡

you

*

were Oswald Jacoby's partner. Both sides were vulnerable and you held:

is

A 3.3

♡ A 3 2

A 5 4 3 2 8 7

Major

Jacoby

The bidding: Schenken You Pass (*)

ANSWER: The correct opening bid one diamond. You have three Aces but the fact that you have a five-card suit justifies an opening bid. by Score 100% for one diamond, 40% West, continued the for pass. sult and set up his thirteenth. Declarer discarded the seven of hearts on “thế” third club lead and the deu- "ea of diamands on the „fourth, and nów pro- cseded to "scash "fout "spade tricks, Each signalling with the ten of hearts on the third spade lead and letting go of a low-diamond on the fourth.

ACE. KING. QUEEN JACK.

Declarer now decided that East real- ly had the Queen of haarls, and hence tried for an end-play against West.

QUESTION NO...281 To-day you are Merwin Maler's partner and hold:

J 8

A 10 9 ·5..

8 6 4 8

♣ 9.82

The-hidding:

Malor

Schenked You Burn:tope (

Passat (7):

"What do yon... bid? (Answer: tomorrow.).

(Bülented by The Bell

Syndicate,

Orchestra.

Life and Death..... .Peter Dawson

(Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.45 p.m. HARRY ROY and His

Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-Slap That Bass (film 'Shall we Dance'); Shall We Dance (from the film), Six-Eight Medley- Valencia: Ca C'est Paris Picador: Barcelona; Rio de Janeiro; Casabianca.

|

“Die Walkure” Act 1: With Bruno Walter

And Vienna "Phil"

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1. Harmonies Poetiques et Reli-

gleuses N7.

2. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca.

3. Soirees de Vienne (Schubert-

Liszt).

8.40 p.m.-CHARPENTIER - Impres- "slona D'Italie - Suite, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris conducted by Gustave Charpentier.

9.05 p.m.-STUDIO Recent Events.

Comments on

9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY - News

Summary.

9.30 p.m.-LONDON_RELAY-"Carda

on the Table".

Quicksteps-Little Spanish Shawl; 9.45 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC.

Li'l Liza Jane.

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Slow Fox-Trot Broken-Hearted

Clown.

Fox-Trot-Why Can't We Make

Love.

Quicksten-Diddle-Dum-Dee. Fox-Trot-Goody-Goody.

2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

6.00 p.m.-WAGNER'S "Die Walkure" Art 1. Characters and Soloists in order of appearance: Siegmund.. Lauritz Melchior (Tenor); Sieglinde

Lotte Lehmann (Soprano): Hun- ding....Emanuel List (Bass): with The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.

7.05 p.m.--Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.07 p.m.-A Light Orchestral Concert

Summer Day's Suite (Eric Coates) ....Light Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eric Coates. "Tick-Tock" Entr'acte (Vienna) Shy Serenade (Gen. Scott-Word)

..New Movfair Novelty Orch. Impressione D'Oriente-Descriptive (Amadel): Souvenir D'Ukraine— Descriptive (Ferraris)....Arman- do Di Piramo & His Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-LONDON

News.

RELAY

Tho

8.00 p.m.-Looa! Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8,03 pm.-BERLIN State Opera Or-

chestra.

Euren Onegin-Waltz (Tschaikow-

sky).

Polonaise No. 2 (Liszt).

8.15 p.m.-8TUDIO–Plano. Recital of Liszt' Compositions by Luba Shaftain

Fox-Trots-Stay As Sweet As You Are (film 'College Rhythm'); Let's Give Three Cheers for Love (film 'College Rhythm')....Tom Coak- ley & His Palace Hotel Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Have A Little Dream On Me; Who Made Little Boy Blue.... Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Waltz-Little Anne Jungherr's

Accordion Melodians. Fox-Trots-Did My Heart Beat; Down A Long, Long Road....Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Won't You Stay To Tea? No More Love.... Ray Noble & His Orchestra.

Waltz-The Dance Goes On (from 'Over she goes')....Mantovani & His Tipica Orchestra, Fox-Trots-The Spider & The Fly: "Taint What You Do...... "Fats" Waller & His Rhythm. Quicksten-Cathedral In The Pines; Waltz-The First Quarrel.... Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orch.

10.30 p.m.--A SPANISH Programma with Conchita Supervia (Mezzo- Soprano) and Tito Schipa (Tenor). La Rosa Oriental (Ramon Eenigul) ...Conchita Supervia (Mezzo- Soprano) with Orchestra. Tangos-Buen Amigo; Night On The La Plata.....Juan Llossas & His Tango Orchestra. Princesita (Palomero-Padilla); Grarf-

adinas (Calleja-Barrera)....... Tite. Schipa (Tenor) with Orchestra, Tangos-Tango Mio: Sierra Chica.......... Juan Llossas & His Tempo Orch. La Zingarella (Paisiello); Pastora

(Murillo-Miranda)

Conchita Supervia (Mezzo-Soprano) with 'Orchestra.

11.00 p.m-CLOSE DOWN. -

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