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MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT MAKES ME MAD! HE INSISTED ON BUYING THIS GOLDFISH FOR OUR HOME AND I'M THE ONE WHO HAS TO TAKE CARE

OF IT!

MUTT, I'M THROUGH BEING A CHAMBERMAID FOR YOUR GOLDFISH!

IT'S A NUISANCE!

HOW, JEFF, LISTEN! I JUST DREWUP MY WILL YESTERDAY AND REMEMBERED] YOU IN IT FOR YOUR

KINDNESS TO MY

FISH!

YOU DID? WHATCHA

LEAVING ME?

11-8

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1939

THE

GOLDFISH!

By BUD FISHER

BLUB

BUB

London Relay: "Shadow Of

The Swastika”

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m. - Short Service of Inter-

cession.

12.30 p.m.- WAGNER'S Tannhauser Overture and Excerpts from his Operas.

"The Valkyrie"-Ride of the Val- kyries; "Lohengrin" - Prelude, Act 3....London Symphony Or- chestra cond. by Albert Coates. "Lohengrin"-The King's Address ....Ivar Andresen (Bass) with Orchestra.

"Tannhauser"-Overture (Wagner- Benno Moiseiwitsch

Liszt)

(Piano).

1.00 p.m. - Local Time Signal and

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC by Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra:

ken

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

9.52 Megacycles

Quickstep Could Be; Slow Fox- Trot-Kinda Lonesome (film 'St. Louis Blues'); The Veleta; Waltz- St. Bernard Waltz; Slow Fox-Trot --Tears On My Pillow; Sequence Dance The Park Parade; Quick- step-Something Tells Me; Slow Fox-Trot-I Won't Tell A Soul; Quickstep Apple Blossom Time. 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

LIGHT 1.45 p.m. -

VARIETY with Gracle Fields, Jesse Crawford, Al- leyne & Leonhardt and Others.

mning

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.

A

af any asked:

good "Which

rather

player would

have - good

GOOD BREAKS

were | Declarer now cashed the club King you and the diamond Queen, then played cards his thirteenth heart, discarding a dia-

or good breaks?" he would reply that mond from dummy. East properly re- if Lady Luck favoured him with con- fused to trump, but South then threw sistently good breaks, he would in-him in with a trump. East was now variably be the winner in any session. He might cite to-day's hand as an example:

South, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

A K 8 0 6

♡ Q 7 3

OA 8 4 2

J 9

A 7 3

A 8 4

◇ K 10 9 5

W

Q 762

S

0 8 7 AA 85 48

A 10 9 4

♡ K 10 5 3

O.QJ8

4K 10.

The bidding:

South West North Bant

14

Pass 20

20

Pass BA

4A

Pass

Равя

Pass Pasy Рабо

A glance at the North-South hands will show at least one loser in every suit. Yet the cards were so favourably

HIGH CAND VALUE: OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE.. EKING.

QUEEN:1

JACK...

VIRTAL, KELLENE PACK

· ANORÁME NAME 630

distributed that the contract was made.

West opened a club, which East won. East. shifted to a diamond, South played the Jack, West the King and dummy's Acd won the trick. Declátór - then drew tira Vräuhtis it.

heart

trumps. Next

a

was

forced to return a club and Declarer trumped in dummy, meanwhile dis- carding his losing diamond.

The Declarer got at least five separate and distinct breaks in his

favour on this hard.

Yesterday you were

David Bruce

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

QJ 9 8 6 4

AK X X

Burr-tone Pass

Jacoby

1NT (?)

You

The bidding: Maler 1A

ANSWER: Pass. You have a good suit to lead plus two probable re-en- tries. On the other hand, a two-heart overcall may be severely penalised.

Score 100% for pass, 50% for two hearts, 30% for double.

QUESTION NO. 285

You are Oswald Jacoby's partner. Both sides are vulnerable and the opponents have 80 on' score. Again you held: ·

-9.8 6 4

K XX

The bidding: hawken Javoby............ Maier. 1A

Paha INT (?) What do you bid? (Answor tomorrow.)

led to dummy's Queen, and the same suit returned, Declarer finessing the ten. West won the second round and "exited" with his remaining heart. Inc.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate,

The Loch Humorous Monologue

Ness Monster (John Tilley).. John Tilley. Cinema Organ-The Old Spinning Wheel (Hill); My Wishing Song (Kohal & Burke)....Jesse Craw- ford.

Comedienne-Fiddle Joe (London & More); Poor Me, Poor You (Bestor & Others)....Gracie Fields with Orchestra.

Novelty Animals On Parade-Mac- dougal's Farm; Noah's Ark....The Who's Zoo at Whipsnade (Animal Entertainers) with Accomp. Two Pianos-Destiny-Waltz (Bay- nes); Passepied (Delibes)....Al- leyne & Leonhardt.

2.15 p.m. CLOSE DOWN. 6.00 p.m.-DVORAK—Symphony No. 4 in G Major, Op. 88. Czech Phil- harmonic Orchestra conducted by Vaclav Talich.

6.38 p.m.-8ELECTIONS from Light

Opera.

"The King Steps Out"-Vocal Gems (Kreisler)....Orchestra & Chorus. "Countess Maritza"-Selection (Kal-

man)....Grand Symphony Orches tra with Ilse Wald (Soprano) and Hans Clemens (Tenor). "The Beggar Student"-Let's Pre- Margaret sume (Millocker)

Slezak (Soprano) and Herbert E. Gróh (Tenor) with Orchestra 6.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.00 p.m.-BILLY MAYERL (Plano)

and His Orchestra. Three Dances In Syncopation (Ma- (b) yerl)-(a) English Dance; Cricket Dance; (c) Harmonica Dance.... Billy Mayerl (Piano). Heart and Soul (film 'A Song is Born'); Mayfair Merry-Go-Round (film 'Kicking the Moon Around') ...Billy Mayerl (Piano) and Do- rothy Carless (Vocal). Song of the Fir Tree (Mayerl); Sweet William (Mayerl)....Billy Mayer (Piano),

Fox-Trots-Love Was Born. (from 'Crazy Days'); Stranger In A Cup of Tea (from 'Crazy Days') Billy Mayerl & His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain.

Parade Of The Sandwich-Board Men (Mayerl)....Billy Mayerl (Piano). Tho 7.30 p.m.- LONDON RELAY

News..

.:

8.00 p.m.-Local Time-Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-RAVEL Bolero. The Lam-

Dvorak Symphony:

Czech Phil.

oureux Orchestra of Paris conducted by the late Maurice Ravel. 8.20 SONGS by Luigi Fort (Tenor)

Av. Ay. Ay (Perez & Freire). "Mignon"-Adio, Mignon (Thomas). Serenata: Soft "Don Pasquale"

Beams the Light (Donizetti). 8.30 p.m.-LONDON RELAY "Sha- dow of the Swaztika". Fourth Epl- sode of the Life of the Nazi Party.

Comments 9.05 p.m.-STUDIO

Recent Events. 9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY

Summary.

on

News

9.30 p.m.-Local Sport Results. 9.32 p.m.-SEA SHANTIES by John Goss (Baritone) and Cathedral Male Volce Quartet.

The Sailor Likes His Bottle-O: Clear The Track, Let The Bullgine Run (arr. Terry): Fire Down Below; Hullabaloo Balay; Haul Away, Joe; What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor (arr. Terry). 9.40 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Playing The Game". A Farcical Extrava- ganza by L. du Garde Peach. Music by George Barker. Produced by Charles Brewer.

10.30 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC.

Fox-Trot-Chicken Reel....Ronnie

Munro & His Orchestra. Tangos-La Carcajada; Bella Es-

panola....Orquesta Tipica Roberto

Firpo.

10.40 p.m.-LONDON RELAY—“They too loved Wales". A Welsh pattern of verse, prose and music. 11.00 p.m.-LONDON RELAY--“Lon-

don Log".

11.15 p.m.-DANCE MUSIC.

Fox-Trot-The Fleet's In Port Again;

Waltz-The Whistling Waltz Billy Reid & His Accordion Band. Fox-Trots-Let's Face The Music &

Dance (film 'Follow the Fleet'); But Where Are You (film 'Follow the Fleet')......Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

Tango-The Tango of the "Mula";

Waltz-A Garden of Illusion..... Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro. Fox-Trots-Who Loves You; Foolish Heart......Ronnie Munro & His Dance Orchestra.

Tango Fox-Trot-Where The Cafe Lights Are Gleaming; Fox-Trot~~~ Angel of the Great White Way.... New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Rumba Fox-Trot-La Cucaracha; Tango-A Medis Luz....Orquesta Tipica Roberto Firpo. Fox-Trots--Free; Take My Heart....

Ambrose & His Orchestra. Waltz Secret Rendezvous

(film

'One Rainy Afternoon"):..Victor Young & His Orchestra. 12.00 midnight-CLOSE DOWN,

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