1939-12-23 — Page 16

MUTT AND JEFF

WHY, YOU DON'T

KNOW HOW TO PLAY THAT HORN GOOD ENOUGH TO BROADCAST ON THE RADIO!

NEVERTHELESS THEY'RE GIVING ME AN AUDITION

AT THREE O'CLOCK!

1-15

YOU CAN'T EVEN

PLAY A HUTS ON

THAT THING!

ON,

YEAH!

DON'T

WORRY

ABOUT

IT!

ROOM

WONDERFUL! NEVER HEARD

ANYTHING LIKE IT

BEFORE!

RADIO

M. DIRECTORS

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1939

By BUD

FISHER

THIS IS STATION

B-U-H-K!

FINB! HOW

WE NOW PAUSE

IF YOU'LL JUST SIGN HERE!

FOR STATION IDENTIFICATION-

ROOM

JESIMIRITI ZAGRE

Variety And

Dance Request

Programme

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of

cession.

Today's Wireless

Inter-

12.30 p.m.-George Scott Wood with His 8lx Swingers and Betty Driver (Vocal).

1.00 p.m.-Local Time

Weather Report,

Signa! And

1.03 p.m.-Billy Mayer at the Plano.

"Helen"-Piano Selection (Offenbach-arr. Korngold); Have You Forgotten? (Sues- se); Jasmine (A Syncopated Impression -Mayerl); Sweet Nothings (Rettenberg). 1.15 p.m.-Vocal Items by The Mills

Brothers.

Jungle Fever (from 'Spy 13'); Sleepy Head (from. 'Spy 13'); Tiger Rag (La Rocca): Some of These Days (Brooks); Caravan (Ellington).

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press.

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

9.52 Megacycles

Weather Forecast and Announce- ments. 1.45 p.m.-A. Military Band Concert with Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Mechanized Infantry-Quick March; Fan- fare: The Minstrel Boy: The Watch Tower....Massed Bands of the Aldershot & Eastern Commands. Mother O' Mine (Kipling-Tours); Danny Deever (Kipling-Damrosch) ..... Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra. Three Dale Dances (Wood)....Callenders'

Sentor Band.

Phil The Fluter's Ball (French); With My

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.

COOPERATING ON DEFENCE

In to-day's hand East and West how we can win any tricks in that took such full advantage of their suit, But if I can put West in to limited opportunities that they de- lead another spade, I can set the feated a contract which would be contract." made in 90 cases out of 100. Both There was only one answer to partners receive an equal share of this. Even though he knew it might -cost him a trick, East led his lowest club, whereupon West, to his intense surprise, found himself winning the trick with the club ten. A second spade lead then set the contract.

the glory for their fine defence.

North, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

84

87

AK 74

KQ 6 5

AQ 10 3 3

* 9

O J

7 3

W

AKQJ

6

EDO

9 6 5 2

10 7 3

10 8 3

AJ 10 2

O KJ DE 45 4

The bidding:

North East Bouth

10. PASS

Dbl.

Pass

West Redbl. Pass 20 Pass Pass PRES

3

West decided that the HIGH GARE VALUES lead of a club, which FOUR-ARKE TYRTEN his partner had bid and

OF THE

*

**

*

Yesterday you and your partner (Oswald Jacoby) were vulnerable and you held:

K 10 & S

♡ K J 4 2

K 10 7 6 45

The bidding:

Jacoby

14

Schonkon

Pasa

вод

(T)

Answer: Your correct response is one heart. If partner now bids spades or diamonds, you intend to raise. If he bids two clubs, two hearts or one notrump, you bid two notrump.

QUESTION NO. 291.

you

You are Merwin Maier's partner.

and of which he held five, Your side is vulnerable could not accomplish hold:

ACE... KING QUEEN 1 anything.

$

However, the JACK..

East had doubled opening diamond bid, AVERAGE KAN KJ which seemed to in- dicate strength in spades, and thus a spade lead might be of some help.

A E Q 10 9 8 Z

♣ AKS 6 3 The bidding:

Barnstone

Malar Schenken

Pass 30 Dbl.

Pass

(1) -

What do yen, bid? (Answer tomorrow.)

South quite properly played a low spade from dummy, and East, after winning with the Jack, went into huddle. "Obviously," thought East, "Declarer must have solid trumps, and whether he or my partner holds the King of diamonds, I don't . sesi Inc.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate,

Shillelagh Under My Arm (O'Brian & Wallace).....Peter Dawson (Bass-Bori- tone) with Orchestra. Parade Of The Puppets

Changing of the Guard (Flotsam & Jet- sam)....The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.

(Kuhn); The

2.16 p.m.--CLOSE DOWN, 6.00 p.m.-Concert by Efrem Zim. balist (Vocal) and Wilhelm Backhaus (Piano). Carmen-Fantasy

(Bizet-arr, Sarasate) .Efrem Zimbalist (Violin) with Piano accomp. by Saldenberg. Military March In E Flat (Schubert, arr. Backhaus); Triana ("Iberla"-Albeniz)

.Wilhelm Backhaus (Plano).

The Zephyr (Hubay, Op. 30, No. 5); After Sundown (Scott)......Efrem Zimbalist (Violin) with Plano accomp. by Emanuel Bey.

Waltz In D Flat, Op. 84, No. 1 (Chopin); Etude In C Major, Op. 10, No. 7 (Cho- pin); Waldesrauschen (Liszt)....Wilhelm Backhaus (Piano).

6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

8.32 p.m.-Puccini's "La Tosca" Act. 1. Singers in order of appearance: Plero Pauli (Tenor); Giovanni Azzimonti (Bass): Antonio Gelli (Baritone); Car- men Mells (Soprano); Apollo Granforte (Baritone) and Nello Palai (Tenor), with Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, MI- lan, conducted by Carlo Sabajno. 7.19 p.m.-Orchestral Selection.

Overture "L'Italiana In Algeri" (Rossini) ...Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York conducted by Arturo Tos- canini.

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

Report and Announcements.. 8.03 p.m.-A Request Variety and

Dance Programme. Fox-Trot-Don't Let That Moon Get Away

(from 'Swing you sinners')....Billy Cot ton & His Band). Vocal-Moonlight and Shadows (Alm 'Jun- gle Princess'); Thanks for the Memory (Alm Big Broadcast')....Dorothy Lam. our with Orchestra, Waltz-The Umbrella Man (from "These.

foolish things').....Billy Cotton & His Band.

Tox-Trot-Music, Maestro, Please (from "These foolish things')....Henry Jacques & His Strict Dance Tempo Orchestra. Vocal & Plano-My S.0.8. For You (film 'Soft Lights and Sweet Music'); Dirty Face (Hiller & Others)....Tumer Layton. Orch.-Watermelon Fete (Thurban); Down South (Myddleton, arr. Tabbush)....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, with Vocal Re

frain by Sam Browne. Vocal Dusts-Another One Gone (Beverley

Nicholls):

Maybe I'm Wrong Again | (Trent & Bennett).....Norah Blaney & Gwen Farrar,

First Act Of

Puccini's

"La Tosca"

Trot-Moon for Sale....Roy Fox & His Ballroom Orchestra.

8.45 p.m.-London Relay-"The Time

Has Come"-A Thriller.

9.05 p.m.-Studio-Commenta on Ro-

cent Events.

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

mary. 9.26 p.m.Local Sport Results. 9.27 p.m.-More Request Variety and

Dance Items.

Fox-Trot-Pross-Chai....... Artic Shaw & His

Orchestra.

Vocal-Mexicall Rode (Stone-Tenney)....

Bing Crosby with Orchestra. Fox-Trot-The Meanest Thing You Ever Did Was Kiss Me....Harry Roy & His Orchestra.

VocalHook and

Roll (Clare-Whiting); Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong (Whiting & Others)....The Boswell Slaters. Rumba-When 'Bomba Plays ARumba.....

Harry Roy & His Orchestra.

Vocal Just Let Me Lood At You (from Joy of Living'); Sing A Song of Harbest (from 'Kentucky Moonshne').....Kenny Baker with Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-Georgia's Gotta Moon; Rhythm

In The Alphabet.....The Six Swingers' directed by George Scott Wood, Singers On Parade:-I'm gonna lock my

heart....Sam Costa; Helen Clare-I'm sorry I said I loves you; Paula Green--- You couldn't be cutter: George Barclay -The sweetest song in the world; Pat Hyde-A-tiaket, A-tasket: Al Bowlly- -Little lady make believe: Marjorie Stedeford-Love walked in; Jack Plant- Time and time again; Dinah Miller-It's d'lovely: Dan Donovan-The Red Maple Leaves; Alice Man-Says my heart: - Jack Cooper-Music," maestro, please." Fox-Trots-Ten Little Miles. from Town: Home at Sundown...........The Organ. The Dance Band & Me, Vocal-Wee Wille Winkie (Robertson)....

Boyd Steven (Soprano) with Plano, Orch. The Donkey Serenade: (from "Fire- fty'); The Lambeth Walk (from 'Me and My Girl')....Barnabas Von Geczy & His Orchestra.

Slow Fox-Trots-To Mother With Love; Little Gypsy Of The Seven Seas.....The Organ, The Dance Band & Me. Violin & Vocal-An Old Violin (Taylor- Fisher); Looking For You (Taylor -San. derson).....Albert Sandler. (Violin) and Olive Groves (Soprano) with Jean Mel- ville at the Piano. Quicksteps-The Snoop; So You Left Me For The Leader of A- Swing Band........The Six Swingers- directed by George Scott Wood.

Fox-Trota-Chloe: Jam Session.....Benny

Goodman & His Orchestra. Rumba-Antigua..........Joe Daniels & His Hot

Shots in "Drumnasticks".

11.00 p.m.-London. Relay

Fex/Tyob-Tiger-Rag;....The Ballyhooligans. "North Iraland Log".

11:18%. p.m. London Relay Seoond

Half of International Rugby Match- England v. Wales.

Waltz-A Beautiful Lady In Blue: Fox. 12.00 midnight.-CLOSE DOWN.

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