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MUTT AND JEFF

I'M GLAD I SENT JEFF TO

COLLEGE! THAT WAS THE ONLY

RAH!

WHEER,THAT'S MY BOY

WAY I COULD GET THESE TICKETS TO THE FOOTBALL

GAME!

RAH!

RAH!

|} THAT JUST MADE THAT, GOAL FOR SMUDGE

-5". COLLEGE!!

MY BOY

11-23

AND THAT'S

THAT JUST SLUGGED YOUR BOY!

AND MY BOY'S FATHER. JUST SLUGGED YOUR

BOY'S FATHER!

POW

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 3, 1940

By BUD FISHER

WE WON A TOUGH GAME ON THE FIELD TODAY, MUTT!

KID, WE LOST A TOUGHER

ONE IN THE

STANDS!

Sibelius Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Up. 43

Today's Wireless

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (lm 'Shall we Dance'); They Can't Take That Away from Me (ilm 'Shall we Dance')..... Roy Fox & His Orchestra, Rumba-It's An Old Cuban Custom; Novelty Fox-Trot-Swing Synco- pation With A Fork and Spoon.. Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots in "Drumnasticks".

Tangos-Jalousie

Xavier Cugat

& His Hotel Orchestra; Tu Sais.... Henry King & His Hotel Pierre Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-Between A Kiss and a Sigh; Hurry Home....Kay Kyser & His Orchestra. Waltzes-The Last Drops; Dorfkin-

der (from 'Gypsy Princess') Orchestra Mascotte. Fox-Trot-I Go For That (film 'St. Louis Blues'); Quickstep-Shut- Eye....Jack Hylton & His Orch. Quicksteps-Sing My Heart (film 'Love Affair'); Wishing (film 'Love

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

9.52 Megacycles

Affair').... Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Orient Nights; Strolling In The Park. Billy Bartholomew & His Dance Orchestra. Waltz-I Shall Always Remember You Smiling; Fox-Trot-The 7.15 To Dreamland.....Hugo Rignold & His Orchestra,

6.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.00 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-Musical Comedy in Minature. Cities of Mu- sic: Venice.

7.30 p.m.-LONDON

News.

RELAY - The

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-A GRAND VARIETY PRO- Wakefield, GRAMME with Oliver George Formby, Gracle Fields, Effie

Winning

ken...

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

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

A FINE SACRIFICE

One of the few complaints about should have jumped immediately to the present scoring in Duplicate is the six spades. However, once he did bid fact that a non-vul- three hearts, North promptly doubled nerable player can go to indicate a lead against the expect- down six or seven ed Slam bid. Then, when the Slam vas that he held so tricks and show a pro- | bid, South decided

FROM CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES RVRTEM

ACE...

3 KING..2

QUEEN 1 JACK.. ';

FOTAL VALUE DE PAAN PO

fit against a vulner-many hearts that surely one of his op- able Small Slam bid. ponents could have no more than one, However, it is rare and hence he decided to make the save Indeed that this de- at seven hearts. fensive bid is made, since for the most part the non-vulnerable player would rather try to beat the Slam than in- cur a certain penalty,

East, Dealer East-West vulnerable

93 AQJI

◊ 10 8 7 B

OAK 93

5:J 10.

In the play South lost six tricks, but him the 1,100-point penalty gave practically a top score since six spades was made at almost every other table.

*

•

Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's partner and held:

2♡.... (?)

Jacaly

ANSWER: Your correct bid is to double.

II

A 10 x x

Ď K x x

KJ7 #2

▲ ▲ Q 10

$ 5

The bidding: Maler

Bohenkes

4

KQ 5

K 10 8 7 6

.J 6 2

-The bidding Fust

Bouth

West

North

DBL

Score 100% for double, O for any ather bid.

QUESTION NO. 288

You are the dealer, with zieither side. vulnerable. You hold:

Atherton & Others. Comedienne-Some of These Days (Brooks); Moanin' Low (Dietz & Rainger).....Sophie Tucker-with Ted Shapiro's Orchestra. Monologue - Pancake Tuesday Throughout The Empire (A far- flung Relay)....Max Kester & John de Grey. Vibraphone-Treaclin (In Sticky Tempo-Robbins & Feñoulhet).... Harry Robbing with The Four Bright Sparks, Monologue Crazy Commentaries (Red Riding Hood v. The Wolf)

Max Kester.

www.

Fisher-

Variety

Programmes

Wants Her Own Share (Irish Folk Tune-art. Miller)....The Pipers' Guild Quartet.

The Berkshire Tragedy (English County Songs); O Sad Ending (Trad.); Oliver Cromwell (English County Songs)....Our Bill (Vo- cal) with Piano accomp. Scandinavian Dancés: Little Man In A Fix; Sextug: Gallopink....Folk Dance Orchestra cond. by Victor Olof.

9.45 p.m.-THREE BRAHMS' SONGS by Elena Gerhardt (Mezzo-Boprano). Nachtigall; Standchen; Feldeinsam- keit......with Piano accomp. by Coenraad V. Bos.

9.55 p.m.-BRAHMS-Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35. Egon Petri (Piano).

Cinema Organ-By The Blue Ha-10.15 p.m.-SIBELIUS-8ymphony No.

walian Waters (Ketelbey)-Med- ley....Reginald Foort.

Humorous Monologue The Volce

Of Inexperience (Wakefield).. Oliver Wakefield.

Cinema Organ-The Vision of Fuji- San Ketelbey)--Medley Re- gina Foort.

Comed nne-My Young Man's Ever So (Vivian Ellis); Dennis, The Menace from Venice (Pola)

Effie Atherton.

Comedian-George Formby Medley. Intro: Sitting on the Ice: Do de oh Doh; Chinese Laundry Blues; Ma- dame Moscovitch, My-Ukulele; Fanlight Fanny....George. Form- by with His Ukulele & Örchestra, Vocal-Outside An Old Stage Door. (Pelosi & Others); Old Father Gracle.. Thames (O'Hagan) Fields with Fred Hartley & His Orchestra.

Vocal-The Legionaires (Warner

Darnell); Sally The Circus Queen (Weston-Lee)..... Warner and

Darnell. Instru: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Washington-Baffman); Falling In Love With You (Young & Others)....Andy Iona & His Islanders.

9.05 p.m.-8TUDIO Recent Events.

2 In D Major, Op. 48: Serge Kous- sevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

11.00p.m.-CLOSE DOWN,

GOLF CLUB RESULTS

Following are the results of recent competition held by Royal Hong Kong Golf Club:--

J. Riddell-Carre (11)1 up:

(18) beat T. Megarry

J. W. Mayhew, (10) beat W. W. C. She- wan (9) 6 and 4;

D. S. Edwards (4) beat J. E. Richardson (10) 5 and 4;

M. LA Reidy (21) beat G. B. S. Thomson (14):

J. Forbes (13) beat C. H. Burton (10) 3

and 2:

N. X. Littlejohn (10) beat T. E. Pearce (14) 3 and 2; J. T. Smith Lloyd (15):

S. T. Butlin and 1.

(2) received w/o L. M. S.

(15) beat W. Hewitt (13) 2

G. M. YOUNG CUP First Round:- and S beat. C. M. Customs;

H.K. and S. Bank beat Chartered Bank. Second Round:-B and S beat A.P.C.; H.K. and S. Bank v Dodwell's not News played.

Commenta

оп

1.9.15 p.m....LONDON RELAY

Bummary.

9.20 p.m.-FOLK MUSIC.

STUBB'S SHIELD First Round: R.A.P.C. W/0 R.N.Z.N.

Mutual Love (arr. Porter); The scratched;

Comical Fellow (arr. Porter).

Folk Dance Band conducted by Ronnie Munro.

H.K.V.D.C. beat Manufacturers Life Tand

11

Harbour Office beat H.K. Regt., H.K.S.R.A. 4 and 2;

La Volta (Byrd); Ayre (Rossiter);

Tower Hill (Farnaby) (arr. Hunt): Chartered Bank beat Financial Advisers' O You're Pretty (English Jig); Omice at 19th.; m Butter'd Please (English Folk Band 8 w/o J. D. Hutchison and Co. Bong-arr. Margerison); Nancy scratched,

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