MUTT AND JEFF
POP HOW
R-A--
DO YOU
SPELL "RAZOR"?
MUTT, DON'T TELL HIM! LET HIM FIGURE IT OUT FOR HIMSELF!
HOW DO YOU EVER EXPECT HIM TO LEARN IF YOU DO EVERYTHING
FOR HIM?-. COME, CICERO, NOW TRY IT!
R-A-Z---- I THINK THE NEXT LETTER IS AN O OR AN "E*-
ملين
COME NOW, THINK HARD!
WHICH IS
IT?
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1940
By BUD FISHER
AREM!
O-R!
THAT'S FINE! See
I KNEW YOU COUL SPELL IT WITHOUT THE HELP OF YOU
FATHER!
Saxophone Recital
By Palapo
6.00 p.m.-"For the Children",
Today's Wireless
Nursery Rhymes...Uncle George's Party
with Orchestra.
"Robin Hood and The Sorrowful Knight" Part I Love To Whistle (in 'Mad about Musle').....Betty Driver (Vocal) with Orchestra.
Studio-Story by Aunt Susan Three Little Fishies The King's Men
(Vocal) with Guitar.
6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.32 p.m. Favourite Film "Hita".
Leave A Little For Me (lm 'Yes, Mr. Yes, Mr. Brown (from the Brown');
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
Buchanan
9.52 Megacycles
(Vocal) with
film Jack Orchestra. "Love and Hisses"--Selection; "Manhattan Music Box"-Selection... Carroll Gib- bons (Piano) and His Boy Friends. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (film 'Naughty Marietta'); Indian Love Call (filin 'Rose Marie'}..........Jeanette Macdonald (Soprano) and Nelson Eddy (Baritone) with Orch. "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs”—
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Acos)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- kenWorld's-leading-Team-of-Four,—Inventors-of-the-system that has beaten every other system in existence.
PLENTY OF NERVE
some
we
For sheer unadulterated gall South's club sult good. Indeed, have bidding should take
sort of seldom seen such a lucky distribution prize. It all started in an innocuous of cards. Declarer of course was now manner. After North's opening club able to run off ten tricks to make his bid East passed, deciding to await doubled contract with an overtrick. developments. and South. who should ❘ However. we must point out that if have bid one heart, decided on one notrump. North rebid his clubs and then East decided to interject a bid of two spades. At this point South, being unable to think of another bid, passed. North quite properly went to three clubs. East passed, and now South decided to take a terrific gum- ble on three notrump. When East doubled, South, although he held no sigo of a spade stopper, boldly stuck by his guns.
North, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
A
♡ K 9 7 2
4.3
♣AK 8 6 5 4
Q 10 4 3
South had made his correct initial response of one heart, he and his partner might have arrived at a Slam in that suit with far less risk, and six hearts could hardly have been lost as the cards were distributed. .
*
**
Selection (Piano).
Patricia Rossborough
I Have Eyes (film 'Paris Honeymoon"); The Funny Old Hills (im Paris Honey- moon') ... Bing Crosby (Vocal) with Orchestra.
7.00 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"! Re- member". A Programme of Musical Entertainment of Forty Fifty Years Ago. Devised and produced by Percy Edgar.
or
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m. This week's programmes. 8.05 p.m.-A Concert by Marek Weber and His Orchestra with Mavis Ban- nett (Soprano) and Charles Kullman (Tenor).
Fantasia-At The Tchalkowsky Fountain
(Urbach)....Marek Weber & His Orch. Bird of Love Divine (Haydn Wood); Valley Of Laughter (Sanderson)....Mavis Ben- nett (Soprano) with Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore.
Viennese Memories of Lebar (arr. Henry Hall)....Marek Weber & His Orchestra. Thora (Weatherly & Adams); Beautiful -Garden of Roses (Dempsey & Schmid). ....Charles Kullman (Tenor) with Orch. Puccini-Potpourri: Amorettenlanze-Waltz (Gung')....Marek Weber & His Orch. 8.45 p.m.-Studio-Saxophone Recital by Palapo with Plano accomp. by Nura Kanis.
1. Prelude to Cantatas No. 12 & 156 (J. S.
Bach).
2. Saxo-Rhapsody (Eric Coates).
3. Danse Hongroise (Ring-Hager). 9.05 p.m.-Alfredo Campoli --and - His
Orchestras.
Gipsy
Romance In Moonlight. Intro:
Moon: Moonlight and Rosex: I love the Moon: Pale Moon; Pagan Love Song: In the Moonlight....Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra.
Variety : An Hour Of
Dance Music
birds of 1838'); 'Long About Midnigh (Hill)....The Mills Brothers (Four Boy and a Guitar).
10.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music. Fox-Trots-Little Heaven of the Seve
(fl
Seas;
Hawaiian Hospitality 'Rhythm in the Clouds')....Ronnie Mur ro & His Orchestra,
Slow Fox-Trot-The Sweetest Music Thi Side of Heaven....Maurice Winnick His Orchestra.
Flower
Waltzes-Night In The Desert:
Path....Gino Bordin & His Hawaiians. Fox-Trots Sweet Is The Word For Yo (film 'Waikiki Wedding"); Blue Hawa (im 'Waikiki Wedding').... Eddie Cal roll & The Casani Club Orchestra. Tangos-Night On The La Plata: Buc Amigo Juan Llossas & His Tang Orchestra.
Fox-Trots-What Are We Gonna Do Wit Baby?; I Saw A Ship A-Sailing....Bria Lawrance & His Orchestra. Waltz--You Needn't Have Kept It
Secret; Fox-Trot-Moon at Sea....Ronni Munro & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-You Came To My Rescue (Al
"The Big Broadcast of 1937'); Talkin Through My Heart (film "The B Broadcast of 1837')....Henry King & H Orchestra.
Tangos-Do You Like Dancing?; Night Q
Love Divine....Dajos Bela Dance Orc Fox-Trots-I Was Saying to the Moon (fili 'Go West, Young Man'); On A Typic Tropical Night (film Gó West. Your -Man'}÷÷÷÷Reggie Childs & His Orch.... 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
YACHTING RESULTS Following were the results of th second January trophy race held b Royal Hong Kong Yacht. Club yester day:
Artemis
Finished Po 3.27.19******* 1
(G. G. Wood). Jean
(G. J. Tarr).
Eve
3.30.05
3.38.06 J. (Surg. Lt.-Comdr.
R.N.).
(K. Kjaer). Dragonfly Gull
2
3
A.
Pag
3.38.30
4
D. N. F. D. N. F.
Vienna In Springtime (Leon-Pelosi)
Campoli & His Marimba Tango Orch. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News 8um-Nereld II
mary.
The Mills Saturday you were Merwin' Maier's 9.30 p.m.- Variety with
Brothers, Wilson and Leach, Connie partner and held:
Boswell and Vic Qliver. Plano Dueta-King of Burlesque-Medley; Three HitMedley ..... Jack Wilson & Jimmy Leach. Comedian-Vic Oliver Ambles
On
(Vic Oliver)...Vie Oliver: Knock, Knock-
▲ A 10 x x x
OK XXX
♣ AJ x
The bidding:
You
Hurnstone
Maler
7 4
✓ 8 8 5
◊ J 10 9
8 6
W
A KQJ 10 0 3 EVA J
1A (7)
Pass
20
Schenken Pass
S
◊ 7 5 2
Q 3 2
10 9
8 6 5 2
OA K Q
J 7
ANSWER: Your correct bid is three diamonds. You have fine diamond support but,
hand since your minimum in high cards, you cannot afford to jump.
is
The bidding:
North
East
South
West
Score 100% for three diamonds, 60% for four diamonds, 0 for other bid.
any
14
Pass
1NT
Рабв
2
24
Pass
PABA
3
Pass
3NT
PAN
Pass
Dbl.
Рава
Pass
Pass
West opened a spade and
after
dummy's Ace won, South entered his
hand with
HIGH LAND VALLÉS”
ACE.. KING QUEEN 1 JACK
QUESTION NO. 326
You are Howard Schenken's part- ner to-day and hold:
X X X
♡ KI XX
Q xx
Jacoby
You
Burnetonu
Pass (?)
The bidding: Schenken 3NT
a diamond. He now calmly led the Jack of clubs and let it ride when West re- fused to cover. As a matter of fact, it would have done West no good to cover for the ten-nine in East's. hand would fall on the first two leads, thus making the whole Inc.)
What 'do you bid? - (Answer `tomorrow.).
(Released By The Bell Syndicate,:||
Who's There....Vic Oliver with Sarah
Churchill. Vocal-I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Ellington & Others); Outside of Para- dise (from the film)....Connie Boswell with Orchestra.
Piano Duet-Fox-Trot Medley,
Intro: Miss Annabelle Lee: Little Jap- anese Sandman; Chinatown .... Jack Wilson & Jimmy Leach. Vocal-Swing Is The Thing (from 'Black-
SOFTBALL RESULTS
Postponements yesterday curtall the week-end Softball programme, ar only five matches were played, wi the following results:
Canuckettes 31, Cubs 7. Pirates 19, Panthers 14. Cardinals forfeited to Ballgirls. Wahoos 10, Ramblerettes 4. Chung Hwa 5, English Forum 0. Recreio Bees 7, Trojans 4.
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