1940-02-17 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1940

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By BUD FISHER

IT'S AS LONG AS THIS RULE THIS STICK AND BRICK HIS ARM FROM HERE TO THERE AND

TWO FINGERS WITHOUT ONE NAIL!

MUTT AND JEFF

HEY, YOU! TAKE THIS

RULE AND MEASURE

· THAT STEEL GIRDER

DOWN THE LINE!

O.K, BOSS

KEY, YOU! HOW LONG IS THAT GIRDER?

IT'S JUST THE LENGTH OF THIS RULE AND THIS STICK WITH THIS BRICK AND MY

ARM FROM HERE TO THERE AND TWO FINGERS

WITHOUT THE ONE FINGERNAIL!

SEE?

Beethoven's

1

"Eroica"

Symphony

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-

sion.

12.30

p.m. -

Aldershot Command Massed Searchlight Tattoo, 1935. Bands of the Aldershot Command. 12.48 p.m.-Light

tions.

Orchestral Selec-

Dance of the Icicles (Sulte The Wooing of the Snowflakes'-Kennedy Russell); The Frolicsome Hare (Ashworth Hope) ....Leslie Jeffries & His Orchestra. Salut D'Amour (Elgar-arr. Philip39 ). ...

Van Phillips Quartet.

1.00 p.m. Local

Weather Report.

Time Signal and

1.03 p.m.-Songs by Leslie Hutchinson

at the Plano.

If 1 My Prayer (Kennedy-Boulanger);

Only When Didn't Care (Lawrence); You're in my Arins (Am The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle').

1.13 p.m.

Jack

Harris and

His

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

9.52 Megacycles

Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-Nice Work If You Can Get It film 'Damsel in Distress'); Foggy Day In London (Alm 'Damsel in Distress'). Rumba-Say 'St. S'.

Fox-Trots-Blossoms on Broadway (from

the m); Sailing Home.

Press, 1.30 p.m.-Router and Rugby

Forecast and Announce- Weather

ments.

The Street 1.45 p.m.Variety with

The & Brown, Derekson Singer, Carlyle Cousins and Debroy Somers Band. Vocal-When The Puppies Bloom Again South Sea Island (Pelos) & Others); Magic (Tamerlin, Long).... The Street

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 cxistence.

DOUBLE-GROSSED

Playing a three-notrump contract, South had decided on a definite plan of attack. But a certain discard by West caused him to change his mind in the middle of the hand.

South, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

4004

+ 8 2

8 6 5

K 10 74

◊ K.Q 9 3

K 92

J 10 4

3

W

9 7

◇ A 8 7 6

5 2

6 5:

K 3

A Q 7 3

A J 6 2

OJ 10

The bidding:

♣ A 10 4

South

West

North

East

14

Pass

20

2NT

Pass

3NT

Разв Pass

PASS

Pass

West opened a club and East and West were allowed to win the first two tricks in clubs. South won the

HIGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE

KING

QUEEN 1 JACK

matters.

Declarer

now

altered

that the spade King was felt marked in East's hand. Thus, if the spade finesse were successful, he could afford to lose a heart trick to East (provided East held the Queon) and still make his contract.

Proceeding this fairly sound reasoning, South finessed the Queen of spades, West pounced on it with the King, then ran off his two remaining West's de- clubs to set the contract. ceptive

ostensibly discard, which

completely showed no re-entry, had fooled South.

on

*

In yesterday's question both sides vulnerable and the opponents had 60 on score. You were the dealer. What was your correct bld, holding:

AIX

I I K XX

A XXX

ANSWER: Your correct bid is one club. If you pass originally and the opponents open the bidding, you can- not afford to back in.

third round, observing

Score 100% for one club, 50% for that West had origin- ally held six clubs.pass, 0 for one notrump (the hand is

Declarer played the

Jack of diamonds,

too weak.)

QUESTION NO. 336 You are David Bruce Burnstone's then followed with the partner to-day and hold:

which allowed to hold,

ten, on which West discarded (of

а

won

all

things)

club. West

the second diamend, then

made the natural shift to a spade.

Now South's original idea had been to jump right in with the apfde Ace and then finesse against West for the Queen of hearts. By so doing he would have his aine tricks if the heart

successful, were

discard.

finesse

West's

club

But had

A QIX

OJI I JI X

The bidding: -Yea Maler

Pass

(?)

Pass

Jacoby

PRES

Burastene 14

What do you bid? (Answer Monday.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.).

the

Singer with Instrumental Accompani- ment. Orch. & Vocal--The Big Broadcast-Selec-

tion....Debroy Somers Band with Carlyle Cousins and Dan Donovan, Vocal & Piano-You Oughta Be In Pictures One Morning In (Heyman & Suesse): May (Parish & Carinichael)....Derekson & Brown. Vocal-Love Me Forever from 'On Wings of Song')....The Street Singer with In- strumental Accompaniment. Vocal-America Calling-Selection ... The Carlyle Cousins with Quugiino's Quarlet. 2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN. 6.00 p.m.-Beethoven-Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 ("Trolca"). Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.

6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota.

tions.

6.47 p.m.-Plantation Songs by Richard Crooks (Tenor) with Male Quartet. My Old Kentucky Home (Foster): Old Folks at Home (Foster); Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground (Foster); Old Black Joe (Foster)....with Piano accomp. by Frank La Forge and Banjo by Ralph Colicchio.

7.00 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording "The Old Contemptibles" Part I. The record of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons to Ypres, between August and November, 1914.

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

Report and Announcements.

Variety Request 8.03 p.m.-A

Dance Programme.

and

Request Variety And

Dance Programme

Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots in "Drun- nasticks".

Piano-Medley, Intro: Smoke gets in your eyes; Who made little Boy Blue; If I love again: Continental; Stay as sweet as you are; Sweetheat Joe, the Candy Man....Ronald Courley.

Fox-Trot-Run, Rabbit, Run! (film "The little dog laughed')....Harry Roy & His Orchestra.

Buttles (Traditional) Green Vocal-Ten

....Harold Williams & The B.B.C. Male Chorus conducted by Joseph Lewis with Ernest Lush at the Piano.

Nide (from Fox-Trot-Ride, Tenderfoot.

'Romance & Rhythm')....Billy Cotton & His Band with Vocal Chorus. Fox-Trot-Love Walked In (from 'Goldwyn Follles')....Jay Wilbur & His Band with Vocal Chorus by Sam Costa. Vocal Duet-The High Brow Sailor (Flot- sam & Jelsam)....Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jetsam with Piano. Quickstepa-Berlin Or Bust; Sweet Fanny Adams' Daughter....Jack Payne & His Band with Vocal Chorus. Vocal-Medley of Gus Edwards' Song Hits (from the film The Star Maker') ..... Music Bing Crosby assisted by the Maids.

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

mary.

9.30 p.m.-Puccini's "Madame Butter-

fly" Intermezzo & Act 111. Characters and Soloists in order of appear- ance: M. Sheridan (Soprano)... Cho-Cho- San: I. Mannarini (Mezzo-Soprano)... Suzuki, a servant; L. Cecil (Tenor)... V. Weinberg Lieut. Pinkerton, U.S.N.;

U.S. Consul; (Baritone)... Sharpless.

Lomi (Mezzo-Soprano)...Kate Pinkerton; with Members of La Scala Orchestra and Chorus, Milan.

10.05 p.m.

-Schubert Rosamunde-

Ballet Music.

Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted

by Robert Heger.

Kreisler.

Rondino (On

Violin Solos by Fritz

2

theme by Beethoven- Kreisler); Fair Rosemary (Kreisler); A ('Songs without words'- May Breeze Mendelssohn).

Violin & Vocal-An Old Violin (Taylor &

Fisher): Looking for You (Taylor &.10.18. p.m.. Sanderson) Albert Sandler (Violin) and Olive Groves (Soprano) with Jean Melville at the Plano.

(Friml & Orch."Firefly" Selection

Others)....Louis Levy & His Gaumont- British Symphony with Vocal Refrain. Vocal-Wee Willte Winkle (Roberton)....

Boyd Steven (Soprano) with Plano, Orch.-Moonlight and Shadows (film 'Jun- Ale Princess') .... Anson Weeks & His Orchestra.

Vocal-Together Again (from 'Under Your Hat')....Cicely Courtneidge & Jack Hul- bert with Orchestra: If You Want To Dance (from 'Under Your Hat')....Jack Hulbert & The Rhythm Brothers with Orchestra, Rumba-The Lady In Red (film 'In Ca. liente')....Geraldo & His Rumba Orches- tra with Vocal Chorus.

Your Hat (from Vocal-Keep It Under

'Under Your Hat')....Cicely Courtneldge. Jack Hulbert & The Rhythm Brothers with Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-Ten Little Miles from Town.... The Organ, The Dance Band and Me. Comedienne-Just A Catchy Little Tune (Alm 'Sing as we go')....Gracie Fields with Orchestra.

Slow Fox-Trot-The Japanese Sandman....

10.30 p.m.-London Relay Varlety with Ronald Frankau and Others.

"London 11.00 p.m.-London Relay

Log".

11.15 p.m.-Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-Somebody's Thinking of You To-night: Picture Me In Paradise..... Jack Harris & His Orchestra. Tangos-Cabecita: La Ultima Cancion....

Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trois-After All These Years; Silver Sails on Moonlit Waters.... Jack Wilson & His Versatile Five. Swing Fox-Trois-Back Bay Shuffle: Jungle Drums....Artie Shaw & His Orchestra.

Ralaina Waltzes-Rehearsing A Lullaby:

Green & His Phil and Almonds .... Rhythm. Swing Fox-Trots-Goose Pimples; Trum- pology... Frankle Trumbauer & His Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-Begone....Jimmy Dorsey & His

Orchestra.

12.00 midnight.-CLOSE DOWN.

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