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MUTT AND JEFF

SIR, I SAY THERE ARE MORE GREAT AMERICANS LIVING TODAY THAN THERE

ARE GREAT ENGLISHMEN!

AND HI SAY THERE ARE 'MORE GREAT KINGLISHMEN!

I TELL YA WHAT--FOR EVERY GREAT AMERICAN I NAME. I'LL PULL OUT ONE HAIR ON YOUR HEAD

AND FOR EVERY GREAT ENGLISHMAN YOU CAN PULL OUT ONE OF MINE!

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 27, 1940.

By BUD FISHER

IT'S A

DEAL!

AND TO MAKE IT QUICKER WELL DO THREE AT A TIME!

RIGHT?

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,

RIGHTO!

BABE RUTH AND WALLACE BEERY!

OUCH! NOW IT'S MY

YOUR TURN!

TURN-- REMOVE YOUR AT!

Schubert Symphony No. 7

In C Major

Today's Wireless

of Dance Music

6.00 p.m.-An hour

and Variety, Slow Fox-Trot-Moon Love; Fox- Trot-White Sails....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.

Vocal-Danny Boy (Alm 'Shipyard Sally'); Wish Me Luck (film 'Ship- yard Sally')....Gracle Fields with Choir and Orchestra.

Piano I've Got You Under My Skin (Alm 'Born to Dance'); In The Chapel In The Moonlight (Hill)

Peter Yorke.

Fox-Trot-The Pretty Little Quaker Girl (Hunter & Parr-Davies); Waltz-Little Sir Echo (Smith & Others)..Mantovani & His Or- chestra with Vocal Chorus. Vocal-Stardust (Carmichael); Chloe (Song of the Swamp Kahn & Moret)....The Radio Three with Their Rhythmic Escorts. Cinema Organ-"The King Steps

Out" Medley (Kreisler) ginald Foort.

Re-

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

9.52 Megacycles.

Piano-Lambeth Walk after Verdi, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Frank Liszt (arr. Rayston) Rayston. Fox-Trots-Anita; I Used To Love You.... "Fats" Waller & Iis Rhythm with Vocal Refrain & Piano by "Fats" Waller. Vocal-Au Revoir But Not Goodbye (Gilbert); Moon Love (David & Others)....Al Bowlly with Orch. Fox-Trot-Day In-Day Out....

Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota.

tions.

talk

7.02 p.m.-Billy Mayer! "Four Aces"

Bulte. Rafe Da Costa (Piano). 7.15 p.m.-Studio-A

on The Auxiliary Nursing Service by Mrs. Paters.

Organ Bolos by 7.22 p.m.-Cinema

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken...

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

PREPARING A STRIP PLAY

Quentin Maclean.

Little Dolly Daydream (Leslie

Stuart).

Lilly of Laguna (Leslie Stuart). 7.30 p.m.--London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. of 8.03 p.m. -

Compositions

Roger Quilter. Children's Overture .... New Light Orchestra conducted Symphony by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.

I Dare Not Ask A Kiss; The Jealous Lover: Music When Soft Voices Dle; Love's Philosophy Mark Raphael (Baritone) with Roger Quilter at the Piano.

Where The Rainbow Ends-Selec-

tion....Sidney Torch (Organ).

Felix

8.30 p.m.-Flim Selections.

"King Revel"-Selection

Mendelssohn & His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus.

t

Irene "The Story of Vernon

Castle" Selection

Louis Levy & His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus.

and

8.43 p.m.-Dance Music by Brian Law-

rence and His Orchestra.

RHODESIAN

WAR EFFORT

London, To-day.

A communique on the recent con- versations between the United King- dom and the Minister of Defence for Southern Rhodesia was issued by the Dominions Office yesterday.

Playing a contract of four hearts, it played a diamond and East, thrown looked as though South could not on lead with the blank King, had no- As the spade escape losing two tricks in diamonds thing but spades left.

An agreement was reached in prin- the and one each in clubs and spades. was led, Declarer used his last trump

ciple, says the communique, on dummy's remaining However, South, who is a very fine and discarded

financial aspects of the contribution of and card player, saw that the hand might | diamond. be made provided (a) trumps were

the Of course East could have defeated Southern Rhodesia to the war,

air forces of Southern divided, and (b) one of his opponents the contract by a fine play-namely arrangements were made to use

ground and diamonds held only two diamonds, which in- by dropping his King of

Rhodesia to the best possible advan- cluded the Queen or the King.

tage. Reuter.

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

ког

♡ K 8 6 6

0 A 7 4

all 9 7 3

7 3

A AJ 10 9

04

6 6

Q 10 8 6

K 8 6 5 2

W

S

E

A 8 4

♡ 7 3 K 2 AQJ4

A QJ 10 2

◊ J 9 6 3

JA 10

The bidding:

South

West

North East

Pass Pass

8♡ Pass

8A

Pass

a

10 4♡

•

PUSH LAND VALDES OF THE FOUR-ACES SVETEN

ACE. 3

KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK.... 1:

West opened spade. Dummy play- ed the Queen, East the Ace, and the Jack was returned. Declarer now made An ap- parently senseless play. He played the Act, then the ten of clubs. East now play- ed a third spade. Mouth trumped high, then led a din- mona dummy's Ace and trumped dummy's flub in his hand.

Now the stage was set. drew two rounds of

Declarer

wumDS,

on dummy's Acc.

*

Yesterday you were Howard Schen- ken's partner and held:

▲ 10 x x x

♡ A X X

◇ K x x AKI

The bidding:

Schenken Jacoby You Harnstons

Pass (7) Pass ANSWER: Your correct bid is one club. This is one of those rare hands that should be opened with a three-

You card minor suit bid.

are too weak for one notrump and your spade sult is unbiddable.

+

Score 100 per cent, for one

club,

40 per cent. for one notrump or one spade. O for pass.

Burstone's

QUESTION NO. 344 You are David Bruce partner and hold:

I I

♡ AK X O AKIX

The bidding: Burdstone

Pasa

bfmier

Pain What do you bid?

tomorrow.).

Jacoby

(1).

(Answer

(Released by The Bell-Syndicate; then ❘ Inc.)

NAZI ATTACKS ON UNARMED SHIPS

London, To-day.

Mr.

In the Commons yesterday,

the R. A. Butler stated that since

February 22, outbreak of war to there had been 128 cases of unarm- ed British

and merchant ships, fishing vessels being attacked enemy aircraft-British Wireless,

by

'Cards On The Table'

And Some

Quilter Music

Fox-Trots - Toodle-Oo; Throwing Peanuts to the Moon; I'm Gonna Kiss Myself Good-Bye; One In A Million (from the film); Roses In December (from

the 'Life of Party') Waterlilies In The Moon- light) ..Brian Lawrence (Vocal) and the with Rhythm Accomp. Three Ginx: You're Looking for Romance I'm Looking for Love; Sunset in Vienna (from the film); Quickstep-It's In The Air (from the Alm); Fox-Trot-The Lady On The Second Floor.

9.15 p.m.-London Relay Nows Sum-

mary.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Cards on

the Table".

9.45 p.m.-Alfred Cortot (Piano) play-

Ing Chopin.

Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23. Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38. 10.03 p.m.-Some Schubert Songs by

Elisabeth 6chumann (Soprano). Near The Beloved, Op. 5, No. 2. Laughing and Weeping, Op. 59, No. 4, Night and Dreams, Op. 43, No. 2. Happiness.

10.13 p.m.--Schubert-Symphony No.

7 in G Major.

The B.B.C. Sym- phony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

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