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MUTT AND JEFF

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, JEFF! THOSE RUSSIANS CUT OFF OUR RETREAT AND THEY'RE AFTER US!

BR-R-R~ IT'S GETTING COLDER! WE CAN'T STAY HERE ALLNIGHT!

O.K. DUCK UNDER ONCE MORE!

THEN LET'S

Go!

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1940

By BUD FISHER

BANG!

BANG

“London Log”

And Other Daventry Relays

CRACK!

SPLASH!

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Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Intercession. 12.30 p.m.-Rudy Starita (Xylophone) and

the Orchestre Raymonde,

Parade of the City Guards (Jessel);

Musical Snuff Box (Liadow)...Orches tre Raymonde..

The Punch and Judy Show (Black); Dance of the Raindrops (Evans)....Rudy Starl- ta (Xylophone) with Plano and Saxo- phone.

Delibes In Vienna (arr. Walter)....Orches-

tre Raymonde.

Joey The Clown (Myers); Rio De Janeiro (da Gredos)....Rudy Starita (Xylophone) with Orchestra.

Gounod In Vienna (arr. Walter).....Or

chestre Raymonde.

1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather

Report.

1.03 p.m.-Billy Mayor! at the Piano.

Jasmine (A

Mayer]).

Syncopated Impression

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

9.52 Megacycles

The Harp of the Winds (Mayerl). Railroad Rhythm (Mayeri)..

1.13 p.m.-Paul Robeson (Bass) and Edna

Thomas in Negro Spirituals.

Little Wheel A-Turnin' In My Heart; Keep A-Inchin' Along; Were You Dere? (arr. Thomas (50- Edna Thomas)....Edna prano) with Plano.

Goin' To Ride Up In De Charlot (arr. Brown); Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit (arr. Brown)....Paul Robeson & Law- renco Brown with Plano,

Go Down, Moses (arr. Edna Thomas)....

Edna Thomas (Soprano) with Piano. Dere's A Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names (Brown): Work All De Summer (Gel- lert); Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

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.

"PENNY WISE"

Some players might criticize South's have been made. Before drawing any leap to six hearts after his partner had trumps Declarer should have played merely given a single raise. However, a club to dummy, then led the single- South's hand was so strong that he ton spade. When East played low, the felt the Slam would 'at worst depend finesse of the Jack would have driven on a finesse. After all, North's raise out the Ace. This would have esta- was about as weak as the law allows.blished South's King and it would then In the play of the hand South should be severely criticized for he "penny wise and pound foolish."

South, Dealer

Neither elde vulnerable

A 10 2 ♡ 8 7 OAK Q

10 4 5 4 3

6

10 9 4 2

9 8 7 6 3

♣K 10 7

WE

was

A 99843 ♡ Q 6

0J 52 4986

have been, a simple matter to trump his two remaining spade losers in the dummy.

You were Oswald Jacoby's partner yesterday. Neither side was vulner- able and you hold:

A Q J 9 x I x x

O Q J X

* X X

The bidding:

KJ 7.6

You

*Schenkew

AK J 5 8

A Q J 2

Pass (?)

8♡

Jacoby

Dbl...

Malon Pass

The bidding:

South West North East

20 2♡ PRES -Pass

1♡

6♡

Pass Pass

West opened.

South a diamond. trumped and played the Ace-King of Nothing with satisfaction that. trumps were

hearts.

•

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE

· FOUR ACER SYSTEM

ACE 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK..!

evenly divided, he

then cashed four club

ANSWER: Bid. four spades. Your partner's double is for "takeout" and shows a good hand. If you bid only three spades, he may have to pass.

Score 100% for four spades, 50% for three spades, 0 for pass (very bad.) QUESTION NO. 371

•

You are Merwin. Maler's partner

tricks, on the last of and hold:

which he discarded

dummy's only spade.

The discard of dum- my's spade à fatal mis- take, South still had two trumps in each hand with which to cross-ruff spades and diamonds, But, when trumps gave out, he still had the King Jack of spades, which West captured with the spade Ace and the top diamond.

The bidding: Maler Barnsjons INT Разв

(7)

What do you bid?" (Answer tomorrow.)

(Released By

Obviously the Slam should easily Inc.)

Syndicate

(arr. Brown)....Paul with 'Plano.

Robeson (Bass)

1.30 p.m.--Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather

Forecast and Announcements. 1.45 p.m.-Popular Danas Tunes.

Fox-Trots-Adolf; I'm Sending You The Cotton & His Siegfried Line....Billy Band. Waltz-There's Danger in the Waltz (from

'The Little Dog Laughed'). Slow Fox-Trot-I Never Knew

Could Speak (film 'Rose of Washington Square')....Victor Silvester & His Ball. room Orchestra.

Heaven

Fox-Trots We Must All Stick Together; That Started It.....Billy Cotton & His Band.

Out?.....Harry

Tango South of the Border....Jack Har-

ris & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots--Stairway to the Stars: F D. R. Jones....Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. Waltz-Ain't Cha Comin' Roy & His Orchestra. 2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN. 6.00 p.m.-Richards Strauss-Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite. Walther Straram Or- chestra (of Paris): .

6.32 p.m.--Closing Local Stock Quotations. 6.34 p.m.-Herbert Groh (Tenor) and Lilian

Harvey (Soprano).

But for You (film "The Only Girl')....Li- lian Harvey (Soprano) with Orchestra. Thousand Stars are Shining (Rust)..... Herbert Groh (Tendr) with Orchestra. Today I Am Happy-Waltz Song (film 'Black Roses').....Lilian Harvey (50- prano) with Orchestra.

Water Lilies (Dobrindt-Zander); Only For You-Waltz Song (Doedle-Amberg),.. Herbert Groh (Tenor) with Orchestra. 4.50 p.m.-Violin Solos.

Sonata (Eccles, arr. Salmon)..... Zino Francescatti (Violin) with Maurice Faure at the Piano. Siciliano (Germiniani, arr. Busch).....

Adolf Busch (Violin) with Plano. 7.00. p.m.-A Military Band Concert with

Pator Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Sousa Marches On....Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards cond, by Major George Miller.

Good Green Acres of Home (film 'Sweet Music'); The Strong Go On (Thayer) ....Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra."

Slavonic Rhapsody (Friedemann)....MasS- ed: Bands of the Aldershot & Eastern Commands cond. by Campbell, The Bullder (Poley-Cadman)..... Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra. A Wayside Sanctuary-Idyll (Gordon Mac- kenzie): Minstrel Memories.....Grand Massed Brass Bands at the Leicester Brass Band Festival.

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

port and Annauricaments. 8.03 p.m.Hawallan Selections.

Lonesome Without My Baby.....Masters'

Hawailans.

Lei E Hula (Johnny Noble); Song of the

Variety And Dance

Programme

Islands (Charles King)....Mike Hanapi (Vocal) and the Ilima Islander, Sweet Hawalian Maid (Johnson)........Andy Iona & His Islanders with Vocal Chorus. 8.15 p.m.-Latest Variety.

Vocal & Plano-Somewhere In

France

With You (Carr); I'll Remember (Rich- Connelly)....Leslie Hutchinson. Cinema Organ-There'll Always Be An England. (Parker & Charles).....Sidney Torch with Vocal by Raymond Newell. Plano Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 30. Intro: Don't worry 'bout me; And Especially the anglessing; Our love; for you; Angels never leave heaven; Goodnight, my darling, goodnight..... Charles Kunz with Rhythm accompani- ment.

Orch. & Vocal-Hands Across The Sea-

Waltz (Roberts & Others); We'll Remem- ber (Novello-Knox)....Brian Lawrance & His Lansdowne Orchestra with Vocal by Brian Lawrance. Piano & Vocal-Let's Make Memories To- night (film 'All Clear'); Over The Rain- bow (film 'Wizard of Oz")....Leslic Hut- chinson.

8.45 p.m.-London Relay - "At the Black Dog". Mr. Wilkes in his own bar-parlour. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Summary. 9.30 p.m.-Local sport results. 9.32 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-Who's Hoo

par?"!.

10.32. p.m.-Dance Music.

I

Fox-Trots-Sing Brothers (from 'Tell her the Truth'); Hoch Caroline (from "Tell her the Truth')....Ambrose & His Orch. Tangos-Quiero Verte Una Vez Mas; Mas Tipica Francisco Alla..... Orquesta

Washboard Blues;

Canaro.

Swing Fox-Trots

Weary Blues....Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra.

Comedy One-Step-Eleven More Months and Ten More Days....Ambrose & His Orchestra.

Waltz-Little Sir Echo....Mantovani & His

Orchestra.

11.00 p.m.-London Relay-"London Log". 11.15 p.m.-Varlety and Dance Music.

Vocal-On The Sunny Side Of The Rockies (Ingraham-Tobias); The Last Hansom Cabby (Connor & Wallace)....The Three Musketeers with Orchestra. Fox-Trot-There's Something Wrong with the Weather.....The Organ; The Dance Band and Me.

Vocal-On A Tropic Night (film "Trople Holiday'); Panamania (film 'Swing High, Swing Low')....Dorothy Lamour (Vocal) with Orchestra.

A

Jack

Novelty Waltz--Boomps-A-Daisy

·Harris & His Orchestra. Impersonator-Film Fans' Fare....Michael

Moore with Effects, Quickstep Lords of the Air....Jack Hyl-

ton & His Orchestra, Comediennes-London Pride: 1. Cockneys at heart; 2. And Proud of it, tog....Elale & Doris Waters with Orchestra. Fox-Trot-Good Bye Sally (from 'Shep herd's Ple')....Jack Hylton & His Orch. Vocal-Daddy's Old Guitar (Hill Billies); Cross-Eyed Sue (Hill Billies)....The Hill Billies with Their Own Novelty Orch: Quickstep-Cheerfo, I'll Be Seeing You....

Jack Payne & His Band. 12.00 midnight.-CLOSE. DOWN,

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