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MUTT AND JEFF

WE WANT TO BATHE!

NO

E YOU SURE THERE CROCODILES, ARE NO CROCODILES SENDRI

IN THIE

RIVER

“ÖK, BOY!

THAT RIVER SURE LOOKS

GOOD TO

ME!

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1940.

NO CROCODILES, SENOR! THEY'RE AFRAID OF THE SHARKS!

BY BUD FISHER

WHREEE! THIS PEELS GREAT!!

HEY! ARE YOU

HOT DOG

WHAT WAS THAT

WHAT

SURE THERE ARE NO CROCODILES

IN THIS

RIVER?

Dvorak Concerto Played By Menuhin

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m. - Short Service of Inter-

cession.

12.30 p.m.-Artie Shaw & His Orches-

tra and The Andrew Sister's.

1.00 p.m.-Local

Signal Time

and

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-Alfredo

Campoti

&

His

Orchestra.

On

The Fiddler's At The Forge (Ives); Penny In The Slot (Ashworth- Hope); The Knave of Diamonds (Steele); Love In Idleness-Ser-

Later (MacBeth); enata (Grimshaw). 1.18 p.m. Charlie Kunz at the Piano.

Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 4. Intro: I Need You; What will I tell my Heart; The Love Bug will Bite You; With Plenty of Money and

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles

With

You; Let's put out heads together; Moonlight and Shadows; plenty of Money and You. Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 2. Intro: One, two, button your shoe; On your toes; Goodnight my love; Harbour lights; There's something in the air; May I have the next ⚫romance?

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.45 p.m.-Dance Music by Billy Cot-

ton and His Band.

Minning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Acés)

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

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

A SIMPLE CROSS-RUFF

From the Declarer's viewpoint there up. He cashed dummy's Ace of clubs are three general types of hands at and King of spades, then played two suit contracts. The first is the estab-more rounds of trumps, landing in lishment by Déclarer of some side dummy. Next South trumped a club, was very much flabbergasted suit in his hand; the second, the set-and

ting up of some long sult in dummy; when the King, failed to drop from the third is the ruffing type, wherein West's hand. The final result was Declarer either trumps his losers in that South could win only his nine dummy or establishes a cross-ruff so top tricks.

Fox-Trots-Don't forget the

Old

Folks at Home; The House with the Little Green Tiles; I Can't Dance.

the Comedy Waltz-The Man on

Flying Trapeze. Fox-Trot-Madam Ah! La Marquise

Ah!

Quickstep I Like Bananas. Fox-Trots-The Masquerade is over; The Birthday of the Little Princess. Waltz-The Shabby, old Cabby. Fox-Trot--A New Moon and an Old

Serenade.

2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

- Concerto 6.00 p.m.-Dvorak

In A Yehudi Menuhin Minor, Op. 53. (Violin) and Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire con- ducted by Georges Enesco.

6.32 p.m.-Beethoven-Variations in E Flat Major ("Eroica"), Op. 35. Lili Kraus (Piano).

6.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

Tibbett (Bari. tone), Nan Maryska (Soprano) and Light Orchestră,

Overture "Caliph of... Bagdad"

(Boieldieu)....Berlin State Opera

7.00 p.m.-Lawrence

Orchestra.

Even Bravest Heart ("Faust".

Gounod) Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone) with Orchestra. Minuet (Boccherini, arr. Goehr); New Madrigale (Simonetti) Mayfair String Orchestra. My Lovely Celia (Monro, arr. Lane Wilson); The Lass With the Deli- cafe Air (Michael Arne)....Nan Maryska (Soprano) with Plano. Stephanie Gavotte (Czibulka); The Gavotte Way To The Heart (Lincke)....Willy Steiner & His Saloon Orchestra.

as to make each trump separately, We should like to point out what Sometimes there is a choice open to an absurdly simple hand this is to Declarer, and it is then that he should play. South should win the first trick 17.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. determine which type of play offers with the diamond Ace. Next the the best chance for success.

North, Dealer

K

◊ A

AQ 10 9 3.

h

10

6:2

5:4

♡ 6, 3

2

S

K87 E

DOC

The bidding:

A 9 7 5 3 K J 10 2

J 10 $

North

Fast

South

Pass

1

INT

Pass

3V

Pass

Pass

West Pass Pass Pass

club Ace and the two top spattes should be cashed, followed by a cross-ruft of all seven trumps. This method would produce eleven tricks with no risk involved.

✡

You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner yesterday and held:

K 10 x 1

◊ Qxxx AKJI

The bidding: Xo's

Maior Pass Pass (4)

Barnstone Jacoby

2

Rass

ANSWER: Bid three notrump. This bid shows at least a "trick" but denies a good sulf or support for spades.

Score 100% for three-notrump, 50% West opened a diamond. Dummy for two- notrump (artificial "bust" played low and East won with the response). Queen. A trump was returned. South

won with the ten,

QUESTION NO. 282

Both sides are vulnerable. You are then decided to estab-Oswald Jacoby's partner and hold.

VERIT CARE VALUES:

Ish clubs. He led his

singleton club and

finessed

dummy's

Queen, whereupon East, determine on

desperate manoeuvre,

Knowing that once lite King was gone, all of dummy's clubs would East innocently allowed the

WAX Uk Rick.

clarer now got himself all tangled

A 10 TI AKI I I

K. Q 10 x

The bidding:

Schankom

P696

What

tomor

Pass

Answer

Released By - The Ch

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

Reginald Foort at the 8.03 p.m.

Organ.. Medley of Daly's Favourites. Intro: A bachelor gay; Vilia; Bohemia; Leander; Under the Deodar; You're in love. Keep Smiling! (Reginald Foort's The A.B.C. Signature Tune): March (Foort & Ferring). 8.15 p.m.-London Relay "Things

have done for Radlo". By C. Dennis Warren.

8.30 p.m.-Schubert Duo for Piano

and Violin in A Major, Op. 162

Vernon Bartlett

On

"World Affairs"

Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano) and Fritz Kreisler (Violin).

8.50 p.m. Schubert Songs.

Aufenthalt

Alexander Kipni (Bass) with Frank Bibb at th Piano. Fisher-Ways, Op. 96, No. 4; Gretche at the Spinning Wheel, Op. 2... Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano with Gérald Moore at the Piano. 9.00 p.m.-J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. Souvenir (Drdla, arr. Willoughby)

Phantom Minuet (Hope); Narcis sus (Nevin); Valse Bluette-Al de Ballet (Drigo); Silver Thread Among the Gold (Danks, arr. Wil loughby).

9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum

mary. 9.30 p.m. London Relay "Worl

Affairs" by Vernon Bartlett. 9.45 p.m.-New Variety.

an

Vocal All Through A Glass

Champagne (Cochran's Shov "Lights Up"); Please Leave M Butter. Alone (Mills-Nicholls).... Arthur Askey with Orchestra. Fox-Trots--If A Grey-Haired Lad Says "How's Yer Father?"; We'l Meet Again....Jay Wilbur His Band. Vocal Dear Old Southland (Cream er-Layton); Nothin'. (Carpenter Paul Robeson (Bass) with Orch. Orch. & Organ-In The Shadow (Herman Finck); Valse Septembe (Godin, arr. Lotter)....Anton The Paramount Theatre Orchestra London, with Al Bollington at th

Organ.

Vocal-The Only One Who's Diff cult Is You (film 'Band Wagon') Heaven Will Be Heavenly (fl 'Band Wagón').... Pat Kirkwoo with Orchestra... 10.15 pim-Latest Dance Music.

Quickstep Nursie! Nursiel Fox-Tr

-Somewhere at Sea

Ne Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Fox-Trot They Can't Black Ou The Moon; Waltz Roses an Blooming in Loveland.....Ne Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot - Melody Make Quickstep Roadhouse Revel Fox-Trots Where or When (fil "Babes in Arms'); Good Mornin ..Jack Hylton & His Orchestra Swing Fox-Trots Night Glov

Stamp It Off. Tommy Dorsey ́ His Orchestra. Quickstep-Oh, Johnny; Fox-Trot- Scatterbrain, Midway Rhythn Quickstep Darktown Strutter Ball; Fox-Trot-My Melanchol Baby....Jack Hylton & His Orch 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

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