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MUTT AND JEFF

YOU SAY YOUR WIFE

GOT A PART

YER AND I GOT TWO TICKETS!

HEY, MUTT, LOOK!

YOU BOOB

IN A SHOW

THAT GUY WANTS,

TO HIT YOUR WIFE WITH A STICK!

HE DON'T WANT TO

HIT HER!

AHIL

SAH

THEN WHAT'S

SHE SCREAMING

FOR?

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1940.

By BUD FISHER

Popular

Variety

6.00 p.m.-Dance Music.

6.68 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

Today's Wireless

7.00 p.m.-Studio-Talk on Tchaikow«

aky with musical illustrations. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Popular Varlety.

Vocal-I'm Falling In Love With Someone (film "The Life of Victor with Jones Herbert').....Allan

Orchestra.

Hawaiian Orch-Strange Enchant- We'll Meet ment (Hollander);

Again (Parker-Charles).... Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serena- ders with Vocal refrain. Vocal-I'll Remember (Rich-Con- nelly); I'm Sending a Letter to

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

Santa

9.52 Megacycles

Claus (Rogers-Williams) ..Arthur Askey with Jack Hyl- ton & Some of His Boys.

Rainbow (film Vocal-Over The

&

Kunz with Rhythm

..Charlie accomp.

(Hunter-Trenet); Comedian-Boom

If A Grey-Haired Lady Says "How's Yer Father" (Waite). Jack Warner with Sonny & Orch. Vocal & Piano-Let's Make Memor- ies To-night (film 'All Clear').... Leslie Hutchinson.

member", 8.44 p.m.-B.B.C, Recording "| Ro- A Programme of Musical Entertainment of 40 or 50 years ago.

"The Wizard of Oz'); Scatter Brain (Masters & Others).... Phyllis Robins with Orchestra. Orch. Choo-Choo (Waller

Others); Bouncing the Black-Out -Fox-Trot.... Barney Gilbraith & His Coconut Grove Quartet. Piano-Charlie Kunz Piano Medley

No. D. 34. Intro: In an 18th cen- 18.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum- tury drawing room; Faithful for-

mary.

ever; It's a hap-hap-happy day 9.80 p.m.-London Relay "Cards on

Winning

the Table".

9.45 p.m.-A Special Programme of Tchaikowsky's Music in honour of his Centenary.

Dance

Music

Orchestra, Berlin, with the Ural

Cossacks' Choir conducted

Alexander Kitschin,

Pilgrim's Song

by

Oscar Natzke

(Bass) with Piano accomp. by Hu- bert Greenslade. Concerto No. 1 in B. Flat Minor, Op. 23....Arthur Rubinstein (Piano) and the London Symphony Or- chestra cond. by John Barbirolli. from Pique Chauve-Souris-Duet

Dame....Eugenie Safonova and Finaida Erchova with the Cam- bridge Theatre Orchestra conduct- ed by Archangelsky, Troika En Traineaux, Op. 37, No. 11

..Sergi Rachmaninoff (Piano). Eugen Onegin-Waltz; Eugen Onegin .Berlin State Opera -Polonaise. Orchestra cond, by Robert Heger. Paroles....Londor Sans Chanson

Symphony Orchestra cond. by Sir Landon Ronald.

1812 Overture....The Philharmonic | 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

H.K.F.C.

CONTRACT LAWN BOWLS

(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.

-

EXCELLENT DEFENCE®

the club Good players are prone to defend | At this point East cashed

then played another club, vigorously against a part score, and Queen, will often take desperate chances in forcing Declarer's last trump.

In order to make his contract, South an effort to push their opponents be- yond their depth. But they do have

now had to risk a spade finesse, but captured dummy's to have some reasonable values to bid. East gleefully Otherwise they might incur a penalty Queen and then won still another club far out of proportion to the value of trick to set the contract two tricks. game. In to-day's hand East and West did not dare venture a bid. Instead, they combined on some excellent de- fensive play.

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable North-South 40 on score

A Q.6 2

♡ 4 8 8

◊ 10 7 6 4 AK J

▲ 10 8 7 4

N

AK J

♡ K 6 2.

J 9 3

W

E

A 65

AJ 10

♡ 9 7 6 0.08 2

Q 10 9

4 3

9 58

◊ AK 6. .8 7.2

The bidding:.

South

West

North

10

Pasa

1NT

Pass

2♡

Fast Pass Pass

Pass

Pass

lead a low

West chose a daring

HIGH CARS WELLIES

*

David Bruce Yesterday you were Burnstone's partrier and held:

You

K 10 x x x

♡ A.JI

◊ x x

KQx

The bidding:"

14 -(7)

·Baior.' Раве

Burristone 20

Рабо

TEAMS

BUTTER RATIONING

WARNING

London, To-day.

The Minister. of Food yesterday warned the public of the possibility of reducing. the butter ration at an ear- ly date.

"I have

no

Lord Woolton said: Following teams have been selected to represent Hong Kong Football doubt we shall have adequate supplies Club in League lawn bowls matches drawn from within the Empire for the to be played on Saturday:-

rest of the year. The important thing for us to consider was not how much of any particular article there was in this country at any moment but how much there would be in the event of all sorts of disadvantageous circum- stances arising in the future."

First Division (v Cralgengower C.C. at C.C.C.)-A; Watson, G. E. Stephens, L. E. Lammert and N. J. Bebbington (skip); J. H. Gelling, J. Watson, K. S. Robertson and A. Brooksbank (skip); J. S. Howell, A. W. Hodges, G. Duncan and W. Gill (skip).

Third Division (v Craigengower C.C. at

It will be recalled the original ra- home)-A, B. Didsbury, B. I. Bickford, C.

tion of butter was doubled shortly P. Anslow, C. G. Sollis, B. A. Mansell and after its introduction.-British Wire- F. Needham and G. S. Graver (skip); F. H.. G. Wallington (skip); H. H. Beddow, T.

less. A. Rowell, J. I. Barnes and S. H. Strange (skip).

CAPT. BALFOUR'S FLYING VISIT

London, To-day.

ITALY'S 35,000-TON BATTLESHIP

the squadrons.

Genoa, To-day.

Italy's new 35,000-ton 15-Inch gun Captain Balfour, Parliamentary Air battleship Littorio was handed over to Under-Secretary, on Sunday toured the Italian Navy here yesterday.— R.A.F. Bomber Command units that | Router. have been heavily engaged in recent Jacoby

operations.

Captain Balfour, piloting a three- visited several seater monoplane, stations where he had an opportunity of conveying the appreciation of the Air Council for the achievements of

ANSWER: Your correct bid is two spades. In spite of your strength, in hearts and clubs, your hand is too near a minimum, to warrant any other, re- bid.

Score 100% for two spades, 40% for two notrump.

QUESTION: NO. 403

With neither side vulnerable, you partner and are Oswald Jacoby's

club away from his Ace. Declarer hold: made the natural mistake of playing the Jack from dummy, whereupon East won with the Queen and return- ed a trump. Winning with the King, West second PORN-ACKS SYSTEM A played

trump, and when De-- another: clarer led club, West won with the Acarand

ALL KING QUEEN 1 JALK..

a

played

a third trump. Now South played three rounds of diamonds,

KII

The bidding: Schenken

14 Pass

Pass 11

(1) What do you¬-bld? tomorrow.)

In the

At one station he was introduced to four N.C.O.'s who, as members of the crews of different bombers had all been decorated for outstanding gal- lantry British Wireless,

Roof Garden

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