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MUTT AND JEFF

YOU WANT A WHAT?

A HORSE! A HORSE! › DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT

A HORSE IS ANY MORE?

AND GET ME ONE THAT WILL STAND UP! I WANT TO GO

RIDING IN THE

PARK!

WHOA! WHOA!

{UP! UP!}

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1940

By BUD FISHER

SAY,

WHERE'D

YOU BUY

THIS FOOL

HORSE?

AT

THE

CIRCUS!

#

Variety

Requests

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Intercession. 12.30 p.m.-Film Selections.

Today's Wireless

The Great Ziegfeld-Selection... Louis Levy & His Gaumont British Symphony with Vocal Chorus.

"The Girl of the Golden West"--Soldiers of Fortune; Who Are We To Say....Nel- son Eddy (Baritone) with Orchestra, Alexander's Ragtime Band-Medley.....

Lloyd Thomas (Organ). 12.50 p.m.-Songs by Gracie Fields."

Outside the Old Stage Door (Pattison & Others); Old Father Thames (O'Hagan); The Photograph of Mother's Wedding Group (Hargreaves & Damerell)....with Orchestral accomp.

1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Weather.

Report.

1.03 p.m.-Dance Music by the New Mayfair

Dando Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-Tiny Little Fingerprints; Fox- Trot Toot, Toot, Tootle On Your Flute; 6/8 Onestep-Follow the Band: Fox-Trot -Angel of the Great White Way: Tango Fox-Trot-Where The Cafe Lights Are Gleaming; Fox-Trot-Music Hath Charms (from the film); Slow Fox-Trot-Honey Coloured

Hath Moon (flim 'Music Charms'); Waltz-Lonely Sweetheart; Make Fox-Trot--Let's

Memories To- Night (from 'All Clear').

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

9.52 Megacycles

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

Forecast and Announcements.

1.45 p.m.-Noel Coward in Musical Comedy. Parisian Pierrot (Coward)....Noel Coward (Vocal) with The Phoenix Theatre Orch. "Cavalcade"-Suite (Tunes of 1899-1930)

....Noel Coward (Talking) and New. Mayfair Orchestra.

The Party's Over Now ('Words and Music'

-Coward);

With Something To Do Spring ('Words and Music'-Coward).... Noel Coward (Vocal) with Orchestra. Scenes from "Shadow Play" (from "To- night at 8.30'): Then; Play, Orchestra, Play: You were there....Gertrude Law rence & Noel Coward accomp. by The Phoenix Theatre Orchestra.

Any Little Fish ('Cochran's 1931 Revue'- Coward).....Noel Coward (Vocal) with Orchestra.

2.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN. 6.00 p.m.-Compositions of Wagner,

"The Flying Dutchman” — Overture.......... Bruno Walter conducting the Royal Phil- harmonic Orchestra.

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 existence.

A GOOD LEAP

If your partner makes a weak bid | North had held an Ace, he would have to start with, any subsequent bids found some means of showing it. As

"Tannhauser"The Landgrave's Address;

"Lohengrin"-The Kin's Address....Ivar Andresen (Bass) with Orchestra,

"The Flying The Spinning Song (from

Dutchman')....Elleen Joyce (Piano). "Lohengrin-Love Duet?...Tiana Lemnitz

and Torsten Ralf with Orchestra. ""The Valkyries"-The Ride of the Valky- rles....Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's Hall Orchestra. "Tannhauser"-Pilgrims' Chorus: Proces- sion of the Guests to Wartburg....State Opera Chorus and Orchestra cond. by Dr. Leo Blech.

6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotations. 6.47 p.m.-A Light French Programme with

Yvonne Printemps.

Fox-Trot-Ma Pomme: Slow Fox-Trot-

Ahl St Vous Connaissiez Ma Poule..... Maurice Chevalier (Vocal) with Orch. Waltz Songs from "The Three Waltzes" (Willemetz & Marchand)-Je T'Aima; Oul Je T'Aime O Paris....Yvonne Prin- and Orchestra temps (Soprano) with

Chorus. Valse-Ma Banlleue (Revue ('Feerie de Paris'); Java-Sous Les Becs De Gaz (Revue 'Feerie de Paris").....L'Accor- deoniste Alexander & His Orchestra. C'Est La Salson D'Amour (from The Three Waltzes').....Yvonne Printemps (Soprano) with Orchestra.

C'Est Le Debut D'Une Aventure (Mireil- le); Quand' On A Mal Aux Dents (MI- reille)....Pils et Tabet with Plano, 7.15 p.m.-Magyari Imre` and His Hungarian

Gypsy Orchestra.

Passing the Church; Lilac Flowers Mourn for Me (Zoltan); Pale Yellow Rose; I Love You Beautiful Lady (Sandor)........... Magyari. Imre & His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra.

Blue Cornflower. (Kadas); Tik Tok Tik Tak Ut Az. Ora (Frigyes); Lennyok, Le- genyek (Gyula)....Kalmer Pal (Vocal) with Magyari Imre & His Orchestrá. You Gave Me The First Kiss: In The Cafe with Glittering Mirrors....Magyari Imre & His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. 7.30 p.m. London Relay The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Re-

port and Announcements,

must of necessity be limited by the it was, North's bidding merely in-8.03 p.m.-Request Variety Programme. weakness previously shown. Hence, indicated a freak hand with very good to-day's hand Merwin Maier was able heart support.

to drop the bidding at the safe con- tract of five hearts.

South, Dealer-

A 10

♡ Q 8 7 4 8

◊ 9:6

9 6 2

O AJ 10 8

7 8

J 6 4

Q-9 7 5 2

A 874

V 1 6

W

◊ KQ 52

A 10 8 3

A.K.QJ58

A KJ 10 2

4

K

Mr. Mater

The bidding:

South West North

Bast

24

·Pass, 2N'T

Pass

Pass Раев

5♡

Pass Pass

East and West cashed their two Aces and then led another diamond, where- upon Mr. Maler spread his hand.

106H CARH VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SVÉTEN

ACE.. KING QUEEN 1 JACKUN

This hand was the subject of our ques- tions of the two pre- ceding days. (See an- swer" below to yester- day's question.) In the bidding as given, Mr. Maler had no real pro- blem as to what to do after the jump to five hearts, since if

*

You were Merwin Maier's partner yesterday and held:

Q x x x x The bidding: Maler

Burnstone You

Schenken Pass ENT Paas (7)

24.

S♡. Pass

ANSWER: Your correct bid is five hearts. Having already shown nothing by your two notrump bid, you must make a stronger þid than a mere four hearts.

Score 100% for five hearts, 40% for four hearts (an underbid), 30% for six hearts (an overbid).

QUESTION NO. 407

Both sides are vulnerable. You are Howard Schenken's partner and hold:

KQIII

The bidding:- Jacoby 10

Schinkon ·Barnstons You

-Pans

(7) What do you bid? - (Answer tomorrow.).

Fox-Trots-Vilia; Дове Room....Artie Shaw & His Orchestra.. Vocal-Three Wishes (from "The Good Companions') ...Jessie Matthews (Soprano) with Or- chestra. Fox-Trot-They Can't Black Out The Moon....New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Humorous-Bad Show Chaps (Western Bros.)....The Western Brothers with Plano. Polka-Beer Barrel Polka ....Harry Roy & His Orchestra. Tango -South of the Border....Jack Harris & His Orchestra. Vocal-Follow The White Line (Burnaby &. North); F. D. R. Jones (Rome)....Arthur Askey with Jack Hyl-' ton & Some of His Boys. Fox-Trot-Riċ- ing Down The Sunset Trail........Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Impersonations-Flo- rence Desmond At A Rehearsal for The Troops....Florence Desmond with Or-

Fox-Trot-Goodbye. Sally.,

chestra,

In the

London

Relays

The Organ, The Dance Band and Mc. Black 8.45 p.m.-London Relay "At The

Dog",

9.18 p.m.-London. Relay--News Summary. 9.30 p.m.-Local sports resulta. 9.32 p.m.-Robinson Cleaver at the Organ,

Medley-Ca c'est Paris; Harbour Lights; Massed Bands of the Guards; Boo-Hoo; Little old Lady of Poverty Street;. Red, White and Blue....Robinson Cleaver. Foet and Peasant (Suppe)....Robinson Cleaver (Organ) and Patricia Rossbo- rough (Piano). The Whistler & His Dog (Pryor)....Robin.

son Cleaver.

9.45. p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Poor Polly".

A, Sketch.

10.00 p.m.-More Variety Requests.

Marches We'll Remember (Novello); Lords of the Air (North-Burnaby)....The Organ, The Dance Band' and Me, Vocal- -When The Guards Go Marching By (Baker); When The Sergeant Major's On Parade (Longstaff) .... Peter Dawson Quartet. (Bass-Baritone) with Male Orch. The Skaters-Waltz (Waldteufel) www:Victor Silvester's Harmony -Music. Violin & Vocal-An Old Violin (Taylor & Olive Fisher)... Albert Sandler and

by Jean Groves with Piano accomp. Melville, Orch.-Bolero (from the film Ravel)....Odeon Theatre Orchestra. Vo cal-The Mounties (film 'Rose Marie") ...Nelson Eddy (Baritone) with Orches- tra. Orch.--La Palome (Yradler)....De Groot & His Orchestra. Vocal--Rose- Marie (from the film)....Nelson Eddy (Baritone) with Orchestra. Orch.-Roses of Picardy ('Concert Version-Haydn Wood)....Ray Ventura & His Collegians, Vocal-Indian Love Call (film 'Rose- Marle')....Jeanette Macdonald (So- prano) and Nelson Eddy (Baritone) with Orch. Instru.-Rustle of Spring (Sind- ing. Op. 32, No. 3)....Albert Sandler Trio. Vocal-Wanting You (film "The New Moon')....Lawrence Tibbett (Barl- tone) with Plano. Orch.-Blue Danube ---Waltz - (Johann

Phliadel- Strauss).... phia Symphony Orchestra cond, by Leo- pold Stokowski. Vocal-Tales from the Vienna Woods (from film "The Great Waltz')....Miliza Korjus (Soprano) and Orchestra. Violin-Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler) Joseph Szigeti (Violin) with Plano,

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

Fox-Trots-Sing. Sing, Sing: Rhythm Say- ed the World....The Krakajax. Rumba -Nenita Mia....Fred Jackson & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-A Sweet Begin- ning Like This; The Piccolino.....Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman & His Orches- tra. Waltz-My Hawallan Song of Love; Fox-Trot-Down' in Waflikt....Eddie's Hawaiian Orchestra. Swing Fox-Trots- Night Time In Cairo: Midnite In Harlem .....Eddie Carroll & Hls Swingphonie Or- chestra. Fox-Trots Roses in December (firm 'Life of the Party'); Old Pal Of Mine....Billy Thorburn & His Music. Tango Havana Heaven; Rumba-Cuban Pete....Mantovani & His Tipica Orches tra. Fox-Trots-To You, Sweetheart; I Was Saying to the Moon (alm 'Go West, Young Man')....Roy Fox' & His Orch, 12:00 midnight-CLOSE "DOWN,

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