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MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF'S WORKING IN A CLOTHING STORE! NOW'S MY CHANCE TO GET A RAIN COAT FOR THESE APRIL

SHOWERS!

MUTT, IT'S A BARGAIN! ONLY $6.95

YEH, BUT HOW,

DO I KNOW IT'S WATERPROOF?

[DON'T 'YOU TAKE MY

NO!

WORD

FOR (T?

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1940.

SEE, IT'S PERFECT!

By BUD FISHER

Variety Programmes-

Today's Wireless

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-Ev'rything You Do; All Alone

In Vienna....Billy Bissett & His Orch. Tango Havana Heaven.

Rumba-Cuban Pete....Mantovani & His

Tipica Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-On A Little Bamboo Bridge; Rainbow on the River (from the film) ....Billy Bissett & His Orchestra.

Slow Fox-Trot-With All My Heart (film

'Her Master's Voice').

Fox-Trot-Cling to Me........The B.R.C. Dance

Orchestra.

His

Fox-Trots-The Man From the South; Way Down Yonder In New Orleans.....Nat Gonella & His Georgians. Waltzes Raisins and Almonds; Rehear

sing A Lullaby....Phil Green &c Rhythm. Fox-Trots - Unbelievable (from 'Swing

Along'); Drop In Next Time Passing (from 'Going Places').....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.

You're

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

9.52 Megacycles

Fox-Trots You've Got Dust On Your Coat; Does Your Heart Beat?....Geral- do & His Orchestra,

Tangos-Cabecita; La Ultima Cancion....

Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra, Quickstep-Washington Grays..... Jimmie

Dorsey & His Orchestra..

7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.02 p.m.-Selections from Light Opera. "Jolly Roger"-Vocal Gems....Columbia Light Opera Company with Orchestra. "Lilac Time"-Selection (Schubert,

Clutsam)....The New Mayfair Orch, "Florodora"-Vocal Gems (Stuart).

"H.M.S. Pinafore"—Selection (Gilbert & Sullivan)....The B.B.C, Theatre Orch. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.--Studio-Recital by. Angeli- ka Nessler Steinschnelder (Soprano) with Plano accompaniment by E. O'Neil Shaw.

2.

arr,

Light Opera Company with 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 GAMBLE

Playing in a rubber Bridge game;" Theodore A. Lightner had as usual several admiring kibitzers. When Mr. Lightner suddenly bid six hearts, one of them was heard to gasp audibly, But he then managed to control him- self until the hand was played to its successful conclusion.

South, Dealer Both sides vulnerable

VK Q7 3

O Q 9 8.5 2

764

A 10 9 7

W

AK Q J ♡ 8 5

◊ J7 48

8 4 3- ♡ AJ:10-8-

AKQE

J 10 9 2

--

Mr. Lightner replied, "If you studied my powerful hand, you would observe that the only high cards missing were in hearts and spades. Now my part- ner's second bid was a jump raise to four hearts. From this it was easy to conclude that he held fine trump sup- port, and in addition either some of the top cards in spades or a single- ton, which would be equally valuable."

The kibitzer now subsided with the remark, "Your analysis is very clear, but I admit I wouldn't have had the nerve to bid that Slam.”

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**

Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and held:

AK QII I

X

I

A XXX

OA KAY

The bidding!

Mr. Lightner

The bidding:

8A

Maler Pass Pass

Jacobs

INT

Schenken Pass 1. Pass

Bouth

Wost

North East

10

.Pass

2♡

Paes

3

6V

Pass Pass

4♡

Pass

HIGH CARD VALUES

.OF THE FOUR-ACKS EYETEM

ACE... KING. QUEEN 1 JACK.J

Pass

Рабо

West opened the Ace of spades and continued, Mr. Lightner trumping in dummy. He next cashed his two top diamonds, then played the heart Ace and a small one to dummy,|- Mr. Lightner then trumped à diamond, and re-entered dummy with last trump His two regaining dia-. monde.now furnished discards for his losing spade and club. The kibitzer, who had remained silent while the play was going on, now inquired incredulously, “How could you jump to a Slam with three Samall spades?""

ANSWER: Your correct bid is four clubs. You definitely do not want to allow the hand to play at notrump. -

Score 100% for four clubs, 70% for do not want to shut out a four-spade four spades, 20% for five clubs (you contract), 0 for pass.

QUESTION NO. 415 Both sides are vulnerable. Merwin Maler is your partner and you hold:

K KII

The bidding. Juustonq You Bel

(1) What do you, bid? tomorrow:)

(Answor

(Released By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

1. (a) In the Churchyard (Brahms).

(b) The Abandoned (Joseph Marx). Three Russian Songs: (a) No. 4 of Four Japanese Melodies (Ippolitow- Ivanow, Op. 60): (b) Green (Serge Bortklewicz); (e) The Lonely Steppes (Gretchaninow).

8.20 p.m.--Boccherini-Concerto In B

Flat Major.

Pau Casals ('Cello) and the London Sym- phony Orchestra cond, by Sir Landon Ronald.

8.43 p.m.-Studio-Plano Recital by

Nura Kanis.

Bach-Partita No. 1: (a) Prelude; (b) Courante; (c) Menuet; (d) Allemaude; (e) Sarabande: (1) Menuet; (g) Gigue. 9.05 p.m.-The Walter String Players.

Gavotte in E (for Strings) (Bach). Minuet (Boccherini). 9.15.p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

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

the Table"

9:46 p.m.-Military Band Music.

The Mill On The Rock-Overture (Reissi- ger-arr. Winterbottom).....The B.B.C. Wireless Military Band cond. by B. Wal- ton O'Donnell.

H.H, Jollies Quick March (Alford). On The Quarter Deck-Quick March (Al- ford)...The Band of H.M. Royal Mar- ines, Plymouth Division, cond. by Major F. J. Ricketts.

10.00 p.m.-A Variety Programme with The Duncan Sisters, "Hutch", The Hill Billles, Oliver Wakefield, Bobby Breen, & Others.

Vocal Twilight On The Trail (flm The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'); Blazin' The Trail (Powell & Others)....The AI Billies with Their Own Novelty Accom paniment, Vocal-Happy As A Lark (film 'Breaking the Ice'); The Sunny Side of Things (film 'Breaking the Ice')....Bobby Breen with Orchestra: Humorous Monologues-Play Up and Pay the Dame (Wakefield): Keeping A stir Upper (Wakefield).... Oliver Wakefield (The Voice of Inexperience).. Vocal & Plano-Singing for You (Hack- forth); Paris Is Not the Same (Marvell- Strachey) .....

Leslie Hutchinson with Orchestra,

Studio

Recitals

The Duncan Sisters accomp. by Two Pianos: Plano-Let Me Play-By Vivian Ellis (In Which the Composer Introduces Fifteen of His Best Known Tuinea).....Vivian Ellis. Vocal-We'll Rest at the End of the Trail (Poulton & Rose); Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie (Robison)....The Hill Blilies with Their Own Novelty Accom- paniment,

VocalWhat Have You Done To My Heart (film 'Cafe Collette'); Twilight Serenade ....Clarrie Wright with The Twilight Serenaders.

Vocal & Plano-To-morrow is Another Day (film 'A Day at the Races')..... Leslie Hutchinson.

11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

DON'T FORGET THE NAVY

LONDON, TO-DAY.

THE DRAMATIC EVENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN HAPPENING IN BEL- GIUM AND FRANCE HAVE ONCE MORE RELEGATED: THE ACTIVI- TIES OF THE NAVY TO THEIR ACCUSTOMED OBSCURITY.

The normal duties both of the Navy and the mercantile marine are as unspectacular as they are, arduous and valuable, and it is often forgotten that the whole sea service has been in constant action. ever since the war began.

Take, for instance, the continuous depends keeping clear the entrances operation of minesweeping on which to ports and harbours. The number of mines swept up is never published and the strenuous activities of these small, craft working in all weathers are reflected only in honours and casualty lists.

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Again, numerous vessels are em- ployed: guarding convoys and.', the fact that up to May 8 some 19,922 British, Allied and neutral ships had been escorted in British convoys with a loss of only 31 proves efficiency of this branch of naval activity.

which

In addition, there is the anti-sub- marine campaign, unceasingly

· pro- . secuted, the results of

are Organ-Speak to Me Of Love (Lenoir); never published but may be said to Escapada (A Mexican Elopement-Phil- be reflected in the substantial lessen- lips)Al Bollington.

Vocal-Ti-Pi-Tin (Leveen-Grever); Adaming of the merchant ships sunk.

and Eve (Duncan Sisters-Granatt)..

In the

British Wireless.

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