1940-06-27 — Page 16

WAITER! HEY, WAITER!

THERE'S A

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FLY IN MY

YESSIR, COMING, SIR!

RICE PUDDING}|

OH, THAT'S NOT A FLY, SIR! THAT'S

A RAISINI

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A RAISIN? WELL, THAT'S THE FIRST RAISIN I EVER

SAW THAT WENT-

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London

Relays

Today's Wireless

8.05 p.m.---Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.47 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Ours Is

A Nice Hour Ours Is". A Radio Romp devised by Clarkson Rose

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

9.52 Megacycles

with Music by Conrad Leonard and 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather 9.00 p.m.-Band Music. Produced by Gordon Crier.

7.18 p.m.-Piano Duets by Rawicz and

Landauer.

Waltz Memories from Vienna (arr. Schubert Rawicz & Landauer); Time (arr. Rawicz & Landauer); Chopinezza (arr. Rawicz & Lan- dauer); Liszt in Rhythm (arr. Rawicz & Landauer).

7.30 p.m. London Relay-The News.

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Marek Weber

Orchestra.

and His

"Die Fledermaus” Selection (J. Strauss); Golden Rain Waltz (Waldteufel); "Faust" Waltz (Gounod).

"Spitfires

8.15 p.m.-London Relay

over Britain". A feature programme on. R.A.F. Home Defence.

Winning

CONTRACT

(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.

SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY

Ac-

While it is a fine principle to develop | passing: that South, with a High Card the bidding in minimums whenever Value of but 7% (in this instance less possible, it should be borne in mind than 2 tricks) and 4-3-3-3 distribu- that simple raises of your partner's tion, did open the bidding after his suit are not forcing, and that if you partner passed and did keep it alive are going to raise his suit, you must once more by bidding notrump. jump the bidding if your hand war- cordingly, when the best his partner rants it.

could do on the second round was to go to two diamonds, South decided there could be no play for game and that he had better stop before getting too high. However, let's look at the North hand. He had passed originally with a better hand than his partner opened the bidding with. All he had to do was jump to three diamonds on the second round.

North, Dealer Nelther side vulnerable

AA 9 8 7 6 ♡ OA 8 5 4

♡ A 9 6 5 4

Q 6 3 2

A J 5 4

A 10 3

CK 8 7 3

2

W

7 6

A 95

♡ Q J 10

K Q 2

OK J 2 AJ 8 7.

◊ Q 10 9 3

K 10 4

The bidding:

North East

South

West

PR88

Pass 10

Pass

1A 20

Pass Pass

INT

Ранв

Разв Рабо

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

West opened the Ace of clubs and followed with a low club. South won In his own hand, led a diamond to dummy's Ace and continued the suit, making five-odd. It should be noted that with the Jack of clubs in the East hand, five- odd could also be made .at spades..

EACH 31 KING .24 QUEEN.1 JACK.1.

2

TIFUL VALUE OF PADRES EVERAGE HARD 63%

North immediately accused his part- ner of underbidding, and said to South, "I first bid a spade and then showed two diamonds. Why didn't you, with the King-Queen-small of spades, go to two spades, whereupon I would have contracted for game?"

Actually South might have bid two spades, but it should be noted that the bidding commenced with North

*

*

With neither side vulnerable, you were Merwin's Maier's partner yes- terday and held:

AA 9 8 7 6

◊ A 3 5 4

The bidding: You Burnstone

+ Q # 82

Malor

Jacoby

Pass

1A

Pasa Pass

10

Разв

INT

Pass

(?)

ANSWER: Your correct bid is three diamonds. There should be a very. good play for game. (This is discuss- ed in to-day's article).

Score 100% for three diamonds, 30% for two diamonds (an underbid.)

QUESTION NO 447 Neither side is vulnerable. You are Howard Schenken's partner and hold:

A K 10

KJ XXX A AJXXX

The bidding: Jacoby

10

Pasa

Schenken

Pass

INT

What do you bid? tomorrow,)

Mater You PARA Dbl. Рава (?) (Answer

(Released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

Ruy Blas Overture. (Mendelssohn); Tancredi Overture (Rossini).... The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards cond, by Capt. George Miller.

Minstrel Memories (Rimmer)....

Grand Massed Brass Bands at the Leicester Brass Band Festival,

1936.

'9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

9.30 p.m.-London -Talk.

Relay Topical

9.45 p.m.-Jane Bathori (Mezzo-So-

prano) in a French Programme. Elegie, Op. 24 (Faure)....Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston. Symphony Orchestra with Jean Bedetti ('Cello).

Clair De Lune (Faure); Lied (Cha- brier)....Jane Bathori (Mezzo- Soprano) ar companying herself at the Piano.

Thais Meditation (Messenet)

Mischa Elman (Violin) with Piano

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REFUGEES FROM KWANG CHOW WAN

A large number of people arrived here yesterday rom Kwong Chow

Wan.

They stated that Kwong Chow Wan was tense but calm. The majority f the Chinese Government offices he been removed into the interior and all business men have made prepara- tions for immediate departure.

The Chinese educational authorities

have ordered all schools to suspend the half-yearly school and examinations.

college

SCOTTISH FOOTBALL

SUSPENSION

London, To-day.

The Scottish Football League suspended competitions until annual general meeting in 1941

has

the but

it is officially stated there is nothing to prevent clubs getting together and forming a competition of their own.- Reuter.

In the

French

Programme

accomp. L'Angelus De La Mer (Revue 'Folic

en Fleurs')....Damia (Vocal). Jean-Francois et Marie-Claire (Re- vue 'Folie en Fleurs')....Carmen Torres et Robert Buguet with Or- chestra and Chorus of the Folies Bergere.

On N'A Pas Besoin De La Lune (Misraki); Qu'est-Ce Qu'on Attend (Misraki)....Pils and Tabet (Vo- cal) with Piano accomp. 10.15 p.m.-Charpentier - Impressions D'Italie - Sulte. Orchestre Sym- phonique under the direction of Gustave Charpentier.

10.40 p.m.-Organ Music.

By The Blue Hawaiian Waters--

Medley (Ketelbey); The Vision of. Fuji-San (Ketelbey)....Reginald Foort.

Leslie Stuart Selection. Intro: Sol- diers of the King; Tell me, pretty maiden; In the shade of the Palm; Little Dolly Daydream; Sweet- heart May; Lily of Laguna....Re- ginald Foort at the B.B.C. Theatre Organ. Traumerei (Schumann, arr. Wood- house)....Sandy MacPherson at the B.B.C. Theatre Organ. 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

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