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MUTT AND JEFF

GOSH, YESTERDAY I DROPPED A VASE AND IT SMASHED INTO A MILLION PIECES --- I GOTTA BE MORE

CAREFUL!

CRASH!

5-24

THE CHINA MAİL, JULY 6, 1940

By BUD FISHER

WELL NOW WHO BROKE THIS VASE IN TWO

PIECES? DID YOU?.

WHO ME?

NOT ME,

BOSS! YOU OUGHT TO KNOW THAT!

I BREAK

' ́A VASE!

WHEN I BREAK

A. VASE,

Variety Programme

Today's Wireless

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-

sion.

12.30 p.m.-Respighi

Suite.

The Birds-

Brussels Royal Conservatoire Or- chestra conducted by Desire Defauw. 12.48 p.m.--Songs by Peter Dawson Turner Eva and (Bass-Baritone) (Soprano).

1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and

Weather Report.

1.03 p.m.-Duke

Ellington and

His

Orchestra and The Hawaiian Ser- enaders.

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

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

9.52 Megacycles

1.45 p.m.--British and Empire Variety.

Vocal-Songs of England. Songs of Wales.

Light Opera Company with Or-

chestra.

Instr. Quintet-Old Irish.

Leslie Bridgewater Quintet.

the Isles Vocal-The Road to

("Songs of the Hebrides"

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

4

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.

IGNORING STORM SIGNALS

It is nice to have a seven-card suit; but having such a suit does not give one a franchise to bid it forever.

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

AJ 10 9 7 42

>3.

A.

J 64 ♡ Q

A975 ·

3 2

While the blame for this disaster was in- lies principally with South, neverthe-

the one who less he was dignant with his partner and felt that three North

passed should have spades. Probably North should have. but East would have doubled that anyway and inflicted an 800-point penalty. At four clubs, on the other hand, double-dummy defence (in- cluding the almost impossible play by East of the Ace and Queen of clubs) but 800, would have set the hand while normal defence would have set it only 500.

R

A 10 8

◊ K Q:

A Q 3

♡ J9762

0 10 8.4 AK 6 5

W.

A A Q

K 10 9 8 7 6 2

◇ J 6

A 8 3

The bidding:

South West

Pass

Рава

Pass

INT

North 1♡ Pass

East Dbl.

20

24

PROS Bdja

Pass

3A

Pass

4A

Dbl.

The bidding:

4A

Рава

Pass

Dbl.

Burnstons

Schenken

Pass

Pass

Posa-

*

Howard

Schenken's

You were partner yesterday and held:

♡ AJ 10 x X-

Ó AJI

AA QIXX

arr. Kennedy-Fraser).

(arr. Loch Lomond

Williams).

Greenock Male

Vaughan

Voice Choir cond. by A, J. Gourlay. Band-Colonial Medley-

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down. 6.00 p.m.-Ravel-Introduction and Al- legro for Harp with Strings and Woodwind Accompaniment. Virtuoso String Quartet with J. Cockerill, R. - Murchie and C. Draper. 6.10 p.m.-Bridge Novelette No. 3.

Virtuoso String Quartet.

6.15 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.17 p.m.Bach Plano Solos by Har

riet Cohen.

Fugue No. 8 in E Flat Minor.

Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major. 6.26 p.m.-Schubert - Sonata In

A

· Minor for 'Cello and Piano. Emanuel Feuermann ('Cello) and Gerald Moore. (Piano).

6.45 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music.

Schubert Waltzes (Schubert)

Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr.

Entry of the Spring Flowers (Koc-

kert); You Shall Be The King of My Heart (Stolz)....Marek We- ber & His Orchestra.

7.00 p.m.-Light Variety Programme.

Quickstep I Wasn't Lying When I Waltz-Oh, Said "I Love You";

Henry Mr. Man in the Moon Jacques with His Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra. Comedian-The A.R.F. (Kerr); Don Juan (Freer)....Dave Willis with Orchestra.

Vocal Going Home; Tumbling Tumble Weeds (Nolan)....Jack Savage & His Cowboys: Rumba El Capullito De Aleli: Waltz-Alice Blue Gown....Henry Jacques & His Orchestra. Banjo

Joy Dance (Kirby) Ernest Jones with Piano. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The. News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Lehmann - In A Persian Garden (from "The Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam). Dora Labbette (Soprano), Muriel Brunskill (Con- tralto), Hubert Eisdell (Tenor) and Harold Williams (Baritone) with Plano,

Dance Music

8.37 p.m.-AI Bollington at the Organ. Escapada-A Mexican Elopement

(Phillips).

Speak to Me of Love-Intro: 'Love's last word is spoken' (Lehar & Bixio).

Irving Berlin Memories.

"

8.50 p.m.-Songs by Stuart Robertson

(Bass).

In Summertime on Bredon (Peel)

with Piano accomp.

The News

Little Brown Jug; The Three Grows (Eastburn); The Mermaid; Polly Wolly Doodle (arr. W. H. M.).... with Piano & Chorus. 9.00 p.m-London Relay

and Topical Talks. 9.45 p.m.-8hort Varlety Programme with Gracie Fields & Arthur Askey. 10.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music. 11.00 p.m.-An hour of Variety.

Vocal Let's All Join In The Chorus with Tommy Handley and His Pals. Intro: Daisy Bell; Don't dilly dally on the way; Nellie Dean; Oh, you beautiful Doll; The Spaniard the blighted my life; Hello, Hello, who's your lady- friend; At Trinity Church; Lily of Laguna; The Man who broke the Bank; Knees up Mother Brown Tommy Handley & His Pals with Orchestra.`

Vocal-Whispers In The Dark (film 'Artists and Models'); Will Pray Frances (Beverley Nichols)

Day with Orchestra.

Vocal The

Laughter Parade. (Dawn-Montague)....The Laugh- ter Makers with Orchestra. Vocal-I Bring You A Song. Intro: My Heart Will Never Sing Again; Giannina-Mia; I Bring you a Song ....The Voice of Romance with Orchestra. Vocal-Blue-beard: (Darnell);

On

The Good Ship Ballyhoo (Dar- nell)....Warner & Darnell, Two Pianos-Midnight In Mayfair (Newell Chase); Four Hands on a Plano...Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye with Drums.. Comedienne-Love Laughs.at Lock- smiths (Gay and Houston); The Eternal Triangle-A Broadcasting Skit:...Renee Houston with Orch. Organ Edward. German Selection

..Quentin Maclean...

Orch. Sangs Everybody is Singing. Intro: Live, laugh and love; By the fireside; He played his Ukulele: Somebody loves you; Dick Tur- pin's Ride to York; What makes you so adorable; Back again to happy-go-lucky

days .... Mayfair Orchestra with Vocal Refrain.

12.00 midnight.--Close down.

New

Six hundred points of 1,100 actually lost would probably have been saved if South had let his partner play four clubs.

In the play West opened the ten of diamonds. East won with the Ace and played another diamond. Declarer now led a heart to the

HISH CARD VALUKS

OF THE

FOUR ACKS SYFTER

ALF KING..2

QUEEN JACK

had

four

Jacoby Pass

You (?)

107. Pass. ANSWER: Bid two hearts, While you have a fine hand, a jump takeout (three hearts) is unsound since you have no spades and therefore cannot determine whether the hand should be played in hearts, clubs or notrump. Score 100% for two hearts, 40% for three hearts.

QUESTION NO. 455

King in his own hand Neither side is vulnerable. You

3 and played the eight of spades, West going up with the Queen. West now played "a heart, East ruffed with his low trump. and. now South still lose two club tricks and the Jack of spades, and he was down

are the dealer and hold:

K

2. K∙10 €

OA J7

QJ100

What do you bid?: (Answer

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