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A Little White Room (Floodlight-
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You Have That Extra Something
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Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra.
Rio RitaVocal Gems
McCarthy & Tierney). Follow Through-Vocal: Gems
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Tight Opera Company,
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Walter Glynne Medley I'll Walk Beside You
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By ELY GILBERTSON
Discouraging Discards
It follows quite logically that if, North Bast ***South you discard or follow suit with diamond 1 spade Double
2 clubs 3 clubs Pass
your lowest card of a suit, you are asking your partner not to lead that suit. Had you wanted the suit led you would have echoed. This in-
Fest
Pass
Pass 2 no trump Pass 3 no trump Pass
Pass. Pass
Nobody Knows De Tr Run, Mary Bun (arg
Mam'selle Mazie on); Dere's Brown)
Hammer
Brown)
Brown.
8.15 pm-London" Relay-****
of the Gramophone* Maurice Be
8.45 p.m.Studio..
Moana Beach Boys.
1. An Island Melody.
2. Kamalani o Keankaha
Let's go for broke → Moonlight and Shadows.- Blue Hawaii (By request).
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5.
9.05 pm Songs by Luc
Dancing With My Dar This is The Kiss Of Ros
(Parish-Delettre).
I Found A Bit
Of Old New York
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chestra..
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At Dawning (Cadman).
The Waltzing Doll (Poldini). *Monsieur Beaucaire Selection
(Rosse, arr. Bucalossi).
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Musical Comedy.
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110.15 p.m.
Ger
North's bidding was very shrewd What's On At the Cinemas
of of one
*
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ference is completed when you later fat duplicate. He could not, follow with or discard a higher cara course, stand the double
AT THE KING'S -London by; AT THE QUEEN'S-
Faces of than you first played. It is known spade when he was void of that suit. Night", with George-
Murphy
1937 LA-series of --musical comedies South might easily require spadej Johnson and Virginia Field. The stor as a "discouraging discard.”
bring *ment leads from North in order to defeat reveals the London of tradition, gloom Discouraging discards in two
to outward appearances in its viel of markets suits usually call for a lead of the the contract. Thus, while it is true fog, but gay and dramatic in its lights diences.
Au- that one spade could have been bad- and night clubs and deals with a mys third suit (other than trump). Al ly hurt, North's decision to take out tery plot and of a reporter out to solve player may be unable to spare 2
AT THE MAJESTIC "Pick Me A the double was unimpeachable. the murder but encounters the daughter Star"- card of the suit he wants led. . His
After South had shown excellent involved in the murder.
of a wealthy man to find her deeply brities makes this picture something Handsome cast of screen cele- only means of calling for a lead of
out of the ordinary in the way of that suit is to play his lowest cards spades by the double and hearts by
musical comedies. Patsy Kelly, Jack in other suits, thereby inviting the the implication of the norm AT THE ALHAMBRA - "The Man Haley, Shar Laurel, and Oliver Hardy suit he wants by process of elimina-bids, North, fully aware of the su- In Bine", with Robert Wilcoz, Nan lead the fun and lan and excel-
periority of trump at match Grey and Robert Ellis. The central fent contril point scoring, permitted the three characters are a policeman and a boy Auer, Lydia, Roberti and Rosina Law- The Trump Echo The "trump echo" is the play,sist with his minor suits.
no trump to stand rather than per the lad's burglar father. Years later
whom the officer adopts after killing rence
either in following suit or în ruffing
the boy is suspected of embezzling of an unnecessarily high trump. If! A less thoughtful player might some money from the bank, and goes to ruin. The climax is provided by the this is followed later by the play of have tried for a slam in either clubs return of faith and trust which bring a lower trump, it is a signal, telling or diamonds, but this would have his regeneration partner that at least one more trump is held.
tion.
TO-DAY'S HAND
no
AT THE ORIENTAL “Sing Me Love Song"An O. Henry-style mance set to music with a big dep mental store and dozen of lovely as back-ground. The huge co
been unsound. If South had good spades and hearts it hardly was possible that he had enough in the Discarding usually causes dis minors to solidify North's suits to comfort to the defenders rather no more than one loser. than to the declarer. But at times West opened his top spade and cast includes James Metton, the latter will find it none too easy declarer studied the situation. He Ellis, Hugh Herbert, Zasa Pit to make the proper choice. In some did not know whether the diamond Jenkins, Nat Pendleton,
Walter Catlett Hobart hands the crucial point is to defer suit would return five tricks, but, Charles Richmans a decision until more complete in- since it well might, he refused to formation is at hand. Note declar-part with one of dummy's diamonds. er's technique in the following On the other hand, the diamond
hand
North, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
Match point duplicate.
WEST
S.---5 4
NORTH
S. None
jack might not drop, and in that case it might be advisable to estab- lish dummy's clubs for several tricks. To reserve possibilities, declarer dis neither a club nor a diamond from dummy, but let go the jack of hearts. After winning the first trick he laid down the king and queen of diamonds.. The jack fall- S. K J 10 8 7 2-ing, eleven tricks became a lay- down, and gave this team a top
H-A Q J
DA 10 7 4 3
C-A 10 843
H-8 6 5 4-2.
D.-9 8 6 5
C.-9 7
H-7 3
D-J:2
EAST
C.--K Q. J SOUTH S—A Q 9, 63.
EK 10.9
D.-K Q
C. 6.5.2
The bidding:
score.
TO-DAY'S QUESTION :
- Question: What is the correct response to partner's opening bid of two no trump on the following? S-9 7 3, E-K·8 7 5·3. D.-9-7, C--10-6-3. Answer: Three hearts.
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