Mozart Piano Concerto In
A Major
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.
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"Dear Mr. Culbertson: Is there, hearts. Dummy played low, East anything as delightful as lawful put up the ace, and I dropped the larceny, at the bridge table? I am jack. Evidently feeling that the not referring to the petty pilfering lead must he a singleton, and that of the pockets of the blind. Only I had false-carded to stave off a a person who would shoot birds on continuation, East returned a heart. the ground can get joy out of put-I overtook my queen with dummy's ting over a fast one on dubs. But king and led dummy's three of when one is opposed by a team with clubs. East ducked, I played the a reputation, and can steal the eight, and West won with the ace, candy right from under their noses returning his fourth best spade. -ah, that is another matter! Be-East played the ace and, thinking lieve it or not, the East-West team (as he explained later) that I must in the hand I am about to describe have a six card club suit, which enjoys quite a reputation in New would mean that West was out, re- York rubber bridge and duplicate turned a spade. I climbed up with the king, led a club to the king and ran hearts until East was dizzy.
"By the time he had trumped
AT THE MAJESTIC "Call it a Carlisle, William Frawley, Benny Bak- with his high club I had rid my Day."-Most hilarious story of a goofyjer, Gilbert Emory and a cast of hun- hand of the losing spade and both family ever transferred from stage to dreds.
screen, with a six star cast including losing diamonds. In all, you will Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita notice, I lost only two club tricks, Louise, Alice Brady, Roland
AT THE KING'S—“Knight Without Young Armour.“
Marlene Dietrich and Ro- the ace of hearts and the ace of Frieda Innescort, Peggy Wood
and bert Donat are co-starred in this thrill- EAST
Bonita Granville. spades.
ing romantic adventure. Laid in Rus- S.-A 4
sia during the exciting time of the Re- AT THE ORIENTAL H-A 7:32 which broke out immediately was Chan
"Charlie võlution, it provides the stars with the At The Opera.” A comedy finest acting opportunities of D.-K J 5 4 music to my ears. Each, of course, adore brings in Boris Karloff as the cast are Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lo- their the latest mystery adventure careers. Prominent in the supporting Q10 4 had to remove from his own per-wily Chinese sleuth's maniacal foe.
sonal escutcheon the stigma. of
mas, Austin Trevor, Basil Gill, John Cléments and Miles Malleson. defence, which, to put it delicately, had not been very good. As for AT THESTAR "Double Or AT THE QUEEN'S AND ALHAM. myself, I must admit that I gloated ing story of a fight for honest millions, Powell,
Nothing The hilarious and surpris BRA The Singing Marine”Dick a bit.
To pick up one trick from with four "goofy" contestants and Hugh Herbert,
Lee Dixon, Doris Weston, "This hand occurred in a recent experts is a pleasure, but to pick plenty of "dirty work at the cross- Darwell and Allen Jenkins in a rollick
Doc Rockwell, Jane match-point duplicate game. The up two and go game by virtue of a by, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary America's most famous fighting corps. roads'' and elsewhere. With Bing Cros-ing musical romance, built round less than game doubled con,
Neither side vulnerable.
WEST
NORTH
S.-J. 5 3
H.-K 9 8 5 4 D.--8 6
C.-K 7 3
S.-Q 9 8 7 2
H.-10 6
D.-Q 7 3.2
C.-A 6
bidding:
SOUTH
S.-K 10 6
HQ J
C.-J 9 8 5 2
D-A-109-
West North East
"The bickering of the defenders
South tract is an undiluted joy.
Pass Pass diamond Pass-
2
The
one thing that keeps my
1-spade-Pass 1 no trump Pass cup from overflowing is the fear
2 spades Pass Pass
PBSS Pass Double
Pass
Pass
clubs that you will refuse to publish the Pass names of the so-called defenders.
"Your truly, A.H.A., New York" "Aš South, I put in that three My correspondent is quite right. club bid with fear and trembling. I do refuse to publish the names I knew that I almost certainly of the defenders. They are probab- would be doubled, and realised that ly so peeved that, if I did, they'd I might be slaughtered. But the sue me, my correspondent, and the opponents' bidding wasn't impres- newspaper for libel, slander, sive and I felt pretty sure that I felonious assault.
would pick up some usable cards
from North. As you will note,
and
TO-DAY'S QUESTION Question: The bidding has been
West North East 1 spade
East's double wasn't so good, either, but he truly sensed that I had my South neck out.
1 diamond- Pass
West apparently decided that What should East do with the fol there was not much future in a lowing holding:
diamond lead and decided to go out for a ruff. hence opened the to
84, D—Q 9 4, C.
Answer: East should double.
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