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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1954.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Bad Play Takes Years To Forget
By OSWALD JACOBY
TODAY'S hand was played, it that 19 the word for
13
many years ago in a European
natch. The declarer mascher
taas Laken
bod play that it
year to live down.
Unfortunately for
South, Mavourable"
Worl made
opening tend, 11 West had open-
શ્રી રા
diamond, 10
defendera trick. would have taken one and South would have had clene sailing from thers on,
West actually opened # trump, nod South got greedy when he save a chance to avond the loss of a iamond trick.
Declarer won the Orsi trick in his own hund
hustly
rushed the three top spades in order
dummy's to discard
He ruffeu singleton diamond. a diamond in dummy and then still wanted to ruff a spade and another diamond, so he tried to
get to his hand by cashing the top hearts, intending to ruff a Third round of heurls. Unfor- tunately for South, however, Fast ruffed the secondi high heart and returned a trump.
Now declarer had two losing carda 10 ruff with unly STIR Trump in dummy. He found
WEST
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22
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4Q 1073
EAST
10 9 7 4 7
3
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SOUTH
4807
4AK 83
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MAKIN
Neither side vul.
North East
3
5
Poss
Houth West
Pass Pass
2 J
Pas
3
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Puss
Opening lead-45
KONOMI KEKAL statics, Inc. — aveva fork
CROSSWORD
Acrois
1. Ja thin, a aprotat Oerman coin
for businh than 7 (5, 4)
10. Note a public school goes back,
11. This lostrument you'll set from
hoboe. (4)**
13. Town for the Plest. (D) 13. Names
house. take
tim
minister's
14. Rearrange the strain. (8) 10. Tasty especially with dream
added.
18. Cor, the bird's going backwardej
105
"He'll soon tire of his little game, and then we can sit down."
20. Church law expert? (8)
2. One with one made a play. 21. BAD, Fago around in ine. 25. This keeps you up in the ah i
(4)
19) (6)
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA
BON
FRIDAY, MAY 28
Today, you have an alert misi and one which works with gt-kered when it is the * 1 Although impulsive, you content is the far better polley. You will make
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You like to witle. Ketlern and evive ther You enjoy activity Cunsruently, you your business to NEO that you are in the midst of selivity at alt Umes
win were born on Among Bing this date are S Thrtesus Moore, port, Aneha Bikooturt *former; Avery Hugsuvatna), şikaywaight, Louis Agaty, naturalist, wird William A. Buckingham, marly Connecticut governor
You are definitely a "lugurbody“ alwayn bapplest when Currounded by your own family and To find what the stars have in neighbours Wed at an eatly
stere age.
for tomorrow. select your for you will never be content to be birthday sial and read the currea BUR OT unele to other people's ponding paragraph Let your birth- children You will want your own day star be your daily guide,
SATURDAY, MAY 29
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BY THE WAY
By Beachcomber
potLD any of you rascals
tell me, offband, and with this feat impossible, and thus out consulting Professor Stale's managed to go down the at his "The Egg Through
Ages, the slam contract.
or Dr
"The Walpurgisnacht's
Song and Story," Eng in Rubinet de Vidange's "Chant du
ມາ Depart de l'oeuf-could
tell me by intolerable render
sentence this
Actually, there Was no for South to jose seven clubs 18 he had only adopted the right line of play. The correct play 15 10
three rounds of Trumpa and then cash one top heart,
draw
St Declan, will never end?
PM
10
Ur
the
Was ever such an eggsordium? It both defenders follow sult, Shall we never come
point? Could any lop-eared declarer cun cash the other top
Frader tell me how many faults heart and ruff a heart. Dunimy cun
re-entered with has possible for an egg to have? to the National Egg
be
According queen of spades for a second Information Service, with which heart ruff, and South cashes he is incorporated by letters palem top spades to discard dummy's losing diamond.
the International Egg Bureau, Duminy will
found 21 then take the rest of the tricks expert testers have
faults in a single egg. One fault Jast trump and good
-staleness-is enough
with the hearts.
for me. says Jolly Jack Hopins with a light laugh. But, whoa, there!
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SCORPIO (Urt 2-4-Ntrv Z2)- If you can afford 11, try and get our of town over the long week-end. The change would be beneficial.
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An
CAPRICORN (Der
23-Jan, 20)-
Your
A rest and a complete change whi dis je a great deal of good Just 210 W Man to get it, this week-end, AQUARIUS (Jen 31-Frb 197
Tur all Auspicioun clay plans. Make them emrefully and all will go necording to schedule.
1-INCEN
20)- { Fet There are probably things at home which need
curetul your
sha devoted uilention at this tirate.
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TAURUS
21-May 30) ww (Apr. Rise early and get any necessary Housework dune wr 1]htt eat Cats spend the rest of the time in rected- tion,
26. You may
have this kind father or mother, but not you're single. (2, 3)
27 Mark Autotty reqjumted a tona
of theme, 195 26, Fashion je
Down
Circus thoroughfare, 14, 4) Lear maken harvest. (4)
3. Tari Croat (anag.). (0)
Rabbit maxre mode, (0)
4. The price in greater if you du
this to 1. (7)**
WOMANSENSE
Dreaming of fàme? Well wake up and live it for a day with these three women
The Ballerina With A Bodyguard Finds French Fashion Funny
W
THEN I grow up, says
every little girl. "I'm going to be the best dancer in the world" or "I'm going to mail round the world in a bont" or "I'm going to be in films."
Today, we Rive you some Idea of what it is like to live
the
that other
wonnen
JU like
Uze Breat
to
By A. Edwards & D. Beyfus
hard.
I Red Sea, Suez, and the Mediter-
Fancan.
"You know they say
through working don't consider it as work any- way. I don't think of the money. It is an art to me.
"I only consider holidays as o time when I
must relax
іл
order to work again. I must be just as good every night-you see. I've years of discipline and training behind me.
that everything is an omen. Well, sometimes I see a bird on the horizon and I say to myself that means a storm coming up, so I get the sails down, and we have flawless weather for days,
freedom and a boat--because I choso that."
NO BUTTONS in
the box-office
on
woman who has mado her mark in films, BETTY BOX, is the woman producer (business manager) behind the record-breaking film "A Doctor In the House." "Of course I get the horrors. Miss Box looks like a happy Sometimes I can't bear to look housewife whose biggest worries her at the eco-it looks so cruel, are the buttons
husband's shirts. And, at 34, and cold, and evil.
"It's partly because I'm so the is the only woman producer in scared that I feel I have to do in England. "Being a them. Though I this.
man's world the French way
women
dressed is are
very funny. Iti Russia we dresa much more correctly.
hem about.
What Is
"Sometimes
I think, well, Ju ULANOVA,
was not quite good tonight, to- prin ballerina of Soviet Russla? We morrow I must be better. met her in Paris, a nondescript- "Clothes? I'm not at all Looking bearer 50 than her age 42. think
woman
who
seems
8. Time past for a Reg tydlan. (8)|She not pretty, but she has a 7. Bus gets into a mixed pin. pleasant face, small and 8 Plower of England stood up. (4)
. This keeps the ship upright, 14) 1she is blue-eyed, 18. 14 Acrown do it... and so do
Bonn, 191
337 Island of youth.
15.
18. The little deyila. (5)
91. This college in at Oxturð. (3) 24. ay little fellow. 131
SOLUTION
Furrows
nval:
terested
the
"it is hard to define the real
"I'm interested only in art but I
suppe is
in a lone woman
and a tough
the nien
To know yourself world at that has lis advant-
At the Boys
you are an absolute ent salisfaction of this kind of trip, you get blamed for everything is that you that goes wrong, but if you're reading, pictures, music, and learn what you are made of, only moderately nice the stage as well as dunclog, The loneliness pares you down help you just because you are
all art is connected to your basic seif. she becausES
lot of life in one with all other art.
"It is easy enough to be brave way. 1 can't have friends - when there is someone around except the people I work with. to Impres, but there's not much There isn't time. point in kidding yourself.
There are two long furrows
because on her forehead, frowns a tot. Her arms and legs are match-stick slim; he walke gracefully and talks with the short waves of her hands And
TO CHECK YESTERDAY'Sidden smiles.
PUZZLE
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. J. BURDACH Black, 7 pieces.
12
A
15-
White, 14 piecca.
White to play: niate in three,
Solution
problem:
to yesterday's
I, R—87, any; 2, Q, or R mates.
We Arst caught sight of her In the hotel foyer as, with her | "bodyguards," she shot into the
cannot ft, saying: "I
speak without permission.”
Later
A dancing Romeo
a woman.
"I miss a
Oh! No gossip
for long, and then the sun comes "But the horrors never last out and I feel there's nothing in teas which I used to loye, or go "I can't have long gossipy this world I'd rather be doing shopping. My clothes are pick- than sailing along on my own.
"At the moment I think most ly about a new plan
we have for a fim of 'Romeo and Juliet.
"It will be a ballet in colour, and we are planning to have the verse of Shakespeare spoken between the dances,' she sat In her hotel And how does she live, this "The compensations are Superb good health, room, dressed in a long artificial star of the ballet in Russie? Is
comfortable and freedom to do as I please and silk kimono, glancing at
and her she rich chief ixefore she Answered looked after?
seo for myself I have a blting and questions. The chief was a big
about people curiosity "Yes, yes," he said. **I'm brown
man dressed in
places...and all the chance en- very lucky indeed. I don't Western grey flannel suit
counters that turn into musical have to worry about a thing. comedy situations. tried to be sociable but did not have time for all I want to
Not for two, unless
seem to know how.
A bored tone
who
do.
"have a four-room Alat on the ninth flour of a modern block, and a servant who sleeps in. And a little house in the are country near Leningrad.
cook only
for fun-rnd
The atmosphere was heavy
Reporters and depressing.
warned that she cannot answer
זיי
any questions too controversial then I make hors-d'œuvre," and one got the feeling that practically anything would considered controversial.
enormous
靠
ed up in odd places when have a few spare hours,
"And I can't have proper hoildays om one never knows exactly when a film will finish.
"But
all does what
that I think The most matter?
Is the sneakc enthralling moment preview. By then everyone connected with it is so sick and tired of the film, they can't judge
You any more. never tell a film is going to be Two is a "I go by myself,
a big hit or not, fatal number a boat is too
"I think a woman who gives small for two unless you're in up a career she likes must be very brave indeed. My work love.
"You get so that
the other is my life. I wouldn't know what to do with myself without person's habits madden yoU---
be NO NONSENSE for the way they do their shoes or
She answered in a flat, bored volce:
I've
Yes,
always wanted, to be a ballet dancer, yes, want to see Margot Fonteyn,
"No. 1 don't miss anything
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Purr-Purr and the Fish Bowl
"I
She Kept Trying to Drink the Fish's Water-
By MAX TRELL
WONDER," Hand, the shndow-girl with the
wrong to drink water from the aquarium. 11's because the
water belongs to the goldfah. LI you drink it all up. dear, they won't have anything to
swim
Even if the hearts break 5-0, South can still make all 13 tricks. If West hus all of the hearts, South can finesse through him if East has all of on unmistakable neigh, whal Just a moment ago....... the hearts, dummy's jack นาไป about exk-strain? Read บร nine can be led to ruff out the
whelles. queen and ten.
As the culonel suld to his part-turned-about nome, was saying i That wouldn't be very nice ner at the hunt ball when she herself, "where Pur-Purr for them, would it?”
naswered a civil question with has gone to? She was here
Scene at the embassy
**CARD Sense GG-STRAIN is a non-occu-
Q-With both sides vul- nerable, the bidding has been: North
East South West 1 Diamond Spade ?
You, South, hold: Spade, 6-3, Hearts A-Q-J-6-5, Dia- monds 5-2. Clubs 8-7-4-2, What do you do?
A-Pans. A bid of two hearts would promise a substantial band, and your hand is actually weak. If there is any future in this hand, your partner will be able to take further action ứn his own.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same
as
On
The
Pur-Purr just curled up and áldn't answer,
Hanid looked around. To her disney, there was the kitten "No, indeed," Honid went on, standing on the
edge of the "t wouldn't be pleasant for aquarium where the goldfish them at all. It would be just lived, lapping up the water,
the same as if someone
came along and took away all the air Harid lifted the kitten up at that you have to breathe. You wouldn't like that, I'm sure, Goldfish breathe the water Just as you breathe the air, Purr- Purr."
once.
The Wrong Idea
"Pur-Purr! What
do you
paltonni disense to which very, old eggs with nothing to do are subject. This fault, nay, disease, is manifested by tiny wrinkles
the
shell. Chinese, who worship ancient call this the Mark of Hoo Fungu, the demon who lives think you're doing? Don't you "Me no likee know it's wrong to drink all in egg-factories.
allee topside; linkles CH" DS
on the water out of the aquarium?” the wife of the attache said to the First Lord of the Chinese Admiralty. "What whether
117 that it was wrong or not. the devil's
with wrong
a Baillol asked the
First Lord, man. The young wife hung her Bald heartily, as her husband good egg,"
head.
career.
Ready for A Nap
Purr-Purr shut her eyes and
Pur-Purr, on the edge of the bowl, was lapplog water.
water out and filed the saucer with fresh water.
"There,"
Purr- she sold to Purr, "now you've got your own water to drink."
Leaving the kitten by the It was hard to decide looked
as if she were making saucer of water, Hanid went into Purr-Purr understood ready
to take a nay. Hanid the kitchen to pour herself a gave her a shake to keep her glass of milk. For all this talk of water had mad Hanid thirsty awake. Purr-Purr didn't say anything
horself. Whe lanid returned" "Or maybe," Hanld suddenly a few moment later, she was at all. She just looked at Henta with
Hanid sold, "you are drinking the her green EYER,
again. Hanid glanced into the garden. There was no sign of Hanid looked closely at Purr the kitten. Then Hanld rushed Purr and decided that Purr-Purr backed to the aquarium. was thirsty. "So she took Purr- Yes, there was Purr-Purt, Purr to the spot just cutside the standing on the edge of kitchen door where Purr-Purrs aquarium again, lapping up the saucer of water always stood. water while the frightened gold- "Now, Purr-Purr,”. Hanid be- The Baucer Won filled with fish all huddled in the opposlie "I'll tell you why it's water. Hanid poured the old corner as far away from Purr- Purr's tongue as they could possibly get.
of water it was kitten to drink.
any saw that she would have to give water because you were thirsty, surprised to find the kitten gone ambitious young diplomat would purr-Purr a lesson in what kind Are you thirsty, Furr-Purr?" have done. "Vera,"
he vouch- sofed Inter
proper for a do that evening, remember my
Yo!! should have praised that egn So she took the kitten outside It stank, replied the simple on the porch and set her in her Dia-English rose. And 08 the lap.
horrible Oriental night settled over the embassy, divorce raised ils fathionable head.
in the question just answered,
You, South, hold: Spades K-0-3, Hearts A-5-2.
monds. K-5-2, Clubs 8-7-4-2 What
What do you do?
Answer "Tomorrow
;
DUMB-BELLS
DID YOUR
UNCLE REMEMBER,
YOU INS
HIS
HE MUST
HAVE
He LEFT MS OUT
Cheer up!
A
PROFESSOR of Natural at Cambridge Philosophy auld the other day: "When the an H-bomb is exploded, explosion itself cannot get out of control. There is no possi- bilty of the curth, the son, the air catching fire." What could be fairer than that? Short story
or
TN one of those frenzied night- clubs in Tunbridge Wells Booble La Plaza was singing "I ain't just nobody's baby,'' Her
parents" sat at a ta
Viening with tears In%
0
eyes Buddenly a man at neighbouring table stood up and shot the parents dood. NOW he shouted to Booble, you own so to the Orphans Quiing next
gan.
Rupert and The Lost Cuckoo-32.
Poor Ruper cena to be no...”, hè sends his birds up: for a final nearer to Ending, his“ lost ›eycken, march. ↑ Horage may have been **Mummy wil be. vary unluppy:) wrong; when', ha thought, yout - if we have to wait until next -: cichon hat, gone to Anta,” he spring before our clock, can strike. pugnisse:Boi the birds, se baforni again.” he says, Mr., Noah,, too, have no success and st length the lezvary sorry about the snarlittle, beer, who and wande expected endian to ble picule and his way!aidla wonde
the
Sailor Anne
pour salt.
"Food is an awful chore and
can
NO LIFE for you,
little girl
AND sometimes little girls A have been overheard to say
I just take the easy way out. I <ggs and ontons and the world in a boat on her potatoes, and when in doubt I
girl who is going round take own, ANN DAVISON, is rough- have a rum, and think.
reverse of ly the
"I don't harpoon fish or any- in a demented moment; "When would expect,
thing like that, but flying fish I grow up I'm going to be a She is chic, prettily dressed, knock themselves out on the famous reporter."
an astonishing pair of boat, and I Just pick them up
Okay, okay, but one word in eyes, far-sighted and
with sallor's fearless.
what
you
in the morning and allet and your ear, utile girl.
Take it from us unless you have the leg muscles of a prima
I ballerina, the resilience of a
But she talke about the boat fry them like a herring.
*How in layman's language: the front "People say to me: is the front and the back is the envy you your freedom but woman who can pilot herself the dotty back and no nonsense about fore with my family and a home I round the world,
devotion of a woman who will and aft and amidships.
have too many commitments.*
do without friends and holidays "But I believe that if people and long, gossipy teas and still really wanted to do it they say: "It's the only life for me" would. They have a family be- Take it from_us-DON'T. cause they choose to, I have my
London Express Service)
"I'm no yachtswoman," sald
the woman who crossed the Atlantle on her own and is set- ting off to sal 22,000 miles to Nassau, Cubo, Jamaica, Panama, Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga, Singapore, Ceylon, and back through the
Cotton For Summer
By
VERA WINSTON
4-14
Scolding for Purr-Purr Once more, Hanld took Purr- Purr away.
This time Hanid was angry. "You are a naughty kitten," she said. "You aren't a bit thirsty! You're just trying to drink up all that water po that you can catch the goldfish without even getting
ONE of the beautiful. new. wet."
Italian cottons is used for A Purr-Purr didn't answer this pretty little dress, perfect for ellber. But she did look as resort and summer woar. Green though she understood exactly and blue predominate in the what Hanld meant. When Hanid block printing the white of set her down on the ground the backgrpanál las used... mi cutados, the cellar door Fuerthe yoke below the open equa Purr looked very sabamed As neckline. The border is used
The bodice In You haver pan, be sure about
What more can you do ?
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THE NATURAL WAY TO KEEP FIT, AND FIGHT INFECTION. LE
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