•JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Reverse Vienna Coup Is Rare
BY OSWALD JACOBY
NORTH'S four-club bid was
Gerber and asked for aces, South's four spades showed two aces (a four-diamond response would have shown none, etc.).
North's leap to seven was d bad bid. Seven diamonds would have been 0 Iny-down. Dr Richard Greene of New Orleans, who sat South, could only count 12 top tricius when he looked at dummy. He won the opening club lead in dummy ani started after diamonds. On the third diamond West signalled with the mine of spades and Dick chose to belleve that signal. Now the simple spade finesse was not
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1958.
Women's World
A KIND word can accomplish
u to win the
more than a strong hand, suys the new head of one of the targest prizons for women. "I feel that one of the most vital parts of my job at fra: the respect of Birta," said Martha Wheeler, who became superintendent of the Ohio Reformatory for Women on lat April. To do this I'll follow a pattern of ob- solute honesty."
She will oversee 390 women whose sentences aange from murder to shoplifting.
She belleves inmates should have "iho fullest advantages of religion, education, recren- llon and human relations to for their lives prepare them Inside as well as outside."
hair- The women now gel dressing and mantcuring facili- Lles
own rooms, plus their which
they con decorato as they choose.
Miss Wheeler la pleased that she rarely hears from women who have been under her care. She has genшne fondness for immates, but she icels that "an inmale who is paroled and keeps in contact with the Prison is like a child led to his mother's apron ctrings, and that isn't healthy."
•
Air Patrol, is the only woul la the nation named a regional director of the CAP.
The attractive housewife in a volunteer worker and a licensed pilot owning her own plane,
As the Southwest's regional director of communications, sho la responsible for six states - Texas, Louisiane, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Her territory Includes at least 16 hundred radio stc tons.
Wal-
The amling bruselle attended her first Civil Air Patrol moet, ing In Dalian seven years ago. She joined the CAP as a rant officer, and was assigned as a radio operator.
There
were only xx radio zlations in Texas There are seven hundred now.
CAP then.
She learned quickly and wea uffletent. Soon she was moved administrative assistant up to
assistant communications and
Two years ago she took ofeer.
her present bighly- over responsible position.
She has found pleaty of op- portunity to take to the skies for some flying in her job. Each she must visit the six states under her jurisdiction to
year
MARTHA Reading, a lleuten help out with any problems that
ant-colonel in the
Civil might prise,
WOMANSENSE
I suspect that Hartnell has a new West End sensation here.. It's all part of the scramble to make the theatre the big shop window for fashion
Pare
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going to work, but Dirk could still make the land by means of a Vienna coup it West should show up with the king of hearts. Dick decided that West would not have signalled so strongly in spades it he also held the king of hearts.
Dick still had one shot in his Locker. He led the
quern of hearts from dummy. Bast covered with the king and Dick won with the ace. The last two diamonds and all the clubs were cashed and Dick lel little hearts go.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
BORN Un
THURSDAY, MAY 22
this first day of the neung Nga, Gemini, you are ruled by Mercury, the god of know» indge and ate essentially the artist, scientist and inventor. Your Ideals are exceptionally high and, because you fear you cannot reach perfec- fion, you are often Brown JREQ Kikals of derpondency and despair. There is a definite duality in your nature as well. Corbined with the
stie, there is a practical, coramon- pero aireak which tries at Intervals 1 vel control of your life. You are always the confilet with yourself as whether or not you tould
antaled abandon art and be
wit
the more inundare things. You sometimes question your own gealus and feel that you must "make do" Withings as they are.
If you are satided with a tile, that is probably just what you will get. If ya triake demands upon ite. you will get more. It en icely up to you whet emotional your life. You have on" make of
wind affectionate nature
end are you love.
his two exelly influenced by Home to be the
Weat ran out of plays on the last club. He chose to ungulird his queen of spaden rather than commit suicide by letting the jack of hearts go and Dick had made his grand slam by means of a transderred Vienna coup.
Incidentally, the play is 50 rare that I have seen it only twice before in my 40 years of play.
January and June "appear bet forth for you to undertake new projects. Your enthama and energy it then at a peak.
GEMINI (May
.BY STELLA
You have a food head for bizi net and are not one to be in be- Jund
any nancial deal. The processes of money-making in busi- nem do not particularly interest you. but you have that flair for knowing quod thing when you see it and gelling in on the ground floorl
Wed at an early age, for you are when you live your own Will
hop and family. You sacrifice a career 18 ST BART to
Interfere with your domestle
1e.
With you, marriage and ita obliga- tier ecme first. Fond of children, you will want a large family of your UWTI.
Among Brose bore OR this date wete: Richard Wagner, composer; Arthur Tappan, merchant, reformer
Sir philanthropist
Robert and Baueri,Powell, English Buy Scout loader;
whditredge, Worthington landscape painter and Paul Morton, callroad administrator and salesman.
To and what the stars have la
store for you tomorrow, nelect your birthday star and read live commen ponding paragraph. Let your bit day star be your dally guide.
FRIDAY, MAY 23
22-June
21)- A stimulating day for any maju: ruject. Gel un early start and you can accomplish a great deal success- fully
CANCER
(June 22-July Z3)- An adventuresne aplait in your, consider the detalis of a new pro- Jet with care. Avoid risks.
LEO (July Zi-Aug. 23) The force ut your personally is puta a thing over today, for lendencies need special
V-CARD Sendekar
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What do you do?
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be a very good spot.
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand. Your partner har rescued you to one spade after West's double and East has passed. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
CROSSWORD
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23. Old Peruvian. (4)
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24-30pt There is an undercurrent of perplex- ity which you can control you
the tund. Get h Take a m driver's seat and stay there.
LIBHA (Sept. 24-Nov. 23)- Best results if you suck to normal come- route. Avold getting into thing new if you can. Hisky
SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov, Delinitely not a day to take even a calculated risk. Guard your good- will and your reputation" on the job.
KAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dec. 22)- All is not that gutters, un take a good, tune cond fook at an e- purtunity which serms lug good 10 BC แue
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20)- Be careful not to answer in wrath. Pay close attention to some partner- shup bitsineu plan. Don't be misled.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb 18) Friendly co-operation will pay fine dividends, but be tactful in your ap proach. ervecully When elving advice.
(Bar.
20)- ARIES
21-Apr. A multitude of prospects may be put before you for consideraton. Be aure that you select what is best ZOT you now.
by BARBARA GRIGGS
THERE IS every sign that the theatre is becoming one of fashion's most successful shop windows. There were Dior dresses in the play "Duel of Angels.”
a
Terence Rattigan's new
от "Variation play, Theme," has followed....
TAURUS [Apr. 21-May 21-bringing a turn in British
Hame, no one but yourself if thiri couture. do not go the way you want thein
to, Bigs are right Are you? Btzy cal,
Starring in it is Margaret
Leighton. And hoping for a share of the applause is! top couturier Norman Hart-
CHESS NEWSell.
now
A BHORT chiffon evening dress with ballooning back, hobble skirt, fishtail train-pleated, and draped in a bright southern pink
A SOBER tile trench coat lo dark beige wool jersey that Dings open to show a lining of saudy white fox and crystal embroidery,
DRAWING BY ROBB
THE RICH play-woman's uniforms, Coffee beige shantung silk shirt -teaming up with lang, slender Jersey Jens in a stronger coffee.
BACK to the twenties-and front 4 too. A short evening dress in wicked while crepe, heavily loaded with Iridescent crystals..
5:
BOMBSHELL of = dresa in night-
life blue, with a fitting Jersey top
of deadly simplicity ränning Into
a skirt of shirred taffeta.
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PRETTY upstage coat-in atartling pink taffeta with a colossal back view. Worn over that super cotossat chiffon pink dress.
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
The spectacular wardrobe Henrietta's Good News
he has designed for Miss
after
By LEONARD BARDEN Leighton is drawn above_by
night Robb. And almost SUBBEX are
certain winners of the
night, to full house after full Southern group of the Counties
house, the theatre's most Championship a fortnight ago they crushed Oxfordshire Ta
elegant clothes-horse will be London by 16-4, and this left their rivals, Burrez, with a big
showing off the kind of deficit in games average to make
rich woman's magnificent, up.
clothes that Hartnell excels al.
Last Baturday Aurrey went to Oxforu. who put up a much tougher glit on their home gmund and are only one, Rama down with two to be adjudicated. Both these positions are likely draws, and Butrey will need to uent Burzes by around 141-8) in the decisive ninich at Eastbourne on March 22. This is a task almost certainly beyond them.
P--B4; Solution No. 5403:1
PIACES (Feb. 20.Mar. 203-12 RXQ, R×R: 3Q-K!2. BxQ; Pay clone attention to duty and the sure that you wind up the week's
before work misfactorily
resigns sure.
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London Expiali Service
-O'Scowl Thinks She Cackles Too Much-
By MAX TRELL
I wouldn't do it
"WOULDN'T do it! No sir!
all!
I
do,
even if I had wings and feathers and lived in a hen house,
"What wouldn't .you wouldn't do it!" No siree!""
dear?" Hanid asked the bad- tempered Pixie.
The voice was that of Pixie O'Scowl. Even before they
"I wouldn't lay on egg," suld reached the edge of the Pine
"And if I did Tree Grove where the Hil Pixie O'Scowl.
before they lay an egg" he continued, "I of the wouldn't cackle about it." began, and even reached the other side bill, where the Old Oak stood and where the Pixies lived), Knart and Hanid, the Shadows with the Turned-About Names, voice. For Hartnell, a chance to heard Pixle Scowl's
they wondered. a5
For the public, it means a change from the sort of Hartnell clothes seen and photographed so often on other Top People.
and
4 RXR. EXB dis. ch; White let his fancy run riot de. And they
jumped across the brook signing for a sensationally up to the Old Oak, what it elegant woman, and not one was that Pixie O'Scowl wouldn't Hartnell gimmick has been do. left out; the furs and the draperies, the glitter and the extravagance.
This Funny World
HARTE MALE
"If he hadn't insisted on being a pal and buddy,
TUA make botter, time?"
The most, in fact, for the tops,
Household Hints
Colour is an important factor in your life, so consider its psychological effects on you nak your fertly when you decorati,
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If you are inclined to be neri VOLN, for example, you will probably. foci caliner in the midst of the cool colours, Uke blues and greens. Experiment with yellows and touches of Wunge or red if you often fool the need of a Urt.
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In ironing, always attack froś those parts that can bang off the bound withous wrinkling. Cuffs and collars are examples, If you from the larger weeloos Army, they wo Hablado wrinkle "Mipaka "·"da" you` ' work - on the
smaller parisi
He Looked Gloomy
looked very gloomy.
Astonishing Nows
All this was astonishing news, and Knarf and Hanid sat them
cives down on the log on either asked him to tell them what side of Pixie O'Soowl.
na egg.
They
"It happened this morning." over in the he said, "I was mushroom patch behind the garden, picking mushrooms for dinner and minding my own business when all of a sudden 1 heard someone shouting at the 'An eggi An top of her voice, egg A very fresh egg""
It Was Henrietta
"I looked up. Who should it be but Henrietta, that old Hen that lives In the hen house on the other side of the mushroom patch.
"I wish she'd stop making oil That noise, I said to myself.
"I went on picking mush- rooms and holding my fingers in my ears
Knarf interrupted at Chig
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"I've just laid an egg,” Henrietta toid Pixie O'scowl.
sald "I beg
your pardon,' Henrietta. Have you heard the wonderful news?'
What wonderful news?' I
had started him off on this point to ask Pixie O'Scow how asked Henrietta. business of not wanting to lay he could pick mushrooms and
FIVO just laid On hold ble fingers in his cars et the same time. But Pixie replied Henrietta, "Don't bother me." Pixie O'scowl paid no attention to this interruption and went right ou with his story.
They found Pixie O'Scowl at O'Seowl grumbled at first,► last, sitting on a log on the
But after Knorf had given shady skie of the Old Oak. He him a pinch on one side and Hanid had given him a little dig the other, "And I want to tell you this," with her elbow on Pixie O'Seawi grumbled, when Pixle O'Scowl finally grunted he saw Knart and Hanid, that that he would tell them.
Rupert and the Silent Land-39
After a short pause the strangit fifta a finger and preses, it on Rupert's head MOW, It's happen. ing again't thinks Rupert,
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can here words. They must be his thoughts. He's making me how. came to be in the cloud ship. Ob dear, how can I answer hẳn if 1
mustn't talk ?!! Besaking away, be srice to explain tile journey by all sorts of signs and by moving his hands to show the round shape of the Professor's balloon. His co panion stares. Al him intently and strokes fuis beard, but iz le con clear that be understands nything.
'Bahl' I said: 'Go away!"
Twoaked His Nose
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"until I suddenly felt some-
Pixie "A this. Henrlotta leaned one pecking at me," O'Scowl continued "I looked down farther and tweaked my around and naw Henrietta lean- nase with her sharp brak.
over me.
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"How dare you say a thing like that! she, said. There nothing more wonderful being able to lay an egg. Can you lay an englis
"Then she swept by, pushing me over. For hail an hour, heard her cackling up and down, telling everybody in the world that she had just laid an egg. Bahl"
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Knarf and Hand laughed Heartily when they heard „Izule. And Hond Warned Pixie O'Scowl not to make fun of Henrietta any more.
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"It is a wonderful thing to lay an' ogg," she told him.
"Especially a fresh egg," saki Koost
But Pixie O'Beowi was still grumbling "No air. I wouldn't I do it! I wouldn't do' it even if I could.; 1 oertuinly wondda'k Jag an egg!"