JACOBY on BRIDGE
E race is not always to the wift nor the battle to the strong and in duplicate bridge" the best play won't always pro- duce the best score, but year
in and year out the bel play will win for you.
When today's hand was play- ed at the New York Nationals almost every South pinyer wound up at three no-trump and West always opened the Jour of spades.
Jant would win the first trick with the ring and return thes sult to knock out dum:ny's uce.
The Shap-dat declarers would promptly run off live Emond tricks and make either live or six od depending on whether or not the defence hung on to the right cards. Indident- atty, any defenders who failed
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diamond tricks only and produced a bad score, but their play was correct.
Why was this losing play correct? Because a 4-2 break innsats more likely than a 2-3 break.
The low diamond day would have gainod a trick for de- marer if amands had hap- pened to break 4-2 and since declarer was not looking at the East and West cards "he was right to use the best percent- nge play at his dispomil
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A-Pass. Your partnerības isken full responsibility for playing spaces,
TODAY'S QUESTION
Instead of bidding four spades your partner na bid Ave dia- inundi, What do you do now?
[Answer on Monday)
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PORTRAIT OF JACQUI, BY YOU-KNOW-WBO "I hope I shall get people to look at me in a diferent light," she saya.
DIOTOTOK
JACQUI CHAN GETS AWAY FROM IT ALL
-She's touring Australia
MISS Jacqui Chan is in Australia. She will be away from Britain a long long time. And a very good thing too. Especially for her. For the truth is that, ever since her former friend got married, Miss Chan's life-both professional and private-has been pretty tricky.
Recently she was booked for a three-week cabaret appearance at a London night-club. Why was she booked? Because she was talented-or because she had once been around with you-know-who?
She was invited to make a "If I suspect I'm being asked I remember it well. Among Alastair Sim. its stars wero just for my nome ask an exorbitant mount of money. Margaret Rutherford ---- and I'm quite commercially minded, Laurence Harvey, you know."
record. She was Invited to make a film, She was Invited to posc for advertisements. Why?
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Now Miss Chan is no fool. She knows she was not booked for cabaret because she is a budding Callas, She was bock- ed because they knew her name would pack the place, And pack the place it did.
For an actress as dedicated as five-foot-nothing Mics Chun, the sight of all those gawplay fuces was hardly encouraging.
They were 10, she know, discussing her talent. They were saying: "My. n't she emati?" And "Isn't she Chinese- looking?" And wondering, mos certainly, "Did she ever wanh his socks."
People forget
and on,
So It has gone on with no signs or ending.
Now Miss Chen has epized the chance of escape. She has signed for à six-month run in Australia as the
the Star of stage show The World of Suzie wong. And she may be away considerably longer than that.
When I invited her round for tea sho said: "I am hoping so much that by going away 1 shall get people to look at me in a different light. At the mo- m.ent,
I feel you know, though I've got a sign round my neck. It's always Jacqui Chan, the actress who tras once the friend of..
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"It's got so I feel I haven't a personality of my own any more. People forget, you know, that I've done six stage shows in the past seven years. They talk about me as though things only began to happen after all thai publicity!
"Since then, you know, I've had all kinds of offers. And I've learned
distinguish 10
The genuine ones from the ones that simply want to use any name.
An early Harvey, this. Yeara before he stumbled upon suc- Miss Chan, who turned up
cad the velvet road to Cosg wearing a rest flowerpot hat which almost
Indeed, in Innocents in completely hid fame. her tiny Eurasian face, chuckled Paris he played the part of a
waiter. to herself.
But in the television screen-
"What baffles me really is the way they keep on about 1.
ever Bet Don't they
fired? Only the other day a French magazine ran a picture called How Jacqui Chan feels about it all.' Yet it's almost a year since it happened."
Big chance
She helped herself to tea and an egg sandwich and changed the subject to her career:-
"You know, nobody was more surprised than me at the good Tralices I got for the fim of The World of Suzie Woap. It was such a tiny part.
always
"Bill Holden had said: 'You'll be a big success,
ing of the film the other night -Surprise! surprise there was no sign of him. Nor was his name listed on the credits.
How could this be? I asked the B.B.C.
The film," they said, "yas edited before we bought it,”
And who had done the edit- Ing?
friend and
Harvey's good mentor, produege James Woolf -the man who has done so much h guldo and shapo levy's career.
Laurence Harvey is now big screen name. Mr Woolf reboons — rightly — that for audiences to see him in an cbrcure part at this stage would help him not at all.
10,
but I thought he was just rap ing that to cheer me up.
"I think, quite honestly, that because of all the publicity, I'm pleture."
he says, "I scissored the role right out of the
THE REASON?
MR
MR HUGH O'BRIAN, the tolovision cowboy,
cavorting In
going to need more talent that Every actor should have much it I were Just act. obscure a friend: Euradan actress. But I'm at it, and this working hard Australian trip is a big chance." She looked thoughtful for a moment. Then the rald:..
"I hope the Australians don't mind my being so small. All who is now their lifeguards seem about nine-feet tall.
"Height can be
a problem. When I first met Cary Grant to talk about a part in his new Al he said: "You'd be won- derful but how would they even get us both into focus?"
SURPRISE!
to be Munich along with the dotectable ex-Qucon Soraya there's an odd romanco if you like) is one of the fow actors who do not privately despiso thoir TV series.
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD
A British film Innocents
in Paris was screened BBC TV the other night.
Indeed, he relishes his role as Wyatt Earp, the lawman who helped fill many & Frave-
yard.
Could this be because he and bis brother own a company which thrives exceedingly from tomb- on providing vaults and
sioncs for cemoleries?
THE DAY LONDON LOOKED
BETTER AND
BETTER
EVERY DAY. By Emilo Couc, and C. H. Brooks. Unwin Books. 6s.
THE lame, the halt and
the
FOR A MIRACLE
FOR YOU-BRAEMAR!t March afternoon in by the simplest of methods. He selves.
BRAEMAR
PURE CASHMERE
CARDIGANS
AND
TWINSETS
he could
By -George Malcolm Thomson
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A NORTH of England theatre
manager in planning to put up the fol- lowing sign backstage:-
"Please don't ask for passes for your friends. If they won't pay to see you -who will?”
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber THE cat whose sketch of a man on horseback was hung eta Lidon exhibitlen evidení- ly has the old-fashioned ap- proach to art.
According to a photograph, the sketch has BOTTLO re- semblanco to a man on horse- back. It will be remembered tor forgotle and I care not tinker's curse which) that when euro being practised by blind crowded
the vast Nancy, who was victim of Shublach was asked to paint a The little man had arrived at firmly denied
millionaire's wits one neurasthenia, dyspepsia, gas portrait of a Wigmore Hall on his position of miracle-worker anybody. People cured them number of believers whom
spring tratza, enteritis and pains inie poured ashes over might have expected to
a tor- ports of the body: paulin, and then cut the utte asked repeat, 20 times But it was no use. People up in the wake of a great surge different
Monsieur X, of Belfort, who heaps into patterns by bicycling 1922. The ladies of fash- every morning and 20 times went to Wigmore Hall that day of healing,
could not talk for more than 10 to and fru over them. That is before going to bed at night, looking for miracles.
Coue's doctrine is deceptively minutes without becoming com- how I see her." he said to the ion came too.
the Incantation: "Day by day, in Cour's visit to London ended staple. Ho distinguishes be pletely aphonous (speechless)-artighed millionaire," "That," The occasion
lecture was a
every way, I am getting better
as something of a failure. The tween human will-power a thing pages of them and all cured or said business rival, "will on auto-suggestion by a stocky and better."
miracles had not happened. to be distrusted, and the Imagin at least, wonderfully Improved. teach him to collect pictures!" Frenchman from
The cager public in Wigmore grey-bearded
The Wimbledon look Nancy, a chemzt named Elle Hall, the privileged to whom he Coue's claims were attacked ation which if it is given Its
proper share in the guiding of Coue's psychology may seem Coute. True enough, many of gave private consultations by Dean Inge in the Evening our lives, can lead us to health. naive and a litle muddled. The READ that terpis girls are to that audience in Wigmore Hall with what a fury of willingness Standard The Frenchman dc-
cures ho describes may some- wear paper dresses this year. believe they repeated the clined to reply. expected something more than a
But he wDS People were, more or less, 3 times be cures of imaginary Those who are too poor to buy lecture.
magle
the fashionable styles will prob- works! In the public quite unshaken in his belief in well as they thought they were, ailments, demonstration, they clasped his systemi
They could "suggest" themselves
themselves in ably wrap
old But who is to say where the editics of their local papers or their hands while they slood en
Now, after all these years, into illness and therefore back
boundary between mental and the platforms.
what sort of Impression does into well-being again, When Cour told them to say; Coue-ism make on the reader of
physical affliction is to be drawn? in the surplus stocts of fish-and- Who, at this stage in humar of pink blotting paper should chip shops. A smart OVCTCOAL walling for "I want to loose them but I
two books one by Coue himself
knowledge, would care to deny enough, they miracle and there were the cannol,"
wall with a home-made that the mind has some power to adaptation of the Ragstone and invalid chairs, the erulches and could not. "Now thing, I cant the other by a disciple, published about the time of the London to demons- the little Almatian commanded visit, and now re-issued
damage the body-and therefore
Pibberleigh Evening Argus, the black glasses
for And there,
those who some power to heal 117 trate the intensity of their ex- and lo! the hands camo apart,
Mamenger and Heraki. To the end. Cone himself He had become the ruge of the
doubled, were the list of the to monfènt, Il clinic in Nancy First of all, there are mighty cases who had benented from remained a fervent, neilve be- In 1922 the end was not
great few additional "cures" reported Cour's method-Monsieur E of liever. of was a place of pilgrimage.
He was utterly convinced of since the early twenties. It looks Troyes, uneble to walk from gout far off. the value of his teaching and as if the Coue treatment was not in his anile: Madama T of his work, in 1920,
'Day by day..."
They
were
pretation.
brought over M. Couc, London by the enthusiasm
to said nothing Lady Beatty, encourage these hopes.
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Important news may come to those whose birthday falls on a Wedwaday, but the widow who cats treado en Jub 3 should boware of a dark stranger
Car
-bites dog:
The
car_zigzagged - all over
the rond, Tha driver mid he could do nothing, with it,
(News item.) Verdict: Car drunk in charge of a munka,
---{London Express Serolck),