JACOBY. on BRIDGE
TORTH
anel South
held
chought strength between
them te Justify a
four-spue
bid, but the fact that the king
single- represented
of club was opposite n top- FL
dummy
doplication of values, and South needed a good deal of luck
bring home his contract.
10
Eust won the opening club
lead and shifted to the three of trumps. South wanted to
run two clubs i dummy,
he saw that the defence was anti- cipating his den and that
but
he
would not be able to
uchieve
that objective. Another line of play was necessary.
South
NORTH (D)
0
AJ 1076
VAKQG
+ KJ04
WEST
482
301 AQ 102
4J042
47
SOUTIL
EAST
4A93
AKQ54 ❤72
+853
10853
76
AQ103
Fast and West vulnerable
North
JA
Pass
East South
West
Paan
14
Pass
Pass 4 A
Paka
Pasa
Opening lead-♣ 2
wwn
counted three trump tricks nod the king of clubs in his hand, plus thriss heart tricks club rust in durimy for
Anc
A total of eight. Two diamond tricks were necessary also unt he decided that he would have to get rid of the opponents' trumps before going after then. Accordingly, South let the around to dummy's spade go
spade back,
Jack and led the East TOSC with the pcc and ployed a third spude which South won in his own hand.
Now he led a dinmund. West played low and South put in the Jack. When it held every- thing was "hunky-dory." South discarding cashed three bearts,
a club, ruffed a heart back to his hand, discarded one of dum- my's diamonds on the king of olub and led another diariond.
+CARD Sense
Q-The bidding has been:
North
1+
2
Fai
South West 1
F'ARR Pp3s
Pass ZA
2.N.T. Poss
You, South, hold: AQJA2 K870 +AK 5 422
What do you do?
A-Bld thres no-irump. Your partner in taking responsibility for the club suit and with no singleton in your hand you pre- for the nine-trick game to a possible diamond contract.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two no- trump your partner has gone to three spaces over your two- spado bid. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1961. TM'
WOMANSENSE
Dior's ousted heir prepares
ANGELA HUTH
for an all-out assault on the fortress of fashion
CAN St LAURENT WIN
dons from St. Laurent
- sketches of two suits...
which he did for ma
in 25 seconds flat
BACK HIS CROWN?
Paris.
T the top of a flight of narrow stairs was an over-varnished door, bare but for a small card A saying Y.S.L.
I rang. A short, efficient man answered. He let me in with the caution of a man opening a safe. And The space he let me into was safe-size, or so it seemed. Then he vanished.
sat on a gold chair in a thy corner Opposite me a girl In block vetvel shifted from one fout to the other. She didn't dare att on her chair because the wicker seat would damage her skirt,
"Wo been waiting for him for an hour," she said,
Then the door opened again. la came a beautiful girl with roal-black eyelids and a huge head necklace swinging down
to her waist. He was ready, she said. So the black model- in-waiting disappeared.
WOM
I
At last it was my turn.
led into a small, white- washed office Froin the net curtains to the carpet all was drained of evlour.
Yves St Laurent at behind a desk covered with oatmeal fell. He jumped up, shnor my hand, touk his glasses off, replaced them and sat down agata in less time than it took to exchange the pleasures of each other's company.
He was thin, brittle, and so immaculately clean that it was noticeably much more than just not being dirty. His shirt was blue, his suit grey, fastened only at the top button, which iny some three inches below the knet of his fie,
Like a shy young doctor, his spiky fingers tapped the muted desk top with a sharp pencil.
Simple
You know his history-three years in place of Dior; the arty liness, and a return to and his successor, Marc Bohan, not only established in his own right but unbudgeable.
Now Yves St Laurent is start- ing his own fashion house.
"I'm very frightened," he said. "I admit I am. But everything is fixed. That is, overything except for the actual premises. I want to leave the final cholce of that in the last minute-I want it to be small and simple. As yet, haven't found any- thing quite perfect."
Who was to back his new project?
He shook his head in religious silence-i might have been ask- ing a Tibetan what was in his temple.
But there was no weak chink in his discretion, he did not even open his mouth. He waited thi the air was clear of the question, then politely broke into more news of his collection.
Ridiculous
Waiting...
casually arranged on show, but produce phoney works of art. not an counters bustling with love simple people."
He
altival Was assistants."
whimsical His anti-boutique thought led again. Sedly, he looked at me him further. "To me, the world with a stop-watch face. There of haute couture as it is today were queues to see him some- is ridiculous," Inc: went on. where. "Soon it won't exist.
But just one more thing, Its spirit
His ambition? is old-fashioned.
He dropped "Couture Isn't an industry the pencil and spolte as decl il's a creative thing. And those sively as he had just sketched. who make it into an industry, well" his hands rose in their first strong gesture-that's why
"It's always to be in agree- I shall keep
my House small
ment with myself to find a and simple.
balance. That's what's import- "No the rumour that I may aut in ilfe. Without it. one is open in New York is entirely
longer vulnerable. And untrue, I shall be mall and above all, I want to keep this simple and creative," he re- balance in my work. I can't peated. The pencil point dua live without working." into the felt. "I shall bave Outalde, people rattled on the plain while wails ("nu"-naked door. What did he think of the he called them), plenty of
and people will come lidded eyes showed me out. I tourid of fashion since he had space,
We spoke French. His voice was quiet and wove into the of traffic outside. He burr slipped up to close the window,
"My collection will be shown at the end of January," he ex- plained. "Just a small show, about a hundred models.
"I have not done any drawing yet. I will begin of the end of November. It will take me 15 days. At the moment, Pin still looking at accessories materials." A pile of them Jay glinling under the window.
ΠΟ
The beautiful girl with black-
'I'm frightened-but everything is fixed.....'
left it? He smiled, so that kis there only to see clothes. There discovered she was his faithful mouth spread but his eyes re- won't be champagne parties, mained serious.
"To be quite honest, don't know much about it. You see, I hate looking at magazines and “ newspapers, because if I see a picture of a bad dress it makes me feel quite l for the rest of the day."
He turned quickly from this. "When I was convalescing I drew lol. But I won't use any of my old sketches for the cullee-
The new ones done in a hurry are always best,"
tion.
There will only be clothes."
Was this not a reaction to his reign of Dior?
"Well," he evaded, "It will be very different, being on my own. At first it was a huge strain warking under the shadow of Dior-that great name, tradition, reputation to live up to. After all, Dior was unique. A Garbo or Bardot, if you like. But now awn I.shall do things my own way."
Was he planning to do any-, thing revolutionary
am on my
Since his return to Paris he has been doing a good deal of designing of clothes for the ing? He shrugged. "Revolution theatre and ballet. Will he give in fashion is cuidated too," he up when he becomes a couturier cald. again?
"I hope not," he said, "hecouse
I love But it is impossible to do both full time. However, 1 shall do what I can for the theatre if any good offers come
"The people I admire most Chanelle and Balenciaga -mature. They don't revolt."
Leaving Dior and starting alone has its own anticipations and compensations. "The com- petition is amusing and excit-! "And perhaps too. I shall 108," said Yves St Laurent. design some jewellery and bags -the kind of things that go in boutiques-to go in my House.
ups,
The strain
But I won't call it a boutique.... Then what shape does the I hale what that word implies. fear take? "Ons moment i ara My accessories will be just full of enthusiasm, one moment
CHILDREN'S CORNER
The Best Flier
-Chirpie Tells Shadows About Butterfly-
By MAX TRELL
CHIRPIE Spar,ow cume to the window sili This bread crumbs.
"Good morning. Hand! Gout To remove a piece of paper morning, Kharf he said, when that has stuck to the top of a he saw the two Shadow Chil- varalshed table, apply a little | dren.
oil to the paper and round the
Edges. When the oil has soaked Knort and Hopid returned through you
can remove
the his greeting,
paper by rubblug it gently with A cloth.
"I learned a funny thing this morning." Chirpie said to thens, after he had eaten a dozen or Food sometimes sticks to a
learned so of the crumbs. "I new trying-park Try covering that you don't have to be able the bottom of the pan with to fly fast to be one of the best cooking salt and slowly hout.lers that ever won.” Emply and rub with paper
Flunid said, "I don't unde.- Then meit a little fat in the can stand you, my dear. What do and wipe again with soft piper, you mean?"
"It's flying Tag," said Kaari. Chirple nodded.
"I don't guess it's very im- portant what name it has," he said. "Anyway, it's lots of furs, But there was one of the fel lowe I could never catch. No- body could catch him!"
Again Chiple stopped to cat some more crumbs,
T-
Knarf and Hanid waited patiently for him to come to the important part of the atory;
"Who was he?" they couldn't saying, "Who catch?"
Swallowed crumb
kept you
78
Butterfly turned and dodgeð so nobody could catch her.
"That's just it," said Chirple. Chiple slowly gwallowed the "It isn't that Butterfly flew to last crumb.
fast but that she turned and dodged and jerked around and "Delicious," he said. "Is that who It wan, De- went in every direction but he Helcus'? naked Knart in aston- one we throught she would be
sire to go." Ishment.
Chirple said that he thought
lois, of Animals and lots of People, too.
Chirple ale few more "No, I meant the crumbs When a coat is slightly worn crumbs. Then, after wiping he at the edges, but still good en-beake on the edge of the stone were delicious," answered it must be the mame thing with
Chirple.
ough for another season, try window sill instead of on # freshening it up by dyeing It napkin, he continued:
10 a darker shade, and then eaver the frozed edges with a
It's liko tog
"Who wae this Aller?" Hanid asked.
wonderful
"I know, it was the Swallow,” mid Inori.
nervous, and the next very happy. Today? I am calm." Jab Jab went the pencil.
I wondered if among all these emotions ho had time to visu- alise the response to his new collection. Wryly he wiped on Invisible Image from between his long wide lenses,
"That's difficult. I must clear a space in my mind. *There is so much going on."
What does he ever do to for-
get these goings on? To relax?
"I go to the theatre or cinema,
that's the best way of forgel-
ting." Gently I asked if that kind of outing wasn't spoilt by people recognising him. "Oh well" he said, endearingly. take my glasses off. Then, as I can't see people 1 imagine they can't see me."
has been drawing sincs ho was four. At 17 he took aketches to the directors of the French Vogue, who sent him straight to Dior. From there, he soared. Then physically fell | And reached this position, where work now means more than just churning out another collection. It means re-confirming his old established position.
"I work from nine in the
morning til eight at night," he told me "and when I am not working I'm hardly what you'd
call gay,
"I like quiet weekends with friends in the country. I don't like to be alone much. In fact, I only like solitude when I am actually drawing. When I'm in Hard to cotch
the preliminary stages of a col- lection, choosing materials, and Honld kald she knew a little that sort of thing, it is essential "I was playing a game Chia
Chimple didn't cay anything. Giri who was
hard to to me to have people all round- Imbring with some of the other Hanid said:
catch because all of a sudden, so that I can ask their advice fellows There was Swallow "Was it the Dragonfly? Or when you least expected it, she and be stimulated by their To clean stained bathroom and Robin and Clow and Wase the Hobin? The Crow, the turned and ran another way. opinions." tiles, disolve
and Dragonfly Waspt Yes, it must have bem Belum nitralo crystals In six arti Reveral others. All of us the Crow?” she routed. parts of water. Measure and add live the park."
braid, edging collar and cuffa to match.
ple
Part
Butterfly ut And
enough
an equal amount of laterne
10 Kourt and Hand wanted and mix well, Sur In whiting to make a thick paste.now what game Chirplo Sprond over the stains, allow to playing with his friends.
very
was the I cant tell you that he hardly
Dislikes
Silenco for a moment
L
while
"Lots of times," said Chiplo, "I've seen Swallow, who is dhe For another moment or two of the fastest Mers I know, go Chirpio remained still. Then he chasing after a lttle Butterfly.
he did a couple of sketeltes in quietly saia
"It was Butterfly."
ever catches them.
25 seconds flot. A present for dry. then wash off and inac "It hasn't really got a name,”.
Didn't believe it
"And by and by my friend me. Bald Chirple. "But I'll tell you well.
Swallow sets too tired to go Behind this mild, vesponsive lurk any how we play it. Wo all gather Kreart and Hand broke in flying after the Butterfly any facade, did there together on a branch, Thon loudly lu way that they couldn't more. Then, the Bultarily just ravage dislikes?
"Certainly." Restored by the Te clean a algkily salled cars romebody lola out a chip and believe the Butterfly, who hord sits on a daisy and flatters her pet, freshen it up by rubbing we all start you. I mean, one ly few faster than anyone wings hud. I suppose, laugtu to moment's drawing he scythed "detest dry bicarbonate of soda into the of us chaves all the others." could sun, could keep all the herself at being able to fly not guletly into them. ple, then brushing with a stiff "Oh, that's like Tag erted rest of those wonderful Birds faster but better than the fast-Imitation chile. People who are and Insects from catching her. est dying Bird in the park." nouveauz riches mentally, Who
brush.
Hanid.
model, Victoire, working for him again, And that her eye shadow was crushed powder — Kohl — from Egypt.
"What did you do when Yves St Laurent was away?" I asked. "Nothing," she said. "I went when he did and waited for him to come back."
"I felt that if his other sup-
porters have been waiting for him with the same fidelity, then Monsieur St Laurent can safely abandon all his fears.
-(London Express Service).
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
AQUARUUS (January 21- tako place within the next
February 19): Try to Low days. transfor an invitation you VIRGO (August 22- are unable to accept to a September 22): Respect member of the family who your partner's natural ́re- is in need of a break.
air serve when tempted to FISCES (February 20-March your private affairs in
20) Be patient with an in-
public. attentive youngstor until LIBRA (September 23- his powers of concentra.
October 22): Roly more on tion
are more fully do- your own efforts to get veloped,
things done, and count lega ARIES (March 21-April 19): on the last-minute help of
You will be piensantly sur others. prised by a nice little wind- fall as a result of a bet you had almost forgotten. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Keep the possible
con-
SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): Don't lot your emotions run Away with you when told of the plight of a casual acquain- tance.
sequences well in mind SAGITTARIUS (November
п
when tempted to take rather unconventional step. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): The influence of a person who is concerned with your welfare will contribute to the unexpected easing your work. CANCER (June 22-July 21: Your home life will soon become more satisfactory If you play your full part in making it so.
of
LEO (July 22-August 21); A change expecte.! at your place of work is likely to
22-December 21): If your partner is not in the best of moods tonight, postpone the discussion of a serious matter.
CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20) Reassuring nows about the health of a relative will relleve your anxiety of the past week. YOUR LUCKY CARD: If
18 today your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the NINE of CLUBS.
Rupert and the Popweed-1
haliday rimc. Mt. and Mrs. Bear have decided to go to Rocky Bay and have taken Bill for Badger is companion Rupen. They settle in to their roams ont evering and next morning they all sei off for a day
at the shore. I see you young
people have your apades and pain." miles Mr. But, “but spades are no use here. There'» no sand." Near the sea the little pats pause and look around. "The ihare locks different," BAYA Rupert. "Last time there was to seaweed as high up as this.“
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