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CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
and many partners fail to take advantage of the valuable in- formation it, conveys.
If the leader's partner will take the trouble to do so, ho can fre- quently locate every card in the suit led, and that information will,
defensive play.
1
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DARLING MINE!
The closest approximation of genuine "million dollar" cast is offered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in bringing
At bridge we soon learn to lead to the talking screen Vicki Baum's senantional novel and stage kii "Grand the fourth best of our longest and Hotel," which will head the programme strongest suit, especially against at the Queen's Theatre tomorrow; à no trump declaration whon part- Although definito figures
not- nvailable, it is known that Director nor has not bkt. However, many Edmund Goulding harl under his players make this lead without supervision the greatest aggregation understanding the reason for it of major stars ever assembled before a motion picture camera as a picture cast. What they totalled in salaries cannot be learned, but unofficial en timates agree they outweighed any other talent outlay on record. An ballerina, Grusinskayn, the Russian there is Greta Garbo, whose last plc- ture, "Mata Hari," broke box-office ed with her as Baron von Gaigern, enable him to save many tricks in, be avoided by careful attention to records throughout America. Pair who enters her room to sical Jewels but remains to fall in love, is John foremost Barrymore, recognized as the: remantic netor of the American stage and screen. Joan Crawford, another breaker of box-office recorda, in cast as Flacmmehen,
the
sex-appealing stenographer who finds that happiness and tragedy often go hand in hand. Wallace Beery essays the most drama-
The declarer can also apply the the role of his career as Preysing, the
who Rule of Eleven and it assists him militaristic industrial magnate
with dinkonesty trifles
in locating the cards held by his faithfulness with dire consequenc"R advuraaries. However, the de- Lionel Barrymore, awarded last year's clarer knows is strength and acting trophy from the Academy of weakness as soon as he sees the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as dummy, and knows exactly what the grand characterization of Kringe- lein, a humdrum factory clerk who cards are out against him, while registers at the Grand Hotel to enjoy the adversaries have no direct way a brief period of splendor before he of learning it, therefore any dies. This is hin second appearance Information exelianged is likely to with his brother, John, with whom be of more benefit to the defending he recently ninyod in "Arsene Lupin.
and
21.
The cards can be located by using a simple mathematica! de- vice called the Rule of Eleven. The atter in a fundamental principle of defensive play and must be applied by everyone who wishes to advance from the novice elnas.
Lewis Stone as the shell-shocked doc.alde than to the declarer.
tor and Jenn Hersholt as the porter who is anxious about the birth of his
baby, hend the
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The Rule of Eleven requires that supporting cast, the card led be the fourth best,
Pur-
targetMeWade,
which includes Rebert
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nell B. Pratt, Ferdinand Gottschalk, or the fourth from the highest. Rafaela Ottiano, Morgan Wallace, card of the suit led (e. g. if you Tully
Frank Conroy, Murray hold Q-10-8-5-2, and that was the The Most Suitable beer for the Marshall, Kinnell and Edwin Maxwell. In all, suit you had selected to open, the
Tropics. some seventy indiviual parts are in five apot should be fed). the picturization of the play, nil of them important regardless of brevity.
O'Neill's Great Play.
in
The numeral of the card led should be subtracted from 11 (in this case five from 11 leaves six). The result will tell you the num her of cards higher than the card led that are in the hands of the three players other than the leader.
A drama that goes deeper than the spoken words of its players, searching out even their secret thoughts. That for the Brst time on the serpen, disclosed in "Strange Interlude, which glamorous Norma Shearer and the dynamic Clark Gable share stor Using the above example (part- ring honours now showing at the nor opening the five spot) if Queen's Theatre. "The picture that dummy now held king-3-6 and you, revolutionizes pictures." That is the as partner of the leader, hold ace claim made for "Strange Interlude"
jack-7, you would now say Ave by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which film- from 11 leaves six. As there are ed this astounding masterpiece from the stage play of Eugene O'Neill, three cards in the dummy higher O'Neill throughout the world is re
than the five spot, and as your cognized
America's foremost hand contains three higher, you dramatist, and this is acknowledged to would now know that the declarer be his greatest play. None but Metro-held no card higher than the five. Goldwyn-Mayer with its long list of courageous achievements, has dared If dummy played the six, you to bring to the screen, such a collessai would play the seven, which would work of genius as this O'Neill play. hold the trick. If he played the On the stage it took five hours to nine you would win the trick with reveal its complex and during pre- the fuck, while if he played the blems. The inner workings of the minds as well as hearts of its charne king you would take it with the
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ly a drama within a drama"-the The mathematical principle of mental as well as emotional struggle the Rule of Eleven is as follows: being disclosed of the тест. Ав Nina Leeds, the woman
Cards In reality begin with the hns who secretly defied the rules of life in her two spot-there is no one spot. yearning for unsatisfied love, Norma Now, let us substitute an 11 spot Shearer has the most intense role of for the jack, 12 spot for the queen, her career. Clark Gable has never 13 apot for the king and a 14 spot before attempted a characterization au for the ace. wide in its in:plications than that of the doctor who becomes first the con- Now select 13 cards from one fidante and then the secret lover ofsult of a deck and lay them out on
ย this "woman with a twisted soul" the table in their ranking order. Others in the cast are Alexander We are calling the ace, king, queen Kirkland, Raph Morgan, Young, May Robson. Maureen 0 and jack the 14, 13, 12 and 11 Sullivan, Henry B. Waithail, Mary spots, respectively. Alden and Tad Alexander. By д atrange and intricate method of re-
Now select any small card and cording, the thoughts as well as words subtract it from the highest curd of all these players are audibly ex-the 34 spot. If you had selected, pressed on the screen.
the five, you will now find, after deducting five from 14, that there are nine cards higher than the five
"The Woman In Room 13"
Robert
No matter how often they attend a spot in every suit. picture theatre, few sercen fans realise that a given story can be pro- duced as a comedy, a melodramă, a
As the card led is always the mystery thriller or a straight romance, fourth best, the lender therefore "Treatment", the studio parase for a holds three of these nine cards, so detailed synopsis of the finished film, instead of saying five from 14 holds the keys to the type of offering leaves nine and the three the that will result, and many brilliant | leniter holds from nine leaves six, achievements in picture annals have we shorten the procedure by do come about through treating a fami- ducting the three cards held by liar plet from an entirely new angle the leader from 14 and arrive at Henry King's latest Fax Films produc tion, "The Woman In Room 13", which the constant figure of 11. opens on Thursday at the King's
Now, for practice, take the 13 Theatre, with Elissa Landl in starring role, is an excellent example cards of the suit you are using and of this. The story revolves around deal them out in four hands-in the killing of a famous singer in his upy distribution you care to, mak- hotel room, with suspielen falling on Ing sure that the opening leader An innocent man as the layer. The always hng at least four cards. Identity of a woman in the room at Lead the fourth beat, look at the the time is a vital part of the story, dummy, look at ofthor of the other and the entire plot is of the type that two closed hands and see if you ordinarily would be made as a mystery Alm. In preparing the story for the can tell how many cards higher Bergen, however, Director Henry King than the card led are in the other and Senarist Guy Bolton decided to closed hand,
The
avoid the mystery angle, and by let-
ting the andlence sea everything as
Practice this until you are
it occurs, to centro the interest on the thoroughly familiar with the work. outcome of the affair rather than on ing of the Rule of Eleven.
It is very seldom that a card
the customary question of who tho murderer may be. Thus the specta- tors know that Neil Hamilton is un- higher than the eight spot is ever Justly accused, that the woman in the led in the Rule of Eleven. When room was Myrna Loy and not as the nine spot is your fourth best Landl, and that Ralph Bellamy could, card, you invariably have but for reasons of his own, will not, honour combination that should be clear up the matter and securo Hamilled in preference to the fourth ton's release from prison. These beat.
an
matters being known to the audience but not to Hamilton or Misa Landi, the audience interest is accordingly devoted to her efforts at socuring | dráma--and the spectators are the Hamilton's release and in outwitting gainers, for from all reports. "The Bellamy. Consequently what would Woman in Room 18" is one of the otherwise have been "just a mystery most outstanding pictures of the | film” is made into an absorbing human, your.
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