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The closest approximation of genuine "million dollar" cast is offered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in bringing to the talking screen Vickt Baum's sensational novel and stage hit "Grand Hotel," which will head the programme
aro not
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By W. E. McKenney
At bridge we soon learn to load the fourth best of our longest and strongest suit, especially against
and many partnera fall to take advantage of the valuable in- formation it conveys,
A If the leader's partner will take the trouble to do so, he can fre- quently locate every card in the suit led, and that information will enable him to save many tricks in defensive play.
at the Queen's Theatro to-morrow, a no trump declaration when part- Although definito figures available, it in known that Director nor has not bid. However, many had under his players make this lead without Edmund Goukling
for it supervision the greatest aggregation understanding the reason of major stars ever assembled before a motion picture camera as a pietura cast. What they tetailed in salaries cannot be learned, but unofficial es timates agree they outweighed any other talent outlay on record. Grusinskaya, the Russian ballerina, there in Greta Garbo, whose last plc- turo, "Mata Hari," broke box-omee records throughout Amerien Pair ed with her as Baron von Gaigern, who enters her room to steal jewels but remains to fall in love, in John Barrymore, recognized as the foremost remantic actor of the American ang and screen. Joan Crawford, another breaker of box-office records, is cast the sex-sppealing nn Flacmmchen, atenographer who finds that happiness and tragedy often go hand in hand. Wallace Beery essays the most drama-
The declarer can also apply the tic role of his career na Preysing, the militaristic industrial magnate who Rule of Eleven and it assists him
with trifes
dishonesty and. un-in locating the cards held by his faithfulness with dire consequences adversaries. However, the le Lionel Barrymore, awarded last year's clarer knows his atrength and neting trophy from the Academy of weakness as soon as he sees the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has dummy, and knows exactly what the grand characterization of Kringe- lein, a humdrum faciery 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 dice. This Is his second appearance information exchanged is likely to with his brother, John, with whom he of more benefit to the defending he recently played in "Arsene Lupin."side than to the declarer. Lewis Stone as the shell-shocked doc
tor and Jean Hersholt as the porter
The cards can be located by using a simple mathematical de- vice called the Rule of Eleven. The latter is a fundamental principle of defensive play and must be applied by everyone who wishes to advance from the novice claus.
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who is anxious about the birth of his The Rule of Eleven requires that haby, head the large supporting cast, the card led be the fourth best. which includes Robert McWado, Puror the fourth from the highest, nell B. Pratt, Ferdinand Gottschalk, card of the suit led (e. g. if you Rafaeln Ottiano, Morgan Wallace,
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Tropics. Kinnell and Edwin Maxwell. In all, suit you had selected to opon, the some seventy indiviual parts are in five spot should be led). the picturization of the play, all of them important regardless of brevity.
O'Neill's Great Play.
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The numeral of the card le 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 tard led that are in the hands of the three players other than the leader.
If dummy played the six, you' would play the seven, which would hold the trick. If he played the nine you would win the trick with the jack, while If he played the king you would take it with the
A drama that goes deeper than the spoken words of His players, scarchits out even their secret thoughts. That for the first time on the screen, is disclosed in "Strange Interlude," in which glamorous Norma Shearer and
Using the above example (part- the dynamic Clark Gablo share star-
thener opening the five spot) if ring honours now showing ut Queen's Theatre. The picture that dummy now held king-9-6 and you, revolutionizes pictures." That is the an partner of the lender, held ace claim made for "Strange Interlude" jack-7, you would now say five by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which film-from 11 leuves six. As there are ed this astounding masterpiece from three cards in the dummy higher the stage play of Eugene O'Neill than the five spot, and as your O'Neill throughout the world is re
foremost hand contains three higher, you cognized
America's dramatist, and this is acknowledged to would now know that the declarer be his greatest play. None but Metro hold no card higher than the five. Goldwyn-Mayer with its long list of courageous achievements, has dared to bring to the screen such a collossal work of genius as this O'Neill play
it took five hours On the stage
to reveal its complex and daring pro- blems. The inner workings of the minds as well as hearts of its charac ly a "drama within a drama" the mental as well as emotional struggle being disclosed of the встеел. AL Nina Leeds, the woman who has secretly defied the rules of life in her yearning for unsatisfled love, Norma Shearer has the most intense role of her career. Clark Gable has never before attempled a characterization B wide in its implications than that of the doctor who becomes first the can- fidante and then the secret lover of Buit of a deck and lay them out on
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Now, select any small card and Kwan Tyc, strange and intricate method of re- eording, the thoughts as well as words subtract it from the highest card French Store,
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The mathematical principle of the Rule of Eleven is as follows: Cards in reality begin with the two spot-there is no one spot. Now, let us substitute na 11 spot. for the jack, 12 spot for the queen, 13 spot for the king and a 14 spot for the ace.
New select 13 curds from one
of all these players are audibly ex-the 14 spot. If you had selected, Hung Cheong, pressed on the screen.
"The Woman In Room 13′′
the five, you will now find, after deducting five from 14. that there are nine cards higher than the five spot in every auit."
No matter how often they attend a pleture theatre, few screen fans realise that a given story can be pro-
As the card led is always the duced as n comedy, a melodrama, mystery thriller or a straight romance. ourth best, the leader therefore "Treatnient", the studio porase for
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 leader holds from nine leaves six, achievementu in picture annals have we shorten the procedure by de- come about through treating a fami- ducting the three cards held by Har plot from an entirely new angle. the leader from 14 and arrive at Henry King's Intest Fox Films produc-
tian, "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 Landi in the atarring role, is an excellent example cards of the nuit 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 any distribution you care to, mak hotel room, with suspicion falling on ing sure that the opening leader an innocent man as the slayer. The always has at least four cards. Identity of a woman in the room at Lead the fourth best, look at the the time is a vital part of the story, dummy, look at either of the other and the entire plot la of the type that two closed hands, and see if you ordinarily would be made as a mystery
can tell how many carde higher
filin.
In preparing the story for the than the card led are in the other screen, however, Director Henry King
and Senarist Guy Belton decided to closed hand.
avoid the mystery angle, and by let
ting the audience see everything as
Practice this until you
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it cocurs, 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 vory seldom that a card
the customary question of who tho murderer may be. Thus the specia- tors know that Neil Hamilton la 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 biiss the nine apot is your fourth best Landf, and that Ralph Bellamy could, card, you invariably have an but for reasons of his own, will not honour combination that should be clear up the matter and secure Hamilled in preference to the fourth ton's release from prison. These best. mattara being known to the audience but not to Hamilton or Miss Landi, the audience interest is accordingly devoted to ber efforts at securing drama-and the spectators are the Hamilton's release and in cutwitting waisers, for from all reporte "The Bellamy. Consequently what would Woman In Room 13" is one of the otherwise have been "just a mystery most outstanding platures of the Alm" is made into an absorbing human year.
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