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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 25, 1941.
By Walt Disney
WEAR
DONALD DUCK
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CONTRACT How to Play
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How to Win
JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Bad Bidding and Worse Play
EAR Mrs Culbertson: Speaking to shorten his own trump of bridge pariners, if we must, rumng?. He did not! He
suit by
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"DEAR
I really musi̇ tell you úbout what his low club. Duminy's diamond happened to me list night on the jack won and another diamond was following hand:
"South dealer..
"Both sides vulnerable.
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"Diviously, my dear partner cared nothing about my pass to one heurt; he was sure he could take nine tricks all by himself!
"West opened the spade jack. East won with the ace and returned] the queen and eight. Declarer ruffed] and led the king of diamonds. East won and led back a diamond. Now, instend of lending low to the heart, ten, thereby insuring against two heart losers, declarer eashed the nee und king, probably hoping to drop the queen and ninet Disappointed
in this, and awaking to the proba bility that, considering East's
ding, the suit would not break, dear partner now shifted to the
club
queen. East won and made a return
led, probably with the naive hope that East would ruff and allow South to overrull. East did not
oblige, however; he discarded
ded a club. De- elarer let go the club ace but then, when
last diamond was led, East discarding another club, declarer had to ruff. After which he had to concede two tricks to East's queen- nino of trumps.
"Of course, East made a bad play by leading the third diamond instead of a club. How simple it should have been for declarer to ruff that diamond, enter dummy with ณ low club
to the Juck and run diamonds until East was forced to ruit. In this
way, t
It would have been a cinch to shut out the nine of trumps and thereby recoup from the original error of leading out the ace and klog of trumps.
"Why is it the very players who bid their heads off usually manage to lose an extra trick In the play? J.F.G., New York."
I'm afraid I don't know the ans- wer to J.F.G.'s question, und any other comment by nie would be re- dundant."
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London's theatres are
THE SHOW GOES ON
By Sidney Horniblow
Bomba may fall, but the. curtain goes up as usual. London's theatres are true to their tradition. Whatever happens the show goes on. The black-out has closed down on the lights which flashed their names, 80 the stars twinkle while the sun shines.
Matinees take place almost as usual, but evening shows are earlier. The audience gela, home well before dark. Nobody is afraid of bombs, in the day-time now, SO the "house-full" boards go up just at the time that we would be dressing for dinner in the palmy days of peace!
No tails and tuxedos in the stalls. No ermine and orchids on gleaming white shoulders. But the house is full and the laughs ring loud. Comedy is the order of the day. Half the shows in London now are gay revues,
There are three
or four spectacular "musicals" and, more are on the way to catch the cheers before the dark nights come again,
These big bright shows raised a puzzle for the Board of Trade chiefs when they announced clothes rationing in June. One revue alone takes 800 dresses, which only -Inst six or seven months.
The ballet wear pairs of shoes a week.
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Film and stage producers appealed for concessions. No one expected such a sweeping order as the general clothes. rationing to go through with- out some adjustments being necessary. And have not the cinemas and theatres proved their worth as wartime tonics?
You might almost say they are essential wartime services. They pay the Government well, One show alone turns in £1,200 a week in entertain- ment tax.
The box-office takings show how much they are in de- mand, Cinema attendances are up on sunny spring even- ings. The moon influences the money. Before the heavy blitzes came, and before old ladies got used to the black- out, business was best on moonlight nights. Now the moon is likely to bring the bombers, so dark nights swell the box-office takings.
And no miserable pictures please! Comedy, and 'gay ro- mance are tops; though we don't mind a good real life picture or even a war film, if it is well done, and packed with heroes.
If a real air raid begins before, the show is over; the audience can be heroes too. During-a-tenso love scene the roof spotters may flash down? the message, "German 'planes approaching.".
The audience are In another world. The clamour of war outside cannot distract the
WALT DISNEY
under fire, but
rapt attention, of the house. The manager klips out from the wings. "I'm sorry, to interrupt," he says, "but an air raid's just started. We shall carry on with the show, but, of course, you can leave if you wish.
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warden in the nine- pennies and a doctor in the circle pick up their steel 'hel- mets and go out to duty. The rest of the audience settle in their seats and the show
goes on.
When war began, every cinema and theatre in London was ordered to. close until further notice. We expected then to be bombed day and night from the word "go." The weeks went by but Goer-.. ing, it seems, was not ready, so gradually the order was relaxed. The cinemas opened in the day-time only. Hero and there a theatre.came back to life. Gradually the ghows got later,, and now it is "business as usual, bombs permitting."
May and June in peace-time were always the peak-months of the London season. They have been the brightest for the show business in this year of war 1941. Our "double summer-time" as we call IL (putting the clock on two hours ahead of sun-time in the summer) gives us long refreshing evenings to make up for lost sleep and shorter holidays. The longer the even- ings the later the shows, and more of them,
many
We have not as theatres open this time as we had in the last war. Many have been bombed, including the famous Theatre Royal Drury Lane, headquarters of ENSA, the troops" entertain- ment organisation.
What an escape for the "Lane" of treasured memor-
ies! The Royal Box was tin- damaged except for a sma}} piece of plaster which was knocked off. Every King of England since Charles II has sat in that box.
The dressing rooms of Da- vid Garrick and Mrs Siddons, Garrick's famous mirror, and Sheridan's room where he wrote "The School for Scan- dal", are all intact.
Show business in the Pro- vinees, in Liverpool and Blackpool and Glasgow and. Birmingham, has more than made up for the bomb-blanka in. London's theatre list. Takings in the country towns are double the pre-war figures,
People who hardly ever get the chance of coming to Lon. don have been able to see famous actors and actresses they would never have scen but for the war. The British stage is reviving the great touring tradition of Irving and Tree and Terry and Ben-
son.
We may get round soon, to those riotous revues of the Inst war with their rollicking choruses sung by every soldier from England to the East. It is the chorus girls who need Anding these days. They are either entertaining the troops, or in uniform themselves.
But, whatever the difficulties the theatre corries on. It is nearly 300 years since anything happened in shut it down in Britain. When the, Civil War. began in. 1642 the Lords and Commons published on ordinance which commended that "while these sad causes and set- ilmes of humiliation do continue public stage plays thall cease and be forborne."
A brief setback, but apart from this the theatre has not only kept going,. It has bravely flourished in adversity.
The wars of ancient Greece did not stop Sophocles and Euripides and Aeschylus from writing their Immortal plays, nor did they stop performances,
In the year of Waterloo famous stars played in "Romeo and Juliet" at London's Covent Garden.
In the Inst great war the theatre carried on its gay good work. It still carries on, however grim the terror from the skies, and Shake- speare gives the cue: "Is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour?"
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