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September 25, 1941...
By Walt Disney
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BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Bad Bidding and Worse Play
·GOT A NICKEL CHANGE? I'LL GET IN TOUCH WITH MY HOME! OFFICE!
EAR Mrs Culbertson: Speaking! to shorien his own trump suit by of bridge partners, if we must, ruffing? He did not! He chucked
South dealer.
"Both aldes vulnerable.
I really must tell you about what ha Jow club. Dummy's diamond happened to me last night on the jack won and another diamond was led, probably with the naive hope following hand:
that East
nat would ruff and allow South to overrunt. East did not oblige, however: he discarded n club. De- clarer let the club ace but then,
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club, declarer had to rust. After which he had to concede two tricks to East's queen- nine of trumps
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"Obviously, my dear partner cared nothing about my pass to one heart; ho was sure he could take ninė 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.
Eust won and led back a diamond. Now, Instead of lending low to the heart, ten,
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In this, and awoking to the
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"O{ course, East made a bad play by lending the third diamond Instead of a club. How simple it should have been for declarer to ruff that diamond, enter dummy' with a low club to the jack and run diamonds until East was forced to ruff. In this way. It would have been a cinch to shut out the nine of trumps and thereby
YES,
WALT DISNEY
London's theatres are under fire,
THE SHOW GOES ON
By Sidney Horniblow
Whatever
Bombs may fall, but the curtain goes up as usual. London's theatres are true to their tradition. happens the show goes on. The black-out has closed down on the lights which flashed their names, so the stars twinkle while the sun shines.
Matinees take place almost as usual, but evening shows arc carlier.
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gets home well before dark. Nobody is afraid of bombs in the the day-time now, recoup from the original error of leading out the ace and king
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"Why is it the very players who bid their heads off usually manage
would be dressing for dinner
to lose an extra trick in the play? in the palmy days of peace, J.F.G., New York."
I'm afraid I don't know the ans wer to J.F.G's question, and any ather comment by me would be re- dundant.
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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 last six or seven months.
The ballet wear out 30 pairs of shoes a week.
Film and stage producers appealed for concessions. No one expected such a sweeping order as the general clothes rationing to go through with- out Home adjustments being necessary. And have not the cinemas and theatres proved
worth their
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.
As
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 Indics 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- manae 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 rald begins before the show is over, the audience can be heroes took During a tense love scene tho roof spotters may flash down the message, "German 'planes
approaching."...
The audienco are in another world. The clamo of war outside cannot distract the
rapt attention of the house. The manager slips out from "I'm sorry to the wings. 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,
A 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. Here and there a theatre came back to life. Gradually the shows 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 it (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.
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We have not. 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-
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but
ies! The Royal Box was un- damaged except for a small 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- and vinces, in Liverpool Blackpool and Glasgow and Birmingham, has more than made up for the bomb-blanks 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 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.
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We may get round soon, to those riotou revues of the last war with their rollicking choruses sung by every soldier from England to the East. It is the chorus girls who need finding these days. They are either entertaining the troops, or in uniform themselves.
on.
But, whatever 'the dificulties the theatre carries It is nearly 300 years since anything happened to shut it down in Britain. When the Civil War began in 1642 the Lords and Commons published an
ordinance which commended that "while these sad causes and set- times of humiliation do continue public stage plays thall ecasa 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 famotis stars played in "Romeo and Juliet". at London's Covent Garden.
In the last 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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