1952-12-17 — Page 5

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Law-Abiding Steal

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1952.

• BY THE • WAY

by

Beachcomber

Do not propose to argue with by backwards, be

I the nslute 'people who

pointed out that the announce ment yesterday that there woukl be no opening paragraph was,

Dupes Slam Declarer in itself, an opening paragraph.

"

By OSWALD JACOBY NOTHING delights most bridge

players more than a fre deceptive play. Maybe they are pleased by the triumph of mind over matter, or maybe they enjoy seeing a David dish it out to n Goliath. I suspect that the most important reason is that most bridge players admire larceny for its own sake-in a low-abidion sort of way.

Whatever the reason may be, I'm sure that everybody will enjoy the Beatiful dreptive play made by Eddie Lowenthal, one of New York best players, in the hand shown today. Ho far it has plensed every- body who has seent St-except the drcfarer when the hand was actually played.

West opened his singleton diamond, durny played the jack, and Lowenthal calmly wan with the act of diamonds instead of the queeni He then returned tha ien of dia- monitis.

It's easy to see that South should have ruffed with a sigh trump. He could then cash the top hearts and ru two tong heart in the dum- my.

When the haul was actually played, however, South didn't surpret that anything umurual Was being

NORTH

25

1098

K4

• KJ64

KQE

WEST

EAST (D)

$74

45

J1092

03

AQ 109873

01007432 MAJO

SOUTH

SAKQJ832

❤A8705

+2

None

North-South vul.

South West North Дам 2 N. T PRI

East

1+

Double

Pass 34

Pare

7:1

Po#1

Pass 54

P013 Pass

Opening lead~ 5

done to him. He saw East win the first telek with the ace of dlansada and naturally assumed 1/TMt rt held the queen of atlamende. Rence South didn't see any longer in dia- carding on the second round of dia- monds, West surfed, of course, and the slam was set Iminediotyly,

Incidentally. while we're giving for hir

Eddle Lowenthal credit brilliant play, let's award a sentient or two to South for big bidding.

The dealsion to hid wix spades There would was very optimtalte,

have been no play for the slay if North had shown up with King- x-xin hearts instead of the actual holding in that suit.

South actually decided to id the slam as soon as his partner raised to four apades. Having made that decision, he alsould have bid six spadea without bothering to show his hearts. By bidding hearts he warned the opponents to expect a tremendous two iter, and perhaps that had its influence la versuading Fast that the ace of clube would not live.

CARD Sendee♦

Q-With neither de

the bidding has been:

North

Eart

1 Diamond 1 Rearl

You,

vulnerable.

Reuth Went

Southhold: Spades.

A+Q-J+8-5. ¡cart 8-4

Diamonds

6-7-3, Clubs A-3-8. Whất do you do? A-B14 one spade. You will surely

zame

• majet on some

contraes

eventually, probably by making jump bid at your next turn.

Tow.

ever, your hand is not qulle worth an immediate Jump takeout. The simple one-over-one response. Is enough at this moment.

TODAY'S QUESTION,

The bidding is the same o in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades K-8-3. Hearts K-QA, Diamonds Q-7-3, Chubu J-0-4-2. What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

CHESS PROBLEM.

By A. AKERBLOM Black, 9 pieces.

19 £12

White, 9 pieces,

White to play; mate in three.

Solution to

problem:

yesterday's

1, K-K2, any; 2, Q, R, B, or Kt

mates.

DUMB-BELLS

AND HOW DO YOU SLEEP

ALONE!

What is it?

firal expert to be called in the case of the Ben-Guze on wheels was Mr Herbert Friend, a plasterer of Newhain-Staggeit. He said that if the wheels were re- moved the lyen house would not be a vehicle.

Snapdriver: How would they get it across the lane, without wheels?

Friend: Could not they carry 117 Gooseboote: With the wheels on. is milled, or pushed?

Mr Lovelace the owner, here in- tervened to way that it was pulled backwards. Asked what he meant

said the puiler lind his back to it. *Cockiscarros: The pusher 'would naturally face it?”

Lovelace: That is so, m'lud, Cocklecarrot: flow wide, is this lane? Where does it lead to?

Lovelace: Seven foot, m'lud. It leads nowhere.

Marginal note

WHEN was beaten at my publie school, for the infringement of poma rule or other there were no loud-voleed ideologues to scream about the horror of what had been done to me. Nobody even suggested that. 4 course of paychotherapy would have been better for me, fir parents. did not write Indignant letters to the papers, or withdraw me from the school. Nor did the beating haunt me for the rest of my life and turn me into an anti-social savage, as the novelists may Imagine.

YOUR BIRTHDAY.......... By STELLA

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17

BORN today, you have your full share of self-confidence and always rely on your own efforts to accomplish anything Important. You pre api ta promise a' ile more than you can actually deliver, and it would be wise for you to think each commitment over very care.

al fully. You will make overy tempt to follow through-but some Urnes your vision does run away with your usually good, practical Common

велие.

on

and to be able to co-operate with othern for a common cause.

You have the spirit of fighter are engaged in a and when you

iden. campaign to put acros you w Oght for it to the bitter anish. You have a good business head and probably will know how You might even in make money. accumulate a fortune before you die!

Your circle of intimate friends is apt to be a small and select ope. for you pick and choose with great whose care. selecting only those

with your ideas are compatible own. Wed someone who can keep

There is in you a rather unusual combination of the hard-headed, practical individual and the idealist úreamer. Sometinies the two sides of your nature are engaged in pace with your mercurist inted and personal civil war which pulls and who can, as well, give you un- lugs you in two different directions divided love and affection. Not de- you jiko yourself, at once. You must struggle to monstrative resolve these problems. Leer to others to make the initial advan- To find what the stars have in

know yourself and understand the ces workings of your own mind if you want others to understand you, as store for tomorrow. select your well. Remember always, that in birthday star and read, the corres- the highly competitive world it is ponding paragraph. Let your birth- important for you to be understood day star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18

now

BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, 22)— Some active sports or vigorous exercise will go a long way toward ridding you of a bad mood today. CAPRICORN (Dec. Dan, zo)-

buying Do your Christmas but be practical in budgeting that funds will go around)

21-Feb. 10) AQUARIUS (Jan. Confidential matters can be dealt with advantageously, Make plans for the family's future,

PISCES (Feb,

20-Mar. 201

55

A good day to get your Christmas greeting cards out so they be re- ceived in time.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 100) Best to postpone ony very import- ani decisions SIDLA expects somewhat improved.

are

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May ZI) The trends Bro excellent for all neighbourhood and community

affairs. Serve on a committee.

GEMINI

(May

22-June 21) Be efficient with all routine work have and you will find that you plenty of tune for fun

CANCER (June 22-July 23)-- Plus party for children. You can have some real fun, too. Get the point of view of the youngsters.

LEO (July

237 24-Aug. Other people, especially elder uner, may have whims and caprices, tool Give in to them.

vmdo (Aug. 24-8aps, 23) Find time for some tight reading. A change of tempa will help to re» | lease tensions.

LIBRA (Bepi. 24-Oct. 23)- Be a "doubting Thomas" when it comes to listening to gossip these days. Seek out the facta.

CROSSWORD

ACTU

Avo Omar 1 (6)

6. Mimto the tabushed shape. (3)

2. Vain rules but catholic. "(9)

10. Extreme ng, lonzer, past but

differant, J

12. Rear, could be but ealcom. (4)

1. Tear the navy about (0)

15. Draw of. (5)

10 Rote a good joint, (5),

lady retire to eat. (4)

20. Measures (4)

22. Fated to die. (3)

23 Each way she makes money. (4)

24. More at home with Rupert than

hera. (4)

20. spin tops tʊ a standstill. (4)

Dow

1. Recognised holiday period, (a) 4. Narrative of detached Inci

dout (8)

9. The Larry, booktably. (81

4. A largo tract of land,

Bilp and take a mesange, (0)

7. Looks like a cleavage. (719

B The chosen. (B)

11. Three-quarters of 12 Across. 131

13. Coleridge's Mariner. 173.

Forecaster of these errandia. (6)

19. Many recent race meetings have

beat, (3)

21. Vegatable life blood. (3)

Solution Di

AATOOS1 1. Peniquat col

pusele.

SCORPIO

22) (Oct. 24-Nov. Don't place too much dependence upon something you get at third hand. Find out for yourself.

SCALLOPED

GREENS PICKING

A

OF KALE, PATSY AND ANOTHER RECIPE

FROM MUM

WOMANSENSE-

The clothes London's smartest A Traditional

they wear

at a film

première

The loper-" not planned for the great occasion.' -

COOK THE

KALB

DRAM

AND SQUGEZE

rt AB DRY AS YOU CAN

MIND YOU PICK OUT

THE MIDRIBS.

BEFORE COOKING.

AND

CHOP

mr up

WITH

A HARD-

SOILED EGO

NOW MOISTEN

ST WITH A

LITTLE STOCK OR GRAVY, NOT TOO WET BGASONING WITH PEPPER-

PUT A LAYER IN A GREASED PIG DISH

THEN A LAYER OF GRATED CHEESE

AND THE REST. OF THE KALE

SPRINKLE THE TOP WITH BUTTERED CRUMBS

AND BAKE IN 'A HOT

OVEN TILL THE

CRUMBS ARE BROWNED

BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Squire Squirrel Has A Rule

-It Helps Him Remember Where He's Hidden Things-

By MAX TRELL

hind paws and tall at the foot

of the old Oak Tree, As it was

KNARF, the shadow-bos with now the middle of autum

the turned-about name, was Squire was holding an acorn. always putting things away He was about to hide it in the and then forgetting where he ground.

put them. So that when he

wanted

found

them again, he had

his sisler

you

A Fine Howdy-Do

Long or Short

|_ 10-6

"Squire Bquirrel, I want to usk you a question," said Knarf.

great-trouble finding them "Howdy, Squire Squirrel! ex them at all!

that sometimes he never said Knart. "I want to ask you

a question," Finally, one

day,

"A long question or a short Henid said to him: "You should question?" said Squire. "I hope remember where

put it's a short question, because I things, Knart!"

"Oh, I do," said Knarf, haven't got much time. I've remember for days and days. got this acorn to hide."

"That's just what I want to Then, all of a sudden, when I asic

about," sald Knart. start looking for them, I for- "When

you

I hide things, I can't big white rock, I think of the get."

ever find them again. I forget acorn. And in the wintertime, when the ground is where I've hidden them. How even do you

covered with snow, I still can remember where yout Hanid said, shaking her head, hide things?"

find the rock, and the minute I "That's a fine howdy-do, I

the rock know exactly "It's easy!" replied Squire. "find think you ought to go and see have a rule. I always hide my where lo look for the acorn.

things

You see, it's easy." next to something else. Squire Squirrel? Why should Then remember that some-

Knarf nodded. "I see what It I you mean now, Squire. got to do with my forgetting to Kuart said he didn't under put something in a closet, the remember where I put things?"

best thing to do is to remember this meant, 80 Hanid explained to

close her Squire explained. "Just come the brother that Squire

said Squire Squir Squirrel with me,"

he sald; "while had the best remembrance for hide this acorn

rol. "Of course," he said, "the You'll rel. put-away things of anyone she understand the whole rule." rule doesn't always work. Now With that, Squire Squirrel and then, I even forget the and acomis

just as you might even 015 started across the field with the

the

closet.

I've And in the acom in his teeth. Kharf ran

Squire Squirrel.”

I go and see him? What's he thing else. It always works."

know. "He hides hundreds and hundreds of nuts

during the summer,

never forgets exactly where he's put them."

"Oh," said Knarf. "I wonder how he remembers so well."

Stand

what

And

of the field, Squirrel acorns. In

yes.

my time. But it

wintertime, months later, when nog with him. Finally in the forgotten quite a few buried the ground is all covered with middie snow, he knows where to And cach and every one of them. He stopped near a big white rock doesn't really matter. After a and began digging a hole in the few years, the acorn grows into and I get more an oak tree ground.

acorns." Doesn't Remember Acorn Knarf sighed. "I wish it hap- pened that way with the thinga "Now," he said, "I put the I forget. My marbles don't acorn right in this hole whore grow into more marbles.

aeroplanes don't But I don't try to remember boats. My vecret,"

So Kaarf went to see Squire the acorn any more. All I try grow into more aeroplanes. If Squirrel, whom he found with to remember is the big white I forget something, it just stays INTELLIGENCE TEST out any trouble, sitting on his rock. Every time I look at the forgotten!"

Cover: 10, Ato: 11. Grimace: 12. Lump.

15. Boles:

M: 31. fem. ak por bawa 1 "That," said, Hand, "is why 1

Burmount: 4.

think

you should go and sec

My

Paroles ! 1 him. Maybe he'll tell you his no one can sco. it, not even 1. bonts don't grow into more

Larceny: Delacre: 15. Masan: 14, Praeni 16

10,

DIGITAL

By J, O. HARE:

:

HERE'S an eye for You" told__Winifred Wessel to Wilfred, she wrote.

on her He 86789

Each digit reprocenta a itter and the whole is BUILD- thing not uncoupected with trava. What is it?

1 might be anything. соми

or on EARLY tance.

The Home Card doesn't give you anisotr

travel.” said Winifredsber

·That phrase tikkaa tisa of all the letters, ayou 300 † They're the Arst two words of one of our nationat sOTICE

*SIN. AB-Rad Wifrech, kto wrote on the misto i

"What'la thu KANDHIRDET

(Splation on Page 10)

Rupert and the Diamond Leaf-4

At Pauline's învitation Ropart; nor the right shape for this obre decides to ·forget about the of thing," he sighs.. *** Ken't there diamond leave for a moment, and something the we can try?"-'AIL join the sports. Fira he triea all at once ha pauses and "gases up orig jump, without very much the slope. "Oo, look, there's success then-Pauline and Janet ly Duckling !" he exclaims. hold a cord for some high jump haven't seen her for ages. May. ing, but he doesn't stem/much go and sik her to come and "better" that."*"* Oh dear, « 1'za vzgons ma 7.25.

*ALL RIGHTS KRÍZKÝND.

Don't

forget

your

Rupert

Annual

show-in a drainpipe setting

TODAY upart from

Pre-Christmas

Party

"A traditional. Norwegian Christmas Eve dinner was always served in my childhood home

Court functions, the most Arlene Dahl, Hollywood-film fashionable, or at least the smartest, occasion in Lon-actress who is of Norwegian ex- don is a film premiere. All the world puts on its best bib traction, and tucker and hastens there to see and to be seen.

To see and to be seen! What an Irony. For owing to the modern architect's lack of social imagination and the parsimony

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by JAMES LAVER-

of the people who dictate his jewellery and a very ravishing plans, it is not possible to do smite put all to rights. either.

A Hindu girl was remarkable

explained between Bennes "It started with bowls of rice-not swee

pat of bulter In each. Then a thick heavy soup, boiled salt cod fish with butter sauce and parsley. and a vegetable. For dessert we had "lefse," a round Bat, potato cake.

"Here in Hollywood I'm Jet-black hair drawn usually invited out for Christmas The foyer of a cinema, with for her

dinner. ко 1. concentrate my few exceptions is so cramped and away from her face in a cross

Christmas entertaining on a big between 4 norrow that it is hardly possible seventies and a modern horse's chignon of the

Scandinavian smorgasbord to linger in it for a moment. A tail, held together with a Black Wock before Christmas. I

send invitations authoritative voice velvet bow, Over her shoulders always

"Glade Jul" written on them. stiff cloak of very have which 18 only alightly less-

CEY have a big silver covered table-- heavy offensive than being told to neath one caught a glimpse of "move on."

pollte but

Party

with

shouts "Take your seats, please, we drand brocade, and under-luminium foil is fine-centred

It

THE MIRACLE

the

He

threo

a coloured silk sari with gold-with a hog's head, red apple in thread embroidery.

mouth, and wreathed with One of the most interesting sreens and holly. On each-end of the table la revolving of the dresses to catch my eye was plastic Christmas, tree, is not the fault ushers. They cannot do any fascinating example of the Inva-helves on eachi containing

mode by thing else, for the foyers of sion of the evening

dishes of all sorts of amorgasbord elements which in former ages delicacies. Rye crisp bread, dark cinemos were not designed to elem add to the social amenities of would have been thought to be bread, salads and Christmas was cakes are on the table itself. We life. They are a mere corridor long to day wear. There

skirt revealing for a queue, and sometimes not ballet-length

and

have quantities of coffee," made fur-topped boots. even that. The queue can wait little outside. Who cares? And what of heavy, quilted material. With

With Pro-Christmas, Smorgasbord cinema in London has a stair- it was worn an evening sweater

white. of

ribbed

cuffed jersey or wide with a broad fringed grand enough enough

band to be more than а

rather like the bertha of the passage to one's seat?

casc

oarly Victorian era. The wearer

"

of the

In other words, cinemas are carried a little muff and stole not planned for the great oc- matching the trimming casion and when it comes they boots..

The are. quite unequal to it miracle is that people bother to dress up at all to go to a film premiere. All that happens to them is that they pass through a drainpipe into a dark pit, where they can neither see their neighbours nor be seen them selves,

Party

Pickled Herring Smoked Salmon

Flaked Tunn Vinaigrette:

Dark Rye Bread

Rye Crisp Brend Chopped Egg and Green Pea Salad

Potato Salad Sliced Smoked Ham Pickles Scandinavian Apple Cake

Christmas Punch Coffee

Scandinavian Applo Çako

WORTH MILLIONS

One of the programme sellers for film premieres are usually "for charity"-wore black, and white ensemble, the short duffe coat being of stiff, reversible black and whi

white satin. Pro gramme sellers have an

An unfair the most attractiontage on

these occasions, Moke 21⁄2 c. thick apple sauce at least, can be seen. and spread in a 6 pt.-sized but- toilettes I saw at my première

Can one reiterate too often tered baking dish. Measure 7 was worn by a young visiting that there can be no consistent tbsp. butter into a bowl. Add 14

star who had a long elegance without a platform for c. sugar, 2 tbsp. lemon tulee, framing an almost Juvenile face.

One of

Alm

Invisible

All Measuremania Are Level Recipes Serve Four

one indis sp. grated demon She had an impressive four- elegance? And con

Hind, 40%. almond meats, 2 benten fox, and foo strongly that the elegance of ground tiered cape of sliver

2 egg

whites under this a wide crinoline gown capital city is a national asset, egg yolks and

export of stiff organza with à very low an

Spoon this over Voth whipped stir. petul-slipped corsage. The effect millions of pounds at the apple sauce: bake 25-30 min. was perhaps a little old for her

the years, but

absence

(World Caputight ReservedLondon in a moderate oven, 350-276 F.

Serve with whipped cream.

of Express Service.)

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