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● JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

This Bid Presents

Difficult Problem

By OSWALD JACOBY

wasn't very hard to play

I today, but to play ding presented quite 1 prob- lem, The question was whether South should make a second bid after North raised to two spades.

South had only 8 points la high cards, and North's bidding Indicated เ neor-minimum opening bid with probably only 13 or 14 points in high cards. Was there a reasonable chance of getting to a sound game contreet if the combined count in high cards came to only 31

or 22 points?

The answer was in the cis-

tribution. South hart a singleton diamond. This was likely to be n useful singleton II North had no particular dumand strength. Norih had bid clubs and raised spades, so there was no reason

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NORTHL

3.

Are records now

better than the

real thing?

BY Cecil Smith

London. successful few are in demand VISIT to Covent Garden all over the

fees

world. Because offered to

A this week drives me to the accept more dates

Then,

tabe publicly a thesis I have than they ought to. been putting forward to my- self in secret for some time. It will not be popular with opera-lovers, but I am ready to bo stoned for my belief.

I went to hear Ebe Stigah as Amacris, the jealous Egyptian princess it "Aida."

#

WEST

EAST

SOUTH (D)

North-South vül.

South

West

Fass

Pass

I A

Pass

2 A

North Eust 1 d Pass Pasn

3A Pass

Pasa

44

PASS

Pass

Opening lead-♦ 7

that Norili had diamond strength. Therefore South could assume that the two partnership hands were a good

t for each other.

South would have been pes- simistic about the hand if North bad opened the bidding with one diamond. Then the singleton diamond would be a liability rather than an asset.

With the netual bund, South could just about afford to make try for gaine. He didn't wants

to bid three hearts for fear of hinting at greater strength than hc actually pussessed. The rebid of three spaces was invitational but not too encouraging.

North could just about afford to accept the invitation. He had 14 points in high cards and a side doubleton. Moreover, all

the

Miss, Stignani is the most-ad- in Italy, mired mezzo-soprano and she is generally thought to be the best Amncris in burbers.

What I heard was a cautious women saving her volce. Only

Low

did we hear the big, tlines majestic sound and the exciting accents that made her famous,

Whea

I got home tuned on her gramophone record of the

a differencet same music. What

Here was not hear in the opera house.,

A fortnight carlier Renata Tobaldi, who has been called the fced living Itallan seprane, disappointed many as Tosca. Her Wis less beautiful and than they had ex-

4

too, the plane-which has brought Buenos Aires closer to London taun Rome 926 14 be-maltes it too easy jor musicians to carcer around the world, from one high-pald engagement to another. do not allow enough time for

test and relaxation,

They

No wonder singers frequently strained, and feel that sound they have to save their volers.

wonder

symphony play in routine to fashion and jazz bands fall work up any reat animation.

No orchestras

But the recording studio is a protected world. If a piece of music comes out badly the first it can be done again and 911) again-until a flawless per- fal maner is

achieved. And most

RENATA TEBALDI

Albert all the glory I did

more edgy pested,

But listen to her recording of this

iler lone is creamy opera. and warm, ad full of, meanities ful emotional colourings,

much

more

music is

the

accidentes, and there is likely to be a good deal that you do no! hear at all.

At Covent Garden or

Hall, for instance, people sitting in different parts of the house heur astonishingly thoroughly, different effects. Few people rehearsed than the average are lucky enough to sit where publle performance. Hehearsals they will here all the music

and the recording at its best. cost money,

When you play a record your companies have the

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armchair is the "best seat in spend,

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am not of one tape recording and expert on recording technique: replaced by the best parts of I am only concerned with several other "takes."

"Records are

what I hear.

So here is my thesis: Grand opera is beginning to sound better ev wax

thank

in the flesh. So are symphony the London opera house or concert room is agree with me....

orchestras. have never heard Philharmonte Orchestra sound ncurly 89 "brilliant" and accom- plished in the Festival Hall as it does in its newest record (Hungarian pieces by Kodaly and Bartoit).

Much of what you hear in no But the experts seem td:

.BY. THE WAY.

•

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So are Jazz bands and swing orchestras. English record collectors would be sorely dis- Hlusioned if they could hear a committee of masters acceded pack of milksops would rely on of the Sixth the masters for their success in some of their favourile Ameri- to the demands

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(From an article.) HEN a cornibol says

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Gramophone records do not lie. They cannot provide great singing or great playing if the artis does not put it there. was roughly handled by pickets. Wyeu. "I remember cottag

But the testimony of an Dr Smart-Allick has seen the

your father," don't show your of North's strength was well

and audience's cars

not lie, lenders doe

has attempted to be so?

coinci- Say, "What Taem placed, since even the jack of hearts was guarded by a higher

The answer is both simple his wits about him can always card. As experienced pinyes and frightening. Today's top-find ways of getting high marits, Lord Gantry foots the bill the building of DITTERNESS entered into the are level performers work too hard, and that know queens and jacks

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Gantry-Vavasall gambit the when accom-

uselers know- other day. Ted Hickup brought than acquiring panied by higher cards,

ledge. He emphasised the tradi- a lady in with him and ordered

cf self-reliance and three drinks. on

Vavasall (Fout-

In the play, South had to los a spade and a diamond.

The successful club finesse eliminat- ed lesers in that sult, and South was bound to make his gume contract even if he misguessed the queen of hearts,

♥+CARD Sense♣♣

Q-The bidding has been: South West North Eart Fazs Cluba Pass

1 Spade

2 Diamonds Pass 28pades Pass

?

You, South, hold:

AQ7532 AQU SAKJ6 49

What do you do?

A-BIA ihren no-trump. With

18 points in high cards you surely want to reach game, and the only question is whether to bid it în spades or in no-izump. With strength in every sult you prefer no-trump.

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:

AQ7532 MË SAKTË GAB5

What do you do?

Answer on Monday

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