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JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Percent Play Saves Trick

By OSWALD JACOBY

IN today's hand Marshati Miles

covera on interesting dupli- cate situation.

You are South and have made ànourd non-vulnerable overcall You now find yourself in four spades doubled. You are sure from the bidding that the aco of diamonds is held by East so you three count two diamond and

club lasers. If you also lose a trump trick you will be down 300 for

bad duplicate

БООГО

very

You also note that East and West will play some heart con- truci at most other tables and will be unable to make faser bearts if each one holds two spades. Hence, the only chance

NORTH

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10

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WEST

76542

10 8

AJ 1004

HOUTI

EAST (D)

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A 108

102

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+32

882

No one vulnerable

East

1

Soulh 14

13'est

North 44

Double Puss

Pass

Pass Opening-lead--♥ ↓

to get a decent duplicate score La to go duwa only two trieku ogulus 1 even break in

trumps.

If any one Is going to hold threz trumps is

First. will be Then what is the best per- centage play to keep from losing a trump trick?

The play is to get to duminy by rufting a heart and to lead the spade jack. If this toses to a singleton queen you look ilke on Idiot. If West's singleton ist any one of the other three apides you lose no spade trick. You may

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1958.

Is this the

real Shakespeare?

OLD VERSION

I

New discovery shows him

as young man of

good looks

by GRAHAM DARK

is an exciting thought, and, in the circum- stances, a tantalising one: is this the real face of Shakespeare?

For if it is-and there is much to suggest so then have just fost the greatest of all Shakespeare

We

finda.

A prize greater than a copy

many

Association

of America-said "Buy at any price."

Lot 72 A fortnight later was sold--for £150. And Mr Fleming flew to Britain,

left London he talked about his buy.

The portrait is not Anely

Before

he

its disfavour. It shows a men

of the su rare "First Folio" painted--though that is not in edition printed Soon after his death; a relic of the man around in his thirties, balding, but with whom there are

fac niched eyebrows, slightly romances and mysteries,

Sensual lps, and

high A handsome man. forehead.

Mr Fleming, 47, nonchalantly knowledgeable and top of his declared: "The Trade,

posal- bilities of this being a conten- porury portrait are very great." These are the points he makes in the portrait's favour-

A

It has been gently, deftly. Kouiched by fast-moving, plenshally unassuming Ameri can, Mr John Plemi!.

Mr Fleming rightly pleased with himself. How out of London,

With him: this portrait.

Younger

Shakespeare have to go back to

it undoubtedly Ls, And the face of a Shake- dummy Again but there is an- other heart to ruff and you have speare younger than any previ plenty of time.

·

♥ CARD Sersek

Q-The bidding has been:

North -East Houth West Pass 3.

Pass Poss Pas

3 N.T. Pass +4

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Pata

Pon

?

You, South, hold:

MAZ VQG343 +Q805 4K2

What do you do? A—Pass. Your partner has heard all your bide,

TODAY'S QUESTIÓN *Instead of bidding six dia- monds your partner has bid six no-trump. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

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Lusly seen.

The important questions when was it painted? Was i during his Ufe. Or, utter?

No ille portrait of Shakespeare has ever been found.

There have been several por- traits which have been runners. But no Anishers. Gradually the supply of starters has dried up,

It seemed there was no possi- billy left that we would ever see the real face of the greatest dramatist of them all.

The sale

Then, a few weeks ago in Scotland, the past turned over. A collection begus well back In the inst century came up for sale. It belonged to the late Mr B. B. MacGeorge A fastidious picture collector.

The Shakespeare portrait was put in as Lot 72. With it went a remarkable letter by Charles Lamb of Tales from Shake- speare" fame which tended to authenticate 1.

The sale-i the Crown 1inils, In Sauchiehall Street, Glassow in outstanding oc- -was not cusion. But I attracted Mr Julius Weitzner, a leading New York art dealer.

'Buy it'

Mr Weitzner was intrigued by. the portrait, ile telephoned Mr. Fleming in New York.

Mr Fleming, one of the world's leading rare-book dealers—and secretary of the Shakespeare

IDENTIFICATION:

Only

one authenticated portrait exists of Shakespeare, That is on

by Marlin engraving Droeshout, I was drawn-seven

years after Shakespeare's death.

11s likeness was vouched, for by Ben Jonson,

72

LOT 72... 'Knocked down' at modest £150

Mr Woltzner, a distinguished

in 1010.

Washington, tho biggest Shakespeare

It

He tells how a man called The portrait, says Mr Fleming, art export, belleves it could Palma had just had supper with will probably go to the Folger have been

"He has picked up, I Library in printed in the him. seventeenth century or alle believe, an authentic portrait world's He paid £40 library. carlier and Shakespeare died of Shakespeare.

(English) for it."

There

will be studied,

Mr Wellzner's reasons: the

Lamb frankly discusses the tested, discussed. As yet there But the canvas is old enough; the style possibility that it is a forgery, cna be no certainly.

are immense, the But he concludes: "I am con-possibilities of painting is right for

fident no painter either aide the exciting. perlod.

Channel could have painted Though not, alas, for Shake-

speare's country. anything like the face I saw.".

The newly found portrail— -though of a younger man-is undoubtedly of the same man. THE AGE. Whenever I was Es painted. the

purtrait For none other exists

ITS HISTORY. The Charles showing Shakespeare so young. Lamb letter, written probably But if it was painted during in 1822, gives a glimpse of the his life-ther it is of immense picture's history at that time importance.

unique.

DARTWORDS START THE Dit word in HERE

Today's Dartwords

NMOTHER,

Imarked at the rim of the 60wort circle. You have to and your way

to the st word. RUPEE, M the malūɖke of the eirele. by rearranging

Clie other words as mucts a that the rolatiou- what between any word and the ous next to 2 En governed by one of six rules re arrangement myDives D reference to nero. nautical planeering.

RULER (1) The word may bo Anagram of the wordi that precedes it.

12)It may synonym of the that precedes k.

word

STEI

131 14 may be found by adding ono letter to, or subtracting und charging" one

in the preceding word, (4) it may be associated with the preceding word tu a saying. almile, metaphor, or association of ideas,

(5) It may form with the pre- coding word a name of a well-

when records are so few,

ANENT

RUPEE

ABOUT

SAF

SAVM

known personi, place, or thing in fact ur fiction.

10 It may be associated with the preceding word, i, a title or in the action of a book, Diay, or other composition.

A typicat auccmaton of worde might be Printing Caxton

Canton Anton Anon Avon Strat- ford Shakespeare Willam Teil Tall Order Border Märgin Arming.

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