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CONTRACT KEEP UPKEEP DOWN P & O BRITISH-INDIA APCAR AND

BRIDGE.

By W. E. McKenney

To those who are interested in using the one over one system of contract bidding. I again want to emphasise the importance of the sound original first and second hand suit bids of one.

Jackle Cooper insists that the start. of his newest picture was, to say the ienst. "hot stuif.". In "Divorce in the Family," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's vi- viu drama of the children of

of divorce, Jackie and the company, passed the

week first of "shooting" in the heart of the Mojave desert. An archae ologist's camp was reproduced in Bed Rock Canyon, and under the blazing sun Jackie and Maurice Murphy helped Lewis Stone, who plays their There is a theory among some father, to

to dig for fossils and relies authorities that it pays to get a of the past. A including a

young who were playmates for the appear in this

numbape of Indians, bld in early so as to get the jump

of

upon your opponents. This the- ory might have worked out well

12 auction bridge, but it is cer

sequ

ly Jim Thorpe, the

and ore of Jackie's particular idols, tainly most, unsound for contract.

chief played an Indian

in this sequence. Charles F. Riesner direct- ed the

new production from 1423 original by Siaurice Rapf.

To start with, at contract you anare really not interested in your Jackie opponents. Your most important a youngate who then has to your partner can make a game or whose father and thought is whether or not you and

Per divorce.

Tive

stepfather whom with a

hea slam,. and while defensive bid- cannot understand and who cannot ding plays its part in contract understand him Many poignant! bits of heart interest and tense bridge, offensive bidding is by far

mingle with many hilarious the more important. momenta

the vivid recitai

of the woce of stepchild. There is

*

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If you and your partner hold high cards and the opponents hid

a river wreck, a thrilling rescue too much. you are bound to set dramatic scene where the step father gives his.. Own blood to them, and it is seldom that they

really

cally loves; will escape being, doubled when save the stepchild he there in a

in a comical fight, an idyllic it is possible to act them two or

case of

hand.

diverting detail,love" and other more tricks due to the fact that The cast includes you might have passed some de- Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone, Lois fensive strength first or second Wilson, Jean Parker, Maurice Mur phy. Lawrence Grant Richard Wallace and David Newell. Elabor- ale reproductions of an archacolog- ist's excavation; of river wildernesses and other vivid staging mark the picture, which is opening at the Queen's to-morrow.

I cannot impress upon you loo strongly the importance of not opening first or second hand un- less you have a definite re-bid. This is the true success of con- tract bridge--laying શ sound Mary Astor in "The Lash”

foundation upon which you and Mary Astor gets one of the prize your partner can build a game or roles of the year! She was selecte:a slam contract, by Hai B. Wallis and C. Graham Baker, co-executives in charge of Many of you have been accus- production, for the role of Rosita in tomed to picking up your hand at support of Richard Barthelmess in contract, looking to see if you had "The Lash," which is having final the required number of high card

Theatre screenings at the Queen's Are tricks. and a biddable suit, and to-day. Every girl in Hollywood, immediately making an opening known or unknown,

dark eyes with

bid. and black hair, was considered for this romantic part in

in the screen |

May I ask you to study your "and! version of the novel by Lanier Virginia Stivers Bartlet. Mary Astor hand along an entirely different Supposing you was one of the first considered but line after this? existing contracts and production held the following hand:

plans interfered. But as time went.

on it developed that her serviceN

16 might be available. Rosita the sort

of role that perfectly fits the brunette beauty of Miss Astor. The "story being a historical romance of

carly California it is

is easy to imagine

its the Spanish background and. colourful

possibilities, Frank Load Lash" Marian urected Nixon will be seen in it as Barthel mess sister Dolores. Others in the cast

are James Rennie, Fred Kobler, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson. Arthur Stane, Mathilde Comont and Erville Alderson.

"If I Had A Million"

Spades A-K-7-2

Hearts-A-4-3-2

Diamonds-5-3 Clube 4-3-2

The old procedure would be as follows. We would und

FirstThat the hand contained three high-card tricks.

Second-That the hand con- tains a biddable spade suit.

This, you might say, meets the requirement for an original suit bid of one. However, you Are wrong-you must go further.

A dozen and a half movie stars; each playing the type of role in which he won original screen fame, combine Lalents in "I Had A Million", Remember that you are bid- drazin boasting the largest all-starding for your partner and not cast ever assembled. The picture in against your opponents, so. now showing at the King's Theatre, alyze the hand further as follows: and because of its elaborate plet and

the large number of characterizations: If I bid one spade and my partner it called for, it was possible for pro-bids one no trump, what shall I ducers to fill the various roles with do?

stars who were succialists in their

2-

respective Gelds. The picture centrea Well, to be frank, there isn't around an eccentric millionaire, who much that you could do about it. distributes his fortune among nine You are not in a position to al- people whose numes he has selected low him to play the hand at one

cily directory. random from

110 trump; you cannot re-hid Comedy, tragerly, irony..and romance

spades, as that would show develop as each of the nine reacts to five-card suit; so, while your hand sudden wealth in his own fashion.

contains the necessary number of The Man From Yesterday." high cards and a biddable suit, it When a husband is "lost" to his does not contain a definite re-bid the and therefore should be · paused wife for several years has he right for claim her love upon his first or second hand. return? That is the dramatic pro-

blem which confronts Clive Brook, as Of course, the hand should be the British army officer, in "The Man opened in either third or fourth from Yesterday" coming to the King's position, as here we are not re- Theatre on Thursday, Brook, on war quired to have a re-bid., leave in Paris, meets, weos and weds

Claudette Colbert in quick fashion.

The marriage takes place an hour

ac-

and a half before Brook has to depart visiting a rehabilitation hospital she

*** for the front. Later Brock e re finds Brook among the scarred and ported killed in action. In the years broken men. She insists on return- that follow, Claudette falls in love

ing to him, Brook refures to with a

young French doctor, but eept the sacrifice. How Brook lacking official confirmation of Brook's reconciles her to relinquish duty for death, cannot marry him. While love is the climax of the picture,

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