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Jackie Cooper insists that the start

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933.

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

BRIDGE

of his newest picture was, to say the By W. E. McKenney

To those who are interested in using the one over one

system

least, "hot stuff" In "Divorce in the Familly," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's vi- vid drama of the children or divorce Jackie and the company passed the first week of "shooting" in the heart of contract bidding, I again want of the Mojave desert. An archae to emphasise the importance of Bed the sound original first and second ologist's camp was reproduced in

Canyon, and under the blazing hand suit bids of one. Jackie and Maurice" Murphy

helped Lewis Stone, who plays their There is a theory among some father, to dig for fossils and relics authorities that it pays to get a of the past. A troupe of Indians, bid in early so as to get the jump including a number of young redskins upon your opponents. This the who were playmates for the appear in this sequence. Incidental ory might have worked out well letin auction bridge, but it is cer ly Jim Thorpe, the famous athlete, tainly most unsound for contract. and

one of Jackie's played an India's particular idols,

chief in this sequence. Charles F. Riesner direct-

To start with, at contract you

ed the production from an are really hot interested in your

Le new original by Maurice Rapf Jackie opponents. Your most important plays youngster whose father and thought is whether or not you and mother divorce, and who then has to your partner can make a game or Hve with

stepfather whom he

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

the more important. drama mingle, with many hilarious comedy moments in the vivid recital

Many poignant!

If you and your partner hold of the wock of a stepchild. There is high cards and the opponents bid Junriver wreck, a thrilling rescue. too much, you are bound to set

dramatic scene where the physician

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stepfather gives his own blood to them, and it is seldom that they save the stepchild he really loves; will escape being doubled when there is a comical fight, "an idyllicit is possible to set them two or case of puppy love" and other diverting detail. The cast includes more tricks due to the fact that Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone, Lois you might have passed some de

fensive strength first or second Wilson, Jean Parker, Maurice Mur-

Grant, Richard hand.

Lawrence

place and David Newell. Elabor-

ate reproductions of an archaeolog- 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 too που strongly the importance of opening first or second hand un- less you have a definite re-bld. This is the true success of..con- sound tract bridge laying foundation upon which you and your partner can build a game or a alam contract.

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Mary Astor in "The Lash" Mary Astor gets one of the prize roles of the year! She was selected by Hal B. Wallis and C. Graham Baker, co-executives in charge of Many of you have been accus- ion, for the role of Rosita in tomed to picking up your hand at

of Richard Barthelmess in contract, looking to see if you had Lash," which is having final the required number of high cord. Screenings at the Queen's Theatre tricks, and a biddable suit, and to-day.

opening known or unknown, with dark eyes immediately making an

Every girl in Hollywood,

and black hair, was considered for.

bid. this romantic part in the screen

May I ask you to study your version of the novel by Lanier and hand along an entirely different Virginia

Stivers Bartlet

Mary Astor was one of the first considered but line after this?

Supposing you

existing contracts and production held the following hand: plans interfered. But as time went

un it developed that her services available. Rosita is the is the

might be

sort of role that perfectly fits brunette beauty of Miss Astor. The story being a historical romance 01

Spades-A-R-7-211

Hearts A-4-3-2

Diamonds-5-3 Clubs-4-3-2

California it is easy to imagine Spanish background and its The old procedure would be as

Frank Lloyd follows. We would find directed Dnd Marinn,

colourful

Nixon will be seen in it as Barthel- First That the hand contained mess sister Dolores. Others in the three high-card tricks. cast are James Rennie, Fred Kohler, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Arthur Stone, Mathilde Comont and Erville Alderson.

"If I Had A Million"

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

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 stare, cach playing the type of role in which he won original screen fame, combing talents in If I Had A Million".

Remember that you are bid- drama boasting the largest all-starding for your partner and not cast ever assembled. The picture is! now showing at the King's Theatre, against your opponents,

nalyze the hand further as follows:

and because of its elaborate plot በክረ

BO An-

the large number of

of characterizations If I bid one spade and my partner it called for. it was possible for, pro-bida one no trump, what shall I duccra to fill the various roles with do? stars who were specialists in their] resncctive fields. The picture

Well, to be frank, there isn't

around an eccentric millionaire, much that you could do about it." distributes his fortune anong gine You are not in a position to al- people whose numes he has selected low him to play the hand at one random from a city, directory-no trump; you cannot re-bid Comedy, tragedy, irony, and romance

show develop as each of the pine reacts to spades, as that would sudden wealth in his own fashion.

five-card suit; so, while your hand contains the necessary number of high cards and a biddable suit, it When a husband is "lost" to his does not contain a definite re-bid wife for several years has he, the and therefore should be passed right for claim her love upon his first or second hand. return? That is the dramatic pro.

blem

the

The Man From Yesterday."

which confronts Clive Brook, as Of course, the hand should be Bricer, in "The Man opened in either third or fourth to the Ring's position, as here we are not re- on Thursday. Brook, on war quired to have a re-bid. leave in Paris, meets, woos and weds

from Theatre on

Claudette

coming to

Colbert in quick fashion.

The marriage takes place an hour

to

ac

and a half before Brook has to depart visiting a rehabilitation hospital she for the front. Later Brank is re- finds Brook among the scarred und ported killed in action. In the years broken men. She insists on return- that follow, Claudette falls in love ing to him, Brook refuses with young French doctor, but cept 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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