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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933.

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Wallace Beery is surrounded by aune of the greatest names in the sport world in his now starring pic- ture, "Fical," now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

Perhaps the most talked of hand of the Enstorn Championship

In addition to the regular cant Tournament is the one given below. A. crack New York pair were play which includes Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, Jean Hersholt and John. ing North and South. Samuel Miljan, the picture employed a crow Guggenheim and Omar Mueller off huskies which by comparison males Cleveland were playing East and Captain Kidd's plug-uglies look nl- West, North and South were most effeminate. vulnerable, and Enst and West were not vulnerable. The peculiar part of this particular hand is that a grand slam can be made by North and South in diamonds or Enst and West in spodes.

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The Bidding

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This crow comprises some twenty or more wrestlers, fightera, wolght lifters, football players and others of athletle reputo. Once red-blooded champions in their respective sports, they are now rounding out their years as actors and Beery says they are good actors.

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Beery has the role of Folikai, a wrestling waiter who becomes chom- sian of Germany, and comes America, whore ho runs afoul of a crooked wrestling ring, bosides getting himself entangled in an illicit love affair between

Karen Morley Ricardo Cortez.

"Under-Cover Man."

and

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"Panama Fla."

For the first time since "her Man,"

The bidding was unusually inter-

Fresh from his triumph in "Night esting. South passed, West bid After Night," George Raft gives an one spade. This bid was subject other perforniance of outstanding to a great deal of eritielam as the merit in the role of Nick Darrow, a hand contained at the very most high-clans confidence man, whin offers one and one-half high card tricks, his services to the police as an under- but certainly with the distribution cover man, for the sole purpose of possibilities of the hand, West finding the murderer of his father. cannot be criticized for opening the This Nick Darrow, of the steel nerves, 1een Twelvetrees again reverts to n crook who has always worked alone, the type of characterization which bidding. The ace of spades and gives the police inspector to under-won her stardom in "Panama Flo," an the king of hearts in partner's hand will produce a game för West stand that he's not turning stool RKO Pathe picture, which opens to- With the ace of diamonds and the better than he ever did; but he'll piny itself, was not easy because she is pigeon; he doesn't like the police any day at the Central Theatre. This, in king of hearts he enunot

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offorts of Robert Armstrong And BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE So certainly, when holding a hand Nancy Carroll has the role of the that only requires one and one-half girl, Lora Madigan, whose motive la Ralph Murphy handled the direc tricks from your partner to produce also revenge, for the same gang which torial end of the production with game, you should not be criticized killed Nick's father, murdered her precision and finesse, getting every bit brother, bank-runner. Looking of drama out of the story and keep. for making an opening bid-rather ro complimented on your strategie bid-more beautiful than ever in the past, ing it moving at a rapid pace.

Miss Carroll gives a moving and

Others in the supporting cast are ding, Remember, however, that dramatic performance.

and Paul Hurst, Maude Eburne, when you have opened the bidding | Raft, in fact, make a good team.

Velez and Marjorie Paterson, with this type of hand, that you have taken command of the ship am that at no time can you stand à double. Regardless of how high your opponents bid, if your partner doubles, you must be prepared to take that double out.

**Indiscreet."

In it worth white for an elder sister to risk the destruction of her own romance in order to frustrate n discarded lover's attempt to win her younger sister?

This the situation in which Glorin Swanson, as the very modern Jerry Trent, finds herself in her new United Artiste pleture "Indiscreet showing at the King's Theatre.

Mina Swanson's leading man is Ben Lyon. He appears a novelist, Tony Blake, whose love for Jerry Trent undergoes more than an acilent, once she decides to guide her sister's destiny.

Monroe Owsley in the former lover and Barbara Kent is the younger sister. Other members of the cast

are Auther Lake and Maude Eburne.

"Wedding Rehearsal.”

After the opening bid of one spade by West, North doubled show- ing a hand much stronger than an ordinary overcail. East rather complicated the situation by raising his partner-to-four-spades, South made a bold did of five clubs which West passed. North, who had ori- ginally intended with his double to show both hearts and diamonds, now felt there was a possible slam la clubs and went six clubs-and the surprising thing happened.

Omar Mueller, sitting in the East position, passed aix clubs. He fell quite confident that he had North and South in the wrong suit and if

Roland Young's polished and he were to double they might get sophisticated acting has never been into the right bid, therefore his seen to better advantage than in the new Ident picture "Wedding Rehear- pass of six clubs was a very masal, which is the first offering of velous bid. South passed, but London Film Productions Ltd. In West, who was void of clubs, now this film, which has been directed by felt confident that North and South Alexander Korda, the producer of could make six clubs and put in "Servies For. Ladies," halfed by many what he thought to be a very good critica as one of the finest English sacrifice bid of six spades which filing to date, Roland Young plays the North doubled.

part of a Guards officer whose lobby East, holding six clube, realized is the difficult art of remaining a that his partner must be void of bachelor. Ever ready to act as heat

man at his friend's weddings, he clubs and as long as he could bid remarkably astute at avoiding being and re-bid apades, East sees no posted to the altar himself. When his sibility of losing the contract, and strong-willed grandmother, played by therefore re-doubled, All passed, Kate Cutler, decrees that he in to and the final contract was six marry within a year and hands him spades by West doubled and re- a list of "possibica," the situation

develops into one doubled.

of spontaneous gaiety.

The Play

The king of hearts was opened by "Wedding, Rehearsal" are John Loder, Playing with Roland Young In North and East and West made a George Grossmith, Lady Rees, Wandy grand slam for a plus score of 1920 points. Even if North had opened

the ace of diamonds, they would

still have made the small slum dou-catching the lone king of diamonds bled and re-doubled,

with the ace. Therefore the pos-

It is unusually interesting to notesible swing on this hand is close to that North and South could have 5000 points-perhaps one of the made a grand slam in diamonds.bylargest swinga seon in tournament taking the finesse In hearts and play.

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