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CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

Solution to Previous

Contract Problem-- Just because you make an origi- nal bid of one no trump-the strongest original one bid in the Sims system of bidding-it does not neccaanrily mean that the con tract should be played at no trump A bid on the part of an opponent may upset your well-inid plans or warn you away from no trump and into a suit declaration.

Or, like the declarer in to-day's hand, you may stumble into the proper declaration.

The Bidding. South is justified in making an original bid of one no trump In preference to a spade, due to the tenace position he holds. How ever, with West's hand, I would prefer the negative double.

Why bid two hearts simply be cause von hold 100 hanours when your partner may be vold in hearts and have our spades? ne were toke-out that Enet can not is two bid two clubs and you still can hearts.

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NOTES SUPPLIED BY # THE THEATRES

It takes a heap of hunting, summe. lime, to find what's right under your nore, and that is what happened when John Krimaky and Gifford Cochran, producera for United Artista relense of- Eugene O'Neill's famous play, tried to find a "Emperor Jones," suitable. Negro actress for the in- purtant role of Jone's southern sweet- heart, Dolly, Casting the other wor men whom Jones meets the Harlem highyallers was an easy Job in New York, but Doily seemed Impossible to find. Rosamond Johnson, best-known arranger of real Negro folk songs, engaged to arrange and direct the muste for "Emperor Jones", has as his assistant a young girl named Ruby Elzy. She had been a school teacher in a small Carolina town and hatt conio

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gently flows down the throat, soothing King's Theatre,

the affected parts. For sure speedy relief for affections of the throat and "So This In Africa" "So This Is Africa!" latest Wheeler. the respiratory organs une Respirolds, the now inhalant cough remedy. Woolsey contribution to the screen, Obtainable at all modicine dealers,

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erry The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 451, African gentlemen reveal more secrets about Kiangse Road, Shanghal. the great continent than the natives

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And the audience at the Alhambra Theatre last night just sat and roared which at the nonchalant manner in this famous laugh team invades the hunting. wilds

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big "dame" for There has never appeared on any real romance of the picture is his love sersen so funny, so utterly satirical fer Katheryn Howard, whom he and so entertaining as the picture of would have taken for his fourth wife Wheeler and Woolsey (the latter dis

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guised as a woman) trying to hide had diplomacy net selected the Ger zonah Duchess, Ann of Clayes, who from tribe of 100 stalwart Amazon wanted him for husband no more than women who are bent upon making one he wanted her for wife, and who won of these comedians marry her. If divorce in a card game played on there were nothing more in "So This their wedding night. His marriage

to to Katheryn How to Is Africa

com.mond it

Howard promises to be audiences, thin

scene would

his most successful, but she finds she has never gotten over her love for Theatre. As far as story goes,

Is Africal" is

to say a tale of infidelity. The large cast This

imaginative,

Wheeler the least. What happens to

includes Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie, and Wcolsey as they leave America rady Tree, Robert Donat, Miles Man-

interior of the and dissolve into the in actual

is able overcall, you may get doubled dark belt would be difficult to match der, Claud Alliator, Alexander Kordu

life. Which

for if and get sot very badly on the hand, water and woney had the burden

"Night Flight" Due to the fact that partner of an ulterly realistic plet to carry "So This opened with a no trump, North along, the wild humour of

There is a thril, a verve. makes a good bid of three clubs to Is Adrien!" would be completely lost. Bide-

authenticity to "Night Flight" which are the sult.y show his five-card club

picasing of satire that Columbia hos is now showing at Quoon's Theatre, South, not having the hearts stop-

definite forward of aviation realm nout now nist show his suit, delivered in this comedy against the which makes it

ures. The

Byor, North's raise to four spades is succession of thrilling and adventur-achievement in the

story, by B ous wild animal pictures that have pictures.

tells Saint-Exupery. do Antoine rater optimistic.

flooded our screens. Raquel Torres The Play

looks more charming than ever she grippingly of incidents in the running did in Alcha" or "White Shadows of a big air mail company in South West opens the king of hearts, in the South Sens." Henry Armetta, America; the same company for which which is won with declarer's ace. Eddie Clayton and Spencer Charters the author flew for several years. It on the screen with com- put A diamond is returned and the stand out for fine performances. The has.

The finesse taken, which holds. A rest of the east, Tarzana, Amazons, plete sympathy, and accuracy by

tale concerns John Burrymore, an uir heart is ruffed and a diamond re-lons, and a chorus of beautiful girla lirector-flyer, Clarence Brown. turned, South winning with the make appropriate decoration.

mail company, manager, whoso creed ace and ruffing another heart. A

is that the mall must go through; Robert Montgomery, the pilot on the small diamond is played back and

Clark Gable, run; northwards through a ter- ruffed with the deuce of spades: the lurking dangers of a trencher-aho Andean

South plays his last heart and ous jungle beautiful girl in the rife storm from Patagonia, and Helen wife ruffs with the sight of spades,

worry distracted clutches of a vallainous gang-snarl- Hayes, Gable's

.out

excellent which prevents East fromovering beats a half human-half-animal Subordinate plots-bring ruffing. A small club is returned, creature who terrified all Africa in work from Biyrna Loy, William

Leslie Fenton South winning with the ace and his mysterious, devastating quest for

as the billion an, C. Henry Gorden, Universal's lending the queen of clubs, which bicod! That's

screen action, "Jungle shiftless, easy-going Wost trumps with the four of volts

Mystery now showing at the Central planes, is a perfect comedy fell to spades.

stern brother. Oliver H. Regardless of what West does, Theaire. Tom Hyler plays the ad- his

venturous young American explorer Garrett's script is an excellent piece be he can make only one more trick of the jungles-Cecelia Parker, bicnde of work, and credit

must also It looks as though his best play is and beautiful, playa the heroine and given to the unusually fine musical LONDON SERVICE to load the jack of spades.

Noah Deery Jr. Williams Desmond background given the piece by Her- South will win with the queen and Philo McCullough are all in the bert Stothart, co-composer of "Rose and lead the three of clubs, which truly excellent cast. Famous Talbot Marie." Stothart has achieved a atill permits him to lose only Mundy wrote the story, Here is a "symphony of the air" in the musical that trick, thus making five-odd, neture with a thousand thrills and effects.

you can see it to-day at the Central at popular prices.

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Today's Contract Problem

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How should the hand be played for the maximum number tricks?

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FRECKLES AND RED ARE SURE DOIN' SOME NICE FORWARD PASS

WORK, COACH !!

YEAH....I PULLED 'EM-AWAY FROM

THE SQUAD AND TOLD 'EM TO STICK. TO THAT THEYVE BEEN AT IT FOR. AN HOUR...BETTER TELL EM TO

CALL IT QUITS, NOW !! :

AW....

BOY! IS RED'S ARM THE PIP THIS YEAR....

NOTICE. HOW HE'S BEEN SHOOTIN

"EM LIKE' A BULLET...RIGHT

TO THE SPOT!!

IT'S EASY TO THROW EM... BUT DID

YOU NOTICE HOW FRECKLES HAS BEEN PICKIN' EM OUT” OF THE AIR, OFF HIS SHOE TOPS, OR FROM

ANY OL PLACE

YEP! FINE WORK, BOY5.

IN PRACTICE

BUT, REMEMBER THIB..... IT'S K LOT DIFFERENT WHEN THE OPPOSING PLAYERS ARE RUSHING YOU...EVERY SECOND COUNTS.

A LOT MORE OF THE SAME -KIND OF PRACTICE WONT HURT.

EITHER ONE OF YOU.

A BIT!!