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Solution to Previous Contract Problem "Delaying the Finesse" Is the tople of an interesting article John Beamish which appeared re cently in the Bridge Magazine of England. The article brought out a very good point. I should like to call two of his examples to the attention of my readers.

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The Play

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SAAR PLEBISCITE

REPORT OF THE SPECIAL LEAGUE COMMITTEE

The problem of clarifying the dic

Geneva, May 16. tion of fifteen beautiful. girls and The date of the Sanr Pleblackte Afteen perfect young men,, selected and the question of policing dur throughout the English-speaking world

countries

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for parts in "Search for Beauty, coming the Plebiscite are omitted tug on Sunday to the King's Theatre, from the interim report had the studio officials guessing. The Special League Sanr Committee dialects, brogues, drawls and nccents which le saved to-day. from which the contestants, wers of the English-speaking

The report recommends a Ple- selected offered a serious major pro- biscite, supervised by a commis blem to the studio, for the company sion of three neutrals with a had to meet production schedule. tribunal of two neutrals to de- On the shoulders of Phyllis Loughton, termine points in dispute. Paramount's diction conch, foll the job of polishing off the speaking peculiari tics of the girls and boys from Ireland and Beatland, the Oxford twist of the cost of the Plebiscite be borne English couple, and over-accented by the country to which the Saar British of those from British South reverts or by Saar itself if the Africa, Australia, Canada and Now voterà favour continuance of the winners of status qiw. ̈ American Zealand. screen-famo

opportunities, selected from eight major districts throughout

"Fashions of 1534"

It further recommends that the

It recommends that the results

each district separately, a method to which the Germans are particularly opposed.-Reuter,

the United States, likewise presented of the Plebiscito be determined added problems with their down-cast Yankee accents and Southern and by Wostern drawls. In addition to the thirty contestants, "Search for Beauty" features Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Roscoe Karns and Toby Witness." "Doctor X," "The Mystery Wing. Eric Kenton directed. The story is a vivid account of how two of the Wax Museum" followed the Olympic Games winners fight to keep Hollywood custom of "typing"

tro- away disgrace brought on by money actor. Atwill was typed as a

What more mad promoters who use their charm mendously virile heavy.

A producer do. and Ability to further their crooked clever thing could

therefore, than to cross the whale denta.

world by putting Atwill in a part where the audience would naturally Fan dancers, stars, and gorgeous expect him to be a villain? But may- gown are the attractions the manage be he is a villain in this part of: ment of the Queen's Theatre offers in Robert von Helisdorf, owner of the "Faablons of 1934," the First National castle in which the mysterious mar- This ple- der and disappearance took place. picture opening to-morrow, ture, said to be among the n.ost lavish There certainly is precedent enough to ever produced, stars William Powell suppose that he ist The Blue Room and Bette Davis.

lind bean closed for twenty years be-] The atory is n hilarious comedy-romance based on a

enuse of three unaccountable deaths in tule by Harry Collins and Warren it. All took place at one o'clock in Duff. It revolves about a high pres the morning, exactly. sure promoter who corners the Paris

The Match King" markets. and New York fashion William Powell plays the role of the

A picture with a background of personable promoter whose ambitious, strange romances and colossal finan- although unscrupulous, schemes keep eial and political intrigues, "The him one step ahead of trouble. Busby Match King," featuring Warren Berkeley, has directed the spectacle William and the exotic Lili Domita, number of "Fashions of 1924, which will have its final showings to-day at as received applause every time it the Queen's Theatre. Its plot risks has been viewed. Fan dancers pro- in Imagination the wildest fiction and be vitle Lis colour and beauty in this would scarcely be believed were it not during dance. A mammoth fashion that it has a counterpart in real life. show is also featured with a score of beautiful mannequins displaying the latest in women's creations. Bette

fore doing so, why not look the hand over and, as Mr. Beamish says, "Reserve the greater num- ber of chances for yourself."

You have a losing club, and if the clubs do not break, you may have to take the diamond finesse. Why not discard your losing club on this third heart?

West is still in the lend.

Now

he

he

if he continues a heart, you get ruff and discard, while if continues a diamond It.

will right into your ace-jack. If leads a club or a trump, you will pick up the trump.

"Guilty na liel!"

the story having been suggested by screaming newspaper headlines ihat

a financial ortopus committed suicide.

trump. Win it in the dummy with opposite Powell, while Verree Tensdale The headlines revented the world's Suppose he returns the ten oftavis how the leading feminine role recently shocked both continents when the queen and pull tramp.

is her rival in love. Others in the must gigantic swindle, Not only does Now lead the king and x of cast are Frank Mellugh. Reginald the story, taken from, the novel by clubs, winning the second club in Owen, Henry O'Nelli, Hugh Herbert Einar Thorvaldson, reveal the tre dummy with the nice. Then lend Phillip Reed, Gordon Westcolt, nendous schemes for world dominn- the third club from dummy and Dorothy Burgess, and any others Lin by a financial genius, but it

Williams Dierlerle directeil the picture ares his personal ruff with a small spade.

romances with Now that the club auit breaka, from the screen play by P. Hugh Her

women from every walk of life, from bert and Carl Erickson. popular you can discard the losing dia writers.

the lowest to those in the highest spelety. The dominant trait of this mond on the good eight of clubs,

character, un, portrayed by Warren and you do not need to take the diamond finessO.

William, in ambition and ruthless- ness. The picture has been painted screen through the adaptaton of lus- on Branch and Sidney Sutherland. There is an able supporting east which ineludce Glende Farrell, Haruk Huber, Spender Charters, John Weay, Murray Kinnell, Hardle Albright, Juliette Compton and Claire Dodd. It was directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley.

Victor Miclagten. Edmund Lowe, Richard Arlen and Adrienne Ames,

If the sinh suit does not break, featured in "Guilty na Hell", murder in vivid and glowing colours for the As inst resort you would take the free hased or a successful Broadway diamond finesse. But the point of stays showing at the King's the hand is that, by refusing to Theitre, were numbers, and na more, ruff the third heart trick. you in the production staff while firing provide yourself with the greater of the picture was underway. And number of possibilities: first, your even that distinction they shared with opponent may lead a diamond or a costumes, hits of dialogue, and set-

tings.

which were also numbered. heart, which gives you the hand; second, you will be able to find out when the sets were built they were given numbers. When-the-rostumes if the club suit breaks before he were completed, they were numbered ing forced to take the diamondy sequences. The picture itself was finesse.

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"The Lost Patrol" given number. Thus, when the pro- Said to be daring different and in- If you had ruffed the third heart, quetion, posted motives of Lunsely dramatic in theme and tre- you would now pick up the trump. seqences about to be med, one mendua, RKO-Radio Pictures "THE | LIVERPOOL SERVICE

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Walince Ford, Reginald whether the club suit could be Costume No. 3, in "Guilty ns Bell Denny und a strong cast in a colour- establisher.

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Today's Contract Problem

South pinying the banci at four spades, Weal cashes thres haaris and then lends a cInb.

But tho declarer util} can make his contract. How?

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