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June 4, 1941.
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By Walt Disney
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CONTRACT How to Play Travels Of An Internee
BRIDGE
AND
How to Win
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
The Right Rebid
Now Assisting Britain
TN the dimlight of a few
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first saw the than tired face of the German Communist, Hans Kahle, who is now working for the British Admiralty on devices that may,
even do, Have the lives of British sub- marine crews.
HE new Culbertson system the trap at this point by doubling 'stresses a point that was merely two hearts. North is helpless-two
a bombed power station in the generalised in the old system.
Guadarrama spades would be no great improve-
mountains, Suppose you hold:
ment, and North can scarcely at- tempt a rescue in diamonds with u 42 MAQO52 ◊ 1084 KG3 four-card suit headed by the jack,
Nor is South in any better posi- You are the dealer. You bid one tion to rescue himself. He may heart and partner responds one suspect that desperation
int a
bid of spade (The opponents do not bid.) three diamonds might "hi" North, Now it is up to you to rebid-re- but it is n sheer, guess, and South Is member, you must respond to your apt to let bad enough alone. partner's one-over-one force,
But whether or not South makes What rebid do you make? Two a lucky guess, it is easy to see that hearts? Wrong! Oh
yes, you'll have anything resembling science in bid- lots of company in such a choice ding has been lost by the but the wrong kind of company! South missed his one and only op- wnyside. Your
only correct rebid is two dia- portunity to find out, rather than monds.
guess. Ho should have bid two dia- Don't be misled by the superiority monds, not two hearts, on the second of your heart suit, or by the fact round. Truc, West might decide to that it is a major, or by the much "take a crack" at a two diamond more prevalent and deadly, notion bid, also, but there would be less that you have no right to "change chance of this, and
in any
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two sults" with
a near-minimum hand. diamonds could never be slaugh- Any and all such considerations are tered as two hearts can be, and are, worse than fallacious-they
The point is that South has noth dangerous! Let's take a look at the ing to lose by selecting a two dia-
monti
rebld. If North prefers hearts, he can say so without in- creasing the bidding level. Mean- while, South has provided two possi- ble "landing spots," Instead of only
following hand:
South dealer.
Rubber bridge.
North-South vulnerable.
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goes like this:
South Went North East
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Pass JA Pass
West, not vulnerable against vul-
nerable opponents, possed the first
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South dealer. East-West vulnerable.
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How should South play his four
time for the very opportunity that spade contract. Opening lend club has developed; hence is apt to spring king.
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From that night, when Franco's Moors had reached, were battering, the then weakly held gates of Madrid, until recently, when we met in London restaurant, much has happened to Hans Kahle.
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-By Lee 0. Lyon-
Red Skelton is a comedian off- stage as well as on. When he's not manufacturing guffaws before theenmeras, he's
a pretty busy offstage
story-
teller. Among i tales which have convulsed
the "Lady Be Good" cast is the
one
about the infant sparrow who re- turned to his .nest
after his
first solo flight. The small-time sparrow came
back with his find feathers. com. pletely gone. He was very sad. A stricken mama sparrow horror cried "GOODNESS, Egbert, what in the world has happened to you?" Sadly the baby sparrow replied, "Mama, I got mixed up in a bad- minton game."
Robert-Montgomery-has-a-habit- of doing the unexpected on the screen. Ho departed from conven. tion first in "The Big House" with Wallace Beery. His next violation of precedent was performed oppo site
In Shearer "Private Ve Then he made "Night Must
which over
declared was GVETYOND most extraordinary. Now M.
Mr. does the unusual once more with his superior characterization in "Rage In Heaven," which we're certain will win your approval.:
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MEMORIES: With M-G- Ma "Ziegfeld Girl" just around the re lease corner, Leo Is reminded that ten years ago this month the late Florenz Ziegfeld announced plans to produce a new show to be cniled Ziegfeld Follies of 1931. The first three
persons to be signed were Ruth Etting, Helen Morgan shy little 17-year-old girl named Eleanor Holm
Norma Shearer
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and Robert Montgomery were so- starred in "Strangers May Kiss" Spencer Tracy was first bid- ding for screen stardom... Lew. Ayres, whom you see now a thà handsome and understanding un Kildare, was a toughle in a film Jabeled "Iron Men' with Jean Har- low as his leading lady Rosalind Russell bad a very insig nificant role in a stage play called "Keeping Company," What sercen memories do you recall?
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and
FLASH! The Fashion Academy has just wired us that Rosalind Russell, now at work with Clark Gable in "Tho- Uniform," has
been picked as Hollywood's best dressed wo man and fa high, "up on the llat of 'America's ton best feminine fashionplaten.
HOLLYWOODATA: Norma Shearer "snaked" into town and out again just as quietly Loc Cobb,, for whom, you'll have kind words when you witness his por trayal of Father Flanagan's best friend in "Man of Boys Town," and Wallace Beary wore others who this week's guest registry
GEPLAVirginia Weidler, 1940's
CONG stealer has been assigned featured role in Min From The City Robert Taylor! has wanted to play, in * Western for. long, long time. This craving fuatiated with "Buy Th" K{ In which he play aikas gun toting
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In those mén
of
days he and the he commanded--the Thaelmann Battalion-were defenders democracy's front line. Unsupported by those whom they were in- directly defending, that front line is now at Britain's gates, Kahle, no longer a soldier, lends his bedy for experimen- tal work on what happens to men in drowned submarines, on how, perhaps, they can es-
cape.
ONCE he commanded the International Brigade,
was inter military governor of a Spanish province: now he is constantly immersed in tubs, gas chambers-work no less dangerous, nasty but in- finitely less romantic than war proper.
Since then this amused, tolerant, clumsy anti-Nazi
has seen the inside of three British internment camps,
was shipped to Canada in the M.S. Ettrick (about the al- leged bad treatment of whose passengers Mr Mander asked the War Secretary in the. House of Commons to make inquiry).
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was
First interned at Kemp- ton Park France falling, Kahle and his fellow internees suffered most from lack of news; but, he says, "we could usually manage to get a paper by paying for it." For the "News Chronicle" and "The Times" ten shillings each was daily paid per copy to some unnamed persons.. Modesty forbids mention of the price paid for..other
papers.
SHIPPED
to, Canada, where, says Kahle, "so. far as food, warmth, clothing went, we were extremely well treated," he was one of those who collectively, they claim, lost over £1,100 of money, rings, watches, which were stolen from them on landing.
Such was the terror which warning telegrams from the War Office had inspired in the Canadian authorities that
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this party of miserable civi- lians was met by one tank battalion, onc. infantry bat- talion, and two companies of machine-gun motor-cyclists!
"We have been warned that you are a very dangerous lot: we're taking no chances," Kahle was told. It was only some days later that the local authorities realised that the War Office had had nbcessary panic.
an un-
AFTER repeated protests
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were
had secured segregation of avowed pro-Nazis, orders came from Ottawa that the camp was to be again divided, this time into Jews and. Gentiles. Internees ordered to, segregate them- selves, refused, ordered, re-refused. Grounds for this were that as civilised. human beings they recognised no racial differences, would not be party to them.
were
re-
Finally the camp commander segregated them himself, arbitrari- ly. Kable, once an officer in crack
Prussian regiment, found himself classed as a Jew.
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was to
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although Jews might be expected to be more bitter antl-Nazis than Ger- man conservatives, It broken-down, dirty camp that the former were sent, the latter to a splendid new place, complete with running water, usual offices and se forth..
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ROWNING pleasure. of Kahle's stay in a British internment camp in Canada was receipt of a letter dated October 31-1040-Ave months after his Internment from the British Ad- miralty, in which one N. McLeod was "commanded by My Lords Commissioners" of the Admiralty, to "thank you for the services which you have been good enough to render in taking part, at risk to yourself, in recent experimental researches conducted by Prof. J. B. S. Haldane on behalf of the Admiralty."..
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Britain's prisoner Kahlo chuck- led over that letter when he got It. Now a free man, he still chuckles over it. I haven't heard him chuckle so happily since the Italian Foscists broke and ran at the Battle of Guadalajara,
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