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By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSO

When Not to Win a Trick

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winning of trkks, under all circum-West on lead, declarer's, remaining stances and regardless of their class, diamond stopper would remain in- colour degree. To him "a trick tact. Thus it would be easy for de- is a trick, and he is grateful for all clarer to collect five spade tricks, and sundry.

three hearts, the diamond already The experienced player has learn-home, and at least one club. ed to appreciate that certain types of West, however, did not play auto- tricks are

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lead. There was no assurance that declarer himself did not hold the spade jack as well as the see, but if this was so, was an odds-on chance

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could be isticcessful. West was determined not to give up without a struggle; hence on declarer's spade ace, he de- Uberately pinyed the kingi

The effect of this bold unblocking play is easy to follow. Now there

was absolutely no way for declarer to clear dummy's spade suit with- out giving Enst the lead and it was equally impossible for declarer to win nine tricks without establishing Ispades. West's bold but sound man- neuvre had saved the day for the

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WITH

A MOBILE

CONCERT PARTY

The Muddicombe Mo- bile Concert Party had its beginning, where many good things began, in the mind of Fanny Tryer.

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Fanny's husband was mine-sweeping. Running

house, garden and chicken yard, keeping an old father-in-law and an evacuee family at peace with each other, watch- ing over the welfare of the village, left Fanny with energy still to spare.

Then Fanny's sister, Chloe, bombed out of her flat in London, came to Muddicombe. Chloe was lame, but her mind and

her piano-playing fingers moved like lightning.

A couple of R.A.F. men, from the observation post.

on

the hill, came to Fanny's house for a bath.

"I hear they had a grand concert in Small- town last week," said one

of them. "We chaps out here don't see shows like that!"

"Why should not we get up something to amuse the men in the country?" said Fanny to Chloe.

And so it all began.

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The Women's Voluntary Services gave the "Muddy Mobs", as they called them- selves, help and encourage- ment from the first. They helped in copying song parts, in putting the party in touch with custodians of village halls.

If you had asked Fanny how she got her party to- gether she could not have told you. They just seemed to

come.

topical verses, the local back- chat, which gave to every performance its intimate, per- sonal note.

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The party's chief diliculty was transport. There had to be careful pooling of cars and petrol. "Props" were reduced to the pierrot caps and ruffs and the funny man's top hat. They played on curious stages, with Army blankets as cur- tains, the footlights candles in the halves of tobacco tins. There was one occasion when. a stage had been prepared of boards laid on the top of barrels. When the performers

A Letter from

Everyday

England

By KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM GREENE

all moved to one end of it the boards tilted, with #n rehearsed comic effect!

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A piano was always pro- duced from somewhere.

There was a night when a bomb crater stopped the only road to the aerodrome. One airman carried Chloe over the debris, another carried her crutch.

There were times when the arrival of the concert party coincided with that of Nazi... aircraft.

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"See what a name you folks have got.... Even Goering can't keep away from your show "

There was a night when the snow came during a per- formance on the downs. The- cars were stuck, the track to the main road blotted out. Wrapped in the Army blan- kets that had draped their..

"Muddy Mob ' stage, the

spent the night round the stove in the hut that had housed their show.

There was the worse night, when the motor launch, re- turning the party from Black- shore Island, stuck on the mud bar, to stay there till high tide next morning!

All these things made good copy for verses; added to what Fanny called the Con- cert Party's saga.

Smalltown was left alone. Smalltown's defenders were well amused. The Hospital was an exception. Two big wards for Service patients had been added since war be- gan. A stage was set up in one of these. All movable, cases were brought in,

They had never had such an audience. One man laugh- ed the bandage off his head and had to have it replaced in the interval, Another told the matron that he'd find an- other bomb and get another knock if she'd' give him an- other show like that!

Sometimes the audience were able to supplement the party. The gunners in Windi- cliff Royal Hotel included n professional concertina player,

"He made us feel terribly amateurish," said Fanny, "but he was quite gracious to us, too".

There was no need for the Party to learn the newest songs. The audience were prepared to join in anything, from "Jerusalem" to "Two Lovely Black Eyes."

They sang the nostalgic. songs of the last Great War "There's n-long, long trail. ", "My little grey "Tipperary".

home Led by the station master they sang "Land of Hope and Glory" and "Drake's Drum". A topical version of "Mr Dooley" would almost bring off the roof.

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Chloe, at the piano, heard the tune dragged in a way that should have shocked her ear.

"It isn't just a song," she thought. "They mean every word of it! And England means it, too!".

AND BEAR IT

The village grocer turned out to be a wonderful tap-dancer. It only needed a little, persuasion on the part of Chloe to make him a singer too.

GRIN A bank clerk in Small- town was discovered to have a genius for comie recitation. His wife could sing Victorian ballads "so as to melt your heart". A Voluntary Aid De- tachment nurse at the Small- town hospital had been train- ing for the ballet when the war came. She was only too glad, she said, to have a chance of keeping her toes in ' practice, and dancing Was positively restful after a day in the wards. The Muddi- combo station master had a stirring baritone voice. He could bring the house down with a sea-shanty or a planta- tlon song.

"We're not just a comic party," said Fanny "A little. of all sorts is our motto."

A roomful of men would sit spellbound on hearing Chloe's violin or her blødlike sopraNO in a Schubert song.

Fanny was commere, gay, alert, resourceful; drawing audience and performers to- gether with her quick magic- tle sympathy, filling any gap with a story, or with the sudden silly question that set the whole house laughing. Chloe was accorppaniat. Be- tween them they wrote the

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