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BRIDGE

By JOSEPHINE CU

How

When Not to Win a Trick

WITH

A MOBILE

CONCERT PARTY

The Muddicombe Mo- bile Concert Party had its beginning, where many

THE inexperienced bridge player the rest of the play. A second spade good things began, in the

trick

benda every effort toward the lend would clear the suit out with winning of tricks, under all circum-West on leml, declarar's remaining stances and regardless of their class, diamond stopper would remain in- colour and degree. To bim a trick tact. Thus it would be easy for de- is a trick,"

and he is grateful for all clarer to collect Rve spade tricks, and sundry.

The

free hearts, the diamond alrendy experienced player has learn-home, and least one club. ed to appreciate that certain types of West, however, did not play auto- burdens rather than matkally. He recognised the vital prizes. This valuable lesson enables need of having diamond led him to wage the brilliant sqrt of de-through decinger's remaining honour, fence found in the following deal:

he saw further that If he were retain the king as the only spade stopper for his side, it would be very doubtful that East could ever get on Head. There was no assurance that declarer himself did not hold the well the are, but if pade juck as this was 6o. was an odds-on chance

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Rubber bridge,

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South, dealer.

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Fanny's husband was mine-sweeping. Running a house, garden chicken yard, keeping an old father-in-law and an evacuce 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,

thni no line of defence could be Chloe, bombed out of her flat in London, came to Muddicombe. Chloe was lame, but her mind and

to give

without a struggle; hence on declarer's space fice, he de- ¡Uborately played the king!

The effect of this bold unblocking play is easy to follow. Now there was absolutely no way for declarer to clear duminy's spade suit with- jout giving East the lend and it was equally impossible for declarer to win aine tricks without establishing spades. West's bold but sound man- Jócuvre had saved the day for the:

To-morrow's Hand

Rubber bridge. South dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

East Ines JA

Pass INT

Pass raze North would have been well ad-team. vised to persist with his spades to the name level. South's notrump bidding had announced a minimum of two spades and the overwhelming| presumption was that these would. include a high honour. South also might have chosen a space rather than a notrump contract-but, if he had, we would have no brilliant de- fence to record.

West made his normal and correct opening of the diamond jack, the top of an interior sequence, Declarer

and, correctly analysing that it!

won

would probably be necessary bring home dummy's spade suit, laid down the ace, Intending to follow up

with his low spade. If Went had

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

The party's chief difficulty 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 singe had been prepared of boards laid on the top of barrels. When the performers

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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 sagu.

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 оле of these. All movable cases were brought in.

They had never had such an audience. One man laugh- ed the bandage off his head

her piano-playing fingers Everyday England and had to have it replaced

moved like lightning.

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

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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. 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. A bank clerk in Small- town was discovered to have a genius for comic recitation. His wife could sing Vietoriun 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- combe station master had n stirring baritone voice. He could bring the house down with a sea-shanty or a planta-

tion 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 birdlike soprano in a Schubert song.

Fanny was commere, gay, alert, resqurceful; drawing audience and performers to. gether with her quick magnie-" tic sympathy, filling any gap with a story, or with the audden silly question that set the whole house laughing, Chloe was accompanist. Be tweah them they wrote the

By KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM GREENE

all moved to one und of it the boards tilted, with an un- rehearsed comic effect!.

A piano was always pro- duced from somewhere,

There was a night when a bomb crater stopped the only road to the nerodrome. 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.

"See what A name por 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 stage, the "Muddy Mob " spent the night round the stove in the hut that had housed their show.

in the interval. Another told the matron that he'd find an- other bomb and get another knock if she'd give him un- other show like that!

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

"He made us feel terribly amateurish," said Fanny, "but he was quite gracious to u8, 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--a-long,--long- trail. ", "My little grey home

.","Tipperary". 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.

"There'll always be an Eng- land

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Chloc, at the piano, heard the tume 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!"

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