Judge — June 7, 1930 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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helped him in the past to help him | beat the rap due him for this literary ind heinous crime. It's pretty bad. The fancy blurb on the inside jacket of Madcap Maxie Bodenheim’s newest sex determiner, “A Virtuous Girl.” starts off something like this: ] Here is the story of Emmy Lou, |} wistful. haunting, —pink-and-white Emmy Lou, born to respectability, seventeen years old in the corseted Chicago of 1900; born to love, too, under the spell of summer and. the dark, and a boy whom her parents | ayy, re vert wouldn't receiv Well, we took one | réleted to Auction ond little crack at Emmy and it’s ev Maxie’s been playing post office a ational Br hy Wilbur ( d has ever ke and Whist Championship hitehead has said: “Sidney ‘emarkable flay rrespondence from Indae re ntract provided correspon give advice and answer questions ead ound addressed catclopes for eeply LAVING a Bridge deal with all four — tricks, because East was quick to see hands exposed is hardly the same — from South's Club bid that West was “Mata Hari” is another addition to at takes place in actual pl doubtless void of that suit. When the that. intensely absorbing series of With only the bidding to guide the Spades were led the second time East documents pertaining to the ineredib ant as to distribution of the op- overtook with the King and a Club fanthatie origin and eaveeror thea cards, it requires keen snap lead permitted the partner to use a n-spy of our century. Major | Judgment as well as perspicacity to little trump where it did the most s Coulson’s dispassionate and obtain the maximum points on a deal good. This danger was foreseen by militar nd of his material in. that is a bit of a puzzler even at | Mrs. Haultain and the Queen of no whit dims the shining glamour of | double-dummy, In last week's Jrpcr Spades was permitted to hold the first this twice-told tale I described a deal p in the dupli- trick. When the second Spade lead was cate tournament Cavendish won, the King of Diamonds was led Club in New York, nothing but and taken by the Ace and the third Hus- | Contract has been played for over Spade was trumped. Now the Queen Ex- two years. Mrs. Irene Haultain, play- and a low Diamond put the dummy in Br pos 2x-Wife” was bologny; “E hand” wasn't sliced any thinner; Mistress” didn't f us with the | ing with Sir Derek Wernher, bid for to finesse the k of Clubs and the | bologny-skin removed; but now the | the game and succeeded in making it doubled contract was made. The stu- | | newest. of the Ex-series, “Ex-Baby,” | 0” the following hand: dent will note that at the third trick | | by “One Who Has Been Thru It Ail.” West could have defeated the contract | ] ; hy following South's example at the first trick. Refusing to put up the Ace of Diamonds would have pre- vented dummy from obtaining the lead, unless a low Diamond was led | after the King. In such event. the Jack of Clubs would have been ruffed i with the Ace of trumps and East's Queen of Clubs could not have been is just plain liverwurst. And as we gently pull the curtains f any further cries, and kids on cries, from the confessional, may we remark that “Ex-Book,” by Bill Hanemann, just about puts the bee on the whole ham-and-ex racket. | It w O10. BQTEIS bose : turgid stream of functional chap- [3 Diamonds |2 Spades |Pase Pass OQ1043 - hooks. Among them are “Tog’s Life ———_—| ao85 : “Squawk Bridge” and a ghastly imi- SClubs [Hearts |b Diamonds] Pass | > | tation of Chie We confess to be- | | 3 distributed buckshee to the | Xt shut out. . a { 4 trade and is a disarming snoot at the ne challe poe match for the Knick- | i - ways of publishers, tabloid tripe digni- be erboc er ETOP ye cable matic of the i » | fied by book covers, distorters thereof 0 KQI965 stern Bridge Championship, Reith, | 5 Lad aeun.at hooey 2 Sims, Liggett and I succeeded in re- ] a cup of hooey, BAKISG. ie A | taining the cup. An outstanding hand 14 that needed exceptional play, both on } In the wake of “The Specialist,” The Bidding offense and « } i ] 1 | writing on the wall, there drifts a SOUTH WE NORTH EAST j } nds | Double |Pass Pass - | ing unable to laugh at these foul balls. — eQss } |) They remind us of the grimy pieces al | |) of yellow foolseap our boyhood pals Wi |) pulled from their pockets and offered Mrs. Haultain held the South hand | r | us for surreptitious consumption. | and, with a strong two-suiter, started a | Worst of all, they are unfunny. It | a Demand-bid. It might seem that ii r | would seem that whereas “White North was remiss in not doubling the Ii 8 | Wing” Sumner chooses to meddle with — three Heart bid, but it would have , | the freedom of expression of recog- been bad strategy to drive the enemy c | nized authors he neglects to wield his back to Spades, against which North h big broom on this unpleasantness un- had no defense. The opening lead was South had the opening bid. ‘The ° derfoot. the Queen of Spades and at most bidding and play of both teams will it —Trp Suane tables the contract was held to ten be given next week. 25 comicbooks.com