Judge — February 21, 1931 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Below is reprinted the ninth problem in the $22,000 Bridge Contest, together with Mr. Lenz’ solution Jems will be shown. In following issues the three remaining prob- When scoring is completed prizes will be awarded and names of successful contestants will be published. Mr. Lenz’ solutions of the first cight problems of the contest have appeared in earlier issues. Problem No. 9 CARD READING AND RECONSTRUCTION e973 The Bidding: SOUTH | 1No Trump WEST NORTH EAST Pass Pass Pass Opening Plays: West opens the six of Diemon North plays the five, th HOW MANY CARDS OF EACH SUIT WERE ORIGINALLY HELD IN THE SOUTH HAND, AND IN THE WEST HAND? NAME _ AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE THE CARDS ORIGINALLY HELD BY SOUTH, AND BY WEST. Mr. Lenz’ Solution The Deal Complete: @973 9K1042 105 aJ653 @AKS8642 GYAQ @AKQ @Alo (Mazimum score, 14 points) Although the eleven rule marks South with three cards that will beat the six of Diamonds, the trick is nevertheless won with the Ace. This palpable false-card locates both the King and Queen with South. If South also held a low Diamond, the ten in dummy should have been played, as the best chance to win four tricks in Diamonds. “When the ten falls on the King of Spades, South's Spade holding must be six Spades headed by the Ace and King. With such a powerful major- suit hand, the one excuse for bidding No Trump would be a practically cer- tain game together with a big honor- score—undoubtedly four Aces, At least three should be doubly stopped, with the chances against any singleton card. suits On this reasoning, South must hold the Queen of Hearts, but the size of the second Club cannot be inferred and a perfect score will be allowed without the necessity of naming the second Club. After the opening lead, South can make a Little Slam on this deal by the squeeze-play. The Spades are cleared and East's Club lead must be taken by the Ace. At the end, South holds the Queen of Hearts and ten of Clubs while North has remaining the King and ten of Hearts. East will retain the Jack- cight of Hearts and the King of Clubs and must find a suitable discard on the third Diamond at the eleventh trick. Probably it was just as well for some players that the contest condi- tions did not require that the play of the deal be given. 24 The Theatre (Continued from page 16) a measure of their strength left. One of the most interesting of modern playwrights and one of the most talented of our actresses found them- selves in the ring with a crud adaptation, poor direction and some eminently bourgeois acting, yet the psychological uppercuts of the one delivered by proxy by the other made the scrap a dramatic spectacle not without its points. For there is so much more to Pirandello, even though he be put on ina barn with the neigh- bors’ children playing him, than to nine-tenths of the playwrights busy- ing themselves with the theatre that almost anything of his done in any s theatrical strychnine, he present exhibit is one of the Italian metaphysical detective’s weak- er efforts, but compared with the goods the stage generally uncovers it takes on a large size and bulk. Built out of his r philosophy that things and persons are simply what we believe them to be, he has on this occasion once again confected a spir- itual mystery play involving the iden- tity of a woman in the eyes of a group of different-secing people. Such plays, of course, are hardly to the under- standing and taste of the aver American audience, which prefers its 3 ptland Yard rather than the psyche, and they may duly be expected to wear that haunted storehouse look. The Mile. Anderson, in the central role, together with José Ruben in the role of the believer in her true iden tity, redeemed an evening of acting otherwise so wooden that it needed only a hammer and a few nails to turn it into a first-rate coffin. familia * * « pray by Mr. Samuel Shipman called “She Means Business was shown not long ago for a few sat the Ritz Theatre. I couldn't persuade myself, at my age, to go around and look at it. Nathan Recommends “Private Lives” (Times Square)—Flaffy ery, admirably played by Noel Coward Gertrude Lawrence, that makes for pretty light entertainment. “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” (Empir: The worthiest of this season's English fr prtations. An able dramatic account of t)« Barrett-Browning affair. “The Vinega: humorous and ol the borders of s Tree” (Playhouse)—A light! rvant coniedy frisking al “The Green Pastures” (Mansfield) It worth six, Freiburg Passion plays, with 2 couple of “Passing of the Third Floor Backs thrown in for good measure. “The New Yorkers” (Broadway)—To repeat that sketch about Jimmy Durante’s sotospeak is the funniest thing in town, “Three's a Crowd” (Selwyn)—An entertaining revue, far above the general run. comicbooks.com