Judge — August 22, 1931 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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CONTRACT BRIDGE For the past three years re and re Auction players have been verted to Once you play the new game the old one seems While Contract has been proclaimed a most intricate game, difficult than Auction. Sidney S. Lenz, National and International Bridge Champion, Contract. tame. it is in reality no more in his new book— “MY SYSTEM OF CONTRACT BIDDING" (3rd. Edition) “The One-Two-Three System of Bidding" Explains in simple, logical ond conclusive manner the fine points of the gome as follows: Synop- sis of Laws, Quick Tricks and Probable Tricks, Demand Bids, The Bids Illustrated, Slam Bid- ding, Skill, Luck and Psychology, Assisting and Camouflage Bids, The Vanderbilt Club, The Big Stick and Little Joker, The Chal- lenge. Summary and Questions Answered. The book is de: fit the pocket—it may easily be carried while traveling. 822-31 JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., INC, 18 East 48th Street Now York, N. Y. Please send me... m of Contract Bidding” (Third on), by Sidney S. L $1.10 copy, including shipping. | am sing $ copies of "My at $1.10 per copy, ost collect pies of y System of Contract Bidding” (Third Edition), by Sidney S. Lenz. | is looking JUDGING“ BODKS Te public, as you may have heard, has taken an awful beating these vast few months, both in the spirit and the pocketbook, and we imagine it around for someone to fasten its maledictions onto as the cause of it all and something to soak up its bellyaching. Such a need ought he filled to a nicety, and a very nice nicety, too, in couple of books entitled “The Washington Mer x0-Round” ind “The Mirrors of 1 .” They Books of the Moment, psychologic lly fortuitous and steeped in stuff good for depression, disgruntlement, p; in the neck, stomach and elsewh Whether they are books that are to their characters or whether or not it is fair to fasten one’s pains in the neck onto these characters is some- thing your old Uncle Shane cannot an- swer. All he knows is that both books are purgative reading and, fair or un- fair, will answer the purposes outlined above in giving you a chance to get rid of your feelings by what the old Freudians used to call a “transfer- enc Read them and hate yourself back to normaley. king, both books are of the English poli- he Gentleman with a Duster” (which really should have been called “The Gentleman with a Mudsling”). They take the Washing- ton line-up, the stuffed political shirts and heads, in office and out, stand these human puff-balls up against the wall, carefully strip their hides from them and then, after a little fiendish torture with squirt-guns full of vitriol, let go at them with both barrels, Starting with Mr. Hoover, who seems to be Uncle Sam's orphan stepson at the present writing, the anonymous authors present a mixture of sip that is shouted around the Washington speakeasies, general- ly sound if Menckenesque character- analysis and plain salvos de mud bat- teries. A page of it is worth twenty volumes written by Republican Na- tional Committee press-agents. Naturally poor old Herbie gets the worst end of the stick, taking an awful (They say Herb’s goat has been got by what these books say of him and has ordered the Department of Justice to do a little investigating.) Where most of the other public lights are placed high up in the ranks of the booberie and treated with good- natured sarcasm in instances, the poor Chief is pictured with a_ positively devastating meanness. The Mirrors will not concede him even a footnote in history and the Merry-Go-Round \ doesn’t offer even that much, 28 Dealing with Presidential eandi- dates, the Mirrors laments that even AL Smith has a clay foot and is a ood man gone General Motors, while Gov. Roosevelt is a weak character. The Merry-Go-Round cuts up old Andy Mellon, knocking the aluminum stuffing out of him and rudely yanking the mantle of Hamilton that legend (and his press-agents) has draped around his refined shoulders. The Mellon industries, it seems, were ways in on the big money in tax re- funds, and what would you do were Treasurer of the United SI Furthermore, not only are the books rife with political strafing, but they go into the private lives of all con- cerned, the first. two chapters of the Mer jo-Round containing the choicest morsels of social gossip on Washingtonian aristocracy this side of Cholly Knickerbocker, supplying enough ancedotes about ambassadors, senators and cabinet members to turn you into an amateur Alexander Wooll- cott at dinner partie: lies the chief difference two books. The makes its In this gossip between the Merry-Go-Round ck almost entirely from + summing up a man’s acter from the cut of his clothes, the smell of his pipe and the kind of tooth paste he uses. The Mirror is a lot more philosophic and political- minded. Both are excellent in epi- mmatic coefficient and : books in which you ¢ well-turned, neat phrase or these days. For instance, the of Representatives is termed the Mon- key House, with caricatures of men hopping about and not knowing where they are going. Each book has a white-haired boy, however, and therchy spoils wise perfect record of good word to say—for no on Merry-Go-Round pulls its blows at retary mson's chin, dealing out a sugared love tap here and there, but its only real heroes are young Bob La Follette and Senator Norris. The Mirrors sees only Newton W. Baker unsullied and without a speck of po- litical jaundice. In sum, the plaint of both books is that the government is run by a bunch of older-generation inffectuals, and tho neither book offers a suggestion as to how to clear up the mess, we do. We think America ought to go back to an absolute monarchy, ard we'd like to appoint ourself king. Our platform would be A Million Dollars for Every- body, Free Beer, and the guillotine for anyone who writes books like these about us. —Tep Suane n other- comicbooks.com