Judge — September 19, 1931 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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-2- HOT ont THE GRIDDLE! FIRST JUST EDITION RELEASED SIDNEY S. LENZ’ NEW BOOK on the OFFICIAL SYSTEM of CONTRACT BIDDING new system of Contract Bidding, which is the basis of the Official System as adopted by the leading bridge authorities, climinates all guessing, and definitely determines a bridge hand as fair. good or very strong. Mr. Lenz’ This book is pocket size. thumb indexed and provides a ready reference on any point. It explains in detail quick-tricks, normal support, how and when to bid suits of one, two and three, the correct response to each bid, no trump bids, preemptive bids, ace showing, slam bids, non- -demand bids, leads, ete. Every point of the new system of contract bidding is carefully illustrated opposite each page of text. All phases of the game have been carefully analyzed by Sidney S. Lenz, fourteen times National and International Bridgeand WhistC hampion. To get resulis—to win, at Contract—use the 1-2-3. JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., INC., 18 East 48th St., New York City. Please send me.......,copies of “1-23” by Sidney S. Lenz. $1.10 per copy, including shipping. I am enclosing $........ : O. D. at $1.10 per copy, Parcel Post Collect Lenz. sssscopies of “123” by CITY ...ceccccceccccccccsccsccscceccscsccsecsccseesesssS TAT Esc ccsccecssessee 919-31 26 AUDGING | F ORTUNATELY the summer is nearly over, and if you ean hold out till the 21st you won't have to Baum's “Martin's Summer supposed to be light summer ficti German style, but then German co ing is supposed to have its del side, too. In such spirit, it tells of a young German chemical engineer who hires out for the summer at a resort as life guard. In the midst of women clamoring for his bronzed embraces, he has a depressing time of it. He picks the wro' his pride in terferes with ng tips; his mama continually writes him harass ingly for money; the summer proves as brilliant (there is one good day which he makes a movie rescue ing the book for Lasky) barometr as a London morning in J generally everything cheerfully and sunnily a a The book proves more our hidden suspicion that rand Hote nat a tatler”) was a tour de force and Vicki is a mediocre w riter. AvoTuer bit of light summer read ing you can handily miss out on is “God Have Merey on Us,” taken “From the Diaries of a Lost Soul.” Last year we rhapsodized somewhat over a book called “No Bed of Roses.” The diary of a prostitute. cleaned up rammatically by a good woman, it s designed to tear out the heart with its frankness and its faithful re- cording of the financial and other aw- ful details of paid love. It also was meant to make a little money all around, but let that go—for aren't we all? It succeeded all too well in its purpose and we left the heroine, our heart bleeding for her, lying on the ash-heap of life, where she had finally fallen after the bouncings of Fate, un able to rise, an unsavory, unwanted morsel, Well enough should have been left that way. However, it seems that people left on ash-heaps with dis laudably continue to strive to get off them, even tho it seems humanly im- possible to do so. Our heroine, ¢ dently made of stern stuff, not only picked herself off the ash-heap but proceeded to get herself bounced up and down between the Higher Places and the ash-heap enough times to fill another gross of diar d make an- other book, “God Have Mercy on Us.” Whatever makes these women so voluble we wouldn't know, but you can get an idea of the up-and-down trend of the unhappy creature's life by merely perusing the chapter head- ings. Chapter One is called “God ies comicbooks.com