Life — May 13, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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most frequently during the last fortnight is “Whitehead’s Com- plete Auction Bridge” (Stokes), and it is therefore a pleasure to give the place of honor this week to a treatise which not only amounts to evangelism in its clarity and wisdom, but also brings to a waiting world the laws for 1926 and the explanations thereof. As an amateur of some experience who has suffered financially upon unfortu- nate occasions through the ignorance of a partner who has gone stubbornly on with his no-trump after being taken out in two suits, or whose reason has be- come suddenly blurred by a vision of seven diamonds minus the tops, I have come to believe of recent years that the Whitehead system of bidding is sec- ond to none, and, speaking from a self- "Tee book I have heard mentioned nd L ish and personal standpoint, I am convinced that its universal adoption throughout this broad land of liberty lovers would be a greater contribution to our national felicity than anything which might come out of the League of Nations talk. This system of bid- ding is completely established and ex- plained in its creator's new book, a copy of which should be in every house- hold, even in those which do not play for stakes but only “for the fun of it.” The change in the law governing a revoke is the most important happen- ing in our legislation since the Supreme Court handed down its decision about the trusts, and will probably rank as the greatest step towards pacifism of our decade. Only a page is devoted to the ethics and etiquette of the game, and thus some of us eager sociologists are given an opportunity to deal elsewhere with players who telephone their brokers whilst they are dummy, complain of the temperature of the room, etc. NOTHER book which I commend highly to you is “The Housemaid,” by Naomi Royde-Smith (Knopf), the first novel of a young London dra- matic critic. Of course, a few Ameri- can matrons will, upon reading it, break down and weep a little softly at the discovery that there is a happy land not so far away where domestic servants take their duties seriously and strive more zealously for advancement in their profession than do members of the United States Navy. It seems strange that Ann Page's ambition for her (Continued on page 40) Miss Hyhatte: nut, y’KNOW, THEY'RE REALLY AWP'LY NICE—THEY’RE FROM THE SOUTH. SOUTH BOSTON, SOUTH CHICAGO OR SOUTH NORWALK? Mr, Snooty: comicbooks.com