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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12
NEW YORK SYMPHONY

The concert of the New York symphony
Society. Walter Damrosch, conductor, on
Sunday afternoon. January IL, VIII De u"-
voted entirely TO the works Of Richard
Wagner Paul Althouse, OF the Metropoi-
itan Opera Company. will be the solois''
singing the Prize Song from Die Meister-
singer" and siegmunds love song from
Die Walkiire." The orchestra Will play
the "Rienzi" Overture, the Preludes rom
Lohengrin" and Die Meistersinger. inc
Bacchanal from the Paris version OF
"Tannhauser," the love music from ACT
ii Of Tristan und Isolde" the Prelude
and part OF the first scene OF "Das
Rheingold," arranged for concert per-
formance by Mr.. Damrosch, and the RIDE
Of the valkyries from Die Walkdre."
Immediately after the concert the or
chestra will leave for its annual winter
tour Of two weeks, visiting Toronto, Buf-
faio.i Cleveland. Detroit, Columbus, Fair
mont. Pittsburgh. etc. Among the SOLO
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THE POWER OF DUMMY PLAY.

South declared three royals. This bid
is open to argument, but South strong
player although cautious about overbid
ding his hand. was known for his par
TALLY to play the dummy. He considered
the possibility of the intelligent cOmbin-
ing the dummy with his own hand as
worth at least one trick. His keen per-
Ception in this respect is we'll illustrated
i'm the later play Of the hand.
Ii seemed TO East that to continue with
a three no trump bid would be foolhardy.
basing his reason on the probable location
OF the ace of clubs and king of diamonds
i'm South's hand. These two cards would
give South two Tc-entries for his spade
suit. and South would thus easily defeat
contract at three no trumps, and there
was therefore no prospect Of going game
at three no trump make. But that
South could fulfil a contract at three
ROYALS seemed so remote to East as TO
place it beyond the range Of possibilities.
He considered he could count two trump
tricks and that two outside aces would
surely win, with two kings and queen
knave suit To make at least one other
trick. But the play-off showed ne error
in East's estimate of the trick taking
value of his hand.
East doubled and South played the hand
AL three royals doubled
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Score-North and South one game in.
Love ALL
South bid one no trump as a starter
West declared two hearts North and
East passed. With the hearts probably
solid against him, South did not continue
the no trump, but switched to diamonds,
declaring three in that suit West went
three hearts Even with an original no
trump bid. he figured his honors would
compensate any slight setback. North
did not go to four diamonds.
With one leg on the rubber, North
thought he saw a good prospect for tine
accumulate of some penalties. A no
trump bid by reliable partner, having
singleton i'm clubs, with three trumps,
looked too good to disturb. And a further
reason for silence on Norths part was
the fact that a double of the three heart
bid would not be free double. and should
the double fail it would put his opponents
game on even terms al rubber game.
East. of course, passed and South, using
the same logic as his partner, let West
hold the bid at three hearts.
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INTERESTING SITUATION.

on the play of the hand North led the
two OF clubs, and after East had followed
with the five, South was confronted by an
interesting situation. Was the two oil
clubs singleton or low from four or
five card suit? II led from a four card
suit. the possibility of lone queen max
ing in Vests hand was also to be con-
sdered in playing the nine instead of the
ace, as dummy showed four clubs and
only one club would be missing. South felt
quite sure that the two of clubs was
singleton. for the reason that North
would hardly open a club suit, at best
queen high, rather than lead TO his dia-
mond declaration. South, therefore,
played the ace of clubs, and TO make sure
that North was not short of diamonds
led the king Of that suit. He followed II
with the ace OF spades TO establish
double run Five tricks were now scored
for North and South by the double run
in clubs and spades After this rufiing
bee was over West laid mis- I'VE good
hearts on the table. but fell four tricks
short OF making his contract.
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A STRANGE THEORY.

\ strange theory as to the origin Oh
cards was told the writer many years ago
bv learned Greek Professor and fellow
Of oxford, no mention of which mas ever
been madS i'm the writings of any perioo'
The theory was that cards were Oh the
invention OF an ancient astronomer, paseo
on time and the subdivision OF time. fhe
whole deck. representing the complete
wear. was divided into fifty-two weeks
making ifty-two cards.
The total count of the numerical Vaiue
Of the cards one TO thirteen of the four
suits plus the joker equals $50, the days
of the year. The seasons Of the year ana
weeks of the months are represented py
the four suits, hearts, diamonds, CLUBS
spades, allegorically termed Anection'
Wealth, War and Industry.
The Joker is also commonly supposed
10 be of modern origin. The fact is the
toker. or fou (buffoon), was in all ancient
decks and held the relation Of any arbl-
trary value of any suit or card as is gen
eraI in use in modern times.
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PUBLIC LECTURES ON MUSIC.

This evening the Board OF Education
will continue its series Of free music CON
,erts at Public School lOl. lllth street
west OF Lexington avenue, Professor
Farnsworth and Miss Margaret NJ. Zerbe,
If the department Of music. Teachers
College. giving recital on "Siegiried'
the second I'm their course on Wagners
"Nibelungen Ring" The opening concert
proved decided success, ana WILL rom
present indications, serve the purpose LOT
which they were acknowledgements the
adults of the city to better appreciation
and understanding Of music.
During the week there will be number
Of recjtals on folk songs of the various
nations. Edward Bromberg giving a reel
tsl on the songs Of Russia, Miss Nina ~
Kuhn on those OF Italy and Miss kathe-
rine Hand on those of Scotland. On
Wednesday evening a recital on AIDA
will be given by Mrs. Caroline n Cold
berg at Public School 50. West Clarkson
street The following are the speciai
lectures and recitals for the week:
Sunday. January 12-"siegfried, second
In a course on Wagner's 'Nlpeiuhse u
Ring" by Professor ChafleS, -; 49, ~
Teachers College. at Public School lOl'
1iith street. west of Lexington avenue.
Neutrality-suspicious. Songs ana war
Songs" Miss Kate S. Chittenden, nus
trated with songs by G. j. Bushnell, AT
stuyvesant High School. 18th street hea'
FIRST avenue Russian FOLK ana Iea9
ant Songs" illustrated with the mos
Characteristic and quaint iolk sohss' ~
Edward Bromberg, at Latayette nan
Alexander avenue and lSIth stteel. D ..i'l
posers and Music of France, iliustfatt ~,
by violin and piano selections, by Gar
ence de Nsux Roger, AT fupic och''' -
Hester and Essex streets. e,o,.,. Of,
Tuesday-"Italy in Song ana SUI
illustrated by instrumental music' py 80 -
Nina D. Kuhn, at St Cornelus CIl 'I ~;
no. l23 West 18th street. FOLK oohbS "a
Scandinavia" Lewis W. ArmsIohs az d
illustrated by songs. al Pubic Schooi ~
1i1th strete. west of Seventh avenue ~,
Wednesday 80 Aida niustrateo
piano and Vocal selections. Mrs. Caroline
K. Goldberg. at Public School 80, Wese
clarkson and Varick streets "Antonll'
Dyorak." illustrated at the, piano se
ond In a course on Great Modern Sohi
.posers" bv Daniel Gregory mason ~
Young Mems Hebrew Association Han
I'D street and Lexington avenue. ,,, .,
Thursday-"Songs In German Lile
illustrated by vocal and instrufneiii55 "a, hije
lections. Peter W. Dykema, at rm"ii~
School q. 42d street, near miro ase. oS Ia,
Friday" Scottish Music. ill1stI 'a ~ -, ~
vocal and instrumental music MISS ~ g20
crime Hand, at Public School ~. no 1Io
East 2o,h street. Chopin" illustrated Dy
selections, third in a course on Iiss
Masters OF Pianoforte Music, by i MiSs
Margaret Anderton. at Wadleigh Hleh
School, il4th street and Seventh avenue
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SOME CLOSE FIGURING.

West opened with tire ten OF diamonds
and East made the correct play by going
ND with his ace. East then led the king
of hearts and followed IT with the queen
of diamonds. South winning the trick with
the king. In order to save his contract,
South could row allow East and West only
two more tricks. South drew the correct
inference in placing the king of clubs in
East's hand. Counting that trick against
him and the ace Of spades as the other
trick. South could not allow another
trump trick to count for his opponents
The care exercised by good players in
analvzing situations that demand study
was illustrated in South's deduction at
this point.
He concluded that If East had only the
king of clubs once guarded in his hand
the possibility of an original lead OF that
suit by his partner would probably compel
East to expect that his king OF clubs
would Ice Killed. Hence, even with ace
and king of hearts and the ace of dia-
monds. East must have relied in making
his double upon two tricks in trumpS.
What was the other trick IN trumpS
besides the ace? If the five uumps. I'M
accounted for i'm North and South hands
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Pianist z~1Ih Philharmonic OTcHeJtTa

Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn. The lect-
urer traced the history of the Gresorian
chant from the Jewish Temple of the Old
Testament through the early Christian
ages until the present day A large aud
nee of students. teachers and prominent
clergymen of Brooklyn attended Bishop
Mundelein presided.
Grace Anderson, pianist, assisted by
NJ. Andre de Fouquieres, will present
an acompanist recital at Sherry's on
the evening OF January Is. under the
mana cement of Miss Elizabeth Marbury.
musical programme accompanied by
Miss Anderson will be varied by lect-
ure by NJ. Fouquieres. illustrated with
colored slides Following this there will be
dancing The recital was given for Miss
Anderson by the courtesy OF Mrs William
Ellis Corey (Mabelle Gilman.
A Chopin recital by Mr.. Sigismond Sto-
jowski will take place next Saturday
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E1a1xIy R0Se1T
B11IIo1e NeOIflH HSII

atre Miss Nina Morgans is new
conner in New York, and. In fact. has
never before appeared on any metropoh-
tan stage. She is an Italian-American
from Buffalo. and was recently discovered
by Mr. Hammerstein.
Putnam Grswolds SONG recital In Aeo-
Ian Hall on Monday afternoon January
o. will afford the basso's admirers an
opportunIty to hear him in songs OF Mar
tInI. Carissimi. Haydn. Sidney TONER
Marion Bauer Emil Polak' schuper',
Wolf. Brahms. schumann and Richard
Strauss
Nine. Blanche Arral is announced ior
concert 10 be given in conjunction win
Miss Betty Askenasy pianist ana neo-
rich vaska, 'cellist. in Aeolian Han on
saturday evening, January 70 Inc
French prima donna will sing an ara
from Hamlet" the Czardas from The
seerar student" a serenade by Brosa
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and 18th street. under the direction CT Or.
William c. Carl. tomorrow evening at )
q o'clock. Mr.. Schweitzer is POSTGRADUATE
of the Guilmant Organ School and organ
ist and choirmaster of Christ English
Lutheran Church. OF Brooklyn.
This afternoon at the vesper service nj
40 O'Clock, at the Church OF the Divine
Paternity. the choir will sing compositions
of Adolph NJ. Forster, the Pittsburgh
composer. The programme for the organ
recital at the close OF this service will
cansist OF compositions of Bach. Handel,
Gounod and Forster. j. Warren Andrews
IS the orgs mist and choirmaster.
Miss Beatrice Wainwright. soprano. was
the soloist at musical given by Mrs.
n. NJ. Pond. last week. The programme
consisted Of French and English songs.
She will give a recital of bergerettes at
her studio No 20 West forth street. next
Saturday afternoon. Miss Wainwright
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PRETTY BUT FAULTY.

This time theory is subject to great
criticism and was probably worked out
bv some clever mathematician who mere
Nv took the Pique deck and worked out
the combinations IA priorD. Faulty, but II
looks pretty.
The probably true theory OF the fnven-
tion OF cards. is that they were WORKED
out upon a military plan representing the
four armies of four ancient kings each
suit or army having its king, knight cor
generaD, knsve Cor valet), ana Ten ioo'
soldiers, having some close connexions
with the ancient Oriental game OF chess'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12

Score: q TO o. North and Souths favor;
rubber game.
South. the dealer bid one no trump.
West. second hand, declared two royals.
North held the above hand. What would
YOU do with this holding?
The correct action by North, on this
hand. is undoubtedly TO pass, even ire
spective of the score. Ii South reason
ably had his bid of one no trump IL
should have been evident to North that
East and West could not go game. ana
no damage could result from leaving them
in. and that a three-diamond or two no
trump bid might land his partner in q
troublesome double.
In the actual play of the hand as sent
US North went three diamonds. and East
passing. South declared three no trumps
and played the hand at that contract.
The hand went badly for North and South
because after the second lead of spades
Vests spade suit was set up. South had
four diamonds to the king and queen. ami
by his partners bid thought he (North)
held the ace. North and South held near
w all the clubs except the ace, which
was i'm Vests hand and made card of
recently for his spades, which made later
in the hand, thereby defeating the con-
tract. South ironically remarked: so you
are the player who always breaches Bid
only on tops
Whereupon North meekly replied, Il
bid to the situation because of my part
ner's no trump declaration, and with the
score i'm cur favor it seemed an excellent
gamble at that stage
One correspondent rises to remark that
II he had such a hand as ii. II. r. in
like situation he would give 1t back to
FnRegan.
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,oncert in Vienna on December II, 1870.
These Quartets form together an impoF-
ant landmark in Brahms's career as
.or,noser. and the dedication is to MS
'riend. Dr. TheCdor Billroth, OF vienna
rhey. were published by Simrock.
This will be followed by the quintet in
: major for three yolins. viola am
,ioloncello by Charles Martin Loeiiier.
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LOST By POOR PLAY.

This game should have been won ny
North and South. because at the point
where South led the jack of spades to
endcavor TO locate the queen the correct
play is clearly indicated. From the play
Of the hearts West was marked with four
hearts originally.
Reverting TO the bidding OF the hano'
West. being devoid Of spades or even win
singleton and having four trumps' woulh
surely have supported his partners heart
bid AT least once. The knowledge that
West must have at least one spade should
have been SUFFICIENT to guide South TO the
correct lead. This lead, Of course was
the ace Of spades. East showing out on
the first round of spades made IL easy foF
South TO have captured the queen so the
laurel properly rested with West
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PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

The Philharmonic Society OF New YORK
al Scranton last night completed a week =
tour which included Buffalo, Rochester
Auburn. Gloversyine and Elmira. the
third trip of the orchestra this season
Tomorrow evening. January -. the PM
harmonic at Princeton will open It's an
nual series of concerts given under inc
auspices of Princeton University.
At the next Philharmonic concerts IN
Carnegie Hall. Thursday evening, Jand-
arr, IL. and Friday afternoon, January H.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12

Max Pauer pianist, and director general
of the Stuttgart Conservatory VIII make
his first American appearances HighN
esteemed In the chief symphony concerts
OF Europe. his visit TO this country Is
potable feature of the musical season
Mr. Pauer will be heard in Mendelssohn's
Concerto In G. minor.
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THE WINNING FINESSE.

South therefore was prepared 10 take
a fnesse against the ten of spades in
Easts hand However. to make sure. IL
by any possibility the lone ten of spades
should be in Vests hand. South prop
erly decided to take the inesse in spades
on the second round Of that. suit. He
therefore led the king OF spades, which
trick East won with the ace. East led
back the jack OF diamonds, which South
trumpcd. South now led the queen OF
clubs. playing low in dummy; East's king
took the trick. The lead of the seven OF
diamonds by East put another force on
South, who now led the two of clubs, win
ming with the ace in dummy's hand.
Dummy laid down the six OF spades,
South finessirg with the. nine Of spades
picked up all Easts trumps and made his
two remaining clubs. Instead OF scoring
only twenty-seven toward game. Easts
double locating the cards for the clever
work by South, gave North and South
game and rubber with some nice extras.
Had East let South play the hand without
the double, South would have had no
means of locating the cards and would
probably have failed to go game
An embryo citizen from sunny Italy,
whose name might have been East push
ing his peanut car down Broadway was
hit head on by a speeding taxicao. On
being revived AT the hospital his first
anxious words were, Was de peanuta
suill2"
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Greta Torpadie. soprano, was one OF the
soloists on Thursday evening. January 2
at the Thursday Musical Club. Her Sc
lections included the SHADOW ara from
"Dinorah": "Chanson Triste, by Du-
parc. and Green" by Debussy. The last
named she was called upon 10 repeat. The
were artistically played
by Woodruff Rogers.
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LOCATING CARDS BY LEADS.

one branch oil auction that has descend
cd from it's grandsire. whist. is the count
ing up Of hand by using the ieau DIS
basis for locating the cards. IL u
somewhat difficult and often perpleXes the
beginner. especially one with little whist
experience. but with a bit Of study ana
practice is readily learned, and once
learned the memory fingers.
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lists are Mischa Elman, David Bispham'
Mr.. Van Hood and George Barrere. oA
the return Of the orchestra, on SUNDAY
70. a Bach-Debussy programme
will be given. with Ernesto Console ana
George Barrere as the soloists.
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notice solo parts made vacant. In one IN"
stance. by the contralto being called out
Of town and the other by the soprano
falling ill., II occurred during the holiday
week at the Methodist Episcopal church
at Morristown. y j.. when the Christmas
cantata Son Of the Highest was gwen.
Nh Warfords coming concert dates are
January IL. in Brooklyn, and January q.
at Morristown, y. j.
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Score-Loye all. first game. ..
After a bid Of one royal by South and
two hearts 10y East. South declared TWO
ROYALS and held the contract
West led the two Of hearts. and East.
winning with the king. led the ace. East
did not continue hearts any further. as
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Continued from Second Page

evening at the Mcdowell Club, No. los
West 55th street 1t is given under the
auspices of the Eastern Branch OF tne
Alumne Of Lake Erie College, Of Paines-
vile, Ohio
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This t. the programme Of the harnm-
Brockway Ensemble recital in Rumford
Hall this eveivne'
sonata for violin and piano. Op. III. 9
,Fhst tiIn. IN New NorkD
sonata for piano aud violin. Is minor. b"'h
sonata fur violin and plano. op. !" q
minor ............ ''.''- .'''. '''"H '
OryIlle Harold. assisted by Nina Nor
rama and the cast and chorus OF the
"kireny" company. viii give special
concert this evening At the Casino the
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were held by East. South could not pos
sibly stop East from making two tricks
in the trump suit. But II East held only
four trumps to the ace, his other card of
taking value would be the ten of trumps.
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makes a speciality of these songs and does
them i'm the shephcrdess costume. she Is
at present busy with her puphs ana Is ar
ranging a recital to be given by them IN a
few weeks.
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Locating Cards by Doubles
Negative Inferences and
Their Value.

An English tale relates that certain
.,cis,v wishing 10 erect tablet to the
1r,atest inventor, called upon its mem
I.rs TO decide the question. The answers
rereed from Adam to Edison, but Shy
lock member voted thus: THE man who
invented interest
The man who invented cards would rank
,ou mn as an inventor, but his name is
also buried in antiquity.
over thirty million persons In the United
S.,.ce alone use, or have used, playing
Ids IN some form, and the grand total
- The world runs into many millions.
The number of kinds and different forms
~ card games mount into the hundreds
OF all these games, Auction Bridge is the
r,o.t interesting and absorbing that has
80 evolved from centuries Of use
~ cards by all the races of the earth
ssnecialIy so to the cultured and intel
lectu2l.
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one royal West and North passed, but
East overcalled with one no trump. South
went two royals. and. on coming around.
East again overcalled with two no trump
East. one party to this bidding duel.
conscious that the high cards were in
the exclusive possession of South and
himself could not look for any assistance
from his partner in the early stage of the
Kidding
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CONCERT OF RUSSIAN MUSIC.

The choir of the Russian Cathedral
under tho direction OF Choirmaster Gorok-
hoff of Moscow, is to give concei, VI
Russian church music In hoiian nan OH
the evening OF February l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12

Hans Merx, German lleder singer, gave
:, lecture on the ancient Gregorian chant.
AN interesting and quaint subject at st
Angelas Hall Girls Academy BROOK
I'm. under the auspices of Dr. Mundeielh'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12
TIE PLEASURE OF ExcELLlNe,

Auction Bridge requires intelligence, and
the Measure in any contest of wits.
strength or skill lies in the winning or
N. doing OF something better than ones
opponents.
Even the name cards is supposed TO
he of Hindu origin, denoting the leaf,
browning the victor with the laurel
wreath.
on, Of the tests OF skill that leads TO
the proper crowning of the victor at
Auction Bridge lies in the locating OF the
cards by doubles
When the stage Of bidding is passed
and the final declaration made. one Is
confronted with the problem OF locating
correctly thirty-nine cards. and, after he
opening lead, dummy having gone down,
Of twenty six cards other than the thir-
teen held by ones self
LOCATING CARDS BY DOUBLE.
Here is a hand held in actual play at a
local club that illustrates the locating of
cards by a double:
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MUSIC NOTES.

This is the programme Of Josef Lhe-
yinnes piano recital In Aeoh"n 10"
morrow afternoon:
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MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.

Two pupils Of Claude warford acquitted
with credit In filling at short
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BRIDGE.
Ry=Geor9e =Fll2g

Here is rather nice illustration OF the
point in hand played at the West Side
Republican Club: