The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-03
DO YOU "NULLO?" IF NOT THEN YOU
 MUST "GO WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN.
By DoLLYsDALHYMpLp


 l No? Then
 You'll ,have to take backset, let me tell you. because 1t is the very latest wrinkle. | No
 It isn't new step insdancing, but it's mighty close to it, | For
 It goes hand in hands with the dance craze, and it is to thei game of "Auc- tion" what La Furlano, is to dancing the latest step"
 It is the very newest, cleverest. most interesting innovation that has ever been played in card game
 ''Nullos" has been introduced into "Auc- tion" just as the "Maxixe" and the Half and-Half' have been Introduced into dan cng.
 The twin amusements, dancing and cards, go something like this
 ''Maxixe," No trumps;"
 "Half-and-half,' High Spades;" La Furlano,' "Nullos."
 Your brain gets sort of puzzled
 You don't know which is done with the head and which with the feet. 1t looked for awhile as if these two advertisements were to be rivals. but h, and behold
 The unexpected has happened, Ihey have joined hands and we find them jogging along quite cably-in fact, quite congenially.
 The very latest entertainment on the tapis is the Auction Dansantp'
 It has swept the country from Maine to Mexico
 At first
 Here were those who doubted.
 But in the end, Many who went to play, remained to dance.
 The twain really bear very close re- lationship for the harmony of partner ship in each is an essential
 Possibly the aggressive spirit Is more In evidence in cards than in dancing. To illustrate
 player was asked what excuse he had for bidding mo trump on very weak hand?
 He promptly answered.:
 T had three perfectly good excuses the deal, my nerve and the desire to worry my opponent"
 "Nullos' has created perfect furor in bridge
 It has put all the little cards in the deck on the map.
 No longer can a player plead the ex- cuse of bad hands and mo luck" and that sort of things, for '.nullos' has eliminated everything of that sort, and it's up to the player now to do the rest. Perhaps no one has been more quoted and justly so, in Birmingham on the sub ject of cards than Miss Anne Curtis. Foster" and Street." and "Elwell," and the others relegated to the shades of retirement in the eyes of Birmingham bridge players whtn it comes to "au- thority.' and to sued si1fully route every question that comes " player has but to say: Miss Curtis plays it this way' And That is final! Miss Curtis Is a very remarkable woman in many ways. Not only is she a superb card player, conservative. sane and conventional but she is agreeable, something that can't be always said of the people we meet at cards"
 Families, lifelong friends, acquaint- anoes can get along generally under ordinary circumstances but put them down to game of cards and you'll seq their "nawsty dispositions crop out like lighting bugs in June time.
 Suits for vorces-estangements be-
 
 fly rows that would fill a volume have resulted from simple card games, but 1t Is safe to say they would never have oc- cured if Miss Curtis had been "umpir- ing" the game, for she believes first of all in cards as an amusement, and not to be taken seriously enough to lead to six months residence in Reno.
 Miss Curtis has introduced the Auction Dansant" to Birmingham within the past few weeks and already these delightful entertainments the talk of the town. All over the country Miss Curtis has been holding these affairs and hundreds of people have enjoyed them. Miss Curtis is popular everywhere she goes, but nowhere has she more warm, true. admiring friends than right here | in Birmingham, and they have given her ! a very cordial welcome upon the occasion | of her present visit. | Tn chatting with Miss Custis yesterday about the popularity of Auction" and the newest play she said enthusi- astical1y: | "The most vivid interest has been mani- | fested all over the country in Mules, the latest step in bridge. I like 1t better