Evening star., 1938-03-13

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spin this week with the ar
a rival Of the flve-suit bridge
cards which came over on the
Queen Mary and have just been
cleared through the customs.
The extra suit Is called royals"
It is light green and the symbol
Of the suit Is a crown. The intro
duction Of this suit has changed
the values Of the others. Clubs and
diamonds are 20 points, hearts and
spades are rs. royals are 80 and
no-trumps are 40. In the play
there are IS cards, making an un-
even number. So the last card Is
dealt face up on the table and be-
comes the possession Of the de.
clarer, and can be exchanged by
him after the first lead OF the oppo-
nents for a card either out of the
dummy or out Of his own hand.
This game was invented in
Vienna. but the packs Of cards are
made In England. There are four
manufacturers, who have put out
100 different designs. They cost
considerably more than four-suit
card packs; however, if the game
takes over here they will undoubt-
edly be made in America.
Both Ely Culbertson and Oswald
Jacoby have been playing with
these packs for more than q week
at Crockford's Club, and are enthu-
siastic. Jacoby says:
1T Is a far better game than
contract, and, of course, much
higher. With five suits there are
little slams, grand slams, over.
slams and superslams, and the
scoring Is tremendous. Also, be-
cause the penalties are necessarily
90 much bigger. interference bids
are dangerous. The kind Of people
who prefer seven-card stud poker
to draw poker are going to like this
game"
Walter Malowan, member of the
all-American champion team Of
Tour in 1884, is more reserved in
his commitments.
The new game will not require
any radical change In our bidding
systems" he said. "Only mathe-
matical adjustments as to the re-
quirements for no-trump bids.
opening suit bids and informatory
doubles"
This represents the opinions of
three men who are interested in any
revolutionary change in bridge.
Automatically, it gives them a pos
siole new market. The good bridge
players around town are waiting
Tor the experimenting to be over.
Some wonder whether, like Towie,
hve-suit bridge will rush in and
then out. Others doubt the lasting
quality Of game that gives the
poor player an advantage over an
expert, which, it is generally con-
ceded, this does.
Mrs. Jackson A. Dykeman and
Mrs. Louis w. Noel won the East
ern women's pair championship
tournament at the Park Central
this week, to the delight of the
bridge world. They are both mag
nif1cent players and, strange in
deed. among the frozen-faced
gamblers, have fine senses Of hu-
NOR. They laugh and kid and
have a general field day playing
together. Sue Dykeman, q modest
woman, says she knows she isn't
playing her best when Natalie Noel.
The former Natalie Duncan, begins
70 hum. One bad day, Sue claims,
Natalie sang through an entire
opera without missing an aria!
THESE are the days Of the spring
fashion openings in the big
New York stores. We went to a
press opening of one of the cele-
orated couturieres, partly to see
he clothes and partly to observe
The actions of the harried war
horses Of fashion, while they were
determining what to present to
American women.
1t was pretty gay affair at
drst. Highballs and cocktails
we're pressed on the 1OO-odd
.ditors and reporters who trouped
IN with pads and bundles and
here was much chattering until
the models started to do their
stun. Then the business Of the
day began and this group of
animated women became as still
Is the living statues in the circus,
ust raising an occasional finger
% call model and whispering
% their colleagues.
We found wonderful place
light next to Edna Woolmsn
Chase, editor in chief of all the
'ogues; Emmy Ives, her fashion
'ditor. and a stylishly clipped
black poodle who kept nipping at
he models legs. Behind us stood
wo of the French filters. Mrs.
Chase and Emmy Ives worked
Is one person. They chose and
discarded the possibilities. With
IN eye to all incomes they noted
The costumes that appealed to