Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Harold Stirling (''Mike") Vanderbilt put up the Vanderbilt Cup for contract bridge teams of four, he has been ambitious to have his own name engraved on it among the winners. Last week, for the first time in five years, he had a good chance. The famed Four Horsemen of bridge-Hal Sims, Willard S. Karn, David Burnstine and Oswald (''Ossie") Jacoby, who won the cup a year ago-were split up. Mr. Vanderbilt was playing with Sims, Karn and Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz, onetime member of Ely Culbertson's Bridge World team which...
Both sides were vulnerable. At the table at which Lochridge & Frey were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt, Lochridge & Frey reached a contract of six hearts which Mr. Lochridge (East) failed to make by one trick. While von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt were thus earning their side 100 points, their partners were doing even better. At the table where Karn (East) & Sims were playing Burnstine & Schenken, the bidding also reached six hearts but Mr. Karn set out for his contract more shrewdly than Mr. Lochridge had done in the same situation. When Mr. Burnstine (North) played the queen of diamonds on the dummy...
...wrong script; by buying 2,000 airplanes so that he can get one free. If Once in a Lifetime is less funny because less angry than it was upon the stage, it is just as appropriately cast. Aline MacMahon, in the rôle which got her a Hollywood contract two years ago, is the cleverest of the three vaudevillains. The incredibly stupid receptionist in the studio lobby is Zasu Pitts. While making vague enquiries about the name of an author who has been waiting to see Mr. Glogauer for four months, she utters genteel moans so sad that they...
...would prefer playing his flute at home to wrestling any longer with deficits. In Portland this autumn players in the symphony are donating 10% of their salaries to help make the season possible. The Seattle Symphony will give only five concerts under dreamy British Basil Cameron whose contract was not renewed at the end of last season in San Francisco...
...same amazingly unfeeling director who overworked the dramatic talents of Miss Davies hid his other talents to an appalling degree. Robert Montgomery, of happy "Private Lives" fame is choked with hardly a witty speech and Jimmy Durante displays himself so rarely that one wonders of his contract expired before the shots were all taken, Zazu Pitts, as Gertie and Sidney Toler, as Zazu's husband are likewise exasperatingly withheld from the public gaze. It does not, however, fellow that the follies of the director should prevent the tired student from seeing "Bloudie of the Follies" with that free ticket...