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...whom the American Contract Bridge Association likes to think of as bridge players would not dream of saying "pass" when their partners have begun by bidding two in any suit. That interesting fact is due solely to 14 years of unceasing agitation by Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, who are to contract bridge exactly what Henry Ford is to motoring. They practically invented it and they have made a fortune...
...characters soon to go on the air are Solomon, Ruth, Esther, David and Saul. According to Director Wylie, Columbia aims to "freshen and reanimate" the stories, employing ablest writers to do so. Margaret Sangster did Job, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) Joseph. Thyra Samter Winslow and Ernest Howard Culbertson are among those selected to write future scripts. A Manhattan rabbi, priest and minister review the acts, copies of which Columbia will send in any quantity to churches throughout...
...Father Culbertson struck it rich. He was able to move into a big feudal castle near Grozny. Ely was born in, 1893, Alexander five years later. At 4, Sasha began to study violin. Ely used to practice too, but gave up when people made fun of him for keeping his mouth open. While Sasha was studying arduously at home, Ely Culbertson, then 14, ran away, hobnobbed with anarchists, spent two wretched months in the Tsar's prison...
During the War, Sasha volunteered as an entertainer for the U. S. Army. Doughboys hissed when young Culbertson, listed as a violinist from Oil City, Pa., came on with his long hair and his faulty English. Ely wanted to be an interpreter. This Son of the American Revolution passed examinations in seven languages but flunked English. When the Russian Revolution came the Culbertsons lost their estate. Father Culbertson returned to the U. S. broke. Sasha began his concert tours. Between 1921 and 1926 he made over $120,000 Some of this money he sent to his brother in Paris...
...error to think that Ely Culbertson and Milton C. Work were responsible for making bridge a national frenzy. If any one man was responsible, it was Clifford E, Albert, who was last week rewarded with promotion to the presidency of Cincinnati's snug little U. S. Playing Card Co., succeeding Arthur R. Morgan, who retired to the chairmanship of the executive committee. Cardman Albert devised the bridge broadcast plan, whereby players in the home follow the game in the studio play by play. At one time U. S. Playing Card was promoting bridge in this fashion through 155 stations...