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...goods stores could hardly supply them fast enough. Because interruptions do not spoil it and because of its speculative possibilities, club-car members took it up; fellow-members mocked at first, then also learned. Now, as club-cars rattle home in the 'fagend of early summer afternoons, the dice click on the board with the raised sides, the draughtsmen move from point to point, doubles are exchanged, and money...
After discussing the derivation of the game, telling how to play it, codifying its rules, Backgammoner Nicholas accounts for the present vogue. Backgammon has become popular, will become more so, he insists, because to the old deliberate dicing game of Egyptian kings and Roman politicians contemporary rules have added a new convention-doubling. After a game has started, any player may, at any time before he throws his dice, double the stake for which the game is being played. The opponent can either accept the double and go on with the game or refuse it, sacrifice his stake, start...
Walter Ferris, author of "Death Takes A Holiday", has done an American version of the Hungarian, Arpad Posztor's "Dice". This too is on the Professional Players' list. Another is "As You Wish Me". Pirandello's latest sensation which was produced in Milan last month. The wide interest shown in the Professional Players Organization has already resulted in a large number of subscriptions being taken...
...fables connecting him with people he could never have known. He is credited with having been a bosom friend of Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom he, as an infant, vaguely remembers having once seen saluting patrons at his show. Legend also has it that he frequently played at dice with Showman Adam Forepaugh. Mr. Fellowes does recall having once seen Showman Forepaugh in his father's Hartford, Conn., drug store...
...this latter day it is rare to find any trace of the boys who didn't make good. Moral victories cover up the short end of the score and the dice are cleverly loaded so that everybody wins an automobile and a radio, and forgets that workmen and vagabonds have no beer...