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PAGE 15 THE SUN, BALTIMORE. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1964 This drawing of a scene from "My Fair Lady" features the stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. The motion picture premiere engagement begins tomorrow at the Hippodrome Theater. The costumes and sets were designed by Cecil Beaton.

There will be matinee and evening showings of the film. Deck Remains Same Baltimore Society SCREEN By ALFRED N. ORMALLY you need about 26 points to make game. Still, you should not expect to find 52 high-card points in the deck if both sides bid game. Nobody adds three aces to the deck's 40 points.

Instead, it should be clear that at least one side is relying on short suits instead of high cards. North dealer. East-West vulnerable. North A 10 5 A94 KQ6 A 10 5 4 West East A A 87 AKJ9642 3 10 6 J7533 4A94 8 2 7 South A3 K'J 8 7 5 2 10 A A K963 North East South West 1A 1A 2 3A 4 4 A 5 AllTass Opening lead A A Very few players managed to make five Decorations Handmade Youngsters get a special delight in helping create holiday decorations for the home. And this year, there's a new craft they'll especially enjoy.

It's making "string-maze fantasies" airy, lacy baubles to hang on the tree or float from a mobile. They're created with string, crochet cotton, thread, starch, and balloons. To make the ornaments, pour full-strength liquid starch into a large bowl and immerse string and thread. Inflate balloon to the size desired for the ornament and knot the end. Then wrap the starch-soaked siring around the balloon in criss-cross fashion.

Keep adding coatings of starch to saturate the string. When an interesting mesh pattern is achieved, cut string and hang balloon to dry overnight Then deflate the balloon with a pin and remove the balloon through the top opening. Yor'll have a delicate-looking globe which you can adorn with holiday trims. Cover opening with velveteen bows and use ribbon or yarn to hang the ornament. According to the National Cotton Council, special effects can be created by using string and thread in varying sizes.

Crochet cotton with silver or gold metallic flecks is especially effective. For addiiional contrast, combine cotton lace and rickrack with thread for wrappings. Ordinary cotton string can be sprayed with gold or silver paint after drying, and sprinkled with glitter or sequins. SHEINWOl.D hearts with this hand when It was presented by Terence Reese in 1939 as part of a contest. Most players followed the old rule about playing the ace and king with nine cards in a suit.

South usually led out the ace and king of trumps after ruffing the second spade. Now it was impossible to make five hearts. The same players usually played the clubs the same way, and then had to lose a club trick as well. This method of playing the long suits would be reasonable if the opponents had passed throughout. Since the opponents actually bid up to four spades, South had to expect singletons or voids.

Ruff Second Spade Since there is only one way to play the trumps, South should ruff the second spade and lead a trump to dummy's ace. On returning a trump and finding that East follows suit, South should reflect that only West can have a singleton in trumps. Since singletons are expected, South should finesse with the jack of hearts. The finesse works, and South draws East's last trump. Now it is time to tackle the clubs.

Since West has a singleton in hearts, it Is reasonable to expect East to have the singleton in clubs. South cashes the king of clubs and leads a club to try a finesse with dummy's jack. Both finesses work, and South makes five hearts. Careful attention to the bidding is necessary to produce the best line of play. Bidding Questions As dealer, you hold: AKJ9642 Q10 4A94 A 7 What do you say? Answer Pass.

The hand is very nearly, but not quite, worth an opening bid of one spade. You have 10 points in high cards and 2 points for the singleton. Change the jack of spades to the queen or change the queen of hearts to the king and you would open the bidding. As dealer, you hold: AA10 7 8 5 3 2 A 10 9 6 What do you say? Answer Pass. You have 11 points in high cards and 2 points for the doubletons.

A 13-point hand is an optional opening bid. You would open with one diamond 5 the suit were bolstered up with the ten and nine, but there is no great virtue in stretch, ing to open on a very ragged suit. Partner opens with one spade, and the next player passes. You hold: A 10 962 KQ6 4QJ832 A3 What do you say? Answer Bid to diamonds. You will raise spades later, thus showing a hand too strong for a single raise but not strong enough for a double raise.

NVTTATIONS to the Baltimore Assem bly, to be held January 8 at the Lord Bal-timore Hotel, have been received from the committee. Members of the committee include Mrs. Horatio L. Whitridge. Mrs.

John Eager Howard, Mrs. Roger Brooke Hopkins, Mrs. Francis H. Jencks, Mrs. William W.

Lord Reed, Mrs. Lawrence R. Wharton, Mrs. Francis F. Beirne and Mrs.

John M. Nelson 3d. Also, Mrs. Charles T. Williams, Mrs.

C. Marshall Barton, Mrs. Robert W. Johnson, Mrs. Albert C.

Bruce, Mrs. Fife Symington, Mrs. J. Crossan Cooper, Mrs. Frank Adair Bonsai, Mrs.

George G. Carey, Mrs. James McHenry and Mrs. Ambler H. Moss.

Mrs. W. Carrington Stettinius, Mrs. S. Bonsai White, Mrs.

Carlyle Barton, Mrs. Henry du Pont Baldwin, Mrs. Richard Jennings Watts, Mrs. John Whitridge. Mrs.

Benjamin H. Griswold 3d, Mrs. Francis White, Mrs. John A. Luetkemeyer, Mrs.

William G. Marr, Mrs. Trafford Partridge Klots and Mrs. William McMillan are others on the committee. Many of the season's debutantes will begin arriving tomorrow from schools and colleges to spend the Thanksgiving holidays at home.

Miss Peggy WicV.es Alexander, daughter Some Vims On Winter Curiam are hung, the firewood in, And pleasant is the temperature, The leafless trees loom gaunt and thin. The leaves to rake are getting fewer, The shops show Christmas red and green, The music critic bares his pen, The drama critic "views the scene," The TV comic's back again, At concerts disagreement sharp 'Gainst "modern" music some exclaim, While some at Bach and Mozart carp, And praise each new composer's name. We read new lists of Broadway shows, We'd like to go-they all sound tops, They open one day, next day close, We're glad we didn't see the flops. Cranberries, now, food mart staUt, The turkey on the farm grows fat, The air is empty, vow, of brawls, Republican orDemocrat The football fans let out their roars, Topcoats appear it's hard to spare 'em. Closed are the summer homes, on shores, And those who hate fur jackets wear 'em.

"How lovely winter is," ice prate. Kmc pleasant, loo, is winter living. But soon we'll change our tune just trait WE HAVEN'T EVEN HAD THASKS-CniS'Gl AMY CREIF. of Mr. and Mrs.

William Blair Alexander, of Clifwick, Stevenson, will come from Millbrook, N.Y., where' she is a student at Bennett Junior College. During the weekend, she also will visit friends at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va. Miss Anne Louise Sweeny, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Sarsfield Sweeny, of West Belvedere avenue, will be home from Boston University. One of the out-of-town debutantes to be here for the Bachelors Cotillon, Miss Louise Harrison Reily, will come from Bradford Junior College in Bradford, to be with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wolf Reily 3d, of Harrisburg, for the weekend. Mr.

and Mrs. Taylor Albert Birckhead, of Farview road, expect their daughter, Miss Sylvia Sue Birckhead, home from Pittsburgh, where she is a student at Chatham College. Miss Allen Dickey Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Herbert Wilson, of Wroodlawn road, will be home from Connecticut College for Women, at New London, Conn.

Her brother, Mr. David H. Wilson, a senior at Harvard University, also will be here, as will her sister, Miss Carol Dickey Wilson, of New York. Coming from Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., will be Miss Nina Poe Zouck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Peter George Zouck, of Rockland, Brookland-ville. Miss Christina Sim Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Wilson Lee, of Layton House, Laytonsville, and Miss Carole Jay Naquin, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. Howard A.

Naquin, of Gittings avenue, will be home from Garland Junior College. The Lees will join Mrs. Edward J. Lee, of Cold Bottom road, Glencoe, and her daughter, Miss Jeannette Cromwell Murkland, who will be home from her studies at Pembroke College, for a family Thanksgiving. Miss Lalla Fauntleroy Harrison, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Burr Powell Harrison, of Burr Ridge, Leesburg, expects to be home from Hnllins College. Miss Harrison is another of the out-of-town debutantes. Mrs. C.

Baker Clotworthy, of Greenway, will have with her for the holidays her debutante granddaughter. Miss Georgette Ste. Paul Clotworthy. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. Baker Clotworthy, of Andover, Miss Clotworthy will come from New York where she is a student at Man-hattanville College. Home from Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh ill be Miss Alice Graham Bolton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison Bolton, of Elkridge.

The annual meeting of the Hardy Garden Club will be held today at the home Mrs. John Ridgely of H. Mrs. Ridgely and Mrs. William Chae Grant will be co-hostesses.

Mrs. Harry arren 3d is presided. STAGE AND 'My Fair Lad A.S I was leaving the Hippodrome after seeing "My Fair Lady," the manager asked if I had liked it. The question seemed so absurd that, for a moment, I couldn't think of an answer. The truth of the matter is that, given a good production, "My Fair Lady" is impossible not to like; and the film is not simply a "good production." It is an exceedingly wise and resourceful transformation of a magnificent stage show to the screen.

Extreme care has been exercised to avoid the usual pitfalls of such transformations: the static moments while someone sings a solo, the unreal effect of large choruses singing and dancing against natural backgrounds. Greater Flexibility On the other hand, the greater flexibility of the motion-picture medium as compared to the stage has been fully employed to deepen and enhance the beauty of the original, and the result is not a photographed stage show but a marvelous theatrical experience that differs from the Broadway version only in that the actors performing it aren't "live." As for those actors and their perform- British Actor To Debut The Arena Stage production of Jean Anouilh's "The Rehearsal" will mark two firsts for actor Paul Massie. It will be his first appearance on an American stage, and the first time that he has performed an Anouilh play onstage. The comedy will open next Thursday. December 3, at Washington's theater in-the-round.

Mr. Massie has actually worked previously in Anouilh plays, on British television and radio. The actor studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, and subsequently acted in England and Canada. His stage roles have included Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Romeo in the Bristol Old Vic's "Romeo and Juliet." and Andre in "War and Peace," at the Welsh National Theater. He has also worked extensively in films, and received an Actors Award from the British Film Academy.

Mr. Massie will head the cast of nine in the Arena Stage presentation of Anouilh's comedy of modern day manners, which mill rua for five weeks, through January 3. By R. H. Gardner antes, I have no reservations whatever.

In the roles of Hrggins and Doolitile, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway are, if anything, better than they were on the stage which isn't as surprising as it sounds. Both are veteran movie actors and thus know how to take advantage of the intimacy afforded by the motion-picture medium to give nuances of meaning to lines difficult to convey on the stage. Audrey Hepburn's Eliza is every bit as appealing as Julie Andrews's, despite the fact that Miss Andrews is primarily a singer and Miss Hepburn is not. Whether the voice on the sound track is Miss Hepburn's or that of her "ghost," Marni Nixon, the effect is always that of a trained singer doing an expert job. Central Pathos And the characterization of the little flower girl who, to her own bewilderment, is transformed from a rebellious "guttersnipe" into an even more rebellious "duchess" has all the comic overtones and central pathos that make this role one of the most amusing and endearing in the English-speaking theater.

Nor have any of the supporting parts suffered in transition. Wilfrid Hyde-White's Colonel Pickering may be a little more intelligent and, therefore, not as broad as some of the other interpretations I have seen, but it is no less effective. Beautifully Restrained Mona Washbourne's Mrs. Pearce represents a beautifully restrained rendering of a gem of a part, and the same can be said of Gladys Cooper's performance as Higgins's mother. Cecil Beaton's settings and costumes are breathtaking in the way they combine visual splendor with good taste.

This is particularly true of the Ascot and Emhay Ball sequences which, in Technicolor and Super Panavision 70, seem to attain new peaks, of Edwardian elegance. Probably Unique George Cukor's direction, as indicated by my remarks at the beginning of this article, reflects wisdom as well as his own consummate skill which leaves me with nothing else to praise but the work itself. I can only say that "My Fair Lady" is probably unique. It may never be duplicated, because it represents an ideal marriage of talents the perfect play 'George Bernard Shaw's perfectly understood and perfectly adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. And such a combination rarely repeats itself.

That is why everyone should see the film now at the Hippodrome..