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Daily News from New York, New York • 19

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BRIDGE How's MOVIES 'The Student Prince' in GinemaScope Your Bridge Table Vocabulary? Some of the terms commonly used in Charles Goren's bridge column are not always clear to the beginner at the game. In order to avoid this confusion, Mr. Goren has prepared a glossary of bridge expressions. It will be printed in two parts, the first instalment herewith. It is suggested that this be filed a good spot would be in the box containing your bridge cards for future reference.

By CHARLES GOREN yi'i fthe sculpture of ballet, at-home essionn with the mail ana wnn Polly Thomson, a constant companion for 40 years. Most poignant the reminiscences is a tribute to Miss Keller by an orchestra composed of children who cannot hear what they play for ears that conduct no sound. By DOROTHY MASTERS THEM! A Warner Bros, picture. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes. The principals in the cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn and Joan Weldon.

The Warner studio, responsible for attempting to panic movie- i prs just a year ago with "The B.ast From 20,000 Fathoms," now has a more likely prospect in "I hern! While the new menace is only slightly more credible than a mon- stir six stories high and -a block long, the presentation successfully assaults logic with effective docu-j mentation of its awesome tale. The threatened catastrophe, as destruc-; tive as any H-bomb, is handled with enough realism and tension to be plenty scary. Much of this is attributable to a reasonable plot and authentic backgrounds, but there is added conviction in performance and dialogue, both of which are particularly pood for a On Coloroto Back Page May ynn (on back page of Coloroto Magazine), who is starring in the movie, "The Caine Mutiny," owes a great deal of her success to an unknown reporter who wrote a piece about her when she was a THE STUDENT PJUNCE li A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cine-maScope Ansro Color film. Running tune: I hour, 4" minutes. The principals in the Ann ISlyth, Edmund Purdom.

John Ericson, Louid Calhern and Ld-lnunl Gwenn. Siirmund romantic, lively operetta, from the M-G-M studio, is augmented by Cinema- Sore and stereophonic ftu.nl. arid enhanced by Mario Ijiwa's singing voice, heard in ut musical numbers. I.anza dot's not a.p-.ir in this picture. Edmund English actor, poitraya the title rt-ie that Ann Itlvth and Ijlmund l'urdom.

as assigned to Mario hfore he split with the studio. The si-nps. previously recorded by the trreat einmn star, have been skillfully synchronized with Purdom's vocal motions. Ann Ulyth. deserving the tar billing accorded her, (rives sincerity and depth the ride of the commoner who falls in love with the prince.

Sinjrinjr, when called upon, Ann puts over her numbers In her clear, sweet, pleasing voice. 'The Student Prince" is a piece old fashioned charm and cheer, coupled with lovely, appealing music. The story, in case you don't know, is about a German prince. dubbed a 'Prussian pickle." who is sent by his wise old grandfather to the University of Heidelberp to learn more about human associa tion. Away from home, he falls in love with a prettv.

vivacious bar maid. It's a lovely romance that lias to come to an end when the urince leaves school to assume royal duties. By WANDA HALE THE UXCONQUERED Aa Albert Marches release. Running time 6 minutes. The Unconnuered is an in spired and inspiring document a tion of a life pursued in darkness and an absence of sound.

There are moments of pathos, since it deals ith one who neither sees nor liears, but the film is larjrtly a record of faith, determination and courage. The biojrraphv of Helen Keller is characterized by a fulfill Tncnt and reward achieved by pidinary mortals. Among her Compensations are world-wide admiration and the of millions. Although most Mis Keller's personal was destroyed by a tire at her Connecticut home, the presentation represents compilation fmm archives all over the world. There are photographs of li.

len as a child, records cf her initial literary erlVrt at the age of 12. newsretl coverage of visits to institutions, a trip to Paris in honor of Louis ISr.iilie, and a journey to Japan dedicating a shrine to Annie Sullivan, who devoted herself to interpreting life for the stricken Miss Keller. There is a sequence from an old Hollywood movie featuring Miss Keller, plus an interview with President Eisenhower, a visit to a Studio for finger-tip instruction in f- i ALCTICKN. The auction refers to. that period when the bidding takes place.

It starts when the dealer bids or passes and continues until there have been three successive passes, which closes the auction. Then the play period begins. BALANCED HAND. A hand in which the four suits are divided 4-3-3-3, 4-1-3-2 or 5-3-3-2. BIDDABLE SL'IT.

When a player contemplates making a bid in a suit, that suit must have a specified texture. The first requirement is that the suit contain at least four cards. One, two and three card suits are not considered biddable, and even a four-card suit is not biddable unless it contains cer tain high cards. requirement is that a suit must contain at least 3 points. (Ace-4, King-3, Queen-2, Jack-l).

For example: AXXX QJ62 K954 are biddable suits. Any five card suit is biddable, even if it lacks a high card. For instance: 9G332 is a biddable suit. BOOK. This is an expression frequently used at the bridge table.

It refers to the first six tricks taken in by declarer. In other words, if the contract is to make four Spades, declarer must win ten tricks, since the first six tricks do not count toward the scoring. The term book is- also used in connection with defenders. The defenders have taken their book when they have won all the tricks which the declarer can afford to lose and still fulfill his contract. For example, if the contract is three No Trump, the defenders' book is four tricks.

As soon as they win another they have defeated the contract. BREAK. The manner in which the outstanding cards of a player's longest suit, or suits are divided between his two opponents. For example, suppose you have seven cards of a certain suit. You hope that the adverse cards will break 3-3, that is, 3 in each hand.

However, it is more likely that they will break 4-2 or possibly 5-1. Another word which describes break is split. In other words, you hope for a favorable split of the adverse cards. CONVENTION. This refers to a type of bid which by general agreement has a special, artificial meaning which might not seem natural on the surface.

For example, there is the convention known as Blackwood, named after its inventor Mr. Easley Blackwood. This provides that when one of the many drops of the defendant's blood!" Then Murray got around to Arnold and Ivan. He gave then-, quite a play. "Those witnesses," he added significantly, "were presented, not by the State, but by the defense." The summation took less than two hours.

Then Assistant District Attorney Frank O'Brien summed up. Leaving the phrase-making to his opponent, he reviewed the evidence dispassionately, exhibit after exhibit. Shaul's face grew longer. He pulled his gaze away from O'Brien and riveted it upon the juror who had given him "a peculiar feeling." Next day the case went to the jury. The jurors kicked it around for eight hours and 40 minutes and then they announced their verdict: Guilty, Murder 2.

Another Murray client had beaten the chair. Howell's wife wept. Howell was calm. Murray was calm. Shaul was quietly elated.

He left the courthouse, with a backward glance at the pink ladies, carved out of marble. They were lovelier, his face indicated, than even Marilyn Monroe. Get Your Bridge Book "Bridge for the Novice," the fundamentals of the point-count system, as developed by Charles II. Goren, i3 now available in booklet form. You can obtain your copy by sending 10 certs and a stamped, self-addressed 4l4xH-inch envelope to Bridge, The News, Post Office Box 1721, Grand Central Station, N.

Y. 17, N. Y. players after a series of bids calls four No Trump, his partner must respond artificially, announcing how many Aces he holds. He does so in the following manner: With no Aces 5 Clubs With one Ace 5 Diamonds With two Aces 5 Hearts With three Aces 5 Spades The bidding then proceeds naturally to the logical final contract.

COVER. This is an expression used to designate the playing of a higher card upon some other card played by an opponent. Thus, an adversary plays the Queen of a suit and you, sitting next, play the King upon it. This is called a cover. If you play a higher card upon your partner's card, it is called an overtake.

DEFENDERS. During the play of a hand, the opponents of a declarer are known as the defenders. DISCARD. A player discards when he is unable to follow suit and also when he fails to use a trump. The card which he plays is called a discard.

Various words are employed which are synonymous with discard. Some of them are: stuff, throw off. DOUBLE. 1. Business Double: A bid that indicates your belief that you can defeat your opponents.

2. Take Out Double: A bid which demands that your partner make a bid, if he has not already dona so. DOUBLE RAISE. A raise from one to three or from two to four. In other words, raising one trick more than seems necessary.

This is just as frequently referred to as a jump raise. DOUBLETON. A holding of just two cards in a suit. For example, your hand is: Spades 9 2 Hearts A 9 2 Diamonds A 6 Clubs 7 6 3. Yrou have a doubleton Spade.

Spades-A Hearts-A 8 6 3 Diamonds 5 4 Clubs 9 6 2. Here again you have a doubleton Spade. DOWN. Failure to make contract. He is down one if he fails by one trick, down two if he fails by two tricks, etc.

DUCK. Playing a low card when you can, if you choose, play a higher one. For example: Dummy Spades A 9 6 4 Spades 8 3 Y'our hand You play the 8 of Spades, and your left-hand opponent plays the 10. Y'ou could win the trick with the King, but you decide not to and play a small Spade from dummy. This is known as ducking.

It is done with the hope that the next time you play the Ace and King, all the adverse Spades will fall and that you will win four tricks in the suit. DECLARER. The member of the contracting side who actually plays his partner's cards (the dummy) as well as his own. The declarer is the member of the contracting side who first mentioned the suit which became the final trump; or, if it is a No Trump contract, he is the first member of the contracting side who bid No Trump. ENTRY, RE-ENTRY.

A trick-taking card that enables you to enter (or re-enter) the hand from which you wish to lead. (The second and final part of your Glossary of Bridge will appear next week.) ground stewardess at LaGuar-dia Airfield just after World War 11. She was known as Donna Lee Hickey then and lived in Elmhurst, I. I. As a result of that story.

Donna got offers to model, which she did for a while. Then, in 1950, she was picked as Queen of the Press Photographers Ball, which also meant a screen test in Hollywood. When Columbia began looking around for a girl to play in "The Caine Mutiny," Donna got the part over 100 other contestants and promptly changed her name to that of the heroine in the screen play. The part was assigned to May when she had just picked up her first unemployment check. But hard times weren't new to the actress.

At 9 she dressed in her kid brother's clothes and shined shoes every Saturday. At 13 she Joan Weldon photographs nest of Them. production largely designed for chilling spines. The conversation, artfully casual, is interlaced with bits of comedy, doubly appreciated because humor comes as a surprise in the general gravity of proceedings. Edmund Gwenn and Joan Weldon play entomology experts, father and daughter.

Jame3 Whitmore is cast as a state trooper who initially discovers the presence of the killer; James Arness appears as a representative from the FBI, Onslow Stevens as the Army's investigator. By DOROTHY MASTERS The News eolorfoto of May Wynn is by William Klein and Gus Schoenbaeehler On (Ac Cover Next Sundayt Eddie Fither was out working to help support her family. "Now," she says. "It looks as if I'm on my way." Another Martin-Lewis Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who have "Living It Up" yet to be circulated, begin work in Sep tember on "You're Never Too Young," Technicolor VistaVision comedy with music. The story, based on "The Major and the Minor," will be tailored for the comics bv screen writer Sidney Sheldon.

Norman Taurog and Paul Jones, the director-producer team responsible for "The Caddy" and the soon-to-be-released "Living It Up, will take charge of the new venture. any-paneled courtroom. a 1 whispered, "That juror with the black glasses he gives me a peculiar feeling." "Like what?" we asked. "He gives me a feeling he's sympathetic. The other jurors, when Murray talked, look straight ahead, like they were frozen, but he always watched Murray." Murray began his summation, and everybody watched him.

He was in fine form. He pitched, first, into the testimony of the State's star witness, an x-convict named James Sanders. Sanders had testified that Howell told him about the murder while they were both in the Bronx County Jail. The way Sanders painted it, it was murder, cold and deliberate. Blisters Witness Murray blistered Sanders' hide thoroughly.

Sanders, he said, was an "unregenerated scoundrel." Sanders was awatiing sentence on a holdup charge and Murray hinted broadly that by putting the finger on Howell, Sanders was looking for a light sentence. "Sanders," Murray cried, "tried to measure so many pieces of perjury against so A GAME FOR A MAN'S LIFE (Citilhwed from pass S) present. He quoted the girls as taying that the boys were 'making up television stories." "But the DA never put those girls on the witness stand. Murray put the boys on. It was beautiful to watch.

He handled them like a granddaddy. He asked them, gently, if they believed in God, and they said yes. I remember, when he asked Ivan if he knew what would happen to him if he told a lie, Ivan said, Yes, God will punish "The DA cross-examined them, lie said to Ivan, 'You say he held a handkerchief over his face. How could you see he was bleeding from the "Ivan said, 1 will show you. He whipped a handkerchief out of his breast pocket and held it to one side of his nose.

You could, of course, see the other side of his nose. "The DA took one look and said. 'That's all. He'd had enough of Ivan. That kid was a better witness than most adults I've seen." A court attendant appeared and said the court session was about to start and we went into the mahog.

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