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WIN AT BRIDGE StoymanWith OkIT A.i^ I open NORTH 7 i I WKST 7 2 5 4 I I 7 8 4- A 8 SOUTH I A A A 9 A 2 4 2 None a Nurlh Kasl South 2N.T. Pass 4 Pass a Pass 4 Pass Pass 1'ilSS i lead-- By Oswald James Jacoby You should learn lo play Stayman in response to a two no-trump opening the same way you use it in response to one no-trump. In this case the three-club response is artificial and asks partner lo hid three of a four-card major if he holds one. The major difference is that a a two opening and Stayman response the partnership is committed to game. Like all conventions no guarantee goes with it.

Without Stayman, North would simply raise to three no- trump. South would be looking at eight top tricks and at some stage of play he would lead a club toward his hand and score the ninth Irick with his king. Four hearts.makes also hut there is a trap in the play by South al that contract. West opens the nine of clubs. East rises i the ace and leads hack the queen.

If South covers with the king, West will and eventually Kast will collect Iwo more club tricks to set the con- trad. Can Soulli make the heart game against this defense? Yes! He must let Bast hold the second club. East will lead a third club for his partner to ruff but that will end the party. If East leads the jack North's 10 good. If East leads the eight.

South plays low. would cost South a trick if clubs divided 3-2 but it wouldn't cost him the contract trick. Wilson, Welhy, Top Poll NEW YORK (API Flip Wilson and "Marcus Wclby, M.D.," lied for tlrsl place in the Nielsen television ratings for the week of Feb. 22-28. 'IVo situation comedies, ABC's "Odd Couple," and CBS' "All In the Family," moved up in the ratings.

"Odd Couple" Jumped from 53rd place last week lo 28th place. "All in The family" moved from a tie for 47th place to 33rd plaee. Both comedies are shows which network officials said they hoped to renew for next fall, but both had been very low In the ratings. Here are the top 10: Flip Wilson, 'NBC, and "Marcus Welby, M.D.," ABC. tied, 3.

"Hawaii 5-0" CBS. 4. "Here's Lucy," CBS. 5. NBC Saturday Movie, "McLintock." 6.

"Ironside," NBC. 7. "The FBI," ABC, and "Gunsmoke," CBS, tied. 9. "Medical Center," CBS.

10. ABC Movie of the Week, "Longstreet." Era Ends I'LAYUHOUN'D I A I NEWS, Wednesday Morning, March 17, 1971--Page 9 Beatle Breakup Bursts Bubble Robert Young. as Dr. Welby HOLLYWOOD (Ull)-r'ml next movie will be a I'ilni viT.sion of llii: Koiiiiitl iVIillar play "Aliolnrd iinii llrloisr" for John Woolf's Kotnulns i A awhile il seemed as though the Beatles would go on forever, i oul new songs, each more wonderful Ilian Ihe last. The appearance of a new a a a a eagerly awaited event, and al times Ihe Beatles hogged Ihe charts, with three or (our i a hits.

Their clothes, their a i styles, their life styles were i teenagers i places as far apart as Tokyo and Berlin, l.os Angeles aiid London. The quartet became i i i millionaires and were decorated by (he queen i Ihe Order of Ihe British Empire for i services in boosting British exports. Even high-brow musicologists fell for them, i i in the group's music the influences of Stravinsky and Ravel, where others detected only rock, and bines, country and western But the a burst. The partnership ended in Room 16 of the Law Courts here, where Paul McCartney asked a i a receiver be appointed to guard the group's assets. His application was strenuously opposed by the other three Beatles, wlio are content i i American manager.

Allen Klein. The courtroom drama has lifted the veil on a collaboration a at the best of limes, was an uneasy one. After the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in August. 1967, the Beatles grad- VKSTKHIUY. ALL I I I troubles scr-mul su far away and l.enmm.

Paul a Hingii Shirr and George Harrison IT imikinj; "A a a Nighl," i lirsl mtivif. ually fell a a their i ship i in i and i i a i i i a the i was confined lo a a i now 28, and George a i son, 27. Paul was the only Beatle who got A school and who had had any formal musical a i i He never let the others forget 11. "Paul a a superior a i unmusically," says a i who recalls the between them during (lie i ol "Let It He" in "In Ironl ot the caim 1 as as a a being i Paul stiirled lo gel ill me j.biHit the way 1 was a ing "1 decided a 1 had had cMinngh. and told I hi- I was a i The was puiclu-il and Harrison i i Ihe group to complete I i i i bill McC'iirlm-j i lound il liiird lo rosi.sl telling a i how he play i a The a i how- Actor Still Going Strong West Pnss Pnss Kasl Pass Pass Pass Pnss South 1 4N.T.

5 N.T. Yon, South, hold: AX I I A 9 4 2 What do you do now? A--Pass. If partner held ace- queen of hearts plus nnolher ace and two kings he would have hid i There must he a heart loser. TODAY'S QUESTION Instead ot i to four IIL-HHS your partner hns bid Ibrt'i 1 benrls over your three diamonds. What do you (lo DOW? OPERA GOES OVERSEAS (AP)--OPERA America which iiJlends "to develop a representative national voice for opera," held Us first meeting in February.

Delegates from Ti opera companies attended. Toward a belter performance climate, an auditions committee has been formed and In May the organization will hold a national audition of young singers recommended by member opera companies. Hiring personnel of member companies will al- lend the audition. Flip Wilson NEW OPERA GROUP BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) (Joeran Gentele, new general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, has selected Sergiu Comlsslona, music director of the Balllmore SyttpKony, to conduct a new production Verdi's "Falstaff" in Stockholm during the 1971-72 season.

Thai will be Gentele's last season In Stockholm, before starling dt the Met. NEW YORK (AP) I an off-hour in a New York restaurant and the place Is quiet--until Ben Gazzara comes In, greeting Ihe waiters, Joking with the bartender and finding his table. The man who ran for his life for three years in the television series, "Run for Your Life," still stays in perpetual motion and his boisterous energy Is contagious. His hair tinged with gray and sporting a bushy mustache, Gazzara says he's happy to be away from the TV series which he calls a "prison term." "It didn't make me a rich man either," he adds. "But It did give he some security, and as TV shows go, it was better than most.

There were Intelligent guys handling It and they changed the subject every week." Gazzara's acting dreams began when he was in the New York Boys Club Drama Group. "As soon as 1 did Ihe first play and heard the applause, that was It," he recalls, "But I had to keep it to myself, because the kids would have laughed al me." He was first successful in Ihe play, "End As A Man," and that success continued when he was chosen to play the lead in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof." But at 26, Gazzara a i problems--with a movie, "The Strange Ono," a boxofftce failure, and a play, "Night Circus," an early closer. "I had my chance and 1 blew It," he says now, "but then I never did like long runs. So what did I do--I went to Hollywood--as a fail, ure." tors" and "Strange Interlude," and Actor's Studio Premiere, and he was signed for "Arrest and Trial," a TV series. And then there was "Run for Your Life." Gazzara's latest film Is "Husbands," In which he stars with Peter falk and Once there, however, he played In "Anatomy of a Murder," "The Young Doc- John Cassavetes.

The film is directed by Cassavetes and Gazzara Is happy to a about it. "It's a film about male love," he says, "and about how men express their feelings. But there are no homosexual overtones. The three guys In the film don't know how to conform, but they don't know how not to. And the thing I like about liiese guys is they're never self-pitying.

"They want lo have their cake and eat it too, though," he continues. "They're all three married and they need women, but they want a bachelor's life loo." Gazzara himself has been married for 12 years to actress Janice Rule, and he says marriage was a tough 20th Century Fox Tightens Belt adjustment for him. "But I think II Is with every man," he says. "The hardest par! of being married is adjusting to being a friend wilh a woman when all your friendships have been directed towards men." He and his wife have two daughters who Gazzara says he hopes will be lucky enough to have a dream while they are young. "I think the earlier children become possessed with a goal, the better il is.

That's part of what's wrong with Ihe drug scene. Those kids have no dreams. "My 11-year-old is a horse nut," he continues. "It immerses her ever day. And 1 can't be more delighted she has a Anything lo get your off yourself is great." Throughout the ups and downs ut any career, Gazzara says, "you've got to take the raps, get up, deal with it and go on.

'Husbands' is about that too," he continues. "It's about being able to take it. and realizing there are answers." ever, wns between lie) and John i ein.cn McTiM i i I while I.emion dins what is now its "iiiuiei 1 Vi'uuiul" music ol i incaninu-s 'Lucy in Ihe i Diiimniuls." Inr exam pit-, is said lo be all a I.S1) i The Ki-atlcs" i i Un in i i i in ilu- i i ol a n'l i admirers. Inn i i i i choico (il i led to l.en- non to i a bill his acruni- ing lo a Karly in l.ctinon and his i Yoko Ono. a ventures separate from the Reallos.

Leniinn told the others I hat Klein was his new business a a and suggested a Hie ploy him All agreed, McCartney In a anted the Beallcs lo gel luKelhiM- a a i ami play belore a audiences Hingo Slan agreed. a i son was i a I.en- non's a i was. 'I i i i tin- divorce from his wife i a I.en- non said a i ij had given mm "a great sense of freedom," and thai now be a i a i i Iho I.l i-a lies. last A a snygesti 1 a break Lip. Lcnnott i a photograph ol i and Yoko Ono i a balloon i i out of his in i was "How and by?" a persisted, sug- gosling each of the i i a sign a paper agreeing lo the dissolution of Hie partnership.

I.ennon replied on a card which said: "Go! soon." liingo describes i noy as a "spoiled i i claims a lie was HOLLYWOOD A I new man on Ihe production hot seat al Ihe troubled 20th Century-Fox movie studio is a smiling, gray-haired Oscar winner who says, "We're very much in business." Elmo Williams says he'll concentrate on pictures with international and family appeal. Production chief since a startling year end management upheaval, Williams has reduced personnel, consolidated departments and promises to makes 20 to 24 features a year. The first, "The Kill Machine," started In February on location in Little Rock, Ark. i i a 57, says he wouldn't have made some I I A of Greek actress Mellna Mercourl mul iiroiliiccr-husbnml Jules IJassin plintoKniphci! in I.nnilon during Mil- opening of I i new i "Promise u( Diiwn," in which Miss Mcrcourl coshirs with Assnf Dayiiii. son (if Israel's defense' i i I I Is tin- couple's scvvndi picture together.

films produced by his 36- year-old predecessor, Richard D. Zanuck, such as the costly "Hello, Dolly!" and the controversial, critically excoriated "Myra Breckln- ridge" and "Beyond the Valley of Ihe Dolls." He has cancelled five film projects begun under young Zanuck's regime. But Richard Zanuck's successes include the biggest movie money-maker of all lime, "The Sound of Music," and Williams calls him "brilliant." One movie Is on location In New York, but not a camera turns at present on the home i i film- Ing--developed into a husky arm under Zanuck the younger's aegis--Is between seasons. No features are shooting. The studio lunchroom Is closed.

The lot looks much as it did when young Zanuck took over as production boss in 1962, saw Ihe studio through a $39- milllon loss from "Cleopatra" and brought It lo a peak net profit of $15.4 million in 1967. Now the "Think 20th" sign he ordered erected In big, bold letters on a dressing- room building as a morale booster could stand a fresh coat of gill painl. The Industry generally, Indeed, could stand a fresh coat of prosperity. Sound stages stand Idle, production is low, unemployment Is high among both actors and craftsmen. Unions bemoan "runaway" production to foreign locales and urge government subsidies lo match those of governments abroad.

The industry was shaken lasl Dec. 29 when Dick, as young Zanuck Is widely and respectfully called, flew lo New York and submitted his resignation lo 20th's board of directors. Officially it was a reslgnallon, but some published versions said Darryl F. Zanuck, 68, In a perhaps unprecedented Instance of reverse nepotism, had fired his son and protege. Darryl Zanuck remains as board chairman and chief executive officer.

Dick, who had been president since August 1969, has been unavailable for comment pending settlement of his a-year contract. The directors named Wil- 11 a executive head of worldwide production and elected him lo a vice presidency Jan. 28. Some board members and bank lenders had complained that too few profitable pictures had been made under the younger Zanuck's leadership. In 1969 the company reported a net loss of $25.2 million compared with a net profit of $13.8 million in 1968.

Fox's 1970 nine-month losses were $21.3 million. There had been losers like "Dr. Dolittle," 1'he Only Game In Town" and "The Kremlin Letter." But there had been win ners, loo, like "M-A-S-H," "Palton," "Valley of the Dolls," "Planet of Ihe Apes" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." "Elmo, why was Dick fired?" Williams was asked In an Interview. He looked uncomfortable, but said finally: "I don't think anything rules in this business but economies." Williams Is a middle-sized, scholarly-looking, soft-spoken native of Lone Wolf, Okla. With his handsome eruption of silver hair he could be taken for a symphony conductor.

Williams worked his way through UCLA by waiting on tables and came up In the film Industry as a cutter, or editor. He won his Academy Award in 1952 for his editing of "High Noon" and was nominated again later for his scissoring of Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." After serving as Darryl Zanuck's key production executive on "The Longest Day," 20th's lop-grossing black-and- white film, he was London- based chief of Ihe company's European production in 196165. Returning to Hollywood in 1966. he produced the current Pearl Harbor attack spectacle, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" Wiiliams says his only regret about that is the cost-- like "Hello, Dolly!" It is In Ihe $20-million-plus range. i i a occupies I same, big, curving desk, i its telephone hot line to York corporale headr ters, in the same big, (I paneled office that Dick nuck had.

Does he like his new joi. "Very much. So far it': very busy assignment. Bui enjoy talking wilh peopi. bringing in projecls, and I've been Inundated wilh mat' rial, some offered, 1 suspec for the second time.

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