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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAT 21, 1923 7 "POTASH AND PERLMUTTER" BACK ON NEW YORK STAGE Barney Bernard Is Abe and Alexander Carr Plays Mawrusa in Clever Comedy Making Hit With Gotham Audiences. ft 'Stl it, n n mmm s? .sit . ' BY ELIZABETH LONERGAN. NEW YORK, May 20. (Special.) Our friends -"Potash" and "Perlmutter" ar with us once more, much to the delight of New York theatergoers. The new vehicle, "Partners Again," is playing at the Selwyn theater, and the authors, Mon tague Glass and Jules Eckert Good man, the Portland favorite, have lived up to their past successes. Barney Barnard is again Abe Pot ash, while Alexander Carr is once more Mawruss Perlmutter. Other ex members of "Potash and Perlmutter" casts that I recall are Lee Kofclmer and James Spottswood. We have seen "Abe" and "Maw russ" In various spheres in life, from "society" to "movies," but the present offering deals with what happens to them when they go into the automo bile business. Our heroes start In to promote a car which apparently has excellent prospects, but It develops that it is nothing more nor less than a fake stock-selling proposition, and as sev eral hundred thousand dollars' worth of stock has been sold, Abe and Maw russ face a trip to Atlanta and an indefinite stay there as guests of the government. This situation, of course, is productive of much laughter, not the least of which is Mawruss's ob servation that as the meat packers have been able to obtain delays, per haps before they are brought to trial their youngest children may be grand fathers. Abe has an interesting theory con cerning the distribution of passengers in an auto, i. e., to seat the fat cnes In front with the driver, while Maw russ's opinion of Abe is Illuminating, "My partner may be a lunatic and a damned fool." declares Perlmutter, "but he's got a heart like a water melon." The whole show 's one succession of hearty laughs, highly disconcert ting to fat gentlemen whose buttons are not sewed on securely. The sup porting cast, which includes Adele Holland, Lee Kohlmer, James Spotts wood, Jennie Moscovitz and Edwin Mo r daunt, do full justice to their roles. The Theater Guild, having finished Its presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah" at the Garrick theater, is now showing "What the People Want" at the same playhouse. Our old friend Arnold Bennett is responsible for the plot, which deals with the conflict of intellectual cul ture against a personality who pos sesses, in addition to wealth and power, a colossal ignorance. The play gets jts title from the fact that the central character. Sir Charles Morgan, has achieved wealth and power by printing in his numer ous publications, "what the people want," which, from his success seems to be chiefly scandal. He is never able to understand the prejudice which cultured people feel against him, although he aids the little theater movement because he ap proves of its commercial possibilities. The g'rl to whom he is engaged is an Intellectual," and of course Sir Charles gives her up rather than sup press the articles in one of his papers tr -T frA i urn.,? i - ;s ir r to which she and her family have objected. It is the centuries-old con flict between culture and ignorance, and makes excellent drama. We viewed another version of the eternal triangle this week at the Greenwich Village theater, where "Creditors," by August Strindberg, translated by Edwin Bjorkman, is shown. It is a three-character play, with certain elements, but a very morbid climax. The heroine Thekla, played by El len van Volkenberg, is a very fickle wife, who falls in love with Adolph (Maurice Browne), while Gustav, her husband (Reginald Pole), is Jiway from home. Gustav returns heme, finds out the true condition of af fairs and a divorce results. Thekla marries Adolph, and writes a novel holding Gustav up to ridicule. The divorced husband becomes a second Iago, doing his utmost to punish Thekla. This he does by making the new husband distrust his wife, and at the same time succeeds in win ning back Thekla's love. This results in Adolph overhearing a conversation between Thekla and Gustav. The realization that his wife still cares for her ex-husband causes him to fall dead. The wife is heartbroken. She not only loves him, but Adolph as well. The annual show of the Actors' Equity association, which will be held at the Metropolitan Opera house next Sunday, includes a satirical sketch by Ralph Stuart, entitled "This Is a Tough Season," in which will appear actors from a number of the most successful shows on Broadway, in cluding "Back to Methuselah," "The Hairy Ape," "Captain Applejack," "He Who Gets Slapped," "The Czarina," "The Demi - Virgin," and "Anna Christie." to drop the ault after the first lead md endeavor to get the lead to one's partner that it may be continued by him through the possible queen' or Jack, or both, in the hand of the de clarant. To this end. If one lacks any definite knowledge as to the partner's suit, the best lead generally Is a lead through broken strength in the hand of dummy. It would be a poor partner, indeed, who would fail to get correct infer ences from a shift of this nature and neglect to return the suit first led as soon as obtaining a lead. ' To be sure, if the suit were so long as to make it seem apparent that the lead of the remaining commanding- cards would fully establish the suit, the player himself should con tinue. ' From the combination, ace, queen, jeck, etc. (three honors), ace, fol lowed by queen in the hope to force the fcing and at once establish the suit, is the correct lead if one has re-entry in some other suit. Lacking re-entry and therefore dependent upon, one's partner to put one again in the lead, queen should first be led. If this forces the king, as it frequently does, but one card of the suit has been played by one's partner, and he is generally In position to re turn the suit as soon as himself securing a lead. As all players of experience know, situations often develop which no rule seems to cover, and which call for Individual judgment and common sense correctly to meet. When a hand Is in process of play, developments are often of help in enabling one to solve the difficulty, but when, as in the hand which appears below, the game has not yet started, it is often dependent upon chance as to whether or not one hits upon the best ex pedient: , Q J 10 8 6 74 A 10 8 10 9 a lead from his three-card club suit containing a minor tenace, at Trick 6 he puts the dummy in the lead with the ace of diamonds, and at ; Trick 7 leads dummy's queen of I hearts. B again holds up the king. ' Onppn wirta and la nllfiTOari at I Trick 8 with a small heart, to which B. per force, puts up king and de clarant the ace. Declarant is now compelled to lead his clubs. A wins the first round with the 10, and at Trick 10 leads a small diamond, which he knows will force a trump and compel another lead in clubs. It turns out as he expected, and he makes three tricks In clubs. B's play throughout showed excel lent judgment, but I should not wish it understood that such play would always, or often, be right. It was the developments which in this case made his play Bound, which, in fact, would have made any other play ex ceedingly bad. The player who, knowing rules, knows when to depart from them and shapes his play according to develop ments and disclosures from dummy, is the player who will not go far wrong in his play. Tfeltet Joke IEver Heard Hayes' Mexican Policy Viewed by Historian. Contrast With Present Attttnde Is Declared Pertinent. C( k RTHUS," said a young artist to a friend, "do you see tuat " couple looking at my picture and talking in such low, earnest tones?" "Yes," replied the friend. "I wish you would saunter by and find out what they are saying. It looks like business." The friend returned quickly and said, "She is calling him down for staying out late last night." H. M. 84 T K93 AQ10 8 A B 9 6 3 2 7432 Z QJ9 8 7 5 K63 A7 2 KJ6 K6 A Q J 4 2 Z, the dealer, bids a spade and holds the bidV ' A is the player to lead. With the many excellent rules gov erning the original lead, it would seem one should never be in doubt regarding a lead; yet even on this point rules at times seem Inapplica ble. A holds two four-card suits, but both are undesirable suits to open, the one because of its exceeding weakness, the other because it con tains that worst of all combinations to lead from, a tenace more par ticularly a tenace double, the best, third best and fifth best cards of the suit. - A singleton lead would solve the difficulty, but the hand does not contain a singleton. A doubleton lead, the lead of a two-card suit, though advocated by some players, is not as a rule a desirable lead, as by the time the player's two cards have been played and he would be in a position to ruff In more cases than not he has been led out of trumps and the lead accomplishes nothing. Viewed in all its phases, however, the dobleton lead in this particular hand seems the best available lead, or, to put it somewhat differently, it seems the lead to which the fewest objections can be offered. The'player, therefore, leads the higher of his two hearts, the 6. The play went as fol lows: Trick. A Y B Z 1 6 10 K A 2 2 A 9 5 3... S 10 K A4 4 7 9 3 Q 5. 8 4 6 J 6 3 6 J K 7 4 JV 3 7V 8 44 8 Q 2 9 7 Q 9 2 10 8 8 2 6 11 10 EV 3 J 12 Q 10 5 K 13 A 7 9 4 Denotes winner of trick. IOWA CITY, la., May 20. Compari son of the Hayes policy relative to recognition of Porfirip Diaz with that recently adopted by the United States relative to the recognition of Obre gbn "is pertinent and interesting," Professor OharleB W. Hacfcett of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex., told the Mississippi Valley Historical association at its meeting here. The Hayes policy, he pointed out, was for mulated on the only occasion between the close of the American civil war and 1911, when the United States had to consider the recognition of a Mex ican government. The announcement by the state de partment in 1877 of its Mexican policy for fairness and lucidity may be considered a classic among American diplomatic papers,' .froiessor aacK ett said. . - Mexico was assured at this time that the United States was in no wise Interested in passing upon the legality or illegality of the Diaz or any other government in Mexico, but was content to know that such gov ernment was stable and in reality the de facto government of the country. However, the United States did concern itself with the rights of its citizens and the protection of its ter ritory and insisted upon some guar antee for the preservation of peace and the protection of life and prop erty along the border as precedent to recognition. Diaz insisted, pleading grounds of self-respect, that any con dition precedent to recognition should not be made. On April 11, 1878, the Hayes administration receded from its original position in demanding a treaty as precedent to recognition and through Ambassador Poster for mally recognized Diaz as the de facto and constitutional president of Mexico. "From that date until the assump tion of executive authority by Madero in 1911, as a result of a revolution, the succession of Mexico was peace ful and constitutional. The policy adopted by the Hayes administration may, therefore, be taken as the pol icy of the United States with regard to the recognition of Mexican gov ernments between the years 1878 and 1911." -q Aue BY ANNIE BLANCHE SHELBY. THE leads at a no-trump declara tion differ materially from those at a trump declaration. A mo ment's consideration will make the reason fully apparent. At a trump declaration the adversaries' control ling motive is to make their high cards early before the declarant gets a chance to make discards and per haps be in position to trump their good cards when the attempt is made later to make them' At a no-trump declaration one suit Is as good as another, so far as trick winning properties are concerned, and the player, be he adversary or de clarant, who secures the lead after a suit is established makes every card remaining of the suit. In order, there fore, the sooner to establish a suit one plays a backward game, holding up high or commanding cards (un less the suit be exceptionally strong) until it becomes established. As an established, or nearly estab lished, suit at the start is, however, the exception rather than the rule, the most common lead at a no-trump declaration is the fourth best card of one's suit. Many players seem to be of the impression that a fourth best should always be led at a no trump declaration, but this is erron eous. When one's suit is very strong, either established or nearly so, not the fourth best, but a high card, should be led from the suit. Take, for instance, a suit of four more cards headed by ace, king and queen. The lead of fourth best from a combina tion of this nature would be utterly absurd. King should be led just as it would be at a trump declaration. then aueen and then ace. By this lime the small card or cards of the ult are generally good and every card or the suit makes. The rules governing the lead at a no-trump declaration are as follows: Lead a high card (generally the same high card that would be led were it a trump declaration) when the suit contains three honors, at least two of them in sequence. Lead a high card when the suit is exceptionally long, containing se'-i or more cards, and it would Z-Y make a grand slam, and the question naturally arises, "What is the difficulty? Is it owing to the doubleton lead? Would it not have been better had A in reality led his ace of clubs and thus saved one trick at least?" The trouble, however, is not re garding the lead, but it lies solely and entirely with the leader s part ner, B. He, unfortunately, was one of those inelastic players, who, know ing a few rules, are unable to detect the times when they are for more honored in the breach than the ob servance. Z played his hand well; on this point there can be no doubt. B, however, had it in his power seriously to handicap him, and not only to save a grand slam, but to save three tricks to the side. Properly played, the hand should go thus: Trick. be a high card lead 'at a trump dec laration. When the suit does not conform to one or the other of the above named requirements lead a fourth best card, counting from the highest down. Lead the highest card one holds oi the suit which the partner may have bid when it seems desirable to lead his suit rather than one's own. The choice depends usually upon the strength of one's own suit. If it be established or it seems likely one round will establish it, it is often well first to lead one's own suit; lacking this amount of strength, to lead one's partner's. The following combinations call for the lead of a high card at a no trump declaration: Ace, king, queen, jack, with or without others. Ace, king, queen, with one or more smaller cards. Ace, king, jack, with one or more small. Ace, king, 10, with one or more small. Ace, queen, jack, with one or more others. Ace, queen, or ace, jack, with five or more smaller cards. Ace, with seven or more small cards. King, queen and five or more smaller cards. King, queen, jack, with one or more small. King, queen, 10, with one or more small. Queen, jack, 10, or queen; jack, 9, with one or more small.- Jack, 10, 9, with one or more small. King, jack, 10, with one or more small. Ten, 9, 8. with one or more small. If the student will carefuly review the above combinations, he will see that the lead of a high card in each case conforms to one or the other of the above named requirements; either the suit contains three honors, two of them in sequence, or it con- I tains seven or more cards and is so made up as that It would call for a high-card lead at a trump. From the combinations, ace, king. jakc, or ace, king, 10, it is usually best, In case the intermediate card, queen or jack, as the case may be is not with dummy sufficiently guarded as to win a trick in the suit, A Y B Z 6 10 3 2 5 10 3 2 7 9 6 4 2 6 9 K 8 4 K A 3 A J4 b 4 Q 9 7 8 B K AO 10 7 2 6 4 84 Q J Q 8 3 J A JV 5 K 74 104 94 Q Denotes winner of trick. A, as before, leads the higher of his two-card heart suit, the 6, and Y, as before, puts up the 10. B, however, instead of playing the king, which he can but know will fall to the ace and fully establish the suit in the hand of dummy, this player at the same time holding re-entry, should play a low card. In thus playing he departs from two time-honored rules, one to play a high card third in hand, the other to cover an honor with an honor. Blindly to follow rule in this case would, however, he real izes, but work to the advantage of the declarant, so he uses judgment and departs therefrom. By the rule of eleven he knows his partner's lead is not from a long suit, but rather that it represents a short suit. Whether or not it is a singleton he cannot definitely say. The ace, how ever, he knows, is with declarant, as it A had held the ace he would have led it. It therefore becomes B's pol icy to withhold the king as long as possible in the hope thus to prevent dummy's suit from becoming estab lished while there remains the chance of its being brought in through the aid of his re-entry card. Trick 2 Dummy, who has won the previous trick with the heart 10, leads the 10 of spades, trumps. To this trick also B fails to cover, as to do so, he sees, would but make it all the easier for the declarant, and to hamper him, not to assist him, is his aim. (Whether or not B puts up the king to this trick does not affect the result, simply the order or play.) B's strategic play has already been attained in his failure to play the heart king to his partner's lead. Trick 3 Dummy leads the 9 of spades, which also holds the trick. At Trick 4 he leads a small diamond, declarant gets in the lead with the king, and at Trick 5 leads the ace of trumps, dropping B's king. Dummy's suit, however, is not established, and the situation is very different from what it was in the hand as first played. Wishing: to defer as long as possible Mummified Body of Fat Man Now on Exhibition. Early Resident of Philadelphia Becomes Rare Example of AdU pocere. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 20. The mummified body of a fat man, an eaily resident of Philadelphia, is be ing preserved at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology as a rare example of adipocere, a substance which Is a soft, waxy mass resembling soap. According to officials, the man was Wilhelm Von Ellenberger, who lived In the citv when it was the caD- ltal of the United States and George Washington was president. In 1792 Von Ellenberger fell victim to the yellow fever plague and was burled in Potter's field, then on the outskirts of the city. Many years of burial in the moist soil of the field gradually converted the body into an adipocere mummy, and when the field was turned into a public square the body was exhumed by workmen and identified. Dr. Henry H. Donaldson of the Wis tar institute staff said recently that the mummified condition, while not common, sometimes occurs when many bodies are buried together and that the specimen, while not unique, is unusually good." The mummies of three Egyptians which occupy a place at the institute with Von Ellenberger are not as well preserved as thd latter. This was accounted for in that they were dried while being mummified and the tis sues shrunk. Did He Change His MIndf A caddy at the club, ordinarily quite normal in his speech, was apt to stam mer badly if excited or surprised. One day he was caddying for a well known player, who, arriving at the seventh hole, a particularly difficult one, remarked, "I did this hole in three the other day." "What?" said the caddy. "Well, sir, all I can say is that you are a 1-1-1 " "Steady, boy, steady." interrupted the player, in a reproving voice. i ou re a 1-1-ucky man. sir, con cluded the caddy. C. E. H. Repnrtee. "Doin" any good?" asked a curious individual on the bridge. Any good7" answered the fisher man in the creek below. "Why, I caught 40 bass out o' here yesterday." say, do you know who I am? asked the man on the bridge. The fisherman replied that he did not. "Well, I am the county fish and game warden." x The fisherman, after a moment's thought, said, "Say. do you know who I am?" "No," replied the officer. "Well, I am the biggest liar in northern Indiana," said the crafty fisherman, with a grin. H. C. K. On the Job. A man who was wanted by the po- Hce had been photographed in Six dif- ferent positions and the pictures were circulated among the police. The chief in a small town wrote to headquarters a few days later, saying, "I duly re ceived the pictures of the six miscre ants whose capture is desired. I have arrested five of them; the sixth is under observation and will be taken soon." C. T. t No Trouble at All. , An ex-service man was telling of a corporal in his company who was a quick thinker. One day during drill the corporal was standing on the side lines of the parade grounds. A pretty girl was eagerly watching the' drill when a rifle volley crashed out. With a scream she shrank back into the arms of the young corporal standing beside her. "Oh, I beg your pardon!" she ex claimed, blushing "I was frightened by the rifles." . "Quite all right," the corporal gal lantly replied. Let's go over and watch the heavy artillery." T, E. M. . She Meant Well. Two golfers sliced their drives into the rough and went In search of their respective balls. They searched for a long time without success. A dear old woman watched with kindly and sym pathetic eyes. At last she spoke to them. "I hope I'm not interrupting,, gen tlemen," she eai-4, "but would it be cheating if I told you where they are 7" M. S. So It Is. A number of years ago before mo tors were much in vogue, the Me thuselah of an Indian reservation journeyed to a distant town and law for the first time a bicycle. To him it was another of the white man's miracles. With a bewildered look and a shake of his old head, he exclaimed, "White man smart! Sitting down run ning." F. O. E. jinks, stunts and special A-V1 Y.""fnR?fr Clam Bake and SalmonDlnner PicS.JsW 1 Jki W HI Klks Band Concert .1 VdrQL AlilftlP J ! f!i7 w I Saxophone Band Concert I S CPvWw AlKlPgUJ ' VISIC Ek Ladies' Glee CInb B Ai S !S!I 'fc-;JSlJsLjljvjl Starr's Famous Clowns . ft PJfjJvlWfl rllHj Arei Jn- You can't go wrong withS'jiMia fflj the Elks at "The Oaks." wIjPIImI iF ere e no moments. lijk&l s0 Bff C'mon out! Fun for jrf I VplRSTfii ALDFR ' sao,Nner Ji Preparedness Believed In. - Passing Show, London. "Barbara is very well, thanks, but she is worrying horribly Just now over where she is to spend her honeymoon." "Honeymoon? I didn't know ' she was engaged." "She isn t. But she a thought of such a topping idea for her trousseau." Heart of the Joy Zone THE ROSEBUD GIRLS WITH MIKE, IKIE AND INY is "TWO OLD SPORTS" A Laugh Show . Extraordinary AKttrOIJJiCIITG Amateur Night, Monday Country Store, Tuesday Chorus Contest Friday Shows: EVERY AFTERNOON AT 2 EVERY EVENING. 7 AND 9 Grand Entertainment! Informal Social Affair Cinema Art Club Monday, the 22d of May, at 8 o'clock P. M., SHARP ! ! TEA GARDEN ROOMS MULTNOMAH HOTEL 18--Excellent Program Numbers--18 All Club Members and Their Friends Cordially Invited. Admission Free! Cinema Art Club, Portland, Or...-., - President, HELISH. DE VALLIERE, Motion-Picture Director. Entertainment Committee, ANDREW S. EVANS, Chairman. Executive Secretary, JILL COSSLEY-BATT, O. B. E . Sc. Headquarters: 413-14 Worcester Building, Phone Bdwy. 4941 iiniiiiiiiiRmmtmiiiiimimimntiimiiV; AFTER NOONS Child lOe Adults ZOe EVENINGS ChUd 17c Adults 38c Vaudeville 3:30,7,9 P.M. Pletorw 3. 4:30, 8. 10 PJ4. Continuous Show 1 to 11 P. H. WEEK OF MAY 20 TO MAY 26 VIOLA DANA NOW PLAYING IN HER NEW SPARKLING COMEDY "SEEING'S BELIEVING" DOROTHY SHERMAN'S CAMEO REVUE Portraits Framed in Music, Song and Dance FRANK CORNELL LESTER & MOORE & COMPANY "GENTLEMEN FROM IN "THE JOY RIDERS" NOWHERE" BART DOYLE " BENDER & HEER "THE BOY FROM EQUILIBRISTS DUBLIN" SUPREME COMING NEXT SATURDAY, May 27 to June 2 BERT LYTELL in "THE FACE BETWEEN' cittcwt n-VoSlNG SHOW r 1 A Jr ", tf, -C.ejONHOAdLAMO 'PRC OF'TW jCMLejONHOAdLAMO iNtCSCMTS Us.!'- Lpm PINOLE aniPATSYDELANEY I n j 10VE SISTERS cM ryrg&rtjZ jres.mv SIX SLICK CHICKS KTr? )V SIS MV-;J. .'lv x ' RAY FERN & WA ITiT-"' MASON&SKAWl gf MARIE f U, I feaaggf fraOiriiy ; it3 fXTM rtte otsTimotSMta artist DON ALFONSO ZELAYAS SON OF tX-PRfSIDlHTcf NICARAGUA WIT, MUSKwidPHIlOSQPHY.. BERT & H.0RD1CE MAYO 5. Boa o) STOCK COMPANY Starting Sunday Matinee TODAY IF Edward Locke's COMEDYDRAMA SUCCESS In Which Louis Mann Starred for Nearly Two Seasons Closing Week Season 1921-1922 THE BUBBLE A RIP-ROARING FUN FESTIVAL FOR A GALA STOCK WEEK The Story of a Delicatessen Dealer Who Aspired to Social Triumphs AND THEN THE BUBBLE NIGHT3 7A.9 SATURDAY ANOSUfWAY-CONTINUOUS IWTOIIPn. VAUDEVILLES POPULAR COMEDIAN mm DISPENSING WAND WISDOM oHLi MRS IJANSEN ASSISTED BY CLIOtUMflAM, PIANIST. IN AN ARTISTIC SON Or CYCLE. I - W t-SJ &p Mm I MM AND COMPANY Wonder workers IN OF THE FAR EAST , IN the: SAWMILL mm 5 AND COMPANY U06H CLASSIC J THE ICE. AUDITORIUM I FRIDAY MAY 2 6 Alys May Brown's 8th Annual SPRING FESTIVAL of DANCE and PANTOMIME Dancers 150 Performers An elaborate production of Oriential Splendor, Ballets and Stage Settings vUn an array of talented Juveniles beautifully costumed. Prices, Including War Tax: FLOOR $1.10. BALCONY, FRONT, $1.10. BALANCE, 850 Seat Sale Opens Thursday, May 25, at Sherman Clay Co. at 10 A. M. IEIIII1IIIIII1BI1III1IIIIIIIIIIIB1EI1U HUNT BIG GAME IN AFRICA WITH CARL AKELEY Famous Sculptor, Naturalist and Hunter of Big Game MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM TOMORROW NIGHT, 8:30 O'CLOCK Lecture illustrated with 3000 feet of thrilling motion pictures. Direction Ellison & White Prices $1, 75c, 50c I or a H U a B B H H B AIEII IBEIBiSSI