BRIDGE IN RUSSIA
KINGS AND QUEENS RETURN LONDON, March 22. Kings and queens are returning to Russian playing cards, says a Moscow message in the ‘ Manchester Guardian,’ thus ending efforts firstly to abolish cards because they emphasised inequalities, and secondly to replace the picture cards with anti-religious and other devices. The world-famed bridge authority, Ely Culbertson, who was born in Russia, visited Moscow at the end of 1931, and unsuccessfully attempted to induce the Soviet to introduce contract as part of the five-year plan. The chief of the Card Department explained that his job was to eliminate playing. He had reduced the sales to 1,500,000 packs annually, but since then cards and wine and spirit drinking had steadily increased. Now Moscow’s most intelligent officialdom generally play bridge, so the Government, faced with the dilemma of allowing workmen and peasants to continue to use even dirtier, diseaseharbouring cards, decided, in the interests of health, to provide new packs.
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Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 17
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157BRIDGE IN RUSSIA Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 17
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