CARDS IN RUSSIA
GAMES MORE GENERAL KINGS AND QUEENS RETURN LONDON. March 31 Kings and queens are returning to Russian playing-cards, pays 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, Mr. Ely Culbertson, who was bprn in Russia, visited Moscow at the "end .of 1931, and unsuccessfully attempted to induce the Soviet to introduce~contracfc bridge as part of the five-year plan. The chief of the Card Department explained that his job was to eliminate plaving. Ho had reduced the sales to 1.500,000 packs annually, but since then, cards and wine and spirit drinkinc had steadily increased. Now Moscow's most intelligent officials cerierallv play bridge, so the Government, faced with the dilemma of allowing workmen and peasants to continue to use even dirtier, disease-har-bouring cards, decided, in the interests of health, to provide new packs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21764, 2 April 1934, Page 9
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