The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 13

ee See Zans You ‘Pun ccessor of Bridge Whist “Mah-Jongg!" Are these cryptic conjurations, th passwords to some Oriental variant 0} Tf not—well, you're just a bit be- Hind the times and you'd better catch up. For the first time In many a year “everybody” isn't playing bridge. “Bverybody"'—we mean “everybody as is anybody''—is passing up the old earts and spades and clubs and dia- monds, and, morning, evening, noon and wight is playing Mah-Jongg, the anclept, honorable and about-as-ex- Pensive-as-you-care-to-make-it pas- time handed down from the, days of Confucius, and ever since then the national sport of China, Now it's New York's newest pas- time, society's latest fad, woman's winter madness. -We've had Spanish seasons in New York, when eye! other woman put a high comb in her hair and imagined she looked like a Zuloaga portrait. We've had Russian seasons, running largely to blouses and balicts. At present it is clear that a Chinese season js upon us. Mal- In English it means sYou do it with bits of bamboo and Mvory, like wonderfully carved and elaborate dominoes. There are 136 of these pieces and they all have pic- turesque and highly Oriental names. There are the three suits called “tao,” “tung” and ‘wan," In num- bers they run from one to nine inclu- sive, but there are four of each piece, muking a total of 108 pleces are the four “Wind South, North and West. And there are the honor pieces, the Red, White Dragons. As with there aro four of each of L [these special pieces, making the total pf 136. With the dice, the counters fnd the cabinet container, a Mah- Jongg outfit will set you back any- Awhere from $10 to $400. fore you begin to play! As to how much you may afterward — well, according rules of the game ‘‘it is possibl score ove 000 points in one hand! There are four players at each table and not only du the three the holder of ‘the Winning hand Yh total of his score, hut each of these losers hag to settle up with the others on tho basis of the difference between their respective scores! Of course, there is nothing to pre- vent your using chips or beans or matches for score syy It is even asserted that score MAY be kept with This is be- lose the to losers 4 he nid of a penct! and a piece of paper. It MAY be done! How ts Mah-Jongg played? Asa pretiminary all the lttle piecos are placed face down on the table and jehooses 34 at random and arranges tlem in tront of him, face row seventeen pieces long th. These four rows are tward to form a hollow down, in {t is Impossible to give I tails of the game, but it has its jyle in the person of Joseph Bab- tk, who lived in the interior of ina and learned the game trom the lives. “Babeock’s Book of Rule oyrig goes jwith eagh Mal- bee set, and from It is taken the ty general description of Mah- tee published in this article Aftor the wall of pleces Ih Di lit it is “open * aceordt fied rule, and each player draws piices until he has thirteen tn his hind. The desler alone has fourteen T © object of the gam as quickly ay dwing, a winning contain four ying to Mr. ~ be either throe been gs tow accord- eh set may of w kind of the same sult or a sequence in the game sult called a ‘run,’ and, jn addition, an extra pair, making fourteen ‘pieces in all.” non as one player Kets a winnin nd, all hands are laid down and score Besides trying to get this s of band, cach player builds in front of him on the table as 1 1 combinations a care ar pairs. ‘The players* de cad of the game are made up by Adding together the values of the com binations in thei and on the table, while there a fixed seore for the w The dealer, the affair by ¢ his hand, placin, pos 4 ores ot K« ke hands ° ! arding on: piece from it face up in the middle of the table. To replace it, he draws a plece from the wall. The player on his right, “South,” has th next regular (urn; then West," then comes the fun the “punging:"* the “chowing’? The only. person no has a tight to "chow" is the person who sits at the dealer's right If, instead of drawing a piece from the wall, he can pick up his predecess paris dl 1 with it make a su- quence ef a run—in his own hand, he does that very fittie thing, calling ‘chow,’ and placing the sequence in front of him on the table. He then divcards one tom Wi hond, That is, te “chows" if somebou: AE TE ENE parrows,"" | ociely’ s Latest Fad, ‘Mah-Jongg,’ g,’ Then ‘Chow’; ore 25,000, Pay Up. Mah-Jongg! ———— Comes Direct From China and Is About-as-Expensive-as-You- Care-to-Make-It. ; By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ese syllables strange enough to he the f the K. K. K,, echoing throush you apartment or suburban bungalow, these long winter evenings? else doesn’t beat him to it by ‘puns ing.’ If anybody at the table has « pair or three ef the most recently di carded piece, he can sing out “pune annex the discard and place it with his own pair or three in front of him on the table, thus creating three or four of a kind—a scoring combination. He can do this out of turn, and after he bas done it, the play goes to the person at his right regurdless of the fact that other players have lost thelr turn to dr “Pung’' has right of way over hing and everybody else in Mah-Jonge. For all the rest of the little moves and tricks, you must congult Mr. Ba’ cock, Thousands of women—men, too—are already doing so. New York is Mah-Jongg-mad, Risse ee 5,560-POUND TREE CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO CENTRAL PARK | Leaves san Franctaco To-Day for New Home Mere. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 18.-—The | Weightiest Christmas present New York City will receive, arrived in San Fran cisco to-day en route to the Hust. It fa a section of a petrified redwood tree “petrified. forest’” by brought here from the of Sonoma County, for water to New York, where it wil come an exhibit in Central Park. The specimen weighs pounds and was brought to San Fransisco |heavy truck under the supervision of |Harold Bochee, son of Mrs. OWie Bochee, owner of the forest. The change | from wood to stone has preserved the |texture and fiber completely, and there is no question that the block originally Was a giant redwood. servations were made in advance | for storage of the petrified tree section at the Hotel Whitcomb over Sunday Its arrival attracted a lu umber of spectators, It is a Christmas gift from |the petritied forest owner to the City of |New York. shipment 5,560 at aS ee \D., L. & W. RUNS FIRST © ‘TRAIN ON ELEVATED Structure Eliminates All firade Crossings, Hoboken to Mt. Tabor. The Lackawanna Railroad's new vated line on the Morris and Alvistons, which eliminates grade cro: ings between Hoboken and Mount Ta bor, was used yesterday for the first time, ‘The elevation, constructed since April, . is seventeen miles long and cost $4,860,000, The Improvement Jn- Brick Chureh shuffied—ihis after throwing to sof Dest determine the “East Wind," or de on the: first The four sides of the tablo repre train to neture, which the four sides of the compass, the left "Ros Me. With hint dealer being "East were t s and a number pf inndi: of th PANES. h Out of the pile of pieces euch player | OF 18 Hing cl EE A Salina § ew York insur- nee broker, climbed on the pilot of. th engine at the Grove Street Station and rode to Brick Church through the driv- ing rain, clad in Sunday clothes and a slit hat. Steele said he wanted to be able to tell his children that he was literally and actually the first resident of Bast Orange to cross the new clevation on a passenger (rain THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, The Stage By BIDE DUDLEY T central oMlce for the sale of all tickets to New York's first class the- tres 18 still the most talked of sub- joct on Broadway. Joe Leblang, who ted the idea, when asked to suggest, is firm in his bellet that it would benefit both the public and th theatrical business ; um very grateful to the man- und to Augustus Thomas for savings confidence in my plan," said he, “And I will be grateful whethe 1am to be the bead of the new cen “e or not, My idea is to es- branches in all towns withia 1s of fifty miles and have these Uranches connected with the main office by direct private telephone wires. It will be ‘first come, first eryed,’ and everybody will have an eutial chance to get tickets to all shows “At TP, M. unsold tickets will go to the box offices of the theatres. Then customers who drop in the centra’ office will be served by clerks who telephone orders to the playhouses. A premium of 10 cents will be charged HE plan of the Producing Man- agers’ Association to have a on cd et except In s wher the, purchaser owns a season privi- egé card, costing $1, which permits him to buy without paying the dime “Tb the plan will increase the Yusir of the the es 100 per cent Successes would be bought out by the public weeks in advance and the mone would be turned over to the producers of those hits. ‘Thus there would be no need for the ‘buy’ now in vogue. 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If the cut-rates made a success of the Another broker pointed out that the plan would muke fifty cent seats cost land, Guy naugh and supposed failure, the tickets would be|sixty even at the box offices after put back in tho central office. We]7 1. M. Broadway probably will have twenty-six attractions in our] know before the end of the week cut-rate list to-day, If thirteen of them could do $200 more business 4 euch be whether or not the plan will be tried, ANOTHER GILDA GRAY. performance they wouldn't - rh has relied uy available for cut The central] William A, Shea, who owns raco-] We A. Hrady will speak on The} ting on a bathing suit and Jumping aua'a/Geleniad Conan office would give them that much in-[ horses, has named a filly Gilda ( Theatre To-Day in Central Europe" | in : crease und maybe more," after tho well-known shimmyis' posmior Ow: RIgHE Be ERG Xe We Bis sy a No. John MéBride cannot sce how the central office can be made a success. He agrees with F. 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