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151:, David Murray wrote that the book provoked "continuous laughter ... Old Stroganoff with his troubles, artistic, amorous and financial, his shiftiness, and his perpetual anxiety about the visit of the great veteran of ballet-designers – 'if 'e come', is a vital creation. ... The book stands out for shockingness and merriment." The sexual entanglements, both straight and gay, of the members of the Ballet Stroganoff are depicted with a cheerful matter-of-factness unusual in the 1930s. Murray commented, "True, a certain number of the laughs are invited for a moral subject that people used not to mention with such spade-like explicitness, if at all." In 1433: 239: 444:
a lady who held an ace and was on lead against seven no trumps neither doubled nor led the ace. The contract was made and the story of the double omission quickly went the rounds. It was Skid who pointed out that she must be acquitted on at least one count. If she was not going to lead the ace, he
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He taught his team-mates to play and to laugh ... Skid lived to the age of 44 – by a series of miracles. He crossed the busiest street, nose buried in a book. He dismounted from buses travelling at full speed, nose still buried in a book. He once walked through a plate glass window during a
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There is plenty of fun in the lighthearted fantasy recently perpetrated by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon. Their book is irresponsible, irreverent, impudent, anachronistic, undocumented. The authors warn all scholars that it is also "fundamentally unsound". Poppycock! It is one of the soundest of
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wrote, "They turn the Victorian age into phantasmagoria, dodging with the greatest possible nimbleness from the private to the public, skipping among historic scenes, which they often deride, and personal jokes and puns, and telling a ridiculous story while they communicate a preposterous – yet
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It was like a long, laughing, wrangling conversation with both of us jumping on one another. ... We would speak lines to each other – we would laugh at our own jokes. It would have to be a very bad day if we had to tell one another what was going to say or do – we just
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Through the efforts and the bridge acumen of a dozen or more British nationals or residents, among whom the late S. J. Simon was notable, British bridge has earned a place in the very highest echelons, and British bidding ideas are well worth the attention of the world's
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recent jobs. The more the reader knows about Shakespeare and his England, the more chuckles and laughs he will get out of the book. It is erudite, informed, and imaginative. It solves finally the question of the "second-best" bed,
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At the same time as his collaboration with Brahms, Simon (always known as 'Skid' in the bridge world) became celebrated as a bridge player, competing in the European Team Championship in 1939 and winning the inaugural event under
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Simon left two bridge books in manuscript, which were posthumously published in 1949 and 1950. Caryl Brahms edited and completed their one unpublished joint work of fiction, also published in 1950.
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championships. He died suddenly in London at the age of 44. His widow died suddenly a year later; at her inquest the verdict was suicide. She wrote fiction using the pen name Kathleen Mary Carmel.
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would not have been ashamed. As a description of a domineering Russian mother put down by her ballerina daughter, you could hardly better: 'She backed away like a defeated steamroller.'"
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final ... In his books, on the radio, at the bridge table, he guyed everybody. Most of all he guyed himself ... He was the greatest character to adorn the bridge world.
186:(1939), tells the story of a young Englishman and the complications arising from his visit to a Russian night club in Paris. It was not well reviewed. A third Stroganoff novel, 193:
In 1940, Brahms and Simon published the first of what they called "backstairs history", producing their own highly unreliable comic retellings of English history.
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The book was a best-seller in the UK, and was published in an American edition by Doubleday. The authors followed up their success with a sequel,
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the best bridge book of all time. In 2007, a similar ACBL survey of experts ranked it second, some 62 years after its publication. Reference:
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and short stories, mostly with a background of ballet or of English history. As a bridge expert, he was jointly responsible for developing the
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story, with affairs of the feuding middle-class Clutterwick and Shuttleforth families interspersed with 19th-century vignettes ("At the
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In 1943, Simon married Carmel Withers (19 July 1908 – 17 July 1949), a silver medalist in the Women Teams event of the 1948
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more commonly transliterated as Semyon Yakoblevich Skidelsky; "Jasha" or "Yasha" are Yiddish diminutives for Yakob/Jacob.
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I commented on his distinctive style – the omission of the personal pronoun, the disregard for syntax – and ended:
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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
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From 1937 to 1950, Brahms and Simon collaborated on a series of comic novels, eleven published by
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passion for burning down Burbage's theatres, and Shakespeare's meticulous care for his spelling.
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He had a new tie for the occasion, buttercup yellow. "Thought was technicolour", he said.
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In the bridge world, Simon was known "never other than 'Skid'". Ramsey (1955), p. 168.
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have fallen out again.") and anachronistic intruders from the 20th century, including
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Brahms and Simon depict Shakespeare dithering over the spelling of his signature.
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bidding system, a role for which he was recognized in the January 1951 issue of
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His humour always touched the human comedy, but never with malice. For example:
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for radio (1955). Brahms and Simon co-wrote the screenplay for the 1948 film
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home internationals on six occasions, all victories. Together with
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You Were There – Eat, drink, and be merry, for yesterday you died
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strangely suggestive – impression of nineteenth-century life."
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To follow their Victorian book, Brahms and Simon went back to
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administration in 1948, a month before his death. He won the
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player. From 1937 until his death, he collaborated with
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was adapted for the cinema in 1949. Their Tudor novel,
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Too Dirty for the Windmill: A Memoir of Caryl Brahms
74:. A member of a Russian-Jewish merchant family from 590: 262:'s, theatrical company (a device later employed by 165:praised the writing: "a power of language of which 1460: 1086:Brahms and Simon (1940), pp. 47, 53, 56 and 104. 1032:"Formats and Editions of A Bullet in the Ballet" 952:Watts, Janet. "A second helping of Stroganoff", 506: 42:, was a British journalist, fiction writer and 397:(1950), and a book on the principles of Acol, 380:, by Alexander Spencer. January 1951, page 14. 293:Brahms and Simon made radio dramatisations of 85:He became a British citizen in February 1931. 30:; 4 July 1904 – 27 July 1948), also known as 1095:Swinnerton, Frank. "Experiments with time", 923:Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood 378:The American View of the Acol System, Part 1 16:British journalist, writer and bridge player 1272:), vol. 78, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 18–23. 266:as the central plot of his 1999 screenplay 1431: 1060:Swinnerton, Frank. "Limits to credulity", 503:and co-inventing the Acol bidding system. 425:In this I described the television date: 1479:British and Irish contract bridge players 990: 857: 855: 1529:British people of Russian-Jewish descent 1355: 1260:Manley, Brent. "Significant Influence", 1187: 1185: 1183: 966: 964: 861: 474:contemporary British bridge professional 445:said, she was quite right not to double. 237: 1012: 1010: 1008: 1006: 1461: 1423:"International record for S. J. Simon" 1374: 875: 852: 350:(1939), and played for England in the 1180: 996:Billington, Michael. "Caryl Brahms", 961: 1003: 948: 946: 944: 942: 911: 1489:People educated at Tonbridge School 983:Torquemada. "Handmaids to Murder", 13: 1494:Alumni of the University of London 577:. London: Nicholson & Watson. 558:. London: Nicholson & Watson. 539:. London: Nicholson & Watson. 285:'s curious obsession with cloaks, 14: 1545: 1534:20th-century British male writers 1415: 939: 376:Editor's Note, The Bridge World, 61: 591:Collaborations with Caryl Brahms 358:, Simon was co-developer of the 1379:. London: Museum Press Limited. 1329: 1317: 1304: 1288: 1275: 1254: 1241: 1221: 1208:American Contract Bridge League 1200: 1171: 1164:"Engaging Shakespearean Romp", 1158: 1146: 1126: 1102: 1089: 1080: 1067: 1054: 1041: 1025: 882:1939 England and Wales Register 521: 497:American Contract Bridge League 1519:20th-century British novelists 1191:"Obituary – Mr. S. J. Simon", 977: 886: 840: 1: 1356:Hasenson, Peter, ed. (2004). 1218:(ACBL), June 2007, pp. 20–22. 1038:, accessed 24 September 2011. 871:. 6 March 1931. p. 1531. 833: 301:(1945); Brahms later adapted 272:). Reviewing the book in the 148:The Times Literary Supplement 526: 507:Personal life and last years 20:Simon Jacoblivitch Skidelsky 7: 1231:, Faber and Faber, London, 745:Six Curtains for Stroganova 346:twice (1937 and 1947), the 28:Семён Яковлевич Скидельский 10: 1550: 1301:Retrieved 5 February 2017. 1108:Salvador Bello, Mercedes. 970:"A Bullet in the Ballet", 917: 820:. London: Michael Joseph. 803:. London: Michael Joseph. 783:. London: Michael Joseph. 747:. London: Michael Joseph. 730:. London: Michael Joseph. 711:. London: Michael Joseph. 694:. London: Michael Joseph. 677:. London: Michael Joseph. 660:. London: Michael Joseph. 622:. London: Michael Joseph. 276:, Ernest Brennecke wrote: 258:'s, and more particularly 113: 1360:. 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Index

Russian
bridge
Caryl Brahms
comic novels
Acol
Harbin
Manchuria
Vladivostok
Robert Skidelsky
Tonbridge School
University of London
Caryl Brahms
David Low
The Evening Standard
Michael Joseph
Arnold Haskell
The Times Literary Supplement
The Observer
Edward Powys Mathers
Michael Billington
Wodehouse
The Elephant is White
Victorian
Romeo and Juliet
Savage Club
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