The Archive · 1939

New Party Game

With the theatres and cinema open un, actors and actresses—eome at any Fate—have gone thankfully back to work, Having nothing todo. the outbreak of war, a group of them thought up anew party game called "Clues," with which they have been passing the time In the evenings, The object of "Clues" is to dis cover a chosen personality from a sentence which is made up accordinit to a certain code. In this. code the five vowels—n.e, i0, u—are represented by the numbers 1234, and spectively, "The consonants of the alphabet "are represented by the ames of towns which Bevin with them," M, for instance, would be ins

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