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Miss America series card #41

This is a Vintage Promotional Bridge Card Game By "Lucky Strike" from the American Tobacco Cigarette Company. It Is Unused In Near Mint Condition. It Has Game Instructions On The Reverse Side. Lucky Strike Bridge cards (1 included with each tin of 50 cigarettes Lucky Strike Flat Fifties tin “It’s Toasted” with logo and printing on inside top as well as back and color front). Cards have different Pictures of early 1900's film stars Douglas Fairbanks, Sue Carol (Sue Carol was a film actress in the 1920s-30s, and was married to Alan Ladd, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame), Dorothy Mackaill (British-American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s), June Collyer (June Collyer was born Dorothea Heermance in New York City on August 19, 1906. She began her career in the film East Side, West Side (1927). After making the successful change to the sound era, June continued to work, something some of her counterparts couldn't do. She appeared on the silver screen until her last meaningful film, A Face in the Fog), Jean Harlow, Miss America and pictures of women and men smoking with different sayings. There was a set that featured illustrations of Famous Film Stars of that era. There was a set that featured an Older Woman who says, I prefer Luckies and so do my daughters and there was a series that featured a beautiful woman with the words above her “Miss America! We thank you for your patronage”. Card size 5.5"H x 4.25"W. This is one of a set of 50 bridge hands each set with a picture as mentioned above in the series with same picture but different bridge hands numbered 1-50 with suggested moves on the back as mentioned above and distributed by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the 1930s.  One was packed inside each Flat Fifties tin. The game cards are in perfect condition and designed to fold down the cards played and reusable. During the 1930's Lucky Strike Cigarettes launched an advertising campaign with the help of Milton Work, a popular bridge player of the era. Included inside each tin of 50 cigarettes was game card with a bridge hand. Fifty hands made up the set. These are still interesting hands and some represent a challenge for double dummy solution while others just illustrate good fundamentals. Look at four hands and see if you can find a way of making the contract.