Motion Picture Story Magazine (Aug-Dec 1913)

Z Popular Player Puzzle Here are the answers and winners v THE Popular Player Puzzle, announced in the July issue, closed on July 15th, with over twelve thousand contestants. We announced that we would give five prizes, but we are impelled to award eleven prizes, because some of the contestants have produced exquisitely artistic solutions, even if not accurate ones, some of them being bound in leather and handsomely painted. The prize-winners are as follows, in the order named: Arthur G. Gatland, 645 Chester Avenue, Lancaster, Pa, ; Miss F. Keeler, 44 Tremont Street, North Tonawanda, N. Y. ; Herbert Schwahn, 1517 Eighth Street, Milwaukee, Wis. ; Mrs. J. M. Summers, 73 Fredrick Avenue, Youngstown, 0. ; Mildred L. Shaffer, 52 George Street, Mobile, Ala. ; Mrs. Frank Adams, 620 East Washington Street, Greensburg, Ind. ; Daisy L. Dillon, 3141 West Sixteenth Street, Chicago, 111. ; Harry Lundgren, 39 Garfield Street, Youngstown, 0. ; Miss Marjorie Temple, 4408 Clarendon Avenue, Chicago, 111. ; Claire Wagner, 3518 Shaw Avenue, Hyde Park, Cincinnati, 0. ; Gertrude J. Kelduff, 239 Fifty-first Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. We are indeed sorry that we cannot award several hundred more prizes, and we also wish that we had space in which to print a long list of those whose answers are deserving of honorable mention. The original questions and the correct answers are as follows : 1. A favorite pet of the children. Ans.— Bunny. 2. A sleigh-riding necessity. Ans.— Snow. 3. A question asked by every prospective purchaser. Ans. — Price. 4. What every lawyer wants. Ans.— Case. 5. An attribute of all nice children, and of their confections. Ans.— Sweet. 6. The landlord's salvation. Ans.— Tennant. 7. An American martyr. Ans. — Lincoln. 8. A bird in hand is more valuable than two in it. Ans.— Bush. 9. Result of contact with a hot stove. Ans.— Burns. 10. Something children learn to do at school. Ans. — Reid. 11. A member of one of America's foremost lodges. Ans.— Mason. 12. Thirty-one days of very warm weather. Ans. —August. 13. A thing that is impossible. Ans.— Fuller. 14. One-tenth of a bale of paper. Ans. — Reehm. 15. What you want when you have very little. Ans. — Moore. 16. One who is not old. Ans.— Young. 17. The first of a pair of authors. Ans.— Beaumont (and Fletcher). 18. A common spice used in flavoring. Ans.— Mace. 19. A representative body in the American Government. Ans.— Sennet. 20. A place for the pious and devout. Ans.— Church. 21. A political leader's nickname. Ans. — Boss. 22. Refreshing to the thirsty hunter. Ans.— Brooke. 23. A bird whose plumage is highly prized by the ladies. Ans. — Ostriche. 24. One whose business is to cultivate flowers and vegetables. Ans.— Gardner. 25. Usually the winning card. Ans.— (Van) Trump. 26. A yachtsman's paradise. Ans. — Cruze. 27. Something accompanying the extraction of a tooth. Ans. — Payne. 28. A swampy piece of ground. Ans.— Marsh. 29. An animal especially to be found in Russia. Ans. Wolfe. 30. A man who makes suits for men and women. Ans.— Taylor. 31. Name of an oldfashioned vehicle. Ans. — Shay. 32. A house not built with lumber, brick, or cement. Ans.— Stonehouse. 33. What a baseball player must be good at. Ans.— Fielding. 34. A small, singing bird. Ans. — Finch. 35. Something told to children to amuse them. Ans.— Storey. 36. One who will not ride. Ans.— Walker. 37. The type of girl who has dark hair and eyes. Ans.— Brunnette. 38. What children go to school for. Ans. — Learn. 39. A wood-worker. Ans. — Turner. 40. One who goes out with line and hook on a summer's day. Ans.— Fisher. 41. A quiet stretch of country, grown with grass or grain. Ans.— Field. 42. Name of a low order of savages in Australia. Ans. — Bushman. 43. A dark hole from which water is drawn. Ans.— Blackwell. 44. What we all have to take, if we want to go far. Ans. — Karr. 45. A great composer. Ans.— Weber. 46. The children's favorite author. Ans.— Anderson (Fairy Tales). Ill