The Thief of Bagdad (United Artists) (1924)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Thief of Bagdad (United Artists)
Date:
1924
Publisher:
United Artists
Volume:
The Thief of Bagdad (United Artists Pressbook, 1924)
Leaf #:
0007
Language:
English
Collection:
Pressbooks
Format:
Periodicals
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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Print This Puzzle—Start a Cross Word Contest DO,U A > R A Crossword Puzzle Here is a display tie-up with your newpaper. It is topical and popular. The cross-word puzzle idea catches young and old at this time, and as a feature it will work in splendidly for some exclusive “The Thief of Bagdad” publicity. The accompanying cut shows how the Fairbanks crossword puzzle sticks out in the midst of a page of type. Go to it! The checkerboard design is all there is to this crossword puzzle. The newspaper publishes it, and through some arrangement with the theatre, offers prizes—not for solving it, but for constructing a cross- wordpuzzle that works to completion from the key letters in “DOUG FAIRBANKS” and ’’THIEF OF BAGDAD.” A committee decides which are the best crossword puzzles sent in. The above puzzle was successfully featured in the Binghamton, N. Y., Press, which published it in three-column width. The prizes offered were: First, a box at the theatre; Second, four seats; Third, to Tenth, a pair of seats. After a winning puzzl was recieved it was published also, in blank with a list of definitions, and readers invited to try their wits at solving it. No prizes were offered for solv¬ ing the second puzzle. Slide IVo. 1—Price 15 cents emch Slide No. 2—Price 15 cents each