Oil for the Lamps of China (Warner Bros.) (1935)

entinnes 7 (Fourth Day) Fun And Strand Tickets To Reward Puzzle Solvers With pencil and paper ready, Mike Morita, one of Pat O’Brien’s co-workers in “Oil for the Lamps of China” listens to the story of The Determined Athlete. Do you know why a chicken crosses the road? That’s a mere infant compared with the bewhiskered puzzle printed below as the fourth brain tenser cimiatho kaya e Poe ee se :s (newspaper) Chinese puzzle contest which has every one in town going gaga. Director Mervyn LeRoy brought back a collection of Chinese puzzles when he visited that country studying conditions and customs prior to his filming of “Oil for the Lamps of China.” Nees e (newspaper) will publish six of these for a contest. The fourth appears below. THE DETERMINED ATHLETE Hundreds of thousands of natives were gathered in Pekin to celebrate the annual New Year celebration. Joyous crowds of Chinese wandered about the city, watching the parades, the dancing girls and listening to the hawkers shout their wares. In the great Pekin stadium, athletic contests were being run off to the delight of thousands of onlookers. First the foot races, then the jumping events, and finally came the greased pole contest. <A pole was set up in the center of the field, heavily greased, and the announcer brought forth the great silver cup which was being donated by Prince Chin Choy to the youth who could climb to the top of the pole. The crowd settled back in their seats and watched these ambitious Chinese lads try their skill. One after the other tried, straining arms and legs in a vain attempt to reach the top. But all were unsuccessful. At last one lad, his teeth clenched in determination, stepped up to the pole. Something about his manner, a certain air of defiance in his bearing, made the crowd lean forward excitedly. Everybody seemed to have the feeling that at last someone might master the greased pole. He started up and in a series of jerks and slides, finally reached the top. The crowd thundered and cheered when the boy slid down to receive the prized silver cup. The boy climbed up the pole in this way. He jumped up three feet and slid down 2 feet. Then he jumped up three feet more and slid down two feet more. The pole was thirty feet from the ground to the top. In how many jumps did the boy climb to the top of the pole? The judges in this contest are: (name judges). All answers should be held until the final puzzle is published. Then send them to the “Oil for the Lamps of China” Contest. Editorof: the! 32:5 7.4 (newspaper) before ....... when the lists close. EXPLOITATION (Fifth Day) (Sixth Day) Record’s Chinese Last Chance For Free Tickets In Puzzle Contest Puzzle Contest To End Tomorrow If you haven’t already entered THe eee nn re AA, ’3 (newspaper) Chinese puzzle contest, you have still time to start and win a prize. The judges are ready — the prizes are waiting. All you need do is solve the six puzzles (this is the fifth) which have already appeared, and when the final one is printed tomorrow, send in one of the ten most correct solutions. Each prize winner will receive two tickets to the Cosmopolitan Production “Oil for the Lamps of China” which First National will TEledSen at Ne eo ee Theatre. TWO COOLIES AND A FLY Two Chinese coolies, both drawing rickshaws, start at precisely the same moment from opposite ends of a road ten miles long. They race towards each other at an unvarying speed of five miles an hour until they meet, their bodies colliding as they do so. At the same moment as they start, a fly leaves the wrist of one of them and flies towards the other at a steady speed of eight and one-half miles an hour. The fly reaches the other coolie and without stopping, turns back headed in the direction of the first coolie. He meets him and then again turns back towards the other. He continues this, the distance growing shorter all the time until finally the coolies meet, crushing the fly between them as they bump into each other. How far did the fly fly? is Portrait of two people thinking. Yes, it’s Pat O’Brien and Josephine Hutchinson who didn’t move from this position for hours. They The picture tells the story. Pat O’Brien and Jean Muir have the answer all figured out, but Josephine Hutchinson, from the expression on her face, is plenty baffled by the story of the three whistling Chinese whose problem even made her see spots before her eyes. Last Film and Puzzle Fans! Here’s your last chance to win free: tickets: towthewe +.B ee. ‘Theathe: ON o7.98: anc wim: » when the Cosmopolitan Production “Oil for the Lamps of China,” will be presented by First National. Today then... <aec (newspaper) publishes the sixth and last of a series of puzzles brought back from China by Mervyn LeRoy, It’s no more difficult than the other five. Now, if you have really given proper consideration to the six puzzles, you should be in line for a pair of tickets, which are the prizes to be awarded the ten eall, were that baffled by the story of Two Coolies and a Fly. SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES FIRST DAY: The officials knew that the woman was lying for if the man had died in his sleep as a result of the ill effects of the dream, she could not possibly have known what he was dreaming about since she admitted the dead man never awakened. SECOND DAY: Mr. LeRoy knew that the marble base was a fraud because being before Christ, it was of course impossible to date things prior to his birth. THIRD DAY: He filled the three-quart pail with water and spilled its contents into the seven-quart pail. Then he filled the three-quart pail again and poured the water into the large pail, making six quarts of water in the seven-quart pail. He then filled the three-quart pail and spilled as much as he could into the seven-quart pail. It was possible only to spill one quart of water into the seven quart pail, which left two quarts in the small pail. Then he emptied the sevenquart pail, spilled the two quarts from the three-quart pail into the seven-quart pail, filled the three-quart pail again, and added it to the two quarts in the seven-quart’ pail, making exactly five quarts. FOURTH DAY: The athlete climbed up the pole in 28 jumps. After 27 jumps he would be up 27 feet, and on his 28th jump of three feet, he would reach the top, and therefore wouldn’t slide back the two feet. FIFTH DAY: The bee would fly 8% miles. The answer is reached this way. Since the rickshaws are traveling toward each other at the rate of 5 miles per hour, ard start 10 miles apart, making the ground to be covered by each only five miles, in exactly an hour. Since the bee flys at the rate of 8% miles per hour, and the rickshaws meet in an hour, then the bee will have covered 81% miles. SIXTH DAY: Ar Nee knew that he had to have a black spot on his forehead, because if he didn’t, then the other two would be whistling at each other, and noting that Ar Nee had no spot on his forehead, they could understand that they both had spots on their own foreheads. As explained in the story, it was necessary to see a spot on a forehead before starting to whistle. If Ar Nee didn’t have a spot then either’ of the two would have realized taat both had spots on their foreheads and therefore one or the other would have ceased whistling. Since they didn’t stop whistling, Ar Nee concluded that he had to have a spot on his own forehead. readers who submit the most nearly correct lists of answers to the “Oil for the Lamps of China” Contest Editor of the.......... (newspaper) before The winners will screen travel through China and Manchuria with Pat O’Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir and an all-star cast which includes 400 native Chinese. They will see a story which took five years to write made into a motion picture that took more than a year to film. But don’t delay. No replies will be consiteredafter +m -elon=— ing date. Read over the puzzles and answers. If you think your’s are correct, send them in now. GIL LEE’S WIT TEST Many years ago, a famous Chinese Prince, Gil Lee had a beautiful daughter whose beauty was the talk of the entire land. When the time came for this girl to marry, there were three suitors challenging each other for her hand. It wasn’t for her to decide upon her future husband. In those days such important decisions were made by the father. Now Gil Lee was a wise and noble man and he wanted to make sure that his daughter married a man worthy of perpetuating the Lee name. So he invited the three prospective bridegrooms to compete in a game of wits, the winner to become his son-in-law. He blindfolded each of them as he explained the rules of his game. When the blindfold would be removed, one, two or all three of the men would have a black spot on their foreheads. If one of the men saw a black spot on the forehead of one or both of the other two men, he was to start whistling. Then, without looking in a mirror, he was to try to figure out whether or not he had a black spot on his own forehead. If he decided that he had a black spot he could stop whistling. The man to stop whistling first would win the daughter. Without the knowledge of the suitors, the Prince placed a black spot on all their foreheads. The blindfolds were removed, and since each man saw a black spot on the foreheads of his two rivals the three of them started to whistle. After a short time, Ar Nee, the most intelligent of the three, figured the problem out, decided that he had a black spot on his forehead, and stopped whistling — thereby winning the contest and the girl’s hand in marriage. How could Ar Nee have figured out that he had a black spot on his forehead—without looking in the mirror, asking anyone, or guessing? Page Five