Description
Full color 9 3/4″ x 13 3/4″ ad for Camel Turkish & Domestic Blend Cigarettes. This ad, which features Mel Koontz, famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, and Penn Phillips, talking about what is great about Camel cigarettes. The ad shows four photos with Mel Koontz alone in a cage with a lion, wrestling the lion until the beast, the lion, submits. There is another picture just below that one which shows Penn Phillips talking to Mel Koontz next to a cage with a lion in it. Mel is offering a Camel cigarette to Penn and, as he does, he says “I’ll say it makes a difference to me what cigarette I smoke”. The ad feels that “People Do Appreciate The COSTLIER TOBACCOS In Camels“ and, that “They Are The LARGEST-SELLING Cigarette In America”. The right hand side of this ad has quotations from four different tobacco planters that say “We know tobacco because we grow it…We smoke Camels because we know tobacco”.
Source: April 11, 1938 Life magazine.
