Description
Black and white 5 1/4″ x 13 3/4″ ad that brings your attention to Woodbury Facial Soap. This ad starts off by asking you to “Take a leaf from the Debs’ Glamour Book…try a Woodbury Facial Cocktail“ over a photo of Miss Patricia Plunkett. The caption says that she is “Full of life and interested in everything is this lovely debutante of New York City. Aquaplaning and water skiing are the sports she best enjoys. Lovely Pat has a golden olive complexion. She says: “My friends think I’m lucky to have nice smooth skin. But I really owe that to Woodbury“. More comments: “Says Cholly Knickerbocker. Noted Society Commentator. “When I see a debutante and her devoted swain dancing ‘a deux’, I chalk up another victory for that mischievous fellow, Dan Cupid. That 5 o’clock Woodbury Facial Cocktail lovely debs indulge in has inspired more than one unpremeditated proposal”. At the end, it says that “Darling, you’re lovely!’ Social debutantes know that all the blue blood in their veins can’t make up for an unalluring complexion. When the social spotlight is turned full on their faces, clever debs thank their “Facial Cocktail”…Delicate oils in Woodbury Facial Soap denounce skin-dulling dirt. It’s skin-invigorating Vitamin helps bolster your skin’s vitality. Get Woodbury today”. It shows a wrapped bar of this soap and has a price of 10 cents for it.
Source: May 13, 1940 Life magazine.
