Description
Black and white 5″ x 13 1/2″ ad that is for Woodbury Facial Soap. This ad starts off with a picture of a Mary Tudor Morsell and claims that “The ‘Stag Line’ favors Debs who take this Woodbury Facial Cocktail“. It says, of Miss Morsell, that “This popular Washington D.C., debutante makes a hobby of collecting antique bottles. Surprising in one so blonde, the deep brown of her expressive eyes. Her skin is gloriously soft and ivory-fair. ‘I like Woodbury Facial Soap‘, she says, ‘because its fluffy lather leaves my skin fresh and smoothly invigorated”. It then gives a quote from Cholly Knickerbocker, a noted society commentator says that “Visions of loveliness…these bright-eyed debutantes with their sparkling complexions. And here’s how the ‘debs’ make them stop, look and lose their hearts. Every day at 5 o’clock they take a Woodbury Facial Cocktail. They call it ‘glamorizing'”. The ad says that “Those gay young heartbreakers, the debutantes, take a Woodbury Facial Cocktail to brighten their day-worn complexions. At 5 every afternoon, the debs revive their skins clear glow with Woodbury Facial Soap. Woodbury’s invigorating ‘cocktail lather’ gives blissful radiance to unlovely, fatigue-wilted skin. Prove it to yourself. Get Woodbury today”.
Source: October 28, 1940 Life magazine.
