Comments | meerkatboy: Post war Jergens ???

meerkatboy

Post war Jergens ???

Dec 19, 2007 15:14

I was listening to a radio play from the 20s or 30s recently and the sponsor of the play was Jergen's hand lotion. In each one of the commercials though they kept referring to it as "Post War Jergens" and how you will love post war Jergens and post war Jergens is better. Well my question is, what was pre-war Jergens ? Was there major development ( Read more... )

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marzipanshadow December 19 2007, 23:43:21 UTC

What play was it? Generally in those days a lot of sponsors products advertised as 1949 blahblah or 1938 colgate dental powder etc this is likely a variation on that, as each year or season it changed sort of a variation on today's 'ultra', 'new improved' etc. Add to that the fact that during the war and it was liklely world war 2 most industries were stopped or unable to produce or work on new products or formulas producing a bare minimum for the folks at home while the boys at war and other countries that needed wartime help were able to survive with the production saved from making excess or more than minimum at home. Often you'll here of rations and ration coloured cards for various things that's a result of that. The workforce was small at home too for making things and then when the war ended the demand was high and the workforce still lowish as many now trained men and even some women came back to work in not just their old jobs but new industries and companies etc. Post War Jergen's was probably playing up on not only a new ( ... )

meerkatboy December 19 2007, 23:58:36 UTC

Thanks fwaggy *hug*

It was a Nero Wolf play, which I am not sure if I like or not. I have only heard two, each of them had a different voice actor for Nero Wolf, in the first one it was a guy that sounded like Marlon Brando, and the character was an absolute dick and unlikeable, constantly ridiculing other characters being nice to him and calling them stupid, idiots and morons. Granted that is the writers doing, not the voice actor, but he just came off like a jerk. In the second play it was a much older, crotchety, geezer like sounding voice and he was much nicer, although still rude.