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Beer In Ads #1219: It’s Got That Certain Something

June 11, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1938. It’s a very text heavy ad, with a long story about how making a show on Broadway a hit is like goof beer. Yeah, I don’t get it either.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schlitz



Comments

  1. lonndoggie says

    June 12, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    “…is like a goof beer…”

    Unintentional or not, I like it.

    And dig that crazy screw-top can.

  2. Beerman49 says

    June 13, 2014 at 3:23 am

    Lonndoggie – that wasn’t a screw top can – it was a crown cap; your “goof beer” line is spot on!

    I managed to read all the fine print in the ad (unusual for here, given that unless you save image & blow it up w/other software, you’e seriously straining your eyes/using magnifying glass to read it) – its incongruity struck me, a big fan of live stage performances of all kinds..

    In 1938, the line between musicals & plays was well-defined. Plays were dialogue-based; there might have been occasional background effects or one of the characters playing an instrumrent onstage. Curtain rose after house lights dimmed. Modern plays often incorporate a lot of onstage &/or background music – I’ve seen many @ Berkeley Rep & ACT (SF)

    Musicals are music-driven; the dialogue includes song tip-offs for the savvy (cues for the perrformers). Pit orch plays overture as house lights dim, & the curtain rises at the end of it.

    Whoever wrote & edited that ad copy didn’t quite get it – most of what’s said is more apropos to a musical than to a play. Given that musicals were the normal Broadway fare in NY in 1938, they needed to omit text that alluded to straight plays.

    Old fart nitpicker weighing in again ….

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