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...most memorable television commercial of the year shows a cherubic bride savoring the seeming success of her melon-sized dinner dumpling. In another room, her stomach-sore husband gurgles his pained compliments, downs a fizzing glass of Alka-Seltzer and returns to hear her plans for the morrow. "Marshmallowed meatballs," she exclaims. "Poached oysters!" He does an about-face for more analgesic. The spot sent Actress Alice Playten on to richer fare in the theater, and at least one publication printed her recipes for marshmallowed meatballs and other specialties...
Last week Miles Laboratories, maker of Alka-Seltzer. dumped the maker of the celebrated commercials, Doyle Dane Bernbach. and shifted the $22 million Alka-Seltzer account to Wells. Rich. Greene. Reason: Doyle Dane's attention-getting campaign notwithstanding, Alka-Seltzer's share of the market has continued to shrink, and Miles had grown increasingly dissatisfied with the agency's creative tack...
What Wells, Rich plans for its new account is uncertain, but Chairman Mary Wells Lawrence has repeatedly stressed the wisdom of a straightforward approach in times when the U.S. economy has a headache. The shift of the Alka-Seltzer account reinforces a hard truth: no matter how much an agency strives to lift its promotions above the humdrum, advertising remains an art for sales' sake...
Self-Spoofing. Post-Jack ads for Alka-Seltzer have slipped-but the Volkswagen experience demonstrates that this is almost inevitable. The most enjoyable-and most effective-of the Volkswagen minidramas is the one about the 1949 auto show, where crowds ignored the lonely Volkswagen and clustered around the glamorous "cars of the future"-Studebaker, Hudson, De-Soto. The production pays such meticulous attention to period styles -baggy trousers, Andrews Sisters types swinging and harmonizing-that at first glance the viewer thinks he is seeing 21-year-old footage...
Unfortunately Doyle Dane Bernbach, the agency that created the VW and the Alka-Seltzer commercials, has overdone a good thing. Mrs. Poached Oysters has returned with a heart-shaped meat loaf, and one of the latest VW ads is a singularly unfunny parody of the old Mr. Wizard show. The program, featuring a science teacher and a questioning kid, died so long ago that few viewers will get the joke. Most of the successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines...