Clever Mary - help required
Last Post 06 Aug 2010 03:44 AM by vladimir pootin. 3 Replies.
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25 Jul 2010 11:41 PM  

Am searching for a picture of a product my mum used to have in the cupboard when I was a child called: Clever Mary. It was promoted by Aunt Daisy.Nnone of my peers can remember it so I'm trying to prove it's existence and would love to see what it looked like.  Submitted By: Jane

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26 Jul 2010 03:32 AM  

I think there should be enough proof in the following items to prove that this product did exist.

The advertisement photos are from a Melbourne newspaper called "THE ARGUS" and come from the 1920's.

From 1936, Maud Basham, better known as Aunt Daisy, hit the airwaves from Queen’s Arcade, Auckland, with a “Good morning, everybody.” For more than 30 years, this pocket battleship (she was only 1.5m tall) used her 200-words-a-minute firepower to cajole listeners, to enthuse and plug housewives’ helps once it became permissible to mention product names: “How lovely it is to be able to mention at last the thing I’ve been trying to tell you about for so long. It’s Clever Mary! That’s what I use for cleaning, it doesn’t hurt your hands, you see.”
 

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26 Jul 2010 10:52 PM  
Nicely done!!!
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06 Aug 2010 03:44 AM  

Wonder if it was of any use to the person that asked the original question?

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