Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

Advertising Section If I Carit Grow Hair for You I Dorit Want a Penny I mean just exactly what I say! I don't care how thin your hair may be — I don't care if you are completely bald — if my sensational new discovery won't restore your hair I don't want a cent of your money for my services! Furthermore, I'll send you the proof of what I can do entirely FREE! Just mail the coupon below. By ALOIS MERKE Founder of Famous Merke Institute, Fifth Avenue, New York y%FTER 17 years' intensive study r\ of baldness — a study which included long' years of experimentation in the principal laboratories of Heidelberg, Paris, Berlin., Geneva, Cairo and Buenos Aires — I have discovered a startling new way to make hair grow. At the Merke Institute, Fifth Avenue. New York — which I founded — I have treated scores of world famous stage and social celebrities. Every day people come to me from all parts of the country to gain the benefits of my discovery. Many pay me as high as $1,000 for the results I have brought them. Yet now, through a series of ingenious inventions, I have made it possible for every one to secure these amazing benefits — right in their own homes, and at a cost of only a few cents a day! I Guarantee Results! I know you are skeptical. I know that you have tried perhaps dozens of different remedies and treatments without results. I know that you have wasted time and money on treatments which by their very nature could NEVER restore your hair. All right. Perhaps my treatment cannot help you, either. I don't know. But I do know it will help 993 people in every thousand ! I do know that it will banish falling hair and dandruff — almost instantly ! I do know that it has already given thick luxuriant hair to many other bald people ! And I am so downright positive that it will do the same for you that I am entirely willing to let you try it at my risk — and if it fails to restore your hair, then the test is free ! In other words I absolutely GUARANTEE to banish your baldness and bring back your hair — and if I don't make good, then I don't want your money. Entirely New Method What is my method ? It is entirely new. It is entirely different from anything you ever heard of. There is no massaging — no singeing — no "mange cures" — no unnecessary fuss or bother of any kind. Yet results are usually noticeable even after the very few first treatments. Through the actual results brought by my new method I have completely exploded one of the old beliefs regarding baldness — namely, that when the hair falls out and no new hair appears, the hair roots are dead. I have disproved this completely. For I have found that in most cases of baldness, the hair roots are NOT dead, but merely dormant! Through undernourishment and other causes these starving, shrunken roots have literally gone into a state of "suspended animation." Yet even if the scalp is completely bare it is now possible in the great majority of cases to awaken these dormant roots, and stimulate an entirely new growth of healthy hair ! I KNOW this to be true — because I do it every day. Ordinary measures failed to grow hair because they did not penetrate to these dormant roots. To make a tree grow, you would not think of rubbing "growing fluid" on the bark. Instead you would get right to the roots. And so it is with the hair. In all the world there is only one method I know about of penetrating direct to the roots and getting nourishment to them. And this method is embodied only in the treatment that I now offer you on my positive guarantee of satisfactory results, or the trial costs you nothing. Already men and women who only recently were bald or troubled with thin falling hair have, through this method, acquired hair so thick and beautiful that it is the envy and admiration of all their friends. As for dandruff and similar scalp disorders, these disappear so quickly that it seems almost magical. The treatment can be used in any home in which there is electricity. Remember— I do not ask you to risk one penny m trying this treatment. I am perfectly willing to let you try it on my astounding money back guarantee— for I am convinced that no matter how bald you are or how thin your hair may be, this marvelous treatment will quickly produce a growth of healthy hair on your head — and if after 30 days you are not more than delighted with results you need not pay me one cent. I don't want your money unless I grow hair on your head. Free Booklet Explains Treatment If you will merely fill in and mail the coupon below I will gladly send you — without cost or obligation — an interesting 32-page booklet, describing my treatment in detail. This booklet contains much helpful information on the care of hair — and in addition shows by actual photographs what my treatment is doing for thousands of others. No matter how bald you are — no matter if you are completely bald, this booklet will prove of deepest interest to you. So mail the coupon now — and it will be sent you by return mail. ALLIED MERKE INSTITUTES, Inc. 512 Fifth Avenue, Dept. 359, New York City Actual Results (Dozens of letters like the following are received every day by the Merke Institute) "In the short time I have used your treatment I have gained remarkable results. Dandruff has . disappeared entirely. My scalp is now all full of fine new hair. I would not part with my treatment for 10 times its cost." A. W. B. "The ton of my head is now almost covered with new hair about one-half inch Ions. I have been trying five years, but could never find any thine to make my hair stow until your treatment." T. C. "Ten years ago my hair started falling. I used hair tonics constantly, but four years ago I displayed a perfect full moon. I tried everything — but without results. Today, however, thanks to your treatment I am pleased to inform . you that I have quite a new crop of hair one inch long. Mv friends are astonished at the result." F. H. B. ALLIED MERKE INSTITUTES, Inc. Dept, 359, 512 Fifth Ave., New York City Please send me, without cost or obligation on my part, a copy of the new booklet describing in detail the Merke Institute Home Treatment. J Name. . | Address. I City.... .Stale.