This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/30/2021
LeRoy, Servais (Jean Henri Servais LeRoy). LeRoy TLS Regarding the Camel Cigarette Controversy. Dated April 18, 1933, LeRoy writes to Mr. A. B. Silverman regarding the exposés of illusions by R.J. Reynolds in a campaign called “It’s Fun to be Fooled,” referencing the Sawing a Woman in Half illusion, and stating that the exposure of its method has “practically killed all earning power of this illusion, not only to the personal selling value of Mr. H. [Goldin] own entertainments….” One 4to sheet of LeRoy’s letterhead, signed in ink, with LeRoy’s notation on the verso.