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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958.
Sir Harold Gillies
On
THE COURAGE
OF MY PATIENTS
GILLIES: " not plantio surgery JustL Med If it bringe even a te extra happi- new to a soul who woll needs it?"
HE greatest collec-
tion of stories
of
human fortitudo in
peace and war has been issued in a book which few outside the medical pro- fession will have the chance to read.
away "isplaying remark-
Ho
two
It is written by 74-year old Sir Harold Gillies, the father of plastic surgery, who through his boldness
Within four months she floor. in ideas and deftness with the knife has made life not was horse-riding again. only tolerable but enjoy- able for hundreds who had been demoralised by ter- rible facial injuries,
Sir Harold's puckish They insisted on having their ably high morale," and was character-ho is the great names in because they consider themecivos to be "prizo guinca- slowly sculpted back to great-nephew of Edward pigs," Sir Harold states. normality.
Lear, the nonsense rhymer has promised them a free copy -comes out in the book in of the book which in In full colour photo Buch headings
88 "Flap volumes costs £12 10s. graphs he records the ter-
Happy to a chapter on Under a photograph of ona rible sufferings of a 38-year- flaps of skin for grafting man whose nose was replaced old society woman whose and "Oops" for a paragraph after a dog had bitten it o ovening dress took flame
Sir on the importance of not man is a London busman. Look Harold comments, "This from an electric fire.
dropping grafts on the out for him."
He even names some patients whose operations Sir Harold
makes no secret of his blunders can learn such as the case in which a plastic nose began to sprout hair.
does not consider his best, Ho
Poise, Charm chief skinner," and refers from which others
HE shows how Mary Chap
Though primarily A man who was a terri- manual for plastic surgeons, fying wreck after falling this book is the behind-the into the fire as a child was
of hospital-screens story
victories slowly changed to a woman sufferings and
of poise and charm who is which have never been re-
now engaged, vealed in such detail before,
It is the story of men and women who did not relax their grip on life though it seemed to hold nothing for
them.
Of his prize patient Miss Helen Palli, who has en- dured scores of operations, Sir Harold says: "When I am on my last ride in my little box she willrun along-
He calls his great pupil Sir Archibald McIndoe "the
to his nurses as "les girls."
But when he breaks
off
to tell how he once used a beer bottle for a golf tee or a specially wily caught trout it is always to point some moral to the would-be plastic surgeon.
Unwittingly Sir Harold des-
troys the legend that the surgeon can only function well by being
aloof to suffering.
·
He is clearly as sensitive as
B
"Thank goodness! Now we can go to the club house for a bit of relaxation, yes?"
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ILL slammed the
front door
that fiercely Many of Sir Harold's patients piece of plaster fell in the drop in to see him over the years to show him how their hall, and all the neighbours faces are weathering or to re- took up action stations be- port
marriages which hind their front room eur. once seemed like breaking "tains. because of the Injury Inve survived.
how
Uplifting
of Captain
Augustus
Lowe
LONGON FREYKJA ZAPOROS
STRANGE by
SCREEN
KAY LUFF
Mary watched him go down the street and saw all the curtains
if of the morning making the the evenings out with the the rows which finished with dip in & salute, as ho went house as spotless as it was girls, the pictures and the the wife walking out.
Mary felt quite She returned to the fun of angrily to work. Things had the day after their honey- dances.
the All the time she thrilled at the prospect, but the office, only, with PERHAPS the most uplifting come to a pass, she thought, moon
passing of time, to see her story in the dossier is that when a month after their dusted and polished, she she felt a bit guilty too.
friends marry off, while she She looked around the grew older and wearier. The who broke of his engagement first wedding anniversary, asked herself what had against the entreaties of his they were disturbing the gone wrong. Nothing really, In 40 years of plastic work Sweetheart after first seeing his whole street with their con- Yet there was something house. It was spotless. No television play then switch- or she would one could say she was not a ed to the man returning to tinual quarrels. But this neither Bill Two years later after Gilles was the last. Bill had gone admit; he missed the old good wife. She gave a final his bachelor or days of fun, Yet this quarrel free and easy days of drop flick to the dressing table football, and darts, but in case time he too was left a too- cats all over nothing. Over ping into the Sports Club; into the hall. She was ready old-bachelor, weary with the
It is the story of mothers side calling, in her distorted the men and women on whom wince when voice: 'Please, sir. Just one ho carried out his near-matacles, who did not they saw for the first time more operation before you their burned SODA from go.'
Gillies, who is known to his
whom the doctors had care-
fully concealed all mirrors.
Above all it is the story of how Sir Harold and a few disciples, most of them now famous, learned by trial and crror to make noses, ears, eyelids, and In many cases whole faces.
new
In fullest detail Sir Harold friends as "Giles," has covered describes some of the every branch from herole life sex-changes he has accom- saving procedures to face-lifting plished to make life toler- for women. able for men who would
in otherwise be with the law,
women
mutilpted face.
had
restored him to near-too far. normality-they bumped each other in a London store.
joy
were
pay-
and then carried her
THAT was enough. Within were not the self-sufficient television to look
other they were
"To his amazement and conflict He has
found her feelings no shame in telling he how he has made fal-chested unaltered," Gillies reports,
Marilyn girl look more like
"You got away from me once, He tells of two
sisters Monroe.
„Ges," sho ssid, entrbing hold who served NB
It seemed "A beautiful woman is worth of his hand, "But you won't do volunteers in the London preserving and should be kept it again.” Fire Brigade and were both youthful while she la still young
Reading this book, of which Dr Ralph Millard, a U.S. sur- turned into men by plastic enough to enjoy it," he advises.
"Often while lifting a facereon, is part-author, it is hard have had a feeling of gullt that to know what to admire most. He reveals that a woman am merely making money. Yet the courage of the patients, the athletics champion who is it not justified if it brings brillance of the surgeons, or and Ari of The Principles
WAS really a mon dis- even a little extra happiness to the durability of the
spirit, Plastic Surgery, by Sir Harold
Mulard appeared after Sir Harold a soul who well needs it?" Glies and Dr Ralph (Butterworth £12 10s.)
Sir Harold tells how Sergeant Tom Reynolds walked off the battlefield with half his face shot
surgery.
operated
ULIETTE GRECO, whose songs at one time were all post-mortems on dead loves, has become less sad now The that she has less to be sad about. girl with the pale, plaintive face and volco of sackcloth and ashes, has changed drastically since Darryl F. Zanuck rescued her from fashionably miserable Paris cellat-society and launched her as a filmi star.
Now we have evidence of the exact extent of that change when London saw Miss Greco in her first major role in The Naked Earth, Zanuck, the in- veterate gambler, had hit the jackpot
on
her And
One of the unique features told her of this book with its horrific she would be pictures-It is definitely "Cate- liable for cory X" for the squeamish-1
the fact that many of the real military ser- names of the patients are vice.
vealed.
תחומעת
I'm
Chapman Pincher
But now
OMETHING was wrong with the set because it
Bill took off his coat. "Look
his breakfast, Bill had said; and she missed the
fun of his youthful collea
Bald "I'll look in at the Club for night outings she used to to leave.
Before putting on her hat gues. "Of course," a game of darts on the way enjoy with the girls at the
office.
and coat, Mary poured her Mary, as she switched off home."
"What
horrible to self out a glass of milk and the sot, life's like that. You seemed She answered;
It
be nibbled at a biscuit, and so just can't turn back the admit, but they had again?"
other married that she should not feel too years." come like
But how could she stay when the
she had said she was going! And couples who found that they sad, she switched on
at some why should she climb down?
The answer five minutes they were ideal pair they thought race or
Was Bill's key turning in the door. He took In everything at 31 mixed up in as fine a row as they were. Mary cried a broadcasting.
glance. over delighted a neighbour's bit as she packed the case their
Mary's caso in the hall; the cars. She threatened: "This she had taken on
house spick and span. And time I'm clearing out. And honey-moon. She determin-
then his face lit up as he saw I mean it." "That's the best ed she wouldn't be so con-
Mary sitting at the table. news I've heard for a year," ventional as to return to
the door on her mother. The office flickered a lot and when at Mary, I knocked off, work. Bill slammed his exit line leaving her would jump at her and ahe last a picture appeared, it Somehow I got the idea you off. Honest Mary, I hurt and humiliated. Now would get a room of her was very dull and shadow; didn't mean what I sald tils she would show him, own. Anything was better Furthermore, the broadcast marning. Somehow we've both
Mary washed the dishes than
everlasting of the race must have been been a bit jump lately."
She put the kotila on. "I a whimsy and spent the remainder rows. Then there would be postponed and
domestic drama substituted was going Bill, I was all ready to leave. Then I switched on in its place.
the television while I drank a Suddenly, Mary sat up and glass of milk, and do you know And she told him all stared. The television play about the play. "So," she con followed the pattern of her cluded, "I know our splitting life with Bill. On the screen up would be biggest mistake
the of our lives." appeared a couple in
home, pride of their new
nodded. "You're right She thought he was a very
fing there, Mary, Only what I can't wonderful man and she liked where, after the first
that. Look!" Ho turned the him
very much and respected glamour passed, they drop make out is how you saw ali "But there is no romance ped into the routine of the switch. "See! Nothing happens. between us," she said. "You dull daily round. Then camo The set went bust last alght." must remember he is a married man."
these
MISS GRECO DISCOVERS
with his latest discovery. In the flesh, pallid though it is after years of being tanned by nothing healthier than flicker- ing candlelight, Miss Greco exudes star- quality.
I found her in a Buite at the Savoy fortified by a new philosophy that blended very nicely with the Sack she was wearing, The essence of Miss Greco's new attitude to life is something called "kortezle" which one discovers eventually is nothing metaphysical but just her way of pronouncing courtesy.
COURTESY DRESS
"I wear this dress," she said, "because when other people are smartly dressed it is only kortezie to be smartly dressed also.
I am very rude often because most
JULIETTE GRECO
No need to sen the fire.
people are silly but now sometimes, I stop myself saying to people to go to hell because I am told it is not kortezie to say that. Of course, sometimes I forgot kortezie and still tell them to go to hell, but not so much as I did."
'KORTEZIE'
THAT'S WHY SHE HARDLY EVER TELLS
ANYONE TO GO TO HELL THESE DAYS
"I do my best to look clean," ago she she said, "but I do not want French to look chic. I comb my hair, Lemaire. and that is enough. I used to wear pants a lot. But now don't so much because cycry- body expects me to."
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was divorced from Alm star. Philippe
tim.
"Then his interest in you," I sald; " purely paterial."
"You must ask him," said Miss Greco, "I am not able to judge.
RESISTANT. ·
"Sometimes he says I am
"I don't think I am right to be married. I like too much beautiful; sometimes he saya I
to be alone. Nobody under- am not. Like every woman, I am
tands this."
ugly one minuto and beautiful the next.
"I do not think it is un- feminine to wear pants or the The o one man who does appear Sock. Not at all: It is not to understand Miss Greco is "Men are different, stranger. necessary to see the fro to Darryl F. Zanuck who flew to They don't change so much, I know that it is warm la the see her in his private airplane like men to be interesting, bus
while she was filming to Africa I don't find power la
bas derived evident interesting. A man, to interest pad
too."
o mun
In the days when it seemed pleasure from her company, ever me, must be able to resist talk- terribly chic to have given up since ho stopped deriving ing about himself for half an hope and have another drink, pleasure from the company of hour," Miss Greco reigned on the Left Bella Darvi, an earlier proteges Bank in her black pants and of his. black sweater and long strug-
ly hair. Miss Greco's melan- choly was irrenistibin.
"And can Mr Zanuck that?" I uslood.
Oh, yes. He is very smart.
do
insists that But Miss Greco what she has achieved, she has Now Miss Greco is consider achieved alone. Without any He can talk about me for a solid
"I never needed hoar." "Life" body's help. ably more cheerful, she said, "a Interesting, but Zanuck knows that. I did it all anybody," she said, "and Mr.
This, I should say, would be not sad. It is interesting because, alone. I am a very vain pensou no great strain on Rayone's con- it is short.
versational capacities. I am not melan- I told her that, considering she had choly; I enjoy life. Only silly you know."
But con- people take ma sad. not once during the course of our
THE BRANDO WE'VE versation told me to go to hell, she was when I am alone with myself am always happy because I
NEVER SEEN evidently using courtesy on mag- always enjoy
DXY OWNL nanimous scale. "I have discovered," she pony."
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Her bitterness is reserved for reveal a now fundamental law of nature, the institution of marriage with "that to be rude wastes a lot of time; it which she has been, briefly acquainted. *I · will never is quicker to bo polite."
that marry' again." Never," abe des LONDON
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What has put off mar kingin?!? Znackad.
LIMELIGHT by Thomas Wiseman
added She quickly politeness could be carried to extremes and that she would not permit he long and straga sly hair to soo the inside of a permanent waying machine,
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