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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1957,
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A man has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for attacking the plastic
surgeon who altered his nose--and refused to do so again.
Today there are so many people who want to change the nose nature gave them that a new industry
E brand-new nose ha
THE
springing up: ANNE SHARPLEY says
a streaming cold. Such IT'S BOOM-TIME FOR NOSES
a new nose (four weeks) on thought might need careful handling but its proud confident owner gave it a
marka.
blow. "It's just as tough as my old one. I went straight into some shipwreck scenes in a film when it was only a few days old and kept bash ing it but it didn't drop off." A wilful tie retrougse with nostrils like invertexl Comma This was the nose she wanted. And this 41 mos that hundreds of women wand and are getting every year.
For Peggy Anne Taylor the decision was easy. She is an actres and
let a one cannot
like having the small matter bone in your more smashed by smithereens
the way of ambition.
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Graphs can't lie
IN HARLEY STREET
VALE ü
Den nos",
Her nose had been 1 con-
The new JEANC industry, of her type it booming to much that otte enn radiction determined little drooper-when hardly walk down Harley Street what she needed, so the casting without feeling one's nose, one's director
bold her.
a clever carve-up button.
of by full
the sunve, ngrecabie turned-up plaintive nose appeal. In these fraternity that Ilves behind daya It takes a visit to a plastle those suive, agreeable facades. surgeon. 75 guiness, two day in a mursing home, a few days in hiding-and bobbed's TROSAS,
your
Then, Df Curse, Nobody notices any difference at all and you wonder what all the fans was about," adde Miss Taylor her periness complete and un- contradicted now by her
title nose.
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Cute, curtailed Hitle noses sem lu pop out of every door- way and a cusuni visit to une of the most successful of the Inking Dose doctors finds him
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which in show busintra is one way of describing an actress with an intraclable nose.
NOSE
The Exciting Enigma gets
M
VICTOR DHANAPALLA settled into a high- backed chair in the ground floor, Curzon Street flut, looked across at Eliza- beth Sellars and said to
me:-
"She should be a big, big star, you know." He paused and asked: "Why isn't she?"
Mr Dhanapalla is a charm. ing, affluent business man
A NEAT "Not even character actresses want to be character actresses," she announced. "Every woman wants a lovely neat little nose." confides: "Yes, it's very nice from Ceylon with a face like but everybody's got the saune an amiable Eastern god. He Wherever i go 1 see my was industrial adviser of
The fashion mese.
magazines
Another nameless new Bose
one.
new
are full of it. 1 can pick out the ex-Prime Minister of with Ceylon; he is now friend, a crowd nes in wherring accuracy and,
my confidant, and adviser of goodness, aren't there a lot of Miss Sellars, So the ques-
Kimtion was no idle one.
ther?"
Some new nostrs, like Parker, Mrs Paul Carpenter, in
But I had to say: "I'm pursuit of greater nepiness, have their noses done twice. Some, Borry. I don't know." ike Shani Wallis, whose natural Scots born, Miss Sellars nose 19 a delightfully comic version of the fashionable has a beauty that is photo- Pose-refuse to have theirs genie and sensual; she has done at all.
moro acting talent than
But, take it or leave it, an
old nose has become easier to
park in London than a car,
One can even have it done on the National Health Service,
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Curry AND sympathy
*Tell
him about
commandments,"
by LOGAN GOURLAY
that she showed me a dress from an a factory in which he has interest "It's made of antin and pure gold. It could be meited down."
"No, he Miss Sellars said: doesn't want to see that now." in- was But Mr Dhanupalla sistent.
She brought the dress. It was beautiful.
The Ten
had Mr
bigh Dhanapalla hopes about tivo Ealing films in which she will be seen soon-
I said
Mr "Goodnight" The Man in the Sky, with Jack
WILD with Dharapalla and the girl and Shiralec, Hawkins,
The golden dress. The parrister- Peter Finch.
to-be. The actress who la per- haps too inteligent an actress to Aim star. Tho consuant be a
The Scots disciple of enigma Buddha,
to
"Well," said Miss Sellars dull- fully. "Cecil B. de Mille tested A me for one of the parts. very long lost. Everything was more or less settled. But then the part went to Yvonne de
Carlo.
Whatever happens she still, of course, has that well-publicised law career to fall back on. For the last 10 years she has been qualify 25 a Mr Dhanapalla snorted. Miss threatening Sellars shrugged. "I suppose ahe barrister and has, in fact, passed was more suitable for the part. some of the exams. I didn't really mind."
01
"still Intent Miss with studying for the Bar. After A philosophical girl is
Since she went about all, it has a lot in common Sellars.
to Caylon with acting." seven years ago
I'm not sure if she also practises yoga. She didn't stand on her head once
the during evening. Nor did Mr D. suggest
On to carry
t
her
IN SHORT
most of the ladies you queue (where Mr Dhanapalla was her for; she has appeared in host and guide) she has been a If she ever qualities. 1 sukTM good roles un stage and keen student of Eastern philowo- gested she should conduct our
screen with a selection of phy and religion,
discovered a delightful leading men including Bran- "I'm not a Buddhist.
young actor who
and
National Health nase, openly cheerfully admitted to by ado, Burton, and Bogarde realised (who once described her as he couldn't base hig entire the most exciting leading
Cyrano de
lady I've ever worked
future Bergerte.
carcer on
"I was known as Schnozzle with"). at school," began Peter Weich. in the slightly morbid sell- punishing manner that all new- nosers have in describing their
Ex-nose,
TINY FLAT
Not quite...
Now, at 34, she should
an established interna
"Darling. wasn't as bad as be that or I wouldn't have married tional star. But she's not you," interrupts his wife, Ruby, quite. as we sit in their liny Bat in Great Portland Street.
But the old nose could not be dismissed so easily. It got in
Her career is one of the show business enigmas of on 1956 as it was of 1955 and television, was a living challenge as it probably will be of to photographers and depressed 1957.
The
way,
threw
shadows
Its owner to the point where
his GP got like a new one on Mr Dhanapalla gave
the National Health.
me
own care against some of film
for wilful producers I'm neglect.
very interested, though. It's the only religion my reason would allow me to accept. But I'm not a strict adherent.”
For the next hour over sup- per the talk was about food, mainly Eastern
Mr Dhanapalla, who is an the subject and expert on author of a cook book, had pro pared a selection of his spechl dishes, mainly Eastern, ranging from stuffed squid to curries decorated with twists of flour dyed an attractive purple with a vegetable dye. I think.
To the Bar?
Her next acting job is a stage tour playing the leading part in
South Nool Coward's Bubble, which she look from Vivion Leigh in the End.
Anxious? No
Sea over West
ERIC PORTMAN, now star- ring in Separate Tables in New York, said at a dinner honour- Ing Bernard Shaw-
his "I don't think
dramas were great-not as great as the people in them."
The conceit of these actors.
Staggering, isn't it?
• DAMN YANKEES, the "After the tour," she said. "I Broadway musical with a bale
I've ball background will replace The don't know what I'll do.
No play or
at Pajama Game
London's Coliseum Theatre in March. got nothing fixed.
Producer Jerry Whyte said to don't think British will be worried by
film."
She said it without a hole of anxiety or reproach,
me:
audiences
A philosophical girl is Miss the baseball, And I hope Mr Dulice doesn't make the title too Sellars.
opt."
It was 2 sm. and time to go.
But Mr Dhenspalla a drink (a brandy and soda
Age is no de errent. One not one of the exotic pale Surgeon I spoke to had just completed a new nose for a man green gins sometimes served of 66. "He had started court-in this flat). ing again— woman of 55 "with a nose like a cockatoo," i
THE FAILURES There are the tragle enses, the failures, the neurotics who can never be satisfied with anything, the unfortunates whose
Miss Sellars sat on the other side of the room with her closest friend Jean, who is related to Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
I thought it was about time nose Miss Sellars spoke up for her- has been rulbed by some sell. She did, in an nocent that unqualified operator ("I get at is still Scuts-softened, but she least one of those a week, beg-sounded much loes concerned ging me to do something" one about her career than Mr reputablo surgeon told me) Dhanapalla did. but the overall pleture encouraging.
She
indicated—without
a
A nose has ceased to be an sour grape in her wide, succulent Immovable fact. It is perhaps mouth-that she didn't desper.
"to
may
a little sad to think of some of stely want to be a big star, the remarkabla liigh-prowed, Hollywood style (which singular notes dus
be explain a great deal). demolished in Harley Street and 1ts environs.
Napoleon, who said "give me a man
han with a nose (and go: the Duke of Wellington), would be appalled.
to
"I enjoyed being in Holly- wood, but I don't think I'd like to stay there all the time. It's terrible what stardom does somo people out there, But women in particular are
"No, not Brando. unheeding. At last they can really very nice." ful that longing for a tilled rose that they have nourished
since their art Myrna Loy im.
And the number of dear lule turned-up nosod due to be
Her test
He Was
churned out in London in 1957 Mr Dhanapalle Grownext. 1
frankly nobody knows,
(London Express Service).
By Frank Robbins
don't think "ho agreed. said;
Ho
The wine was a blend of Mr Dhanapalia's containing a Tur- kish vintage, I think.
It was all delicious, I thought.
All that was lacking was a trio playing Oriental Bule music in the background.
I asked after supper about Miss Sellara's future.
We all hope. suggested
Show Business
CAN'T RISK DRAWING
MY PISTOL WHILE HUNTAR)
COVERS MB FROM THE
HERE ARE THE PICTURES, HAZARD I AM OBFEATED!
YUP, COMPLETE, NEGATIVES AND ALL WILL YOU DO THE HONORS BEFORE I CALL THE
POLICE OR SHALL I, MR. JARAK?
YOU BURN THEM!
I COULDN'T SOIL
MY HANDS WITH
THAT FILTHY BLACKMAIL TRASHI
A-FEET PINNED DOWN
BY TRUNK HAVE TO FREE
MYSELF!
WHILE DOWNSTAIRS..
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel