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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

with me evening cocktail an of his masterploces, A famous sworn-lo-tecrecy

musterpiece, saved by her new nose from becoming # character actress

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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