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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MOKyiXfi, JUXEO, 192C. ( An Expert in Plastic Surgery Performing an Operation on the Nose. How Grand Opera Prima Donna Margaret Namara Had Her Face Changed to Surprise Her Playwright Husband and How Very the Prima Dunnai Surprised Indeed Was Altered. ' He Was! 4 - ttU. l9 f) V a '' Nose How ' View of the Note Showing the 5 taped Incisions (A B) Msos by tho Surgeons Knife, tho Blach Be new a and decided that fully Intently she nose should be her first objective, and so, ing tho Part Removed. The Edges (A, B) bugging her secret closely to her breast she sallied forth one day to a specialist ljt Drawn Together, noMis. a man who can perform the most thus Shortening the amazing miracles with one physiognomy; Note tho Depth of tho in tact, ha can change a Roman into a Grecian profile with no trouble at all, and Part Removed. pug noses become aristocratically aqul Side View of the line practically overnight. In a word, this Noee Shewing the a is in noses genius 1 nt Crecent-- In love a lady, does he fall In love her as is" or as she may remake herself as her fancy wills? When a mao falls In love with a brown or golden haired fairy, will his love change should the fairy change her hair to red? Just what effect do the changes "a wife may make In her physical appearance have on the man who married her as 6he was? This is a most complicated question, hut think what might have happened had Cleopatra's nose been longer or shorter' Margaret Namara, the grand opera singer, wife of Guy Bolton, playwright. Is able to answer this question to her own for she hds satisfaction or learned through a sad and painful expert ence. that her husband prefers her beauty as It was when he married her and not as a famous nose specialist recently made It over. Namara. beautiful though she was, a brilliant brunette, with lovely, languorous blue eyes, simply grew tired of seeing the same face every time she looked Into her mirror. Besides she thought the tip of her pose was too long If," she confided to a group of intimates, "I am tired of seeing my face always the same, surely Guy must be. and You so I think 111 have myself changed know the old Joke of the husband seeing the same face opposite him at breakfast every day, forever and ever? Well, here's where I give my husband a new morning view. Unluckily Namara or Mrs. Bolton, as she is in private life did not consult her husband about her plans, but started out to have her face changed according to ner own ideas. Studying her features care-- WHEN ! i - i' Znt it ei ? z's e. I & v r ! lV .U. Vt fi J -- fit. Cs A e V yrt.M :tf, 1 w 'f An " . a gentleman falls sculptor Namara hied herself To him three-year-ol- all. 'I Aw f I' tif i. r n tj d y m V and told her tale of woe or, perhaps, we should say nose. T have decided that my oose la too long; my soul yearns tor a quaint retrousse effect; please do your best, ' As an she explained to the specialist afterthought she asked, 'Will It hurt" Not at all." replied the doctor 'The operation Is absolutely painless, but, ot course, there will be some slight soreness while the wound Is healing.' All surgeons epesk optimistically and casually of operations and wounds. The day for the ordeal arrived, and a It gloriously sunshiny day It was! seemed as if even Mother Nature was happy in the thought that some of her crass handiwork was to be revised. Namara kissed her daugh more warmly than usual, ter good-bsmiled tenderly at her husbands picture on her dressing table, and went forth to be transformed All was in readiness In the sculptor-doctor'- s antiseptic operating room Ether? No. Indeed, nothing so serious as that All cosmetic operations of the nose should be done under local anes ihesia, say the modern facia) surgeons Just a few drops of cocaine, a weak ,olu tion and .Samara's nose became like a bit of stone. There was not the slightest sensation or pain With her own blue eyes and with the aid ot a mirror she watched tbe sur geon cutting into her nose. Entering the nose through and under the nostrils with a thitf knife called a bistoury and a pair ot angular scissors tbe surgeon cut a crea cent shaped piece of tbe septum, mucous membrane, car ttlage, flesh and If if had no i been for your hat and fur coat 1 should never have known you, Namaraa husband declared. What have you done to yourself? It was pre- cisely at though be were a dressmaker making a gusset. The tip ot the nose was left intact; ail the surgeon did was to remove the surplus materiel. Then he drew the tip ot tbe nose to the stump of tbe and upper part them tosewed gether with sutures ot white silk, carefully clipping off the resultant fold of skin. And here Is tbs part ot the operation on Wedge-Shape- Pert d On Re To-da- y. moved. , The DperStioB Completed the Dotted Lines Showing the 4 Eed of the Nose That Has Now Disappeared. . V ehlcb the surgeon's reputation, for skill, will stand or fall tbe joining of the flaps a scarf It tt of skin Will doe-th- Anybody, operation la unsuccessful say tbe plastic surgeons, can perform the cutting operation-- ' The tools art of the simplest and include nothing not to the ordinary surgeons kit The technic, while It must be of the carefulest, 4s not out of tbe ordinary until It comes to Joining the edges of the sktn The edges must be carefully matched, sewn with a curved needle and held tn . r nntU the , place by stripe of healing process Is complete Then, it the work bas been properly done and has been thoroughly antiseptic throughout not the faintest suspicion of a scar, not even a Jlne line will appear to mark the place where the nose bas been severed. After the operation the patient must wait for two by days with the face of adhesive tape an then e lattice-wor- k the tape is removed, the stitches of the suture taken out and tbe success or failure of the whole operation revealed At the moment when the plaster was being attached a dreadful thought entered the patient's mind "I have to sing out You are sure West a week from everything will be all right by then?" Frankly, the surgeon looked surprised. My noses always heal within a week or ten days, but l never hurry them and it might have been better to have put off the operation until you had more free time but it Is too late now." and be proceeded calmly with his delicate lattice effect With the last atrip in place, the prima donna called for a mirror. The result was disappointing, of course, for the plastei acted as s complete dlrgulse. But even so the ladys nose showed a considerable dir' ference In length and shape and her satia faction was evident Home to Great Neck she went, wearing smile of happiness and a thick veil Mr Bolton was away at the time and Namara's plans included having her wound com pietely healed by the time be came back Alas, he returned unexpectedly and his wife included first vision of his made-ove- r the lattice work, which Just naturally spoiled the reunion However, being an experienced husband, Mr. Bolton refused to commit himself while the operation was. as he expressed He did it. "in an unfinished condition go so far, however, as to say that be had always liked ber origins nose tnd nad fallen In love with ber as she nad been, which seemed somewhat untactful to bis wife, but she thought of the future and said nothing or very little. It happened, unfortunately, that Namaraa nose took longer to heal than Is usual, and the morning of tbe day ou court-plaste- -- or-tbr- criss-crosse- d to-da-y (Ci lPfi Infer- - reani-- e vme Inc the Left, Madame Namaras ' Profile as It Looked Before the End of Her Nose W Sliced Off; on the Right, the Prima Donna as She Looks 1 did not want 1 had It done for you. you to grow tired of seeing the same face every day," tearfully explained the opera singer "1 fell you I married the other nose I fell in love with you when you, had it and was used to It How do I know that I'm going to tall in love with this new nose you are springing on me?" again demanded the husband. On the way to their car they met an old friend of Namara's, who looked at ber without a sign, then gave a close look at Mr. Bolton, hesitated, and finally said: "Why. my dear girl, what has happened? i did not recognize you." It's It's no 1 mean, it was my nose. I had it sliced off no. I mean I had the end ot it sliced off, and now my husband fella me be doesn't love me no I mean the nose Oh, dear; oh, dear!" There isnt the least doubt that change - ot fae'e, came as a shock to her husband, for, as he explained, he had grown used to her appearance, and now whenever be looks at ber tt la as Of though be was meeting a stranger. course, in time he will grow used to the change, and perhaps the day will come when he will forget that any transformation was made! Naturally such an unprecedented action on the part ot a lady fair gives rise to a certain amount of gossip. In musical circles, where temperaments clash hourly, one hears that .Madame Namara has always been slightly Jealous of tbe stage beauties who surround her husband, and gossips whisper that her remarkably successful trip to Mexico City last year was cut short because a dear friend telegraphed her .that a certain some one was making ardent eyes at friend husband And this same story was rehashed when the singer cancelled several Pacific Maaamo Xorska, the Opera Singer, Before and After Having Coast dates and returned unexpectedly to New York- Her Nose Straightened. Madame Namara knows an this gossip ind laughs merrily over It! "If the world which she was to start West arrived with heard her sing said afterward that bet really wants to know why 1 turried home, the lattice work still In place. A visit to voice had never been so poignantly beauJust tell It the truth. 1 came back because the specialist waa not encouraging. Belng tiful. So touched with tragic expiesslve-nesI was homesick for my well, my baby! An artist and a careful surgeon he refused at during this tour. It came over me all of a sudden, that the to hurry matters. No matter whether or "And it ought to have been," commented not you sing, you must keep the plaster tn the singer on her return, "for. believe me. money I was making was not la it with a 1 cannot I suffered! sight ot my baby.. And, too, Guy kept place. permit any tampering No, not pain, but in my with my work," were practically his part telegraphing me to hurry home so as to Spirit" see the opening of his new play. But, of mg words to the singer as she left him to During Madame Nemara's Western trip course, the gossips will much prefer the go te her train. ber wound finally heeled, and she returned Friend husband was sympathetic, but to New York without the now familiar vamp story!" also firm, and added his warnings to .hose lattice-wor- k Namara, however, has but one praysr bandage. Mr Bolton met ber given by tbe surgeon. Which accounts tor at the train and atared in amasement If tat present, which is that her nose will the tact that Madame Namara. late rlma ft bad not been (or yonr bet indffur coat grow bark lntq Its former shape. "Yes after all her suffering she wants donna ot the Chicago Opera Company and l should never have known you What one ot our most attractive concert singers, her original profile back! Which might have you done to yourself T be demanded be a disappointment to the surgeon and, appeared before ber Western audiences, "Why, Its my noee, you foolish boy. with her nose very heavily powdered. - Bat Dont you like It now that the bandage la who knows, perhaps to her husband as as her concerts were evening affairs, this gone? "Like ill" he yelled. "No, not well, now that be has become used to the aid not detract from her beauty and neither at all 1 married your real nose, not a new one. Men at least, husbands art done-ove- r did ber voice suffer. 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