LIFTING A FACE
Women ajixious to regain their lost youth crowded by hundreds into a Pennsylvania hotel recently to watch a face-lifting operation. The patient ■was Mrs. Martha Petolle, a veteran film actress, who has' been promised a return to her former "mother" rolC3 if a few wrinkles are removed (says tho corresrjondent of the "Daily Mail"at New York). For the moment one side of Mrs. Petolle's face is youthful, and the other old, for only half the operation could be performed at a single sitting.. Dr. J. Howard Crnm, the plastic surgeon, performed tho operation. He made two incisions above the ear and neck, pulled the skin tight, and smoothed away the signs of age. An audience of 1500 watched the operation, which Dr. Crum had intended to perform behind a screen, until-the insistent demand of those present changed his plans andi enabled them to watch 'the first facial siirgery ever performed, it is said, in public. Mrs. Pctelle, under a local anaesthetic, talked during the operation with her daughter, while Dr. Crum chatted with the audience. An orchestra played jazz tunes, film cameras took records—and five Avomen fainted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 3
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190LIFTING A FACE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 3
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