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Rhinoplasty is the flossy name that surgeons give to fixing up noses. Manhattan Plastic Surgeon 'Jacob Daley thinks many rhinoplasties are mistakes because surgeon and patient forget about art. "Art takes the high road and seeks to create the unusual," Dr. Daley explains, "rhinoplasty takes the low road and seeks to remove all traces...
Mindful of the many broken-nosed sol diers now getting straightened up for civil ian life, Dr. Daley reiterated (in the Archives of Otolaryngology} one of his favorite doctrines : when it comes to noses, nature knows best. Many a far-from-ideal nose, says he, should be left as it is. It may be the oddly-shaped nose, that gives character to the whole face. A homely person who blames all his homeliness on his nose may find that a nicer new one calls attention to his small eyes or his snaggle teeth...
...prove his point, Dr. Daley had an artist make tracings of Mono, Lisa, Titian's Man in a Red Cap and Holbein's Erasmus and alter the tracings to show how "dull and uninteresting" they look with noses altered to suit modern standards. As further evidence he has kept his own magnificently large, arched, craggy and overhanging...
...misunderstanding and an other, both Archie and O'Malley face a thorough legal shellacking. They are saved when practically all the Paramount players who could be rounded up stage a benefit show. The acts, stronger on noise than on finesse, reach some sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four young sons...
...What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little slapfooted dance performed by Cy Landry as an Indian...