FIGHT TO REGAIN BEAUTY

Evening Star, Issue 21640, 8 February 1934, Page 12

FIGHT TO REGAIN BEAUTY

FAMOUS GIRL'S COME-OAGK Once known throughout the world as " The Girl With the Chocolate-Box Face,” Pamela Harris is now staging a come-back to fame after months of agony endured during a remarkable fight to restore her beauty Six months after a terrible car crash which it was feared would disfigure the most-photographed girl for life. Miss Harris is back at work. Early last year hers was the most soughtafter face in London. Her photograph was in newspapers and magazines every day. Her profile was as familiar as that of any film star. For twelve months her beauty had dazzled across the footlights of the stage . . . and then . . . “ 1 thought everything was finished for me,” she said to a ’Sunday Chronicle’ reporter. She suffered shocking injuries in a road smash. Pamela, they said, would never see again. She fought hard against her fate, and eight weeks later the bandages were taken away. She saw in the mirror the face that had once been beautiful . . . and she screamed. An ugly scar ran down the centre of her forehead, another seared her cheek, two others made a gash above and below her lips. But she smiled bravely through her tears. “ It looks as if my face will be my misfortune now,” she told her nurse. Then her luck changed. A famous surgeon wrote to her and said he would do his best to restore her face to its former beauty—tor nothing. Pamela accepted the; oiler. For months she was in the hands of the expert while the ugly scars were smoothed away. “ Even when I had left the surgeon’s hands,” said Miss Harris, “ 1 was terrified trying to get a job in case I was told that my face was ‘ unsuitable.’ Then I came across an old friend, a show girl. She was on her way to rehearsal for a pantomime at Hammersmith. She persuaded me to go down with her and ask for a job. I rushed and bought some make-up, and down we went to Hammersmith. Before I could open my mouth to the stage manager he pushed a contract into- my hands and said, ‘ Sign that.’ ”