BOXER IN “ TALKIES.”

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17840, 12 October 1929, Page 17 (Supplement)

BOXER IN “ TALKIES.”

HAS NOSE RE-MODELLED. CARPENTIER AND DEMPSEY. When a world's champion comes to pictures (says a writer in the Sydney Evening News) his first act seems to be to remove his battle-scarred nose and acquire a new one. Jack Dempsey did it; now Georges Carpentier has put himseif in the hands of plastic surgeons. There is a myth in America that Georges is an absolute Adonis, that he weathered a ring career without marks of violence. Having acquired him for “The Show of Shows," and after boosting him as the world's best-looking Frenchman, the WarncrVitaphone people made a painful discovery. Carpentier was not nearly as handsome as the Press agents said, and his nose required re-modelling for camera purposes. To have announced that fact would have shattered a national illusion. The repairs had to be effected secretly, and it was impressed on Carpentier that any revelation would constitute a breach of contract. So the Frenchman isolated himself in his rooms at llie Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, until such time as the bandages cpuld be removed. But his absence became conspicuous and the secret leaked out.