The Dolores star., 1916-05-26
Copper Masks Are Nodded by
Francis 0erwent Wood, a
British Officer.
REMARKABLE FACIAL SURGERY
Many Pathetic Cases Fall to Care Of
Celebrated ArtIst-spends Months
In Experiments Before A.
tempting His First Case
New Eye for Soldiers.

London.-Not new lamps for old"
but new faces for DID," IL the cry of
the modern Arabian Nights magician.
This magician is q sculptor of renown.
English by birth but half American by
ancestry.
He is Francis Derwent Wood. q name
familiar in the United States. where
various collectors possess examples Of
his work. Woods steadily growing
fame. however, was extended in Amer
lea Just before the war began, when
he was commissioned by Lady Paget
and the duchess of Marlborough on be-
half of the American women In Eng
land to execute the statue Of William
Pitt, which, as soon as circumstances
make the thing more suitable, will be
presented by them to their native land
in commemoration Of the hundred
years Of peace between this country
and America.
Lieutenant Wood, as he now Is. has
discovered how to give new faces to
men who have lost theirs in the war.
He can make new eyes. cheeks. fore
heads. chins; in fact. he is making
them daily. Up to date Derwent Wood
has made new faces. or at least parts
of faces. for five such victims Of war.
Remarkable Facial Surgery.
The most pathetic case Of all of
these was that of trooper named
Everitt, whose face had been broken
by an explosive bullet. His nose had
been carried away almost entirely and
his left cheek torn open from his ear
to the corner of his mouth. Like most
Of these victims of facial disflgure-
ment. he had to undergo operation
after operation. He received his wound
on May 10 of last year. Finally he was
brought to a London hospital on Sep
tember 2. and up to couple Of weeks
ago, despite the fact that his wound
had entirely healed and surgery ad-
mittedly had done all that it could for
him, he remained q sad sight.
Before the war he was a taxi driver.
Now, made at least presentable by the
wonderful facial mask" which Wood
has contrived for him, a mask consist.
ing Of false nose. cheek and mus
tache" which conceals his injured lip,
ex-Trooper Everitt is plying his old
trade again and doing we'll at 1t.
when he saw himself with his mask
for the first time." said the sculptor,
he jumped for Joy"
New Eye for Soldiers.
Another case in which Wood has
salved human wreckage is that OF
Driver Ferguson. a member of the Ca
madam field artillery. who was hide
ously wounded at Ypres on April 25
1915. A piece of shell carried away his
right eye entirely. and as the surgical
report professionally put it. the sur.
rounding structures" In the ordinary
way. there would have been nothing to
fix an artificial eye to-" and, as in the
case Of Trooper Everitt, his disfigure.
ment was 80 appalling to behold that
1t is doubtful of he ever could have
taken up his old trade. which was that
of q machinist.
Now with the upper part Of his right
cheek restored, and what appear to be
two perfectly good eyes beaming at
you from behind spectacles, this
youngster not only will be able to earn
his living hereafter, but is going to get
married, and the gratitude of his fan.
Gee to Derwent Wood is only surpassed
by his own.
These are the two worst cases with
which the sculptor has yet had to deal,
but others in which he has been equal.
ly successful are those of Private Har.
per Of the Kings Royal rifles, who also
lost most of his nose and the biggest
part of his cheekbone; Lance Corporal
Davis of the Australian imperial