They included a participant in a top reality television show and Barbara Matera, 28, an announcer on the leading government television channel, a prefinalist in the 2000 Miss Italy contest, and a university graduate.

Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century.

That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began souping her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]

By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.