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.

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.