"Born with a gift of laughter and a sense that all the world was mad". This characterization, borrowed from the work of the late romantic novelist Raphael Sabatini-who was describing his ebullient creation Scaramouche-springs to mind on encountering Adrienne Delorme, the subject of these rictures. Adrienne, a Parisienne starlet, is one of those updated, inexorable individualists to whom life means living, and romance has more to do with adventure than with affairs of the heart. That her world is mad may be attested by a remarkable personal philosophy which puts the vagaries of selfexploitation above all other interests and ambitions....

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