Adrienne Delorme

"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.