in another life I might have been a shipboard reporter, accosting second-rate stage actresses, British novelists and Polish classical pianists for the daily batch of irrelevance as they got off their ocean liners.
@100yearsagonews.bsky.socialOct. 13, 1926: Stage actress Irene Bordoni smokes from a pretzel-shaped cigarette holder as she arrives back in New York from a European visit. She tells reporters waiting for her ship that Paris has decreed the short skirt to be passé.
