Many of the visual storytelling innovations were controversial. The "Evening Graphic" invented the "composograph," a composite news photo illustration created in a studio and art department to illustrate stories for which a real photograph could not be taken, such as actor Rudolph Valentino on a hospital operating table, or a private Broadway party featuring a nude chorus girl in a champagne-filled bathtub. When Valentino died in 1926, a composite was made of him in heaven standing next to opera singer Enrico Caruso, who had died in 1921. In one of the most famous photographs of the era, with a camera strapped to his ankle, reporter Tom Howard of the "Daily News" secretly took a photograph of Ruth Snyder in the execution chamber as she was being electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in 1928 after being convicted of murder.