The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-17
COMMENTS ON THE HyMBUes OF THE DAY.
Lola Monies and Spiritual Rapp,ngs.

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Leila Montes made her appearance before a Hart
ford audience last evening. april l4,) accompanied
by some half dozen musiclans, a comic actor, and
six young ballet girls. Her audience was pretty
large, but there were very few lades-mach less
number, indeed, than we expected to see.
We think every person in the house was disan-
pointed The affair was n humbug, and Lola saws
che despises humbngs-the public certainly do.
Lola Monies is not good dancer. She makes very
bad work Of it, and does not exercise good taste in
selecting the "spider dance of her perfor-
mances for that makes her appear Disgusting MS
well miserable doascnse. In it she Hounces
about like u stuck pig, and clcnches her short
clothes raising them nearly to her waist while with
thin, scrawny leg she keeps up n constant thump-
ing upon the stage, as If she was in slight spasm.
The ballet girls dance with more and grace, and
for those who are learning acquitted themselves very
we'll One of them, in particular, appear to consi,
derablc advantage upon the stage. But Lola had
better keep away from the public boards.
After the performances were concluded, Lola met
New Haven medium, to get some spiritual rap
pings. Quite number of gentlemen called at her
rooms to see the manifestations but it difficult
to get any till some OF the uncongenal' minds
had left the room ; after which are told there
Lola is a small sized woman, weighing, perhaps,
100 no pounds, spare features, large flashing
black eyes, with black hair; cheeks very red, pro-
baby painted; Her GESTURE are wide spread, awk-
light or quick; and still she is timber bodied enough
to twist and bend, beyond the ability Of most folks
Prom the New Orlcane Bee, April o.
LOLA MONTEs.
Several Of the New York journals have been con-
spicuous in their assaults upon the Countess Of
Lans.eld, or Lola Monies, TO give her the name by
which She s generally known. Among those sheets
which have attacked her most violently arc the
Times, Tribune, and Courier dcs Efats Cuis We
learn from the HERALD, that suits Mt law estimating
each ut thirty thousand dollars, will be immediately
brought against the publishers Of these papers.
As they have termed her q ''rake, an "Aspasia,"
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worry appellations, the wrahful and resclutc Lola is
determined to give them opportunity Of proving
their assertions, or submitting to be heavily mulcted
for defamation Of character. This law suit pro-
equal, if not surpass, the Forrest divorce case, in
the pruriency of its details and the shamelessnes
Gifts Developments Men certainly say hard things
OF Lola, but her vocation is one that subjects her
licentious remark and unbrided SANDER, and her
career has been, to say the least that Of woman
who spnrIed the ordinary restraints and reserve of
her sex. If she is innocent, we should be glad to
find it out Her eqnivocal reputation rests entirely
on the outgivings Of European journals. they
may have illuminated her, but--,,ops rayoas.
One thing is quite certain, that the people Of the
North have cyinced the most ludcrous extremes Of
asnnity in their conduct towards Lola Monies. BY
one portion of the community she has been de-
nounced as a monster Of vice and iniquty: by an
other, extolled model of learning and pattern
of intelligence. New York. not usually straight
laced or starched in its code of ethics, absolutely
press preached doeful honlies in advance, cntreat-
ing the people to refrain from witnessing her exhibit
tons ballet danccr because orsooth, her life had
not been rs untainted and sinlcss vestas.
Could any thing be moro senselcss! What have
the public got to do with the private ntrigucs and
doubtful morality OF dahscuse! She Processes the
poetry Of motion. not the purity of saint. If she
has talent let il be appreciated and rewarded; if
she has none, let her play to empty boxes. This
thing Of stirring up moek-yrtuous crusade against
poor devil OF d0nScusc, is exceedingly stupid at
any time. but tenfod so, in view Of two prom
ncnt facts-frst. that ninety-nine out of every
hundred members of corpse de ballet potori-
ously women Of impure and depraved character;
and next. that these same stilled Gothamitcs be-
came absolutely frantic in their admiration of one
Fanny Elssler-the worn-out debauchee, who had
been the acknOwlgcd mistress of the Duke Of Reich
stadt, the Marquis de La Valletc. aud half dozen
scions and sprgs of European nobility. Under these
circumstances, the paroxysm of viruous Indignation
with which all Gotham has been seized, is rs orom
q display of hypocritical pretcnce as Mawworm
himself could make.
But Boston-the modern Athens-has reached the
topmost round in the ladder Of folly. Think of the
prim and puritanical denizens Of Yankec-land-thc
pious descendants Of the Pilgrims, whose moratyis
ever ban-new. and in the first gloss; who build
churches preach against the horrors of slavery, pro-
hbt the sale of liquor, and pass laws to compel men
to be yiruous-think Of these doube-retincd OBJ
of both the letter and spirit Of the ten com
mandments lionizing Lola Montes--a woman Of
doubtful reputation aud Of dsrcputablc calling
cscorting her to the public schools permitting her
to minglc with innocent and respectable children
and listening in profound reverence while she display
cd her small scraps of French and Latin. Ifany-
thing more ontragoesly preposterous-anything
more grossly at variance with the propriety and
dignity of an emil ghtened city, can be conceived we
should like to know it. Why tits worse than the
drawing of Fanny Elsslcrs carriage in Baltimore, by
human ASSESSOR that was the work Of excited
and ignorant rabblc but the ovaions to the ballet
dancer arc procred by the elite of the arisocracv Of
lect nj elf
tor. Our gorge rises Mt 1t.
Thank Heaven, we Of the South arc alike free
from the pharasaical scrup.cs Of New York. and the
unworthy and cupablc license Of Boston, We vel
come theatrical talent, without seeking to inquire
too curiousy into the private life of its posscssor
We applaud prinia donna fascinating and
graceful dnnSeSe, but we take to keep them in
their sphere We do net introduce the denizcns of
the green-room to our wives and families, or enter
tain them in the pure and sacred retreats of home,
or escort them to our schools, invite them to in
innate communion with the youthful and the inno-
cent. In short, we do not run into extremes which
is precisely what our Northern brethren are doing.
We question whether they will ever learn wisdom.
IT the Countess Of lansfed has wit enough TO
write book, we trust she will publisl an account
OF her American tour, laying on the lash well, and
scomging New York for its new born morality, and
Boston for its fulsome adulation.
ANOTHER PrROUETTE.-Loa Monies has been
amusing herself with another scene at Boston. It
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IN tho theatre, because he obcyed an order given to
hm by the manager to pat out the gaslight in the
poperiy-room,' to get rid of the countess and her
suite, who we're creating there quite disturbance.
Lola i determined to have notoriety here, at all
hazards. She is determined to do something start
ing, at all times, to keep alive in regard to her the
public imagination. She is called 9 shameless by
this journal, "impudcnt" by that, what dye
call EN-" by third, and perfect thing umy"
by fourth; but the assaults of the press upon her
are only so many advertisements of her whereabou.
ana eecentricity, and their silence in regard to
ner would be her certain ruin she doubtless cloics
IN thcr abuse, as an economical mode Of kccpina
up the necessary excitement. We are afraid, how.
ever, that Lola has nearly nun ont her race in the
United states Novelty of any kind is sure to Oh
tam certain amount Of popularity in this country.
no matter whether it be meritorious or mertricio,is
va Nick himself, # properly costumcd and not too
much scented with bouquet de sulphur, would at
tract good houses in any public place for few
nights. y judcious use of the press might sustain
his popularity for two or three weeks if the kinks
IN ms tails were unique. or the bumps on his horns
sscientihcally remarkable. But all the art of Old
NICK would M bold i'm n ss,to ~,