The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

HER DEBUT AT sYDNEY--LoLA BEHIND THE
sCENEs-How SHE sMoKED-LoLA A MBDI-
UM-LoLA ESCAPES THE MYRMIDoNs OF THE
| LAw-How SHE WAS HoRsE-wHIPPED.
A correspondent of the Scotsman, who
appears to be well informed, furnishes that
paper the following interesting gossip about
the career of the late Lola Montez in Aus.
tralia a.lf6s gl
One evening, in the Australian spring of
1855, the Royal Victoria theatre, in Pitt
street, Sydney, was crowded to suffocation.
Lola Montez was to make her first appear.
ance in very rose. colored dramatic version
of her Munich adventures, entitled "Lola
Montez in Bavaria" and afterwards to dis.
play her terpsichorean powers in the "Spider
Dance" But though theatre was full, in
the reputable portions OF the house scarce a
woman could be seen. The immaculate
wives and daughters of Sydney were dying
with curiosity as to the face and figure of
their sadly notorious frail sister /; but society
had pronounced that it would not be "the
thing" for them to get to see her, and &C.
cordngly they were obliged to content them
selves with reports of their husbands broth
ers and lovers.
A celebrated songstress then singing in
Sydney, now in England, who witnessed one
OF the performances of the celebrated dan
seuse, was abliged to muffle herself up in
thick shawl and veil, and sit back in the
darkest recess of stage box, through fear
of being recognized and reported, and con-
sequently losing the favor Of her female col
onial admirers.
LoLA'S SMOKING PROPENsITIEs.
When introduced to Lola-quite ly smok.
ing cigarette found that as long as
behaved myself had no reason to dread a
horse whip. She was no fury, but Bohe-
milan Grace, with latent dash of the devil
She chatted away as if had known her all
my life, and invited me to "conversazione"
at her motel on the following Sunday. She
played with good deal of piquancy, but
was evidently novice in "stage business"
As to the dancing the least said of that the
better.
On the following Sunday evening little
HindOO boy in white robe and turban ush-
cred me into "Madame's" drawing room in
Harris Hotel, Church hill. On an ottoman,
in chintz dressing gown, with girdle like
a bell rope round his loins, wearing, more.
over, a blue tasselled red fez and yellow
morocco slippers with turned up toes, sat a
not very sapient artist, who had taken part
in the "Ballaret Insurrection," nursing one
Of his knees and smoking hugh hookah.
His wife, once we'll known "Bloomer lee.
turess'" quiet little lady, however, with
skirts of orthodox length, French dan
seuse, recently imported star from the
North and South American theatres, large
eyed and longe limbed, Lola's "sheep dog
"a southern states lady, who loved Lola as
much as she detested that "she Judas" Mrs.
Beecher californian and local &C.
tors and actresses, and few of my critical
confreres, were the company. All the men
were smoking. So was the hostess-look
ing much prettier in her black silk skirt,
black velvet jacket lace habit shirt and col.
lar, implanted face, and school girl cluster
| of short curs, than when bedizened for the
| glare Of the foot lights.
On the sideboard stood tumbler of CT
garettes. Two dozen of these Lola smoked
between seven on Sunday evening and two
on Monday morning. Bringing the smoke
out of her nostrils and her ears was trick
that she thought nothing Of One of her
fumal feats, though not very feminine, was
very extraordinary. She took long pull
at her tube of snowy paper, opened her
mouth, but no smoke could be seen. She
then took draught of water, opened her
mouth, and out came cloud of smoke.
ibis, she informed US, was the Spanish way
of smoking tobacco, instead of putting out
its fumes before they were tasted, in the
absurd English style. On table turning
also, and "spiritualism" generally, she talked
in comical er -cathedra tone-half justified
by the freaks which she and her American
friends made the furniture of the room per-
form. Taps certainly were heard in the
middle OF telescope tables 10 reply to que.
ries, and claw tables prouetted on one toe.
10 animal magnetism, again, she was pro.
fessed believer.
On all kinds of topics Lola talked with
smartness-of the Jesuits (who, she main.
tanned, were the bigoted severers of the
purely PlatOnic association which existed
between Ludwig of Bavaria and the Couu-
tess OF Landsfels,) not only with smartness,
but with smart. OF liberty she proclaimed
herself an ardent devotee, showing, with
especial pride, amongst the trinkets, nuggets,
DC, she received ia America, a portrait OF
Washington, presented to her by the fire.
men of Boston. The Sydney ladies were
very much cbagrlned by Lola's general cor
rectness OF conduct. Beyond an apocryphal
story that she had blackened the eye of one
| of her actors with champaign bottle,
thrown at him at supper time, and another,
not much more authentic, that she had
threatened to fling little Hungarian refu-
| gee count out of window, no charge, al.
though sundry squatters we're mad as March
hares about her, could be brought against
her during her first stay in Sydney.
AN EsCAPADE.
A Thoroughly Lolesque escapade signal
lied her departure from Port jackson. Her
Californian company proving, with one or
two EXCEPTIONS set OF NUTS, she dismissed
them in Sydney, paying them all their dues
They had hoped to be taken on to Mel