St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-02-28
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LOLA MONTH";.

There are few romanccs of real life
more varied and intricate than that
which the life Of this strange woman
presents. She was born in Ireland.
of Spanish and Irish parcntage, being
patcrnally descended from British
! barUnGt, and on the mothers side,
/ from an ancient and noble CaStilian
| lineage. Her wandcrings began while
she was yet an infant-hcr father, an
officer in the British army, being or
dcrcd with his regiment to India. lie
died Of cholera a few years later, and
the mother Of Lola having married
again, the child, then six years old,
was returned to Scotland, and placed
in charge Of her step-fathcr's family
at MontrOsc.
\ bricf residence subsequently in
London, in the family of an Indian of:
ficcr, and in Paris at school, brings
Madame Lola, then Miss Gilbert, to
the age of fourteen, bringing also
from India her mother, who cherished
some matrimonial designs fox her
daughter, in which a very old and opu-
lent Judge Of the supreme court of
Calcutta was interested. Miss Gil
bert, who seems to have been prcco-
cious and to have had Il will Of her
own, met the emergency by clipping
with Captain James, who shortly
departed with her to India, where he
again clopcd, leaving Lola tcsolate
and unprotected. She returned to
Calcutta, where she was received by
her mother, but treated with extreme
cruelty. She was sent again TO Eng
land, where she at first intended to
prepare herself for the profession of
an actress, but afterwards stimulated,
no doubt, by the success Of Miss Ellcs-
Ter, who was at that time the rage in
London, decided on becoming Il dan
seuSc. Her friends in Scotland and
| ireland ceased to hold communica-
ton with her after her determination
became known, but she perscvercd
and finally made her debut at her
majesty's theatre in London.
The debut was brilliant, yet not a
success. Her marvellous beauty, her
vOuth hrr rrocn Of movcmrnt conti-
yatnI thc Audience for tho mnmcnt
Ihnt Enronn was then full of tLa won,
Iderrul EIirsInr and tho fCL,,Intto
! Gri-n was inst Lcrinnino, tn rise rio
London public admired Madame I.ola's
beauty, but they soon got tired Of her
ldanciiIr. and She shortly aftrrword
made the tour of the continental cities
With the beginning of her prufcssion-
al life, begins also that painful cccen-
tricitv of manner which was wont to
visit itself upon fuillctonists. critics
managers and others with whom the
ISniriturllc but iutrcpii dauScuso came
| in contact She had no one to whom
she might appeal TO redress her real
| or faucicd grievances. and she hit upou
the novel cxncdicnt of rclrcssiuo. Il lem
| herself. Lcrcuds of castimatcd man.
ayers and cxtinwuishcl writer's for
the press are current vet in the coulis-
scs Of several of the continental cities
wherever Lola went She successive.
/ " appeared at Dresden, Berlin, St.
/ Petersburg and Paris.
After her continental tour she re-
turned to Paris, where she became the
| bctrotlrl Of Mons. Dniurrier, at that
time editor Of Lq Pres~ and a writer of
much ability. Before the dav ap-
pointed for the wedding. her atlianccl
was killed in duel. Her gricf at
this occurrence is said to have been
inconsolablc. She exhibited such
marked symptoms of mental abcrra.
tion that it was proposed to send her
to an ASYLUM near Paris. She re-
covered, however. and shortly after
wards, in 1871. went to Bavaria.
where, by one of those accidents to
which actresses are liable. she at.
tracted the attention of King Louis.
a weak, incfcctua! sovereign, who be.
came infatuated with her, introduced
her at his court, made her countess of
LanlsfclIt. and cave her handsome
palace and rcnsion. Lola soon oct
the reins of Government in her own
hands, turned out the ministers. named
her own cabinet, and inaururatcd q
new regime in the administration OF
lllt DlN1lIln government. Her rtNQl
rule was short. She was expelled
from Munich, her palace was piliared
and the old king s0rrowfulIy resumed
the rule of his Old patronage of arts :
but he did not lonr survive the cxpul,
sion of his favoritc. Disguised as a
peasant girl, she fled to Switzerland
and thence fastened to London and
afterwards to Paris, where she lived
several wears, bearing the title but
not cniovinm the revenue Of the Coun
tess of LandsfclLt.
The same steamer that brought
Kossuth to our shores, brought here
Lola Montcz. She appeared at some
of the New York theatres as a dan
scuse, and in u play of her own wri
ting, 1.-The adventures of Lola Monte
in Bavaria" She went from here t,
San Francisco, where she married tn,