The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-05
LOLA MONTEZ.

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December -, 1851. Lola Montes made
her American dehut rs Betty i'm "The
TyrOlean." The prices Of admission were
raised. Tickets were sold at auction. and
this price was not -extrava0ant, yet suf-
hcient to show the anxiety ON the part of
the public tn see this wonderful woman.
Everybody had heard Of her exploits, and
night utter might she packed the Old
was q play called 'Lola Monies i'm Ba-
~varia," written by Charles p. Il. Ware, a
literateur of the day. Lola was beautiful
and could sing fairly, hut her ''Spidcr
Dance" was her fortune. Its effect upon
Am audience was wonderful, and she was
forced tn repeat IL 70 many times of an
evening that, from utter exhaustion, she
would absolutely refuse tn come again
upon the stage unless the applause was
discontinued II you have never seen the
"Spider Dance" let me give you n de-
scription of IL: Up went the curtain, and
On comes Lola Montez, fomentin9 the
pit, agitatin9 the gallery, and sensationiz-
ing the dress circle. She il arrayed
as Joseph's coat, and stands for
an instant full of fire and action and
abandon, and all aglow with the excite
mcnt of the coming dance. She apparent
~ represents u country girl walking
across u meadow green, with tall grasses
~ 'HSH&aI w habh shHI
appears tn step into one Of those hug
nests of spiders found i'm the meadows
during the warm mornings of spring. She
commences tn Dance, and the cobwebs en-
tangle her clothes. The myraids of spi-
ders, young, old, and half grown, begin to
cOlonizc. The music-a slow, measured,
hut fascinating mixture Of waltzes, polka,
mazurka, schottische and jig, conforms to-
the step, or else the step conforms to the
music, you can't tell which. The spiders
Aee1nTnpllutn md the flnnsaspsa STAMINA
They appear i'm swarms-you can imagine
acknowledged nondescripts with two
heads and no ~eyes--hairy monsters with
five clawed ~feelers, crawling and jumping
about the stage, lighting upon Lola's pet
ticoats,and committing unwarrantableJlib-
but she seems to- take IL so coolly that one
''enouRh for Them" After a series of ex-
succeeds In getting the intruders out of
the way. She apparently stamps daylight
out Of millions Of them. and does il with
much noirefe. The picture winds up with
stage overwhelmed xn6 applause and
r RADIANT with fin'I part in skir rS." s% %Sin','p sra ae%
She was an Irish woman. The city. of
was a Creole, of spanish blood, and her
father was an Irish army officer. The
two were married when she was only Is
two years later, their only child. She was
christened Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna
Of Dolores. She went on the stage as a
dancer i'm Paris, at the Porte ST. Martin
Theater. There she led the writer's of the
press captive i'm her train. Upon two of
them-Beauvallon and DuRarrier-she be-
slowed her favors pretty freely, with the
result of arousing jealousy between them;
A duel was fought i'm Lola's presence, and
Dugarricr was killed.
Louis /. King of Bavaria fell i'm love
with her at once, and she became the real
sovereign OF Bavaria. Abel, the devout
Roman Catholic statesman, was then
prime minister of Bavaria, and he bitterly
opposed Lola and her influence over the
King, hut i'm vain. She had him removed
from office, and for a time she made and
indeed. ali Bavaria. bccame divided into
Lolaists. Riots broke out, and civil war
Lola held her ground. She had herself
created of Lansfleld, and then
retired to a villa OH Lake Constance,
Switzerland. Lola next returned to Eng
land, more famous and more admired
than ever. After a brilliant social career
young gentleman OF good family.
In 1851 she came To Anne RIGA. Lola
Montez took to the lecture room and APP
peared i'm January, 1850, i'm ''John Bull at
home" The points touched upon were
the comic side of En- .lish character,
English and American characteristics, the
real origin of nationa. rogtIery, English
English ~eaiiantries.. rHer lecture was in
ttrtSvlu&. III NaIII.s sIllt - iIlsiTTIeu a.
Mr.. Hull, from VIII I'm she was afterward
dive. ed. Then she went to Australia
and lectured, giving all her receipts to the
sufferers in tie English army i'm the
Crimean war She continued lecturing
until about 'Liy, 1850. Previous to that
she had e~ :esscd great dread that she
would die "a an almshousc. To guard
against - y, she promised II lady friend to
send to ~. every day her salary. On her
last To, y he received S25 for each lecture
delives.d. and had all expenses pa 4.
She rspt her promise, and when she te-
tur led the lady had Sl.JUO in the bank for
Il =. After her retirement she went to
I've i'm Astoria. Two years later she
came to live with the family of am old
friend, Isaac Buchanan. now a florist at
No. 4O7 Fifth Avenue. One night during
July she left her home III was the i7thD
to return to her own i'm Waverly Place.
That night she was taken with an
epileptic lit. From this she ncN rr fully re-
covered. She always firmly believed she
had been poisoned. On the night she was
taken sick she was greatly excited. She
made her will and all arrangements for
her funeral. She was taken to Howe's
Hotel, Astoria, l.. l. She recovered a
little, but was never well again. After n
time she returned from Astoria and went
!. TO live on Seventeenth street. below Eighth
enue New York. Here she spent her
ii days and died. Lola Montez.. or