The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-25
LOLA PREFERRED YOUNG ONE

| wife for Sir Abraham Lumley, an aged l but wealthy friend, and when Lola found
 her graduation dresses looked more like | brides rousseau, she smelled a mouse 1 She appealed to Captain James of the 1 Indian service to help her, and he did so | by clipping with her to Ireland. and I later taking her to India. There he spent 1 his time, according to Lola's testimony,
 drinking porter and sleeping like boa | constructor" That is, he must have
 slept all cured up in knot. Anyway ! there was another lady with whom the 1 captain used to go horseback riding, l and one day they galloped off to the Neilgherry Hills and forgot to return. 1 With a check for thousand pounds and her stepfather's blessing Lola went ! back to England. Somebody tipped her ] off to the fact that grass widows like
 her often found solace and salary on the l stage, and Lola put herself under l Spanish dancer to learn all the latest Castilan twists. She even went to Spain | to absorb the atmosphere, and she re- turned to England as Lola Montez /. the Spanish dancer. When news of he- step reached India, her mother put on mourning, and sent all her friends the customary funeral letters.
 1 So Lola lost all the names she had
 been christened with and danced from London over to Dresden and St. Peters burg. Her sole ambition in life. she said. was Ito hook a prince" She started op- erations on General Paskevitch. viceroy of Poland, who had an artificial gou roof to his mouth, and about seven mil lion kopecks for pocket money. Lola didn't coyet the former property, put she thought she might use some of the latter. When she decided the generals advances had gone far enough, she re- buked him, and the director of the thea tre, an ally of the generals, promptly told her she was fired. Lola announced the facts brazenly from the footlights and the result was a near-revolution in Warsaw.
 GAY PAREE AND A NICE EDITOR
 Lola had no liking for Polish bombs and bonfires. so she fled to Paris, as it Was fashionable to do h those daNs whenever any other quarter got too hot for one Clever at press agentry, she capitalized the advertising she had scraped up in Warsaw and immediately secured a dancing engagement at the Port Sainte Martin. On the sour-faced critics row sat Paul Dujarrier. editor Of La Presse.
 She's cheese. ain't she Pauf-' -N'estce-pas?" sneered the first-nighter next to Dujarrier.
 ..Ah. but she is like one cheese of the fresh Alpine goats" declaimed Paul. roetically 50 fresh. so fragrant"
 It wasn't hard for Paul to get stage
 
 two minutes afterwards. and Lola >>sd for three minutes grace to make up her mind She said yes in 2:B. and Ney were married. =,
 ..It is that she fas the evil eye! cried Alec Dumas. when Paul introouceo her to him, but Lola managed to de- yelop popularity in the most select lit- erarv circles in Paris, thanks to her hus- hand. Balzac thought she was refullar ninnin. and said as much in several of his novels.
 Rut Duiarrier was too good a husband to last He made some remarks apont the sparsencss of a rival editors bearu' in his editorial column one day, and the deadly insult called for duel Dujarrier, being clever paragrapher but an in different revolerist, left the field of hon or feet first, and Lola again found her self widow.
 Having lost a perfectly good husband Lola resumed her journey toward me goal of her am mbition. "to hook prince, She ran through the names in the faris Credit Mems Associations Royal Purple Book. and found what she wahleo ""ue' the Us.
 ENTER THE PILSENER KING
 Tn Munich resided the classiest king that Europe could boast of-Ludwig cr Bavaria He was regular Greek TOT punishment when it came to Nthe hIsn- brow classic stuff. lie lnuuiscu PaS sionate love for everything beautiful whether it was a gem of Hellenic art or a live jewel from the ballet of the opera He had whole art galleries filled win portraits of former flames and he would wander soulfully among them when ne wanted inspiration for his poetry. Lola Montez aspired to a hook on the wall or | the kings roguish gallery.
 She danced at Munich Genug: Ie- nug!' cried the king, which was a polite | way of saying ''Kamerad You're hired'" He summoned her to court-not the police | court, but the royal palace and intro duced her as My best friend Mrs Ludwig I and a large concourse of others were shocked to a pale saffron. Every body knew the king was fast little ras- cal, but this was too much. Nevertheless. Lola became fixed addition to the fur niture of the royal palace in the year 1s4l. She was born in 1Si8-figure it out 
 'tLooey. please. I want to be a count ess.'' Lola wheedled and sKe woke up the next morning at Baroness of Rosenthal and Countess of Landsfeld. The king gave her pin money income of s25.0o0 year. almost as much a Mary Pickford