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Such a one was Lola Montez, the notable 19th century hussy, whose beauty and calculated hysteria drove strong men mad -particularly King Ludwig I of Bavaria. * During her life, women were oddly immune to her power. The victims were the gentlemen of Berlin, Paris, London and New York whose heaving breasts and creaking shirt fronts provided the obbligato for her "abandoned" dancing. But now that Lola is safely buried these 94 years in Brooklyn, the ladies, especially the lady writers, have been taken over...
...Munich and prepared to run the country. Then, as now, advanced ideas were a prime source of self-advertisement, and Lola had absorbed a set of "bold and novel" notions through the pores of her celebrated milky skin by association with Alexandre Dumas. Her plans to give "freedom" to Bavaria were blocked by what she called "the cloven foot of Jesuitism." After two years, the Jesuits helped Bavaria get rid of her and the King, and she never forgave them...
...indicate what that knowledge was; no eyewitnesses stepped forward to refute or endorse it. Instead a host of rumors and lesser legends arose to pique the imagination with the suggestion that Hitler was alive and biding his time for reconquest; he was hiding out in Argentina, the mountains of Bavaria, the Peruvian Andes. The probate courts of West Germany, seeking to settle Hitler's estate, could establish no satisfying proof that the man was dead...
...such a nice welcome on a recent visit to Bavaria, notified Bavarian Minister of Agriculture Dr. Joseph Baumgartner that he was sending him a little gift of thanks : two live lions...
Russian Composer Prokofiev that he fled the U.S., where he had been touring since 1918. For 18 months he hid out in the depths of Bavaria-to finish another opera...