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Boohooing with Eliza...
...Eliza Doolittle might cry out upon reading your reviewer's statement [May 1] that "there is not a. . . genuinely appealing . . . female character in all of [Shaw's] plays." A few million of her admirers, who have found her vastly appealing, might join in her "detestable boohooing," as Henry Higgins called...
Having savored the adulation of these millions through the years, Eliza (never at a loss for words) might say of the reviewer what she first said of Higgins himself: "He's off his chump...
...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
...Byron ... or maybe of a matador. In fact, as this perfectly sober biography with a plot like a chambermaid's dream shows, Lola was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, the daughter of an 18-year-old lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school in Paris, she perfected a homicidal temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with...