Word: lola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word on Lola Sir: I was distressed to read in your Jan. 2 issue the description of the incomparable Lola Montez as a "hussy." My dictionary defines "hussy" as a "worthless creature," and surely a woman who was able to counsel kings and inspire geniuses was not worthless, and her mastery of the arts of love was a supreme accomplishment...
Thereafter, she played herself in her own foolish part on the stage in a presentation called Lola Montez in Bavaria. When a performance went wrong in Philadelphia, she knew whom to blame. The conductor, she stormed, had smuggled Jesuits into the orchestra to sabotage her dance. So it went all round the world-lawsuits, horsewhippings, fake suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense...
...decision to possess her was made in that instant. 'As an artist you have no equal,' she said tritely, as he held her hand in a fervent and prolonged grasp . . . Only a few hours later, her body stripped of the clothes that hid its superb beauty, Lola sought to achieve the heights of passion which Liszt so obviously enjoyed...
Exit Ludwig. A duel in the Bois de Boulogne (afterwards, Lola looked smashing in her bereaved-mistress' weeds) set her firmly in the center of what would now be called cafe society. But her real career began when she was engaged to dance in Munich and bewitched old King Ludwig (her bodice tore at just the right moment and place). Lola moved into the posh palace he built for her in 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...
...wound up playing to miners in Nevada, and even worse, in the Australian goldfields. It was there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...