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CENTRAL II. Starts Wed. Green Wall. 6, 9:45, Lola Montee. 7:55, wkend...
...LOLA MASKOVSKY...
Other winged beauties include an Eric Broadley-designed Lola, which has its engine-cooling air vents mounted like hollow eyes in front of the driver's cockpit; the Maurice Phillippe-designed Parnelli, which had two of its multiple wings clipped after some experimentation; and the McLaren, which got almost everybody wing-conscious when it appeared last year with a striking rear-mounted foil...
Gold Rush. Lola never altogether recovered from the double loss of Dujarier and Bavaria. But at 35, after severe bouts of sickness and marriage, she rallied enough to join the California gold rush. She opened a frontier salon in a mining camp called Grass Valley and stocked it with Ludwig's jewels, Louis Seize cabinets, ormolu mirrors, Kanaka houseboys, a swan bed, a pet bear and every Senator, Governor or millionaire she could find. In the back of her mind, as letters discovered after her death made clear, was a plot to capture California from...
Weirder fantasies soon set in. Lola took refuge in astrology and nature mysticism. She revived briefly to write a book of beauty secrets (to prevent wrinkles, she suggested binding thin slivers of raw beef tightly around the face) and made some lecture tours ("Let historical justice be done to the intellect of woman," she implored. "I am content to leave the history of her heart and moral life, without comment, to defend itself by contrast with that of the other sex"). But at 41, she had a schizophrenic collapse. She spent the last two years of her life shuffling along...