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Lola Montez in Grass Valley (PH 17-1)(Undated) (40 pages)

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Spanish, she was Irish, her name was Eliza Gilbert. She traveled through Bavaria, London, her success reach New York. Her celebrated Spider Dance created a sensation she was gracious and beciming more lovely with age. She was thirty five when she reached San Francisco and what a royal welcome she received, and as a reporter put it, she was seen, admired, counted and gone made over, And whenshe danced for the first time, San Francisco adopted the most beautiful creature of the Gold Rush Days. Recording: Sicilian Tarantalla. Many men sought her hand in marriage. Patrick Purdy was the lucky man. Lola said she married him because he could tell a story better than any one she had ever know. In the first week of July 1853 Lola was readyy for her tour into the back country. First, Sacramento, her initial performance was tremendous. ‘Two companies of volunteer firemen serenaded her the next day. Her next appearance was at the newly formed Swiss Rifle Club. She encountered some difficulty. Lola was also a little temeramental. She stalked from the stage, the audience demanded their money backe The following evening she made a speech from the stage. Beauty hath charm. Asking the audience if she should go on with her performance, the audience rose to the occasion, as she knew they would, and the response was sufficient to carry her through her engagement. Her tour up to now was a succesSe Marysville did not take kindly to Lola. Her third performance was presented to an empty theatre. Leaving Sutter County Lolar reached the borders of Nevada County, arriving at a town whose name is revered and respected by people over the nation, GrassValley, In 1870 GrassValley had a population of 7063, and at no time did this well established community assume the character of a ghost town. Always its wealth was assurede Lola Montez took the hearts of the a3m.