May 13, 1965 (20 pages)

May 13, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. NUGGET FEATURES Bee e4eSeus Oe & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE 9@8@ 8% @® OeGe@ SEH 6 MOSS Hearst's Respect For Nature Left Saint Or Sinner FOOL’S GOLD PreservedBeauty The Enigma Of The Last Of The Great During Easter week we stole away on a journey into the past, to a part of Monterey County where time has stood still for almost 200 years. Freeways and subdivisions. are unknown and nature is dominant in this great domain of costal mountains and oak-studded valleys which stretches from San Simeon eastward and northward to the Salinas Valley. ‘ Such an anomaly is possible in our fast-changing state because this area, about the size of the state of Rhode Island, was purchased early in the century by William Randolph Hearst who had a respect for nature and the glories of the past and devoted much of his life and fortune to preserving them. Most of it is now the Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation, used asa training area bythe U. S, Army but open to public travel, Preserved intact within its boundaries is the Mission San Antonio de Padua, as fine an example of early mission architecture as any we have seen. Strolling through the cloisters and looking out upon the peaceful valley of the San Antonio River, we quite easily made the journey in time back to the 1770s when the mission fathers worked to bring their concept of Christianity to the Indians of theregion. Most of the crude tools and machinery used for farming, preparing food, and carrying on a horse and buggy economy are preserved somewhere about the mission but without the museum atmosphere of a state park, Less than a mile away one of Hearst's castles, this one built more or less in the architectural style of the mission, is now an officer's club, and military vehicles are much in evidence, but (Continued on Page 14) CAROUSEL May 13-14 and 20-21 ..The musical folk tale “Dark of the Moon" will be presented four times by the Sierra College Drama Department at 8 p.m. May 13-18 . Performances of Friedrich Von Schiller's "Love and Intrigue” will start at 8:15 p.m. in Wyatt Pavilion Theater on the Davis campus of the University of California. May 13-23 .«eThe Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival at Chico State College willstarttoday. The festival will include a concert in the college auditorium at 8:15 p.m, tomorrow by the Chico Symphony Orchestra; and art preview and (Continued on Page 14) Adventuresses Oh, the joys and the trails and tribulations of column writing. A week orsoagol reviewed the book "The Last of the Dons" in which our own Lola Montez plays a prominent part. Part of the life of a columnist who writes of yesteryear is the dreams of that which might have been, So I got to thinking how exciting it would have been to have had an affair with the glamourous Lola and said so in this space. Oh my! Three letters two not sonice, Ida West, the-Gommercial Street artist and antiquarian thought that Lola and I would have had a gay oldtime, But James W. McLaughlin, of 3313 Plateau Drive, Belmont, Calif., chides me for apparently seeing only the sin side of Lola and supports his thoughts of the “other Lola" by quoting Miss Lorraine Andrews who to-day lives in Lola's Grass Valley, Mill Street manse, Miss Andrews is the-self-appointed-defender of Lola. (Alas, I know her well), Miss Andrews, in her defense of Lola, inspired Nugget subscriber McLaughlin to write the poem that follows his letter. Good Grief, as Charlie Brown in Peanuts would say: Belmont, California April 17, 1965 Dear Bob Paine, Tenjoy your column in the Nugget, your historical reminiscences make one aware of how quickly to-day will become history to intrigue the readers of to-morrow's generation, Reading your review of “The Last of The Dons” reminded me of my recent meeting with a retired teacher, a lady named Miss Andrews with a memory like a movie film and a mind that moves more quickly, She is the present owner of Lola's house, as you know, Miss Andrews knows a. great deal about Lola and claims that many things written about her are untrue, She has a great deal of information about Lola's sad childhood, pre~arranged-marriage and other pertinent information regarding her early life. Much information of her generosity and other virtues which have been underplayed for the sake of overplaying the spicy side of her life, I am writing this letter as a suggestion that you speak to Miss Andrews sometime, You would probably learn a great deal of interest to your column, Iwas personally soimpressed by Miss Andrews that I wrote a poem about her when I got home, I can remember little of the inform ation she gave me about Lola as she told me so much in a short time, but as you see I will never forget Miss Andrews, Your truly, James W, McLaughlin To each his own, I always say, Jim, As for me, I'll never forget Lola, (BP) Here's the poem titled “The Brighter Side", THE BRIGHTER SIDE I heard it from Miss Andrews, and I heard it loud and clear, She spoke with great directness and I know she was sincere: "I don't care for a minute what the whole world thinks and says; There was lots of sterling goodness in that Lola Montez”, Miss Andrews was a teacher, and her thoughts are quite precise About the lovely countess--both the naughty and the nice, Miss Andrews knows her background and the facts beyond dispute That greater were her virtues than her fame of ill repute, Miss Andrews scorns the fiction that sweet Lola's hair was red, Miss Andrews has her picture, and she sleeps in Lola's bed, She doesn't care a minute what the whole world thinks or says; “There was lots of sterling goodness in that Lola Montez, " I_ heard it from Miss Andrews, and I think she may be right; And who shall dare to throw a stone? Is someone wholly white? Be Lola high in Heaven, or be Lola deep in Hell, Miss Andrews is an angel who has seen her goodness well, I heard it from Miss Andrews, Yes, I heard it loud and clear, But, far above the words she spoke were greater things to hear-The voice within her kindly heart which spoke as people should, To overlook the darker side, and try to see the good, James W, McLaughlin Mr. McLaughlin and Miss Andrews gave me a guilt complex so I reread Famous Hussies of History by Allert Payson Terhune (World Publishing Co,, N. Y.) and his stories of the super-womensoe Lola Montez including Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna born in County Limerick, Ireland, To us she was Lola Montez, Being Irish myself helps me understand Lola. Terhune finishes his opus "When she tired of Grass Valley and of her successive husbands, she went back to New York, And to the wonder of all (here Miss Andrews proves her point) and to the credulity of most that, although she had been a great sinner, she was now prepared to devote the rest of her life to penance," Strangely enough, her new resolve was nota pose, Even inher heydey in Grass Valley she had given lavishly to charity. Now she took up rescue work among women, She did much good in a quiet way, spending what money she had on the betterment of her sex's unfortunates and toiling night and day in their behalf. Under this unaccustomed mode of life, Lola's health went to pieces, She went toa sanitarium in Astoria, L, 1. There in poverty, and half forgotten, she died, Kindly neighbors scraped up LOLA MONTEZ is shown in the 1854 picture taken in Grass Valley seatedin a wagon next to her husband, Patrick Hull, In the background, arrows shown (seated) Lola's house boy and (standing) Gravin Hamilton, owner of Grass Valleys famous Hamilton Hall in front of which this photo was taken. enough money to bury her, Thus ended in wretched anticlimax the meteor career of Lola Montez: Wonder Woman and wanderer; overthrower of a dynasty and worse-than-mediocre dancer, Some one called her "the last of the great adventuresses", And that perhaps is her greatest epitaph. Her neglected grave in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn bears no epitaph at all. Her last resting place of a very tired woman is marked by a plain headstone, whose dimmed lettering reads: MRS, ELIZA GILBERT, DIED JUNE 16, 1861, AGE 42 One trembles to think of the near-royal Irish rage that would have possessed Lola if, at her baroness countess-Bavarian zenith, she could have forseen that dreary little postscript to her lurid life missive, I say Lola was a sinner, Miss Andrews says she's a saint, .I guess its "Judge not lest Ye be judged,"Town Talk Campbell Home..Designers West..Spare That Turtle San Francisco architectJohn Carden Campbell's new Nevada City “mountain recreation house" has received feature treatment in achieved some fameon the “outside." A poster-designed by Commercial Street artists David Osborn and Charles Woods for a Arts and Architecture magazine. Now the tent-shaped structure is going to appear in House and Garden magazine. And of course the Nugget--which: always keeps abreast of local trends by reading the national press. eee es 6 And another local project has localcommercial venture known as The Postermakers has been reproduced on the cover of Designers West magazine. eee? Don't touch that—pet-turtle! At least that's what yet another noted Nevada City artist warns. (Continued on Page 14)

May 13, 1965...Nevada County Nugget... NUGGET FEATURES Bee e4eSeus Oe & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE 9@8@ 8% @® OeGe@ SEH 6 MOSS Hearst's Respect For Nature Left Saint Or Sinner FOOL’S GOLD PreservedBeauty The Enigma Of The Last Of The Great During Easter week we stole away on a journey into the past, to a part of Monterey County where time has stood still for almost 200 years. Freeways and subdivisions. are unknown and nature is dominant in this great domain of costal mountains and oak-studded valleys which stretches from San Simeon eastward and northward to the Salinas Valley. ‘ Such an anomaly is possible in our fast-changing state because this area, about the size of the state of Rhode Island, was purchased early in the century by William Randolph Hearst who had a respect for nature and the glories of the past and devoted much of his life and fortune to preserving them. Most of it is now the Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation, used asa training area bythe U. S, Army but open to public travel, Preserved intact within its boundaries is the Mission San Antonio de Padua, as fine an example of early mission architecture as any we have seen. Strolling through the cloisters and looking out upon the peaceful valley of the San Antonio River, we quite easily made the journey in time back to the 1770s when the mission fathers worked to bring their concept of Christianity to the Indians of theregion. Most of the crude tools and machinery used for farming, preparing food, and carrying on a horse and buggy economy are preserved somewhere about the mission but without the museum atmosphere of a state park, Less than a mile away one of Hearst's castles, this one built more or less in the architectural style of the mission, is now an officer's club, and military vehicles are much in evidence, but (Continued on Page 14) CAROUSEL May 13-14 and 20-21 ...The musical folk tale “Dark of the Moon" will be presented four times by the Sierra College Drama Department at 8 p.m. May 13-18 .. Performances of Friedrich Von Schiller's "Love and Intrigue” will start at 8:15 p.m. in Wyatt Pavilion Theater on the Davis campus of the University of California. May 13-23 .«eThe Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival at Chico State College willstarttoday. The festival will include a concert in the college auditorium at 8:15 p.m, tomorrow by the Chico Symphony Orchestra; and art preview and (Continued on Page 14) Adventuresses Oh, the joys and the trails and tribulations of column writing. A week orsoagol reviewed the book "The Last of the Dons" in which our own Lola Montez plays a prominent part. Part of the life of a columnist who writes of yesteryear is the dreams of that which might have been, So I got to thinking how exciting it would have been to have had an affair with the glamourous Lola and said so in this space. Oh my! Three letters two not sonice, Ida West, the-Gommercial Street artist and antiquarian thought that Lola and I would have had a gay oldtime, But James W. McLaughlin, of 3313 Plateau Drive, Belmont, Calif., chides me for apparently seeing only the sin side of Lola and supports his thoughts of the “other Lola" by quoting Miss Lorraine Andrews who to-day lives in Lola's Grass Valley, Mill Street manse, Miss Andrews is the-self-appointed-defender of Lola. (Alas, I know her well), Miss Andrews, in her defense of Lola, inspired Nugget subscriber McLaughlin to write the poem that follows his letter. Good Grief, as Charlie Brown in Peanuts would say: Belmont, California April 17, 1965 Dear Bob Paine, Tenjoy your column in the Nugget, your historical reminiscences make one aware of how quickly to-day will become history to intrigue the readers of to-morrow's generation, Reading your review of “The Last of The Dons” reminded me of my recent meeting with a retired teacher, a lady named Miss Andrews with a memory like a movie film and a mind that moves

more quickly, She is the present owner of Lola's house, as you know, Miss Andrews knows a. great deal about Lola and claims that many things written about her are untrue, She has a great deal of information about Lola's sad childhood, pre~arranged-marriage and other pertinent information regarding her early life. Much information of her generosity and other virtues which have been underplayed for the sake of overplaying the spicy side of her life, I am writing this letter as a suggestion that you speak to Miss Andrews sometime, You would probably learn a great deal of interest to your column, Iwas personally soimpressed by Miss Andrews that I wrote a poem about her when I got home, I can remember little of the inform ation she gave me about Lola as she told me so much in a short time, but as you see I will never forget Miss Andrews, Your truly, James W, McLaughlin To each his own, I always say, Jim, As for me, I'll never forget Lola, (BP) Here's the poem titled “The Brighter Side", THE BRIGHTER SIDE I heard it from Miss Andrews, and I heard it loud and clear, She spoke with great directness and I know she was sincere: "I don't care for a minute what the whole world thinks and says; There was lots of sterling goodness in that Lola Montez”, Miss Andrews was a teacher, and her thoughts are quite precise About the lovely countess--both the naughty and the nice, Miss Andrews knows her background and the facts beyond dispute That greater were her virtues than her fame of ill repute, Miss Andrews scorns the fiction that sweet Lola's hair was red, Miss Andrews has her picture, and she sleeps in Lola's bed, She doesn't care a minute what the whole world thinks or says; “There was lots of sterling goodness in that Lola Montez, " I_ heard it from Miss Andrews, and I think she may be right; And who shall dare to throw a stone? Is someone wholly white? Be Lola high in Heaven, or be Lola deep in Hell, Miss Andrews is an angel who has seen her goodness well, I heard it from Miss Andrews, Yes, I heard it loud and clear, But, far above the words she spoke were greater things to hear-The voice within her kindly heart which spoke as people should, To overlook the darker side, and try to see the good, James W, McLaughlin Mr. McLaughlin and Miss Andrews gave me a guilt complex so I reread Famous Hussies of History by Allert Payson Terhune (World Publishing Co,, N. Y.) and his stories of the super-womensoe Lola Montez including Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna born in County Limerick, Ireland, To us she was Lola Montez, Being Irish myself helps me understand Lola. Terhune finishes his opus "When she tired of Grass Valley and of her successive husbands, she went back to New York, And to the wonder of all (here Miss Andrews proves her point) and to the credulity of most that, although she had been a great sinner, she was now prepared to devote the rest of her life to penance," Strangely enough, her new resolve was nota pose, Even inher heydey in Grass Valley she had given lavishly to charity. Now she took up rescue work among women, She did much good in a quiet way, spending what money she had on the betterment of her sex's unfortunates and toiling night and day in their behalf. Under this unaccustomed mode of life, Lola's health went to pieces, She went toa sanitarium in Astoria, L, 1.. There in poverty, and half forgotten, she died, Kindly neighbors scraped up LOLA MONTEZ is shown in the 1854 picture taken in Grass Valley seatedin a wagon next to her husband, Patrick Hull, In the background, arrows shown (seated) Lola's house boy and (standing) Gravin Hamilton, owner of Grass Valleys famous Hamilton Hall in front of which this photo was taken. enough money to bury her, Thus ended in wretched anticlimax the meteor career of Lola Montez: Wonder Woman and wanderer; overthrower of a dynasty and worse-than-mediocre dancer, Some one called her "the last of the great adventuresses", And that perhaps is her greatest epitaph. Her neglected grave in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn bears no epitaph at all. Her last resting place of a very tired woman is marked by a plain headstone, whose dimmed lettering reads: MRS, ELIZA GILBERT, DIED JUNE 16, 1861, AGE 42 One trembles to think of the near-royal Irish rage that would have possessed Lola if, at her baroness countess-Bavarian zenith, she could have forseen that dreary little postscript to her lurid life missive, I say Lola was a sinner, Miss Andrews says she's a saint, .I guess its "Judge not lest Ye be judged,"Town Talk Campbell Home...Designers West...Spare That Turtle San Francisco architectJohn Carden Campbell's new Nevada City “mountain recreation house" has received feature treatment in achieved some fameon the “outside." A poster-designed by Commercial Street artists David Osborn and Charles Woods for a Arts and Architecture magazine. Now the tent-shaped structure is going to appear in House and Garden magazine. And of course the Nugget--which: always keeps abreast of local trends by reading the national press. eee es 6 And another local project has localcommercial venture known as The Postermakers has been reproduced on the cover of Designers West magazine. eee? Don't touch that—pet-turtle! At least that's what yet another noted Nevada City artist warns. (Continued on Page 14)