The Magnificent Montez

Also, being well aware that, to ensure a good reception, a foreign-sounding name was desirable, this one decided to adopt that of Lola Montez.

eld by an affable Hebrew, one Benjamin Lumley, an ex-solicitor, who had abandoned his parchments and bills of costs and acquired a lease of Her Majesty's. The house had long been look

and was in want of a fresh attraction. Convinced that he recognised it in his caller (or, perhaps, anxious to please Lord

all have a contract for the rest of t

tter, left the manageria

tics, and would receive them in his sanctum

his is that I have secured Donna Lola, a Spanish dancer, direct from Seville. She is, I assure you, deliciously

adopting the pseudonym "Q," has left an account of the manner in which he first met Lola Montez. He had called on Lumley fo

instinct with melody. Her dark eyes were blazing and flashing with excitement, for she felt that I was willing to admire her.... As she swept round the stage, her slen

, who never missed an opportunity, made herself specially agreeable to him. Her bright eyes did their work. "When we separated," says "Q

n announcement of the promised nove

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Donna Lola Montez, of the Teatro Real, Seville, will have the honour to ma

ial appeal to music lovers was a little difficult to follow. Thus, one was of "Jackson's patent enema machines, as patronised by the nobility (either sex) when travelling"; another of "Mrs. Rodd's anatomical l

us, the Royal Box was graced by the Queen Dowager, with the King of Hanover and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar for her guests; and, dotted about the pit tier (then the fashionable part of the house) were the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Marquess and Marchioness of Granby, Lord and La

e up a party and hire an omnibus-box; and from that position to pronounce judgment upon the legs of the dancers pirouetting in wi

h him a select party of "Corinthians" in frilled shirts and flowered waistcoats. It was observed that he paid but languid attention to t

," he whispered. "Mind you fellows