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Troupers of the Gold Coast; or The Rise of Lola Crabtree. Entertaining biography of Lotta Crabtree the performer and personality who became known as "The Fairy Star of The Gold Rush" and "The California Diamond". Crabtree arrived in the California gold

1928 · 27066 — Harcourt Brace & Company New York 1928 HARDBACK NODustjacket 1928 1st Edition 1st Printing NF/VG AS-IS NOJACKET 262 pgs Index Green cloth Hardbound Cvr with Embossed emblem & bevelled Edges light wear small light Stains. 8vo about 8.75 inches tall Spine cvr rub & Fade. Interior Nice tight Clean Light Wear Fox Crabtree arrived in the California gold fields at age 5 and began dancing in the mining camps at age 8. She and her family moved to San Francisco when she was 9 and Lotta continued to attract much attention on the stage for a number of years. Several years later she came east and was a sensation in the Broadway music halls. As can be imagined the beautiful performer was ardently persued but never married; her mother and later she herself invested in California real estate. She retired to New Jersey a wealthy woman at age 45. Lotta who became the most popular soubrette of the seventies and eighties began her career in the gold camps of the High Sierras and the gambling saloons and variety halls of San Francisco. Troupes appeared not only in the theatres of the cities but took to the road by stage coach or even on foot and played in the remotest mining towns with showers of gold as their reward. This is the story of the fascinating Lotta who emerged out of this background to become throughout the country the foremost comedy actress and the pioneer in extravaganza and burlesque. Includes much about other entertainers of the time including Ada Menken Lola Montez the Booths Julia Dean and more. Wheat's California Gold Rush. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, hardcover