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Sue Robinson rose from an itinerant life as a touring child performer to become an acclaimed dramatic actress.

There was a time in the mid-19th century when all Europe raved about the Spanish dancer, Lola Montez, not realizing that she wasn’t Spanish and couldn’t dance. She wowed them in Paris, London, Berlin and St. Petersburg with her famous Spider Dance, a number that had Lola wearing a black mantilla, clicking castanets and shaking

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Lola mimed the crushing of spiders that had invaded her undergarments

"Taste my whip." So begins the Spider Dance, a sublimely absurd, extremely sexually charged performance by Lavinia Dickinson—Emilys younger sibling, played with hormone-fueled gusto by Anna Baryshnikov. Lavinia scuttles across the floor, flutters her skirts, and wields her whip, all in a bid to test her would-be fiancés tolerance for her true self: not the aspiring housewife of season one, but the independent, artistic woman shes begun to grow into, with a little help from her older sister. ...

Skip to main content Who is the Lotta of Lottas Fountain? She was once one of Americas biggest stars Gary Kamiya FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 A 38-Geary bus rolls past Lotta’s Fountain on the 114th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco on April 18, 2020.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of4 A plaque is seen on Lotta’s Fountain on Market Street in San Francisco on April 16, 2018.Michael Short / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of4 A daguerreotype of Lola Mon...