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Grace Palotta
Grace Palotta
Born	about 1870; Vienna
Died	21 February 1959; London
Other names	Grace Parlotta
Occupation(s)	Actress, Gaiety girl, writer

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Grace Palotta (c. 1870 – 21 February 1959) was an Austrian-born actress and writer. She was a Gaiety girl in London, and toured in Australia several times between 1895 and 1918.

Early life

Palotta was born in Vienna.^[1] She explained of her origins that her mother was "French and English", her father "Hungarian and Italian".^[2] She studied at the Royal Academy of Music.^[1]

Career

Palotta made her stage debut in London in 1893.^[1] She spent four years working for George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre,^[3] where she often played roles that highlighted her comic timing, her beauty, and her accented English,^[4]^[5]^[6] though her singing voice was not strong.^[7] She also performed at the Tivoli Theatre in London.^[2] She sometimes played breeches roles, including the Prince in a pantomime based on Cinderella, and the principal boy role in Aladdin.^[8] She toured in the United States in 1904,^[9] and with the Hugh J. Ward company in Australia,^[10]^[11]^[12] and New Zealand,^[13] several times, from 1895 to 1918. Palotta had roles in The Shop Girl, All Abroad, Trial by Jury, The Circus Girl,^[14] The Messenger Boy, A Runaway Girl, A Gentleman in Khaki,^[15] Florodora,^[7]^[16] Aladdin,^[8] The New Clown,^[17] and The Man from Mexico.^[18]

Palotta was a popular subject of picture postcards.^[19] She also wrote light articles and stories for periodicals.^[5]^[20]^[21]^[22]

Australian composer May Summerbelle dedicated a 1904 waltz titled 'Beaux Yeux' (Beautiful Eyes) to grace. Her photograph appears on the cover artwork.^[23]

Personal life

Palotta married Henry Samuel Kingston in 1888, in East Dereham, Norfolk.^[24] She lived in Melbourne during World War I. She lived in Vienna and Jersey in her later years.^[25]^[26] She died at a nursing home in Notting Hill, London in 1959, in her late eighties.^[27]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Miss Grace Palotta". The Strand Musical Magazine. 3: 223. 1896.
^ ^a ^b "Plays and Players: The Women of the Tivoli". Sunset. 15: 396–397. August 1905.
^ Hamilton, Lord Frederick Spencer (1921). Here, There and Everywhere. George H. Doran Company. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-1-4142-4702-1.
^ Monckton, Lionel; Caryll, Ivan; Hicks, Seymour; Nicholls, Harry (1898). A Runaway Girl: New Musical Play. Chappell.
^ ^a ^b Palotta, Grace (1900). "My Friend the Prince". The Era Almanack: 58–59.
^ Casamajor, George H. (October 1901). "Beauty on the London Stage". Cosmopolitan. 31: 580–581.
^ ^a ^b "The Theatre Brought Home". The Australasian Pastoralists' Review. 10: 742. January 15, 1901.
^ ^a ^b "Grace Palotta". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954). 1914-01-18. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Trove.
^ "Vaudeville". Chicago Tribune. 1904-11-27. p. 27. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "A Third of the Ward-Willoughby-Palotta Combination". The Sketch. 57: 5. March 6, 1907.
^ Rambler (1938-05-07). "Melbourne's Gay Nineties; A Collection of Memories". The Age. p. 35. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Melodious Memories; Grace Palotta Trip to Chinatown". The Age. 1939-10-07. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Miss Grace Palotta in Nurse's Guise". Southland Times. 25 April 1911. p. 2. Retrieved April 13, 2021 – via Papers Past.
^ Wearing, J. P. (2013-11-21). The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. pp. 231, 279, 300, 319. ISBN 978-0-8108-9282-8.
^ Wearing, J. P. (2013-12-05). The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. pp. 3, 17. ISBN 978-0-8108-9294-1.
^ Tallis, Michael; Tallis, Joan (2006). The Silent Showman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's Largest Entertainment Organisation of the 1920s. Wakefield Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-86254-735-3.
^ "Miss Grace Palotta". Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919). 1907-01-23. p. 34. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Trove.
^ "'The Man from Mexico'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1906-05-14. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Kelly, V. (2004). "Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth-century Australia" New Theatre Quarterly, 20(78), 99-116.
^ Palotta, Grace (1 November 1907). "In Praise of Simplicity". The Lone Hand. 2: 88–90.
^ Palotta, Grace (1 August 1907). "The Woman's Way". The Lone Hand. 1: 400–403.
^ Palotta, Grace (1 May 1907). "The Stage Kiss". Lone Hand. 1: 103–104 – via Trove.
^ Summerbelle, May, Beaux yeux [music] : waltz / composed by May Summerbelle (in no linguistic content), W.H. Paling & Co., Ltd
^ Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk Church of England Registers; Reference: PD 86/27; banns of marriage dated certified September 2, 1888. via Ancestry.
^ "Actress Coming in Orcades; Many Friends Here". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1939-02-02. p. 26. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Grace Palotta". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954). 1928-06-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Trove.
^ "Grace Palotta". The Guardian. 1959-02-23. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

Six portraits of Grace Palotta, at the National Portrait Gallery
Grace Palotta, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes (1890); in the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Miss Grace Palotta, a postcard in the collection of the New York Public Library
Postcard 'Miss Grace Palotta' (1909), from the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

[:0-1] "Miss Grace Palotta". The Strand Musical Magazine. 3: 223. 1896.

[:1-2] "Plays and Players: The Women of the Tivoli". Sunset. 15: 396–397. August 1905.

[3] Hamilton, Lord Frederick Spencer (1921). Here, There and Everywhere. George H. Doran Company. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-1-4142-4702-1.

[4] Monckton, Lionel; Caryll, Ivan; Hicks, Seymour; Nicholls, Harry (1898). A Runaway Girl: New Musical Play. Chappell.

[:2-5] Palotta, Grace (1900). "My Friend the Prince". The Era Almanack: 58–59.

[6] Casamajor, George H. (October 1901). "Beauty on the London Stage". Cosmopolitan. 31: 580–581.

[:3-7] "The Theatre Brought Home". The Australasian Pastoralists' Review. 10: 742. January 15, 1901.

[:4-8] "Grace Palotta". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954). 1914-01-18. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Trove.

[9] "Vaudeville". Chicago Tribune. 1904-11-27. p. 27. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

[10] "A Third of the Ward-Willoughby-Palotta Combination". The Sketch. 57: 5. March 6, 1907.

[11] Rambler (1938-05-07). "Melbourne's Gay Nineties; A Collection of Memories". The Age. p. 35. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

[12] "Melodious Memories; Grace Palotta Trip to Chinatown". The Age. 1939-10-07. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

[13] "Miss Grace Palotta in Nurse's Guise". Southland Times. 25 April 1911. p. 2. Retrieved April 13, 2021 – via Papers Past.

[14] Wearing, J. P. (2013-11-21). The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. pp. 231, 279, 300, 319. ISBN 978-0-8108-9282-8.

[15] Wearing, J. P. (2013-12-05). The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. pp. 3, 17. ISBN 978-0-8108-9294-1.

[16] Tallis, Michael; Tallis, Joan (2006). The Silent Showman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's Largest Entertainment Organisation of the 1920s. Wakefield Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-86254-735-3.

[17] "Miss Grace Palotta". Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919). 1907-01-23. p. 34. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Trove.

[18] "'The Man from Mexico'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1906-05-14. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

[19] Kelly, V. (2004). "Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth-century Australia" New Theatre Quarterly, 20(78), 99-116.

[20] Palotta, Grace (1 November 1907). "In Praise of Simplicity". The Lone Hand. 2: 88–90.

[21] Palotta, Grace (1 August 1907). "The Woman's Way". The Lone Hand. 1: 400–403.

[22] Palotta, Grace (1 May 1907). "The Stage Kiss". Lone Hand. 1: 103–104 – via Trove.

[23] Summerbelle, May, Beaux yeux [music] : waltz / composed by May Summerbelle (in no linguistic content), W.H. Paling & Co., Ltd

[24] Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk Church of England Registers; Reference: PD 86/27; banns of marriage dated certified September 2, 1888. via Ancestry.

[25] "Actress Coming in Orcades; Many Friends Here". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1939-02-02. p. 26. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

[26] "Grace Palotta". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954). 1928-06-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Trove.

[27] "Grace Palotta". The Guardian. 1959-02-23. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.

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 == Early life ==
-Palotta was born in [[Vienna]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=1896|title=Miss Grace Palotta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_4sAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=The Strand Musical Magazine|volume=3|pages=223}}</ref> She explained of her origins that her mother was "French and English", her father "Hungarian and Italian".<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=August 1905|title=Plays and Players: The Women of the Tivoli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQLio9g1_lcC&pg=PA396&dq=Grace+Palotta&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8gYeZxfvvAhUWrp4KHaibAsUQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=Sunset|volume=15|pages=396-397}}</ref> She studied at the [[Royal Academy of Music]].<ref name=":0" />
+Palotta was born in [[Vienna]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=1896|title=Miss Grace Palotta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_4sAAAAYAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA223|journal=The Strand Musical Magazine|volume=3|pages=223}}</ref> She explained of her origins that her mother was "French and English", her father "Hungarian and Italian".<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=August 1905|title=Plays and Players: The Women of the Tivoli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQLio9g1_lcC&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA396|journal=Sunset|volume=15|pages=396–397}}</ref> She studied at the [[Royal Academy of Music]].<ref name=":0" />
 == Career ==
+[[File:Grace Parlotta, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes MET DP831723.jpg|alt=Woman in short dress standing with arms crossed|left|thumb|Grace Parlotta, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes, ca. 1888, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]
-Palotta made her stage debut in London in 1893.<ref name=":0" /> She spent four years working for [[George Edwardes]] at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Lord Frederick Spencer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypCY7qboWZYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|title=Here, There and Everywhere|date=1921|publisher=George H. Doran Company|isbn=978-1-4142-4702-1|pages=82-83|language=en}}</ref> where she often played roles that highlighted her comic timing, her beauty, and her accented English,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Monckton|first=Lionel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M105AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=Grace+Palotta&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8gYeZxfvvAhUWrp4KHaibAsUQ6AEwA3oECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|title=A Runaway Girl: New Musical Play|last2=Caryll|first2=Ivan|last3=Hicks|first3=Seymour|last4=Nicholls|first4=Harry|date=1898|publisher=Chappell|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1900|title=My Friend the Prince|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7hJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA58&dq=Grace+Palotta&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8gYeZxfvvAhUWrp4KHaibAsUQ6AEwBHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=The Era Almanack|pages=58-59}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Casamajor|first=George H.|date=October 1901|title=Beauty on the London Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIPW3N-PjncC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA580#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=Cosmopolitan|volume=31|pages=580-581}}</ref> though her singing voice was not strong.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|date=January 15, 1901|title=The Theatre Brought Home|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P805AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA742#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=The Australasian Pastoralists' Review|volume=10|pages=742}}</ref> She also performed at the [[Tivoli Theatre of Varieties|Tivoli Theatre]] in London.<ref name=":1" /> She sometimes played [[Breeches role|breeches roles]], including the Prince in a [[pantomime]] based on [[Cinderella]], and the principal boy role in ''Aladdin.''<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|date=1914-01-18|title=Grace Palotta.|pages=21|work=Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221557717|access-date=2021-04-14|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> She toured in the United States in 1904,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1904-11-27|title=Vaudeville.|pages=27|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731828/vaudeville/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and with the [[Hugh J. Ward]] company in Australia,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=March 6, 1907|title=A Third of the Ward-Willoughby-Palotta Combination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTVIAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA5&dq=Grace+Palotta&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8gYeZxfvvAhUWrp4KHaibAsUQ6AEwBXoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=The Sketch|volume=57|pages=5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rambler|date=1938-05-07|title=Melbourne's Gay Nineties; A Collection of Memories|pages=35|work=The Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731416/melbournes-gay-nineties-a-collection/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=1939-10-07|title=Melodious Memories; Grace Palotta Trip to Chinatown|pages=10|work=The Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731586/melodious-memories-grace-palotta-trip/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and New Zealand,<ref>{{Cite news|date=25 April 1911|title=Miss Grace Palotta in Nurse's Guise|page=2|work=Southland Times|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19110425.2.5|access-date=April 13, 2021|via=Papers Past}}</ref> several times, from 1895 to 1918. Palotta had roles in ''The Shop Girl, All Abroad'', ''Trial by Jury, [[The Circus Girl]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wearing|first=J. P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nF8pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279&dq=Grace+Palotta&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj37vSR4PzvAhVPnJ4KHdUwBec4KBDoATABegQIBhAC#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|title=The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|date=2013-11-21|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-9282-8|pages=231, 279, 300, 319|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Messenger Boy]]'', ''[[A Runaway Girl]], A Gentleman in Khaki'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wearing|first=J. P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5JWAgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA17&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|title=The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|date=2013-12-05|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-9294-1|pages=3, 17|language=en}}</ref> ''[[Florodora]],''<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tallis|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2nrk70bC7MC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA73&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|title=The Silent Showman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's Largest Entertainment Organisation of the 1920s|last2=Tallis|first2=Joan|date=2006|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn=978-1-86254-735-3|pages=73|language=en}}</ref> ''Aladdin'',<ref name=":4" /> ''The New Clown'',<ref>{{Cite news|date=1907-01-23|title=Miss Grace Palotta.|pages=34|work=Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71588787|access-date=2021-04-14|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> and ''The Man from Mexico.''<ref>{{Cite news|date=1906-05-14|title='The Man from Mexico'|pages=4|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75717552/the-man-from-mexico/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
+Palotta made her stage debut in London in 1893.<ref name=":0" /> She spent four years working for [[George Edwardes]] at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Lord Frederick Spencer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypCY7qboWZYC&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA83|title=Here, There and Everywhere|date=1921|publisher=George H. Doran Company|isbn=978-1-4142-4702-1|pages=82–83|language=en}}</ref> where she often played roles that highlighted her comic timing, her beauty, and her accented English,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Monckton|first1=Lionel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M105AQAAIAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PP9|title=A Runaway Girl: New Musical Play|last2=Caryll|first2=Ivan|last3=Hicks|first3=Seymour|last4=Nicholls|first4=Harry|date=1898|publisher=Chappell|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1900|title=My Friend the Prince|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7hJAQAAMAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=RA6-PA58|journal=The Era Almanack|pages=58–59}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Casamajor|first=George H.|date=October 1901|title=Beauty on the London Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIPW3N-PjncC&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA580|journal=Cosmopolitan|volume=31|pages=580–581}}</ref> though her singing voice was not strong.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|date=January 15, 1901|title=The Theatre Brought Home|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P805AQAAMAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA742|journal=The Australasian Pastoralists' Review|volume=10|pages=742}}</ref> She also performed at the [[Tivoli Theatre of Varieties|Tivoli Theatre]] in London.<ref name=":1" /> She sometimes played [[Breeches role|breeches roles]], including the Prince in a [[pantomime]] based on [[Cinderella]], and the principal boy role in ''Aladdin.''<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|date=1914-01-18|title=Grace Palotta.|pages=21|work=Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221557717|access-date=2021-04-14|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> She toured in the United States in 1904,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1904-11-27|title=Vaudeville.|pages=27|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731828/vaudeville/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and with the [[Hugh J. Ward]] company in Australia,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=March 6, 1907|title=A Third of the Ward-Willoughby-Palotta Combination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTVIAQAAMAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=RA6-PA5|journal=The Sketch|volume=57|pages=5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rambler|date=1938-05-07|title=Melbourne's Gay Nineties; A Collection of Memories|pages=35|work=The Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731416/melbournes-gay-nineties-a-collection/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=1939-10-07|title=Melodious Memories; Grace Palotta Trip to Chinatown|pages=10|work=The Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731586/melodious-memories-grace-palotta-trip/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and New Zealand,<ref>{{Cite news|date=25 April 1911|title=Miss Grace Palotta in Nurse's Guise|page=2|work=[[Southland Times]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19110425.2.5|access-date=April 13, 2021|via=Papers Past}}</ref> several times, from 1895 to 1918. Palotta had roles in ''The Shop Girl, All Abroad'', ''Trial by Jury, [[The Circus Girl]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wearing|first=J. P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nF8pAgAAQBAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA279|title=The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|date=2013-11-21|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-9282-8|pages=231, 279, 300, 319|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Messenger Boy]]'', ''[[A Runaway Girl]], A Gentleman in Khaki'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wearing|first=J. P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5JWAgAAQBAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA3|title=The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|date=2013-12-05|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-9294-1|pages=3, 17|language=en}}</ref> ''[[Florodora]],''<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Tallis|first1=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2nrk70bC7MC&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA73|title=The Silent Showman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's Largest Entertainment Organisation of the 1920s|last2=Tallis|first2=Joan|date=2006|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn=978-1-86254-735-3|pages=73|language=en}}</ref> ''Aladdin'',<ref name=":4" /> ''The New Clown'',<ref>{{Cite news|date=1907-01-23|title=Miss Grace Palotta.|pages=34|work=Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71588787|access-date=2021-04-14|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> and ''The Man from Mexico.''<ref>{{Cite news|date=1906-05-14|title='The Man from Mexico'|pages=4|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75717552/the-man-from-mexico/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
-Palotta was a popular subject of picture postcards.<ref>Kelly, V. (2004). "Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth-century Australia" ''New Theatre Quarterly, 20''(78), 99-116. </ref> She also wrote light articles and stories for periodicals.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1 November 1907|title=In Praise of Simplicity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiBHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP8&dq=Grace+Palotta&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5vM_O2_zvAhXWrZ4KHR4VAe44HhDoATAIegQIBxAC#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=The Lone Hand|volume=2|pages=88-90}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1 August 1907|title=The Woman's Way|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh9HAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Grace%20Palotta&pg=PA400#v=onepage&q=Grace%20Palotta&f=false|journal=The Lone Hand|volume=1|pages=400-403}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1 May 1907|title=The Stage Kiss|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-408666105/view?sectionId=nla.obj-413652794&partId=nla.obj-408688696#page/n137/mode/1up|journal=Lone Hand|volume=1|pages=103-104|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref>
+Palotta was a popular subject of picture postcards.<ref>Kelly, V. (2004). "Beauty and the market: Actress postcards and their senders in early twentieth-century Australia" ''New Theatre Quarterly, 20''(78), 99-116. </ref> She also wrote light articles and stories for periodicals.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1 November 1907|title=In Praise of Simplicity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiBHAQAAMAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PP8|journal=The Lone Hand|volume=2|pages=88–90}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1 August 1907|title=The Woman's Way|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh9HAQAAMAAJ&q=Grace+Palotta&pg=PA400|journal=The Lone Hand|volume=1|pages=400–403}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palotta|first=Grace|date=1 May 1907|title=The Stage Kiss|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-408666105/view?sectionId=nla.obj-413652794&partId=nla.obj-408688696#page/n137/mode/1up|journal=Lone Hand|volume=1|pages=103–104|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref>
 Australian composer [[May Summerbelle]] dedicated a 1904 waltz titled 'Beaux Yeux' (Beautiful Eyes) to grace. Her photograph appears on the cover artwork.<ref>{{Citation
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 == Personal life ==
-Palotta married Henry Samuel Kingston in 1888, in [[Dereham|East Dereham]], [[Norfolk]].<ref>Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; ''Norfolk Church of England Registers;'' Reference: ''PD 86/27;'' banns of marriage dated certified September 2, 1888. via Ancestry.</ref> She lived in Melbourne during [[World War I]]. She lived in Vienna and Jersey in her later years.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1939-02-02|title=Actress Coming in Orcades; Many Friends Here|pages=26|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731215/actress-coming-in-orcades-many-friends/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1928-06-03|title=Grace Palotta|pages=28|work=Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223223836|access-date=2021-04-14|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> She died at a nursing home in [[Notting Hill]], London in 1959, in her late eighties.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1959-02-23|title=Grace Palotta|pages=2|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75717343/grace-palotta/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
+Palotta married Henry Samuel Kingston in 1888, in [[Dereham|East Dereham]], [[Norfolk]].<ref>Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; ''Norfolk Church of England Registers;'' Reference: ''PD 86/27;'' banns of marriage dated certified September 2, 1888. via Ancestry.</ref> She lived in Melbourne during [[World War I]]. She lived in Vienna and Jersey in her later years.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1939-02-02|title=Actress Coming in Orcades; Many Friends Here|pages=26|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75731215/actress-coming-in-orcades-many-friends/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1928-06-03|title=Grace Palotta|pages=28|work=Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223223836|access-date=2021-04-14|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> She died at a nursing home in [[Notting Hill]], London in 1959, in her late eighties.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1959-02-23|title=Grace Palotta|pages=2|work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75717343/grace-palotta/|access-date=2021-04-14|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
 == References ==
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 == External links ==
+{{commons category}}
 * [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp127921/grace-palotta Six portraits of Grace Palotta], at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
 * [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/656176 Grace Palotta, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes] (1890); in the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
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 [[Category:Austrian actresses]]
-[[Category:1870 births]]
+[[Category:1870s births]]
 [[Category:1959 deaths]]
 [[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
+[[Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United Kingdom]]
+[[Category:Actresses from Vienna]]