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== Career ==
== Career ==
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]]. She was a popular subject of picture postcards. She toured 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> 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> India, and China five 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 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> 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&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]]. She was a popular subject of picture postcards. She toured 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> 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> India, and China five 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> 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 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>
Palotta 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>

Revision as of 13:41, 14 April 2021

Grace Palotta
A handcolored portrait of a young white woman, seated, holding a closed parasol; she is wearing a large plumed hat and a blue gown with white lace sleeves
Bornabout 1870
Vienna
Died21 February 1959
London
Other namesGrace Parlotta
Occupation(s)Actress, Gaiety girl, writer

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

Early life

Palotta was born in Vienna,[1] the daughter of Charles Palotta and Emma Kleinhenn Palotta. 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. She was a popular subject of picture postcards. She toured with the Hugh J. Ward company in Australia,[8] New Zealand,[9] India, and China five times, from 1895 to 1918. Palotta had roles in The Shop Girl, All Abroad, Trial by Jury, The Circus Girl,[10] The Messenger Boy, A Runaway Girl, A Gentleman in Khaki,[11] Florodora,[7][12] and The Man from Mexico.[13]

Palotta also wrote light articles and stories for periodicals.[5][14][15]

Personal life

Palotta lived in Melbourne during World War I, then returned to England. She died at a nursing home in Notting Hill, London in 1959, in her late eighties.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Miss Grace Palotta". The Strand Musical Magazine. 3: 223. 1896.
  2. ^ a b "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.
  5. ^ a b 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.
  7. ^ a b "The Theatre Brought Home". The Australasian Pastoralists' Review. 10: 742. January 15, 1901.
  8. ^ "A Third of the Ward-Willoughby-Palotta Combination". The Sketch. 57: 5. March 6, 1907.
  9. ^ "Miss Grace Palotta in Nurse's Guise". Southland Times. 25 April 1911. p. 2. Retrieved April 13, 2021 – via Papers Past.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "'The Man from Mexico'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1906-05-14. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Palotta, Grace (1 November 1907). "In Praise of Simplicity". The Lone Hand. 2: 88–90.
  15. ^ Palotta, Grace (1 August 1907). "The Woman's Way". The Lone Hand. 1: 400–403.
  16. ^ "Grace Palotta". The Guardian. 1959-02-23. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
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