Grace Palotta
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, 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. She also wrote light articles and stories for periodicals.[5][19][20][21]
Personal life
Palotta lived in Melbourne during World War I. She lived in Vienna and Jersey in her later years.[22][23] She died at a nursing home in Notting Hill, London in 1959, in her late eighties.[24]
References
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
- ↑ a b c Miss Grace Palotta. In: The Strand Musical Magazine. 3. Jahrgang, 1896, S. 223 (google.com).
- ↑ a b Plays and Players: The Women of the Tivoli. In: Sunset. 15. Jahrgang, August 1905, S. 396–397 (google.com).
- ↑ Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton: Here, There and Everywhere. George H. Doran Company, 1921, ISBN 978-1-4142-4702-1, S. 82–83 (englisch, google.com).
- ↑ Lionel Monckton, Ivan Caryll, Seymour Hicks, Harry Nicholls: A Runaway Girl: New Musical Play. Chappell, 1898 (englisch, google.com).
- ↑ a b Grace Palotta: My Friend the Prince. In: The Era Almanack. 1900, S. 58–59 (google.com).
- ↑ George H. Casamajor: Beauty on the London Stage. In: Cosmopolitan. 31. Jahrgang, Oktober 1901, S. 580–581 (google.com).
- ↑ a b The Theatre Brought Home. In: The Australasian Pastoralists' Review. 10. Jahrgang, 15. Januar 1901, S. 742 (google.com).
- ↑ a b Grace Palotta. In: Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 18. Januar 1914, S. 21. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ Vaudeville. In: Chicago Tribune, 27. November 1904, S. 27. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ A Third of the Ward-Willoughby-Palotta Combination. In: The Sketch. 57. Jahrgang, 6. März 1907, S. 5 (google.com).
- ↑ Rambler: Melbourne's Gay Nineties; A Collection of Memories In: The Age, 7. Mai 1938, S. 35. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ Melodious Memories; Grace Palotta Trip to Chinatown In: The Age, 7. Oktober 1939, S. 10. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ Miss Grace Palotta in Nurse's Guise In: Southland Times, 25 April 1911, S. 2. Abgerufen im April 13, 2021
- ↑ J. P. Wearing: The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-9282-8, S. 231, 279, 300, 319 (englisch, google.com).
- ↑ J. P. Wearing: The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-9294-1, S. 3, 17 (englisch, google.com).
- ↑ Michael Tallis, Joan Tallis: The Silent Showman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's Largest Entertainment Organisation of the 1920s. Wakefield Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86254-735-3, S. 73 (englisch, google.com).
- ↑ Miss Grace Palotta. In: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), 23. Januar 1907, S. 34. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ 'The Man from Mexico' In: The Sydney Morning Herald, 14. Mai 1906, S. 4. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ Grace Palotta: In Praise of Simplicity. In: The Lone Hand. 2. Jahrgang, 1. November 1907, S. 88–90 (google.com).
- ↑ Grace Palotta: The Woman's Way. In: The Lone Hand. 1. Jahrgang, 1. August 1907, S. 400–403 (google.com).
- ↑ Grace Palotta: The Stage Kiss. In: Lone Hand. 1. Jahrgang, 1. Mai 1907, S. 103–104 (gov.au).
- ↑ Actress Coming in Orcades; Many Friends Here In: The Sydney Morning Herald, 2. Februar 1939, S. 26. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ Grace Palotta In: Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 3. Juni 1928, S. 28. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021
- ↑ Grace Palotta In: The Guardian, 23. Februar 1959, S. 2. Abgerufen am 14. April 2021