THE VIENNESE BEAUTY

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 68

THE VIENNESE BEAUTY

MISS GRACE PALOTTA. She swept, into the room, vivacious of face, speaking eyes, a lisping attractive voice, and eloquently expressive hands. ".She," of course, was Miss Grace Palotta, who in conjunction with the exceptionally powerful company of which she is a distinguished star had simply taken Ihinedin's heart — willingly captive — by storm on the previous night. From the doorway, "Oh, dear,' she cried to the expectant interviewer, "the only thing to give ana any chance is when th,a airships come. I am really swept off my feat — there is co much*, to do." "Do you know," she continued, "I really think we are going to hare eirahips. Of course you have had yours, haven't you? ' and laughed ripplingly in company with. the cantive 6oribe. "So you want to interview me? Now don't ask me what I have for breakfast, or why I went on the stage. Do you know, it looks so nasty when people have seen you act to ask, 'W'liat on earth made you go on the stogie?' Don't you think so?" Tb.3 interviewer heartily agreed. But be did nob think Miss Palotta had ever been asked that question in that manner. Ho said co, and suggested that Miss Palotta must havia been frequently rendered subject to the battery of newspaper mea. With an infectious laugh "the subject" laughed assent. "I have been on the stage about 14- years, and have bean in America — you know America — and have 'been inter* viewed — well," smilingly, "fairly often." Then the " subject " condescended to become temporarily serious. At a later stage in the interview she remarked somewhat pathetically— -illustrative of the dancers lying in a particular reputation — "You know I really am serious, but people never will believe it. They laugh if lam serious for two minutes at a time. They think I must be alwaje in comedy as on tfle stage." But reverting to bhe storyand the staid sequeno of ev^nt«, the vivacious and popular actress retorted in. reply to the request for a few personal i>artioulars, "But my career is ©o very w«ll known. I can't protend I am 17 when the people know t&afc