MISS GRACE PALOTTA.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 13 (Supplement)

MISS GRACE PALOTTA.

A TRIP ABROAD. Miss Grace Palotta, one of the most popular musical comedy artists who ever visited Australasia, in a chatty letter to a Sydney friend, tells of a holiday she has been spending in Austria and Bohemia. "Never before have I managed to have such a wonderful time,” (“be writes, “and after Colombo’s heat and hard work you can easily understand how I am living every minute of my freedom. “Soon after coming to Vienna, whore I cr.-ly stayed for three weeks, I found a perfect little place tucked right away among pine forests near the highest mountain in Austria, and there I led the Ideal simple life. I almost lived out of doors. Climbing mountains, roamiug through wonderful forests, seemed my orly occupation, and what with never wearing a hat I look a bit like a Red Indian. But. oh! Ihe joy of it all! I had five weeks of this wonderful time —met quite a number of very nice people, there, who all helped to corn'. V-te n.y perfectly happy stay there. “At the beginning of this month joined friends and came to this beautiful place—Marienbad. which Is the jewel of Bohemia, and I can quite understand why King Edward used to come here so frequently. “The whole place Is a valley surrounded by forests, and. of course, being famous, It has ail the advantages of a city. My hotel window opens almcst on to the forest, yet it has all the very latest appointments, and is most luxurious. To see all the different nationalities walking round drinking 'Srnnnenwasscr’ is quite an entertainment. I am here with friends who are taking the cure. . nr) while they toil away trying to get it I roam about. Every ‘day I think how lucky I am, and the beauty of the place takes my breath away. “You can just imagine, after being shut up in a dressmaking place all day for two years without a break, how wonderful it is for one to get out in the open and lo bo able to walk quickly—it’s generally far too cold to

do anything else. Every morning V discover different walks, and I feel like embracing those sreat big P*-ie trees, which -rake this place so woudrously beautiful. • . fc . “Tins morning I left the hotel at s and walked up a mountain to a «leI' slauiant, where I had stevro ing hot coffee with delicious rolls. ii’<; then for two hours I followed the different signboards all lurougu «.»• ■ ests, up and down hill, "old ' " r to the hotel, I tingled with joy when I got home—it was simply perfect. “After leaving lore on September 1, I am going to return to Vienna, and shall remain there for the winter. I And that I can live mere cheaply and better than in England. In V enna 1 found a nice private hotel right in the centre of everything. I don t think it will cost more than £3 10s ■per- week so I am going to try ami have a year’s spell from work. “I had a very good offer ,to bo the manageress of a business in Melbourne, but if I return to Australia it will pc as an actress, and nothing else. I still feel that some day I’ll get. another great chance, and 1 11 just love to return to the loyal pals in something that is worth while —so there you arc!" Miss Palotta thought of trying her lurk at film work in America, but did not like the rushing round.