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THE CHINA MAIL','" MONDAY," APRIL 7, 1958.
Venice's Gondoliers Are
Fighting A
Losing Battle Of Time
By ERNEST SAKLER
Venice, April 6, VENICE'S 437 gondollers the "doomed trade" of this lagoon city-looked out hopefully these days for the first
trickle of the annual tourist flow which is the only barrier
between them and unemployment.
If it were not for the 200,000 | career is reduced to 20 or 30, but idle, and most of them have romanticlam-seeking Americans years,
gone out of buskiess. Only three and north Europeans flocking
aqueri are left, and their work
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every year to this floating city of what is more, the gondollers gilded palaces, the black, sleek complain, the waves caused by gondolas would long have be- the mator-boats are undermin- com extinct-driven off thong the shaky foundations of the canals Venice by roaringbulous palaces of old Venice motor-boots and smoke-puffing í ghd threaten to cause irreparable
harm.
mert
If not prepaid a backing fee small-time jobs.
of 60 cents le dharged,
*TUITION GIVEN
MODERN
BALLROOM DANCES:
"Complete intensive courros"- Be
Kinners/advanced Gain ganticence,
Cold War
In
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Engil gondollec makes about 1,200,000 ilve (HK$1,520) in the tourist season-but four-month only
medgre 300,000 re
Like everything elso (HK$2,880) In the remaining Vonice, the "cold wor" between
and condollers (eight months of boredom
motor-boat and drivers has turned Into spectacular show.
gondollera 1: July, 1940, demonstrating ogainst the motor-basts hauled their (gondolan ashore and Uned them up neatly in St Mark's Square, searing öff astonished pigeons.
Hard Fact
The hard fact is that the de pa:38, (Teachouta 2004); "Tany; man of spend has reached Vanice. Wong. Happy Valley.
Wongnelchong Food. Twentieth Century Venetians don't use gorulojas any more, ex- cept for ferrying across a canal at a fare of 20 lire apiece, or for | vecosional gob weddings and
Arst class funerals.
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To move from one point of the city to another, they use the Juss expensive alcamers. Venice's "buses" or the spred motor-boats which Aru the canal equivalent of taxis,
addition to taking precious business uway froma the gondaliers, the motor-bouts also inake gondola-rowing hard by allering waves in the once quiet waters of the canals.
The average age of retirement for gondoliers once was at CU or later, and there were men who boasted a full 50 years of enrect as gondoliers.
Now, with the strain caused by the waves which force then to balance precariously by bend ing their knees, gondoliers rarely can continue work after the age of 30, which means thielt
Į
one
In May 1950, they resorted to a different trick. Venice woke without up
morning gondolas. The gondollers had concealed
thing In protest against the motor-boats.
demonstrations did The two not exhaust the
of fastasy gondollers. The following year, all 400-odd gondolas mamed in the basin in front of St Mark's and then paraded down the Grand Canal in a majestic "funeral masch" behind a Barge which carried an
overturned "dead" gondola.
"Gondolas are dying out," a big black sign read.
Dying Out
They are dying out all Hight, In the 16th century there were an estimated 10,000 gondolas in Venice. By 1900 they were down to 1.000 and kept falling tö ̈600 before the last war and 137, 10- day.
1
The once busy and nolly
small gondola "equeri"-the manufacturing yards are all
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By
JOHN LUFF
Ja row ten months sinco the Editor sent for mo and discussed the proba- bility of originating this column. We talked it over, and thought it would be a
ONE of the latest office aids to be used increasingly in offices is the added value of a topical sub-
specially coated paper known as No Carbon. Required Paper which,ject.
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Only such an experiment thecould be reckoned to fall your No I gave come "way once, thought to i The heading of column, Telecrit, must be obvious to all readers of George Orwell's 1084, devoted to "Newspeak,"
the
in the section discussion on
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theparation of Remittance Advices; and the ledger eard all
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in a watermarked paper. The print is pretty heady stuff, and print ecuted on the movement and second
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The gondolas, are
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Great Days
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An estimated 800,000 machine, printing as well. Only start, tourists flock to Venice and stay normal care is required in hand- NCR coated an average two and a half dayling and storing
rapers. each, for a total 2,000,000 man-
days of presence. Most of them at least orice, use gondolas giving each gandoller a daly earning of 8,000 to 10,000 lire.
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But the earning is actually balved since gondoliers take furna every other day to provide work for all 437-United Press.
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Prior to the introduction of NCR Paper and Boards the pre-
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
ROXY & BROADWAY: "A Farewell To Arms," Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones in Hemingway's great novel.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Bridge On The River Kwal." William Holden, Jack Hawking and Alec Guinness in 'a Academy "Awarda ` winning wer picture.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Merry Andrew." Danny
Kaye in a comedy.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Love In The Afternoon."
Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier in a romance,
LEE & ASTOR: "Sayonara" Marlon Brando falls
in love in Japan.
ORIENTAL: "Don't Go Near The Water." Glenn
Ford in a hilarious comedy.
MAJESTIC: "Desert Rats." Richard Burton and
James Mason.
CAPITOL: "Night Passage." James Stewart and
Audie Murphy.
BITZ: "Pal Joey." Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak
fight over Frank Sinatra.
I.K.T.
RADIO HONGKONG
Double Attraction; 1.12, Weather Re:
Fountain-Pen Gun
THE Home-made fountain
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pictured Fun here is about five Inches fong. fits easily into the palm of a hand and can fire a lethal 202 bullet. "It was "spotted—ina-seRPM*. mania Bitcase when undergoing Customa in- spection in the Port of Landon. It looked inno ̈ ̈ cant enough, like a tool used for an alectele dell
But
a search found, .hid. den in the ship's pantry, 100 rounds of ammuni» tion and twa mare gunk The seaman, 22-year-old Michesi, O'Sullivan from
· Corka - Biro, -- wat gaolud three month for smuggling the guns and ammunition. 'Baid hat "I, "ANTHOU"45"TRA mömber
Firearms are my hobby." -Express Photo2
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SLIM-TUBES, one foot long, that provide an extremely high temperature in 2-3 seconds, are to be shown by the GEC to international hoteliers at the International Hotel & Catering Exhibition, Olympia, London,
'But a
critic la not
atured faultfinder; he is not a carping canting scribe; his very designe- tion assumes him to be a judge; and the first quality demanded fair and of a judge le to be objective, and not to assume he knows so much more than his readers, which often, incidental- ly, he does not.
So this column has grown up alongside Wired Television, and it is a good time to take stock.
to make Now if you want enemies, the thing to do is to give good advice; remembering that, I am going to try and give one or two points that beccrpo Increasingly obvious months tick over.
the
not
First, Television has caught on. It has not captured the imagination of the Hong- kong public. Our only guide is figures, and the
last figures
given to me placed subscriber -numbers at "just-over--two- thousand." Now why is this? The answer is obvious.
In supplying a service to tho public, you must adjust your service to your potential sub- Strikers. Take ao illustration I say Rolls Royce designed their cars with the object of capturing the popular market, they would go broice.
The question now. is, how for. can our Wired Vision Servico expand, on its present service charge?
If the answer is, il can, the question now becomes, why hasn't it hiready made à more -rapid expansion?.........-The-ariawan – Is the programmes. I say again, TV cannot succeed on 4 T film system eloce, Apari. from "the"top"features"which"are"og- cellent productions, the two Celling Curd programmes, and the popular Sports Box, there is nothing shown that dannot be bettered in the cinema.
I consider a more searching market exploitation should have heen conducted before entering the Hongkong field. To explain. The most successful TV market is the Stalce, where billions of dollars are poured out annually not only in the film features wo receive here, but in the 'live', programmes that the up the States. The same thing happens In the UK, and if you' look at The research figures, you will- sre that the maas-viewing Agures are beaded by Uve pro.... grammes,
But before you' can get these millions of viewers, you have to have a service that reason- ably adjusts self to the averago income of the state,
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Bamoni Inside the bulb.
Fshould say that Japan has ted by Jack Shepherd: 3.30. Lamp Works, Wembley
Requests Presented by Nick The lumps can lead to faster Several quartz bulbs can be the finest TV service in the Kendali; 458, Birthday Mailbag: cooking—a hamburger cooked in picked into the space taken up
East; „But if you verd viny La Murique Francaise Presented by
one minute instead, of eight- ! by one glass bulb. 0.30, A Moment For Jeannette Piry:
article of some months ago, you Melody With raix King; 2. Person with a faster turnover of cus-
The lamps operate on thewould have gone along with iné, Kilty Parade-Beatcten | Life: ZIS,
waiting same principle es glass intra- I think, in agreeing, that what Henry Jerome Bbow; d, World tomers and a cut in Keali's Day Mrusage, 130, Guy Lom-periods and labour costs per red lamps, only they give much Japan needed was a tél withha bardo and his Royal Canadian: 7.48. meat. Story Of Jana Aconitago: 4 Tun Signet, and the Newx; 309, Weather Forecast, Announcements and Raciņu Jends: 0.13. Tops In Popular Mume presented by Niele Kondaŭ;/8.30, Show-Cas-Sefections frown “Briga Home use? At present-with
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Jew some light, the majority of pour lewa ni tho mast. Which the radiant Energy is in the means that the Japanese, with
invisible indra-red | tislè lower, standard of living ( form of the
cannot afford mak reys, which strike an object and
1a.m., "Aurora's Wedding" Ballet! port, News and Special Annourice- Sule (Tohalkovalty) Symphony Orements. In Allerees C Musics chestra; 1140, Madis froin Rome Variety Calls The Tune; 2, Gianni alantae and his Orchestru: 12, Matice: 3.30. Swing and Sway with Selections from Benadway Mustelam Boston Peps Orchestra: 12.30 p.m Double Attraction-David Korg and bile Grchestra and Dinah Виста (vocal); 1, Time Bignal Double Attmelion, 113, Weather Report; 135. News and Special Annolince- ments: 130, Afternoon Concert; 2,30, "Don't Make Me Laugh" prestoled by Ted This "Scherzo" eclection of Sehera qomposed in various marital "styles; 4. Ledar Recital by Dietrich Fisher- Bliskou (Baritone) with Getsid Moore (piano): 445, "What is Juxe" *Bernard Bernstem; 530, Story for Children "Men Too' in very Haz”i d. Time Simal. "Its in the Groove" Lawrence Welk Champagne-Music; 6.30, Cocktail Tune-Franck Pource] and his Parislars Strings:, 1. Classicni Requests presented by Irene Yuen 720, Fatu Pake introduced by Igor Graviny, o Dacer and the cooker-conventional cooking Record Weather Report; f Aim: Pop-Lutu Buite No. 3" played by methods prove cheaper, |Time Bignal. Nowɛ: 3.10, Commen- tary; 115, "World Health Day A meriage from the Director dinara! | 850. Monday Recüri by Lexlia Pol- fuer (pling). Prelude; Boomin (v0th by Lennox Berkeley); 1, Timo Sigal. fen alle Torgandindh : fiskers specially prepared for World Health
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features, for the small screen ten hizi “howdown, 215912" Paßb", light shaped, with space between Two rulings are available- | can never competo “with the; Le meramente bej programme Firri tum Sulh and the filement. Hard the 600 watt size for operation cinema wing cinema stuur. THE Awkaylanck inşan a quartz,however, can
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Kendi 19:30 Boards of Bootland.
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which capstand.
Now coming back home to Hongkong. If it is held that the programmes are sătisfactory, then the zervāco mint.bo brought with the economy of the average wage echo, If it la to grow,'