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POSTCARD FROM CORFU MB /// vr7 **• MOLNAR rp\Q stay alone in a hotel of Albania. At some places in Italian baroque, the Bri- Here he boarded a battle- | with tW£> becis it is at a shouting dis- tish in Doric, Our eclectic ship to go fising. . tance. Though why any- architecture at the end of Inventory of the Kaiser’s is all right. It gives you one wan t s t 0 talk to. let last century was madly lady's bathroom: one w.c. a pleasurable anticipation: alone to shout to. an Al- trying to catch up in a (normal), one bathtub, never fulfilled But when banian I cannot conceive, period of a few decades solid granite. (Hot and cold, I saw a third bed being Corfu is famous for being with this delightful assort- fresh and sea w-ater.) One » th hirthnlace of Philin ment of styles so reward- basin on pedestal (marble), installed I protested to the prince o f Greece. better mg >n a historical town. Two oversized classical desk clerk: “Ixiok, could known as the Duke of Corfu also possesses a ladies, vaguely draped, the third bed be moved Edinburgh. It is also villa caused by the Kaiser holding delicately an ornaout’ The room is becoming famous for possessing the in 1891. (This does not mental beam. One orna- ' ’. ~ .... original model of Bocklin's count as occupation.) It is mental beam with urns, a dormitory. Ah. xou “Der Todenin- the summit of bad taste.. Th ree vhcrubs, plaster, are two persons'."—“No, I gel” (Die?, Das?), which It is so bad it' achieves a Three bas-reliefs representam one person.”—"Ah! shows how nineteenth-cen- sort of artistic perfection, mg heroic scenes unrelated „ . . tury romanticism can trans- It is full of statuary rep- to ablution (marble). One ,° u r° form a cheerful little non- resenting Prussian gymnas- Persian carpet (painted on one. No, lam one per- sense j nto “The Island of tic instructors disguised as the ceiling. One view of son only. Ah. You are Dead.” It is the impact Greek heroes and blushing Naples (painted on three one person and two. bud- of cypregs trees on north- frauleins about to dust dif- walls). One faience stove, denly I realised that I am ern imagination. ferent implements of the painted, ornamented with getting involved in the Corfu, beside the usual Muses. There was a bridge mythology. Apart from great schism that split the complement of occupations across the roadway through these te room at present Bytantine Cnurch; is' the j n this part o f tbe wor )j > w hich the Kaiser stepped IS sac %-,P££i£ nl £he ( L Trinlty _^ e ? r t^ ree ' was also occupied by the from the view into his —GEORGE MOLNAR. Still, we sorted it out. Venetians, French and Bri- private harbour. (It was P.S. Drawing above So lam in Corfu. This tish. Each left its national blown up during the shows a procession in is as far one can be in and architectural expressions war by the Germans Corfu. I'm the third on the out of Greece. Corfu is an behind. The Venetians built (strangely), who eould not left island, just off the coast in mauresque, the French get their big guns under.) —G.M.