3 H.P. GONDOLAS
Venice is laughing at an; endeavour to motorise the gondola. Experimental three-horse' power motors have been cunningly installed in a number of gondolas. ; ' So far so good, perhaps. , But what makes the experiment ludicrous is the vision of .the gondolier standing erect but motionless, using his oar only as a rudder,! while the gondola sports mysteriously along with its gear controls concealed under the l gondolier’s feet. Never before has it been so realised that the graceful rhythmic motion of the gondolier is part and parcel of the effect of the beauty of tlie gondola’s passage through the wateij. An / immobile figure presides a contradiction in artistic terms, which reduces/ the whole ' experiment to absurdity.—‘ Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 7
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1193 H.P. GONDOLAS Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 7
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