SILENT GONDOLIERS.
Famed for the beautiful singing voices it produces, Italy is always considered to be the laud of opera, streetsingers and singing gondoliers. But Miss Christine Dickey, of Darling Point, Sydney, who recently returned home after a trip abroad, says that visitors to Venice will be disappointed to find that gondoliers no longer sing while propelling their graceful craft along the canals of the city. "A new law has been passed forbidding them to sing, as residents complained of the 'noise'/-' she said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 12
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84SILENT GONDOLIERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 12
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