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In the mountain village where the waters of the River Styx flow, the young Golfo and Tassos swear eternal love to one another. True to her word, Golfo rejects a nobleman who wishes to marry her, but Tassos breaks his oath and agrees to wed a rich young woman instead. When he changes his mind, it is too late and the forces of destiny continue to their inevitable conclusion. Linked with the historical tradition of travelling theatre troupes, Golfo is almost synonymous with this aspect of Greek theatre. However, despite its unusual language and localised character, Peresiadiss play is charged with emotion and technically is every bit as proficient as dramas from better-known names. Romantic rivalries, moral dilemmas and heartrending choices run through this important example of Greek theatrical heritage. Nikos Karathanos and his cast and crew approach Golfo with sensitivity and reveal it to be a genuine theatrical gem. Source: www.n-t.gr/en/events/oldevents/golfw_

Golfo is a 1914 Greek silent film directed by Konstadinos Bahatoris. It is the first Greek feature film. It was based on a popular Greek bucolic play written by Spyridon Peresiadis. Plot Tasos is a young shepherd in love with Golfo and intends to marry her. However, the rich shepherdess Stavroula with the help of her father manages to lure him with the promise of a dowry. Eventually he realises his mistake and returns to Golfo, but she has poisoned herself. Driven by guilt, Tasos commits suicide. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golfo

"Eleftherios Venizelos (full name Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, Greek: Ἐλευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος; pronounced [elefˈθerios ciriˈaku veniˈzelos]; 23 August 1864 – 18 March 1936) was an eminent Greek revolutionary, a prominent and illustrious statesman as well as a charismatic leader in the early 20th century. Elected several times as Prime Minister of Greece, serving from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1932, Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being "the maker of modern Greece",[4] and is still widely known as the "Ethnarch"." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleftherios_Venizelos

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Milkshakes and milk bars were not new in the 1930s. Denis Conomos explains that the milk bar came to prominence between 1910 and 1920 and, in locations where electricity was available, was an important feature of nearly all new cafés by 1920 (118). By 1925 advertisements for hand-operated mixers and electrically operated milkshake-mixers, fruit juice-extractors, and ice cream-makers dotted The Australasian Confectioner and Soda Fountain Journal, and these appliances dispensed phosphate drinks, egg drinks, malted drinks, sodas, water ices, ‘fancy’ drinks, and ‘other milk drinks’. Conomos uses the term ‘milk bar’ to refer to an electrically refrigerated unit that stored and chilled water, soda water, milk, and ice cream and was equipped with gadgets for making milkshakes, sodas, and fruit juice drinks. Some of the earliest Greek shops in Brisbane had these, a prime example being the long bar that graced the refreshment room in Charles Tsiros’s Garden of Roses, photographs of which appeared in a Greek publication in 1916 (I Zoi in Australia, 245-49). George Sklavos’s shop at 276-78 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley ca. 1912 may have predated even this (Conomos 119). Source: greekcafesinbrisbane.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/brisbanes-b...

From, Denis A. Conomos, The Greeks in Queensland. A History from 1859-1945. 2002. p. 119. "In about 1912, the Kytherian, George Sklavos, opened the American Milk Bar at 276-278 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, having apparently spent some time in America and observed the latest milk bar developments there. His shop was one of the most modern of its type at the time, and it became a model which many of its owner's compatriots were to copy. A modern version of the old 'refreshment rooms', it sold the usual pies, sandwiches, cakes, hot beverages, and confectionery, but with the help of the new milk-bat technology, it was able to offer more. Malted milk, freshly made fruit drinks, ice-cream sodas, and sundaes became important new items on the menu. Customers either stood at the counter to be served or sat at the tables, which seated more than one hundred people. There was a staff of about fifteen, both males and females. Panagiotis Dimitris Feros (Peter Feros), who worked there in 1915, has described the shop as having 'every facility known to the game then.'" This same photograph of George Sklavos's "American Bar" can also be viewed on page 112 of, Denis A. Conomos, The Greeks in Queensland. A History from 1859-1945. 2002. Copies of Denis's books are available from the Kytherian Association of Australia, and, from George Poulos, who, amongst other things, is a current Committee Member of the Association. (2004). Source: www.kythera-family.net/en/photos/diaspore-cafes-shops-cin...

Situated at 276-278 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, the American Bar was operated by George Sklavos between 1911 and ca.1929. George Sklavos was born in the Kytherian village of Mitata in Greece in 1882. He traveled to Australia in 1900, working in New South Wales before moving to Queensland and establishing the American Bar, one of first milk bars in Brisbane. Having spent time in the United States, George introduced American style foods into his business. In her 2019 book, Brisbane's Greek cafes : a million malted milks, Toni Risson described the café – “Signage on the façade advertised the fountain drinks on offer – milkshakes, sodas, and ice-cold fruit juice drinks, all dispensed from an electrically refrigerated unit that stored chilled water, soda water, milk, and ice cream.” In February 1923, the American Bar made national news, after a young woman burst into the cafe hotly pursued by her husband brandishing a revolver. The Telegraph (16/09/1923) reported - "The astonished cafe patrons had hardly time enough to grasp the meaning of the affair when two policemen dashed through the door and grappled with the gunman." The woman had been shot in the back before entering the cafe. During the trial, the Daily Standard (16/04/1923) stated that the husband had also fired his gun into the cafe as he stood in the doorway. George sold the American Bar ca.1929 to David Webster and later established the Atlas Café in Adelaide Street, opposite City Hall. He died on 1 March 1949. His funeral took place at the Greek Orthodox Church of St George in Charlotte Street and he was interred at Toowong Cemetery. Prior to his death, he lived at 'Megaron', 320 Bowen Terrace, New Farm. According to Toni Risson, half of George’s estate was donated to restoring the village church in Mitata, Greece. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/american-bar-brisbane