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Show Poet Impressed With Huge Electric Signs MarlnetU, the Italian futurist poet EUdderdy appeared as the champion of Electric signs and appealed to Sign or Mussolini to reconsider the Duces decision de-cision to abolish sky-slK" advertising In the big Kalian cities. This causes the Manchester Guardian to remark that not only professed futurist poets have found an element, of vast fascination fasci-nation lu electric advertising. When Hupert Brooke first arrived In New York and saw the nightly display on Broadway he was greatly impressed. "The recurrent appearance and disappearance dis-appearance of vast fiery toothbrushes, medicine bottles, flaming and immortal celestial underwear, appeared lo him like a nightly conflict of tlie gods, fighting endlessly, indecisively for New York." One female figure Impressed Im-pressed Brooke more Hum Ihe Mona Lisa. It was "all aflame against the darkness, beautiful, archaic like an Immortal Greek figure ."-Hierre Van rnnssen, in Ihe Atlanta Constitution. |