ITALY: The Future

To Africa, in which is locked the enigma

Italy’s future, sailed last week with

rank of captain, the “Founder of

Futurism.” rich, excitable Dr. Filippo

Tomaso Marinetti.

Tin cans rust because they are only tin-plated, but the Futurist poems of Dr Marinetti are sold in books with pages of pure tin which cannot rust, that they may be read in the most distant future A dynamic eccentric who is acknowledged by artists and art critics to have founded and vastly stimulated the whole Futurist school, Poet Marinetti leaves others to carve, paint and sketch (see cut) while he pioneers. In tactile sensation Dr. Marinetti adventures by turning out all the lights and reveling with his disciples in the feel cheese crinkled paper, pearls, nutmeg graters, alabaster, jade.

Futurist Marinetti is also deeply concerned with Futurist Food. When he commands his cook to stew a beefsteak in honey she stews beefsteak in honey, and he feels like a Raphael testing new combinations of pigments.

Last week, as Captain Marinetti embarked for Ethiopia with his two World War medals aglitter on his chest, his futurist brain was busy in the service of Fascism with “ideas for army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert.”