| Show WHO'S rf NEWS THIS WEEK B By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW This YORK This writer encountering encountering en- en n- n countering Frederick Jagel of ot the Metropolitan Opera at luncheon the other day diY quizzed him about his season at Operatic Star Buenos Aires Suggests N New from which beL he be r e c e n t l y re returned L L. L ine IRe 0 of IE Export port I turned t urn e d. d lie thinks cultural penetration of South America might be more effective than our trade and diplomatic mis mis- missions stops in n which he is inclined to believe be be- l lieve we arent aren't getting anywhere South America has long Ion had the Idea that we were a nation of hard boiled money Any creditable performance Inthe In Inthe inthe the arts he believes will be our best line of or export lie said aId he ho found the Argentines most generous gen erous Brous and appreciative hosts Once they find you haven't an extra ace in your cut cult and you yon measure up to their standard of propriety they wear their hearts on their sleeve Incidentally Mr Jagels Jagel's singing I makes audiences weep but no one meeting him ever feels sorry for him He is a businesslike compact formerly an actuary I with the Mutual Lite Life Insurance company company company com com- pany long before he took his perch in the old red plush aviary where on occasion he still hits high C C. As an actuary young Mr Jagel charting other careers began belan to think of his own career He tossed his Insurance job out of the window found a backer sang lang in movie houses up and down Broadway and proved to all and sundry that he had a voice He studied with Porta Porta- nova In New York and with Cala- Cala dini in Milan MUan Making his operatic debut in Milan in La Boheme be he hit Rodolfo's high C with a bulls bull's bullseye bullseye eye that greatly improved Italo Italo- American relations He sang lang for four seasons in Italy before making his New York debut as a. Radames on November 8 1927 1921 He knows about 40 roles and 28 of them becan be he becan can sing ling offhand and on the slightest provocation With the precision and clarity of 01 a mss man trained In is business he tells teUs you of the superiority of our South American competitors In their specialty of quid pro quo trade economics Hence Bence his talk of cultural penetration Lion tion Isn't just Ivory tower stuff stud If U Secretary Hull Bull could ain sing aswell as aswell aswell well as Mr Jagel can talk In International international In- In trade he too would be In the Metropolitan Mr Jagel thinks we have the makIng making making mak mak- ing of a grand musical renaissance in this country with talent teachers teachers teach teach- ers era and a fine national appreciation vastly enhanced by the radio TIIE pHE amiable white magic malIc of John once enabled me to todeal todeal todeal deal myself four aces against another's another's another's an an- others other's four kings four kings which of course revived faltering Says Say hopes of the ex ex- Is ence of kindly Just Jud Aint So elves ves with whom Mr was wired in and whom he be could summon in behalf of ot his friends But now one of ot the cleverest magicians magicians magicians magi magi- in th the country the country the cleverest to this too seeing eye pub eye pub publishes lishes a book Beware Deware Familiar Spirits in which he banishes all trolls and makes all magic just manual dexterity and technique It isn't exactly a debunking book He lIe leaves the door open for faith Inthe in inthe inthe the occult If it you think you have evidence but as to prevailing mys rays he be reduces it to fraud or orto orto orto to honest self deception aided by slow eyesight He lIe sold school books and was a teacher of dramatics and industrial arts at Columbia university before he became a time full-time magician and vice president of Society of American Amer lean icon Magicians lie He has performed and lectured in about 40 countries Nobody anywhere ever had more fun He lie likes to shepherd four or five friends through a subway turnstile with one nickel nick nick- el eI making it reissue from Irom the slot each time and click cUck through the next lien man That brings brines the change dealer roaring roaring- from his den den Mr hands him a dollar hall the wayfarers ers era take their train and then the dealer finds ands he be has an aluminum alum mum disk with a rabbit In a silk sUk hat bat on it It He lie usually screams and butts his head against the wall Out nut In each case the subway already has Us its full rull count of sound nickels As to the he above poker hands it happened at a luncheon table of five or six men Mr sent for a new deck of ot cards and asked me to shuffle them and deal four hands It couldn't have been a trained deck It was thoroughly shuffled Mr never touched the cards standing with his back turned fumed a few feet away anc and never said a word The hands bands fell fel felas as he ordered the orders orden apparently apparent apparent- ly issuing silently from the back of his head bead 0 Consolidated News New Ft features Mum Service |
