Show WHO 5 NEWS THIS by LE LEMUEL MUEL F PARTON NEW N EW Y ORM YORK This writer encountering frederick jagel of the metropolitan opera at luncheon the other day quizzed him about his season at operatic operate i c star buenos alres aires suggests new from which he line recently lie returned thinks cultural penetration of south america might be more effective than our trade and diplomatic missions in which he is inclined to believe we arent getting anywhere south america has long had tho the idea that hat wo we were a nation of hard boiled money grubbers any creditable performance in the arts he believes will be our best line of export ile he said ho he found the Ar gentines most generous and appreciative hosts once they find you an extra ace in your cuff and you measure up to their standard of propriety they wear their hearts on their sleeve incidentally mr jagels singing makes audiences weep but no one meeting him ever feels sorry tor for him he is a businesslike compact formerly an actuary with the mutual life insurance co company M long before he took his perch in the old red plush aviary wh where re on occasion he still hits high C As an actuary young mr jagel charting other careers began to think ot of his own career he tossed his insurance job out of the window sound a backer sang la in movie houses up and down broadway and proved to all ond and sundry that he had a voice he studied with a in new york and with cala dint in milan making his operatic debut int in milan in ila la boheme lie he hit high C with a bulls eye that greatly improved italo american relations he sang fu for four seasons in italy before making his new york debut as radames on november 8 1927 he knows about 40 roles and 26 of them he can sing offhand and on the slightest provocation with ohp the precision and clarity of a ma man n trained in business he be tens tells you yo U of the superiority of our south american competitors in their specialty of quid pro quo trade economics hence his talk of cultural penetration just ivory tower stuff if secretary hull could sing as well as mr jagel can talk in ter national trade he be too would be in the metropolitan mr jagel thinks we have the making of a grand musical renaissance in this country with talent teachers and a fine national appreciation vastly enhanced by the radio 0 irhe T HE amiable white magic of john JL once enabled roe me to deal myself four aces against an others tour four kings which ffitch of course revived fai faltering terin says n hopes of the ex guery ry istance of kindly it just lintt am ain A m t so n elves alth with wm whom mr was wired in and whom he could summon in behall behalf of his bis friends but now one of the cleverest magicians in the country the cleverest to this none too seeing eye publishes a book beware familiar spirits in which he banishes an all trolls and makes all magic just manual dexterity and technique it exactly a debunk debunking ng book he lea leaves ves the door open for faith in the occult if you think you have evidence but as to prevailing mys iago tago guery he reduces it to fraud or to honest self deception aided by slow eyesight he sold school books and was a teacher adacher of dramatics and industrial arts at columbia university before he became a full time magic magician lawand and vice president of society of amerlean american magicians he has performed and lectured in about 40 countries nobody anywhere ever had bad more fun ue he likes to shepherd four or give five friends through a subway turnstile with one nickel lin making aking it reissue from the slot each cach tune time and click through the next man that brings the change dealer roaring from his den mr air hands bands hima half dollar the fayfar ers tako take their train and then the dealer finds he has an aluminum disk with a rabbit in a silk hat bat on it ue he usually screams and butts his head against the wall but ln in each case the subway already has its full count of sound nickels As to the above poker hands it happened at a luncheon table of five or six she men mr sent lor for a new deck of cards and asked me ma to shuffle them and d deal eal four hands it coul dalt have been a trained deck it was thoroughly thoro shuffled sir mr never touched the cards standing with his back turned a few feet away abway and never said a word the hands tell fell as he be ordered the orders apparently issuing silently from the back of his head 0 news batar Fa tar service |