Show WIOT NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK this writer encountering NEW frederick jagel of the metropolitan opera at luncheon the other day quizzed him about his season at operatic star buenos alres aires suggests new from which he ha line of export r aly returned he thinks cultural penetration ot 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 ions had the idea that we were a nation of hard boiled money grubbers any creditable performance la in the arts be believes will be our best line of export lie he said he found the Ar gentines most anost generous and appreciative hosts once they find bad you an extra aee ace in your cuff and you measure up to their standard of propriety they wear their hearts on their sleeve incidentally mr jagels ja gels singing makes audiences weep but no one meeting him ever feels sorry for him he Is a businesslike compact formerly an actuary with the mutual life insurance company long before he took his perch in the old red plush aviary where on occasion harstill he her stul still hits high C As an actuary young mr mir jagel charting other careers began to think of his own career he tossed his insurance job out of the window found a backer sang in movie houses up and doi down broadway and proved to all and sundry that he had a voice he studied with in new york and with cala dint din in milan making his bis operatic debut in milan to in la boheme he be hit high C with a bulls eye that greatly improved italo halo american relations he sang for four seasons in italy before making makin g his new york debut as radames Ba dames on november 8 1927 he knows about 40 roles and 26 of them he can sing offhand and on the slightest provocation with the precision and clarity of a man trained in business he tells you of the superiority of our south american comi competitors editors in their heir specialty of quid pro quo trade economics hence his talk of cultural penetration just ivory tower stuff if secretary hull hall could sing as well as mr jagel can talk international ter 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 THE HE amiable white magic of john once enabled me to deal myself four aces against an others tour four kings which of course revived faltering says hopes of the ex ry istance of kindly justain ot so mr S elves sos with whom W was as wired in and whom he could summon in behalf of his friends but now one of the cleverest magicians in the country the cleverest I 1 to this none too seeing eye publishes a book beware familiar spirits in which he banishes all trolls and makes all magic just manual dexterity and technique it exactly a debunking book he leaves the door open for faith in the occult if you think you have evidence but as to prevailing mys tago guery he reduces it to fraud or to honest self deception aided by slow eyesight he sold school books and was a teacher of dramatics and industrial arts at columbia university before he be became a hill full time magician and vice president of society of american magicians he has performed and lectured in about 40 countries nobody anywhere ever had more fun he likes to shepherd four or five friends through a subway turnstile with one nickel making it reissue from the slot clot each time and click through the next man that brings the change dealer roaring from his den mr Mul bolland hands him a half dollar the fayfar ers take their train aad then the dealer finds he has an aluminum disk with a rabbit in a suk hat bat on it he usually screams and butts his head against the w wall it but in each case the s subway balway already has its full count of sound nickels As to the above poker hands it happened at a luncheon table ot of five or si six ix men mr Mul bolland sent cent for or anew a new deck ot of cards and asked me to shuffle them and deal tour four hands it have beena been a trained deck it was thoroughly shuf shuffled fied mr never touched the cards standing with his back turn turned ed a few foet feet away and never said a word the hands fell as an he ordered the orders apparently issuing silently from the back of Us his head 0 news new service |