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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1939 By LEMUEL F. PARTON XJEW YORK.—This writer, en- countering Frederick Jagel of the Metropolitan Opera at luhcheon the other day, quizzed him about _ . _ his season at Operatic Star Buenos Aires, Suggest* New from which he Lin* of Export r e c e n 11 y re- “ t u r n e d. He thinka cultural penetration of South America might be more - effective than our trade and diplomatic mis sions, in which be is inclined to be lieve we aren't getting anywhere. South America has long had the idea that we were a nation at hard-boiled money-grubbers. Any creditable performance in the arts, he believes, will be our best line of export. He said he found the Argentines most gen erous and appreciative hosts. Once they find you haven't an extra aee in your cuff and you measure up to their standard of propriety, they wear their hearts on their sleeve. . Incidentally, Mr. Jagel’s singing makes audiences weep, but no one meeting him ever feels sorry for him. He is a businesslike, compact Brooklynite, formerly an actuary with the Mutual Life Insurance com pany, long before he took his perch in.the old red plush aviary, where, an occasion, he still hits high C. . As an .actuary, young Mr 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 down Broadway and proved to all and sundry that he had a voice. He studied with Porta- nova in New York and With Cala- dini in Milan. Making his operatic debut in Milan, in “La Boheme,” he hit Rodolfo’s high C with a bull’s eye that greatly improved Italo- American relations. He sang 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 the precision and clarity of a man trained in business, he tells you of the superiority of our South American competitors in their specialty of quid-pro- quo trade economics. Hence, his talk of “cultural penetra tion" isn't just ivory tower stuff. If Secretary Hull icould sing as well as Mr. Jagel ean talk in ternational trade, he, too, would be in the Metropolitan. Mr. Jagel thinks we have the mak ing of a grand musical renaissance in this country, with talent, teach ers and a fine national appreciation vastly enhanced by the radio. T HE amiable white magic of John Mulholland once enabled me to deal myself four aces against an other’s four kings, which, of course, revived faltering MyetiRer Saye Myetagoguery Jaet ‘Ain't So 9 hopes of the ex istence of kindly elves with whom Mr. Mulholland was wired in and whom he could summon in behalf of. his friends. But now one of the cleverest magi cians in the country—the cleverest, to this none-too-seeing eye—pub lishes a book, “Beware 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 leaves the door open for faith in the occult, if you think you have evidence, but, as to prevailing mys- tagoguery, 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 became a full-time magician and vice president of Society of Amer ican Magicians. He has performed ahd lectured in about 40 countries. Nobody, anywhere, ever had more fan. He likes to shepherd four or five friends through a subway turnstile, with one nick el, making it reissue from the slot each time and click through the next man. That brings the change dealer roaring from his den. Mr. Mulholland hands him a half-dollar, the wayfar ers take their train, and then the dealer finds he has an alum inum disk with a rabbit in a silk hat on it. He usually screams and butts his head against the wall. But, 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 men. Mr. Mulholland sent for a new deck of cards and asked me to shuffle them and deal four hands. It couldn’t have been a trained deck. It was thoroughly shuffled. Mr. Mulholland never touched the cards, standing with his back turned a few feet away, and never said a word. The hands fell as he ordered, the orders apparent ly issuing silently from the back of his head. €> Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Workers Busy Building America’s Largest Ship The America, largest ship to be built in this country, is now under construction at the Newport News Ship building company in Virginia. The new super vessel will be the running mate for the Manhattan and Wash ington in the transatlantic fleet. Fictured at the left are highly skilled mechanics blading the low pressure turbines, a part of the America's driving machinery. There are some 15,000 of the blades for the casing plus that many for the rotor. At the right is a well-outfitted electric welder, dressed in safety equipment. Stars Ask Severance of Nazi Relations Hollywood's committee of 56 recently signed their own Declaration of Independence which will be signed by 20,000,000 American citizens and then presented to President Roosevelt and congress, seeking a sever ance of economic relations with Nazi Germany until such time as that country comes into the fold of nations in accordance with the humane principles of international law. Left to right, seated: Melvyn Douglas, James Cagney, Edward Robinson. Standing: Gale Sondergaard, Helen Gahagan, Henry Fonda and Gloria Stuart. RETURNS FROM CHINA Capitol Gavel Industry Booming Methodist Episcopal Bishop Ar thur J. Moore, returning from Shanghai to his headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, declared that more than 100 missions, hospitals and schools have been destroyed in the war between China and Japan. “A century’s work has been dissipat ed," he said. SKEET CHAMP Phil Miller, French Lick Springs, Ind., skeet and trapshoot expert, is three-way national champ. He missed only 31 out of 3,050 targets in 1938 to win high average honors. He is also Class AA champ and head of the Class A doubles group. David Lynn, capitol architect (right), watches E. S. Kenyon, machin ist, replenish a supply of gavels for Speaker William B. Bankhead, to be used during this session of congress. The gavels are made in the capitol machine shop. Trio Plans 2,500-Mile Canoe Trip This trio of intrepid yachtsmen have obtained permission to make the 2,500-mile trip from Honolulu to Samoa in a 32-foot Hawaiian outrigger canoe. Carrier pigeons will keep them in communication with their port, Honolulu, during the 20 days at sea. Left to right* U. S. Woodbury, Burlington, Vt.; Don Hall, Long Beach, Calif., and Charlrs Kern, Paw tucket, R. I. Star Dust ’ft It's a Western Year Watch Cagney Go! •jf Sleeping Producers By Virginia Vale T HIS •’begins to look more and more like a Western year, so far as the movies are concerned. Glorified Westerns these new ones will be, with the big studios offering you good casts, stories and sets, with A-l directors handling the whole thing. Walter Wanger will tempt you soon with “Stage Coach,” starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne, Louise Platt, John Carra- dine, Donald Meek, George Bancroft, Thomas Mitchell and Andy Devine, with John Ford as director. The picture was shot at Kern- ■ville, Calif., and the story is one of those •things in which an odd assortment of characters is thrown together under unusual circum stances. Wanger borrowed John Wayne from Republic at no small ,cost; incidentally, it was John Ford S '— 1 *© discovered Wayne some seven ars ago, when the young man was rking as a prop boy. ! Cecil B. DeMille gives you “Union (Pacific,” history from a movie an gle, but history for all that. Darryl •Zanuck contributes “Jesse James,” which, if it even faintly resembles the stage play of that name, re cently done in New York, should make you cheer. *— And you’ll see James Cagney in 'Oklahoma Kid” by courtesy of Warner Brothers. It is said that his char acterization is based on “Billy the Kid,” and that’s interest ing. Years ago, be fore Hollywood had whipped up interest in young Mr. Cag ney, he was just one more of New York’s actors, doing pretty well, but wanting to James Cagney do better. Mary Mc Call Jr., now one of Hollywood’s best scenario writers, learned that one of the major com panies was about to do a picture based on the life and adventures of Billy the Kid, and she and her hus band did all they could to persuade •the governing powers that Cagney, a friend of theirs, was just the boy jfor the part. He didn’t get it. Hollywood didn’t know him, which was their bad luck. Now he has his chance. * Speaking of actors who aren’t ap preciated brings up the young wom an known professionally as Elsa Lanchester, and otherwise as Mrs. Charles Laughton. If you meet a motion picture producer kicking himself around the block you’ll know that she is the reason. For “The Beachcomber,” made by Laughton independently, with the two Laughtons in leading roles, had no more than begun its showing in New York in late December than everyone began to rave about Elsa Lanchester’s performance. She had everything! And Hollywood, when she was there with her husband, gave her no chance to do anything but the bride in “The Bride of Frankenstein” and a couple of bits. Better see “The Beachcomber” when it comes your way; it is being mentioned as one of the best of thr year. —*— Not a few of our best movie stars are envying Joan Blondell and Dick Powell these days. For since they broke with Warner Brothers they can accept those tempting radio of fers that they used to turn down, regretfully, because the studio wouldn’t let them accept. —*— Jack Haley was busy enough to suit him before “The Wizard of Oz” came into his life, what with dou bling in movies and radio. Now he figures that he’ll have to spend ex actly one month out of the next three on making up for his role of “The Tin Woodman” in the screen version of the Frank Baum story; three hours a day to put make-up on, three to take it off—231% dayr altogether. * Lawrence Tibbett is preparing to commute from New York to Holly wood and back again this winter. He’s been signed for that new radio program—known generally as “The Carole Lombard-Cary Grant pro gram”—but he is also scheduled for frequent appearances at the Metro politan Opera House, where he is one of the biggest draws. So he will flit back and forth, with practically no spare time except while he’s flitting. * ODDS AND ENDS—Charlie Chaplin says that he positively will talk in his new picture, which will be m burlesque on the Hitler dictatorship ... If he makes the picture as slowly as he has some others, there's danger that the Eu ropean scene will have changed so com pletely that it will be ancient history . . . 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