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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.
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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
. . . Loretta Young's sister, Polly Ann,
has an important role in Monogram’s
"Sky Pirate,” first of a series of six
"Tailspin Tommy” features.
• Western Newspaper Union.
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Lrardeners
Special Gardens
\/fANY hobbyists get pleasure
J from special gardens. Some
have been successful with all
marigold, or all-petunia gardens.
Marigolds are available in a wide
variety of sizes and shapes and!
provide a golden-brown garden!
scene of unusual richness.
Petunias have a wide range of:
color, and more and more they
are being used for cut flowers an
well as for garden color and beauty!
Some have grown gardens pri
marily for fragrance. The best
flowers for such a garden, accord
ing to Harry A Joy, flower ex
pert, are alyssum, carnation, i
mignonette, nicotians, sweet pea
and sweet william.
For a garden of plants without
actual flowers but with showy foli
age, interesting results have been
obtained witfe the following: Jo
seph’s coat, coleus, dusty miller,
snow - on • the - mountain, annual]
poinsettia, kochia and castor oil*
bean.
The following will fit well into a
typical wildflower garden: Annual!
lupin, bachelor button, rudbeckia:
(cone flower), columbine, peren
nial aster, heuchera (coral bells),'
and perennial upin.
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How Women
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Hera's good advice for a woman daring her
change (usually from 88 to 62), who lean
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 8 nrs. sleep and if you
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especially for women. It helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
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Golden Opportunity
To improve the golden moment
of opportunity and catch the good
that is within our reach, is the
great art of life.—Johnson.
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Even if other remedies have failed,
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and you’ll get the genuine product
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