Viewing page 40 of 80

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[advertisement]]
Fletcher & Co., LTD. 
Montego Bay & Kingston
Jamaica's Best Equipped
Insurance Office
Agents & Attorneys for: 
The Home Insurance Co.
The Halifax Insurance Co.
The Maritime Life Insurance Co. of North America

Our agents cover Jamaica.
You need our protection for
your LIFE,  your HEALTH, your CAR, your BUSINESS and 
PUBLIC LIABILITY.

Consult us. We advise without obligation.
Telephones: 
Kingston - 4204
Montego Bay - 301
[[/advertisement]]

[[advertisement]] 
[[image - black circle outlined in white with caption 'INTERNATIONAL SALES CO. LTD.', surrounding central globe  showing continents and Atlantic Ocean, with black band with white letters 'KINGSTON JAMAICA']] on a small diamond patterned background]] 
LARGEST STORE ON THE ISLAND DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO OFFICE SUPPLIES AND FANCY STATIONERY
GOLD STAMPING
      ●
MAKERS OF "INTERSALCO PRODUCTS"]]
P.O. BOX 201 ● PHONE 2003
STORE:           PLANT:
102 HARBOUR ST. ● 9-11 CHURCH ST.
[[/advertisement]]


INTERNATIONAL

[[image - photograph of African American male in business suit and female in v-neck dress with flowered hat]] 
[[caption]] HAZEL SCOTT & HUSBAND
He relaxed in a pulpit. [[/caption]] 

TRIPLE IMPACT

Three of the world's famous Negroes, all Americans, were in Jamaica at the same time during November-December.  Two came on an interlocking W.I. concert tour for Impresario Stephen Hill, the third for the ride.

First to come was Paul Robeson by plane on the 7th (SPOTLIGHT, Nov.)  Hazel Scott came by ship on the 22nd accompanied by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, her husband and their infant some.  Impact of the big-name trio on the Caribbean was heavy and heady. 

Robeson.  Jamaica had heard of Robeson as the most dynamic crowd-puller among singers of the current era, great humanitarian and Negro champion.  The close-ups adequately confirmed.  Robeson sang to more and bigger audiences* than any previous visiting artist.  Message in his songs and speeches:  Human dignity is not conditioned, qualified or assessed by colour, creed or race; the world owes the Negro an even break.
He promised to be back, probably with his wife and son.  All Jamaica (excepting Political & Labour Leader Alexander Bustamante) wished he didn't have to go, but would hurry back.

A.C. Powell. The Jamaican dailies (to whom cultural personalities and activities are not Page One news as in neighbouring Trinidad) were giving Robeson sketchy inside page space when 

[[image-black and white photograph of Paul Robeson carrying his coat and bag from an airplane]] [[caption]] ROBESON Human Dignity. [[/caption]]


* Flying from Trinidad at dusk Sunday, Nov. 28, after appearances in Jamaica, Robeson drove straight to an openair concert for school children at Wolmer's Girls' School.  Audience: 7,000.  Night before his departure he sang to an estimated 55,000 at anther openair concert at Kingston Race Course.  Worshipful crowds scrambling to get close, dislocated the amplifying system thus limiting the range of his voice to the infield.  Bad policing further allowed perching on a nearby roof which caved in, injuring 27, two (one child) fatally.  The incident so saddened Robeson, he cancelled all appointments before flying at 11:30 next morning.  He had given the concert especially for the benefit of the thousands to who 30/- theatre tickets are out of reach.

14   SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.