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Jamaica's Leading Auctioneers &
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48 East St., Kingston
Telephone 2685
L. P. BLACKWOOD
98 King St., Kingston
Telephone 23914
LAING'S REAL ESTATE & AUCTIONEER CO.
11 East St., Kingston
Telephone 23442
NATIONAL BUSINESS AGENCY (W.I.) LTD.
Head Office: 6 East Parade, Kingston
Telephone 4126
Branches. Myrtle Bank Hotel (4172), Montego Bay (570), Mandeville, Pt. Maria.
C. G. PLUMMER
79 Church St., Kingston
Telephone 3798
F. A. STANLEY
(Est. since 1930)
64 Church St., Kingston
Telephone 4745
D. C. TAVARES
27 East Queen St., Kingston
Telephone 2831
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fancy descriptive words and phrases, settled for something tame but adequately expressive. She's no Rubenstein or Horowitz, she's Hazel Scott.
[[bold]] He & She. [[/bold]] Between concerts the Powells nightclubbed (A.C.P. at Morgan's Cove: "No photographs, please. I'm a minster"), face-cracked, guest-dined on Jamaican food, lazed and swam at Myrtle Bank.
He told the Press boys of life with Hazel, the A.B. Church, Congress, the Negro Rights programme and campaign. He revealed: last February he was officially appointed to represent the Congressional Commission on Education & Labour on this trip, would report his findings to the 81st Congress. She told anecdotes about the great and near-great of stage, night club and radio, rarely talked piano.
Jamaica loves sporting people, spotted the Powells as such. To atone for his smear campaign "misquote", A.C.P. turned on his pastor-congressman-playboy's charms. He never missed an opening to mention the fancy prices of his wife's clothes and high-karat jewellery. Overall, Jamaicans chalked him up as "a pretty smart guy" standing on three solid props.
[[bold]] Clinging Aura. [[/bold]] They took Hazel Scott out of the common mould of "great artists", preferred to regard her as a sensational mistress of the ivories. It pleased them that the aura of the New York night club clung to her like her thousand-dollar Adrian gowns.
Jamaicans noticed too that in the select social circles where the Powells and Robeson met, they were only formally cordial to each other.
[[large print]] [[bold]] WAKEMAN DEBLIMPED [[/large print]] [[/bold]]
Irrespective of who pays the bill – the Colonial Office or the Colony – the B.W.I. wanted no more Colonel Blimps. C.O. advance press release had set W.I. scribes thinking the Regional Information Officer was a typical Blimp. He had done a 19-yr. stretch with the Bengal Lancers. ("They are neither British nor from Bengal"), years of newspapering abroad and at home, had authored a biography ("The Bravest Soldier"), and done other impressive things for pleasure, profit and flag. Omitting his BBC-ing during and after the war, he had typical Blimpian build up.
W.I. scribes booed in black and white. SPOTLIGHT had just about forgotten its own part when in breezed Wyatt E.
_________________________| [[image - photograph of man]] [[caption]] MAJOR WAKEHAM [[italics]]The Colonial Office pays. [[/italics]] [[/caption]]
Bryce, Jamaica Government's one-man press bureau, Friday forenoon, Dec. 3. With him was a dapper little man twirling a chocolate-coloured porkpie hat with the jauntiness of a 20-yr.-old.
[[bold]] Cynical Good Humour. [[/bold]] "Major Charles E. Wakeham," Bryce announced, twinkling with concealed mischief. It took Editor Evon Blake precious little time to discover that he and his W.I. colleagues had got Wakeham wrong, that the 55-ish R.I.O. is a world-wisey member of the printer's ink profession, regular, ready-witted, full of banter and cynical good humour.
On tour of the region about which he is to inform his bosses, he had flown in the previous day quite unheralded. Bryce was now dutifully towing him around to meet the various top press people. Sunset that evening Bryce piloted him to a convivial have-a-drink session in his honour at the Press Club. After a while he ducked out after some "unfinished business." Next morning he was off again.
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18 SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.
