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[[advertisement]] [[Image - cartoon drawing of man]] REDDY KILOWATT Your Electric Servant REDDY FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTION HEATING LIGHTING AIR CONDITIONING MATERIAL HANDLING Electrical Applications help Modern Production. Electricity is constantly improving production in today's leading industries. From it's innumerable and different uses, you can find many applications to help you. JAMAICA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY LIMITED [[/advertisement]] overall new system by which education will proceed from new on. Its architect: Haughton. ONE STONE, TWO BIRDS With its work ballooned during the past decade the Education Department had to find added working space. Currently it is housed in three buildings each half a mile apart: main building at East Street another at South Race Course, the third at North & Hanover Streets; three rambling, shambling, congested relics of the horse-&-buggy era. Heading a decentralized department, new Director Harold Haughton (see above) would take over on Jan. 1 with an initial handicap. At best he would be as a man working with one hand bound behind his back. One ample and modern building for the whole department would be in the combined interests of efficiency and civic pride. Suggestion: tear down the main building and erect a three-storey one at the same spot. THEATRE PANTOMIME After her six months in England, few could tell that little Kay, aged 6, had cut her eyeteeth on outlandish Burmese. Doting parents later packed her off to a Swiss school. They took her to a different European country every summer. Now tell, blond, blue-eyed and pretty, Kay Clayton speaks French, German, Italian, and, of course, English. After school she lived a year in Italy. And because she "never wanted to anything but act," she went to Rada Academy of Dramatic Art, nursery of such bright stars of the British stage (and screen) as Charles Laughton and Flora Robson. She studied voice at the Royal College of Music. With such a buildup, Kay hit the stage and clicked almost at once. "I was by no means a terrific sensation, you understand," she said guardedly. Between ambulance and hospital duty during the war, she did CEMA and ENSA concerts, once gave a recital at London's rarefied Wigmore Hall. Later she played in "Alladin," a pantomime. Followed six months of repertory with Regency Players in Wales; a tour as Mme. Daroushka, a Russion prima donna, in the play Claudia another leading role as principal "boy" in the pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk" short runs in "Desert Song," "Meet Mr. Manhattan" and "Mother Goose" (another panto). In-between she sandwiched [[advertisement]] MUSICAL GIFTS Bring Joy and Happiness to any Home... Drop in today and see our range of fine musical merchandise.. * Chappell Pianos * Guitars * Magazines * Radios * Books THE MUSIC MART 66 Orange St. Kingston [[/advertisement]] 46 SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.
