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BOLD ADVENTURE

Another year of intensive training would give Lloyd HoSang's pleasing baritone much of the maturity needs.  But friends and serious admirers told him to go ahead, and that the experience of a recital would do him good.

The audience which his personal popularity magnetized to Ward Theatre Saturday night, Dec. 11, did not fill the 900 seats.  They had often heard his homey and soothing baritone over ZQI and in the same theatre.  But there was never quite enough on which to pass balanced judgment.  Now they would have enough.

His repertoire included such trivia as "Because" (his theme song), "A Little Bit of Heaven", "Mother Machree".  On the serious side his "Largo al Factotum" (Rossini, though short on volume and "brio" what's surprisingly well done;  his two Handels were warm with understanding, they showed competence.

As a pleasant evening with friends, the recital was a success;  as a musical event, a bold adventure.

WOMEN

FIRST PROBATION OFFICER

Mid-December, while Police Chief William A. Calver was fine-screening 150-odd applicants to select his first batch of policewomen, another important bit of social history was noted.  Back from Britain came pretty, efficient-looking Ivy Loraine Blair, Jamaica's first woman Probation Officer.

College-bred Miss Blair was appointed earlier in the year.  The kindly British council offered a three-month scholarship that gave her carte blanche into British juvenile delinquency methods and administration.  She Scotland Yard's women police system and British children's courts for first-hand knowledge which she will put into effect in her home country.

Almost Coinciding with her homecoming the governor appointed three* more women Justices of the Peace.  Having yielded, after years of stubborn, thick-skulled insistence, to public pressure that "wrong" boys and girls be not treated like hardened criminals, that be released from the rough impersonal hands of ulcer-stomached policeman and judges, and be saved from the glare of character-wrecking press publicity, Government framed a Juvenile Delinquency Law which will soon be set in motion.

Commissioning of three more women justices is significant to those who have been watching official moves towards emptying the island's crime incubators.  (Belief is that Miss Blair will be among the next crop of justices).

Imperceptible.  Though the new deal for juvenile delinquents started over three years ago with the appointment and scholarship schooling of several male probation officers, progress has been imperceptible.

* Schoolteacher Ethlyn Rhodd, Social Welfare Worker Jesse Irwin, Mary Manning Carley.

48  SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.