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[[advertisement]] [[image - photograph of woman in evening dress]] EVE AND COCKTAIL DRESSES Lamé, Velvet, black & glowing Gipsy colourings. Peach & Silver Lamé. Jersey, Crepe, etched with beads. Floral Silk dresses. Taffetas etc., etc. Evening Bags. BON TON 81 Harbour St. [[/advertisement]] [[advertisement]] [[image - photograph of woman in evening dress]] Holiday ENTERTAINMENT – with a gay, sparkling variety that's bound to bring pleasure is planned for you and your date at this popular tropical rendezvous. CHRISTMAS EVE – THREE ORCHESTRAS • RUDY MCDONALD (BABA MAC) & HIS BOYS • ROY WHITE & THE CLUB'S ORCHESTRA WITH CONTINUOUS MUSIC • JOHNNY & HIS BEACHCOMBERS Filling in short interludes – COVER 4/- CHRISTMAS NIGHT – THREE ORCHESTRAS • DON HITCHMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA • ROY WHITE & THE CLUB'S ORCHESTRA WITH CONTINUOUS MUSIC • JOHNNY & HIS BEACHCOMBERS FILLING IN COVER 5/0 DEC. 26 & 27 – ROY WHITE & HIS ORCHESTRA from 5 P.M.: NO COVER NEW YEAR'S EVE – THREE ORCHESTRAS – COVER 5/- NEW YEAR'S NIGHT – THREE ORCHESTRAS – COVER 4/- WICKIE WACKIE BEACH CLUB [[/advertisement]] and community. "I belong to all three," she says proudly. In the last-named, she is Women's Federation Treasurer; Kingston Girl Guides District Commissioner; Member Women's League Embroidery Depot's Managing Committee; Secretary St. John Ambulance Associations Home Nursing Branch; Assistant Colony Director International Red Cross (Jamaica Branch). In all of these posts she exerts and easy, exemplary, inspiring and dignified effectiveness which produces tangible and desired results. This effectiveness is moreso a giveaway that her interest in the community's social welfare is no mere antidote to luxurious idleness, but a deep and sincere conviction of the inescapable humanitarian obligation of the privileged to the underprivileged. For exceptional services to the St. John's Ambulance Association, she was recently made Lady Sister. Home from vacation in August Lady Huggins brought the "wonderful idea" of a Jamaica branch of the IRC. Mrs. Henriques gladly took on the Assistant Directorship, well-knowing it is no social sinecure but an ability-testing job of organizational work. But Director Molly Huggins has accurately catalogued Jamaica's rich men's wives, and knows how much to expect from whom. Limited Way. Sincere community servers throughout the world are publicity- shy. No exception, Mrs. Henriques does not see that her activities merit more than casual mention, if at all. Said she to SPOTLIGHT'S interviewer: "I am interested only in doing what I can in my limited way to help those who need help". Instance of her "limited way": she does the Federation's complex bookkeeping single-handedly, in addition to her other freewill jobs. In a community loaded with women who "work" on committees largely because committees are the surest stepladders to social contacts and press publicity, it is good to find a Verna Henriques contributing something far more intrinsic than money, patronising advice and elite presence at public functions. "O.K." Once Gushed. Above all, she is a housewife. She manages Shalimar, the large, ornate family house on Old Hope Road with press-button efficiency, is rated among the most gracious hostesses in the upper social clique. Does she cook? In a rare confidential mood busy, tight-lipped O. K. once told a Press acquaintance: "I can always know when my wife cooks something – I cannot resist a second helping." After meeting her at a King's House party, a visiting Briton, in typical British understatement, remarked: "There's a balanced woman, if I know one." Her sense of humour is almost unique. She was on the Reina del Pacifico when it called at Callao, Peru, late November. A revolution was in full blast. She reported on reaching Kingston, Dec. 2: "They seem to have stop fighting long enough allow the ship to dock and let us passengers enjoy ourselves." (The Peruvian Navy carried out a coup d'etat that put testy President Luis Bustamante on the run). 52 SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.
