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ALL SHE WANTED WAS LOVE....
ALL SHE GOT WAS “DON'T .......... DON'T !
MEET THE GIRL
EVERY WOMAN WANTS
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AND NO
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Nothing like it has ever been filmed...a story so tender, so true, so warmly appealing...it will make fall in love with a girl you hate! you
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DOLORES COSTELLO DONALD CRISP
Directed by ARTHUR-LUDIN• Screen Play by Lawrence Kimble From an Original Story by Joan Negulesco · A Fina National Picture
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AND RE-PLANNING
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(0) Prohibition or restriction of use of land (other than by building operations) likely to involve dan. gor or injury to health or sorious detriment to the neighbourhood. (7) Restriction in use of building. [ tegulation of height and position of proposed fonce, walls, bedges, etc., fear road corners or bends, In the interests of trame safety. (9) Limitation of number, or pro seriptios of sites of new roads entering on an existing or pre- pored classified rond. (10) Fixing of bullding lines on land not port of a büllding for five years provious to material date, (17) Provision of accommodation for loading and unloading or fuelling vehicles in buildings proposed to le used for business or Industry In order to provent' obstruction of a highway.
Item 4 might be qualified by fixing a reasonable period of time during which resteletion can be imposcil.
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RADIO.. BROADCAST
"Dancing Down the Ages" From the Studio.
LONDON RELAYS
Radlo Programme Broadcast by z. B. W. on a Frequency of 8.45 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c'a, per second.
8.00 Relay of the Banco Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- Long Hotel.
(a) Who are we to ray; (b) Smarly; (c) Serenade to the Stare; (d) After you,
YI.14. Record: Sylvia Ballet- Fantasy (Delibes); Muslen Proibita (Gastaldon)....Marcel Palotti (Or-
Ban).
021 (a) Gone with the wind;. (b) Caravan: () Penthouse on 3rd Avenue; (d) Runnin' Wild.
0.35 Records: fo-morrow Is An-
90. It is right that the legitimate other Day (Alm 'A Day at the Races'); Intorents of the individual should not I Was Anything But Sentimental Un sacrificed to the good of the com(film munity without
"Take My Tip1)........Carroll compensatie Gibbons
(Piano) and
Boy It is equally right that, if by te eet Friends; Top Hat-Selection (Irving of the community through its elected.
Gearge representatives, the value of individual Berlin)
Scott-Wood interests are greatly enhanced then the Pinno-Accordion) ant. by Guitar,
Basa and Drums.
individual should refund at least a portion of his gains to the community. The Town and Country Planning Act, in England provides for the payment of 76% of much gain.
6.44 (4) Medley of Old Favourites; (b) Mocking Bird; (c) Hillbilly for 10th Avenue; (d) Big Chief Swing It'.
7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
7.03 Military Dand Selections. May-Day Revels
(from Sulle: Rural Scenes In Days of Oit' Cope)....Mussed Bands cond, by Medley Samuel Cope: Champion' March
(Ord Bands road. by J. Henry iles; Alder- Hume). Massed
shat Command Searchlight Tattoo, 1935. Musaed Bands of the Alder- shot Command.
Joseph Schmidi (Tenor),
7.25 Clita Alpar (Soprano) and
AID OF LAW NEEDED 100. The above items give some in- deation of the scope of a Town Plan- ning Behemo to for as it may affect private property, No Town Planning ar Hlum Clearance Schemie, however ident on paper, can be given effect without the ak of the law. The value of a plan is conditioned by the extent to whitch it can be given legal effect. In Hongkong, the only law which, in nny appreciable way asaisis redevelop meat in the Valuation and Iesumption Ordinance, This however is limited in ncope as it only provides for the come pulsory purchase of property for n pubtle purpose. The law of town plan-
L'Arlotella Neopolitan Song ning in the machinery necessary to give (Biscardi); La Danza (Rossini) .... effect to town planning. In Hongkong Joseph Sel
Schmidt with Orchestra;: the machinery quite inadequate for Twilight Sonata (from Home And the purpose. The law in other coun: Beauty); Play It Again (Hungarian tries may or may not be adequate, but Song from Home and Deauty).... much as it is, it la- based on local con ditions and therefore cannot be ar
Gitta Alpar
acromp. by two planos bitrarily taken over for use in Hong and violin; Gypsy Love (Lchar-Will- kong. In view of the many matters nr-Bodanzky); Vienna Bonbons-- with which such a law must deal, and Waltz Song (Strauss-Bodenstedt)... the time which it would take to formu-Joseph Schmidt with Orchestra. Inte, it is suficient for this report to Sadlente te nature and necessity and leave the actual framing to a legal and technical committee appointed for the purpose.
7.44 Concert Waltzes,
Waltz
(Depret); Vienna
April Smiles Spring
Waliz (Lincke) Boheme Orchestra; Gypsy Waltz (Composer Unknown). .Russian Novelty Orchestra; Hydropathen Waltz (Gungl): Wolga, Wolga! (Rus sinn Waltz Potpourri-Waller Noack)
Vienna Boheme Orchestra, 5.00 Time, Weather and Announce- ments,
8.03 Songs
Grace Moore (Soprano),
101. Finally the constitution and or ganisation of the planning and housing nuthority itself remains to be consider. ed In England the Housleg and Town Planning Authorities dre usually separate commliters elected from the Monlelpal Council. For housing itself there is unnily a separate municipal lepartment, but town planning in morn ally a sub-ifepartment, working under the City Englueer. An arrangement Musetta's Waltz Song (“La Boheme" which has few advantages and many-Puccini); Funicull, Cunicula (Den- drawbacks. In European continental¦ za); The Dubarry (from the Oper towns Housing, Town Planning nau retta) (Howland Leigh-Millocker, City Engineering are normally separate departments. In Amerien arrangements vary considerably but it has heea ad. vocated by a prominent American town planner that the best nyaten would be the appointment of a permanent City Planning Commlich, with its own By J. 5, N. Sewell and J. R. MB- technical staff, and that the heads of cecan; Characters: Horace Under- Various departimenta such AL Enwood: Patrick O'Neill; Donald Craig: gineering, Architectural and Legal, act as advisers,
102. It must be remembered that Housing. Slum Clearance and Town Planning deal largely with private pro- perty, and work on any appreciable senie will mean direct contact and many dieult and protracted negotiations with owners. It would not be fair lo throw this work and its attendant re sponsibilities onto a single Government ocial, nor should he be made to me. cept nominal responsibility for the work. If carried out by a subordinate,
rr. Maskeben); I Give My Heart (from the Operetta The Dubarry') with Orchestral accompaniment. 8.15 London Relay-"Behind The Door,"
Peter Martin; Scene: The unoccupied home of the Forresters; Production by Howard Rose.
8.40 "Dancing Down the Agca” Dances of different periods and nations. Compered from the Studio. 0.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50 Compositions of Mendelssohn including "Trio in D Minor",
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103. For Hongkong & nullablo or. of the manson precludes any possibility ganisation would be for the general of providing decent housing accoin. directlun of and responsibility for the modation for all, even of a low stand- work to be in the hands of a perman- ard, without the supply of large sumsa ent committee, kanisted by an executive of money from Government or charity. and technical staff attached to the For a certain number however, possibly Jubile Works Department for adminis- a quarter or a third of the population tration only, but responsible directly 10 at. a cucu It does neem possible to the Committee for the technical aide of provide adequate housing áccommoda- Its work. Town Planning, Housing and tion at little or no cost to Gavern-~| Public Works are closely related and niebt, Blum clearance will cost money,; Co-operation a essential, to avoid over- but, by the allocation each year of a Inpping or working at cross purposes. not unreasonable
from public If the Director of Publle Works or his funds, progress can be made, even representativen, nach na the senior As- though it be low. Finally, even if sistant Director, he an ex-omela mem- little can be done about the alume, ber of the Committee, contact is main. there is no obstacle in the way of pre- tained, and by, the attachment of the venting their spread, by the simple Committee's Technical thir to the expedient of properly planning future Public Works Department, administra development, with a buliding unit of tion expenses can be saved and close shallower depth and wider frontage, contret between the two stalls made and zoning for different land usagen. possible.
The provision of simply laid out parks 104, In this report we have boon cheaply developed, would be a decided compelled to deal largely with gener- niet to induce the slum dwellers into allies rather than with precise detailed the fresh air. These parks should be facts, the collection of which would be in or near the congested areas and better left in the hands of o permanently accessible. ent authority. The abnormal poverty}
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