THE COST OF LOVING

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1920, Page 1

THE COST OF LOVING

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it JIEUTKR.] (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) iLONDON, February 2G. 'l’lie “Daily Express” features a new plan for cheapening the cost of living. It says the problem must be tackled from three, directions; readjustment of American exchange; drastic reduction of shipping freights, and reopening unrestricted trade with Russia. 'Hie paper points out the gold reserve held by the banks total £170,000,000 while financiers declare the sending to America of £50,000,000 in gold would rectify the exchange. The Government declares this is impossible. 'Pile Express urges it can bo sent immediately if the Britishers return Government bonds and lend the State, gold and trinkets which would be returnable when the normal gold reserves are re-established.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. “A MIDNIGHT ROMANCE.” POLLARD’S PICTURES. ANITA STEWART TO-NIGHT. At 8 p.m., in the Princess Theatre, Pollards will present the First Nationals big feature, “A Midnight Romance” the second of the First Nationals special star pieturesfor Anita Stewart. “A Midnight Romance” is an exposure of the methods and practices by. which criminal intelligence seeks, “frames” arid lands its prey among the social sets, and the part that hotel employees often innocently play in the plans of the ul-tra-crooks for landing big game. Miss Stewart plays the star part, that of a mysterious hotel maid who entangles the destinies of a score of guests, and loses her own heart in the doing and in reality this charming maid servant is a penniless shipwrecked girl of a high family and the events leading to a deep laid plot are as exciting asi they are novel.

McLEAN’S PICTURES, TUESDAY NIGHT. McLean’s Pictures on Tuesday night will consist of a programme of particular pleasure. First, comes a special English star picture founded oil'the famous book and play by Tom Gallon—- “ Molly Bawn.” The book is wellknown for the bright story it is, and Allan Doone lias made the spoken play very popular. In the screen-play appears Alma Taylor, the dainty English actress who is known as the English Mary Pickford. The story is of a charming girl who won the affection of a hard hearted miser in spite' of opposition and lies.

The second feature piny of the evening, or Star No. 2 is a 5-act Paramount “Fuss and Feathers” featuring Enid Bennett. In the big city home—a place where wealth looked down on poverty with disdain, and where spito and beauty battled with each other, this girl lias! been forced into a strange swirl of events She had been sent to the city to ' he educated, and had fallen into the hands of a gentleman, who had his own ideas of how a pretty girl should he educated. Now she was faced with the crisis of her life. , >