SURFING SEASON.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18552, 30 November 1925, Page 7

SURFING SEASON.

OPENING AT NEW BRIGHTON. The New Brighton Surf Bathing and LifeSaving Club opened its 1925-26 season yesterday afternoon in the presence of a very large attendance of the public. The president (Mr A. W. Owles), in declaring the season open, wished the members ft successful time during the season. The Mayor (Mr J. Gamble) and Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., also spoke, extending to tbe club their best wishes. At the conclusion of the addresses, - the club's team, gave an exhibition of life-saving and resuscitation, after which afternoon tea was dispensed by the committee.

LIBERTY THEATRE. "LOCKED DOORS." "THE TRIFLERS." ■ The programme at the Libertv Theatre this week is one that will surelv satisfv all taetes. At least.it lias proved its worth before two large attendan?es-on e on-Friday for all programmes will for the future be changed on that evening-and the other on Saturday. Both from a pictorial and a musical point of view the new bill is ail that the management claims it to be. P, A ,L the . head of tbe Programme is the Paramount production, "Locked Doors," of 1- C 3 e t °J thp - most Powerful pictures f'fer -? i. i have been screened in Ohn»tchurch. Briefly, it is of a yoang w'? Wh °' - to l )kas « hj« fathar, who is an i.lf ' tt . ame . 3 a man much older than herseit, and thus is enabled to find her parent a home The husband is an architect ,"= .v, !°- n ? d suc cess in life, and his wife is a Deautiiul woman, who respects him, but '■™« t0 Sive him the affection he desires One aay, while on a holiday, she meets a man about her own age, and before they realise what they are allowing themselves to drift into, the two are hopeleulv Jrl^' 11 ' 1 cach other - The ™man withuows her name from her new-found friend and goes away hoping that they will not meet again and that both of them will .in time forget each other. Unfortunately for her plaus, her husband one day brings to m* home the man she has hoped has passed out of her life, and at sight of each other tlieir tevc proves too much for them. The wife is faced with the task of choosis*- between love and duty, while the man, who is a good clcan-souled fellow, is in a similar position, but proves the weaker of the two. ■Hie hvsuand offers him a <l,ancc to go abroad, and he is constrained to accept the opportunity and thus save (lie name of the woman lie loves and his own. Instead of oomg so at once, however, he goea to her loom to bid her good-bye, and while thev ar e together a fire breaks out. The husband shatters the door in order to rrscuo his wife and is dumbfounded to find the two together. This scene is full of emotion, the nusband believing the worst and being deaf to the pica of the vounger anan an tho wife s behalf. The climax is a most unexpected one and ahows the husband in a noble light. There are some fine scenes in the picture of the Sierra Mountains, and the representation of a mansion on fire and the rescue of its inmates is most realistic. The cast is a very strong one, including as it does such artists a 3 Betty Compson, Theodore Roberts, Kathlyn Williams, and Robert Edeson. Roberts is seen in his fust part since hi 3 Umess, and is shown an an invalid in a bath-chair, but in ppite of this apparent oisadvantage he strikes one as Ijcinj as great an actor as ever. \

The second attraction is "The Triflers," in which a young and beautiful heiress ;s sought by eoveral admirers, her experiences before she finally discovers the happiness she has a right to expect being of intense interest. The cast consists of Mao Busch, Elliot Dexter. Prank Mayo, Eva Novak, Walter. Hiers, and a number of other wellknown players.

An "Our Gang" comedy completes the pictorial programme, of whieh the management has every reason to be proud. The Liberty Quality Orchestra, under Mr Howard Moody, provides a magnificent programme of incidental music. The entr'acte was the popular one-step "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (King). It was well played, and received a well-deserved encore. A selection from Offenbach's operas introduced the most popular melodies from "The Grand Duchess," "Orpheus in the Underworld," and "Tales of Hoffman." New foxtrots included were "Tom Mix" (Clarke) and "Malow"- (Lennord). Both were bright numbers, and should become popular. A work new to the orchestra was the overture from Dvorak's seldom-heard opera "Der Bauerein Schelm." It is a magnificent piece, and received an excellent interpretion. Other numbers were:—Musical comedy, "The Blue Kitten" (Friml), "The Lady of the Rose" (Gilbert); Morceau, "Liebstraum" (Liszt), "Prelude" (Rachmaninoff), "Le Soir" (Gounod); symphony, No. 39 (Mozart).