VERBAL UPPER-CUTS
TUNNY AND. SHAW FILM. ATTITUDE OF THE CHAMPION LONDON, November 22. A disinclination to risk even verbally uppercutting the world champion is displayed in Mr. Barnard Shaw's unexpectedly mild comment on the refusal of Gene. Tunny, world's heavy-weight boxing champion, to appear in the film of iiis novel, "Cashell Byron's Profession," on, the grounds, of its silliness and iinmaturjty. , ~' :■ » •'', . "Tunny knows'best, 1 -',; said Shaw. "He's right in describing the work as immature, and if he can write and improve the play he had better do so." ; Tunney expresses the opinion that Shaw does not understand the temperament and psychology of the pi*ofession;il boxer, with the result that Bryon appears in the play as a "blundering vulgarian." The Star says that Tunney apparently forgets that Cashel spent his youth as a hanger-on in an Australian Saloon and had an hysterical actress- ■ mother. Within the limits ofHhe period his environment and his parentage," adds the paper, "Cashel was just as much a gentleman as Tunney may he."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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167VERBAL UPPER-CUTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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