JESS WILLARD-JOHNSON FIGHT FILM.
Tho Johnson-Willard fight film will be shown at tho Theatre Royal for positively one night only next Tuesday at 8 o'clock. The interest aroused by this encounter was very great. Johnson hold the . championship for over seven years, and many white hopes succumbed to his powers.- It was thought that Willard would share the same fate,, but he proved he was the possessor of the necessary gifts, and after one of the most strenuous battles ever taken on he brought the championship back to the white race. Many exciting episodes are shown, and the enthusiasm of the vast concourse of people, is beyond description. The box plan is now open at Jackson's.- The picture has had a successful march, throughout the Dominion, and in Auckland recently, the management wtas fined for overcrowding His Majesty's Theatre.
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14130, 5 July 1916, Page 7
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139JESS WILLARD-JOHNSON FIGHT FILM. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14130, 5 July 1916, Page 7
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