THE BURNS-JOHNSTON PICTURES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9426, 23 April 1909, Page 5

THE BURNS-JOHNSTON PICTURES.

The fact that the Burns-Johnaon pictures are announced to be exhibited in Marton is causing quite a stir, not alone among “mere man”, for many ladies have expressed their intention of emulating their sisters in other towns, and viewing the exhibitions. The match was for the heavy weight championship of the world. Burns received £6OOO, Johnson £ISOO. Twenty thousand people paid £26,000 to see the contest while 50,000 vainly clamoured for admission outside the stadium. Visitors from America, England, New Zealand, and every Australian State were present. The prices for admission ranged from 10s to £5. The contest was stopped by a police inspector in the fourteenth round, and the title of “heavy-weight champion of the world” went to Jack Johnson. Four biograph cameras were at work, and not a single incident was missed by the operators, who, having an ideal day for their work, succeeded in turning out, what has on all sides been admitted to be the finest specimen of animated photography yet screened in Australasia. Mr Harry Keesin arranged with Mr Hugh D. Mclntosh, the promotor of the contest for the sole rights-fcr--exhibiting the pictures in the Dominion, and they will be shown at Marton Opera House, Monday evening.