HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS
HEENEY-DELANEY FIGHT More than 18,000 people watched the New Zealander, Tom Heeney. defeat the French Canadian, Jack *DeJaney, on points, in the 15 rounds’ contest fought in New York last month. Tke bout was the first of the elmination series to decide who will meet Gene Tunney, the present holder of the world’s championship.
An exclusive film of the Heeney-De-laney fight has been obtained for the Hippodrome and Empress Theatres, where it will be shown to-morrow evening. The “Daily News” says that Heeney’s victory is a genuine Empire triumph. The New Zealander’s success is
Great Britain. wlierVAe provedagame sporting fighter. He does not possess An 1 T UVe punch - but h is toughness i Sf h?s °n A SP ' rit are abnormal. He has the best claim to oppose Tunnej, who, however, possesses skill which Heeney locks, ’in adSiUon to Heenev’s powerfulness. ork on several outstanding productions has already commenced at the LFA studios of Baoelsberg. prominent, among them being "Pioneers,” directed by Fritz Lang, the man who made “Metropolis,” “Secrets of the Orient," directed by Wolkoff. “Tsar Alexandre I”, after Tolstoi’s “War and Peace,” “Vineta.” the story of the submersion of a frivolous city, “Looping the Loop," directed by Dr. Arthur Robinson
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 15
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