Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — Big Crowds Saw the Fight Pictures at Rex Theatre. [ARTICLE]

Big Crowds Saw the Fight Pictures at Rex Theatre.

The Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures drew great crowds to the Rex theatre Tuesday night and Manager Phillips of the Princess, realizing the drawing card that the pictures have been, prepared also for a large crowd and showed three good films and packed his theatre also. The fight pictures Were extra good moving pictures from the viewpoint of film art but the fight itself was somewhat of a disappointment, because it was slow and composed largely of clinches and infighting. That the prejudice said to exist some places against fight pictures does not exist to a very marked degree here seems conclusive by the large and varied audiences that witnessed the shows here. The house was packed three times, probably 700 people witnessing the performance. The Princess entertained about the same crowds with three pictures of unusual merit —