Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-26
WOMEN To SEE
BOXING BOUTS
0'BRIEN WILL DEMONSTRATE
MANLY ART
Exhibition Will Have None of the
Worst Features of the Prize
Ring, Though Thrills
Are Promised

One of the unique and interesting
features about the program to be given
at the Burbank theater this afternoon
at the first annual entertainment of the
Los Angeles Press club will be that
many women will, for the first time,
witness the gentlemanly exposition of
the scientific art of self-defense by q
man who has a worldwide reputation
as a pugilist. This man, philadelphia
Jack" O'Brien, who will meet Tommy
Burns Wednesday night at the Pacific
Athletic club pavilion, is a curiosity to
the admirers of the ring, and many of
the supporters of the game will attend
the Press club performance so that they
will be in q position to study his weak
and strong points in his bouts with his
sparring partners. Society women of
Los Angeles know little about the
world famous pugilist, and of course
they cannot be expected to view an
actual prize fight, but they will be
afforded the opportunity of witnessing
an imitation of the real thing. O'Brien
is as graceful as a tiger, and his foot
work. is one of his greatest stunts.
DR., c. w. Bachman, formerly en-
poyed as a newspaper writer by Min
neapolis newspapers, whose latest play
Under the Bear Flag" true picture
of Southern California life, has been
accepted by Oliver MoroSco, has COM
pleted his prograI. for the Press club
show. His latest additions to the pro-
gram are Richard B. Harrison, dialect
reader, who will present works of the
great negro prose writer and poet, the
late Paul Laurence Dunbar, and w. H.
Maloney, world famous broadswords-
man. The Press club was pleased when
these attractions were added, as both
are we'll worth seeing.
Boys of the detention home We're
pleasantly excited yesterday when they
were informed that the newspaper
writer's had requested they be given an
afternoon off, to enable them to at
tend the entertainment. Also it~is the
plan of the club to invite the boys at
tending the truancy schools. During
the evening those professionals and
amateurs who presented the theater
program will be entertained by the club
members at the club house, c25 West
First street, at a Dutch lunch.
The Musical Numbers
Among the musical numbers to be
rendered at the Press club benefit this
afternoon win be a soprano solo by
Miss Dean Stuart, given with violin
obligato. This number will introduce
TO the auditors young woman OF eX-
ceptionaI talent. Although but l6
years of age she has a phenomenal
voice. much stronger than Ellen
Beach Yaw's, and with a range equal
TO this famed singer. Miss Stuart has
chosen as her selection the Angels
Serenade," by Braga, and that beauti-
full Spanish waltz, "Carissima." Miss
Stuart will be assisted by Petronella
d'Arville, who will play the violin
oblgato and Miss Weinbigler at the
piano. Victor Schertzinger of Phila-
delphia. a violinist of great merit, has
just returned from a tour of the Pa
cific coast with the Ellen Beach Yaw
company and has volunteered num-
ber on the program. His sister Miss
Schertzinger, dainty miss of 8, is an
accomplished artist and the possessor
of a diminutive harp, constructed for
her particular use.