Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
BENEFIT PROVES
GREAT SUCCESS
RAIN HAS LITTLE EFFECT ON
THE CROWD
Every Number Enoored, Until Pro-
gram Stretches Out an Hour After
It Was Planned to Be
Concluded

Cheer up. Mary, don't be signing,
signing,
There's a rainbow in the sky"
After the Press club benefit yesterday
afternoon at least 1000 persons were
whistling and singing this song, the
new hit of the Empire City quartet at
the Orpheum. 1t was sung and
whistled in the Burbank theater until
everyone knew the air and words and
the catchy chorus rang through their
heads so that they know scarcely any
thing else.
Everyone was pleased with the EN-
pire City quartet, but in this the
quartet was not especially favored, as
everyone was pleased with every other
number on the program and they were
many.
In spite of the bad weather. which
kept many people at home who had
planned to spend the afternoon at the
Burbank, more than 1000 people at
tended, and Oliver Morosco, the man
ager of the theater, said last night that
excepting the benefit performance for
the San Francisco sufferers given last
spring, when all the theaters COM
bined, it was the best attended benefit
performance ever given in a local
theater.
Every number on the program was
heartily applauded and everyone re-
ceived an encore. In fact the encores
were so numerous that it was nearly
$3.50 o'clock when the last number was
concluded, although the program had
been arranged with view to finishing
at 4:30.
There was not hitch during the en-
| tire afternoon. Several of the numbers
| had to be put on in a different order
from the printed arrangement, but
every attraction that was advertised
was presented.
AS the attlience was chiefly composed
of women, Jack O'Brien, the pugilist
who will fight Tommy Burns Wednes-
| day night, was probably the biggest hit
| of the program. 1t was the first time
| that the majority of the women in the
| audience had ever seen a real live
| prize fighter, and when they discovered
that O'Brien was just man, and a
| polished and refined man at that, they
We're so surprised that he easily cap
tivated them. He gave them delightful
| little thrills when he put on green
gymnasium suit and boxed a round
| each with three of his sparring part
ners.
The days pleasure concluded with
| "high jinks" at the Press club, at which
| all the performers who had helped to
make the benefit success were pres
ent, including the male members of the
Lambardi Grand Opera company. Sig
nor Antola of this company had rem
dered two numbers at the performance
III the afternoon and had thrilled the
audience with the sweetness and power
OF his rich baritone voice.
The program was as follows
Overture, lie Freres (Fritz), Burbank
Theater orchestra, julius Bierlich, di-
rector
The Nations, Bobby Brook lightning
artist.
Songs (a) Little Papoose' (b) 'Td
Soprano solo with violin obligato, Miss
Dean Stewart Miss Lille Weinbialer,
accompanist; Miss Petronella dArville,
violnist.
Mrthful mimic, Hugh Allen Saxon.
Monologue and song, E. E, Lissenden.
Harp solo, ''Waltz de Concert" Miss
-'''''O' TNTERMIssIoN.
italian Night" CrobanD, Burbank
! 1heater orchestra.
Artistic boxing bout, Jack OBrien.
Empire City quartet, Cooper Bros, Tai
| Violin solo. Victor Schertzlnger. Will
| liam Edison Strobridge, accompanist.
| Negro dialect reader of Paul Laurence
Dunbar's writings. Richard b. Harrison.
Baritone solo, Signor Antola, of Lam
bardi Opera company.
Whistilng solo, e. Alexander.
Fencing exhibition-H. G. Berls,, New
York amateur champion 1904, VS.. H. w.
Maloney. Maloney's gymnasium. Pasa-
dena, champion Pacific coast, 1906.
| c. w. Bachman, stage director. Frank
Staples, assistant stage director.