The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
THE MASCOT"
ACROSS THE BAY
A Rare Musical Treat in
Store for the Lovers of
Operatic Airs.
The Valerga Company Will APP
pear at the Oakland Theater
On October 25.
Miss Eta Butler and Other Sweet
Singers Will Warble-A Tivoli
Needed Over the Bay.

The lovers of opera who reside across
the bay are anticipating with a great deal
of pleasure the advent Of the Yalerga
Opera Com pany. which will make its ap-
pearance at the Oakland Theater on Mon
pleasing comic opera, Mascot"
The company has been carefully Sc
lected, with a view to getting the best re.
suits from the line of operas they are to
produc There will be a pleasing alb
sence of the old stacy voices which the
devotees of operate music are so familiar
with, for the company is composed OF
young people, whose rich, fresh voices
will lend an additional charm 70 the
pretty airs with which 1.-The Mascot"
abounds.
Prominent among the members is the
younr and vivacious soubrette, Miss
Eta Butler of this city, whose sing
ing has won for her great
many encomiums. She possesses a
well-trained voice of much sweetness, and
her performance has finish and dash
which manifest that the careful tuition of
Miss Ida Valerga has been prolific of good
results. She has such . winsome way
that she is sure to win the hearts of Oak
lands brave men and fair women.
Miss Helen Merrill, a handsome, stately
blond, whose beautiful mezzo-s soprano
voice has won for her much praise from
the New York press, is also with the COM
pany.
Another young lady who will strive
and not in vain-to please her friends is
Miss May Gooch. she is so we'll known
and popular wit the Uaklanders that it
goes without saying that she will meet
with an ovation.
The management has been more than
ordinarily fortunate in having secured
such strong cast for the principal male
voices. They are: Eddy Smith, late of
the Monte Critic Opera Company of New
YORK. Louis Butler, a talented young
com dian, who has won many laureIs;
o. w. Kyle, whose rich barytone voice
made him favorite of the Whitney Opera
Company or New York, and Frank VAL
erga, the sweet-voiced tenor, who has
thrilled many an audience, and whose
acting has been pronounced superb.
The choruses will have plenty OF swing
and RHYTHM to them. for the beautiful
young girls and gallant young men have
been carefully selected and trained for the
work.
The opera will be under the direction of
Professor }. II. Dobrman, which is a suffi-
clent guarantee tnat the piece Will be pro-
duced In manner upon which there can
De no improvement
The only regret that the patrons of
opera have is that there is no building in
Oakland especially adapted to the pro-
ductlon OF operas where the lovers of the
sweet melodies of Verdi, Pinsuti and the
other great masters may go whenever the
fancy moves them and listen to lhe i'm
passioned peadings of Manrico or the
lovelorn caroLing of Leonora. The need
| OF Ilvoii for Oaklanh has long been felt
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necessities There is q strong belief that
the people OF that city will not be without
such place of amusement long, for there
are many entarprising capitalists who
nave faith enough in the future of the
city to feel that the expenditure of an
amount sufficient to erect a splendid
not be great viii e before the wishes of
The cultured people OF Oakland may be
gratified