The San Francisco call., 1898-03-03

a trio for piano, violin and cello; cradle song and spinning song for piano, four hands; numerous piano solos and soprano songs, besides number of orchestral works, one of which, Suite Erotique,' for strings, with horn and harp obligato, will be performed by the Symphony Orches- tra. MT. and Mrs. Lent are coming here to visit Mrs. Lent's sister who is the wife of Professor Ross of Stanford University. Mrs. Lent, who Is pupil of Moszkowski, Is said to be very fine pianist.
 Baron Franchetti. the well-known Ital- ian-Jewish composer, has just secured a divorce from his wife, Margueret Levi, at Munich, in Bavaria. In order that the sentence may also hold good In Italy Franchett has had all the evidence brought before the Court of Appeals at Modena. Franchetti is a many times mill lionaire. with much more than the aver age dilettantes genius for music. His first opera that made any stir was AS rael," the first act of which Is laid in hell and the second in heaven. The young composer spent a fortune in staging the work at La Scala, Milan. Celebrated painters were called into consultation, and both the "paradiso" and inferno" scenes surpassed in a scenic way any thing that had ever been seen at La Scala The ''hell" ballet was a dream of lurid magnificence, and the paradise" was represented by mammoth flight of golden stairs, half yelled in silk gauge, studded with glittering stars. The sing CTS were dressed like Dante Gabriel Ros- setti's angels, and had huge wings of real white ostrich feathers. Franchetti wanted to conduct "Asrael' himself. Faccio, the conductor of La Scala, refused to give up his baton, even to millionaire, and regular row ensued, which resulted in the triumph of Faccio "Asrael," which Is very Wagnerian in its tendencies, had much more than success or esteem Since its production Franchetti has pro- duced a number of operas, with varying success They have all shown undoubted talent but have just fallen short of great ness Not long ago he built himself magnificent theater at one of his country houses that operatic works might be per formed for his own amusement. It is said that the baron never loved Margue- ret Levi In his student days at DreSdel; he fell passionately in love with young American student of singing and pro- posed marriage. His family would only agree to the match on condition that the young lady embraced the Jewish faith. She refused to give up her own religion, and the young people parted Later on he married to please his mother, who was a Rothschild.
 A singular scene took place the other night at the Brunetti Theater in Bologna during the performance of Puccini's ..Manon Lescaut." Bolis, the basso Ger onte), did not give popular satisfaction and the audience let him know 1t with that frankness which Is characteristic of Italian audiences. Bolis, who expected quite a different sort of reception, lost his temper and running to the footlights shouted: "Good night" CBuona sera), and dashed off the stage. The audience grew indignant because he would not come back and the curtain was finally lowered. It happened that the chief of police was in the theater and he promptly went be- hind the scenes to remonstrate with the recalcitrant Bolis. Instead of showing the respect due to the chiefs office Bolis gave the official a bit of his mind and defied all the police of Bologna to make him go back on the stage. The climax to the controversy was that the chief ordered Bolis to be arrested and the basso spent the rest of the night In dur ance vile.
 That the photograph can be utilized in a hundred different ways is already we'll known, but the following story, vouched for by a Berlin newspaper. is certainly something new: Anna Lankow, a New 1Ork SlNRlu6 tSdCHci, OSSiISQ d SNOTt time ago to get some of her pupils to sing for the director of the Imperial Opera of Berlin. To send them from New York to the capital of Prussia, how ever, on the mere chance of securing en- agreements would have been too costly a risk to run. Mrs. Lankow was not to be beaten, however, and she made each of her pupils sing an operatic selection into a photograph and sent the cylinders to tho directOr Of tha Berlin Ohera IJa fY, his turn presented the cylinders to the examining committee and two of the pupils have been engaged, so to speak, phonographicallv. The difficulty with this