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Show SQUIRE COOP BACK FROM EUROPE The Salt Lake Tribune mvj: "Will not some, well-to-do I'tahn, or, If he cant h'ar. will bia charming widow em . late the example of Samuel Newhoijsc, whose big heart and ip-n hand has befriended music in Salt Ike? Will ix. t some one of means make a gift nf a Aim of money not much to the I'nlvslty cf Oan. to hlp Its musical dii.irtment. Ji'st no being ewtabliKhed?" "That is the thought thai Is uppermost upper-most In my mind upon returning. I hope Its Improprieties will be forgiven for-given During my absenc.- I have spent much time wi.'i the mik- llrms in Paris, London and New York, and have obtained splendid cruotations on the Instruments and library necessary for the equipment of a musical department depart-ment In a Mate university such as j ours The ndmlnistrtUion of the university uni-versity is doing all it can to start the department properlv, but its ex-chefjuer ex-chefjuer Is unable to provide an amount adequate to its needs. Wc desire to begin our department rlcht. We are going to do this that Is settled. set-tled. We need badly j'ist a few thousand thou-sand dollars. We don't want to start off In debt. For any portion of this sum we will perpetuate our cratliude at the ststo university and through its friends until Ga.irlel sounds his trumpet." trum-pet." This was Professor Squire Coop's statement upon his return from a European Eu-ropean tour Monday, Mr. Coop arrived in New York several days ago, but has ppent some time by the wayside on his return to his old home. Continuing, Continu-ing, Mr. Coop said. "Tho public must be tired of the statement 'glad 10 be back' so I will vary it some by saying that I am for-t-innto to be back. HesfdeH, this more exactly expresses the truth. There ar thousands of Americans detained In Earopei unable to secure passago home, the .steamships being overbooked over-booked for weeks ahead. Of this number num-ber of prosperous Americans who have spent millions there this summer sum-mer in a vain effort to fee Europe, ihe greater number would be glad to bo back. These have not seen Europe In its Important distinctions, as It requires re-quires something more than leisure and means to do this. At best this class has received but a kaleidoscopic Impression, each succeeding picture effacing the previous one. "They have squandered their money all along the route, from Fishguard to Naples, and across the other way from Cherbourg to Oberammergau, and the Inhabitants, from peasant to prince, have picked it up before it stopped spinning. Yet these are not glad to be back because they arc tired of spending; this an American never is. The fascinating illusion of a trip abroad Is past, that 9 all, and thero remains the desire to get back where one understands and Is understood All of which sats one to thinking. The American mind Is, perhaps, "a new, unromanlc. Irresponsible, myopic mind, while Europe, already old. Its people are contemplative, sentimental, farslhfcd. "At Paris I made use of the rare opportunity to fee the original production pro-duction of Chantecler' and found It disappointing In the extreme. As 1 had read tho book I could not be accused ac-cused of not understanding the piece. To my mind Rostand makes the same mistake In 'Cbautecler' that Ernest Newman charges to Richard Wagner, namelv, unsuitableness to stage. Doth masters employ symbolism in order that principles might be treated im-personall. im-personall. Yet Wagner's gods, giants, gi-ants, rhino maidens, dragons and Ros-fund's Ros-fund's barnyard tribe most certainly turn aside the attention of the auditors au-ditors from the lyrical beauties as well as tho message of the piece. It would be difficult to find poetry more exalted In style, more lyrically beautiful, beau-tiful, than 'E'llymne au Soleil hut I think ft would be quite as Impressive without tho feathers. Apropos of 'Chantecler,' In Paris Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt Is popularly styled 'Ix Chantecler Chante-cler American.' the cock who thinks the sun rises because ho crows "There Is one place on the continent conti-nent leyond compare. Its name is Normandy. You know its history. No wonder that England coveted It and warred for Its possession. No where is nature In a gentler, sweeter mood. Nowhere the landscape more graceful, delicate, beautiful. The flowers that grow along its winding lanes and In the hedges separating the fields of wild clover and snrrasln seem to sing you a lullaby. Here of a certainty you can find rest while yet alive. For lO.nfin francs, the price of a cheap automobile, au-tomobile, you can buy a chateau there, with perhaps the ruins of a church I centuries old to decorate your back I yard, not far from tho sea. surround ed by a picturesque peasantry and I here you can live like a baron, for a song." |