. Review of reviews and world's work. Kl. Macbeth* cryof surprise in prrsrnrr f»f ihr witrhr*, brgiiiningwith What are these ,* and endirig with Live you or are you aught than man may question?meet instant response. The sleeping and thedead are but as pictures, tis the eye of child-hood that fears a painted devil, is as effectivein Japanese as English. The acting, though amateurish at times, was onthe whole quite remarkable. The costumes wereaccurate and excellent in every detail. The firstscene in the first act and the witches cave wereremarkably well done. There was fine color inthe throne a
. Review of reviews and world's work. Kl. Macbeth* cryof surprise in prrsrnrr f»f ihr witrhr*, brgiiiningwith What are these ,* and endirig with Live you or are you aught than man may question?meet instant response. The sleeping and thedead are but as pictures, tis the eye of child-hood that fears a painted devil, is as effectivein Japanese as English. The acting, though amateurish at times, was onthe whole quite remarkable. The costumes wereaccurate and excellent in every detail. The firstscene in the first act and the witches cave wereremarkably well done. There was fine color inthe throne and banquet room. Wherever sug-gestiveness, imagination and color was requiredthey triumphed; but wherever realism or per-spective was demanded failed. Mr. Kato, the Macbeth, is regarded as the mosttalented Shakespearean actor in Japan. He wongreat renown for his playing of Polonius inHamlet. Madame Uraji Yamakawa, as thequeen, showed good dramatic power at times, butpresented a most remarkably untraditional sleep-walking mm^^wm\k ni MM I M I) |-. I\l\-; |l>K I Ul AS MM .\(|. MLM ur A yr maculiu 672 THE AMERICAS REIIElf Of REl lEIlS SEMYEN FRUG—THE JEREMIAH OF MODERN JEWRY THERE went down into his grave onSeptember 20. in Odessa, Russia, thegreatest of Jewish poets in the Russiantongue, Semyen Grigoryevitch Frug. Com-ing soon after the recent death in New Yorkof Sholem Aleichem, the Jewish MarkTwain, the news of Frugs death convulsedthe Jewish world with the most poignantemotions, for Frug. the poet of Jewish sor-row, died in one of the most tragical periodsin the historj of the European Jews. TheRussian and American Jewish press echoedthese emotions in a most stirring Evreyskaya Zhizn, of Petrograd, said: We stand at his grave with inexpressible painin our heart and with our eyes dimmed by these last years the Jews have not had onesingle bright day, the blows falling uninterrupt-edly on the heart of the people. Many of ourbest
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