MACBETH A LIBEL ON THE KILT.
■XEW-YORK, pec. 30.—A resolution demanding the elimination -of: .Shakespeare's Macbeth from 'School "iarricula, on the ground that it was a libel on the Scotch in its' ''misrepresehtation in presehtiiig Kin<r- Macbeth -as ai traitor and murderer," . .was, '.adopted here , by.!^ the. League of Scottish Te,Verans. of the'' ■w'o'i'ld.. war; r^. "The l'esblution ad-,,; dressed to the Newark, N.J., Board of ' Education, which recently barred "Tlie Merchant of Venice" from the schools because, of tlv* alleged, slander of the : Jewislr racfe:- Tho resolutioii was. bigiied by lan>' McTav-ish-/' captain of rthe'-Gor-don Highlanders, AJakolm MacPherson, captain of the Blaclc Watch, and Doiw aid Bailey, lieutenant of. the Royal Scotch t Fusiliers. "If they have; banned Shylock. I see m> l'easoni why,they should hot ban Macbeth/' said Captain McTavish. "If the Jewish gabardine is to be cleared,' they should a'so remove the stain from the Scottish kilt," he added. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15159, 5 March 1920, Page 9
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