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Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...held Sergey McTavish by the collar of his astrakhan tunic and the seat of his breeches, kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup. Then he swung the boy up level with his shoulder and threw him sprawling on a snowdrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Round Europe | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...ended the six months' career of Sergey McTavish as mascot of the Seventh Battalion of Red Army Riflemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Round Europe | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Thenceforward the story proceeds to get Sergey McTavish into more and more trouble. Finally he rescues an American called up before a shrewd Soviet Judge who has a parrot. Each prisoner must poke his forefinger into the parrot's cage. If parrot bites finger, the sentence is Death. Smart Sergey McTavish saves the American's neck by rubbing garlic on his finger, causing parrot to cringe, not bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Round Europe | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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