When Gregory Ratoff footed it across the Russian border at the start of the revolution in that country, he decided he had had enough of war for one lifetime. He had spent two years in the trenches prior to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. which ended his country's part in the World War, and had returned to find bullets whining through the streets of the nationa capital in the struggle that led to the establishment of the Soviet.
That, he felt. was no place for him.
(Next, he ran into internal strife in Germany, where he had founded his Russian Theatre in Berlin, Still a man of peace, he again shifted the locale of his work to Paris. And the happy meeting with Lee Shubert Broadway producer, resulted in a contract which brought him to America. At last. Ratoff felt, he could look forward to a career of peace. For a while, that was indicated as he pursued a highly successful stage career in New York.
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