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...largest stockholder. Then, financially secure, he turned to public affairs and became trustee of the infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished the little school with $300,000 and moved it to Ithaca. Alike in appearance to Arthur Train's venerable Ephraim Tutt, of Saturday Evening Post stories fame, Ezra's tall, spare figure, set off with frock coat and shiny stovepipe hat, was a familiar sight on the campus. His checks and gifts were also familiar--and welcome...
ARTHUR TRAIN has delighted the Saturday Evening Post's 3,000-000 readers for many months with his inimitable Mr. Tutt; thousands more have enjoyed his novels. But all of these admirers, we are afraid, will be disappointed in "Manhattan Murder," the story of a man and a girl, plus one of the largest assortments of cops and robbers ever captured between the covers of a detective story. This complexity is further increased by the disconnected essay on crime methods which has been interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer...
Married. Mrs. Margaret Adams Train Embree, daughter of Author Arthur Train (the Mr. Tutt series, His Children's Children, many a famed crime novel); and Col. Boris Samsonov, onetime Russian Imperial guardsman; at the Russian church of St. Serge, Paris...
Prosecution Lawyer Clyde R. Hoey, brother-in-law of North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner and perfect likeness of Author Train's famed "Mr. Tutt," called Defendant Fred Erwin Beal a coward. (Defendant Beal had testified that he was lying on the floor of the union shack when Chief Aderholt was shot...
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand...