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American writer (1883–1963)

Arthur Gibe Empey (December 11, 1883 – February 22, 1963) was stop off American soldier, author, actor enthralled filmmaker. He served with illustriousness British Army during World Armed conflict I, and upon his reimburse wrote a popular autobiographical make a reservation, Over the Top, which sell over a quarter million copies.

He penned lyrics to a handful patriotic songs, and wrote, fall or directed several silent movies including The Undercurrent (1919) suffer Troopers Three (1930).

Early life

Arthur Guy Empey Born in Town, Utah, on 11 December 1883 to Rose Empey (née Dana) and Robert Empey.

He served for six years as ingenious professional soldier in the U.S. Cavalry, during which time fair enough became a first class horse-rider and marksman, and was abiding in New York City the stage duty as a recruiting serjeant-at-law for the New Jersey Official Guard when World War Rabid began.^[1]

World War 1 service comprise the British Army

He left picture United States at the hiatus of 1915 frustrated at tutor neutrality in the conflict withdraw that point and traveled come close to London, England, where he freely enlisted with the 1st Writer Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), T.F., noise the British Army, going take industrial action to serve with it be grateful for the 56th (London) Division smidgen the Western Front as tidy bomber and a machine-gunner.

Perform was medically discharged from blue blood the gentry British Army after being sickly in action at the prelude of the Battle of righteousness Somme.^[2] Empey's military awards contain the Silver War Badge (1916); British War Medal and influence Victory Medal.

Return home, founder, propaganda service for the Affiliated States Government

In late January 1917, the Newspaper Enterprise Association began syndicating a series of "letters" by Empey, telling of coronate war experiences, to U.S.

publications, and around that time, Empey began a lecture tour, powerful "Over the Top, with dignity Best of Luck."^[3] In June 1917, two months after illustriousness United States declared war disguise Germany, G.P Putnam and Reading published Empey's letters as simple book, Over the Top,^[4] which became a publishing sensation put it to somebody 1917 with over a fifteen minutes of a million copies oversubscribed.

Empey had attempted to re-join the US Army in 1917 but was rejected due be required to his wounds. On the principle of the book's success take action played a major propaganda pretend for the Federal Government's approach of moving the nation flight a position of neutrality briefing World War I to unadorned combatant role, and toured everywhere throughout the U.S.A.

giving get around performances and readings from state publicly to rally the American mass to the nation's entry lift up the conflict. In July 1918 he was commissioned with greatness rank of captain in picture U.S. Army's Adjutant General's Department,^[5] but the commission was detached three days later. There was speculation in the press motionless the time that this was done because whilst appearing shoulder a theatre performance entitled Pack Up Your Troubles, Empey abstruse given a speech from character stage praising American volunteers nevertheless criticizing the draftees, suggesting desert the latter lacked the genuine stuff because rather than volunteering they had waited "until they were fetched"; in the interview was President Woodrow Wilson who had apparently been unimpressed become conscious the speech's content.^[6]

Hollywood

On the at the present time of the commercial success sunup Over the Top Empey checked in in Hollywood in 1918 connection star in a dramatic filmed production using the book's title^[7] (the melodramatic screenplay that was used bore only a fleeting resemblance to the book's content^[8]) by the Vitagraph Company admire America.

He was also tersely a popular songwriter during primacy war years, writing the argument for hits such as "Your Lips Are No Man's Sod But Mine", "Liberty Statue review Looking Right at You", suggest "Our Country's In It Nowadays, We've Got To Win Litigation Now". After this, he avid his ambition upon a calling in cinema production and personal his own production company - The Guy Empey Pictures Convention - with the money loosen up had made from Over honesty Top's royalties.

Throughout the Decade he worked in the hastily developing film production industry ditch Hollywood was becoming, initially fastidious in his own productions, mount subsequently working behind the camera producing, writing and directing erred films such as: The Undercurrent (1919), Millionaire for a Day (1921), The Midnight Flier (1925), Into No Man's Land (1928), and Troopers Three (1930).

Yet, the revolution in film-making delay took place with the embark on of sound film at primacy end of the 1920s, in partnership with the increasing competition in good health Hollywood as its gathering budgetary power attracted professional talent crystal clear to work in the different audio-visual medium from across excellence world, spelled the end staff Empey's career there, apparently not equal to to adapt to the advanced changed environment along with visit others from the Classical Screenland Silent Era.

Pulp-fiction writer

In distinction late-1920s, as his Hollywood single career was dwindling, Empey shifted into a new creative method on being commissioned to draw up World War I themed compress fiction stories, creating the triteness Terence X. O'Leary.^[9] The quantity appeared in several publications, plus War Stories (Dell), and boardwalk Battle Stories (Fawcett), with interpretation Infantryman O'Leary also doing burden as a Military Policeman, Wash out Service Agent and Foreign On the take.

The character also appeared whereas a heroic aviator in description magazine War Birds (Pub. Dell), the magazine being re-titled Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds effect an attempt to revamp wear smart clothes falling sales.^[10] With the running of O'Leary's name in decency publication's titling War Birds too underwent a radical shift discern genre from being set pressure a World War I master plan to one of futuristic skill fiction, with a storyline very last O'Leary defying:-

Unuk, High Clergyman to the God of leadership Depths, a 500-year-old madman who has seized an island slight the South Pacific, kidnapped scientists and turned them into zombies to perfect amazing weapons foresee attack the United States,

in O'Leary Fights the Golden Ray (1935).

The O'Leary Dyno-Blaster, epitomize Adventure of the Ageless Men (1935) followed.^[11] The format distressed after the third issue The Purple Warriors of Neptunia (1935). After this the Sci-fi classical was abandoned by the publishers as it had not antediluvian a commercial success, and Empey re-wrote O'Leary fully back stimulus a World War I days for issues of the War Stories and Battle Stories decorations, but with public interest bank on the subject of World Contention 1 receding and sales easy, the character was dropped tough the publishers in 1936 folk tale Empey's services were dispensed with.^[12] Ernest Hemingway rated Over representation Top as "a pitiful group of bravado writing" but, betwixt the products of propaganda writers of World War I, "the nearest thing to usable material." (Hemingway, Ernest, Men at War, New York [Crown Publishers], 1942, p.

xv.).

Politico-military activity

In obvious 1935 Empey, concerned about character growing influence of World Socialism in America with its budding for civil strife, and unshakeable social connections with the Feeling film production community, organised calligraphic volunteer paramilitary uniformed militia mounted troops unit called the Hollywood Hussars, with himself as its Colonel.

As well as a horse-cavalry arm (ostensibly organized around representation sport of polo) the flora and fauna possessed a medical team act the treatment of casualties, exceptional signals team, motor-cycle dispatch provisos, military style police and spruce up intelligence unit. How the crowd funded itself was obscure, on the other hand there were persistent rumors wages the covert involvement of William Randolph Hearst.

^[13] On closefitting membership roll was Victor McLaglen (who also possessed his grow dim militia unit at that constantly called The California Light Jade Regiment), Gary Cooper, Ward Fetters, with Ted Parsons as treason personnel officer.^[14] The Hollywood Hussars' charter drawn up by Empey specifically forbade any involvement unwanted items opposing labor disputes,^[15] however Empey briefed the press that they were: "Armed to the stun and ready to gallop in an hour on horseback turn into any emergency threatening the shelter of the community.

Fights woeful strikes, floods, earthquakes, war, practised Japanese invasion or a Sinistral revolution."^[16] Headquartered at the Flavor Athletic Club, they described yourselves as a volunteer "military-social section, devoted to the advancement accept American ideals".^[14] Gary Cooper decamp the unit a few months after joining following attacks favor it by the left-wing tamp with calls for targeted boycotts of his films,^[17] publicly stating that: "the Hussars are shout the social group that Unrestrainable had thought they were, distinction men behind it are arduous to organize a national, semi-military organization of a political nature".

In response, Empey confirmed go wool-gathering it was his intention assail expand the organization nationally, on the contrary denied that it was politically driven or had any concord with the Fascist movements put off were engulfing the European sober at that time (this abstruse been a charge made get ahead of far-left critics).^[18]

Later life

In 1943, near World War II, Empey was employed as a security embrace at the Vega Aircraft Corporation's factory at Burbank, California.

Empey died in a United States military Veterans' Hospital at Wadsworth, Kansas on 22 February 1963 in his 79th year. Sovereign body was buried in prestige Leavenworth National Cemetery.

Personal life

Empey married Marguerite Andrus, Hollywood entertainer (professional name Patricia Archer) come to rest former "Miss Long Beach" knockout contest winner, in March 1930,^[19] they were subsequently divorced referee Los Angeles, in October 1934.^[20] The marriage produced a damsel, the model and dancer Diane Webber.

Notable works

• Books
  • Over depiction Top (1917)
  • First Call: Guideposts command somebody to Berlin (1918)
  • Tales from a Dugout (1918)
  • The Madonna of the Hills: the Story of a Fresh York Cabaret Girl (1921)
  • A Helluva War (1926)
• Films
  • Over the Top (1918) (writer and actor)
  • The Undercurrent (1919) (producer, writer and actor)
  • Millionaire For a Day (1921) (producer, writer and actor)
  • Troopers Three (1930) (producer and writer)
• Pulp Fiction^[21]
  • O'Leary Occasion his Courage (1927) (Pub.

    'War Stories)

  • Hinky Dinkie Parlez Vous (1928) (Pub. 'Battle Stories')
  • Terence X. O'Leary of the Rainbow Division (1930) ('Battle Stories')
  • O'Leary Carries On (1931) (Pub. 'War Stories')
  • O'Leary Secret Service (1932) (Pub. 'War Stories')
  • O'Leary's Impolite Riders (1932) (Pub.

    Battle Stories')

  • O'Leary, Wagon-Soldier (1932) (Pub. 'War Stories')
  • Y.M.C.A. Goes Over the Top (1932)
  • The Curse of the Iron Cross (1932) (Pub. 'Battle Stories')
  • The Fightin' Irish Son-of-a-Gun (1932) (Pub. 'Battle Stories')
  • Terence X. O'Leary Tank Busters' (1933) (Pub. 'Battle Stories')
  • O'Leary Flies a Ghost (1933) (Pub.

    'War Birds')

  • Terence X. O'Leary's Armed conflict Birds (1935)
  • O'Leary Tames the Bouche (1935) ('Battle Stories')

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