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Arthur Guy Empey (11 December 1883, Ogden, Utah –22 February 1963, Wadsworth, Kansas) was a soldier in both the British and American armies of World War I, and an author, screenwriter, actor and movie producer. ==Biography== Empey served for six years in the US Cavalry and was performing duty as a recruiting sergeant for the New Jersey National Guard in New York City when World War I began. He left the United States at the end of 1915 frustrated at its neutrality in the conflict at that point and travelled to London, England, where he joined the 1st London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), Territorial Force, of the British Army, going on to serve with it in the 56th (London) Infantry Division on the Western Front as a bomber and a machine-gunner. He was medically discharged from the British Army after he was wounded in action at the commencement of the Battle of the Somme.〔p.202 Hutchison, Don ''The Great Pulp Heroes'' 1995 Mosaic Press〕 On returning to the United States, Empey wrote a book of his experiences titled ''Over the Top'', which became a publishing sensation in 1917 with over a quarter of a million copies sold, and was turned into a film in 1918 with Empey writing the screenplay and playing the lead role.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009470/〕 Empey had attempted to re-join the US Army in 1917 but was rejected due to his wounds. On the basis of the book's success, he played a major propaganda role for the Federal Government's policy of moving the nation from a position of neutrality in World War I to a combatant role, and toured widely throughout the USA giving public performances and readings from it to rally the American people to the nation's entry into the conflict. He was commissioned a Captain in the US Army's Adjutant General's Department〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04E1D6103BEE3ABC4E51DFB1668383609EDE〕 but the commission was withdrawn three days later. There was speculation that this was done because whilst appearing as an actor in the play ''Pack Up Your Troubles'' Empey gave a speech praising American volunteers but not the draftees, suggesting that the latter lacked the right stuff because rather than enlisting they had waited ''"until they were fetched"''. In the audience was President Woodrow Wilson.〔http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F04E1D6103BEE3ABC4E51DFB1668383609EDE〕 Empey wrote several more screenplays, and more books on World War I, and formed his own production company called the Guy Empey Pictures Corporation. He was also a popular songwriter during the war years, writing the lyrics for numbers such as ''Your Lips Are No Man's Land But Mine'', and ''Liberty Statue is Looking Right at You''. In later years Empey turned to writing pulp fiction, creating the hero ''Terence X. O'Leary'' 〔http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpso.html&date=2009-10-26+22:37:08〕 who would explain "sure and the 'X' stands for 'xcillint'". Empey's O'Leary appeared in a variety of pulp magazines such as ''War Stories'' (Dell), ''Battle Stories'' (Fawcett), with the Infantryman O'Leary also doing duty as a Military Policeman, Secret Service Agent and Foreign Legionnaire, later becoming an aviator in ''War Birds'' (Dell). The latter magazine was later retitled ''Terence X O'Leary's War Birds''.〔http://www.altuspress.com/the-ultimate-pulp-superhero-index/t/〕 With the start of O'Leary's name on the publication the magazine changed from O'Leary fighting in World War I to science fiction adventure with O'Leary fighting "Unuk, High Priest to the God of the Depths" a 500-year-old madman who has seized an island in the South Pacific, kidnapped scientists and turned them into zombies to perfect amazing weapons to attack the United States in ''O'Leary Fights the Golden Ray'' and ''O'Leary, Dyno-Blaster, or Adventure of the Ageless Men''.〔p.204 Hutchison〕 with the magazine ending after its third issue ''The Purple Warriors of Neptunia''. A few more stories with O'Leary did appear after this in ''War Stories'' and ''Battle Stories''. In 1935 Empey organised a unit of volunteer cavalrymen called the ''Hollywood Hussars'' that included several film stars such as Victor McLaglen and Gary Cooper with Ted Parsons as personnel officer.〔http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Laf-Parsons/Parsons.html〕 The Hussars were a uniformed paramilitary horse mounted organisation whose bylaws stated they would turn out in any emergency except labour disputes.〔p.74 Richardson, Peter ''American Prophet'' University of Michigan Press〕 Headquartered in the Hollywood Athletic Club they were a volunteer "military-social unit" "devoted to the advancement of American ideals".〔 He was the father of the model and actress Diane Webber. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Guy Empey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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