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Show "OVER THE TOP" WITH 8ER0T. EMPEV BOOKED FOR OGDEN THEATRE "Over the Top." a Vitagraph super -, feature founded on Sergeant Arthur I Guy Empey's famous war book of the 1 same title, has been booked by Mnn-i Mnn-i ager L. H. Peery. of the Ogden thea-I thea-I tre, and will be shown in the near ; future Sergeant Empey. born in Ocden. probably trip hei known soldier of all I the millions who have fought in the ( trenches of France to stem tho u -!- 'of German barbarism, appears as the I star of "Over the Top. ' and ho ip said to enact iidly the stirring exper- iences met by the French and British who held the lines against the Boche in (ho fil-e moJ mnntho rf li .-. I war. "0pr the Top" the first authenti reproduction ot ih drama and tragedy trag-edy that is i he war, has been hailed as one of the greatest photoplay- It 'the history of motion pictures, and if , ranked as the foremost of all .no super-productions of the srreen because of the personality of the star and the importance of thr play as a contribution contribu-tion to the historical phase of the w;r and its relation to the war ork of the United States Because, a regular regu-lar army training camp was . srl in making the trench scenes and American Ameri-can regulars were employed in the mimic battles. Albert E. Smith, president of the Yitagraph companv of America, is ciedited with having scored one of the greatest accomplishments in thr history his-tory of motion pictures in bnnginc Sergeant Empey and "Over the to the screen The little American, who Is a native of Ogden. was one of the first Americans to risk his life in the defense of civilization when thr Germans made their assault on. the freedom of mankind. He joined the First Royal Fusiliers of London, one of the contingents that made up "Kitchener's Army," and served eighteen eigh-teen months in the front lino in ncl -as infantryman, machine gunner and bomber, ami was wounded seven iirnjs in battle. He was invalided to America and just as soon as his physical condition permitted, he launched into patriotic work over here. He sold more than a million dollars of Liberty bonds, aided the Red ross and soldiers' smoke funds, and was a potent factor in recruiting re-cruiting the regular United States army to war strength after we had entered the conflict He wrote "Over the Top" at the behest of friends who were convinced his story had value as a patriotic document, and he took the lecture nlattorm on the same basis. Overnight almost, this plain soldier with a plain stor of the war became an international figure. He was in demand all over the . untry and he spoke to hundreds of thousands of people. As usual with individuals suddenly become famous, idmpe) was sought after af-ter by theatrical managers for a vaudeville vau-deville tour and no less than four big motion picture companies made glittering glit-tering propositions to him He refused to consider himself a hero and he refused re-fused to capitalize th -uttering and hardship that is the portion of th millions mil-lions of "Tommies" and "poilus" who make up the human wall that is saving sav-ing humanity from ih ravages of the Hun horde. However. Empey consented consent-ed to appear in the Yitagraph production produc-tion only when convinced that a motion mo-tion picture playing up rtn high lights of "Over the Top" would "show Americans Amer-icans just what we are up against over there." oo |