New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Bv Har1ietto Undc1hill

sIon& uvc INC tAaiScA~uAA"As Sou
...,a,is These words came hurtling
s..uvh the door Of the Vitagraph
s.ra;o one day last week when we were
lawn thcrc looking for Arthur Guy
r,nev. and they frightened US almost
;. death before VIC had timo to reflect
Mt We had 10 cause to worry so long
thcv did not say "Hoch der Kaiser
tinke, hundc!'
Ard then we cspicd little Empcy
,;,,sef. and although he was in tho
len Of two enormous Boches who
held bloody hayonets over his head VIC
s,,s quite safe. For is not Empcy a
ms.ch for any six Huns that ever
u,nned? He is; and besides, these
vs,s not real Huns. although they were
sseh excellent limitations that wc sus~
...t that If they were not Bochcs
.bemselvcs they may have been sons of
L poehcs. Walter Irwin is sticklcr
.,r realism in the movies.
A banquet scene was in rehearsal.
,n;s Meredith who is going to be either
vicked German SPY or an innocent in
termed American, sat at the head cf the
yocr table. Betty Blythe swept around
!, cold tissue and red velvet brocadc
,,d propitiated the Huns with maca-
.,ors and saltcd almonds. Incidentally,
Aev ate them all up at rehearsal and
= ..d to send out for moro when they
at ready TO shoot. After eating
setty.s nuts and raisins they turned
round and murdered her, but they
didn't set to that part OF ii while VIC
verc there.
Only Empcy told US all about the
Mot Of cover tho Top between scenes,
and when VIC said that we didn't think
A,t gentlemen would murder lady
after drinking her wine and eating her
dessert, he said that gentlemen
wouldn't
The scene We saw is in a chateau
French for house) and the Huns have
come and demanded hospitality. Betty
Blythe is the owner Of the hospitality.
Empey is captive, and just as the
noisy gentleman at the end of the table
rises to remark long live the kaiserl
Empey is dragged on the scene.
We could imagine just how he felt
whe writhed and strained at the leash
for it was all just as real to us as
though the actors had been Germans
aud the celery tonic real champagne.
Empey had been hauled away after
refusing to drink and interned in a
terrible dungeon which had only two
sides 20 1t; so we walked in the side
/ which wasn't there and sat down on a
! kitchen stove (it was heatless day at
the Vitasraph Studio) and asked Arthur
Guy Empey to talk.
Empey dragged over teakwood
I taboureS from an adjoining set, and
4 removing an incense bowl and Chi
nese pipe sat down on that; and after
we both were comfortable we said:
1 what does it feel like to kill Ger
1 man." and his eyes snapped and he
roared out, "Fine!" and then we saio
"And what does it feel like to kill q
half dozen of thcm?' and he shouted
six times as fine"
"How did you do it?" we queried,
determined to have the whole CHASTITY
truth. with my hayonct, of course
answered Empcy, in a matter of-fact
me. "Oh," we moaned, 81 couldn It
haze seen you do it," to which he re-
pied, with gentle irony, Would you
is!her have seen HIM do it? You know
IN that game we don't stop and say,
Well, old man, what are you going
10 do'' as you do when you're only
wondering whether your opponent has
Jacks or better. Say. did you ever
bayonet man." Yes, he actually asked
US that, and we replied. Well-not
with bayonet." cob, sec," he said,
and laughed. Empey knows a lot of
I. things besides war.
II Some Of the things which he told US
were how long the war was going to
\ last, how difficult it is to make good
"SeAVh PlNtUitS allu WHY UC was IOl
married.
To the last question he said merely
DO you think / want to fight oil the
tiue?' AS for the other topics under
discussion, We will not tell what he said
soout the duration Of the war because
70 DO not agree with him at all, and
when is not woman's intuition better
man mans Judgment? And about
notion pictures-well, we didn't listen
7" what he said. because we didn't
want to talk about motion pictures; we
wanted to talk about Empey.
1t brought the great conflict so near
!" De sitting on kitchen stove and
alking face to face with one who bore
charmed life.
Ampey WAS ell made up for the part
nc mad three days growth of beard
/ 'nd bloody wound on his forehead
.ad blood all over his hands, and when
ae autographed his book. "Over the
i0p'" for us, there were bloody finger