{"id":3190,"date":"2015-04-09T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T23:33:47","slug":"tristram-tupper-general-and-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/tristram-tupper-general-and-screenwriter-3190.htm","title":{"rendered":"Tristram Tupper: General and Screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tristram-tupper\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tristram Tupper<\/strong> (1885-1954) was the son of the Rev. Henry Allen Tupper, Jr.<\/em>, and of Marie Louise Pender<\/em>. He was therefore the second cousin twice removed of my wife. He was also the brother-in-law of Gen. George Marshall. He was married twice: to Clara Caroline Tarbell<\/strong> (1885-1966), of whom was born Caroline Tarbell Tupper<\/strong> (1920-?) and Tristram Tupper, Jr<\/strong>. (1926-1999); and to Marion Cecile Ferrill<\/strong> (1908-1982. In ancestry.com there is listed a marriage to Ruth Reynolds (1892-?) of whom was born Ruth Reynolds Tupper (1910-?); but I cannot verify the existence of this marriage and child.<\/p>\n

Tristram attended Phillips Academy and graduated from the New York Law School in 1912. He tried his hands at various occupations, none successfully, as he admitted.<\/p>\n

In July 1917 Tristram married Clara Tarbell, the niece of the famous muckraking writer, Ida Tarbell.<\/p>\n

Tristram in the Great War<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sargent<\/a><\/p>\n

John Singer Sargent<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Study for<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Americans Are Coming<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Widener Library<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1916 he enlisted as private in the Army. He went to the Mexican border and then to France as the 7th Regiment, the Silk-Stocking Regiment, in which the young male members of New York Society served. As the 107th<\/sup> it sailed with Gen. John Francis Ryan\u2019s 27th<\/sup> Division, fought in France, broke the Hindenburg Line.<\/p>\n

A line in the Social Register didn\u2019t mean much in the trenches<\/p>\n

\"Private<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Private Vanderbilt and new French friends<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

or offer much protection from German\u00a0shells.<\/p>\n

\"Graves<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fallen of the 107th\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Monument<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0The monument to the 7th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Monument<\/a><\/p>\n

It portrays the fierceness of battle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Monumemnt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0and the results of battle.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tupper was an Adjutant General to Gen. John Francis O\u2019Ryan.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

Gen. John Francis O’Ryan, Commander of the 27th\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tristram<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0The staff. Tristram is fourth from right<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On August 30, 1918 John Singer Sargent moved to the New York Division at Vierstraat Bridge near Ypres. It was at this time he did his studies for Gassed.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Gassed<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gassed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tristram first encountered Sargent when Sargent was drawing General O’Ryan.<\/p>\n

\"Oryan<\/a><\/p>\n

Gen. John Francis O’Ryan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by John Singer Sargent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tristram met\u00a0Sargent again in the trenches, a meeting Tristram wrote about in \u201cSargent\u2019s Studio of Shellfire\u201d in the New York Times<\/em>, March 23, 1919.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

John Singer Sargent, self-portrait<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tristram described the landscape: \u201cthis valley might truthfully be called the valley of the shadow of death.\u201d<\/p>\n

The maps showed neat rows of trenches.<\/p>\n

But there were no trenches \u2013 nothing worthy of the name \u2013 merely shell holes and torn places in the earth surface where soldiers might escape enemy observation through the day if they lay flat on the ground and did not move. The enemy held the high ground in this sector, had held it since the valiant British Army plunged forward in the mud, and disappeared forever on its way to Passchendaele.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Fussell in The Great War and Modern Memory<\/em> describes how soldiers drowned slowly in the mud, and how the landscape was haunted by its names: The Valley of the Passion.<\/p>\n

\"Vierstratt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Vierstratt, by A. Y. Jackson, 1917<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Later Tristram saw Sargent on the battlefield, searching for a dugout in which a soldier had drawn a picture. Then he saw him on a hill, watching he battle win which the Americans were pushing back the Germans at Vierstratt, Sargent had his umbrella and canvas and paints. But Sargent was not painting.<\/p>\n

The reason was obvious \u2013 all the paintings of all the great galleries of the world can give no adequate impression of war. It is indescribable. You may read all the books in the libraries, you may look at all the paintings of the masters, and you will not get anything akin to the feeling caused by the sight of a man stumbling forward, wounded, with the dream of life fading from his eyes.<\/p>\n

\"Ypres<\/a><\/p>\n

Ypres, 1918<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The last time Tristram saw Sargent was at Ypres.<\/p>\n

Where not a house had a roof and not a room four walls \u2013 a ruin more complete than Pompeii.<\/p>\n

As he sat among the ruins of the Cathedral of Ypres, painting an arch under which a broken timber had jammed, he talked of art after the war: Artist would rise to take the place of those who had been killed, and as he talked a pigeon, perched high on the broken walls that were once the tower of the Cathedral of Ypres. Sargent pointed with a paint brush to the pigeon. \u201cIt\u2019s in the heart of every living thing,\u201d he said. \u201cthe thing that has brought the pigeon back to the cathedral tower where it used to live will bring men back to these ruined towns and cities. They will build again. Home has an irresistible power. Men and beast always return.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Vierstratt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0_____________________________<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

_____________________-_<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Tristram in Hollywood<\/span><\/p>\n

After the War Tristram took up writing for a living: Novels and short stories and screen plays, first for silent movies and then for talkies. For fifteen years he wrote scenarios for Fox, Republic and Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n

Adventuring, (The Saturday Evening Post Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 10 1923
\nFour Brothers, (The Saturday Evening Post Apr 7 1928
\nThe Language of the Angels, The Saturday Evening Post Jun 3, Jun 10 1922
\nThe Magnolia Grove, \u00a0The Saturday Evening Post Aug 3 1935
\nThe Man Who Knew Nothing on Earth,
\nThe World\u2019s Greatest Stories Apr 1929
\nThe Man Who Swam the Pacific, The American Magazine Jul 1937
\nPrelude to Summer, The American Magazine Aug 1936
\nThe River, The Saturday Evening Post Nov 26, Dec 3, Dec 10 1927; (western)
\nA Storm at the Crossroads, \u00a0The Saturday Evening Post Jun 16 1923
\nThree Episodes in the Life of Timothy Osborn, \u00a0The Saturday Evening Post Apr 9 1927
\nToo Old to Be Spanked, \u00a0The Saturday Evening Post Nov 2 1946
\nWhen the Bands Not Playing, \u00a0The Mother\u2019s Magazine Sep 1917<\/p>\n

\"Tristram<\/a> \"Tristram<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Tristram<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tristram<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tristram<\/a>\"Tristram<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\"Tristram<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Tristram Goes to War Again<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1939-41 Tristram was Public Relations Officer for Fort McClellan. There he met Marion Ferrill, who was chief nurse.\u00a0In the Second World War he was a Brigadier General in charge of war correspondents. They were difficult to handle. In Ed Kennedy’s War<\/em> we read<\/p>\n

During the last days of Algiers a new general had arrived to take command of public relations in the Mediterranean Theater. He was the mouse-like Brigadier General Tristram Tupper from Hollywood, a scenario-writing brother-in-law of General George Marshall. Although his job naturally called for contact with correspondents, he went into concealment. Efforts to seek him out failed. When months went by without a sight of him, word spread that there was no General Tupper<\/strong>. After we were established in Italy he made a few furtive appearances. He excused his absence by saying he would be of more help to us by staying far away. He was right, for when he assumed personal supervision \u00a0– as press arraignments for \u00a0the invasion of \u00a0southern France were made – the result has almost every correspondent howling. Assignments were made with the aid of charts, lists, timetables, and the drawing of straws. Tupper planned \u00a0to send correspondents in on successive waves. Had not most of the correspondents scheduled to wait for the later waves found means to circumvent his program, they might not have gotten into France until the campaign was over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clara and Tristram separated in 1935. On August 6 1947 Clara divorced him on the grounds he stayed away from home and was seen with other women. He married Marion Ferrill, who started Marion Tuppers Moonglade Preserves.<\/p>\n

Tristram retired from the Army in October 1945.\u00a0 With Arthur Love he set up the publishing firm of Tupper and Love. His big commercial success was his sister\u2019s book about life with his brother-in-law, Gen. George Marshall.<\/p>\n

\"Together<\/a><\/p>\n

Tristram died in 1954.<\/p>\n

\"Tristran<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0________________________<\/p>\n

___________<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Tupper Children<\/span><\/p>\n

These are my wife’s third cousins, once removed.<\/p>\n

\"Caroline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sadie Hawkins Day at UCLA, 1939<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Caroline is on the far right<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Caroline Tupper<\/strong>\u00a0(1920- ) enlisted in 1942 while she was at UCLA; she served in the WAC in the Pacific in WWII and again in Korea.<\/p>\n

\"Caroline<\/a><\/p>\n

Caroline in her WAC uniform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

She was in Army Intelligence in Hollandia, Leyte, and Manila.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert\u00a0 Overbeck, who had been at Johns Hopkins in geology and worked for a mining firm in the Philippines. His wife and son were in Manila. When the Japanese invaded, Richard Stevens Overbeck<\/strong> (1917-1972) , an engineer who had graduated from Loyola College and Columbia, volunteered to help construct the defenses of Corregidor. He was captured and survived the Bataan Death March.<\/p>\n

\"Richard<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Overbeck after rescue<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The parents and son were interned. Richard was on a Japanese prison ship with 1800 Americans when it was torpedoes in October 1944 (Paul Fussell mentions this disaster). Only eight survived. Robert got on an abandoned Japanese lifeboat and managed to sail to China. He returned to the United States, was commissioned in Army Intelligence, and served in the Philippines.
\n<\/a> \"Robert<\/a><\/p>\n

Overbeck in uniform, 1945<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There he met Caroline.<\/p>\n

\"Caroline<\/a><\/p>\n

Caroline’s engagement photo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

They were married on February 18, 1945 in the chapel at Fort Myer. They were divorced in 1948.<\/p>\n

Caroline studied under a goldsmith and\u00a0designed jewelry for Tiffany and other stores.<\/p>\n

She was recalled in the Korean Conflict and served in the Army Security Agency.<\/p>\n

Later Caroline taught jewelry\u00a0in a public school.<\/p>\n

\"Caroline<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Caroline Tupper. 1972<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

El Camino Real High School<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Woodland Hills, California<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The only mention of Tristram Tupper Jr<\/strong>. (1926-1999) I could locate is in connection with a traffic accident. In August 1948 he hit a seventy-five year old pedestrian who had to be taken to the hospital. \u00a0This Tristram’s life was less eventful than that of his family.<\/p>\n

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