Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1928-1929)
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SARA LYONS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Media History Digital Library https://archive.org/details/paramountpepogra05unse Created for the iiieinhers of the Paramount-Pep Cluh, In- corporated. Puhlished for them monthly: this issue be- ing NnmJjer One of Volume Five, and its date of puhlica- tion Novemher Thirteen, Nineteen Hundre<l and Twen- ty-eight. |tniiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiitMiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiriMii[iJiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiJMiiiiiiiiniiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiii[tiiJiiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiiii . PROCRESS il PROSPERITY J PRESIDENT HOOVER For the Nation PRESIDENT F R A W L E Y For the Club Advancement Administration IIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIMtllllllllllllimiinilllllllMllilllllllllllllllllllllllMHIl IIIIttllllllllllltllllllUlllllllIIIINIIIItlHIttriinitKIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIItNiniKIIKIIlnilllllllllNIIIIlKIIIIIIItttlllltlllllllNIIIIIIIIIIItlKIIMIIIIIIIIIIItlllNIItlllNIIIIINIIIIIIIIIII^ Page Tii'o of Pep-O-Grams P E P - O - G R A M S l lie Spirit oi the organizations of Paranionnt Famous Lasky Corporation ami Pul)lix Theatres Corporation. Edited by Albert Deane Associate editors: Henry Goldberg, George Rogers Art Editors: Ray Fremantle, Saul Schiavone Official Photographer: Lewis F. Nathan Contributing editors: Every nieinber of the Paramount- Pep Club, whether moved or not by the spirit to write. Pep-O-Grains is /'iiblislied by and for the members of the Paramount-Pep Club on the first of every calendar month at the Paramount Building, Times Square, N'evj York City. Volume 5, Number 1 November 13, 1928 ELEVATOR ETIQUETTE nual Z'isit to the Paramount Studio in Holly- zvood. zvhere lus department is administered to point at zvhieh zee are very palpably at One such effect as to make our studio the safest close quarters personally zvith a public zvhieh and healthiest institution of its kind and size knozi’s us as members of an organisation, is in the entire motion picture industry. zvhen zue travel in the elevators of the Para- mount Building. Then, os alivays, zve are con- SOUND THINKING sciously or unconsciously on trial; and it At no lime zvithin the history of cither the means that as zve shall be judged, so shall Paramount or Publi.r organizations has the Paramount and Piiblix be judged. Il’c zvrite in Z'cry atmosphere of industrial activity been so this strain here because there is apparent a charged zvith the spirit of szvift and striking progress changes. Oz’crtaking in over- tendency zvhen asking for one’s floor to tack almost zvhelming fashion, the steady onzvard march of the cvcr-necessary “Please” onto the request, our organizations zvith silent motion pictures, ll'c note it nozv simply as a tendency; but have the mighty nezv phase of sound and dialogue every hope that before very long it shall have pictures has literally altered the entire face of become a general and pleasingly permanent things. A nezv order prevails throughout the habit. film industry: minds must be szviftly and sure- ly adapted to it, and the organization zvith the But also do zve note that there is a- grozving minds best capable of effectively making the tendency on the part of some readers of this change in the shortest possible span of time to the elevator attendants in magazine engage are the ones zvhieh zvill emerge on top. conversation. This is not so good: in fact it Thus in almost the tzvinkling of an eye is doivnright bad, a deterrent to service, a lack Pepsters have been offered the grandest op- of courtesy not only to our ozvn organization portunity of their lives for shozving their men- tal mettle. Every minute—every hour— there but to the other tenants of the Paramount Build- is .nvift call being made for the fcllozv zvhose ing. It can be said here zvith a marked degree intelligence is alert, zvhose zvits arc functioning of certainty that the fault lies not zvith the in practical fashion, to accept some nezv and attendants. Their conversation is limited by finer responsibility. The posts arc many because the nezv order of things has caused many rule to the concise and courteous “Floors, changes : hut the good posts are the ones that please!” at the start of the ascent. Any speech arc being offered first, and the ones zvho are other than this is zoning from them zvith diffi- getting them are the ones zvho arc ready for culty and consequent embarrassment. Please them. make their tasks lighter by refraining from ad- There isn’t anything zvith less of a premium nr a ta.r on it than intelligent thinking for dressing to them any other remark than the your Organization's good. And there’s no simple designation of your destination. better investment ! The good that your Or- ganization gets nut of your unselfish thinking WELFARE WORK pays diz'idends to you that are manyfold great- er than any hank pays for cash deposited. Whenever the mood is on you—and it should And right thinking nozv, along the lines of be fairly often—turn to pages 30 and 31 of sound and dialogue picture advancements zvith- last month’s issue of Pep-O-Grams and absorb in the motion picture industry—and especially once more the details of the zvonderful zvelfarc insofar as they concern the good of Paramount and Publi.v, zvill pay you, in advancement and work zvhieh Dr. Emanuel Stern’s department general personal satisfaction, far and azvuy the organization. Dr. is doing for the entire Stern greatest and mo.zt lasting dividends you have has just returned from his customary semi-an- ever knozvn from any investment. Page Three of Pep-O-Grams GAY DINNER DANCE USHERS IN NEW ADMINISTRATION Comiiiencement of New Club Year at Astor is Happy Augury Many triumphal years of the Pa’-a- mount-Pep Club’s activities have had TIRELESS ENERGY CONTRIB- TO THE SUCCESS their commencement in the grand ball- UTED Ha-c’ing siriz'cn so strenuously in the in- room of the Hotel Astor: hut it seems terests of the sueeess of the Inaugural Din- to be pretty emphatically the new'S of ner, it is easily to be conceived zohy not the day that the greatest of all the even such a matter as a serious personal years to date is the one which started illness could keep Louis S. Diamond, chair- Entertainment Committee away in with the Inaugural Dinner of Octo- man of the from attending to the final details on ber 18th last. The event itself was October 18th. This is one of the major splendidly managed and sujjerbly reasons zvhy the function zvas so outstand- staged, its execution and its results re- ingly a success, and the Club certainly owes flecting the greatest credit upon all “Lou" a grand vote of thanks. And in passing these thanks we must not concerned. forget Sally ll’allon, secretary to Mr. Dia- A record attendance of Club members mond, zvho kept track of all that zvas being were genuinely thrilled by the presence done and sazv that the myriad details were of chief executives of the Paramount the not overlooked. organization, chief among them being Mr. Zukor and Messrs. Jesse L. Lasky, S. R. Kent and E. E. Shauer. An unexpected and ncuncement—the new governors and chair- delightful guest of honor was Paramount’s men of the various committees were an- newest international star, Maurice Chevalier, nounced and introduced. whose smile seems fair to rank as the most Later came addresses from the Company’s popular in all filmdom. chief executives, each one being prefaced Early in the evening the Club went about by a typically Botsfordian introduction. its business of transferring the custody of Mingled with these brief addresses the Club’s destiny from one administration were by such of the ex-Presidents of the Club as to another. Thus under the able, humorous were present. These included Messrs. Har- and wholly delightful chairmanship of A. M. ry Nadel, Joseph McLoughlin and Palmer Botsford, President-elect Judge Frawley re- Hall Stilson. Absentee messages were ceived from ex-President Vincent Trotta read from Eugene Zukor, who was out in the the leadership of the Club; and transfer of J. Middle West, and Melville A. Shauer, Para- the Vice Presidency was made to Edward mount’s special representative in Europe. A. Brown from Joseph Sweeney. In sim- The evening was rounded out by the ilar fashion—and amid the continued sincere plaudits which had greeted every other an- (Continued on Page Six) g We Can Always Be Greater g g You have alwa 3'S known the Paramount-Pep Club to be great and S g fine and progressively attuned to serving the interests of you, its mem- m g bers. You have always felt that it is something fine to belong to, some- S g thing splendid to talk about to your friends and yonr relatives. But nothing is g so fine that it cannot be finer—so great that it cannot | g be greater—so inspiring that it cannot become a greater inspiration. M g And so you are going to find that, superb as has been the achievement B g record of the Paramount-Pep Club in the past, the year upon which it is m g now embarked will witness its scaling to the heights of new and more M g stirring accomplishments. | g As yet you know but a small chapter of the plans of the new Admin- M g istration. Week by week and month by month, new and thrilling vistas B g of meritorious innovations will open up before you. So start Chinking 1 g about your Club in a bigger way, with a broader vision—for already it g is a Bigger Club. g — Page Four of Pep-O-Grams Ev’ry Mind a Notebook Ev’ry Eye a Pen! BEING PERSONAL NOTES GATHERED ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BY-WAYS OF THE PARAMOUNT BUILDING BY OUR TRAINED CORPS OF REFORMING SLEUTHS.