Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

Page Two P E P-O-G RAMS ART EDITORS Ray Freemantle Saul Schiavone Albert Deane Editor Contributing Editors — all members of the (^ammount-G/>^p Qlub A CLAN Of '*COOD fKLLOWf' Paramount Building, N. Y. C. Vol. 4, No. 2 December 15, 1927 Pep Club Reporting Committee CHAIRMAN: Jerry Novat. VICE-CHAIRMAN : Lilian Langdon. OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER : Lends F. Nathan. REPORTERS: Lilian Hauser, Maxine Kessler, William Gold, Florence Monson, Rose Eidelsherg, Tess Sternberger, Marion Herbert, Seymour Schultz, Lilian Stevens, Martin Carroll, Ruth Johnson, Mary Levine, Henry Spiegel, Helen Strauss, Eileen Eady, Estelle Jacobs, Rose Goldstein, Charles Eich, Sydney Cohen. LOOKS LIKE BEING OUR FINEST CHRISTMAS The tremendously heart-deep significance of Christmas is ever with us, and there is much more to it than the generally accepted idea of gift-giving. In truth, we don’t give gifts as material things at Christmas time, but only give them as symbols of a sense of service to those whom we love and esteem. It has been these symbols, and not a habit of gift-giving, which have kept the true spirit of Christmas alive in these days when speed and snap and scurry have made life a rather difficult thing to keep pace with. And of all the Christmases within the history of the Paramount-Pep Club, this one is destined to be the finest of all. The Club is making certain of that. Take the case of the Co-Operative Buying Committee, for instance, and the manner in, which it has made the mission of purchasing these gift symbols of Christmas a pleasant and a saving one. The Chairman and members of this Committee have shown an initiative and diligence which have contibuted more than materially to the Spirit of Christmas; and for their part, the members of the Club have responded to these efforts in a manner which fittingly expresses our belief that this Christmas will be the finest and happiest of them all. funds before fun THE CLUB HAS A SOUL AS WELL AS A SPIRIT Almost two weeks ago, one of the Para I mount-Pep Club Members walked through s the Valley of Shadows to the Great Rest 1 from which there is no returning. Her pass I ing was cruel in its awful suddenness, and* I in the anguish which it brought to her be I reaved Mother and to the host of friends I who dearly loved her. In the bitterest hours of this great sor | row, the Club truly revealed the soul which ] is the innermost guide of its destinies. For I while the Dark Angel was hovering nearer I and nearer, members who counted no sacri I fice too great were giving of their hours I of leisure time and of their energies to make I the fight a braver and stronger one. They I were valiant workers and their efforts were 1 sublimely stirring, even though they were I fighting against greater odds than man I could cope with. 1 We stand to salute them, and although I we know them all by name, they would not I thank us to print their names here, nor I would they even sanction it. Theirs was 1 the service of aiding a fellow member, and self-glorification was as remote from their I minds as is the farthest star. But by their action they have truly re I vealed the depth of the soul of the Para I mount-Pep Club; and a Club that is so 1 equipped with the divine sense of heeding 1 and caring for the sufferings and innermost j feelings of its members, is a truly great organization indeed. We are more humbly proud of our Para I mount-Pep Club than we ever were before! Adolph Zukor PARAMOUNT LEADERS ON ANNUAL STUDIO INSPECTION TRIP For the past few weeks the Pepsters in the Hollywood Studio have had the extreme good fortune to have with them our President and General Manager — Mr. Adolph Zukor and Mr. S. R. Kent. These two great Paramounteers have been paying the Studio their annual visit of intrest, and this year their visit has coincided with what is perhaps the greatest and certainly most successful production season in the organization’s history. S. R. Kent