Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

P E P-O-G RAMS Page Seven EUGENE ZUKOR RETURNS FROM PARAMOUNT OPENING IN PARIS The speedy Olympic nosed her way up through last Wednesday morning’s fog and brought Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Zukor back to the New York they had left just six weeks previously. They had sped across the Atlantic in company with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Shauer, and Melville A. Shauer, for the purpose of being present at the sparkling opening of Paramount’s gorgeous new Paramount-Vaudeville Theatre in Paris. Mr. Zukor was tremendously enthusiastic in his account of this opening, for the event was to Europe what the opening of the Paramount Theatre, New York City, was to America. The theatre is Europe’s finest, and a worthy upholder of the grand traditions of the Paramount organization. Our Chairman of the Board of Governors for several years returned in excellent health, and brought grand news of the activities of Paramounteers in the several lands of the Foreign Legion which he visited. In addition to Paris, he also visited Rome, Berlin, Brussels and London. funds before fun QUESTIONS FROM THE 6th FLOOR Did you know that Walter Hanneman is growing a moustache, and looks like — well, use your own imagination? Did you know that Charlie Reilly has bought a second-hand Chevrolet? And that he’s so proud of it that he didn’t even read the ads about the New Ford? funds before fun ACCOUNTS FROM THE ACCOUNTS The Accounting Department welcomes its new and classy comptometer operator, Lilyan Prager. It was Tom Cronin, “the guy who knows wimmin,” who endorsed the word ‘classy.’ Frank Clark’s Larchmont home is closed by winter. Means another new girl, Frank. Arthur Leonard is blue these days. Helen has tonsilitis. funds before fun SOME MORE PUBLIXISMS Miss Gartner, of Film Rental fame, says that being the only member of her sex in a department has its disadvantages. She can t have the last word in an argument, try as she will Mrs. Stokes has joined the Glee Club. If you want proof, journey to the Cash Receipts department and listen to Jane trying out her voice — and how! . . . We hear that Philip Keves is interested in this Glee Club and we fully anticipate seeing the impressive Phil booked at the Paramount as “The Silver-Throated Songster.” This same Philip Keyes recently deserted the eleventh floor for the diverse attractions of the ninth floor. It is said that his motto is “love ’em and leave ’em.” Eugene Zukor THE SPIRIT OF THE LIGHT says: December’s two big events have been, the announcing of Henry Ford’s “Miss Elizabeth,” and the holding of the Pep Club’s monthly meeting under such happy conditions as are manifest this evening. “Oh, Ma!” says, in a letter to his Egyptian friend “Eye Sai”: — “Arabians ought to be good film salesmen because they ‘know their dates’.” The excellence of the music produced by the Paramount-Pep Club Orchestra has revoked the statute of it being legal to kill saxophone players. An American member of the French Foreign Legion, upon being released before his time, said: “Don’t expect any of that ‘Beau Geste’ stuff from me.” Let’s hear a member of Paramount’s Foreign Legion say that to Mr. E. E. Shauer! The craze for bestowing titles on new Paramount pictures is certainly sweeping Home Office. Someone even brought the same spirit into the Pep Club by nominating the line “Funds before fun” as an incentive for putting the Club on a rock-bottom financial basis. “GIMME A SNAPPY TITLE!” The great hobby of the year in Home Office is the game of bestowing titles on Paramount pictures that are being made. Young and old are entering into the contest with a zest closely allied to pep, and John W. Butler of the Production Department is having a' great contest of his own separating the wheat from the chaff among the thousands of suggested titles. The aims of those entering the contest are purely altruistic — the fact of $100 being given the one who supplies the winning title for each picture having nothing to do with the case. Among the recent prize winners is Advertising Manager Russell Holman, whose fertile brain gave forth “The Wife Savers” as the title for the new Beery Hatton picture which has passed through more title changes than half a cat’s lifetime. Eddie Ugast, too Russell Holman -<= — , — , has brought additional fame to the Domestic Ad Sales Department by bestowing the title of “Feel My Pulse” on the next Bebe Daniels picture. Titles are still wanted on the first George Bancroft starring picture, on the Richard Dix picture now being made under the title of “The Traveling Salesman,” and on the Florence Vidor picture, “Doomsday.”