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P E P-O-G RAMS
Page Three
THE OPPORTUNITIES OF 1928
By Adolph Zukor
(Honorary President and Life Member)
The political and industrial leaders of America, almost without exception, have prophesied continuing prosperity for the nation during 1928. In this prosperity the motion picture industry is certain to share.
The extent to which each individual will participate in this prosperity must, however, in the last analysis depend on himself. You cannot ride with the tide — very long. You must always, to a greater or lesser extent, determine your own progress; and this mastery of your fate is within yourself whether you realize it or not.
Opportunities are about you in an abundance the world has never seen before. For anybody to ignore the opportunities which America is lavishing on its children would be criminal. This company of ours is typical. All about you are numerous chances for progress. For the Paramount Pep Club, great as its work has been in the past, there are many ways to be of increasing service.
Therefore, my message to the Paramount Pep Club and its members is this:
Study yourself; study your work; observe carefully the elements that surround you. Then grasp the opportunities which you cannot fail to discover.
To the Paramount Pep Club I wish, in behalf of myself and the officers of the corporation, to extend my very best wishes for another year of helpfulness and prosperity. And to all of you I wish a New Year of happiness and health.
THE NEW YEAR DAWNS ON A GREATER PARAMOUNT-PEP CLUB
I have known many glowing instances of the respect and prestige which Paramount has gained throughout its fifteen years of service throughout the world; but I saw the name ‘Paramount’ shine with a still finer luster in Paris a few short weeks ago. This was when Marshal Foch, that inspired leader of the Allied Armies during the Great War, left an important dinner at an appointed hour in order to be present at the sparkling opening of the Paramount Theatre.
Though but an incident, this was significant of the wealth of worthy meaning that goes with Paramount. A Paramount Picture means supremacy; the Paramount organization and its Trade Mark constitute a possession that is incalculably dear to us ; and the Paramount-Pep Club, symbolizing the personal phase of that organization, is
in the same class of preeminence.
It is this factor which has contributed so mightily to the progress of the Club in the past, and it will be the continued recognition of it which will carry the Club ever forward, clearing all obstacles, fulfilling a higher degree of servic'e, a n d forever gathering newer and sincerer plaudits for its wholesome interpretation of ’espirit de corps’.
And through all of this it is my very genuine pleasure to see a truly successful year for the ParamountPep Club in 1928, a year of safe and sure guidance under officers and committees who can produce the very results you desire of the Club, and a year that will go down in the history of the Club as one which far outranked every one of its predecessors.