Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

P E P-O-G RAMS Page Three WHY MARCH 23rd? The Very Powerful Reasons for Making a Big Fuss in a Big Way About a Big Day The Most Gorgeously Glittering Night in the History of the Paramount Pep Club! That’s the high and happy aim that’s being directed at this March 23rd you’re hearing so much about. The Club knows that it is big and strong and progressive, and it is going to use the fourth Friday of March to prove it. It is going to be a mammoth spectacle, and it is going to be staged in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor. Furthermore— but wait, let’s give this another paragraph, because it is the most important feature of the entire event. This Paramount-Pep Club Ball is being held for the prime purpose of placing the financial resources of the Paramount-Pep Club upon an even higher plane than has been customary with the Year Book of recent years. In other words, the Ball is being held for the purpose of making money for the Club. For this reason the stern, strong and unbending efforts of every Pepster are needed to make the affair the stirring kind of a success that we always want to see associated with anything Paramount. We are undertaking this Ball for the purpose of guaranteeing our every other great project for the remainder of the year; and by the success of the Ball, so will our other activities be governed. It is possible for us to make a lot of money: and not only is it possible, but it is also practicable according to the plans which have already been laid down by the Ways and Means Committee. An important meeting of this Committee was held in the Company’s Board Room on January 20th, IS YOUR OWN NAME SPELT CORRECTLY? William Goldstein, who has assumed the Chairmanship of the Membership Committee, issued new membership cards on February 1st. Now there exists the bare possibility that the names of some of the members are wrongly spelled in the Club’s register, and if this is the case, they will have been wrongly spelled on the membership cards. If you are one of these “victims,” please make haste speedily, pronto, toute suite and soforth to Mr. Goldstein’s desk — give him the correct spelling — and then if the same mistake ever happens again, we’ll sell you the lower half of Manhattan for fifteen cents. and there the matter was laid before them, along with the intimation that the officers and executives of Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation heartily endorse the Ball. Publicity and Souvenir Program Committees have been formed, and they have laid out a schedule of activities that will be carried out, and urill broadcast the fame of the Ball far and wide. Even at this stage it is not too far in advance to tell you that the Ball itself will be a grand array of sensations. There will be hours and hours of dancing to the strains of the most irresistible harmony this city can provide; there will be star after star (in person) from the grand Broadway parade; every screen star in town at the time will lend her radiance or his charm, and they will mingle with the Pepsters in the dancing and the supping. A score of other features will be announced later — all to contribute to a magical evening. So get ye busy and Boost the Ball! A super-active committee will shortly commence broadcasting, per notice board and mimeograph, such details as the prices of tickets, time of the Ball and the thousand and one other little necessary details. Start in with your list of the folks you are going to sell tickets to, the folks you want to be there, and the folks you believe should be there. Do all of these things in the name of your own personal participation in the future activities of the Paramount-Pep Club, for the success of these activities hinges most vitally on the success of the Pep Club Ball. And remember that the date of the Ball is not so very far away — merely on March 23rd, slightly more than a month from now. ALL AROUND THE WIDE WORLD Overheard at the last Pep Club MeetingDance. One member said to Evelyn O’Connell: “So you live on Staten Island! One of Mr. Shauer’s Foreign Legionnaires, I presume!” — R. E.