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 Gf> ammounC-G/>ep Qliib A CLAN OF "GOOD FELLOWS" Paramount Building, N. Y. C. Vol. 4, No. 7 May 8, 1928 Pep Club Reporting Committee CHAIRMAN: Jerry Novat. VICE-CHAIRMAN: Lilian Langdon. OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Lcivis F. Nathan. RE PORTERS : Arthur Bell, Maxine Kessler, | Wil.iam Gold, Florence Monson, Rose Eidelsberg, 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. CONVENTION For the past several days many of our members have been attending the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation's Annual Convention, held this year in the Nation’s Capitol, Washington. They have heard many messages and announcements of supreme importance. They return from the meeting bigger in mind, broader in vision, more determined as to progress. With such men in our midst we cannot help but accrue many benefits for our Club and for ourselves. CORNS It seems always to be open season for corns. On every hand we hear: “Don’t do that! You’re liable to step on somebody’s corns!’’ And for all zee know, little moves of progress ■arc halted before they have even had the i chance to be born. There will always be corns ; just as there will always be both steppers-on and stepped-on. But just for this -we cannot have moves sincerely intended for the Company’s, or the Club’s, benefit halted because there are people timid about hearing the old “step on somebody’s corns” wail rend the air. After all, corns have never halted a subzvay, an army or a Ziegfeld chorus. DOORS Opening a door, especially a door in a customarily busy corridor-way, is always much of a gamble. If you open it away from you there is always the possibility that someone on the other side reached for the handle a fraction of a second after you. To reverse the situation, you might easily be the person on the other side. There haven’t been any serious accidents yet from this cause: but there are a few inconsiderates within the membership of the ParamountPep Club who open doors with the zest of a lark flying into the face of the sun. Or in other words, they bring their subway tactics into the Paramount Building, and that is an unpardonable breach of the common laws of consideration for one’s fellow men and women. CONTRIBUTIONS After a somewhat physically exasperating struggle to gather in the contributions for this issue of Pep-OGrams, we were just on the point of pounding out an editorial on the subject. But, thinking it over, we realized that asking Pepsters to send in contributions to Pep-O-Grams was about on a par with asking them to visit the Paramount Theatre. And when we realized that, we abandoned the idea of writing an editorial on the subject of Contributions. OUR PEPPY VICE-PRESIDENT Joseph Sweeney We have to call him Joseph when he is on the editorial page of Pep-O-Grams, for if there is one page of this magazine -where a modicum of respect and dignity is demanded, it is the editorial page. So Joe Sweeney becomes ‘Joseph’ of that ilk; and he gets his picture here for no other reason than that he is a tireless worker in the interests of the Club, a thorough Para-Publix-eer at heart, and because he proved himself a very good emergency President-protein at the last general meeting of the Club. And that, after all, lines up a mighty good set of reasons why Joseph should be here among all of the tall words of advice, all of the admonitions, and all of whatever else is customarily found on editorial pages.