Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

Page Two ART EDITORS Ray Freemantle Saul Schiavone Albert Deane Editor Contributing Editors — all members of the Gparamoiint CPdp (plub y J IHCOMO^AT^O J I Vy A CLAN or '•GOOD FELLOWS" Paramount Building. N. Y. C. ; Vol. 4, No. 9 July 10, 1928 Pep Club Reporting Committee CHAIRMAN-. Jerry Novat. VICE-CHAIRMAN: Lilian Langdon. OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Lewis F. Nathan. RE PORTERS: Arthur Bell. Maxine Kessler, William Gold, Florence Monson, Rose Eidelsberg, Frank Schrieber, Gertrude Voli'mer, Edward Jones, 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. Outing A great day, a great spot, and a grand boatload of Pep! The 1928 Summer Outing of the Club could not have been other than a success under these conditions. Success it was : and in the intervening weeks the entire organization has hummed with a newer and keener note of enthusiasm. Hearty congratulations are due those Pepsters who worked so indefatigable to make the outing the grand and wholesome event that it was. But t s A warning against the callous and indiscriminate throwing of cigarette hutts — whether lighted or unlighted — from the Paramount Building windows, appears in this issue. Solely in the interests of common sense and decency you are asked to review this warning and judge whether or not it is directed against you. P r o in o t i o n Several announcements regarding the progress advance of Paramounteers are set forth in this issue. This is the type of news we delight in publishing : news about the merited advancements of Pep i sters whose jobs have not been big enough for them, and who have just had to go forward in Paramount's interests as well as their own. Let us have more of this news : be big enough to forward us the account of your fellow worker’s pro-! motion, because as surely as you do that, and take pleasure in doing it, just so surely will there come the time that your fellow workers will be reporting your own advancement. S o ii n (1 The entire motion picture business is un 1 dergoing one of the most radical changes within its history. Pictures, hitherto silent, are having sound and dialogue fitted to them. The screen is to be silent no longer. It will speak: it will be bigger, broader, I more nationally and internationally appealing. We of the motion picture industry have set this pace, and now it is up to us to keep up with it. This means a new and broader frame of mind: it means attuning our minds to the new dimension of sound and dialogue: it means the sober and reflective contemplation of the fact that the industry we have cast our life’s lot with, has developed, practically in a flash, into a bigger and more vital industry, one holding still greater promise of progress for those ■ who are mentally alert and constructively thoughtful. Aviation The flight of Helen Swayne from New York to Boston, coupled with the Paramount film successes, “Wings” and “The Legion of the Condemned,” leads one writer to the query: “How many members of the Pep Club have actually taken airplane . rides?” If you are one of the fortunate ones, please permit us to print your name in a special column as part of a campaign for making the entire Paramount organization air-minded. This cartoon has been reproduced, with all due significance, from the current issue cf “Judge” which is known as “House Organ Number.’ It should be mentioned, however, that the artist was misinformed about the smoking part of the editor’s make-up.