Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

P E P-O-G RAMS Page Five HAPPENINGS OF NOTE IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT R. M. “Dick” Blumenthal climaxed a round of farewell luncheons and dinners by sailing for Paris on the He de France at midnight on Friday, June 29th. He’s in Paris now, engaged in his vitally important work of being executive assistant to Melville A. Shauer. One of the happiest events before he sailed was the luncheon given him by Mr. Seidelman the day before sailing, which was attended by Mr. E. E. Shauer and members of the Foreign Department. Dick has been assistant to Mr. Seidelman for the past two years. Advantage was taken of this luncheon to also farewell Harold Sugarman, who left the same day as Dick. Harold headed for Panama, where he took over John Nathan's job as assistant to Manager Harry Novak. John in the meantime has gone to promotion in Cuba as assistant to General Manager Arthur Pratchett. Another addition to the Foreign Department’s Home Office Brigade is Eddie Ugast, graduate from the Domestic Ad Sales Department. Eddie brings his great music publishing and general musical knowledge to bear upon the problem o f Sound Pictures, he having been appointed by Mr. E. E. Shauer to be in charge of the Foreign Department’s Etdie Ugast Sound and Synchronized Picture activities. For all of these boys we wish sincere and well-merited success in their new spheres of Paramount activity. WE WELCOME THESE NEW MEMBERS TO OUR CLUB ROSTER William Goldstein, Chairman of the Membership Committee, reports the Club’s acceptance of the following new members at the last general meeting. W. Vincent Dougherty, Richard G. Engel, Teresa Horvath, Charles Mulvihill, Bertha Oehler, Joseph Reilly, Harold j’ Wright, Mildred Stobbi, Joseph J. Hahn, Harriet Reuner, Helen Goldberg, Leonard O Hargrave, Arthur E. Haupert, Richard Sheahan, William Eastlack, Frank Gadevai, Moe Gruber, Helen Kraus. AUSTRALIA’S PARAMOUNT PUNCH CLUB ON PRACTICAL BASIS The Paramount Punch Club of Australia, formed by Managing Director John W. Hicks, Jnr. as far back as April, 1921, scored very handsomely when the Home Office in Sydney was completed several months ago. The Club now has the entire top floor for a social hall, and the entire roof of the building carries the Club’s two tennis courts. AN OLD FRIEND COMES BACK Coincidental with John Butler’s appointment as Executive Managei 0 f our Long Island Studio, John W. Fingerlin, formerly of the West Coast Studios, has been promoted by Mr. Lasky to assume Mr. But 1 e r ’ s former duties as Manager of the Home Office Distribution Department. Welcome, and congratulations to Mr. Fingerlin! He does not come as a stranger to the Home Office, for he served in Mr. Butler’s Department before being sent to the West Coast. On the Coast he was Budget Manager of Paramount’s Hollywood Studio, and Treasurer of the Paramount Studio Club. TO NAME NEW OFFICERS At the most recent general meeting of the Paramount Pep Club, held on Tuesday, July 10th, the following members were appointed by President Vincent Trotta as a Committee to nominate the officers of the Club to serve during the year 1928-29: Theodore C. Young, Fred Metzler, Aldyth Reichenbach, Carl Clausen and Jane Stubbs. We have reproduced their photographs above. Their nominations will be announced in the next (August) issue of Pep-O-Grams. BETROTHALS Raymond L. Pratt and Lilyan R. Prager, Eleventh Floor Accounts Department, July, 1928. William Fass and Heleti Gotring, Foreign Department, Jidy, 1928.