Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

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PEP-O-GRAMS AIDS UNITY OF PARAMOUNT ORGANIZATION By B. P. SCHULBERG General manager of West Coast production Birthdays are milestones that mark the progress of an individual or an organization. On this, the fourth anniversary of Pep-O-Grams, the entire West Coast studio joins with me in extending congratulations and the best of birthday good wishes to the Pep Club and its cheery magazine, Pep-O-Grams. Unity of spirit and purpose is a difficult thing to attain and maintain in an organization that circles the globe. Yet Paramount surmounts this obstacle and presents to the business and artistic world an unbroken front, backed by an inter-departmental understanding that mocks at distance and defies all adversity. Pep-O-Grams plays a highly useful part in this unification of our tremendous organization. To our Hollywood studios, this magazine each month brings a closeup of the activities and personnel of the Home Office. From its columns we constantly gather information and inspiration. Intimately newsy, it bridges the thousands of miles that separate the two important centers of Paramount in America. A long life and a successful one — that is the unqualified birthday wish the West Coast studios extend to the Paramount Pep Club and Pep-O-Grams on this notable milestone of their progress. PARAMOUNT HOUSE ORGANS LINK PARAMOUNTEERS [ AROUND THE WORLD ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiMiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiMiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiin By Julian Johnson Head of Paramount’s title department The power of the press to break down frontiers and do away with the barriers of language and prejudice has been a well-known fact for the better part of a Century. But only in the Twentieth Century have great organizations realized the value of a printed organ in making one unit out of the many, far-flung units of a vast and scattered force. The part which Pep-O-Grams has played in solidifying an organization spirit in Paramount, in making its men and women everywhere known to one another — making them real-fellow workers — is well-nigh incalculable. It is an indispensable medium of thought in the Paramount institution, for, light, human and intimate as its material is, it has made us all feel that we are not only working together, I but are literally working side by side, whether our desks are in Hollywood, New York, London or Berlin. It is more particularly suited to the needs of Paramount than it could be to any other great manufacturing organization whose activities are concentrated. Paramount covers the continent, not only in distribution — as do the great manufacturing concerns in other lines — but in actual production, which is something none of the purely commercial manufacturers have to face. And it is of the utmost importance that all its men and women know each other, sympathize with each other, understand each other’s problems and lives. It is this human, intimate welding which Pep-O-Grams has given us — something which, when we come to think of, we can’t do without, and which we sincerely trust we never shall have to do without! PEP-O-GRAMS Page Thirty-three