Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

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Frawley has been elected president of the Paramount Pep Club, Ink, I ivould like to discuss briefly those high points in the Judge’s campaign which, in my opinion, won him his office. Judge Frawley’s three terms as governor during which, despite the efforts of the auditors, he was never caught in any delinquencies of a serious character, proved his capacity as an administrator. His opening speech at Manhattan Transfer, where he boldly came out for Childs’ beans as “a noble experiment” and good for the constitution, while alienating a portion of the spaghetti-bound Sardi vote, unquestionably won him a host of friends. His denunciation of girth control in this stirring address also caught the fancy of big bodies of men and women. Boldly invading the Great West, Judge Frawley in his next speech at Hoboken vehemently attacked the “ whispering campaign” the opposition had launched against him. He spiked the widely circulated rumors that at the banquet following the distribution department convention at Washington he had been observed eating the dinners of two absent banqueteers in addition to his own meal and that at the end of the banquet he had to be supported by tzvo bottles of bicarbonate of soda. He also denied the slander that he wears red suspenders and smokes El Fumigato cigars. Continuing his tour in his special train consisting of three box cars, a caboose and a switch engine, with sound accompaniment by the Publix music department, Honest Judge invaded the Warehouse like a truck of twentyfour sheets. Here he reviewed the oil scandal of the last administration, citing how exPresident Trotta had oiled his hair with oil brought from the barber shop in a little black bag. “Does Trotta disclaim responsibility for this oil in his teapot dome?” roared the Judge while he strummed the zither which became the symbol of his campaign. (Applause, laughter, jeers.) Returning to his office, puffing but triumphant, Judge Frawley dictated a twenty page letter on Form 1198-BX endorsing Indian Point, inaugural dinners, balls, the Hanff -Metzger Bill, Paid Ash and anything else he could think of in the limited space at his disposal. When the voters had read all of this, they tottered exhausted to the polls and cast their ballots against Judge Frawley. With his usual coolheadedness in an emergency, Honest Judge yelled for a flock of waste baskets, threw the ballots into them, wrote new ballots and won the election. ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i iiiuiiiiii ii iiiiii ii mi i iiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ HOW I BECAME VICE PRESIDENT By Edward A. Brown | Cashier of Will Rogers’ Anti-Bunk Party Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r. The desire to become Vice President of something or other was an ambition of my youth, antedating even the desire to grow up and have a ( 'waxed mustache. I think I even had the longing to be a Vice President before I knew what a Vice President was. As I grew up and heard more about Vice .than Vice Presidents I still wasn’t deterred. And now that I am a Vice President I must confess to a huge relief in finding that it has distinctly and decidedly nothing to do with Vice. My plan of campaign to attain to this new dignity came about more by good fortune than by judgment. In my post as cashier of the Corporation (before allying my spare time with the party of Mr. Rogers), I had observed that green memoes of notification from P ar amount Famous Lasky Corporation to the Chemical National Bank had a large open space left blank in the bottom right hand corner. There were many books of these forms stored in the strongroom and it seemed to me a shame that all of these forms should be going out with that space left unfilled. It zoas then that my desire to be a Vice President got the better of me. I decided that I would be a Vice President, but that first I should have to make myself known — to make my name a household word — a name that everyone could bank on. Accordingly, I spent a great many Saturday afternoons writing my name on the spare spaces of the green forms, and zvhen I had completed this campaign of publicity and watched the distribution of the forms twice a month for almost a complete year, I announced my candidacy for Vice President. The remainder of this story is already history. I shall, however, in order to keep my name before you, continue to utilize the spare corner _ of the green forms as I have been doing in the past, for so long as this action might be deemed necessary. PEP-O-GRAMS Page Forty-one