Paramount Pep (1923)

Paramount Pep 5 Zukor and Kent at Farewell Luncheon Executives and Friends of Both to Dine Them at Hotel Commodore This Friday, February 9th Adolph Zukor and S. R. Kent will be tendered a luncheon at the Hotel Commodore this Friday, as a farewell to both, prior to their departure the next day for an extended trip abroad. Mr. Lasky will preside as Toastmaster. As stated in a previous issue of PEP, Zukor and Mr. Kent will tour Europe and visit practically every large city on the continent. This trip will be especially interesting to Mr. Kent, it being his first trip abroad. Both Mr. Zukor and Mr. Kent are due a much needed rest and the trip across will no doubt contribute to this end. While in Europe they will visit the following points: Paris, Nice, Naples, Rome, Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna, Constantinople, Berlin, the largest cities in Norway and Sweden, England, thence back to the U. S. Those who will attend the luncheon at the Commorde this Friday will be: Messrs. A. Zukor, J. Lasky, S. R. Kent, F. G. Lee, W. H. English, F. Kahn, E. E. Shauer, Hugo Reisenfeld, E. J. Zukor, Al. Kaufman, R. Kohn, J. Clark, F. Meyer, H. G. Ballance, R. T. Kane, J. Johnson, H. Salsbury, E. Huff, C. Saunders, H. Franklin, A. M. Botsford, A. Keough, R. W. Saunders, H. Pitman, C. McCarthy, C. Hawthorne, H. Buxbaum, E. C. King, G. E. Akers, L. Swarts, Mel Shauer, Dr. Stern, G. B. J. Frawley, G. Miller, G. M. Spidell, R. Montgomery, J. Hammell, J. Riley, M. Kusell, A. Thorne, H. C. Wylie, H. E. Elder, P. H. Stilson, J. Seidelman, J. Day, C. G. Bowden, O. R. Geyer and P. Morgan. A Call for Them Now We have heard of the fact that Exploiteers could successfully sell a publishing house in dressing their windows, but the latest is that a popular music dealing company in Pennsylvania called Mike Vogel, Pittsburgh Exploiteer, on the phone and asked him if he would send some fanfotos and other accessories to make up a window on the song based on Blood and Sand. Furthermore, Mike sent them a bill for $26.00 and the check arrived the next day. “This is just another indication,” says Mike, “that the business world is fast coming to the realization of the benefits derived in tying up with motion pictures.” “The Current Picture” A picture which is being released now is new. It is interesting. It is vital. Its wonders are revealed to us for the first time. But the older picture is just as vital, even though repetition may have dulled the keen edges of enthusiasm. All pictures, all men, grow older every day. But every day plays a part in their lives. Watch your bookings on the older pictures and sell accessories on them with as much effort and as much precision as you do on the new ones. Gross sales are what we are after. Only one picture at a time can be brand new. Then it gets older. Older pictures are stronger in numbers. Don’t neglect them. Remember the gross. Winnipeg Notes By Miss L. Margolis The Winnipeg Paramount Pep Club held its monthly get-together a few days ago. The program of the evening consisted of tobogganing from 8 P. M. till 9 P. M., after which all returned to the office, where “WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER” was screened, and everybody sat gypsy fashion on the screen room floor watching the picture. During the intermission of this picture punch was served, and at the conclusion of it all adjourned to the office where a hot supper was done justice to. This was followed by dancing, which lasted till the small hours in the morning. The staff and their friends made up a party of thirty-five people, and to say that everybody enjoyed the evening is to say the least of it. Heard at the tobaggan slides, while a toboggan is rushing down the hill at the rate of sixty : “Stop the toboggan, I am sliding on my back.” Our smiling Salesman, Mr. More, has been confined to bed for the last few days, owing to illness. However, he is doing very well, and we hope to see him back with us shortly. Mr. Nat Levant, former Office Manager and Booker of the Winnipeg office, was presented by the Winnipeg Pep Club with a leather billfold as a token of regard, at the last Pep party.