Paramount Pep (1923)

10 Paramount Pep If You Are Doing Your Best Philadelphia Cracks By Eli M. Orowitz Boston Brevities Joe Levy, for ten years with Pathe, is now traversing a couple of zones for us and is selling the product in some pretty tough towns. A new office has been added here. This new office is being occupied by Manager P. A. Bloch and his former sanctum is the private office of Sales Manager M. S. Landow. We’re expecting the return of William E. Smith, our genial District Manager, to his desk and the resumption of his activities, within a week or so. Mr. Smith has been ill for three months. Horseback riding, like other experiences, sometimes causes some of us to give vent to our feelings or the creation of conceptions heretofore unthought of. Miss Clara Kraftsow is becoming a seasoned expert in equestrianism. Returning from a trot one day she said to Miss Annabelle Bond, Mr. Smith’s secretary, “Pd rather manager wild men than wild horses for the reason that the former don’t run away from you.” Which reminds us of a dumbbell we know who thought that the bridle path in Fairmount Park was to be used exclusively by newly married couples. Raymond J. O’Rourke delivered the principal address in Gaelic at the annual banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick the other night. We heard it over the radio in Mike Landow’s apartment and believe us, it was the best sales argument we ever heard. What he was trying for after he was half way thru his speech, we’re not so sure about, but we think it was his favorite expression, “A contract is not a contract without dates.” We’ve just discovered that within our midst is a person who is a worthy opponent of A1 Jolson in the art of witticism and that is Anna Leahy, one of our rewinders. Jolson is now telling stories in “Bombo” that Miss Leahy told when she made application for her job and that was “yars and yars ago.” From Indianapolis Another little lady full of pep, and a loyal Paramounteer is Miss Celia Hirschowitz, one of the lively lassies who hails from our Indianapolis Exchange. Celia Hirschowitz By Jad With G. J. Schaefer, New England District Manager, presiding, the Boston office just held a special sales meeting to inaugurate a thirteen weeks' drive. The purpose of this drive is to clean up uncontracted business by July first and build up film rentals in the weeks affected. This will clear the boards for group seven product. Each salesman was furnished with an analysis of weekly film rental possibilities for the months of April, May and June. This visualizes for them the following: Contracts expiring or expired and renewable, inactive possibilities, film rental possibilities of supers obtainable during that period, showing by individual theatres the uncontracted supers and price schedule for each super, and the actual film rentals now on our books for each of the weeks affected. They’re off ! Our accessories department under the leadership of Russell Collins has had a little thirteen weeks’ drive of their own and for the thirteen weeks’ period since January first have done an average of $140 per week over their quota. Speaking of perfect forms, Herman Lorber, our genial Office Manager, recently submitted one to Home Office which successfully combines Form1 4a with form 40. He received “the thrill that comes once in a lifetime,” when within a few days afterward he received in the morning mail the adopted printed copy of it. “THE COVERED WAGON” is still approaching Boston and an enthusiastic “fan” ’phoned us about it, telling us what a wonderful opportunity we were missing to tie this in with our big picture “THE COVERED WAGON.” Every day in every way the “SUPER 39” seem to be getting better and better. We have just screened “GLIMPSES OF THE MOON,” “GRUMPY,” “BELLA DONNA” and “MR. BILLINGS SPENDS HIS DIME,” etc. They are “Knockouts !” They sure put the “PEP” into the boys to go out and knock ’em dead. LATTER PART OF APRIL— MONTH OF MAY— LET’S GO