Paramount Pep (1923)

2 PARAMOUNT PEP Now Is Time to Put Your House in Order The Best in Product Now and More to Come Prime Factor. Guarantee Success By S. R. Kent Scientific Liquidation Will S. R. Kent I returned from Europe on Friday, after a nine week’s absence and believe me I am glad to be home and at my desk again. If you want to appreciate America — go abroad. If you want to have a greater appreciation of your own Company and the Paramount trade-mark — go abroad. If you want to see the important part that pictures are playing in the shaping of world affairs, and then realize the bigger part they are going to play in the future — go abroad. It gives one a great thrill of satisfaction to feel that outside of being in a big, growing, commercial industry, you are also connected with a human, pulsating thing that is doing good in every country on the globe and it speaks the only universal language that there is. It was a wonderful inspiration to me to meet our foreign representatives in England, France, Italy, the Balkans, Germany and the Scandinavian countries and find in these boys the same loyalty, the same enthusiasm for Paramount that we have in our own country. They are indeed a part, and a very vital part, of our great big family and I am glad to have had the privilege of helping to tie these boys even closer into our world wide family of distributors. It is a great thrill to see these foreign countries for the first time, but it is a greater thrill to see the Statute of Liberty thru the fog as you come steaming back up the channel. However, nothing on the trip looked quite as good to me as the faces of the boys of the Home Office who met us down the Bay. We are all busily engaged at the present time in working out some very ambitious plans for next Fall. I have read the various issues of PEP and I want to take this means of sincerely thanking each Branch and District Manager, each booker and salesman, and loyal employee for what they have done to keep our business up while we have been away and in this manner contributing to the great pleasure of our trip. I want to also thank the loyal members of our sales cabinet : Messrs. Weeks, Ballance, Clark, Frawley, Claud Saunders, Botsford, McCarthy, Mel Shauer, A1 Thorn, and all the rest who worked hard night and day that all the news going to us might be of the most pleasant nature and to have no accumulation of problems or business for us on our return. I have never come back to New York after a stay of any length and found my desk so clean, or the current present problems so few. We have problems of course, yes, for the future, but the business was handled during our absence in a highly efficient manner. There were no quarrels and no shortcomings and this has given Mr. Zulcor and myself both as great satisfaction as the actual results themselves. I am glad to know that the boys have started a drive for the months of May and June. I believe that with hard, conscientious work we can practically catch up to our budget figures by the end of May, if all of us put on just a little extra steam. I am going to try and do my part and contribute my share and I know each one of you will do yours. A little more sales effort — a few more pictures booked — a few more small towns closed — • will accomplish the result. Our April and May product looks the strongest we have had in months. We have screened “BELLA DONNA,” “GRUMPY,” “PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS,” “RUSTLE OF SILK,” and they are four great pictures. “THE NE’ER-DOWELL” is about finished and Tom Meighan told us ( Continued on page 5) THE COVERED "WACC/N'"