Paramount Pep (1923)

2 PARAMOUNT PEP Bux Helps the State Harry Buxbaum, our New York District Manager, inaugurated and carried out his idea of assisting the New York State Income Tax Bureau by getting out a series of slides to the different theatres, reminding the people that April 15 was the last day. Bux also wrote many letters and gave them full information regarding the clauses of exemption. Bux did you pay your State Income Tax? Sliaefer’s Convention Idea Adopted By Kent Every Sales Representative in the United States Will Have the Direct Touch by “Sitting In” Ever since his entry into Famous Players, S. R. Kent’s one ambition was for the direct personal touch with every representative in the field and he has adopted the idea suggested by George Schaefer, District Manager for New England. Many plans were discussed for some such possibility, but each at the time seemed impractical and resulted in the men getting the powerful and enthusiastic new policies at second hand. Now with the Spring Conventions, four in all, each Salesman, Exploiteer, Booker, Accessories Manager, in addition to the Branch and District Managers, will “sit in” at the conventions conducted by Mr. Kent and assisted by Divisional Sales Managers Weeks, Ballance and Clark in their respective divisional districts. The exceptional advantage of such a convention idea gives the exchange representatives the first-hand talks, discussions and new policies as coming direct from the Home Office Executives’ heads. In addition, Exploiteers, Salesmen, Accessories Managers and Bookers will have the opportunity of hearing the discussion of sales, bookings, exploitation and accessories from each of the executives, thereby giving them first-hand information from an enthusiastic angle on | problems concerning them. The first convention in the Hotel Pennsylvania will assemble and convene for two days, May 8th and 9th, and there will be approximately 110 in attendance. H. G. Ballance will assist Mr. Kent here. On May 12th and 13th there will be 172 in attendance at the Drake Hotel, Chicago. George Weeks will assist Mr. Kent at this meeting. On May 14th and 15th the entire Southern District will assemble at the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans. There will be approximately 50 representatives in attendance. On May 21st and 22nd, sixty-five representatives will convene at the Ambassador Hotel at Los Angeles. John Clark will assist Mr. Kent here. Commenting on this initial convention step, Mr. Kent said : “I think we have worked out a happy solution of the convention problem by splitting up the semi-annual convention into four sessions. While conventions are absolutely essential to the proper conduct of a sales campaign, their expense and necessary slowing up of activity have been serious problems. Moreover, conventions attended by only District and Branch Managers, together with Home Office executives, have not reached the maximum fulfillment of their purposes in many cases, because the interpretation of sales policies is given to the salesmen second hand. By letting the men stay in their offices and taking a small crew about the country to put on conventions, we not only get greater efficiency in delivering our sales message to our salesmen, but we also do it at smaller cost.” “The Covered Wagon” Their deeds — go view them on the Silver page, A gift of glory to remotest age. The van of civilization’s westward sweep — The few that sowed that millions here may reap. —LUKE COSGRAVE. ff ALPHABET rs Is Tor action, > 171 say, you can bed I’m 'luip To gai tha'bij " Thin k,Mork harl and read PEP