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Paramount Pep
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In A Success ful Theatre A Picture Must Be Paramount
Morgan Goes to Cosmopolitan | A Well-Known Trio
After Eight Years With Our Company He Resigns to Accept Position of General Representative of International
Oscar A. Morgan, one of our oldest employees and for the iiast two years Assistant Manager of our Foreign Department under E. K. Sliauer, has resigned that position to hecome affiliated with Cosmo|tolitan Productions.
]\{r. Morgan takes the title of General Representative, working directly under George Meeker, General Sales Manager, and will maintain headciuartcrs at our Home Ollice.
When G. F. Akers, General Manager of our Canadian oflices, and W. J. O'Neil, General Auditor, visited the Home Office last week, PEI^'S cameraman caught the above trio on the roof in a characteristic pose.
Tt is needless to say the gentleman in the center of the group, George W. Weeks by name, feels quite at home with these two gentlemen, he having been formerly in charge of our Canadian offices.
As usual “Jerry" wears the grin that won’t come off, one that has made him famous thruout the organization from coast to coast.
Reading from left to right, they are : Messrs. Akers, Weeks and O’Neil.
Coming Into Prominence
I'he following appeared in a recent issue of “Life” ;
d'he world’s prosperity, it is announced at The Hague, “is now a paramount olqect.” It’s wonderful how important these big motionpicture eompanies are becoming.
Mr. Morgan first became connected with our !>ig family just eight years ago when he took the management of our Paramount Theatre in Newark, N. J. From there he was transferred to our Philadelphia office as a general representative for Exploitation, later being made Head Salesman, Sales Manager and Assistant Manager. Five years ago he w^as promoted to Branch Manager of our Washington, U. C., Exchange, in which capacity he served until being made Assistant General Sales Manager to S. R. Kent, General Sales Manager, among his other duties being the Editing of PARAMOUNT PEP.
Tw'o years ago he joined our Foreign Department under E. E. Shauer, Assistant Treasurer of our Corporation and in charge of our Foreign Department.
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Our Friend Albert
Just before Albert Deane, former Editor of the Australian Paramount Punch and late of the Home Office Publicity Department, sailed enroute to Australia, we caught him looking over the latest copy of PEP on the roof of the Home Office, -185 Fifth Avenue, New York.
As stated in a previous issue, Mr. Deane Albert Deane will keep US posted on
interesting news
abroad, by his little ticker.