Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

Page Two P E P-O-G RAMS ^E?®Gr^s ART EDITORS Ray Freemantle Saul Schiavone Albert Deane Editor Contributing Editors — all members of the Q>aran loiuit-Gpep QUib v AajunrwQDfOMwr | Paramount Building, N. Y. C. Vol. 4, No. 1 November 15, 1927 Pep Club Reporting Committee CHAIRMAN: Jerry Novat. VICE-CHAIRMAN: Lilian Langdon. OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Lewis F. Natlwn. RE PORTERS: Marie Deutsch, Lilian Hauser, Maxine Kessler, William Gold, Florence Monson, Rose Eidelsberg, Tess Sternberger, Marion Herbert, Seymour Schultz, Lilian Stevens, Martin Carroll, Ruth Johnson, Mary Levine, Henry Spiegel, Helen Strauss, Eileen Eady, Estelle Jacobs, Rose Goldstein, Charles Eich, Sydney Cohen. MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR The wise ones are those who make every day Thanksgiving Day; who look upon the pleasures received as something to be thankful for, and upon those things which have not been too nice as things which at least could have been a lot worse. We members of the Paramount Pep Club have everything in the world to be thankful for. Our organization is the leader of the particular industry to which it belongs, and its strength in that position is due to its humanness, the clear-visioned foresight of its leaders, and the stability it has displayed in the past and promises for the future. Our Club, fashioned with the same sinews of strength and the same nerves and blood of co-operation and comradeship, has grown with a strength and power which have been so encompassing that the company’s Home Office payroll could virtually be substituted as a list of the Club’s members. That is something to be thankful for, since in a way it makes the Club the Organization, and the Organization the Club. It is not the only thing! Stop just a moment and think of the multitude of other things to be thankful for. The grand sentiments and significance of the Inaugural Dinner and Dance a month ago; the ambitious and practical nature of the plans that the Club has for the current year — these are but a few of them, but how symbolical they are of the success which P. H. STILSON’S PORTRAIT PRESENTATION SPEECH Delivered by the Chairman of the Adolph Zukor Portrait Committee at the Hotel Astor, October 13th. Since the inception of the Paramount Pep Club, six years ago, one man, more particularly, has watched over us and been ever ready to counsel our undertakings; resulting in the pre-eminence and prestige the Club enjoys. I refer to the greatest man in this industry, our Honorary President, Adolph Zukor. The Club, endeavoring to merit his confidence, has considered many suggestions, whereby a mark of affection and appreciation might be accorded Mr. Zukor. A few months ago it was decided that the most appropriate manner in which to do this would be to have Mr. Zukor’s portrait painted from life. Accordingly, Mr. Guiseppe Trotta was commissioned to do this work. We are thankful to Mr. Zukor for the many sittings he gave the artist. Mr. Lasky, it is my great privilege and honor to present to the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, Mr. Zukor’s portrait which will now be unveiled. May we suggest that you direct that the portrait be permanently displayed in the Board Room of the Paramount Corporation, as a token of our regard for Mr. Zukor and of our continued loyalty, and in order that this portrait will be an inspiration to1 the present and succeeding generations of the Paramount organization. THREE PEPSTERS IN EUROPE The giant steamer Aquitania verily became the giant steamer Pepotania on October 26th, when it carried from New York, for a comprehensive tour and survey of European film conditions, three great and inspiring members of the Pep Club. The three were Emil E. Shauer, honorary Vice-President; Eugene J. Zukor, chairman of the Board of Governors; and Melville A. Shauer, past President of the Club. A very representative gathering of Club members was present at the steamer to say “au’voir.” Pep-O-Grams has been promised the exclusive publication of Melville A. Shauer’s impressions of a continent which, when he saw it last, was “going great guns.” He says that he will write as often as opportunity presents itself, and Mel, you know, has a habit of living up to what he premises. The executive officers of the Club have received sincere, heartfelt thanks from Messrs. E. E. and Mel. Shauer, and Eugene Zukor for the “Bon voyage” flowers and the presence of Club members at the steamer. cannot help but come from the present administration! But let us not proceed to catalogue the many things for which we should be thankful. It is undignified to do so, for it should suffice that we be thankful for them always, and that we should, in belief if not in fact, make every day a Thanksgiving Day.