Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

P E P-O-G RAMS Page Seven THE PEP CLUB ORCHESTRA. At left is Irving Talbot, Musical Director, Paramount Theatre (about whom there will be a story next issue). Front row: Joseph Agro, Bernard Solomonick, Innis Atwell, George D. Rogers, George Dublin, Joseph Finston (Assistant Director of Paramount Pep Club Orchestra). Back row: Chris. Beute, Joseph Ptacnick, Esther Jablo, Sally McLoughlin (at piano). THIS YEAR’S COMMITTEES HAVE STARTED TO PEP Things have started to happen with a double-barrelled wallop already. Right from the day when we started to assemble this issue there has been a wad of material in the file telling about the activities of this, that and the other committees. In fact, the activity of the Committees has been one of the reasons for the enlargement of Pep-OGrams to its current size of 12 pages. Louis Diamond, in charge of the Entertainment Committee, has pepped up the entire Club with his announcement about a Pep Club Orchestra, and, under the direction of George Rogers, of the Film Rental Department, this Orchestra has held its first couple of rehearsals — and oh how successful they’ve been! Watch for their appearance on the stage of the Paramount Theatre a few months hence — maybe they’ll even secure a tryout there. There has been a notice about Inter-Department Bowling sent out by Ray L. Pratt, Chairman of the Athletic Committee. This contest is promised development along distinctly exciting lines. Miss Irene F. Scott, re-elected Chairman of the Educational Committee, has issued a three-chaptered notice relating to Dancing, a Circulating Library and the Speed Classes. Fuller details concerning these three important phases of activity are carried on all of the Club’s noticeboards on all floors of the Paramount Building. Miss Scott, has also issued a most interesting notice relating to the offer made by the John Murray Anderson-Robert Milton » 55 If You Must Think of v| | SEALS | 55 and Sealskin Coats at Christmas Time. N Give a Thought to Those Other Seals, p The CHRISTMAS SEALS of % Health for the v! Tuberculosis Sufferers p CC* School of the Theatre and Dance, to all members of the Paramount-Pep Club.. This notice is displayed on all bulletin boards, and if your interested eye has not yet glimpsed it, make haste, pronto, to the nearest board, for it may be that you are the Pavlowa of 1929, or so. ITSAGIRL! Alvin T. Freisinger has joined the “Big Parade.” Every bright Sunday morning will find him with a look of ethereal bliss on his countenance as he proudly wheels the new arrival. Miss Joan Irene, weight nine pounds, along the avenue. THE GANG’S “AU’VOIR” TO FRED Fred Rath, who recently resigned as assistant to Russell Holman, advertising manager for Paramount, was tendered a farewell luncheon on Oct. 17 by his Home Office associates. Fred has become a successful playwright. The meal was served at Sardi’s. Mel Shauer acted as toastmaster, ably aided by Russ Holman, Chas. McCarthy and others. After paying for his lunch the boys presented Fred with a suitably engraved Dunhill lighter. Among those present were: J. P. McLoughlin, Harry Nadel, Harold Flavin, Tom Walsh, Dan Hynes, Wilbur Morse, Blake McVeigh, Russell Holman, Charles E. MacCarthy, Lionel S. Reiss, P. J. Baietti, A. O. Dillenbeck, Mel Shauer, Charles L. Gartner, R. M. Gilham, Alvin Adams, Jerry Novat, Jim Zabin, Jim Clark, Cliff Lewis, Leon Bamberger, Eddie Ugast, Mickey Uris and Vincent Trotta. Fred’s position has been taken by Cliff Lewis, who comes to it with a very extensive Publix advertising experience back of him. CONTRIBUTORS — See that your contributions reach either your local reporter, or the Chairman of the Reporters’ Committee, Jerry Novat. Make your news brief (to save cutting), and peppy (to add sparkle to the magazine), and always tack your name onto what you write, because anonymous contributions will go the way of all — well, let’s say waste paper. If you don’t want your name to appear, please state so.