Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

Page Two P E P-O-G RAMS ART EDITORS Ray Freemantle Saul Schiavone Albert Deane Editor Contributing Editors — all members of the Gpcuw) lount-ffap Qliib A CLAN OF '‘GOOD TELLOW5" Paramount Building, N. Y. C. ‘ Vol. 4, No. 5 March 13, 1928 Pep Club Reporting Committee CHAIRMAN-. Jerry Novat. VICE-CHAIRMAN: Lilian Lang don. OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Lewis F. Nathan. RE PORTERS: Lilian Hauser, Maxine Kessler, WilUam Gold, Florence Monson, Rose Eidelsherg, 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. Congratulations To Frank Meyer on his appointment as general Purchasing Agent for Paramount and Publix, while at the same time retaining the managership of the Long Island Laboratory, and remaining as Assistant Secretary of Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. Mr. Meyer’s association with Paramount dates back to the days of the organization’s very beginning. He became associated with Mr. Zukor when our company’s President was conducting a theatre on 14tli Street, and that friendship continued right through the time when “Queen Elizabeth” was launched on the American film market, and Mr. Zukor commenced the world>-girdling organization which today distributes Paramount Pictures into every corner of the globe. When the 26th Street Studio of Paramount was built, Mr. Meyer was given a very important post there; and there is on record the story of how he risked his life during the disastrous fire which obliterated the studio and saved precious negatives without which our Company could never have survived. In addition to his film experience, he is a world traveler, and has been to Europe and India on missions for the Company. Good-bye George Spidell has left Paramount to enter » another field of commercial endeavor. He severs an association of seven years of accomplishment wrought in the name of Paramount. Much that we have, and many great innovations/that make our work and surroundings far more pleasant, we have to thank George Spidell for. Our sincere hope is that he will attain i all of the success that we in our hearts hope he will and want him to. Tickets Every Club member has been handed two tickets to the Club’s Financial Freedom. Those tickets are air, food and water to the Club’s existence, and the more forcefully that the members realize this fact by selling the tickets, the more will knowledge be brought to the Governors of the Club and Officials of the Company that it is the desire of the Club Members to have the Club continue to exist. Without the turning of those tickets into cash the Club cannot exist. This fact has been made plain enough to the members ever since the Ball zvas announced. It is a fact that has to be assimilated by everyone concerned. Geographically, it is only a step across the street from the Paramount Building to the Astor Ballroom : financially speaking, it is only a, step from the securing of the tickets to the Ball to the securing of the cash for them. This is the step that has to be taken before you can step across 44th Street zvith a heart light enough to get all the fun that you want to out of the Ball. Lockers Office Manager McLoughlin has caused another notice to be sent around regarding the locking of lockers and desks. This shouldn’t be necessary ; and the readers of this publication are the very ones that should make it unnecessary. You know, z alien you come to\ think of it — it’s a commentary on your own common sense that you should need to be told so many times to protect the very valuables that you work so hard to get for yourself. Think' it over, '■.and ponder at the same time on the accepted fact that it can take no longer than four seconds at the utmost for you to take your 'key from your pocket and lock your locker. If it so happens that you can put the four seconds to more valuable use, Mr, Me Loughlin zt’ill arrange for a valet to be on hand for those four seconds. This isn’t being funny: it is just a tactics to try and convince you of something that decent, tolerant memoes cannot seem to convey to you. OUR BUILDING COLUMN A task requiring infinite patience now confronts Office Manager Joseph P. Me Loughlin and Lawrence Bailey. A contractor is engaged in the work of laying linoleum throughout the Paramount section of the Paramount Building. You householders who have had the kitchen re-linoed at some time or other during your stay on this earth, can appreciate to the full just what it must mean to be superintending the laying of the tens of thousands of square feet required to cover the Paramount floors. That grand and glorious skating rink on the tenth floor, which discharged the Foreign Publicity Department and took as a new tenant the Real Estate Department, is being compartmented into a series of snug cubicles. Steady and important growth on the part of Mr. Young’s Department is responsible for the alterations.