Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

P E P-O-G RAMS Page Five E. E. SHAUER AND FRANK MEYER SAIL FOR EUROPE Paramount’s general manager of the foreign department, and its general purchasing manager and assistant secretary, left for Europe on the Aquitania on August 1st. Mr. Shauer is engaged in making his annual survey of the motion picture industry abroad. Mr. Meyer is in Europe on business of very great importance to the organization. In Paris they will hold grand reunion with two very popular Pepsters — Melville A. Shauer and Dick Blumenthal. It is expected that the travelers will be away about five weeks in all, returning to New York early in September, by the same steamer, and if there’s a transatlantic steamer, entitled to be named the S. S. Paramount it is the giant Cunarder Aquitania. PEP-O-GRAMS TO BE EQUIPPED WITH SOUND EFFECTS One of the surprise announcements of the thunderous month of July came from Vice President Joe Sweeney, who announced that in keeping with the progressive policy of Paramount and Publix, the official organ of the Paramount-Pep Club, Pep-O-Grams by name, would henceforth appear with sound effects and other synchronization ideas. “What,” said Mr. Sweeney, “is the use of having something which we refer to as a house organ, without its having sound? Do you go to the Paramount Theatre to merely watch Jesse Crawford sitting at the console? Or do you go there to hear the sound from the organ?” Mr. Sweeney had a lot of other shrewd observations to offer. But, more than these, he had a lot of excellent suggestions as to why Pep-O-Grams should be equipped with sound and talking sequences. The talking sequences will serve excellently for the ballyhoo which is set up monthly for the purpose of inviting, begging, beseeching and imploring contributions. It will serve, too, for the very excellent purpose of reminding members about their dues, and thus save the hours and days of time now spent in pursuit of the adhesive dollar, stuck to the pockets and purses of the unwilling payers. The sound sequences will serve as excellent indicators of the typographical errors which always manage to escape the editor’s attention, and will thus rob the discoverers of these errors of the joy of racing around broadcasting their discoveries. Though this development of adding sound and dialogue to Pep-O-Grams is only in the nebulous stage — and it is problematical whether it will advance farther — there still remains the fact that if Pep-O-Grams is to VACATIONS* Some one has said that the purpose of a vacation is to give the boss an opportunity to learn that you are not indispensable— that somehow or other the business gets along without you. Hence, if there’s even a grain_ of truth iti the assertion, your absence is in competition with you — when you get back it’s up to you to prove that you’re an asset of the first water. But how? Well, when you’re on vacation forget the job, forget its joys and its troubles and recreate, which means what it says — re-create. Re-create your enthusiasm, your vim, your optimism, re-create your determination to do your job as well as you can do it; recreate your interest in your job and your loyalty to the firm that employs you. Pack your vacation full of healthful fun and sport; let it dominate your thought and attention an hundred per cent; then, when it is over, give the same amount of attention to the job that you gave to vacation — • the same enthusiasm, the same interest. And the boss will know that, although the business runs without you, it runs better with you — a whole lot better. * Reprinted from every house organ in the civilised world. AD SALES SAILING MERRILY ALONG WITH GOOD TRADE WINDS Tames A. Clark — although nobody would think of calling him anything but Jim Clark — has made a great success of his new job of Manager of the Domestic Ad Sales Department. This was instanced in the “Hundred Percenter” Contest which has just concluded: and it is prophesied in even stouter fashion by the plans of Jim’s department for the current “Whole Show” Contest. be synchronized, then maybe something can be done about synchronizing its date of appearance with the day when it is actually supposed to appear. Meanwhile — and unless provoked — nothing further will be heard about this matter.