Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1927)

A Winning Hand With A Paii’ of Clubs By JESSE L. LASKY Due simply to a caprice of fate, I consider myself one of the most fortunate of all of the Paramount-Pep-Club members. In addition to membership in the Pep Club I am also a member of the Paramount Studio Club : and it is the nature of my work with the Corporation that I spend a portion of my time on the West Coast of the Continent and the remainder of it in the East, thereby enjoying to the full the benefits of these two wonderful Clubs. I am an ardent admirer of the standards and achievements of both Clubs, and I more than welcome this further opportunity of expressing inv thoughts to you all on this occasion of your Club's birthday anniversary. Many times you have been told, and will continue to be told, that the Paramount-Pep Club plays an increasingly important part in the march of the Paramount organization in the vanguard of the film industry. I can but add my tributory offering to this wealth of sincere and oft-expressed sentiment: for I too have seen how vital is the value of the Paramount Spirit, as exemplified by the Pep Club, when you dig deeply into the reasons for specific instances of achievement. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 : i ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 it 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 As the Years Go By By Richard W. Saunders Comptroller, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. nimiiiiiimiHiHiiim iiimiiiiiiiirmiiiin 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 — This is the Paramount Pep Club’s Birthday and a birthday is always an interesting event, whether it be that of an individual or of an organization. It is a day for congratulation, for in our transitory life it is an event to have lived another year. And if at the year’s end one possesses health and underlying strength and has had a good measure of success in the year’s undertakings, then is there further cause for enjoying the anniversary. One forgets the passing years or at least becomes reconciled to their passing. To live in the enjoyment of the present is of course a wise thing to do. Each day should be considered as having its quota of the things that make for happiness. But an eye should al\so be kept on the future. The friendships that association brings have not only a present value but a continuous one that may last for many years. Even if one takes up another line of endeavor, the old friendships are ever coming to light. One meets old club-members of yore sometimes thousands of miles away and old memories are recalled to mind. An interesting article in a paper or magazine PEP-0 evokes a Setter and a reply. The past projects itself into our present and we gain an additional delight from enjoyments that seemingly had exhausted their possibilities. The basis of this however must be laid now. If one does not enter fully into what is now being done then this future value is also lost. The present activities give the opportunity which must be utilized and if this is done, then like the tree that stores up in itself the sunlight of today and gives it back in the glozving fire of tomorrow, we can store up friendships and happy memories for the days that are to come. TRANSPORTATION Every day is an anniversary of a convention, or a ticket to Europe, or a drawing room suite to Los Angeles for one of the the Club. This member is Lawrence P. (Larry) Flynn, Transportation Manager, and one of this city’s best authorities on steamer, rail and air accommodation to all parts of the world. 1 -GRAMS Page Twenty-six