Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1928)

Page Four of Pep-O-Grams Ev’ry Mind a Notebook Ev’ry Eye a Pen! BEING PERSONAL NOTES GATHERED ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BY-WAYS OF THE PARAMOUNT BUILDING BY OUR TRAINED CORPS OF REFORMING SLEUTHS. John Gentile had three lady friends on his hands the night of the dance and we're still trying to figure out how he managed them. Flenrj" Young says he wouldn’t swap his one girl for any three on the floor. Eva was all eyes for Maurice Chevalier and Irene Sweeney seemed to be more than satisfied with her companion. Polly iMahoney has regained her voice and the posting department is back to normal. We hope the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is duly grateful to Paramount. Billy Dwyer was one of our best co-workers and we wish him lots of luck in his new position. He was presented with a pen and pencil set from the boys and girls of the department. The girls from the 12th Floor had a Halloween party at Chin’s. Amy Press received the wedding ring in her piece of cake. This is the second time this has happened and we hope the third time brings the desired result. Willie Gold is wondering if the Educational Committee will be kind enough to find him a good professor to instruct him in the art of playing the flute. Four years ago, at a Paramount Pep Club Inaugural dinner, Augusta Petersen of the Contract Approval Department was introdiiced to Charles Joseph. On Friday, November 2nd, “Petey” became Mrs, Joseph and the newlyweds are at present spending their honeymoon in Washington. A hig celebration was staged by Petey’s friends in the office and she was presented with a beautiful gift. If Columbia’s football playing does not improve, George Weltner will adopt fishing as his only diversion. Stenographic Department’s loss — Production Department’s gain. Catherine Cunningham has been transferred to Mr. .Salsbury’s Department on the 11th floor. We know that the fact of her being five stories above us will have no effect on Catherine, say the -Stenographic Department personnel. Lily Amster formerlv of the Svdney, Australia office and lately of the General Stenographic Department in the Home Office, was tendered a luncheon at the Hotel Paramount Grill, by that Department, prior to her return to her home in Australia. She will visit in London for an indefinite length of time before going “hack honre and broke.” Jerry Sussmann has renounced Football for good because he lost heavily on his old Alma Mater, Dartmouth, who should be given a correspondence course in the intricacies of the game. Jerry Goldsmith has subscribed to a course in Oriental dancing. Apropos of which we are reminded of the musical song MEL MISSED MOSTLY The most missed Fepster at the annual Inaugural Dinner at the Hotel Astor on October ISth zoas Melville A. Shauer, past president of the Club, and one zoho has been instrumental in a tremendous fashion in building the Club up to its present pinnacle of prestige and prosperity. Absent in Paris, France, on business as special representative of the Foreign Department of Paramount, he zvas nevertheless remembered and honored in every important address of the evening. Mel Shauer hit of some years back entitled “Every littie movement has a meaning all its own.” Much to the surprise of many of us, a young lady on the sixth floor, said, after accpiiring a beautiful finger flash-light, that she does not get a kick out of it. Don’t you think she is a rare specimen of humanity? The added activity in the General Stenographic Department, is due to the fact that the Printing and Mimeographing Departments have been transferred from the Warehouse to the Home Office. Eddie LTgast entertained Harold Smith, liuropean representative of the Hays Organization, last Monday evening. After the Pate de Foie Gras at the Roosevelt Grill and a De Luxe performance of “Show Boat,” they did not get home until an early hour. Dedicated to MINNIE EISNER of the E.vchangc Scrz'ice Department, zvho is being married on December \Sth. December fifteenth is the day When Minnie, Ha, Ha, will have to pay For promising Irving to love and obey And agreeing to all the Good Book may say. We wish her happiness in every way — A home that is bright, a life that is gay— But we want her to know that, come what may, Her Paramount friends are with her to stay. Submitted by HELEN KANE