Paramount Pep-O-Grams (1928)

Page Six of Pep-O-Grams PEPSTERS "SEE AND HEAR" JESSE L. LASKY (Continued from previous page) confidence is its unswerving belief that you as Paraniounteers are doing and will continue to do 3'our share in consolidating public faith in the merits and the future of talking pictures — particular!}" Paramount talking pictures.” It is of course impossible to here do justice to the brilliant quarter of an hour’s enlightenment which Mr. Lasky’s talk brought to the members of the ParamountPep Club. We would, for instance, have liked to deal more fully with his analysis of the popular stars of today and his reasons for assuring us that practically all of these will retain their stellar positions in the world of talking pictures. But we were mighty content to he there to hear him, and to inwardly register the vow that from now onward none of our friends or relatives could negative the merits of good talking pictures, and get away with it. BOTSEORD AND HOLMAN RESIGN: McDERM(dTT AND McILVAIN FILL VACANCIES Pressure of Company work sometimes cuts deeply into the arteries of the Club’s activities — a circumstance of which we can be unselfishly proud, for the Company’s sake. One of the toughest instances of this is to be found in the fact that President Frawley has regretfully had to accept the resignations of A. M. Botsford and Russell Holman from the posts of Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the Entertainment Committee of the Club. To replace them President Frawley has appointed J. J. McDermott Chairman, with William Mcllvain as Vice-Chairman. Their very first work, undertaken with less than a week to spare, was that of organizing the Christmas Party on the 26th floor of the Paramount Building on the afternoon of last Saturday. The whole CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CO-OPERATIVE COMMITTEE Christmas is a 70 It 0 I e lot brighter — and lighter — t h i .s' year for those zvisc ones zoho ai'oiled themselves of the zvonderful economizing facilities of the Cooperatiz'c Buying Committee zvhich is under the chairmanship of Harry A. Nadel. This Committee is deserz'ing of the zoholc-hearted congratulations of the entire membership of the Paramount-Pep Club for its untiring efforts on behalf of the members. DOES PROGRESS THROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMPTOMETER INTEREST YOU? The members of the Educational Committee have arranged with the Felt and Tarrant School of Comptometry for free instruction in this subject for members of the Paramount-Pep Club. The School has arranged to have an instructor at Paramount one night a week during January, February and March. The classes during January and February will he for beginners, and during March for the advanced class. A questionnaire has already been distributed. It asked the following questions: Would you be interested in this course ? Have you ever handled a comptometer? In which class do you consider yourself — P)eginners — or Advanced ? So gratifying a response to the questionnaire was received that the classes are to start early in January. This is certainly a fine achievement for the Educational Committee, which consists, as \ou know, of; Helen W. Swayne (chairman). Agnes Itlengel, Aldyth Reichenbach, Jeannette Mendelson, John Barry. Palmer Hall Stilson and W. J. Pineau. NOTES FROM SEVERAL REPORTERS Members of the Paramount Pep Club extend to Anne Berliner heartfelt sympathy in the loss of her Mother. Henry Gray is now a full fledged member of the Elks. Christmas chimes and wedding bells tolled at the same time for Martin Rosenfeld. On December 23rd Martin slipped the right kind of band on Jeanette Miller’s finger and the Rosenfelds then left for Washington, Norfolk and other points south. Lenora Korenstein was the envy of all the girls on the sixth floor recently when it was learned that she was going over to the Ambassador Hotel to have lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Clive Brook. To Yvonne Rigney went the honor of receiving the first Christmas gift in the Sales Statistical Department. Although it was not the Ice Skates she expected, she greatly appreciated it just the same. Eleanor Yagel must have a long Christmas list. She had to come back from lunch early the other day to file her nails. hearted fashion in which the Club membership pitched in to help these two Pepsters make a success of the event is certainly a happy augury of the success which will attend their activities in this administration.