Walter Craig was the lifetime companion of Donn Arden and donated the Donn Arden Papers and Photographs to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives.

Source:

“Donn Arden, 79, Producer of Las Vegas Shows,” November 3, 1994. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-03-mn-58036-story.html.

Jerry Crawford was born on August 20, 1934 in Iowa. He earned a scholarship to Drake University for baseball. He graduated from Drake with a bachelor's in theatre, and went on to earn a master's degree from Stanford as well as a Ph.D. in playwriting from University of Iowa.

Las Vegas, Nevada native Dennis Lee Askew is a graduate of Valley High School. In the late 1940s his family moved to Las Vegas from Florida where they were involved in gambling operations. His father worked at the Sands Hotel for thirty years. As a young man, Dennis worked as a bus boy at the Sands, and later moved to southern California after his high school graduation. In the mid 1970s, Dennis led a successful rock band called Universe that played around southern California and Las Vegas. They disbanded and Dennis worked for Odyssey Records in Las Vegas.