Arlene Blut was born July 30, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota, where she attended a Conservative Jewish. She met Michael Peikoff while attending the University of Minnesota, and they married before he began medical school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Blut followed her husband’s residencies and fellowships to California, Michigan, and Manitoba before they came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1971.
Green Ink Limited was a Canadian company that owned radio stations, sundry companies, and fifty-one theatres throughout Canada. The company was incorporated on August 28, 1972 and ceased operations in June 28, 1982. President Leslie A. Allen in the early 1970s attempted to purchase the rights to the Howard Hughes film Scarface (1932), offering approximately two million Canadian dollars.