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Costume design drawing, make up technician in polka dots, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "Principal girl singer (make up)."
Costume Details: Female performer wearing a black skirt and a black and white polka dot blouse.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Female performer wearing a black skirt and a black and white polka dot blouse.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, white dress with bows, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "Principal nude (pearl - in white dress)." Handwritten text from original drawing: "Pearl white #2."
Costume Details: Female performer in a white dress with skirt ruffles and sailor's collar trimmed with black bows and white button-up boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Female performer in a white dress with skirt ruffles and sailor's collar trimmed with black bows and white button-up boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, black and white witch doctor, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "girl singer (witch doctor)" for two identical drawings.
Costume Details: Dancer wearing black and white patterned mask, tights, jewelry, and fringe.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Dancer wearing black and white patterned mask, tights, jewelry, and fringe.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, black and white Chinese dragon robe, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "boy singer (Chinese)."
Costume Details: Male performer wearing a black conical Asian hat (dǒulì), long fake fingernails, black shoes and tights, and a long sleeved embroidered robe with tassels on the sleeves.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Male performer wearing a black conical Asian hat (dǒulì), long fake fingernails, black shoes and tights, and a long sleeved embroidered robe with tassels on the sleeves.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Flickers
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, male dancer in silver tights, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Handwritten on back of photo: "black disco boys." Transcribed from original drawing index: "8 black boys (silver tights)."
Costume Details: Male dancer wearing silver tights and rhinestone-studded boots, wrist cuffs, g-string, and shoulder strap.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Male dancer wearing silver tights and rhinestone-studded boots, wrist cuffs, g-string, and shoulder strap.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of Dean Martin and Jack Entratter with Texas Copa Girls at rehearsal, Las Vegas, December 1959
Date
1959-12
Archival Collection
Description
Dean Martin, Jack Entratter and several of the Texas Copa Girls in December 1959. Pictured from left to right, unidentified woman, Margo Martin, Dean Martin, Pat Hewlett, Theresa Hayes, Jack Entratter, Lucille Nelson.
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of Frank Sinatra, Jack Entratter, and Copa Girls at a rehearsal of Ziegfeld Follies, Las Vegas, June 1954
Date
1954-06
Archival Collection
Description
Frank Sinatra (right) and Jack Entratter with Copa Girls at a rehearsal of "Ziegfeld Follies" in the Copa Room of the Sands Hotel in June 1954.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Image
Photograph of Jack Entratter and several Copa Girls, Las Vegas, circa 1950s to 1960s
Date
1950 to 1969
Archival Collection
Description
Jack Entratter (far left in dark suit) and an unidentified man sitting with several Copa Girls in the 1950s or 1960s. Copa Girls from left to right, Charlotte Nort, Joan Ryba (one of the Ryba Twins from Houston), Jean Waters (from Houston), Carlyn Chapman (from Dallas), Linda Henrich (from Dallas), Jackie Lee, and Arlene.
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
Image
Photograph of the Copa Girls performing in feathered skirts, Las Vegas, April 1963
Date
1963-04
Archival Collection
Description
Copa Girls performing onstage at the Sands Hotel in April of 1963. In cartouche from left to right, Charlotte Nort, Rowena Buttenweiser, Barbara. Seated from left to right, unidentified woman, unidentified woman, Marlene, Jane and Joan Ryba (the Ryba Twins), Jackie Lee, Diane Marlow (Diane Holladay), unidentified woman, Lee Temple.
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of Vassili Sulich, Tessa Beaumont and an unidentified male dancer performing in the ballet "L'Echelle," Paris, France, 1956
Date
1956
Archival Collection
Description
L-R: Vassili Sulich, Tessa Beaumont, and an unidentified male ballet dancer in the ballet "L'Echelle," choreographed by Milko Sparemblek, in Paris, France.
Show Name: L'Echelle (ballet)
Show Name: L'Echelle (ballet)
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