Transcribed from attached press release: "DRILLING LABORATORY The fundamental purpose of all Hughes rock bit research is to improve bit performance. In attaining this improvement it is necessary to balance design with the application of correct metallurgical materials and manufacturing methods. The preliminary proving ground is the Drilling laboratory housed in the main Laboratory building. Its field-size drilling rig, with 118 ft. derrick, was especially designed to test rock bits in a manner simulating oilfield drilling conditions."

From L-R: René Fraday, Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), Bob Turk, Donn Arden, costume designer Louis Folco at the Lido in Paris. Arden and Folco are holding up champagne glasses. Two unidentified women and one man are in the background.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

Costume Details: Reclining nude showgirl with lorgnette, white boa with white foxtails trimmed with red ribbons, red bow on her head; piles of books in background. [Signed by artist]
Show Name: Pony Express
Site Name: Sahara Hotel and Casino

Bob Mackie design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "4 Principal boy dancers (Vienna, ballet look)."
Costume Details: Male dancer in blue ballet style costume with sheer ballooned sleeves; decorated with fuchsia trim; matching boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Vienna
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino

From left to right, Governor Frank Merrian, Howard Hughes, and Mayor Frank L. Shaw riding in a car in a parade on 5th Street in Los Angeles in 1938.

Howard Hughes descending a stairway from Constellation 069, at the Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. in 1944.

Howard Hughes (foreground) and S. P. Brown (bending over) examining the new Hughes rock bit head at the Hughes Tool Company plant.