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Audio recording clips of interview with Hazel Gay by Claytee D. White, December 2, 1995
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Archival Collection
Description
Three audio clips from an interview with Hazel Gay conducted by Claytee D. White on December 2, 1995. Hazel and her husband Jimmy Gay moved to Las Vegas in 1946, becoming leaders in the African American community during the civil rights era. In the clips, Gay recalls the Moulin Rouge from her perspective as manager of the dress shop.
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Meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel coffee shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip. Clockwise from left: Woodrow Wilson (NAACP), Lubertha M. Warden Johnson, Bob Bailey (NAACP), Clesse Turner (County Commissioner), Butch W.E. Leypoldt (Sheriff), Hank Greenspun (Las Vegas Sun), James B. McMillan (President of the NAACP), Oran Gragson (Mayor), Dr. Charles I. West, Ray K. Sheffer (Chief of Police), Art Olsen (County Commissioner), possibly J. David Hoggard, and Donald Clark (NAACP), 1960 March
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Marie and James B. McMillan Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Scrapbook 8: Press clippings and publicity including advertisements, show reviews, magazine articles and programs from Arden's shows at the Moulin Rouge, Latin Quarter (New York and Miami), and the Las Vegas Lido (C'est Magnifique, Avec Plaisir, Ca C'est L'Amour). Stars featured include Sophie Tucker, Milton Berl, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jane Russell and Betty Grable. Includes autographed note to Arden from Sophie Tucker and telegrams from Madame Berthe, Carol Channing and others, 1958-1959
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Donn Arden Papers
Box/Folder: Album 28
Archival Component
Audio recording clip of interview with Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, June 5, 1997
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Sarann Knight Preddy conducted by Claytee D. White on June 5, 1997. Preddy recalls her pleasant residence in Hawthorne, the opening of the Moulin Rouge, and meeting entertainers as a keno dealer.
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Film negative portraits of Pat Paterson, May 20, 1955
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Description
Series of three black and white negative portraits of Moulin Rouge associate Pat Paterson, dated May 20, 1955.
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