Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "tall nude girl (yellow & black feathers #12)." Costume Details: Topless showgirl in jeweled g-string and headress with yellow, white, and black feathers. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "tall nude girl (yellow & black feathers #13)." Costume Details: Topless showgirl in jeweled g-string and headress with yellow, white, and black feathers. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "tall nude girl (yellow & black feathers #14)." Costume Details: Topless showgirl in jeweled g-string and headress with yellow, white, and black feathers. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Pete Menefee design. Handwritten on drawing: "disco boy dancers." Transcribed from original drawing index: "16 boy dancers (silver tights, vests- disco)." Costume Details: Male dancer wearing silver tights and rhinestone-studded boots, wrist cuffs, g-string, and vest. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "2 principal boy dancers (disco nudes)." Costume Details: Male dancer wearing black tights and rhinestone-studded boots, wrist cuffs, g-string, and dog collar/vest combination. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "tall nude showgirl (yellow & black feathers #16)." Costume Details: Topless showgirl in jeweled g-string and headress with yellow, white, and black feathers. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Hullabaloo Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "girl singer (individual Philistine #3)" and "girl singer (individual Philistine #4)" for two identical drawings. Costume Details: Two female performers wearing beaded tops, floor-length split skirts, and matching headdresses with draped cloth. Show Name: Jubilee! Performance Name: Samson and Delilah: Prologue Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Hughes Buys New Plane. Attendants at the Floyd Bennet Airport, in Brooklyn, New York, inspecting the tire on the plane Howard Hughes recently purchased from the Sikorsky Company. Hughes accepted delivery September 30th, and flew the plane from Bridgeport. The tire blew as he was making a test landing. No other damage was done. Credit Line (ACME) 9/30/37
The interior of the 219-foot long hull of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, on the day of the craft's initial water taxi tests. The picture was taken from the center section of the 400,000 pound aircraft. Workmen were completing the final arrangements for the test in the background.
Transcribed from photo sleeve: Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being assembled at Long Beach Harbor. Stamped on back of photo: "Hughes Aircraft Photo" and the date "Jan 8 1947." Los Angeles Harbor, Terminal Island are now known and Long Beach.