Photo Find: Scary Society Ladies Prepare for Halloween, October 1949

Originally run October 27, 1949, this Herald Examiner photo’s caption read: “Getting in the mood for their annual Jack o’ Lantern Ball are Mrs. John L. Glass, Mrs. Marge Futch and Mrs. Edward Shuey, left to right. The Orthopaedic Hospital benefit is set for tomorrow night in the Coconut Grove, with cocktail party preceding [sic] in Embassy Room of Ambassador Hotel. There will be many surprises in store for the guests.”

Back then, of course, the Ambassador Hotel’s Coconut Grove nightclub was a star-studded locale where high-class society mixed and mingled with the Hollywood elite. It must have been some party, paper skeletons and all!