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Mae Questel, Marjorie Hines, Bonnie Poe and Little Ann Little, alleged imitators, were the voices featured in the cartoon films. To Boop or not to Boop was the question yesterday in Helen Kane's $250,000 suit against her movie imitators, with Justice Edward J. McGoldrick quoting Shakespeare and Helen admitting Booping isn't an artistic triumph, but "nevertheless in my own."
At noon, the showing of the offensive (to Helen) Betty Boop cartoon, in the gilded projection room of the Paramount Building, was suspended.
The idea was to remove both Justice and contending lawyers from the atmosphere of hugs and kisses induced by cuddly singing and itsy-bitsy gestures. So until today 2 P.M. Justice and attorneys will confer on points of law in Supreme Court, minus the presence of singers with long eyelashes and spit curls.
After the showing of Betty Boop's "Boop-Oop-a-Doop," "Popeye the Sailor with Betty Boop," and "Betty Boop's May Party," Justice McGoldrick rose to his feet and made an off-the record speech.
"My impression is that actors and actresses have dual personalities," he said, "but I do not mean Helen Kane," looking at some of that Betty Boop film in the Paramount Building yesterday. Suddenly she found herself singing "Boop-a-Doop." She felt like the chemist the Jekyll and Hyde sort of thing. As Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage." Helen Kane described privately how she got the Boop-a-Doop in.