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| Helen Kane Is UNORIGINAL She Could Not Prove To Be Original[1] |
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Helen Kane, the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" girl today lost her suit for $25,000 against Max Fleischer, cartoonist, the Fleischer Studios, Inc., and the Paramount-Publix Corporation. Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrich held that she had failed to prove her contention that the defendants wrongfully appropriated her singing technique in the “Betty Boop” film cartoons.
Miss Kane said she was deeply shocked at the verdict. "I consider it to be very unfair, as all my friends believe the cartoons a deliberate caricature of me," she said. The "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" trial began April 17, Miss Kane seeking damages on grounds that the defendants had used her picture in violation of the civil rights law and that the cartoons constituted "unfair competition." In the opinion of the town’s faithful court ringsiders, there has never been a more melodious trial in the city.
At times, during attempts to determine the origin, and even the reasons for the "Boop" style of singing, it resembled a musical comedy. The testimony given during the trial was, for the most part in two-fourths time and very syncopated.
The defense presented a galaxy of talented performers to show that long before Miss Kane made her debut as a singer of "Baby" songs the practice of interpolating songs with meaningless sounds was quite common. Justice McGoldrich and the audience got through education in vernacular of the theatre. The trial played to a packed house throughout.