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| Helen Kane Is Proved To Be UNORIGINAL, Loses[1] |
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Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrick decided today that the chubby singer Helen Kane, had no monopoly on "Boop-Boop-a-Doop." He dismissed the singer's suit for $250,000 damages against the Paramount-Publix Corporation, Max Fleischer, creator of the Betty Boop animated cartoons, and the Fleischer Studios, Inc. Miss Kane said she was disappointed and hurt at the verdict. "I'm deeply shocked," she said. "I consider it very unfair, as all my friends believe the cartoons a deliberate caricature of me." Her attorney, Samuel R. Weltz, said an immediate appeal would be filed. Miss Kane charged that the defendants had wrongfully appropriated her singing technique in the Betty Boop film cartoons. She sought damages on two grounds that they had used her picture in violation of the civil rights law and that the cartoons constituted “unfair competition.” The trial began April 17 and provided court ringsiders with one of the most entertaining judicial spectacles in years. Miss Kane "Boop-Boop-a-Dooped." Defense witnesses "Whad-Da-Dahed" and "Vo-Do-Deo-Doed." The witnesses had trouble getting these sounds out without actually singing, which was frowned on by the court, and the official stenographer had more trouble getting them into the record.