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The Helen Kane Lawsuit Is More Complicated


Testimony in the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" trial of Helen Kane, which has frequently sounded like a kindergarten class in phonetics, grew even more complicated today, whereas there have been many "Boop-Boop-a-Doops" and "Wha-Da-Das," today the court stenographer had two new ones to worry about, namely "Bo-Vo-Deo-Do" and "Ba-Da-Daten-Doop." These sounds were uttered during the testimony of defense witnesses who sought to convince Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrick that the chubby Helen Kane had not originated the "Boop-a-Doop" method of singing. Miss Kane seeks $250,000 damages from Max Fleischer and the Paramount-Publix corporation for allegedly imitating her in the Betty Boop film cartoons. Alfred Evans, an employee of Rudy Vallée, said he heard Edith Griffith sing "baby" songs in an Omaha, Neb., theater in 1927, with the interpolations, "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" and "Poop-Poop-a-Doop."

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