The 4 Betty Boop Girls[1] |
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All of a sudden the Four Betty Boop Girls become actresses, with individual names, individual dresses, individual specialities.
It happens on the stage of the Paramount theatre, where the suddenness of it all is terrible apparent. What do the girls behind the Betty Boop voice look like? Does the possession of a Betty Boop voice entail certain characteristics common to all Betty Boop voices? Well, yes and no. All Betty Boop Girls want to be cute, and about half of them want to succeed. Betty Boop Girls do not necessarily resemble Helen Kane.
None of them understands motion picture makeup, established by the girl in the yellow lace dress and jacket, and the other quarter are cuddly and know how to make the most of it, as proved by the girl in the bois de rose tafeta frock with the shaded not flounces, who also does imitations.
Others are apt to wander away from the mike, moved by a frenzy of Booping-witness the girl in the pale blue net-and most of them should not be allowed to use their own judgement about their stage costuming, as evinced by the girl in the carmine velvet jacket with printed white chiffon skirt, and the girl in the blue net again.
And if Betty Boop Girls were dressed alike, that would be better still.