Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1923, a plump, impudent artfully infantile young woman named Helen Kane began to appear in vaudeville. In her songs she usually replaced the lyrics with extraordinary noises. Presently her favorite noise, "boop-boop-a-doop," became a recognized word in vaudeville's nonsense language. By 1928, Helen Kane...
Helen Kane grew fatter. Her infantilism grew less appropriate and profitable. Betty Boop remained babyish, alert, and so prosperous that her name has lately become almost as familiar in Manhattan courtrooms as that of Ella Wendel. Last month, Producer Max Fleischer whose firm makes Betty Boop cartoons, distributes them through...
Justice Edward J. McGoldrick ruled against a jury. Counsel ordered Helen Kane to remove her coat, arrange her hair like Betty Boop. Defendant Fleischer produced three babyfaced young women who do the singing for Betty Boop cartoons. A court anteroom was darkened and three Betty Boop cartoons and one reel...
A GIRL BEFORE THE MAST - Betty Jacobsen - Scribner ($2). A Brooklyn stenographer tells of her trip on the Parma, winner of last year's grain race from Australia to England. No Cradle of the Deep, no Falmouth for Orders, either.
As soon as the play was chosen the Harvard and Radcliffe actors who had been retained Monday were assigned to the different roles. All the parts are now filled with the exception of a few minor bits. The cast follows: John, Allan L. Steinberg '35;--Drunk Swell, John Cromwell '36...