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...number of two-dimensional creatures whose native haunts are the animated cartoons. As every cinemaddict knows, the thousands of hand- drawn pictures that go to make up one of these cartoons are the work of many hands. Last May, at Manhattan's Max Fleischer Studios (Popeye, Betty Boop, Screen Songs, Color Classics) 76 members of the Commercial Artists & Designers
...ferment of Labor activity which, with the President fishing and Congress loafing, continued to make most national news, reached a pipsqueak peak last week in Manhattan when, in effect, Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor went on strike. Actual strikers were most of the 135 employes of Fleischer Studios Inc., producers of Boop, Popeye and other animated cartoons. Shouldering placards displaying the cartoon characters and such legends as "We can't get much spinach on salaries as low as $15," they blocked the sidewalk in front of the Studio's building in Times Square, scuffled with police...
...Betty Boop has a little dog which also stole a show. Let us hope that it will replace the title role altogether, seeing that her little falsetto, her mannerisms, and her dress make your reviewer's stomach join Alyce's in the diaphragm...
...reached the whistle blows, the music slurs downward as wheels stop spinning. A worker shakes his head unhappily as he reads a sign: PRODUCTION TODAY, 5,000; COMPLETED, 4,999. When everyone has gone the "V 8" insignia on a Ford hood becomes an imp resembling a male Betty Boop who summons the Ford parts to assemble themselves. The accompaniment gaily plays snatches from Chopin's Polonaise Militaire, Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Mendelssohn's Spring Song. The connecting rods do an authentic square dance to one of Mr. Ford's favorite oldtime tunes. Wheels...
Lost. A $250,000 suit by Singer Helen Kane; against Paramount Publix Corp., Cartoonist Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, Inc.; in Manhattan. Charges: ''Betty Boop" cinema strips imitated the Kane face, gestures, "boop-boop-a-doop" singing (TIME, April...