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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Say,
kids, what time is it? It’s federal law
suit time!
Representatives from a Detroit muse
um and the family of the Connecticut pup
peteer who created Howdy Doody — the
freckled-faced marionette that entertained
millions of American children in the
1950s — are set to meet Friday in court in
Hartford to try to resolve an ownership
dispute over the Doodyville cowboy.
Both sides have asked U.S. District
Judge Christopher Droney to decide the
case without a trial.
The Detroit Institute of Arts contends
NBC and puppeteer Rufus Rose intend
ed to donate the original marionette to
the museum’s puppet collection.
The Rose family argues that Rose did
think about leaving the doll to the muse
um but was not legally obligated to do so
and left no such provision in his will. In
any case, the Rose family says, the Howdy
it has is not even the original. It says the
original’s whereabouts are unknown.
The Howdy in dispute is stored in a
bank safe deposit box in the meantime,
but the Rose family won’t say where.
Museum attorney Stuart Rosen
warned that the Rose family is planning
to sell the doll, which has been appraised
at $50,000. At the Detroit museum, which
contains more than 85 puppets from
around the world, “they know how to deal
with puppets of this vintage,” Rosen said.
From 1947 to 1960, NBC aired more
than 2,500 live episodes of the show. Buf
falo Bob Smith, Howdy, Clarabell the
mute clown and other characters from
Doodyville, U.S.A., were a regular part
of the lives of millions of baby boomers.
Buffalo Bob would shout, “Say, kids,
what time is it?” and the Peanut Gallery
— the kiddie studio audience — would
scream: “It’s Howdy Doody time!”
Rufus Rose and his wife, Margaret,
created the original Howdy Doody pup
pet and replicas of it at their design stu
dio in Waterford.
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