Cinema: Rosenbloom at Harvard

Maxwell Everett ("Slapsie Maxie") Rosenbloom, 37, onetime world's light-heavyweight prizefight champ, now proprietor of a Hollywood nightclub, is making a picture of undergraduate life called Harvard, Here I Come. His wife, according to United Pressman Frederick Othman, is coaching him in collegiate ways. Says Max:

"To act like a Harvarder, far as I can see, all you got to do is act dumb. Stupid, like."

Cinemactor Rosenbloom, whose battered ring career left him looking like a cross between a hooked rug and a donkey, was recently picked by girls of a college sorority as the last...

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