Word: rosenbloom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, ex-light-heavyweight champion turned actor, paid $10 in Chicago for speeding, but he felt put upon. "Everything was going O.K. until the cop found out who I was," he complained. "Then he took advantage of my stupidity...
This is the wrong season by the calendar but the spirit which has given rise in the past to many a spring riot seems to be abroad in an abbreviated form. Witness Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44, who returned from a date recently to find the minutest remains of a 25-pound cake of ice disappearing before his eyes...
Certainly the jazzmen did better by Harvard than Maxie Rosenbloom and the Pennsylvania football team. After all, it's not every college that can have a blues written about it. Not even Jimmy Rushing would want to traffic with the art of Bessie Smith and W. C. Handy trying some such lines as, "Baby, I got them lowdown Massachusetts Institute of Technology blues...
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom hit Boston yesterday with a thud as of a rotten tomato and with odor to match. Poor gags, far-fetched puns, drawn-out dialogue, and a well-nigh non-existent plot combine to make "Harvard, Here I Come" as a rather tedious ordeal. Except for the local interest in Hollywood's presentation of what bodes ill to become its favorite subject, Harvard, the show is merely another low metabolism slapstick comedy...
...this particular bushel of corn is pretty amusing fodder. Ann Sothern, the Brooklyn bonfire, wanders into a boxer's training camp and ends up by marrying his manager. Meanwhile all the old hokum about the lighter with a soul who goes blind, etc., etc., etc. occurs with Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom and other pugilistic debris to provide an interesting background. A bit below the pan of the Maisie series, the show is still one of the best grade...