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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE 9 September 101943 (jjSk Jews In Sports By Morris Weiner wtyffifcl (Copyright. 1943. JTA) (V) in the Ukraine." He also edited a three-volume "History of the Jews." Last year the Yiddish Scientific Institute published his two-volume work "Jews in France." Prior to his sudden death, he completed the second volume of the "History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States" which is now on the press. WATCH ON THE RHINE HELD OVER AT WARNER Due to the intense interest in "Watch on the Rhine," which has been playing to capacity audiences at the Warner Theatre, the film will be held over for an indefinite engagement The new Warner Bros, film stars Bette Davis, one of the screen's most versatile actresses, and Paul Lukas, who is in the role he enacted in the Broadway hit M. GOODMAN.

President F. GOODMAN. Secretary Eliahu Tcherikover, Jewish Historian, Dies in New York New York (JTA) Funeral services were held here this week for Eliahu Tcherikover, 62, noted Jewish historian and one of the founders of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, who died Saturday from a heart attack while vacationing at Palenville, N. Y. He will be buried at the Workmen's Circle cemetery.

Born in 1881 in Poltava, in the Ukraine, Tcherikover studied in the University of St. Petersburg, in Russia, where he was arrested for revolutionary activities. When he was released after one year of imprisonment, he devoted himself to literary work. He came to New York in 1915 but returned to Russia in 1917 after the fall of the Czarist regime. During the Pet-lura pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine, he collected material which he published in Berlin in 1929 in a volume entitled "The History of the Pogrom Movement between scrappers and not a cream puff affair between friends.

Bob held the title for one year and faded out of the picture. Maxie went on to Hollywood and capitalized on his battered phizz and his "dumbness." He became the butt of jokes on the screen and on the air and provoked larghs at his own expense from Coast to Coast but just as long as it paid off, he didn't mind. He entered the night club business and today owns three of the swank spots in the film capital. Dumb, eh! Like a fox! Texas Guinan dubbed Maxie "Slapsie" because Maxie never tried to beat an opponent in the ring via the kayo route. He always endeavored to beat his rivals in the ring by the decision end, and in 34 fights, always "slapped" his opponents dizzy and invariably was awarded the decision.

The most vivid memory Slapsie has is of the time when, striving desperately to maintain his record of never knocking a man out, he "slapped" a rival and was the most surpised man in the arena when his rival fell to the canvas for the count. Split in British Jewry Not Closed London (JTA) Last-minute efforts to close the split in the ranks of British Jewry have failed, it was indicated with the announcement by the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association that it will recommend to that body's general meeting, which is to be held September 16, that the Association establish its own foreign committee. Although the council urges that the new committee should cooperate with the foreign committee of the Board of Deputies, it, nevertheless, makes permanent the break between the Association and Deputies. For 65 years, until last month, the Board of Deputies and the Association had been represented on a joint foreign committee. The recently-elected Board, which is dominated by Zionists, voted to dissolve the joint foreign committee.

Since then efforts have been made to reconcile the differences between the two groups, but they have apparently been unsuccessful. Simultaneously, Lord Nathan, who has been a leading member of the Association, sent his resignation to the council, stating that although he favored continuation of the joint foreign committee, he would abide by the decision of the majority of the Board of Deputies. A statement by Leonard Stein, president of the Asso scathed. He proved his business acumen when everybody was calling him a stumblebum and a broken down fighter. In 1932, "Slapsie" had watched a Jewish youngster fight in the training stint at Stillman's gym in New York.

He was so impressed with the lad's ability that he had spoken to hia manager immediately. The result was that Bob not only became a stable mate of Maxie's, but also became the property of the champ. More than that, Maxie instead of hanging on to his title urged the newcomer to train hard for one purpose to beat him the champ. This is exactly what Olin set out to do and eventually did. The moving picture records of the light-heavyweight scrap between Rosenbloom and Olin in 1934 reveal that the fight was one Goodman Funeral Home Phone Chapel WEst 8874 1701 W.

WALNUT STREET if" 'T 1 ft I i 1 1 i lmiiMJ rm -irnii nmiJ "Slapsie" Maxie in the Army "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloora was once the light-heavyweight champion of the world. He held the title from 1930 to 1934 and even though hi3 pugilistic reign lasted through the serious depression years, Maxie was the man who made the biggest wad of dough from his particular weight division. Today, Maxie never more serious in his life is working as a trainer and instructor with the Army Physical Fitness Program. "Slapsie" you must have heard him over the radio on countless occasions and seen him in the movies as the "stooge" and butt of endless jokes about his mental capacities and who seems to be the perfect type of "dope" doesn't care who laughs at him just so long as it pays off. The guy is really dumb! Yeah, like a fox! Dubbed "Slapsie" by the late Texas Guinan, queen of the night clubs, the name has stuck to him all through the years and is partly reminiscent of the way he fought.

But never forget, Maxie came up the hard way. He had been a preliminary fighter for several years and had little to show for it, save a perfect pair of cauliflower ears and a battered nose that was spread over his face. Finally, he earned a shot at the title and the man he had to face was a killer Jimmy Slat-tery. Maxie won by a "duke" He outpointed the champ in every David L. Schram Sender Bensman M.

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LOcust 8125-26 Paul Lukas of the same name and for which he won the award of the New York Drama League for the outstanding portrayal of the season. A top-flight supporting cast is headed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi and George Coulouris. Miss Watson and Mr. Coulouris re-enact their original Broadway roles. "Watch on the Rhine," based upon Lillian Hellman's famous play, was prepared for the screen by Dashiell Hammett, with additional scenes and dialogue by Lillian Hellman.

Herman Shumlin, who was responsible for the Broadway success, directed the film. As second attraction "Prairie Chickens" will be shown, starring Jimmy Rogers and Noah Berry, Jr. give an equal amount to the same charity. So bye-bye buy books! Milton Berle admonishes those who cannot be in the armed services to give their blood. "If you can't be a private you can at least be a Corpuscle!" JJQ TO OUR READERS! Would you like a copy of this 24-year Hebrew-English calendar that has been winning favorable comment all over the U.

S. and even outside the country? We have arranged with the Heinz people to send a copy of the calendar free to all who request it. tion. Rued Henry Blanke, "All I know about inflation is that twenty-odd years ago, I inherited a hundred thousand marks in Germany. With it I bought my mother a quarter pound of butter." Did you know: That Samuel Goldwyn's cable address is Gold-sam? That Warners' is paradoxically Wanewar? That the first eight notes of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" are printed on Paul White-man's checks? That Helmut Dantine was in illustrious company when he was thrown into an Austrian concentration camp? A fellow prisoner was Kurt Seliuschnigg.

That one of Jack Pearl's biggest comedy hits was a skit called, "Send for Lubitsch?" The comic and the director are old friends. That Ted Shapiro, Sophie Tucker's accompanist, is celebrating a quarter century in show business and has had but four bosses in that time? That studio prop man, Julius Rosenkrantz, has four brothers in as many branches of the service? One each in the Army, Navy, Marines and Maritime Service. Mitzi Green will soon great a bundle from Baibyland. Which event drapes our column in a long, grey beard he interviewed her when she was the screen's leading child star. Zig's-Zags: June Travis, long absent from print, gets linotyped on account of a burglary in her Chicago home.

Dinah Shore wants to buy a Bev Hills house without a swimming pool. Milt Gross' son, Herb, is in the Army. Walter Wanger is a blood donor for the fourth time. Joan Blondell epitomizes the domestic help situation: "I've been interviewed by twelve applicants and they all turned me down!" Berle Bulletin: "Mussolini's hankerchief has been placed in a Rome museum for posterity. It is the only thing that Hitler ever let him put his nose into!" If you want to laugh and help others with every chuckle, you may purchase Eddie Cantor's collection of humor.

It will shortly be published in a volume as "The World's Best Jokes." All proceeds go to the Refugee Children's Fund. And the publishers are pledged to Erno Verebes, who has a role in "The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler," was the first child actor to appear in motion pictures in Hungary. He came to Hollywood in 1938. Movie jobs were not plentiful. So he and his wife, Hedi Schoop, began making pottery in their garage.

They found a demand for their creations moved into a larger building. Now the shop has twenty-five actors and actresses, all formerly famous in Europe, at work in it. "It gives us something to do between pictures," confesses Verebes; adds succinctly, "It has often kept the wolf from the door." Marianne O'Brien, who stepped from the cast of "Doughgirls" to a movie contract, used to be a Follies gal at forty-five per week. Her picareer starts at $750. When "This Is the Army" was grinding, it took considerable coaxing to persuade camera-shy Berlin to sing his hit-tune, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning!" All too conscious of his thin, quavery voice, he recorded the song before the cameras.

A new technician not grasping the significance of the scene quipped, "If the guy that wrote that could hear the guy that's singing it, he'd commit suicide." and the heartiest laugh came from Irving Berlin. "All This and 'This Is the Army, In defending their program of war films, Harry Warner once issued the statement "We do not want to be known as the studio that made the greatest musical movie during this war for freedom." But they did it intentions notwithstanding. Did you hear about the Fascist poster in Italy, depicting the Roman wolf voraciously biting the British lion? A disgusted Italian had scribbled across the bottom, "No wonder, with our rations!" Jack Benny encamped somewhere between Cairo and India is reported as doing his own laundry and washing his own dishes. He wrote Mary Livingston that he had been invited to go leopard hunting but refused. Rochester is all the black spot he wants befo' his eyes.

A group of writers were having a quiet chat on current topics and round and the fight is still remembered as one of the funniest ever seen at the Garden in New York. That fight was a prophetic omen of Maxie's true profession the clown. Once Maxie was in the driver's seat, he really went to town. You may have heard the anecdotes that Rosenbloom could be knocked out by only one thing a puff of fresh air straight to the nose. It was true.

The fellow was contemptuous of the normal daytime training methods and he actually led the sports writers a merry chase and for four years he gave the fans more than a run for the dough they plunked down at the box office to see him fight. The percentage didn't catch up with him until 1934 when Jewish Bab Olin succeeded him as champion. The night Rosie met Bob Olin at the Garden a goodly crowd was there. The fight was scheduled to go fifteen rounds and the fight went the distance. The fans went wild.

Maxie was hot but Olin was hotter. When the referee raised Olin's hand as symbolic of victory, the crowd agreed that the "duke" had been a fair one and all agreed that Rosenbloom had gone out fighting. There was no question but that Rosenbloom had really tried and that Olin had really earned the title. However, some interesting facts were disclosed later. It turned out that Bob had been a stable-mate of "Slapsie." An affair of two men, handled by the same manager and the same trainer meeting in the ring for a champion smacked rather fishy.

The boxing committee investigated. What they discovered amazed them. Not only were Olin and Rosenbloom stable mates and friends, but Maxie also owned 40 per cent of Olin and this business deal predated their fight for the light heavyweight championship of the world. The sportswriters went to town on this apparent bit of collusion and fraud. But "Slapsie" came through un t- j' The 24-year calendar, which gives you Bar Milzcah dates, Yahrzeit dates, etc.

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