Slapsie Maxie's

At Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom's cafe, boxing champion Frank Faylen comes in and orders a drink. When waiter Johnny Davis tries to sell him some hors d'oeuvres, Faylen takes a swing at him, and clocks himself. The public demands a rematch, so Rosenbloom takes over his training.

Rosenbloom was a fighter who became a public character, and settled into the movies as a Runyonesque fellow who spouted malapropisms in movies that called for it. That's what he does in this two-reel short for Warner Brothers.

Director Noel M. Smith was one of those directors who was making a name for himself in the silent era, when talkies came in and his career flopped hard into the cheap independents in the early 1930s. He worked himself back to the Warner Brother B division, but his career stalled in the early 1940s. He died in 1955, aged 62.