Harvard is Cut from Eli Kotch

If you were hoping to break into the movies with a bit part in Columbia Pictures' Ell Kotch, originally scheduled for partial filming at Harvard, forget it.

Carter DeHaven, the film's producer, said yesterday that script changes caused the reduction of the Harvard sequence one quarter of the film to two minutes, which were shot last week. In the minute spot, James Coburn and Camilla Sparv, stars of the film, are shown walking down the steps of Widener. No Harvard or Radcliffe students were photographed.

Fifteen minutes of the film, in which Coburn portrays a roguish playboy, were in Boston. DeHaven said that audiences are supposed to infer from the Boston location that Coburn and Miss Sparv are at Harvard. The University's name is not specifically mentioned.

Haven would not say what Kotch, movie's hero, is supposed to be doing at Widener. He said that this Informa- would reveal too much about the of the movie. Chuckling enigmatically, he recommended seeing the film it is released next August to find