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MEN WHO SEE SIX-FOOT RABBITS
Mrs Mary Chase's play about a pooka and his pal is one at which audiences all over the world have laugh- ed inordinately since it was first presented in 1944-but I wonder a little just why. Is the film version of "Har- vey" really as funny as all that?
The central figure in the piece, you may recall, is Mr Elwood P. Dowd, a man of the most amiable, sweet, gentle and generous dis- position, who, to the embarrassment and resent ment of his family and friends, is everywhere ac companied by his invisible white rabbit-six feet three and a half inches tall-by the name of Harvey.
A plot to have Mr Dowd popped into n mental home Inils and Mr Dowd's sister at the last moment vetoes a plan to have her brother normalised with serum injections: rather than have My Dowel 'reduced to the level of ordinary, drab, glum humanity, the will purt up with Harvey around the house.
Who wouldn't?
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I can credit it that there are people stuffy enough not to belleve in the existence, out- ade an imagination inflamed by alcohol,
Invisible white rabbit, six feet three and. a half inches tall but it dots seem to me awfully de- pressing that people should feel that no man es sweet, amiable, gentle and generous ts Dowd could possibly be in his right mind.
There is nothing much to Laugh at there and in its sug- gestion that mental homes are run by doctors who are them- selves crackers, and that patients are at the mercy of sub-human attendants who manhandle them gleefully, "Harvey" is considerably more alarming than The Snake
SHOULD NOT BE POPPED
INTO A MENTAL
to making an exception, at any rate as far as the idea of Mary Chase's play
concerned. where the film of "Harvey" fails to come of in in the execution.
In the theatre,
a place of mate-belleve, the rabbit fan- tasy succeeded. Harvey was as real as the ripe, intimate figure of Sid Field. The cinema, u211- fortunately, is a medium that thrives on realiam. It has more tricks with which to play up fantasy, but the illusion is not there.
The Jum Harvey La the dearest creature you never saw, simply because Mr James Stewart, as Mr-Dowd,-la-him............. self the dearest man,
There is nothing essentially Judicrous about this. Mr Dowd tw
in fact when he describes his first meeting with Harvey and tells how they spend their days in the innocent punsult of happiness, he is wonderfully touching. There should be more such people-more such pooling.
Mies, Josephine Hull gives a slightly stagey performance us Mr Dowd's sister, but is quite a darling old thing -- and Mr Cecil Kellaway makes the up- stable psychiatrist as amusing
unstable
psychiatrist
as ari ever could be.
dull.
But the film la astonishingly slow. Only Mr Stewart's Jumi- nous performance saves it from being positively ELSPETH GRANT.
Square rabbit in a round hole
THE
THE point of view that men who like pubs are less mean
"James Stewart has a good go at the part. But his personal!- ty is too dry. Hard though he works-and He is very well as- aisted by Cocl Kellaway and over Jesse White--he cannot come the difficulty that this is a clear case of a play that should not have been convert ed into a movie-FRED MAJ. DALANY.
Rabbit pit?
REALLY do believe the in- visible rabbit who plays the title role in "Harvey" and
HOME
as well by Harvey's owner_as did Frank Foy, Sid Field, Jon E. Brown, Jack Buchanan and Leslie Henson before him.
Josephine Hull appears less happily as Mr Stewart's sister, pulling out every slapstick stop and playing boo robustly against the picture's halcyon mood, like a bassoonist drown- ing the horns of elfland.
Otherwise, no complaints, except....should we have been falcon so far into the lunatle asylum as to see thoso warm baths and those cold matrons?
James Stewart, a very gentle This is a comedy, not a Rab-
and endearing inebriate, does bit Pit-PAUL DEUN,
From left to right-Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart), Harvey (just Harvey and nobody else) and Elwood's sister, Veta Louise (Josephine Hull).” You may argue that Harvey isn't there, but so do many others.
Behind Closed Doors
Winchester Pictures is making at RKO Radio a science-fiction film titled "The Thing" from another world.
The set is closed to every- one working on the lot; to all casual visitors, to all working newspapermen.
Producer Howard Hawks is very friendly to everyone, also very, very firm on the subject the soul, thin those who don't of enforcing
secrecy. Never,
In the mind, less phuched
in
most winningly and discreet since back in 1939 when Warner ly put forward by "Harvey." Brothers threw cordon of Of course you know about police around the stage while "Harvey." It became an in- shooting "Confessions of a Nazi stitution on 110 American Spy," has
stage. Then
don, and gave
there been... a' MOTO
it came to Lon-perfect job of airtight movie
memory, of that
our Inst great
avitability
rain
ford, it has achieved celluloid.
Thing" from another
Bld Field. Now, with the in-world is not a "quickie" as are
Old Traf-some alms made in secrecy.
60 carefully has the project been concealed that there very
little chance of anyone even
Its hero, Elwood, P. Dowd,
is a gentle Realist who lives in working on the picture
•
Ions"
As
fourth dimension of time being able to provide worthwhile
and
spaceless go
good will 10
clues. Hawks look every precau= (and women) van Nễn, This private
(lm' went into production. One Largely made possible by the of the prime reasons why bo amount of time ha passos in past the picture with unknown bars, by the fortunate posses players, he admits, was because sion of a private income, and he could get them to sign by his dovollonto an linagi- || out
out having been the script, An- mary rabbit, Harvey, who is, other reason in Skat, aura or
constant companion
name players would be recognie Becalise
Elwood peralatan od as such, whereas Hawks Tool treating Harvey as a real per the paulo.will visito son-opening doors for hin, unknown contas actual people, Introducing him to people and not actor or pipe ||20. on him relativos
all men world of him' tion, to assira this before the
| think him- madh, and.
Hawks also scheduled. the
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