Word: pookas
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...biggest surprise of all, naturally, is "Harvey" himself. Harvey is the pooka, and the pooka is Harvey-he's the miracle that Elwood P. Dowd found leaning against a lamp post after a big night with the boys, and he quite thoroughly disturbs Elwood's sister, Vita, who thinks, but is not quite positive, that he is ruining her social reputation...
...nudging Fay for honors is Josephine Hull, fresh from "Arsenic and Old Lace," and still possessed of a fresh and effervescent enough touch to carry some of "Harvey's" more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...
...Roosevelt, undertook a $150,000 expedition to the Belgian Congo. Purposes: to make a motion picture survey of certain parts of the country for Belgian Congo's National Park Institute; to take sound film material suitable for use in an African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their way through jungles and over mountains never before seen by the cinecamera's eye. The film has not yet been released...