Word: amateurish
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...stranded entertainer who is discharged when the depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness, and is caught red-handed. To save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast...
...Copley production has its faults. Interest on the part of the audience lags through most of Act 1; the younger the people of the play, the greater is the tendency on the part of the actors toward an amateurish flavor. Only during the second act do we believe that Laura Simmons is the person the author intended her to be, and throughout the play there is a feeling that only Shepherd Strudwick, as Ainger, of the supporting cast, is genuine...
...number of unsuspected people are out to destroy the polite and powerful arch-criminal from the start of the piece, and this in itself is enough to furnish adequate excitement for three acts. The role in question is exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least amateurish of the cast in this particular play. Fortunately, there is only one comic detective, and he does not last long enough to matter. The guileless secretary and her lover do their respective jobs well, and do not overact. The rest of the cast may be described as being more than adequate...
...many realize he is a militant pacifist. Of Fire-eater Hitler he takes a long and contemptuous view: "Hitler is living-or shall I say sitting?-on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, Hitler will sink into oblivion. He dramatizes impossible extremes in an amateurish manner...
...interested in the types of making, here is a movie that abounds in well-chosen characters of all kinds, their make-up cleverly applied, with the exception of the hero-composer, whose grey locks of middle age and a life as a musician are clumsily applied in amateurish fashion quite out of keeping with the handing of the other details...