Word: amateurish
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Sweet Mama (First National). Because Alice White is the most attractive blonde of her weight in pictures, the scenes in which she appears are bearable, although this whole production is hackneyed, dull and amateurish. It is an unsuccessful combination of the usual elements of underworld plots; its crisis involves Miss White in efforts to get her sweetheart out of a predicament in which she has involved him by gathering evidence against the owner of the night-club where he works. Typical shot: police car chasing the car in which the hero is being taken for a ride...
...looks, and does excellently except at those times when she is inveigled into singing, which spoils the dramatic effect entirely; be it said, however, that her voice completely makes up for any momentary loss of prestige. Lillian Roth, in a role which has excellent possibilities, gives at best an amateurish performance. "The Vagabond King" is not a master-piece, but taken all in all, it will well repay the time, the dollar, and even the car-fare, necessary...
...direction and staging are at a safe distance from the amateurish. The Mannock library, thrice appearing looks as it should, like the room of a political and unliterary owner. The dream scene in Act II is presented in a properly confused manner, and the nook mid sunny spots of greenery, where the Rt. Hon. Selby Mannock grows romantic, beyond doubt is the sort of place where that sort of man would do precisely that...
...successful must devote more time to athletics than to any other phase of his college life." This I believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they are no longer amateurish, but are fast becoming professional not so much in the popular sense that athletes are being paid, but in the sense that the varsity athlete makes his sport his vocation, his profession by virtue of devoting more time and thought to it than to any other phase of his college...
Emil Cooper, famed Russian conductor who has introduced much Slavic music to Western Europe, made his U. S. debut. While laymen in the audience concentrated on the amateurish antics of Singer McCormic, critics marked Conductor Cooper's bright tempo, his fine sense of balance...