Word: amateurish
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...Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos. The crisis passes...
...light and charming any musical production must be spontaneous, or apparently so. For plot and lines and motif mean little or nothing when set to music and fast dancing steps. The four principals in "The School for Seandal" have not hampered their abilities at burlesque with any painful amateurish stage consclousness. To Messrs, Grossman, Crosby, Morgan, and Rammum we are indebted for an enjoyable evening...
...tight, tck, tck." Mr. Louis Hall, who has the role of Albert Kruger, the old German foreman who becomes imbued with the spirit of industrial democracy, does not give a very convincing performance. The acting of the other members of the cast is very poor indeed. The support is amateurish in the extreme; far more so than the work done by the Dramatic Club in "Mr. Paraclete...
...understand it, that is, supposed to be TIME'S business. However, TIME sometimes publishes statements as news that are anything but news. In your issue of Sept. 28, Page 30, Column 2, you say that a contemporary of yours, The Independent, is "a very dull and amateurish sheet indeed." This isn't news; it is simply . . . opinion . . . The present writer has for several years been a reader of The Independent, and he regrets that he cannot agree with your editor that this paper is either dull or amateurish...
...another called Back to Christ-or Chaos. Written by a Paulist Father, it is sectarian religious propaganda. It goes so far as to call a rival creed "not a religion but . . . a patchwork composed of odds and ends, shreds, and fragments of false philosophies, put together in an amateurish way by a sadly uneducated Yankee woman...