Word: amateurish
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...strikes me that this continual discrimination against the Jew can do nothing but foment antagonism and aid ill-breeding, race hatred; it astonishes me greatly that a progressive sheet such as yours should have stooped to such stupid practices. Such editorial implications in your news columns is amateurish and unprofessional bad taste...
...advertisement; the most interesting is the one with the caption, "St Patrick's Day Is Greeted by Appropriate Ceremonies." This latter is in the manner of the Dial artists--full of exotic emotion and of strange technique (can the artist be satirizing?). The majority of the sketches, though, are amateurish originals or uncomplimentary copies. Often the jokes seem made to fit the drawings; or at least the one seldom fits the other. The ideas in the cover drawing are clever, but the drawing itself is careless and not up to the artist's usual good work. The person who drew...
Katherine Emmet did not suggest very clearly the granite substratum of the mother's character. Louise Huff, recently redeemed from the cinema, played the fiancee. She called her aunt "Ontie," furnished moments of genuine beauty, but appeared somewhat amateurish in her emotional passages. Alan Birmingham, Gilbert Emery and Arthur Shaw labored to inject life into their parts...
...criticisms seem to be called for. The first is general. Although many of the line cuts, such as the unsigned comic heading for the contents on page 4, are cleverly executed, on the whole the drawings are amateurish, and some are conspicuously inadequate. The reviewer is plunged into gloom by the dismal title page which introduces him to the subject of scholarships (page 237), and the headings for pages 194 and 198 are clumsily drawn. Not that artistic talent is unusually lacking in the class of 1926, for on the whole the cuts in this book are at least...
...play dignity that it really does not posses. Mr. Pape as the tyrannical John Cordways, did well with a hard part, that was not developed consistently by the dramatist, as did Miss Willard as Lady Clarissa. Mr. Turner as Robert Dalman, Cordway's secretary, is as yet a very amateurish performer, who although he tries hard, rarely seems either to get out of himself or to fit into the scene. He has improved tremendously since joining the company, however. Another player, who is making rapid progress under Mr. Jewett's instruction is Miss Standing. Her performance in what might easily...