Word: hamming
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...humor, leavened in with even the most pathetic tragedy. No smiles lurk here; only lines and lines of dead or grim Canadiens. French pictures, and those of Jean Gabin in particular, are almost unique in their unaffected and moving treatment of sorrow. No sorrow lingers here. The acting is ham-ish, and the story laughably obvious...
Head of the National Defense Operations Section of FCC's monitoring division is George E. Sterling, who helped organize the first radio intelligence unit of the Army in World War I, served as an inspector for the Department of Commerce before FCC took over radio. An inveterate ham, Sterling works in a welter of receivers, transmitters, microphones, recording devices. Temperate in his attitude about radio defense, he is inclined to be lenient with accidental shortcomings of his fellow enthusiasts, doesn't crack down unless violations are flagrant...
Jameson L. Chassin '41, Maspeth, L.I., N.Y.; Paul J. Ciffno '41, Dorchester, Mass.; Samuel P. Cowardin Jr. '43, New Lebanon, N.Y.; Thomas I. Crowell 3d. '43, Caldwell, N.J.; Charles W. Davis '41, Wen ham, Mass.; Robert T. Davis '42, Woodhaven, N.Y.; James W. Dow '41, Boston, Mass...
...actors inaudible beyond the fifth row. The Stockton (Connecticut) Players are giving a triangle play called The Usual Three and, as might be expected, the onstage geometry has its offstage counterpart. The visiting leading lady is the ex-wife of the visiting leading man. She gradually realizes that this ham is still pretty much her meat...
Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...