Word: schoolishness
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...contrast, the usually successful actors of the Brattle group seemed almost high-schoolish. Only Jerry Kilty, in the curious role of the Fool, and Thayer David, in the part of the feeble old Earl of Gloucester, the subplot equivalent of Lear, make really individual contributions. Peter Temple is sturdy and even humorous in the essentially mechanical role of Kent Jan Farrand and Joan Croyden are highly successful in differentiating the wicked daughters, Regan and Goneril, but at the expense of an over-feline Regan by Miss Farrand...
...chaperon system acts as a front to comfort parents worried about the intoxicating effect of almost unlimited freedom on their sons. At worst, it simply lingers as an obsolete carry, over from the old arrangement that held the bumptious Freshman in his "proper" place. Surely any such prep-schoolish requirement--that two "disinterested observers" oversee the activities of one couple--should follow having and beanies into oblivion...
...Comeford's absence, Leo Flynn was the number 1 tailback. The Freshman speedster has improved tremendously under Harlow's tutelage and has finally shaken off the high-schoolish habit of trying to dodge tacklers before he reaches the open field. He and Cleo O'Donnell won top honors in yesterday's passing drills...
...mumbo jumbo of Naziism might appeal. "Führer" Anton Adrian Mussert's Dutch imitation of Hitler's Youth Movement, Nationale Jeugdstorm, has doubled the number of its demonstrations and marches, has opened new offices all over Holland to enlist recruits. To show off the recruits, Sunday-schoolish Hoofdstormer (Youth Movement chief) van Geelkerken last week planned a mass youth rally at Roermond. Friederic Schmidt, dictator of the Adolf Hitler Youth Schools, attended. But Roermond townspeople stayed away. Shops were locked up, streets deserted, blackout curtains drawn. While some 50 corn-haired Dutch children squirmed in embarrassment, Schmidt...
...events encompassing the fall of Troy. Added to this the acting was insufficient to carry the foreign language. One of the major players, an officer, was far more interested in the audience than in the play and turned constantly to face them. This kind of acting is typically high-schoolish. Bright spot in the evening was Aesop, of fable fame, who was played with some of the flavor of the great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story...