Based on Henry James’s The Sense of the Past, Balderston’s play follows modern-day American Peter Standish who exchanges place with his American Revolution ancestor. Leslie Howard starred in the 1929 Broadway run. Some sources list Jack C. Squire as a coauthor.
[The same room, at the same time, on the same day, in 1928. Most of the furniture remains, but the tone of time has settled upon it, and there are some changes.]

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Variants

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  1. Berkeley Square by John L. Balderston and Jack C. Squire, at St. Martin’s Theatre (London, 6 October 1926).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John L. Balderston
    Jack C. Squire

Previous Works
based on The Sense of the Past by Henry James (1917)

Derived Works

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  1. Berkeley Square by Sonya Levien and John L. Balderston, directed by Frank Lloyd (13 September 1933).
  2. The House in the Square by Ranald MacDougall and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, directed by Roy Ward Baker (October 1951).
  3. “I’ll Never Forget You” by S. H. Barnett [director unknown] (22 September 1952).