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.]
DEBUT
Berkeley Square, at St. Martin’s Theatre (London, 6 October 1926).
VARIANTS
Debut. Berkeley Square, at St. Martin’s Theatre (London, 6 October 1926).
[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.]
1 English variant