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...JOHN L. BALDERSTON...
...Balderston's charming and successful play has lost little in its transition to the screen. It might be objected that the screen has made the throwback to the eighteenth century too explicit, and thus jeopardized the theme by an unnecessary contact with reason. But so much of the delicacy of this journey between centuries is the mind and heart of a single man has been preserved that the objection would not be fair. Leslie Howard is just as convincing as he was on the stage, and his witty pantomime responds admirably to the great opportunities, and the greater responsibilities...
...success at the box office. Producer Jesse Lasky-one of the few oldtime cinemagnates who have kept up with the times-did a first-rate job which began with hiring Frank Lloyd, who made Cavalcade, to direct; borrowing Leslie Howard, who played the rôle in John Balderston's play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew. Heather Angel's name is not a pseudonym. Daughter of an Oxford lecturer who was killed in the War, she attended a London dramatic school, took to the stage when...
...London "Berkeley Square" has at last come to Boston to provide a very excellent evening's entertainment. For sheer dramatic pleasure this play is by far the best offering to be seen here at the present time. The honors are equally divided between Mr. Leslie Howard and Mr. John Balderston, the author; although the various other features such as the supporting cast and the settings are safely above the average...
...concept that Time is not a one-directional quantity was touched upon by Playwright John Balderston in Berkeley...