THE TIME TRAVELLER
HE SENSE OF THE PAST, which Henry James pondered for many years, and finally left to be published posthumously, was a_ subtly-conceived story about a modern American young man who goes back in time to 1820, and becomes a "terror’-a kind of ghost out of the future-to those he meets there. John L. Balderstone’s play, Berkeley Square, popularises this story half-way towards science-fiction: the delicate Jamesian nuances are quite lost, the period (now in the 18th Century) is done on very obvious lines, and we are left with an entertaining story and the sound moral that no one would enjoy living out of period-whether in the future or the past. A recent film version more or less left the matter there. The older vefsion achieved rather more, thanks mainly to the sensitive performance of the late Leslie Howard as Peter Standish, the time traveller. Apart from the usual difficulty over American accents, the NZBS produttion (from 1YC) gave a straightforward and very hearable account of the play, and perhaps left more to the imagination than a stage-performance would do.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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182THE TIME TRAVELLER New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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