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Berkeley Square

Lux Radio Theatre · December 18, 1944 · 59 min · 8,889 words

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Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck's Radio Theater brings you Barclay Square starring Ronald Coleman and Moreno Sullivan. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Sesso V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

If any of you are thinking of writing a novel, I commend to your attention a little known value by one of America's best known novelists, Henry James. It called The Sense of the Past. It contains not only this novel, but also the author's notes which he jotted down while working.

And it contains one of the most fascinating ideas ever put on paper. The idea behind tonight's play, Barclay Square, in which a young man, through his love of the past, breaks through the barrier of time and finds the girl he loves in the 18th century.

Before reaching the screen, the play suggested by Henry James' novel was one of the great successes of our generation. It was filmed by 20th Century Fox, and it comes to you tonight on the Lux Radio Theatre with two favorite stars, Ronald Coleman and Moreno Sullivan.

I suppose all of us have at some time toyed with the idea of visiting the past and reliving some romantic period that appeals to us. And certainly 18th century England is one of the most picturesque with its colorful elaborate costumes.

You can imagine how helpful luck flakes would have been in taking care of those voluminous expensive garments. In fact, Lord Chesapeake, of the arbiter of fashion of that era, described that not only should ones clothes be well made and ones wig well-pouted, but ones linen should at all times be extremely clean. If Lord Joseph Hill could pierce the barrier of time like the

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