Betsy Baker! or, Too Attentive by Half; A Farce, in One Act

Chapter 1: BETSY BAKER!

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About This Book

A brisk one-act farce that follows a self-absorbed husband and his exasperated wife as domestic idiosyncrasies and professional rivalries set off comic disturbances. An officious partner, a persistent laundress called to deliver household items, and gossip about a threatened marital separation generate a string of misunderstandings, boasts, and thwarted errands. Rapid entrances, costume changes, and exaggerated manners lampoon vanity and social pretension, driving a succession of humorous reversals and reconciliations that highlight the absurdities of marital life and petty ambition in a compact stage piece.

BETSY BAKER!

OR,

TOO ATTENTIVE BY HALF.

A FARCE.

IN ONE ACT.

JOHN MADDISON MORTON,

Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society,

AUTHOR OF

Box and Cox, Two Bonnycastles, Who stole the Pocket Book,
The Midnight Watch, Poor Pillicoddy, Going to the Derby, Old
Honesty, Grimshaw, Done on both Sides, Young England,
The King and I, My Wife’s Second Floor, The Double-Bedded
Room, Wedding Breakfast, Milliners’
Holiday, The Irish Tiger, Who’s the Composer,
Who do they take me for, The
Attic Story, Brother Ben, Who’s my
Husband, Thumping Legacy,
&c., &c.

THOMAS HAILES LACY,

WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND,

LONDON.