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Betsy Baker!, or Too Attentive by Half is a farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1812-1854)[1][2].

First performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London in 1850 and published by Duncombe and Company, London and Samuel French.

1859: Performed on 1 February Cape Town Dramatic Club, in the Cape Town Theatre in Harrington street, featuring miss Annie Rowlands as "Betsy", with Not a Bad Judge , or Lavater, the Physiognomist (Planché)

1861: Performed as Betsy Baker, or Too Attentive by Half by the company of Sefton Parry in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 5 September, with The Stranger (Kotzebue/Thompson/Sheridan).

1865: Performed as Betsy Baker by the Valorous Amateurs (amateur players from H.M.S. Valorous) in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town on 17 November, with Michael Erle, the Maniac Lover (Wilks) and Ben Bolt (Johnstone).

Facsimile version of the 1850 Duncombe publication, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 99, 168, 170, 221, 262, 270,325, 342, 362

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−	1859: Performed on 1 February [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], in the [[Cape Town Theatre]], featuring miss [[Annie Rowlands]] as Betsy, with ~~Poor Pillycoddy~~ (~~Morton~~)	+	1859: Performed on 1 February [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], in the [[Cape Town Theatre]] in Harrington street, featuring miss [[Annie Rowlands]] as "Betsy", with ''[[Not a Bad Judge , or Lavater, the Physiognomist]]'' (Planché)